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first cousin, and also of tbe Raleigb line. Her 

 name was Rogers; her brother was Colonel 

 Rogers of tbe Royal Artillery, well known in 

 Dublin. A small estate called Cooly-cussane is 

 all that now remains in the Blanckley family of 

 this Irish property. My grandfather possessed 

 the ring which Sir Walter wore on the scafFold, 

 and it is now in the possession of bis eldest son's 

 son, Captain Edward James Blanckley, of the 

 6th Foot. He also had an iron-gilt despatch-box 

 covered with velvet, once crimson ; this, together 

 with Sir Walter's teapot of red earth, silver 

 mounted, went to his younger son, tbe late Cap- 

 tain Edward Blanckley, R. N., and both articles 

 are now in the hands of his widow. 



I remember to have heard of two ladies of tbe 

 name of Raleigh (to whom I am inclined to think 

 my grandfather was guardian), and they were, I 

 believe, the last descendants who bore tbe name. 

 It would be personally interesting to me if these 

 notes, made without referring to family papers, 

 should be the means of eliciting more precise in- 

 formation than I am able to afford. L. R. J. T. 



Ecclesiastical Maps (Vol. x., p. 187.). — Your 

 correspondent Abchd. Weir will find that in tbe 

 Appendix to the Third Report of the Commis- 

 sioners appointed to consider the State of the Esta- 

 ilished Church in England and Wales, dated May 

 20th, 1836, there are a series of maps of tbe 

 several dioceses of England and Wales, beautifully 

 engraved, twenty-six in number: tbey include the 

 new dioceses of Manchester and Ripon, four for 

 the province of York, and twenty for Canterbury. 

 T. GiMLETTE, Clerk. 



Waterford. 



A map of England, showing the boundaries of 

 the dioceses, and another map, pointing out some 

 contemplated changes in the dioceses, were, I 

 believe, published in one of the parliamentary blue 

 books, in an early session of the reformed parlia- 

 ment ; but I cannot now give the date. 



H. Mabtin. 

 Halifax. 



\Prentice Pillars, Roslyn (Vol. v., p. 395.). — 

 Your correspondent C. T. states that the anec- 

 dote of the master and apprentice " is connected 

 with two pillars in Roslyn Chapel." I have 

 visited the chapel twice, once very recently, and 

 I do not remember to have heard of more than one 

 pillar of which the story is related, namely, that 

 on which a wreath is sculptured twining round the 

 shaft, and by which peculiarity it is distinguished 

 from every other pillar in the chapel. 



Arch. Weir. 



Prophecies respecting Constantinople (Vol. x., 

 pp. 147. 192.). — Your correspondent Anon, will, 

 perhaps, not dislike to see the Turkish prophecy 



which he has given from Georgevics (or Georgie- 

 vitz) the Hungarian, in his celebrated work Pro- 

 gnoma sive Prcesagium Mehemetanorum, Antwerp,, 

 1546, spelt according to a more intelligible sys- 

 tem of orthography than that used by the Hun- 

 garians. It is cited by Hyde, in his "Notes on 

 Peritsol's] Itinera Mundi" (^Syntagma Dissertat., 

 i. p. 61.), and is as follows : 



" Padishahumuz gelur ; Kaferih memleketi alilr ; kabz 

 eiler; yedi yileh-dek Gaur kiliji chikmaseh, on iki yilek- 

 dek, anlarin beigHk ^der ; evi yapar ; baglii diker ; bagh- 

 cheh baghlar : dghli, kizi, alur : on iki yilden sonrah, ka- 

 firiii kiliji chikar, <51 Ttirki heri-sineh \_or gin-sineh] 

 dushereh." 



After the first " alur," Hyde has " kizil almah 

 aliir," rubrum pomum capiet ; and the last clause, 

 " 01 Tiirki," &c., which he renders qui Turcam re- 

 cidere faciet, is probably in hubile suum recidere 

 faciei. " Keri " is an uncommon word, and from 

 his author's version we ought, perhaps, to read 

 "giri" (girii) for "keri." Hyde had not seen 

 the text in a Turkish MS. He says, " Propbetia 

 extat apud Georgievitzium, a quo accepi, et in pro- 

 prios characteres restitui." {lb. p. 62.) 



If Georgievics (i. e. Georgievich) gives this as 

 ""a Persian version of the prophecy," it is odd, as 

 it is pure Turkish ; and in his thirteen years of 

 slavery among the Turks he had completely mas- 

 tered their language. Not having any edition of 

 his book before me, I can only suspect some error 

 in Sansovino or in Anon. Anat. 



Flowers mentioned by Shdkspeare (Vol. x., 

 pp. 98. 225.). — 



" When daisies pied and violets blue, 

 And lady smock all silver white," &c. 



" The little western flower, 

 Before milk-wldte, now purpled with love's wound." 



Your correspondent, in assuming that Shak- 

 speare alludes to two different flowers in the above 

 quotations, appears to be unacquainted with the 

 fact of the changes in tbe colours of plants from 

 solar light and the peculiar character of the soil. 

 These changes are satisfactorily explained in 

 Messrs. Chambers' little work on Vegetable Physio- 

 logy. I extract a few examples from that work : 



" ' Yellow passes into white.^ This is the case with the 

 Agrimonia eupatoria (agrimony), which fades from orange 

 into a dingj^ white. (The converse is the fact with the 

 primrose, which advances from a pale straw colour to an 

 orange, and becomes brown as it fades.)" 



" ' White changes into purple.' The change from white 

 into purple is illustrated by the change of the snow-white 

 blooms of the Oxalis acetosella (wood sorrel), which be- 

 come purple as they fade ; while the tips of the perianth 

 of the daisy sometimes become pink, or purple, as the 

 flower opens. A parallel effect may be seen in the upper 

 part of the bulb of the turnip, which turns purple as the 

 bulb increases in size. The change from blue and yellow 

 into white is also exemplified in the crocus ; and from 

 blue to white in the Polemoniwn (Greek, Valerion). The 



