Nov. 18. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Irish blood in his veins. Perhaps Mr. Graves 

 will find a portrait and memoir of the general in 

 the volumes of the Illustrated London News, as 

 General Prim has been a "celebrity" in Spanish 

 affairs ever since the Carlist war in 1835. Many 

 of the Spanish names in the Basque Provinces are 

 monosyllabic, — such as Prim, Blake, &c. General 

 O'Donnell, too, is exclusively of Spanish origin ; 

 and I believe that the names of Blake, O'Donnell, 

 and others, which are to be found in the west 

 of Ireland, were originally imported thither by 

 Spanish colonists in the commencement of the 

 sixth century. Many Spaniards have remarked 

 the similarity of features between their compa- 

 triots and the Irish generally, but especially the 

 inhabitants of Galway ; and only recently, Mr. 

 Solomon, Professor of Hebrew at King's College, 

 remarked to me, that in a tour which he had 

 lately made in Ireland, he had observed many 

 Irishmen with a great resemblance to Jews, and 

 especially to Spanish Jews. As an instance of 

 the justice of my remarks, I beg to adduce the 

 example of Mr. Edmund O'Flaherty, of Galway, 

 late Commissioner of Income Tax, who might 

 have been easily mistaken for a Jew, both in face 

 and figure. 



The surname "Prim" is an abbreviation of the 

 Spanish word prima, which signifies " the first of 

 the canonical hours," for a reference to which I 

 refer you to Holy Thoughts and Prayers, published 

 at the ofBce of your valuable journal. Juverna. 



Herbert Thorndike (Vol. x., p. 287.). — Mr. 

 Haddan is informed that there is an abstract of 

 the will of this eminent divine in the Lansdowne 

 MSS., taken from the Registry in Doctors' Com- 

 mons, anno 1672. C. H, (1) 



Who stnich George IV. ? (Vol. x., p. 125.). — 

 I have always understood this to have been the 

 late Marquis of Hertford, then Lord Yarmouth. 

 There was a caricature ©f the period in reference 

 to this, entitled "A Kick from Yarmouth to 

 Wales." * G. B. 



[* In 1812 appeared the following squib, which was 



immediately suppressed : " R 1 Stripes, or a Kick 



from Yar h to Wa s, with the particulars of an 



Expedition to Oatlands, and the Sprained Ancle. By 



P P , Poet Laureate." It is criticised in The 



Satirist, vol. x. p. 200., which concludes with the fol- 

 lowing remarks : — " The pamphlet concludes, like the 

 ghost of it, with the villanous falsehood that Lord 

 Y th struck the P e R 1 for having taken im- 

 proper liberties with Lady Y th, who, it is notorious, 



has been for many years in Florence, where she still re- 

 mains ; and it is equally notorious that his Lordship and 

 H. R. H. are still in the habits of daily and friendly in- 

 tercourse. Such, and so infamous, is the pamphlet which 

 it has been thought necessary to suppress, and which cer- 

 tainly ought to have been suppressed, though not from a 



bribe from Colonel M'M , but by a prosecution from 



the Attorney-General."] 



" Amalasont, Queen of the Goths " (Vol. x., 

 p. 266.).— In 1794 the MS. of this tragedy, by 

 John Hughes, was in the possession of the family 

 of the Rev. John Duncombe, the son of V\ illiam 

 Duncombe, Esq., who married Elizabeth, sister of 

 Mr. Hughes; and edited both the letters and the 

 poems of his brother-in-law. The Rev. John 

 Duncombe was vicar of Heme, in Kent, and a 

 six preacher at Canterbury Cathedral, rector of 

 St. Mary, Bredman, and Master of Harbledown : 

 he died early in 1786. His widow, who was the 

 daughter of Joseph Highmore, Esq., an eminent 

 portrait and historical painter and man of letters, 

 nephew and pupil of Thomas Highmore, Serjeant- 

 painter, survived until 1812 ; and their only child 

 Anna Maria until 1825 : the widow and daughter 

 resided and died at Canterbury. I think it pro- 

 bable that the Rev. John Duncombe's papers are 

 with some of the Highmore family, and perhaps 

 this may meet the eye of the depositary. A sight 

 of them would be of interest and use to me. J. K. 



Double Christian Names (Vol. x., p. 133.). — 

 May I be permitted to inform your correspondent 

 Mr. Markland that he is in error when supposing 

 that John James Sandilands was a Knight of 

 Malta in 1564, at the early age of eight years, as 

 his Note would make him. No person could 

 obtain this dignity until he was sixteen years old, 

 and then only as a special mark of favour and 

 grace. The earliest instance of double chrisliaa 

 names yet mentioned in " N. & Q.," is that of the 

 above-named knight. W. W. 



Malta. 



Add to the few instances of such names which 

 occur in the sixteenth century, that of the fifth 

 son of Sir John Croke of Chilton, Paulus Am- 

 brosius Croke, born about 1564, and admitted to 

 the Inner Temple 1582. (^Genealogical History of 

 the Croke Family, p. 453.) Also Thomas Mary 

 Wyngfyld, member of parliament for Huntingdon 

 in the sixth year of Edward VI., 1553. {Collection 

 of Records at Huntingdon, p. 94.) W. Denton. 



Stone Shot (Vol. x., pp. 223. 335.). — 



" The following was the equipment of the ship which 

 in 1406, 7 Henry IV., carried Philippa his sister, Queen 

 of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, to her home ; two 

 guns, forty pounds of powder, forty stones for guns," &c. 

 — Ellis's Original Letters, 2nd series, vol. i. p. 67. note. 



" This day was caryed oute of the castell to the water 

 syde a greate piece of ordenaunce of iij yerds longe and 

 rnor, unstocked, which shoteth a ston bygger than a 

 greate peny lof, as I am informed." — " Letter of Dr. 

 West to Henry VIII., written from Edinburgh, 1513 : " 

 Ellis's Original Letters, 1st series, vol. i. p. 70. 



With wheat at four shillings a quarter, the usual 

 price at that time, the penny loaf would be of very 



formidable dimensions. 



In an account of "ordennce and artilery de- 

 lyved by S' Sampson Norton, by vertue of the 



