Dec. 30. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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of 12 a. Or. 24p. in the county of Kerry, subject 

 to a quit rent payable to the crown of 16/. 4s. 8d, 

 This fact I gather from the printed Abstracts of 

 Grants of Lands and other Hereditaments, under 

 the xicts of Settlement and Explanation, a.d. 1666 

 — 1684, published under the Irish Record Com- 

 mission, 1821 — 1825. The same grant is also 

 enrolled on the Communia Roll of the Exchequer 

 of Hilary Term, 1666. It appears, by the 11th 

 Roll of Certificates to Adventurers, membrane 19, 

 that Thomas Phelps exhibited his petition before 

 the Commissioners appointed under the Acts of 

 Settlement and Explanation, on February 6, 

 18 Charles II. ; and his claim was heard on Mon- 

 day, Aug. 6, following ; and the same Commis- 

 sioners, on Aug. 24, 1666, by their decree adjudged 

 him to be lawfully entitled to the lands which 

 were subsequently granted to him by the letters 

 patent to which I have referred. I find mention 

 made of Edward and John Phelps upon the like 

 Rolls of Certificates. And by the Communia 

 Roll of the Exchequer of Hilary Term, 1662, it 

 appears, that one Nicholas Phelps and Edward 

 Fewtrill were tenants of the lands of Johnstown 

 and Michelstown in the county of Louth, which 

 were parcels of the estate of the family of Gernon. 



James F. Febgusok. 

 Dublin. 



Landing of William III. (Vol. x., p. 424.). — 

 Seeing a question about the landing of the Prince 

 of Orange on Nov. 5, I thought perhaps the fol- 

 lowing extracts might be amusing. They are from 

 a book entitled : 



" The Plistory of the Desertion ; or an Account of all 

 the Publick Attairs in England, from the beginning of 

 September, 1688, to the Twelfth of February following. 

 By a Person of Quality : London, 1689." 



" And when all men expected the invasion would fall 

 on the north, the third of November, between ten and 

 eleven of the clock, the Dutch fleet was discovered about 

 half seas over, between Calice and Dover ; and about five, 

 this numerous fleet was passed by that town, steering a 

 channel-course westward, the wind at E. N. E., a fresh 

 gale. The fourth day being Sunday, and the birthday 

 of the Prince of Orange, the fleet drove till four in the 

 afternoon ; the morning being spent in sermons, and other 

 divine offices. And then it sailed again to the westward. 

 The fifth of November, the Dutch fleet passed by Dart- 

 mouth ; and it being a hazy foggy morning, and full of 

 rain, they overshot Torbay, where the Prince intended 

 to land ; but about nine of the clock, the weather cleared 

 up, and the wind changed W. S. W., and the fleet stood 

 eastward, with a moderate gale, entering Torbav, and 

 being then about 400 or 500 sail in number. This change 

 of the wind was observed by Dr. Burnet to have been of 

 no long duration ; but immediately it chopped into another 

 corner, when it had executed its commission." 



AUCEPS. 



'■'The Devils Dozen" (Vol. x., p. 474.). —In 

 defence of his Query, G. N. may be permitted to 

 say to C. that he could not be "thinking" of what 

 he had never " heard," viz. the " baker's dozen." 



Curiosity has since led him to inquire, and he 

 finds that the Scotch baxter, or baker, may at 

 times, to a good customer, give a farthing biscuit 

 — as what is called "too (or additional) bread" — 

 on the purchase of a shilling's worth : or in cases, 

 as to sub-retailers, allow in money a premium of 

 one penny for every twelve pence. The saying 

 has however so long obtained, and has been so 

 widely diffused over the country, besides having 

 been so often printed, that he can scarcely admit 

 the doughy definition of C. as its true origin ; and 

 apprehends, till we receive a better, we must go 

 back to the gloomy days of witchcraft for a solu- 

 tion — when the magic circle, inscribed around 

 with the twelve signs of the Zodiac, was ceremo- 

 nially in fashion, and his " Satanic majesty," pre- 

 siding in its centre, constituted the thirteenth in 

 number. 



I may be allowed to append the observation of 

 Dr. Jamieson on the phrase : 



" This number is accounted so unlucky, that I have 

 seen people, who were in other respects intelligent, refuse 

 to form one of a company that would amount to thirteen. 

 Many will not sail in a vessel when this is the number of 

 persons on board, as it is believed that some fatal acci- 

 dent must befal one of them. Whence this strange 

 superstition could originate, it is impossible to say ; but 

 it evidently includes the idea that the thirteenth is th* 

 devil's lot." 



G.N". 

 Ilazlitfs ''Essay on Will-making'''' (Vol. x., 

 p. 446.). — Your correspondent B. M. Y., who in- 

 quires where this Essay may be found, would 

 perhaps be interested to know, that in a volume 

 of HazHtt's Works, in my possession, the par- 

 ticular Essay referred to has a note in the margin 

 in the handwriting of Wordsworth. It relates to 

 the anecdote of a will-maker, who amused himself 

 with bequeathing imaginary estates to various 

 persons — a story which Marryat, I think, adopted 

 in one of his sea-novels. The note is as follows : 



" This story must have come from me. It is exag- 

 gerated here. The person was a schoolfellow of mine, 

 and I had the particulars of his will from a brother of one 

 of his executors. He did not bequeath large estates, &c., 

 but very considerable sums of money to different relatives 

 and friends; without being possessed of a sixpence, or 

 having reason to believe that he was. — W. Wordsworth." 



W. M. T. 



The Boyle Lectures (Vol. x., p. 445.).— The 

 present trustees are the Duke of Devonshire, the 

 Earl of Burlington, and the Bishop of London. 

 The last volume was published in August, 1854, 

 by the Rev. Canon Wordsworth, being a Series of 

 Sermons on Religious Restoration in England, 

 preached in Westminster Abbey. F. R. 



Andrea Ferrara (Vol. x., pp. 224. 41 2.). — Though 

 I cannot tell you who "Andrea" was, or where he 

 lived, or when, or whether his name was Andrea 

 of Ferrara, or Andrea Ferrara ; this I know, that 



