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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 140. 



Spanish " Veiwe Bowes." — Attached to a com- 



niission I find the following, dated March 10, 1622 : 



. " Nottingham. An Inventory of the goods and 



Chattells of S' John Byroa the elder, knight, taken at 



Mansfyld. 



Item foure Spanishe velwe bowes w"» a quiver ) ,,„ 

 and arrowes at - - - - ^ 



Can you inform me if these "vei\re bowes" were 

 ctoss-bows; or, if not, what other bows they were? 



J. O. B. 



Old English Divines. — It has been said of our 

 late king, George III., that in a conversation with 

 a learned man of the day respecting the English 

 divines of the seventeenth century, he made a 

 happy and correct application of the first clause of 

 Genesis vi. 4., by observing that " there were 

 giants in the earth in those days." 



To whom did the king make this observation ? 

 and on what occasion ? 



The eminent and accomplished editor of JBos- 

 ■well's Johnson asked this question some years ago 

 of his literary friends, but, I believe, did not re- 

 ceive a satisfactory answer. H. 



Lard Viscount Dover, Colonel of the First Troop 

 of Guards in the Service of James TI. in Ireland, 

 1689-1690. — I am engaged in displaying, with 

 genealogical illustrations, the titles and names of 

 the officers of all the regiments of this ex-monarch, 

 having in my possession a full copy of his Army 

 List, classified in regiments, with columnar rolls of 

 their several officers, according to their rank. The 

 importance of publishing these memorials in aid of 

 pedigree searches must be apparent from the fact, 

 that this list comprises members of all the old 

 aristocracy of Ireland up to tliat day, to the rank 

 and estates of whom the accession of King William 

 introduced more adventurous, but long less re- 

 spected successors. 



In the opening list of colonels the first I en- 

 counter is styled as above : now, wiiat was the 

 name and lineage of this Viscount Dover ? Henry, 

 Lord Dover, was appointed one of the Commis- 

 sioners of the Treasury to that king in 1686; and 

 again, in 1688, a short time before his abdication, 

 was especially chosen to advise the queen. In 

 1689 the ^'Earl of Dover" was one of those re- 

 corded as having fled with the royal exile to 

 France, and afterwards accompanied him to 

 Ireland. On James' arrival there Lord Viscount 

 Dover appears as above, and was a Privy Coun- 

 cillor, but did not sit in the Parliament of Dublin. 

 In July 1689 he was joined in Commission for 

 the Treasury with the Duke of Tyrconnel, Lord 

 Riverston, and Sir Stephen Rice. Norris says 

 {Life of King William, p. 281.) that this Viscount 

 applied in 1690 for a pass out of the country : on 

 tvhich he retired to the Continent. He was after- 

 wiards, with his joint commissioners, outlawed. 



Now, according to the Peerage Books, the earldom, 

 of Dover became extinct on the death, in 1671, 

 of John Cary, the second Earl, son of Henry, the 

 first Earl, without issue male ; and I am not aware 

 of any recognised or otherwise mentioned Vis- 

 count Dover. John D' Alton. 



48. Summer Hill, Dublin. 



Lines on Womun^s Will. — 



" That man's a fool who tries by art and skill, 

 To stem the torrent of a woman's will, 

 For if she will, she will, you may depend on't. 

 And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't." 



Can any of your correspondents inform me who 

 is the author of the above lines ? I am not certain 

 that I have quoted them quite correctly. My im- 

 pression is that they are of considerable antiquity. 



Civis. 



Celebrated Fly. — In Curzon's Monasteries of 

 the Levant, p. 183., occurs the following passage : — 



" The prophet Mahomet's camel perfornied the whole 

 journey from Jerusalem to Mecca in four bounds, for 

 which remarkable service he is to have a place in 

 heaven, where he will engoy the society of Borak, the 

 prophet's horse, Balaam's ass, Tobit's dog, and the dog 

 of the Seven Sleepers, whose name was Ketmir, and 

 also the companionship of a certain celebrated fly, with 

 whose merits I am unacquainted." 



Will some of your readers supply the inform- 

 ation ? Agmond. 

 59. Egerton Street, Liverpool. 



Battle of Alfred the Great with the Danes. — 

 Can any of your readers inform me the name of 

 the place in Hampshire where the memorable en- 

 counter of Alfred the Great with the Danes took 

 place, as different historians call it by various 

 names ? also in what part of the county it is 

 situate, and (if still existing) its present name ? 



J. S. 



Islington. 



Old Satchells. — In Lockhart's Life of Scott, 

 vol. i. p. 63., there occurs the following passage: — 



" He owed much to the influence exerted over his 

 juvenile mind by the rude but enthusiastic clan-poetry 

 of old Sdtchells, who describes himself on his title-page 

 as ' Captain Walter Scott, an old souldier and no 

 scholler.' " 



Can any of your readers inform me why this 

 ancestor of Sir Walter's was called old Satchells ? 

 Wiiether, as is most probable, from his residence, 

 some house or hamlet bearing that name, or from 

 some family, should there be any of that surname. 

 What editions have there been of his "true 

 history," &c. ? Sigma. 



'■'■Pretty Peggy of Derby, O.'"— Who was the 

 author of this ballad, and Avhere shall I meet with 

 a copy of it, my copy being imperfect ? R. S. 



