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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 160. 



that upon the supplication of "Walter de la PuUe 

 praying that Robert deTuyt, " valettosuo," might 

 have the Sergeantship of the County of Meath 

 during the minority of the heir of Matthew Ba- 

 coun deceased, who held the same in capite, an 

 inquisition was taken whereby it was found that 

 Robert de Tuyt was a fit person for the said ser- 

 geantship, worth, yearly, twenty marks ; and that 

 the said sergeantship was in the Crown by reason 

 of the minority of the son and heir of Matthew 

 Bacoun, who was then aged fourteen years. By 

 enrolments which appear upon the Exchequer 

 Records of the reigns of Edward II. and III., it 

 •will be found, that the Chief Sergeantcy of Meath 

 was granted by the Crown to the family of Bacon 

 to be holden hereditarily. By deed of tlie 17th 

 Edward III., John Bacoun grants " La Bailie de 

 la Sj aundre du Counte de Mid e de la Fraunchise 

 de Trim" to Thomas Peppard for life, rendering a 

 red rose for the first ten years, and after that 

 " deus centz livres dargent." J. F. F, 



Map for the Use of the National Schools of Ire- 

 land. — On a large map, conspicuously displayed in 

 a shop window in the Strand, entitled Map of the 

 United States, constructed for the Use of the Na- 

 tional Schools of Ireland, under the Direction of the 

 ■ Commissioners, the Andros Islands are erroneously 

 named Ambros Islands. This inaccuracy ought to 

 be rectified ; or, at least, the map should be removed 

 from its public position in a leading thoroughfare 

 of London. Generally speaking, as a people, we 

 know rather too little of geography ; but wiiy 

 should we proclaim our ignorance in the public 

 streets ? W. Pinkerton. 



Ham. 



ChurcMlVs Death. — In most of the biographies 

 I have seen of Charles Churchill, he is stated to 

 have died at Boulogne. I believe it will be found, 

 upon proper inquiry, that he died in England, 

 within a few minutes after his landing at Dover, 

 and that his last words were, " Thank God ! I die 

 in England." B. G. 



Mistranslations. — The singularity of the follow- 

 ing misconception and confusion of name with 

 office, by an otherwise intelligent writer in a 

 scientific article of the last Neiv Monthly Maga- 

 zine (No. 383.), page 288., induces me to point 

 attention to it. The subject is "Ballooning in 

 Later Years," where I read, — 



" On the outbreak of the French Revolution, military 

 aerostation, of which we shall shortly speak, was dis- 

 covered by Guyton Morveau, Prior of De la Cote 

 d'Or," &c. 



Now, this last person's name was Prieur, a de- 

 puty to the French Convention from the " departe- 

 ment de la Cote d'Or," a part of ancient Burgundy, 

 and distinguished as such from another Prieur, 



deputy of the "departement de la Marne," the 

 identity of their family names making their special 

 designation necessary ; but assuredly he was not 

 a prior of any convent. On the contrary, he was 

 the fiercest enemy of the Church, and altogether a 

 sanguinary terrorist, as his namesake (though no 

 relative) equally was. Both, too, were members 

 of the terrible " Comite de Salut Public," and 

 there, special friends of Carnot, not much to this 

 eminent man's honour. Like him, too, "Prieur 

 de la Cote d'Or " had been an officer in the mili- 

 tary corps of engineers, and was, in consequence, 

 equally employed in the military class of the Con- 

 vention. He died in August, 1832, at Dijon, 

 during my residence in France. No mention is 

 subsequently made of him in the magazine, the 

 article in which would offer other observations, 

 were this their apposite repository. J. R. (Cork.) 



In the French translation of Stewart's Active 

 and Moral Powers, by De Leon Simon, torn. i. 

 p. 114., "If men were only obliged" is rendered 

 " s'ils n'etaient was obliges." Page 185. : " If there 

 were any country where no injustice was appre- 

 hended in depriving a man, &c., it would be some- 

 thing to the purpose," becomes " ou on n'eut 



point a redouter I'injustice de voir, &c., ce fait 

 prouverait encore plus en notre (!) faveur." 



Tom. ii. p. 95. : "An Idol of the cave or den" 

 Is " L'Idole d'un esprit obscur et caverneux." In 

 numerous passages the author's meaning Is ridi- 

 culously reversed : but it Is enough to say that 

 invalidates is translated renferme ; little men, peu 

 d'hommes ; invalvuble, always sans valeur ; over- 

 looked is admise ; and to crown all, a line from 

 Pope (tom. ii. p. 155.), — 



" Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame," 



is metamorphosed into — 



" C'est la promenade du soir que fait le sage." 



This throws into the shade the translator's refer- 

 ence to Berkeley's Le Petit Philosophe, and shows 

 vchat confidence is due to French translations. 



In the Book of Family Crests, " Utitur ante 

 quajsitis " is explained " It Is used before you look 

 for It." Altron. 



Junius Inquiries. — It Is an erroneous suppo- 

 sition, that the Inquiry Into Junius is a mere ques- 

 tion of curiosity. I would sincerely recommend 

 it to the study of every barrister, who would wish 

 to make himself acquainted with the Theory of 

 Evidence. There Is scarcely a claim that has been 

 put forward, as yet, but he will find well worthy 

 of his attention, especially when he considers the 

 remarkable coincidences which have generally been 

 the occasion of their being brought forward. I 

 have, during the last thirty years, admitted the 

 claims of five or six of the candidates ; now I do 

 not believe In one. B. G. 



