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NoTBs : — ' Page 



A cotemporary Account of the "Battle of Kerbester," 



inRoss,27lh April, 1G50 - - - - - 549 



Two curious Autiiors : H. A., Gent., and H. W., Gent. 551 

 The Church of St. Bartholomew the Less : Miles 



Coverdale - - - - - - - 552 



■Maudiin : Sappho : Going to Skellig, by W. Dowe - 562 



" Genealogies of the Mordaunt Family," by t.e Earl of 



Peterborough - - - - - - 553 



Minor Notes: — The Westminster Piny: curious Coin- 

 cidences — Talleyrand — Old Title Deeds — Quakers' 

 Meeting-house at Whittlebury — Inscriptions en Bells 

 — Beautiful Epitaph — Americanisms (so called) - 553 

 Queries : — 



Ancient Irish Titles ..... 555 



Minor Queries : — Niagara or Niagara — Lady Arabella 

 Stewart — William (titular) Earl of Cowrie — Drake, 

 an Artist — Electrical Phenomena — Arnold Family — 



Bills explained to the Sovereign, &c Passage in 



Burke— '"Twas on the Morn " — " My mind to me," 



Ac J. Brougham's Sermons — Did the Carians use 



Heraldic Devices ? — Bagford's Collections at Cam- 

 bridge .-_.... 555 



Minor Queries with Answers:— St. Distaff's Day — 

 Baptist Meeting at Newcastle -ou-Tyne — Bacon's 

 History of Life and Death .... 



Keplies : — 



Mathematical Society of Wapping, by Sydney Smirke - 

 ■"- Discovery at Nuneham Regis .... 



Parochial Libraries ..... 



First Folio Shakspeare, by J. O. Halliwell 



Catcalls ....... 



Burying alive as a Punishment, by William Bates 

 £mock Marriages, by C. H. Cooper and Shirley Brooks 

 Photographic Correspondence . - . - 



Replies to Minor Queries: — "In Nomine Domini " — 

 Edward Polhill— " The Choice of Hercules "— " Nine 

 Tailors trake a Man" — Goose Fair — Kcclesiastical 

 Year — Editions of the Prayer Book prior to 16C2 — 

 Office for Commemoration of Benefactors — " The 

 Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong" — Civilation 

 — "A hair of the dog that bit you "—Skull-caps versus 

 Skull-cups — Francis Hopkinson, Author of •' Dissert- 

 ation on a Salt-box" — Junius, Letter LVI., and the 

 Continuation of Tom Jones — The Word Brow, or 

 Brough, in Essex — Phonetic Spelling — Simile of the 

 Soul and Magnetic Needle — Sea Water — Alton or 

 Eaton Family — Spiritual Persons employed in Lay 

 Offices — George Chalmers' " Revolt of tlie Colonies" 

 ■ — Sir John Hynde Cotton — Les Heros de la Ligue — 

 Second Exhumation of King Arthur's Remains — 

 Church Stile — Sich House — The Verlis "to lay" 

 and " to lie " — Whipping Posts — The Termination 

 "-ster" — Eiebreis ..... 663 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. ..... scg 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted .... 5C9 



Notices to Correspondents .... 569 



Advertisements ...... 569 



556 



Voi^VL — 1^0. 163. 



A COTEMPORART ACCOUKT OF THE "BATTLE OP 

 KERBESTER," IN ROSS, 27tH APRIL, 1650. 



" Leut. General Lesly having appointed a ren- 

 devouz of his forces at Brechin, 25 Aprile, did 

 make all possible haste against the enenile, march- 

 ing 30 miles everie day, and to put a stop to the 

 enemies' advance, he sent Leut. Col. Strachan be- 

 fore him to command the troopes that were lying 

 about Rosse and Iniiernesse. 



" Upon Saterday, the 27 Aprile, y* enemie was 

 quartered at Strathekell in Rosse ; L. Colonell 

 Strachan with his owne troope, Colonell Mont- 

 gomery, Colonell Ker's, L. Colonell Hackett's, 

 and the Irishe troopes were quartered about Kin- 

 cardine ; the number y"" wer present being onlie 

 about 230 : the officers being conveined, and 

 having considered the grate scarsity of provisions 

 for horsse, and y*' it was very probable, y" ene- 

 mies' strength being in foote, they would take 

 the hills upon the advance of more of our horsses, 

 they concludit to fight y"' wicked crewe with the 

 force they had. Bot the Lord's day approach- 

 ing, and the enemie being 10 miles distant, they 

 doubted whither to marche towardes them pre- 

 sentlie, or to delay untill Monday, and so declyne 

 y® hazard of ingageing upone y^ Lord's day ; bot 

 this doubt was soune removed, for notice was pre- 

 sentlie brought, that the enemy was marched from 

 Strathekel to Corbisdale, sex miles nearer unto 

 them, wheripone they furthwith drewe upe in 3 

 pairties — the I, consisting of neire a 100 horsse, to 

 be led one by L. Colonell Straquhan ; y" 2, somme 

 more than 80, to be led one by L. Colonell Hac- 

 kett ; and y* 3, about 40, to be led one by Cap- 

 taine Hutchesone; and 36 musquetaires of Lawer's 

 regiment (which wer occasionally upon the place), 

 to be led one by Quarter IVIaster Shaw : after 

 prayers said by the minister, they marched, about 

 3 o'clock in the afternoone, towards the enemy, 

 quho wer drawin upe in a plaine, neire a hill of 

 scrogie woode, to which upon the advance of our 

 horsse they quicklie retired. Yet L. Colonell 

 Strachan pursued them into the woode, and at 

 y* first charge made them all to rune ; the Lord 

 did stricke suche a terror iuto their hartes, as ther 



