Dec. 11. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



567 



its use without injury by the inhabitants of Easter 

 Island, I " made a note of it " when reading, but 

 I cannot find it in my common-place book. M. L. 



Aiton or Eaton Family (Vol. vi., p. 435.). — I 

 do not make this communication as in reply to 

 Scrutator's inquiry, but it justifies leaving in 

 your pages monumental notes that, in an obscure 

 Irish churchyard, might moulder away unknown. 

 They were copied off by myself in the church- 

 yard of Connor, co. Antrim, when I was making 

 my collections for the then projected history of 

 that interesting district : 



" Exanlatis hujus ajrumnosas vitse laboribus, migravit 

 hlnc RoBERTUS Aiton, Artium Magister, decimo Mail 

 salut. part. 1666, jBtatis suas 80, cujus exuviae requi- 

 escunt in pace sub hoc cippo in spem beatae resurrec- 

 tionis. Itemque duorum nepotulorum. 



Albion esse dedit, Mores formavit amoenos 

 Gallia, dum nunc tegit ossa solum." 



" Here lyeth the Bodys of the Revrd. Mr. Anbrew 

 Aiton, Prebend of Connor, who departed this life the 

 7th day of June, in the year of our Lord 1794, and the 

 71st of his age; — and Elizabeth Aitov, wife to the 

 said Andrew, who departed this life Xbr. ye. 1713, in 

 ye 80 year of her age. — Also, Robert Aiton, Esq., 

 son to the aforesaid Andrew; and Elias Aiton, who 

 departed this life the 4th of August, 1742, in the 76th 

 year of his age." 



I have many particulars of this line in my manu- 

 scripts, but cannot at present think that these in- 

 dividuals connect with the object of Scrutator's 

 search. John D' Alton. 



4. Summer Hill, Dublin. 



Steeple Aston is in the gift of Brazen iNTose 

 College. John Eaton was admitted M.A. July 8, 

 1701. John Eaton was admitted M.A. Oct. 12, 

 1730. Both were of Brazen Nose. For name, 

 parentage, &c. of their fathers, consult the Oxford 

 Matriculation Registers. Arthur Paget. 



Spiritual Persons employed in Lay Offices 

 (Vol. vi., p. 376.). — W. says, in reference to 

 Dutens, that he " was probably the last spiritual 

 person employed in a lay office." W. seems not 

 to be aware that one of the successors of Dutens 

 in the rectory of Elsdon, Archdeacon Singleton, 

 attended the late Duke of Northumberland during 

 the time of his holding the office of Lord Lieu- 

 tenant of Ireland, and in the capacity of his Grace's 

 private secretary had the privilege of franking, 



E. H. A. 



George Chalmers'' " Revolt of the Colonies" 

 (Vol. vi., pp. 200. 281.). — An edition of the work 

 to which BoNSALL refers was published by James 

 Monroe and Company, of Boston (Mass.), in the 

 year 1845. The title runs thus: An Introduction 

 to the History of the Revolt of the American Colo- 



nies ; being a Comprehensive View of its Origin. 

 Derived from the State Papers contained in the 

 Public Offices of Great Britain. By George 

 Chalmers. 



It is in two octavo volumes, of 414 and 376 

 pages; and the following extract from the preface 

 will show why your correspondent's copy, as well as 

 that in the British Museum, wants the title-page: 



" It was printed, imder the author's inspection, as 

 far as the end of the reign of George I., but no part 

 has ever been published. To the printed copy which 

 has been used for the impression now given to the 

 public a title-page is prefixed in the handwriting of the 

 au^Aor, with the addition, 'Suppressed in 1782.' It is 

 one of the very few copies wliich he reserved for private 

 distribution among his friends. 



" The reason for its suppression can only be con- 

 jectured. The interference of the ministry, however, 

 is presumed to have furnished the chief motive. Just 

 at this time the treaty of peace was signed at Paris, 

 ceding independence to the revolted colonics, as they 

 were called; and the popular clamor against the treaty 

 was already so strong that there could be no desire to 

 have it increased by a work of this character. Indeed, 

 no political ends could now be answered by its pub- 

 lication; and as Mr. Chalmers held an office under the 

 government, and looked for promotion, it is probable 

 that he thought it more politic to sacrifice the pride 

 and fame of authorship, than to run the hazard of 

 offending the ministers. 



" The books and papers which belonged to Mr. 

 Chalmers were retained in possession of his nephew tiU 

 they were recently sold in London ; and among them 

 was a manuscript continuation of this work, in the 

 handwriting of the author, completely revised and pre- 

 pared for the press. It is now printed as it was left by 

 him, beginning with the reign of George II., and con- 

 stituting about three quarters of the second volume." 



William Duane. 



Philadelphia. 



Sir John Hynde Cotton (Vol. vi., p. 388.), — I 

 think J, W. will find the information which he 

 seeks in Additional MSS. No. 5841. (Cole's), Bri- 

 tish Museum, p, 296, et seq. R. W. C. 



Les Her OS de la Ligue (Vol. vi., p. 418.). — I 

 transcribe the following brief notice of this curious 

 work from torn. ii. p. 553. of Brunet's Manuel du 

 Libraire, Paris, 1842 : 



" Ce volume, public en Hollande, se compose de 24 

 fig. gravees en maniere noire, dans lesquelles on a 

 travesti a'une maniere grotesque differents personnages 

 qualifies du royaume, qui jouerent les premiers roles 

 dans I'affaire de la revocation. II n'y a d'autre texte 

 qu'un sonnet qui occupe le dernier f. 



" Les exempl. dont le frontispice est sans date ren- 

 ferment des epreuves fatiguees. On salt que ces cari- 

 catures ont etd reproduites dans les Memoires de M, de 

 Maurepas, publics par Soulavie, en 1792." 



There is a copy of the work in the library of 

 Trinity College, Dublin, in all respects answering 



