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NOTES AND QUERIES. [2"* s. v. ii7., Mab. 27. 



'58. 



culty in answering the question. Towards the 

 close of the reign of George II. a large proportion 

 of the most intelligent and patriotic people of 

 Scotland urged the legislature to extend to that 

 portion of the United Kingdom the establishment 

 of a militia force, and many able pamphlets were 

 written on the subject, of which one of the most 

 impressive was ascribed to Dr. Adam Ferguson, 

 who, in the year 1759, was admitted Professor of 

 Natural Philosophy in the University, from which 

 office he was, five years afterwards, transferred to 

 the Chair of Moral Philosophy. In 1760 he was 

 urged to publish a satirical exposure of the sup- 

 posed views of the opponents of a Bill which had 

 been repeatedly pressed on the attention of Par- 

 liament ; and in compliance with the wishes of 

 some of his warmest friends, he produced a hu- 

 morous little work entitled 7^he History of the 

 Proceedings in the Case of Margaret^ commonly 

 called Sister Peg. I do not feel myself entitled to 

 state who was "the Nurse," or who was " Hubble- 

 Bubble," unless I obtain permission from Dr. 

 Ferguson's only surviving son. Colonel Ferguson, 

 who was long an officer in the Indian army, and, 

 having been stationed in Delhi many years, was 

 better acquainted with that city than any man 

 now alive. Dr. Adam Ferguson was born June 

 20, 1723, and died in the ninety-third year of his 

 age, on February 22, 1816. The eldest of his 

 sons. Sir Adam Ferguson (the schoolfellow and 

 most intimate friend of Sir VV alter Scott), and the 

 youngest, Rear-Admiral John Ferguson, both 

 died within the last three years. The latter has 

 left an only son. Captain Adam Ferguson of the 

 42nd Highlanders, in which regiment his father 

 was chaplain in 1745 ; and in that year, on De- 

 cember 18, he preached a sermon in Gaelic, which 

 was translated into English, and published for the 

 use of a lady of quality in Scotland (the Duchess 

 of Atholl). This is now as scarce a sermon as 

 that of David Ferguson preached to the Parlia- 

 ment of Scotland in 1571, of which till now one 

 copy only has been known to be extant for more 

 than a century. L. (2.) 



Platonic Love (2°^ S. v. 88. 219.). — I am not 

 *' familiarly acquainted with Plato," and cannot 

 refer to any passage on which the common notion 

 of " Platonic love," as adopted by Byron, and 

 inquired for by E. H. L., is founded. In the 

 Phadrus, and especially in the Symposion, x. 265. 

 ed. Bipont, those who wish to know Plato's views 

 will find them in Greek, and, I hope, leave them 

 there. H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Bladworth Family (2"'' S. v. 48.).— In the JSooft 

 of Family Crests there is a family named Blood- 

 worth, whose crest is a dexter hand couped fess- 

 wise, gu., holding a cross croslet fitchee, in pale, 

 sa. Buchanan Washbouen, M.D. 



Thomas de Quincey (2"'^ S. iv. 472.; v. 57. 199.) 

 — Had P. H. F. and G. B. read my Query with 

 attention, they would have perceived that I was 

 acquainted with The Confessions of an English 

 Opium-eater, and that the charming episode of 

 " Ann " could not be the one I was seeking for. 

 I have been privately informed that the paper by 

 De Quincey on Heu ! taceam is in The Titan. 

 Can any one tell me the number in which it ap- 

 peared ? The opium vision appeared in a ma- 

 gazine of the Ainsworth breed : I think the New 

 Monthly or Bentley about a year and a half ago. 

 C. Mansfield Ingleby. 

 Birmingham. 



Arm.s of Bruce (2"^ S. v. 236.) — According to 

 a MS. collection of pedigrees of the Earls of Scot- 

 land, purchased at the sale of the library of the 

 Rev. — Powell, at Messrs. Puttick and Simpson's 

 Rooms in 1848, Margaret, daughter and heiress of 

 Niel, 2nd Earl of Carrick, married Adam de 

 Kilcorcath, who died at Aeon, 1270, s. p. She 

 afterwards married Robert de Brus, Lord of An- 

 nandale (oh. 1304), and by him was mother of 

 Robert de Brus, who became by the resignation 

 of his father 5th Earl of Carrick, 1292, and was 

 crowned King of Scotland, 1306 (pb. 1329), and 

 of Sir Edward Brus, Lord of Galloway and Earl 

 of Carrick, crowned King of Ireland, 1316, and 

 slain at Dundalk, 1318. The arms borne by Sir 

 Edward Bruce are specifically given, but the arms 

 of Galloway are blazoned : vert, a lion ramp. ar. 

 crowned, armed, and langued gu. ; and those of 

 Bruce, or, a cross saltier, gu., a chief of the 2nd. 

 It is very probable that Sir Edward bore these 

 coats quarterly. The old arms of the Earls of 

 Carrick, before the Macdougalls and Bruces, were 

 ar., a chev. gu., and these arms were quartered, 

 2nd and 3rd, with Bruce, by Christina, sister of 

 Sir Edward, who married Seton. 



John Maclean. 



Hammersmith. 



" Times prohibiting Marriage " (1'' S. xi. xii. 

 passim.^ — The following rhyme upon this subject 

 deserves adding to those which have already ap- 

 peared in " N. & Q." : — 



" Advent marriage doth deny. 

 But Hilary gives thee liberty, 

 Septuagesima says thee nay ; 

 Eight days from Easter says you may ; 

 Rogation bids thee to contain, 

 But Trinity sets thee free again." 



W. p. L. 



Greenwich. 



Marriage Customs (2"'' S. v. 48. 178.).— 



" Ethelwold caused a ponderous cross of stone, inscribed 

 with his name, and otiier memorjals, to be made and 

 erected in the ground adjoining Lindisfarne Abbey. The 

 socket, or foot stone, in which it was mortised, still lies 

 a few paces to the east of the ruined church. It was held 

 in such veneration, that, after being broken by the Danes. 



