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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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.hobby-horse^ and, with one of the changes above 

 indicated, our cob. J. P. 



Dominica. 



First Book Fair in America. — It is stated in 

 •CohbeWs Register for 1802, that the first book 

 fair in the United States was held on the 1st of 

 June, " and brought toj^ether a vast rabble of 

 booksellers and printers." W. W. 



Malta. 



Sir Walter Raleigh. —The head of Sir W. Ka- 

 leigh, after bis decapitation, was put into a red 

 leather bag, over which his velvet night-gown was 

 thrown, and the whole was then conveyed away 

 in a mourning coach provided by Lady Raleigh, 

 who is reported to have preserved this sad me- 

 morial in a case, during her entire widowhood, 

 twenty-nine years, prior to her son Caresv ob- 

 taining it on her decease, who also kept it by him 

 as his mother had done, and is said to have had it 

 interred with him at Horsley. 



In 1703 a head was dug up in that churchyard, 

 from the side of a grave where a Carew Raleigh 

 was buried, there being no bones of a body, nor 

 room for any, the rest of that side of the grave 

 being firm chalk. An embalmed heart was also 

 found under the floor of a room at Horsley which 

 had once been a chapel. 



It has been said that Carew carried about with 

 him his father's heart. 



It appears that the body of her murdered 

 Iiusband was consigned to Lady Raleigh, and 

 notwithstanding the current opinion that it was 

 interred in St. Margaret's church, Westminster, 

 tlie following short note recorded by Manning and 

 Bray (^Surrey, ii. 527.), from the Carew papers at 

 Beddington, gives cause to believe that he was 

 interred at Beddington, though privately and at 

 night : 



" To my best brother 

 Sir Nicholas 

 Carew at 



Beddington. 



" I desiar, good brother, that you Avill be pleased to let 

 my berri the worthi boddi of my nobell husband Sur 

 Walter Ealeigh in your church at beddington, wher I 

 desiar to be berred. 



" The lords have given me his ded boddi, though they 

 denied me his life. This nit hee shall be brought you 

 with two or three of my men. 



*' Let me her presently'. 

 " E. R. 



" God hold me in my wites." 



There is no date to this note, yet no reasonable 

 cause can be assigned for any refusal by Sir Ni- 

 cholas of his sister's request. Anon. 



" 5y " or " Bye f" — A friend of mine, who is 

 a bit of a purist, found fault with me lately for 

 spelling the first syllable of bye-law with an e, 

 and pleaded the authority of Johnson against me. 

 His objection was founded on the assumption that 



this and similar words were formed from the 

 preposition by. But I would venture to ask, is 

 such the case ? May they not, with more proba- 

 bility, be traced to the Anglo-Sax. Bige or Byge, 

 an angle or hay : expressive of the idea of iruli- 

 rectness, and so of privacy ? Thus, in Anglo-Sax. 

 Bigspell is a parable, i. e. an indirect form of ad- 

 dress: and a hye-ivay is not the straight way; 

 and a bye-law is a private law ; and by-the-bye 

 naturally introduces a parenthesis. If this con- 

 jecture be correct, it appears to me that it is well 

 to mark the distinction between this little word 

 and the preposition, by a different mode of spelling. 



C. W. BiNGUAM. 



^ntvitg. 



WHO WAS SIR CHARLES VTOGAN ? 



He was a correspondent of Swift's, and we have 

 notes about him in Nichols and Scott ; but they 

 are not satisfactory. We learn from the annota- 

 tors little more than may be learnt from Wogan's 

 own letters and publications. He was, be it ob- 

 served, wholly unknown to Swift, when, in 1732, 

 Swift received from Spain Wogan's first letter, 

 together with a green velvet bag full of MSS. 

 with a request that he would correct, and, if he 

 thought them worthy, publish them. The Dean 

 had no fancy for such thankless labours, and 

 handed the MSS., green bag and all, over to Mr. 

 Pilkington, for whom he had just procured the 

 appointment of chaplain to Lord Mayor Barber, 

 with instructions to look them over. No sooner, 

 however, had Pilkington started for London than 

 the Dean sent for the MSS. back again ; and Ni- 

 chols says they were afterwards in the possession • 

 of Mr. Deane Swift. Where are they now ? 

 Amongst them was what Swift called a " Poetical 

 History in Prose " of Wogan's life, which would 

 now be read with interest. 



I infer from his letters that the Dean had in the 

 interval heard something about his correspondent, 

 and such a character of him as had awakened an 

 interest. Wogan replied, Feb. 27, 1732, in a 

 clever letter — rather a pamphlet, for it fills forty- 

 three pages in Nichols — which contains some per- 

 sonal matters about which we are interested. 



That Wogan was an Irishman is beyond all 

 question ; and that he was a nephew to the Duke 

 of Tyrconnel he has himself told us. Nichols 

 says that he followed his unfortunate master, 

 James II., into exile ; but this I think must be a 

 mistake. On Wogan's own showing he was resi- 

 dent in Ireland and in England long after James 

 II. was dead. He speaks in one of his letters of 

 his "friend and neighbour Dr. Parnelle," which 

 does not read like a schoolboy intimacy or recol- 

 lection, but seems rather to refer to Parnell when 

 established as Archdeacon of Clogher, to which 



