2°d S. V. 118., Apbil 3. '68.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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not the original now within reach, for the purpose 

 of testing the accuracy of a translation made some 

 years since. 



As to the second part of Y,. C. H.'s Query, the 

 modern use of passports, I must leave that to some 

 one more competent to answer. I may, however, 

 remark that, so far as my recollection serves, there 

 will be found in the Appendix to Borlaces's His- 

 tory of the Execrable Irish Rebellion (London, 

 1680, and Dublin, 1743), a long correspondence 

 between Ireton, the Cromwellian, and Preston, 

 the Irish general, respecting the murder of a per- 

 son whose safety it was supposed had been secured 

 by a passport. W. B. Mac Cabe. 



Dinan, Cotes du Nord. 



Ghost Stories (2"^ S. v. 233.)— It so happens 

 that I am able to confirm both the ghost stories 

 mentioned by your correspondent Candidus, so 

 far as having heard a member of the Beresford 

 family relate the first, and more than one of the 

 Sherbrooke family mention the second. I do not, 

 however, remember to which of the family the 

 appearance of Lord Tyrone is stated to have oc- 

 curred, nor at what date, but I think I can ascertain 

 this point, and the existence of the black-ribbon. 



The facts of the other appearance are, I believe, 

 as nearly as possible these : Sir John was in 

 Canada with a brother-officer, sitting one winter 

 evening over their fire. Some one passed through 

 the adjoining apartment, which opened into theirs 

 with a folding-door, but had no other outlet. Sir 



John exclaimed, " Why that is ! " (the name 



I never heard or forget). His brother- officer also 

 saw the figure, but did not recognise the counte- 

 nance, being unknown to him. They both rose 

 and examined the room in which they had seen 

 the figure, but found no trace of it, and being 

 much struck with the circumstance marked the 

 day, and afterwards ascertained that it was that 

 on which the person referred to died in England. 

 They also noticed at the time that be was dressed 

 in a light in-door costume, while they wore furs 

 and wraps owing to the severity of the weather. 



A still more curious additional circumstance is, 

 that years after the two friends were walking in 

 London, and the officer pointed out across the street 

 some person whom he thought he recognised as 

 the same man that had appeared to them in 

 America. It turned out to be a gentleman who 

 was noted for his extraordinary likeness to the 

 deceased. M. E. M. 



Sebastian Cabot and Richard Eden (2"* S. v. 193. 

 263.) — Mr. George, who has so courteously of- 

 fered to lend me Mr. Biddle's book, has only just 

 forestalled me in his interesting communication to 

 " N. & Q." A few days back, at Leigh Sotheby's, 

 I saw the book in question in the library of Mr. 

 Gutch, with an elaborate note, as I assume in the 

 handwriting of the last-mentioned gentleman, as- 



signing a very high value to its contents on the 

 ground of their authenticity. Richard Eden is of 

 course there made out clearly enough, and I be- 

 lieve his identity was no secret to any one who 

 had leisure and a good biographical dictionary in 

 their neighbourhood. At all events Mb. GeoiIge 

 and I have the satisfaction in common that tve 

 have helped to confirm the claim of our native 

 city to have given birth to Sebastian Cabot, who 

 was a great liar as well as a great discoverer, as 

 is now proven. Samuel Lucas. 



Westminster Epilogues (2"'^ S. v. 256.) — In 

 Poems on Several Occasions, by Samuel Wesley, 

 A.M., second edition, Svo., 1743, pp. 305, 6, are 

 the following epilogues: 1. "Epilogue to one of 

 Terence's Plays, acted at the first Annual Meet- 

 ing of Westminster Scholars." It commences — 



" 'Tis done, here ends the business of the day, 

 The Prose, the Verse, the Dinner, and the Play." 



2. " Epilogue spoken at the Westminster Meet- 

 ing in the Year 1732-3," and begins — 



" Of old the Romans acted Comic Plays, 

 As well on Funeral as on Festal da^s." 



Consult also The London Medley, containing the 

 Exercises spoken by several Young Noblemen 

 and Gentlemen at the Annual Meeting of the 

 Westminster Scholars, on the 28th Jan. 1730-1, 

 at Westminster School, Svo. pp. 30. 



In a Collection and Selection of English Pro- 

 logues and Epilogues, 4 vols. 12mo. 1779, is Mr. 

 Prior's Prologue, spoken by Lord Buckhurst, at 

 Westminster School, at a representation of Dry- 

 den's Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, at Christmas, 

 1695. See vol. iii. p. 9. In the same volume, p. 

 14, is the Prologue to The Orphan, represented by 

 some of the Westminster scholars at Hickford's 

 dancing-room in Panton Street, near Leicester 

 Fields, on Feb. 2, 1720. In vol. iv. are the fol- 

 lowing : Epilogue to the Eunuch of Terence, acted 

 by the King's scholars, Feb. 6, 1733, just after the 

 death of Dr. Freind (p. 68.) Epilogue to Igno- 

 ramus, acted in Dec. 1747 (p. 84.) J. Yeowell. 



Skull and Butterfly (2"'» S. v. 147.) — The em- 

 blem referred to (it is not a crest) is assumed by 

 a George Edwards Heathcote. I can give you no 

 information who he was, as this has been taken 

 from one of our old specimen books. The crest 

 of Heathcote is two wings out of a mural crown. 

 If the first is worth ARCHiEOLOGiSTS accepting it 

 is at his service. T. Mobing. 



44. High Holborn, London. 



CordeWs ''Translation of the Missal" (2"* S. 

 iii. 213. ; v. 246.) — I possess a copy of this in four 

 volumes 18mo. It is printed without any form of 

 approbation ; for, at the time when it was pub- 

 lished, 1737, no such form could have been printed 

 with safety, owing to the penal laws still iu force. 



