2'"» S. No 109., Jan. 30. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Candidates, No. 2." Two men stand on a table, 

 round which, and in a gallery above, others are 

 sitting. Each wears a sort of toga over his 

 clothes : one seems to be a sheet, the other a 

 plaid. Their heads are bare and bald. On the 

 table are two blocks : one bearing a wig with an 

 extravagantly long tail, the other a turban. In 

 the corner is " Published as the act directs, June 

 30, 1784." Below are the following lines : — 



" Sir W with a classic stare, 



Assumes the sculptur'd legist's air ; 

 As sulky on the beam he stands, 

 And in his pockets thrusts his hands ; 

 Thus hinting in a modest way. 

 Each voter may expect his pay. 



While H. D by his side. 



With hand ungloved and opened wide. 

 Confounding impudence with ease, 

 (' Vaary onlike Aristiddees,') 

 Declares no profit he can make. 

 From stall-fed ox to skinniest steak, 

 Too large to ask, too small to take." 



Can any of your correspondents inform me who 

 are the parties represented, and who. is " the 

 sculptured legist" alluded to? As the picture is 

 numbered " 2.," it probably is one of a series. If 

 so, I shall be glad to know where a complete one 

 can be seen. E. H, L. 



East Norfolk Transcript Registers. — Wanting 



froof of a marriage solemnised in East Norfolk, 

 once applied for leave to search the transcripts 

 of the parochial registers of the diocese, but the 

 year I most required, viz. from Easter, 1718, to 

 Easter, 1719, could not then be found. Norwich 

 or other correspondents would oblige by pointing 

 out the whereabouts of the missing documents. 



Ralph Gillingwater. 



Oak Stake found in the Thames: Alton Towers. — 

 In a priced Catalogue of the recent sale at Alton 

 Towers, No. 1054. (I forgot to note which day) 

 " An oak stake found in the Thames " is stated 

 to have been sold for III. Can I ascertain through 

 " N. & Q." when, and in what part of the Thames, 

 this stake was found ? and what are the attendant 

 circumstances which caused it to fetch so high a 

 price ? R. H. B. 



Bath. 



Pi'ovincial Synods, Ireland. — The Rev. Aiken 

 Irvine will feel indebted to any reader of " N. & 

 Q." who can give him aid in drawing up a com- 

 plete list of the Provincial Synods held by the 

 Roman Catholic Church in Ireland since the 

 close of the twelfth century, distinguishing those 

 whose decrees are printed ? 



There is reason to believe that many of those 

 printed (not published) during the last half cen- 

 tury, are only known to a small number of readers. 

 Concerning these Mr. Irvine is particularly 

 anxious to procure information. If those who 

 possess copies of any of them will communicate a 



notice of them, either through "N. & Q.," or 

 direct to his residence, a material aid may be 

 afforded to his inquiries. The shelves of the 

 British Museum ought to have a series of these 

 publications, which will hereafter prove curious 

 as illustrating many of the transactions now can- 

 vassed in Irish political circles. 

 Fivemiletown, co. Tyrone. 



Ghosts and Apparitions. — Wanted the names of 

 books in which these subjects are treated of; more 

 particularly those works relating to their early 

 history ; anecdotes connected with their appear- 

 ances ; any account of their being counterfeited 

 in order to procure or damage property ; remark- 

 able instances of personation from the early chro- 

 niclers or monastic writers, and any modern works 

 that have appeared which touch on the subject. 

 It may as well be stated that the inquirer has con- 

 sulted all the works mentioned in Watt's Biblio- 

 theca, and the London Catalogue. Fixi£. 



Wallace's Orkney Islands. — Most Scotish anti- 

 quaries have in their libraries a copy of the 

 Account of the Orkney Islands, by James Wallace, 

 M.D., Fellow of the Royal Society ; the first* 

 edition of which was printed for Jacob Tonson 

 at London in 1700. It is dedicated to Charles 

 Earl of Dorset and Middlesex. It would appear 

 that Dr. Wallace was not then resident in London, 

 as he prefixes to a list of errata this notice : " the 

 Author not being in town, these following errors 

 are desir'd to be corrected." 



There were, it is believed, later editions ; but 

 these, however, are not of common occurrence, 

 and usually bring, if fine copies, a good price. 

 What we wish to learn is, who was Dr. Wallace, 

 and when did he die ? Perhaps some literary 

 antiquary may throw light on these points. 



About the beginning of the last century, and 

 perhaps as late as 1730, if not later, there did 

 live a Dr. Wallace, a medical gentleman in the 

 West Highlands of Perthshire. He was very 

 much respected, was very kind to the poor, and 

 did a great deal of good. He married and left 

 descendants. Could this be the same person as 

 the author of the work on Orkney, who, if we 

 are not mistaken, was a soa of the minister of 

 Kirkwall ? J. M. 



[The information required by our correspondent re- 

 specting " Master James Wallace " will be found in the 

 first edition of his curious work, entitled "A Description 

 of the Isles of Orkney, by Master James Wallace, late 

 Minister of Kirkwall, published after his death by his 

 Son. To which is added, An Essay concerning the Thule 

 of the Ancients. Edinburgh, printed by John Keid, 



[* This is the second edition, and ought to have been 

 so stated by old Jacob on the title-page. — Ed.] 



