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KOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«'i S. No 114., MAn. C. '58. 



the Memoranda Rolls and Great Rolls of the Pipe 

 in the Record Tower, Dublin Castle. Sir Ber- 

 nard Burke, Ulster King of Arms, is now the 

 worthy custodian of the latter records. 



Whilst we hear of the noble effort now in pro- 

 gress in England, to rescue from oblivion the 

 materials of the national history, are such records 

 as the Rolls of the Irish Parliament, the Irish 

 Exchequer Memoranda Rolls, and the Great Rolls 

 of the Pipe in Ireland, to be suffered to moulder 

 in oblivion ? Surely here are ample " materials 

 for the history of Great Britain ! " 



James Gbates. 



Kilkenny. 



Flays at Public Schools : Silvester (2°'^ S. iii. 

 133.) — I hope Dr. Doran will forgive my point- 

 ing out an inaccuracy in his statement upon 

 the subject of plays at public schools above re- 

 ferred to. 



It is true Garrick was present, and so much 

 pleased with the general performance, that he 

 presented the boys with the scenes ; but it is in- 

 correct to state that he (Garrick) enticed Syl- 

 vester to turn actor, for Silvester (not Sylvester) 

 was elected from Merchant Taylors' School in 

 June, 1764, to a Scholarship, and in June, 1766, 

 to a Law Fellowship in St. John's College, Ox- 

 ford. He was called to the Bar at the Middle 

 Temple, Feb. 1772, admitted one of the Common 

 Pleaders of the City of London in Sept. 1774, 

 elected Common Sergeant in July, 1790, and una- 

 nimously elected Recorder of London in October, 

 1803. He was created a Baronet in 1814, and 

 died in March, 1822. 



It will be seen by this that " poor Silvester " 

 never had anything to do as an actor, other than 

 at the Old Bailey Sessions, where he performed 

 his part as one of the best criminal judges of his 

 day. The statement is therefore entirely one of 

 fiction as regards " poor Silvester ;" whether any 

 other of the performers were enticed away I can- 

 not say, but the performances were discontinued 

 after two seasons (1762 and 1763), the Merchant 

 Taylors' Company disapproving of them, as likely 

 to draw the attention of the scholars from more 

 useful pursuits and more important acquirements. 



/ J. Speed D. 



Bird's-eye View of Towns (2""^ S. v. 130.) — I 

 have seen some very interesting bird's-eye views 

 of several French towns, 'e.g. Lyons, Avignon, 

 Aries, and Nismes, published at no distant period, 

 and called, if I remember rightly, " La France 

 aerienne." C. W. Bingham. 



Major- General Claud Martin (1»* S. xii. 453.; 

 2°^ S. V. 137.) — Among the Wellesley Papers 

 preserved in the British Museum are two certified 

 copies of the will of this individual, dated Janu- 

 ary 1, 1800. (Add. MS. 13,863.) The original 

 consisted of no less than 80 pages, with an ab- 



stract annexed, on ^ pages more. One of the 

 above copies was submitted by the executors of 

 the testator to W. Burroughs, Advocate-General 

 at Calcutta, for his opinion and advice as to the 

 proper mode of carrying the will into execution, 

 and it has his remarks written on the margins. 

 The other copy was in like manner submitted to 

 Francis Macnaghten, Esq., and has his remarks 

 also on the margins. There is, moreover, a por- 

 tion of a third copy of the will, with the remarks 

 of Robert Leslie on it. From these papers any 

 one interested in the bequests of Major-General 

 Claud Martin (not Martine) may obtain ample 

 information on the subject. ^. 



Infernas Tenehras (2°'' S. iii. 30.) — I cannot 

 find any author named Stadilus, and having found 

 the passage, which is somewhat inaccurately quoted, 

 I infer that H. made or copied a mistake. Swin- 

 den seemed to be the writer, but " nuper," in 

 1788, was hardly applicable to a discovery an- 

 nounced in 1714. Here is the title-page of the 

 real book : — 



"J. Burch. Menckenii de Charlataneria Eruditorum, 

 Declamationes duse, cum notis variorum. Accessit Epis- 

 tola Sebastiani Stadelli, ad Janum Philomusum, De cir- 

 cumforanea Literatorum Vanitate. Ed. sexta, Neapoli, 

 1786, apud Petrum Perger, Expensis Joseph! de Licto, 

 Superorum permissu." 



Menckenius in his preface dates one oration 

 Feb. 9, 1713 ; the other, Feb. 14, 1715 : in the 

 second, at p. 242., he says — 



" Nee magis morabor Physicos, quorum aliqui nihil om- 

 nino in rebus, quaj sub sole sunt, inaccessum nihil imper- 

 vium putant, adeo ut non mode in his, qufe ante oenlos 

 posita sunt, ad insaniam usque scrupulosi sint, verum et 



' Tentare cavus uteri et terebrare latebras,' 

 assueti, in ipsum terrsE centrum descendant, ignisque sub- 

 terranei vires causticas explorent, imo et ipsum tentent 

 primum mundi chaos, ac prreterea in Luna homines, de- 

 mones et gehennam quajrant in sole." * 



In the Acta Eruditorum the book is reviewed, 

 but Swinden's name is not given. I do not know 

 whether the first edition was anonymous ; the 

 second is " by Tobias Swinden, late rector of Cux- 

 tone in Kent." 



I believe that all these books are very common. 



FiTZHOPKIKS. 



Garrick Club. 



Permanent Settlement of Lord Cornwallis (2"* 

 S. V. 88.) — The following extract from an article 

 entitled " A Chronological Account of the Con- 

 nexion between England and India," in the Com- 

 panion to the Almanach for the present year will 

 probably afford your correspondent C. K. the in- 

 formation he requires : — 



" 1789. — The decennial settlement of the lands com- 



* " Infernales tenebras, quae nemini hactenus morta- 

 lium viventi patuerc, in sole lucidissimo nuper visns est 

 oculatissimus Anglus Anonynnis, de quo vide Acta Eru- 

 ditorum, 1715, Men. Mart., p. 107." 



