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NOtES AND QtlERifiS. t2»'i s. v. iso., Ju*b 26. '58. 



imjjortahce ; aiid tlie doctor had wl-itteii oh the 

 cover '' hot corrected fully." The purchasfer of 

 that copy, as well as of sevei'al other Wattsiana, 

 at the same auction, was the Rev. Thomas RiisSell 

 of Walworth. Where are they libw ? S. W. Klx. 



ttisloire diss Sevdraitibei (2""* S. il;435.)-— If 

 your correspondent J. O. had examined the articles 

 on this work in " N. & Q." 1^ S. iii. 4. 72. 374., 

 he would scarcely have said that they had left the 

 subject where they found it. "Tlie evidence pro- 

 duced in these articles distinctly connects Vaii-asse 

 with the French version of the work : what re- 

 mains doubtful is the authorship of the Enj^lish 

 History of the Sevarites ; for there is no reason to 

 believe that Isaac Vossius was concerned in it. 

 J. O. states that, although there is no preface to 

 the copy of the English work in the British Mu- 

 seum Library, he has seen a copy containing an 

 Address from the publisher to the reader, prefixed 

 to the first volume, and signed D. V. 



As copies of the origiiial English edition of this 

 book are very rare, perhaps J. O. will give some 

 additional particulars respecting this prefatory 

 matter, and will state whether the copy in ques- 

 tion is in his own possession. I'he signature seems 

 to prove conclusively that Denis Vairasse \vas the 

 author of the English as well as of the French 

 version. L. 



Sir John Wolley (2"'^ S. v. 437.) Mh. Robin- 

 son will find some particulars about Sir John 

 Wolley in the Archceologia, vol. xxxvi. p. 34., and 

 in Keimpe's Loseley MS S. London. 1835. J. E. 



George Washington an Englishman! (1" S. X; 

 85., 2°* S. iv. 6.) — That General Washihgton was 

 born in Westmoreland, co. Virginia, is as well 

 authenticated as any other fact in American his- 

 tory. Remains are existing of the house in which 

 he was born, and of the church in which he was 

 baptized in infancy. In the work recently pub- 

 lished, from the pen of Bishop Meade of the P. E. 

 church in Virginia, entitled The Old Churches 

 and the Old Families of Virginia, are full par- 

 ticulars upon the subject. 



The maiden name of Gen. Washington's mother 

 was Ball, and not Bale, as Stated by Thinks I to 



MYSELF. 



In a genealogy recently published in this country, 

 Gen. Washington's pedigree is traced back to the 

 royal family of England. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Baptism in Wine (P» S. v. 563.) — The follow- 

 ing passage occurs in an unpublished Diary of the 

 sixteenth century : — ■ 



"At Prestohe, 1574, August 30, Mr. Nicolas ap Rhise 

 ap Meredith ap Lin Du, and Richard ap Meredith, unkle 

 to the said NicoUs, reported to me, and also the common 

 report there is, that GriflSth ap Bedo Du, which dwelt at 

 Pilleth (in Brittysh Pylate, called) two myles from Pres- 



tone toward Mynachty at the christening of a sonne of 

 his wold not have the same to be christened (as the man- 

 ner is) in water, uppon a prowd stomak caused the 

 water to be voyded out of the font, and filled it with 

 wj'ne, and so caused his sonne to be therein christened. 

 After which it is noted by the countr3' how he and his 

 grew to decay in substans and credyt, as his race extin- 

 guished. This was told me in the presens of Mr. Jenkin 

 Gwyn and Owyn Gwynnedd;" 



Cl. Hopper. 



Women receiving the Lord's Supper in Gloves 

 (2"^ S. v. 48.) — As a proof how difierently the 

 same subject may be viewed by different minds, 

 the following extract from The Companion to the 

 Altar, by Bishop tlobart of New York, may be 

 presented. Previous communications to " N. & 

 Q." have shown that it was formerly considered 

 more respectful for women to receive the com- 

 munion with their hands covered with gloves, 

 vails, or napkins : — 



" The receiving of the consecrated bread with the glove 

 on the hand should be avoided, as familiar and irreve- 

 rent." 



Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Earthquake at Lisbon (2"* S. v. 395.) — In Davys 

 Letters (published between 1780 and 1790, 1 think) 

 there is one of the best accounts of the " Great 

 Earthquake at Lisbon," in 1755, as I have heard 

 observed. In it he says that walking in his gar- 

 den at OnehoUse, near Stowmarket in Suffolk, he 

 noticed in the evening that the water in a pond 

 several times rose and subsided ; and he found 

 out afterwards that the time agreed with that of 

 the earthquake. The same observation of a simi- 

 lar case occurred at Brook, six miles from this 

 city, i may add that these letters are very ele- 

 gantly written, and in one there is an excellent 

 article on the use of the Greek middle voice. 



A.B. 



Norwich. 



Macistus and the Telegraphic New^ of the Cap- 

 ture of Troy {2"^ S. iv. 438.)— Froto the existing 

 geographical details of the island of Euboea, I 

 inferred, as above, that Mount DlrphoSsus (now 

 Delphi), was the only practical point for a beacon 

 betwixt Athos and Messapius. 1 was not then 

 aware, as I since find confirmatory of such in- 

 ference, that Baird {Modern Greece, p. 265.), 

 speaking of this most striking object, with its 

 snow-capped head, is now " serving as a beacon 

 to the country far and wide." T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



The Masterson Family (2"^ S. v. 395.) —I am 

 sorry I cannot thank either Mr. Hughes (well 

 meant as his information was) nor P. P. for the 

 replies to my Query about this family. The in- 

 formation required was, to trace the descent of 

 that branch sent to Ireland to be Constable of 

 Ferns Castle, co. Wexford, down to the present 



