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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 170. 



Pepyss Morena (Vol. vi., pp. 342. 373.). — In 

 tlie note on this word in the last edition of tlie 

 Diary^ it is stated that it may be read either 

 "Morma" or "Morena." There is little doubt 

 but the latter is the correct reading. " Morena " 

 is good Portuguese for a brunette, and may have 

 been used by Pepys as a term of endearment for 

 Miss Dickens, like the " Colleen dlias dhun " of 

 the Irish, Avhich has much the same meaning. 

 The marriage of the king to Catlierine of Bra- 

 ganza in the previous year would have caused her 

 language to be more studied at this time, espe- 

 cially by persons about the court. Morma has no 

 meaning whatever. J. S. Warden. 



Goldsmiths^ Year-marks (Vol. vl., p. 604. ; 

 Vol. vii., p. 90.). — I observe that, a few weeks 

 ago, in the "N. & Q..," one of your correspondents 

 made inquiries respecting the publication of my 

 paper on plate-marks, which was read at the 

 Bristol meeting of the Archaeological Institute. 



In reply, I beg to inform him that he will find, 

 in the last two Numbers of the Journal of the 

 Institute, the first and second parts of the paper, 

 and that the concluding portion of it, and I hope 

 also the table of annual letters, will appear in the 

 forthcoming Number. Should it not be possible 

 to get the table in a fit state for printing in that 

 Number, it will appear in the next ; and the whole 

 subject of the assay marks of British plate will then 

 be complete. Octavius Morgan. 



The Friars. 



Turners View of Lambeth Palace (Vol. vii., 

 pp.15. 89.). — In reply to your correspondent 

 L. E. X., respecting Mr. Turner's picture of Lam- 

 beth Palace (which is in water-colours^, I beg leave 

 to say that it is in the possession of a lady residing 

 in Bristol, to whose father it was given by the 

 artist alter its exhibition at Somerset House, and 

 it has never been in any other hands. The same 

 lady hiis also a small portrait of Mr. Turner, done 

 by himself when visiting her fixmily about the year 

 1791 or 1792 : further particulars respecting these 

 pictures (if desired) may be known by a line ad- 

 dressed to Miss N , 8. St. James' Square, 



Bristol. Anon. 



J. H. A., after referring to the exhibition at the 

 Royal Academy in 1791, by Mr. Turner, of " King 

 John's Palace, Eltham" (ISTo. 494.), and " Sweak- 

 ley, near Uxbridge " (No. 560.), adds : 



" In the horizon of art (stranj^e to say, and yet to be 

 explained!) this himinary glows no more till 1808, 

 when he had 'on the line' (?) several views of Font- 

 hill, as well as ' The Tenth Plague of Egypt.' " 



A reference to the catalogues of the Royal 

 Academy exhibitions will prove that Mr. Turner's 

 name appears as an exhibitor there every year 

 between 1790 and 1850, excepting the years 1821, 



1 824, and 1 848. Several views of Fonthill Abbey, 

 and "TheFifth (not the Tenth) Plague of Egypt," 

 were exhibited in 1800, and "The Tenth Plague 

 of Egypt" in 1802. G. B. 



" For God will he your King to-day " (Vol. vii., 

 p. 67.). — In reply to your querist H. A. S. with 

 respect to the above line, I believe that it belongs 

 not to Somersetshire, but to Ireland ; not lo Mon- 

 mouth's rebellion, but to the civil wars of 1690. 



It is the closing couplet of a stanza in the po- 

 pular ballad on the "Battle of the Boyne." 



A very perfect co|)y of this ballad will be found 

 in Wilde's Heauties of the Boyne, p. 271., beginning 

 with — 



"July the first, of a morning clear. 



One thousand six liundi'cdand ninety, 



King William did his men prepare — 

 Of thousands he had thirty, — 



To fight King James and all his host, 

 Encamp'd near the Boyne water," &c. 



The passage from which the lines in question 

 are taken is as follows : 



" When that King William he observed. 

 The brave Duke Schomherg falling. 

 He rein'd his horse with a heavy lieart. 

 On the Enniskilieners calling. 



" ' W'hat will j'ou do for me, brave boys? 

 See yonder men retreating ; 

 Our enemies encouraged are, 

 And English drums are beating.' 



" He says, ' My boys feel no dismay. 

 At the losing of one commander, 

 For God shall he our King this day. 

 And I'll he general under.' " 



W. W. E. T. 



66. Warwick Square, Belgravia. 



The lines here referred to occur in the old 

 ballad of Boyne Water, some fragments of which 

 are given in Duffy's Ballad Poetry of Ireland^ 

 5th edition, p. 248. They are supposed to have 

 been spoken by William III. on the death of the 

 Duke Schomberg. 



" Both horse and foot they marched on, intending them 



to batter. 

 But the brave Duke Schomberg he was shot, as he 



crossed over the water. 

 When that King William he observed the brave Duke 



Schomberg falling, 

 He rein'd his horse, with a heavy heart, on the Ennis- 

 kilieners calling: 

 ' What will you do for rae, brave boys ? See yonder 



men retreating ; 

 Our enemies encouraged are, and English drums are 



beating.' 

 He says, ' My boys, feel no dismay at the losing of 



one commander, 

 For God shall be our King this day, and I'll be 



Ceneral under.' " 



