Mae. 5. 1853.] 



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information about this lady, I should be much 

 obliged : and I should be glad to know whether 

 there is another instance of a lady high sheriff on 

 record ? W. M. 



Major-General Lambert, the first president of 

 Cromwell's council, after the Restoration was ex- 

 iled to Guernsey, wliere he remained for thirty 

 years a prisoner. Noble, in his House of Crom- 

 well, vol. i. p. 369., says, Mrs. Lambert has been 

 supposed to have been partial to the Protector ; 

 " that her name was Fra., an elegant and accom- 

 plished woman. She had a daughter, married to 

 a AVelsh judge, whom she survived, and died in 

 January, 1736-7." Any of your correspondents 

 who may be able, will oblige by informing me who 

 Mrs. Lambert was, when she and the general died, 

 and to whom the daughter was married. Noble 

 evidently had not been able to ascertain who the 

 accomplished woman was. G. 



Hoyle, Meaning of; and Hoyle Family, — What 

 is the English to the Celtic word Hoyle ; and was 

 there any family of the name of Hoyle previous to 

 the year 1600 ? If so, can you give me any his- 

 tory of them, or say where same may be found ? 

 Also, what is the arms, crest, and motto of that 

 family ? F. K. 



Robert Dodsley. — In all the biographies, this 

 amiable and worthy man is said to have been born 

 at Mansfield in Nottinghamshire. Does he any- 

 where state this himself? If not, what is the 

 evidence in favour of such statement ? Not the 

 parish register of Mansfield certainly. I have 

 often thought that a Life of Dodsley in extenso 

 might be made an interesting vehicle for illus- 

 trating the progress of an individual from the 

 humble rank of a livery servant to the influential 

 position of a first-class London bookseller in the 

 Augustan age of English literature ; including, of 

 course, all the reflex influences of the society of that 

 period. There is plenty of matter ; and I think 

 a well-known correspondent of " N. & Q." and 

 Gents Mag., whose initials are P. C, would know 

 where to find and how to use it. N. D. 



Mary Queen of Scots. — In the Gentleman's 

 Magazine, vol. xcix. part ii. p. 77., it is stated that 

 the late Earl of Buchan (who died in April, 1829) 

 " in some letters warmly embraced the cause of 

 Mary Queen of Scots against Dr. Robertson;" 

 but we are not informed whether they were ever 

 printed, or where they are to be found. As I 

 have always felt a strong conviction of the injus- 

 tice done this unfortunate woman, I shall be grati- 

 fied by any communication stating where these 

 letters can be met with, F. R. A. 



Heuristisch — E eristic. — The word henristisch 

 occxu-s four times in the Kritik der Reinen Vernunft, 



pp. 480. 515. 520. 568., ed. Leipzig, 1838. I can- 

 not find it in any German dictionary. Mr. Hay- 

 wood (ed. 1838) translates it eym^«c, which I can- 

 not find in any English dictionary. I conjecture 

 that it may be wpiaKta Germanised, and that it will 

 bear the translation tentative. Will some one, 

 better versed than myself in the language of Ger- 

 man metaphysics, tell me whether I am right, and, 

 if not, set me so ? II. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



" Eugenia," by Hayes and Carr. — Can any of 

 your readers give me any account of the following 

 play, as to where the scene of it is laid, &c. ? 



Eugenia, a Tragedy, by Samuel Hayes and 

 Robert Carr, 8vo. 1766. 



This play, which appears to have never been 

 acted, was written by the Rev. Samuel Hayes, 

 author of several of the Seatonian prize poems, 

 and who was at one time usher in Westminster 

 School. Robert Carr, who assisted hira in writing 

 it, appears to have been one of the Westminster 

 scholars about 1766, but I am unable to give any 

 further account of him. A. Z. 



Glasgow. 



[The scene, as stated at the commencement of the 

 play, was laid in and near the Mercian camp, on the 

 confines of Wales, except the first act, and beginning 

 of the third, which lies in the British camp, distant 

 from the Mercian eight miles. The dramatis persona 

 were: — Britons: Cadwallyne, king of the Britons; 

 Ormanus, a noble captive ; Albanact, Eliud, Edgar, 

 officers ; Eugenia, Althira, captives. Mercians : Penda, 

 king of Mercia ; Ethelred, his son ; Osmond, nephew to 

 the king ; OfFa, Egbert, Edwin, oflScers, British and 

 Mercian officers, prisoners, guards, and other attend- 

 ants. ] 



Claret. — How, or from whence, have we 

 adopted the word Claret, as applied to the wines 

 of the Bordeaux district, and which seems to be 

 utterly unknown in other parts of Europe ? 



ViNOS; 



[Dr. Pegge, in his Anonymiana, cent. iii. sect. 57., 

 says, " There is a place of the name of Claret in the Duke 

 de Rohan's Memoires, lib. iv., from whence I conceive 

 the French wine takes its name." It is stated in the 

 Memoires as being five miles from Montpellier.] 



" StiHke, but hear me." — On what occasion, and 

 by whom, were these words first used ? I have 

 not been able to trace them. Abhba. 



[These words occur in a conversation between Eury- 

 biades and Themistocles, and will be found in Plu- 

 tarch's Life of Themistocles, cap. xi.] 



Fever at Croydon. — In Camden's Britannia 

 before me, with date on (written) title-page 1610, 



