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soon after he handed the goblet to Davy, who was 

 about to drink, when the leader gave the word of 

 command : 

 " Away, away, my good fairies, away ! 

 Let's revel in moonlight, and shun the dull day," 



The horses were ready, the party mounted, and 

 Davy was carried back to the Maudlin bridge, 

 bearing in his hand the silver goblet, as witness of 

 his exploit. Half dead he made his way home to 

 Winny, who anxiously awaited him; got to bed 

 about four in the morning, to which he was con- 

 fined by illness for months afterwards. And as 

 Davy " lived from hand to mouth," his means were 

 soon exhausted. Winny took the goblet and 

 pledged it with Mr. Alexander Whitney, the 

 watchmaker, for five shillings. In a few days 

 after a gentleman who lived not twenty miles from 

 Creywell Cremony came in to Mr. Whitney's, saw 

 the goblet, and recognised it as being once in his 

 possession, and marked with the initials " M. R.," 

 and on examining it found it to be the identical 

 one which he had bestowed, some years before, on 

 a Spanish merchant. Davy, when able to get out, 

 deposed on oath before the Mayor of Ross (who 

 is still living) to the facts narrated above. The 

 Spanish gentleman was written to, and in reply 

 corroborated Davy's statement, saying that on a 

 certain night his wine-store was broken open, 

 vessels much injured, and his wine spilled and 

 drunk, and the silver goblet stolen. Davy was 

 exonerated from any imputation of guilt in the 

 affair, and was careful, during his life, never again 

 to rest at night on the Maudlin bridge. 



Patkick. Codt. 

 MuUinavat, county of Kilkenny. 



Minav 3oteS^ 



The Duke of Wellington and Marshal Ney. 

 Parallel Passage in the Life of Washington and 

 Major Andre. — J. R. of Cork (Vol. vi., p. 480.) 

 tells how Wellington was in his youth smitten with 

 the charms of a lady, who, in after-life having ap- 

 pealed to him to save the life of Ney, was not 

 simply unsuccessful in her object, but was ordered 

 to quit Paris forthwith. J. B. Burke, in the 

 Patrician, vol. vi. p. 372., tells how Washington 

 endeavoured to win the love of Mary Phillipse, 

 and how he failed : how years rolled on, and the 

 rejected lover as Commander-in-Chief of the 

 American forces was supplicated by the same 

 Mary, then the wife of Roger Morris, to spare the 

 life of Andre. The appeal failed, and one of the 

 General's aides was ordered to conduct the lady 

 beyond the lines. St. Johns. 



St. Bernard versus Fulhe Greville. — On lately 

 reading over the fine philosophical poem Of Hu- 

 mane Learning, by Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, 



I was struck at finding that the 144th stanza was 

 a literal transcript from St. Bernard. Some of 

 your readers may possibly be amused or interested 

 by the discovery : 



" Yet some seeke knowledge, meerely to be knowne, 

 And idle curiositie that is ; 

 Some but to sell, not freely to bestow, 

 These gaine and spend both time and health amisse; 

 Embasing arts, by basely deeming so. 

 Some to build others, which is charity, 

 But those to build themselves, who wise men be." 

 Workes, p. 50.: Lond. 1633, 8vo. 



" Sunt namque qui scire volunt eo fine tantum, ut 

 sciant : etturpis curiositas est. Et sunt item qui scire 

 volunt, ut scientiam suam vendant, verbi causa pro 

 pecunia, pro honoribus: et turpis qusestus est. Sed 

 sunt quoque qui scire volunt, ut Jedificent : et caritas 

 est. Et item qui scire volunt, ut sedificentur : et pru- 

 dentia est." — S. Bernard! In Cantica Serm. xxxvi. 

 Sect 3. 0pp., vol. i. p. 1404. Parisiis, 1719, fol. 



It is no mean eulogy upon Lord Brooke's poem 

 just referred to, to say that it stood high in the 

 estimation of the late Rev. Hugh James Rose, and 

 was quoted approvingly by him in his lectures 

 before the Durham University. My acquaintance 

 with it was first derived from that source, and I 

 am confident that many others of your readers 

 sympathise with the wishes of Mr. Crosslet, for 

 " a collected edition of the works of the two noble 

 Grevilles" (" N. & Q.," Vol. iv., p. 139.). The 

 facts upon which the tragedy of Mustapha is 

 founded are graphically summed up by KnoUes in 

 his Historie of the Turkes, pp. 757-65. : London, 

 1633, fol. Rt. 



Warmington. 



St. MunokCs Day. — Professor Craik, in his 

 Romance of the Peerage, vol. il. p. 337., with 

 reference to the date of the death of Margaret 

 Tudor, Queen Dowager of Scotland, gives two 

 authorities, namely, 24th November, 1541, from 

 the Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents, and St. 

 Munoki's Day, from the Chronicle of Perth, and 

 then says : " I find no saint with a name resem- 

 bling Munok in the common lists." Now this 

 Note of mine has originated in the belief that I 

 have found such a name in the Calendar of Saints, 

 or at any rate one very closely resembling it, if 

 not the identical Munok. " St. Marnok, B. patron 

 of Killmarnock in Scotland, honoured on the 25th 

 October in the Scots Calendar." Now " Marnok " 

 is most probably Munok, the latter, perhaps, mis- 

 spelt by a careless scribe in the Chronicle of 

 Perth. There is a discrepancy of a month cer- 

 tainly in these two dates, 25th October and 24th 

 November ; but that is not very wondei'ful, as a 

 doubt of the exact day of Queen Margaret's de- 

 cease evidently exists among historians, for Pin- 

 kerton (vol. ii. p. 371.) conjectures June. The 

 above extract regarding St. Marnok is from a 



