Mar. 26. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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(M'Donnell) and all Ulster; for so great was his 

 grace, as happy he thought himself that could gett a 

 kisse of the said crosse. I send him unto you, that 

 ■when you have made some sacrifice to him, according 

 to the disposition you beare to idolatrie, you maie if 

 you please bestowe him upon my good Lady Wal- 

 sin<Tham, or my Lady Sidney, to weare as a Jewell of 

 wef<Tht and bignesse, and not of price and goodness, 

 upon some solempne feaste or triumphe dale at the 

 Courte." 



Walsingham's daughter was married to the ce- 

 lebrated Sir Philip Sidney; and afterwards to 

 Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex ; and, thirdly, to 

 Kichard De Burgh, Earl of Clanricard, when she 

 embraced the Komau Catholic religion, that of her 

 last husband, and may perhaps have regarded St. 

 Columba's cross with more veneration than did 

 the rugged old Perrot. 



It may be possible to trace out this ancient re- 

 lique to its present repository, if it be still in 

 existence. H. 



The ^'■Ball at Bnissels," June, 1815. — Historical 

 Parallel of April, 1605. — 



" The archduke received the English ambassador 

 ^Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford) with all honour 

 and state ; but whilest they were feasting and merry at 

 Brusselles, Prince Maurice had an enterprize upon 

 Antwerp, so that Spinola, Velasco, Van de Bergb, 

 Busquoy, with many commanders, were forced to 

 packe away speedily for the defence of the country."— 

 Grimeston's History of the Netherlands, 1608, p. 1346. 



W. M. R. E. 



Drawing an Inference. — The following is an 

 ^amusing instance of a false inference, drawn 

 through ignorance of the original. William Rae 

 Wilson is the innocent offender, in his Travels in 

 Egypt and the Holy Land (London, Longmans, 

 1824, 2nd edition). The author remarks (p. 105.): 



" This I am inclined to believe was not the track 

 -which was taken by the Apostle Paul, when he went 

 up to Jerusalem from the coast, as he appears to have 

 travelled in some conveyance moved on wheels ; for it is 

 so far from being in any degree possible to draw one 

 along, that, on the contrary, a great exertion is neces- 

 -sary for travellers to get forward their mules." 



On referring to his authority for such an unapo- 

 stolic mode of locomotion, we find (Acts xxi. 15.) 

 :these words : 



" And after those days we took up our carriages, and 

 ■went up to Jerusalem." 



" MfTo 5e Ttts Tififpas ravTas avoa Kevaffdfievoi 

 0,ye§aivoiJ.ev els 'lepov(Ta\rifx." 



The word " carriages " conveyed to the mind of 

 our traveller the idea of a " conveyance moved on 

 wheels ; " whereas our translators intended the 



term to signify anything carried. Professor Schole- 

 field, in his Hints for an improved Translation of 

 the New Testament, renders the passage, " We put 

 up our baggage. In fact, carriage, luggage, and 

 baggage luay be termed synonymes ; for car- 

 riage = that which is carried ; luggage == that 

 which is lugged ; and baggage = that which is 

 bagged. The word " carriage " is used in this 

 sense, Judges xviii, 21., and again 1 Sam. xvii. 22. 



R. Price. 



Edmund Spenser. — The subjoined paragraph 

 from The Times newspaper, the readers of " N. & 

 Q," may perhaps wish to find in a less voluminous 

 journal, but by biographers of Spenser more likely 

 to be consulted. 



" Edmund Spenser. — The literary world will be glad 

 to learn that the locality of the illustrious author of 

 The Faery Queen has been ascertained. Mr. F. F. 

 Spenser, of Halifax, in making some researches into 

 the ancient residence of his own family, has been for- 

 tunate in identifying it with that of the great Eliza- 

 bethan bard, and, we are informed, is about to lay the 

 particulars before the public. The little rural village 

 of Hurstwood, near Burnley, in Lancashire, is the ho- 

 noured locality; and in the romantic Alpine scenery 

 of that neighbourhood it is probable Spenser took 

 refuge when he was driven by academical disappoint- 

 ments ' to his relations in the north of England.' 

 The family of that great poet appear to have resided at 

 Hurstwood about four hundred years, that is, from the 

 early part of the reign of Edward IL to the year 

 1690." — The Times, Wednesday, June 16, 1841. 



W. P. 



The Mint, Southwark. — In the year 1723, an 

 act was passed to relieve all those debtors under 

 50/., who had taken sanctuary there from their 

 creditors. The following curious account of the 

 exodus of these unfortunates, is given in the 

 Weekly Journal of Saturday, July 20, 1723 : 



" On Tuesday last some thousands of the Minters 

 went out of the Land of Bondage, alias The Mint, to 

 be cleared at the Quarter Sessions at Guildford, ac- 

 cording to the late Act of Parliament. The road was 

 covered with them, insomuch that they looked like 

 one of the Jewish tribes going out of Egypt: the 

 cavalcade consisting of caravans, carts, and waggons, 

 besides numbers on horses, asses, and on foot. The 

 drawer of the two fighting-cocks was seen to lead aa 

 ass loaded with geneva, to support the spirits of the 

 ladies upon the journey. 'Tis said, that several heathen 

 Bailiffs lay in ambuscade in ditches upon the road, to 

 surprise some of them, if possible, on their march, if 

 they should straggle from the main body ; but they 

 proceeded with so much order and discipline, that they 

 did not lose a man upon this expedition. " 



E. G. B. 



