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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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not improbably, founded on the following lines, 

 which occur in one of his poems, as Mansfield is 

 situated in the forest of Sherwood : 



«' O native Sherwood ! happy were thy Bard, 

 Might these, his rural notes, to future time, 

 Boast of tall groves, that nodding o'er thy plain, 

 Rose to their tuneful melody." 



Tteo. 



Dublin. 



Lord Goring (Vol. ii., pp. 22. 65. ; Vol. vii., 

 p. 143.). — In the order-books of the council of 

 state, I find that William Killegrew was, on the 

 1st Oct., 1642, appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 

 regiment of Colonel Goringh, vice Thomas Hollis, 

 deceased ; and that, on the 26th March, 1647, he 

 was named colonel of the same regiment, vice 

 Colonel Goringh, resigned. That the last-men- 

 tioned colonel is George Goringh we learn from 

 the war-budget (Staat van Oorlog) of 1644, where 

 the salaries of 

 Colonel George Goringh ----- iij<=£ 

 William Killegre, Lieutenant-Colonel - lxxx£ 



are charged on the province of Holland. It no- 

 %vhere appears from official reports that Lord 

 Goring held a higher military rank than that of 

 colonel in the Netherlands army. That he left 

 England previous to 1645 is proved not only by 

 the above, but also by his presence, as colonel in 

 the service of Spain, at the siege of Breda in 1637. 

 If he afterwards served in the Spanish army as 

 lieutenant-general, what could have induced him 

 at a later period to accept the rank of colonel in 

 the army of the States ? — t. 



In the h'ish Compendium, or Rudiments of 

 Honour, vol. iii. pp. 64, 65., 2nd ed. : London, 1727, 

 we read that Lord Richard Boyle, born in 1566, 

 married as second wife " Catharine, only daughter 

 to Sir JefFry Fenton ; by her had five sons and 

 seven daughters, of which the Lady Lettice was 

 married to George Lord GoringT — V. D. N. 

 From the Navorscher. 



Chaplains to Noblemen (Vol. vii., p. 163.). — 

 There is, in the Faculty Office in Doctors' Com- 

 mons, an entry kept of the appointments of chap- 

 lains when brought to be registered. Under what 

 authority the entry is made does not seem very 

 clear. The register does not extend beyond the 

 year 1730, though there may be amongst the re- 

 cords of tlie office in St. Paul's some earlier notices 

 of similar appointments. G. 



The Duke of Wellington Marechal de Frai^ce 

 <Vol. vii., p. 283.). — The Duke of Wellington is 

 indebted to the writer in the Revue Bi-itannique 

 for his dukedom and baton of France, and not to 

 Garter King-at-Arms. No such titles were at- 

 tributed to his Grace or proclaimed by Garter, as 



a reference to the official accounts in the London 

 Gazette will show. The Order of St. Esprit was 

 the only French honour ascribed to him ; that 

 Order he received and frequently wore, the insignia 

 of which were displayed, with his numerous other 

 foreign honours, at the lying-in-state. Such 

 being the case. Garter will not perhaps be ex- 

 pected to produce the diploma for either the title 

 of Due de Brunoy or the rank of Marechal de 

 France. C. G. Y. 



Lo7'd North (Vol. vii., p. 207.). — Mr. Foester 

 has, it seems, blundered a piece of old scandal into 

 an insinuation at once absurd and treasonable. 

 The scandal was not of Lord Guilford and the 

 Princess Dowager, but of Frederick Prince of 

 Wales and Lady Guilford. On this I will say no 

 more than that the supposed resemblance betweea 

 King George III. and Lord North is very inac- 

 curately described by Mr. Foester in almost 

 every point except the fair complexion. The 

 king's figure was not clumsy — quite the reverse, 

 nor his face homely, nor his lips thick, nor his 

 eyebrows bushy, nor his eyes protruding like 

 Lord North's ; but there was certainly something 

 of a general look which might be called resem- 

 blance, and there was above all (which is not 

 alluded to) the curious coincidence of the failure 

 of sight in the latter years of both. Lord North 

 was the only son of Lord Guilford's first mar- 

 riage : I know not whether the children of the 

 second bed inherited defective sight ; if they did, it 

 would remove one of the strongest grounds of the 

 old suspicion. C. 



Mediceval Parchment (Vol. vii., p. 155.). — The 

 method of preparing parchment for illumination 

 will be found in the Birch and Shane MSS., 

 under " Painting and DraAving," &c., where are a 

 number of curious MS. instructions on the sub- 

 ject, written chiefly in the sixteenth century, in 

 English, French, and Italian. 



Sir Frederic Madden, in the Introduction to 

 Illuminated Ornaments, fol. 1833, and Mr. Ottley, 

 in Archceologia, vol. xxiv. art. 1., have both writ- 

 ten very minutely on the subject of illuminating, ' 

 but their observations are too long for quotation. 



E. G. B. 



I remember reading in an old French work the 

 process used in illuminating parchments, and re- 

 member that the gilding was laid upon garlic 

 juice ; it might very possibly be diluted with proof 

 spirits of wine; at all events, no parchments can 

 bear water at whatever time they may have been 

 prepared : the process of making them wear out 

 with water would turn them into leather. The 

 work I allude to was brought out, I recollect, 

 under the auspices of the French Academy. 



W.T. 



