Mar. 19. 1853.] 



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of it, and I sball take it as a favour to be furnished 

 with a correct version of the song. 



Fras. Crossley. 



Deprived Bishops of Scotland, 1638. — Neither 

 Bishop Keith, with all his industry (in his Hist. 

 Catal. of the Scottish Bishops^, nor subsequent 

 ecclesiastical writers on the same subject, appear 

 to have been able to mention the period of the 

 deaths of nearly all those prelates deprived of their 

 sees in 1638. The researches of late years may, 

 perhaps, have been more successful, and in that 

 hope I now venture to inquire when and where 

 the lives of the following Scottish bishops came to 

 a close : — 1. David Lindsay, Bishop of Edinburgh. 

 2. Alex. Lindsay, Bishop of Dunkeld. 3. Adam 

 Ballenden, Bishop of Aberdeen. 4. John Guthrie, 

 Bishop of Moray. 5. James Fairly, Bishop of 

 Argyle. 6. Neil Campbell, Bishop of the L<les. 

 7. John Abernethy, Bishop of Caithness. 8. Geo. 

 Graham, Bishop of Orkney; and 9. Robert Baron, 

 Bishop elect of Orkney, 1638. The Archbishops 

 of St. Andrew and Glasgow, and Bishops of Bre- 

 chin, Dunblane, Ross, and Galloway, are slightly 

 noticed, though even in these few there are dis- 

 crepancies, both as to year and place of demise, 

 which might be corrected. The later ecclesiastical 

 records of Scotland are also exceedingly scanty ; 

 for Mr. Perceval, with all his acumen and re- 

 search (In his Apology for the Doctrine of Aposto- 

 lical Succession, 2nd edit., Appendix, pp. 250-3.), 

 acknowledges with regret his inability to give 

 more particulars of the consecrations in Scotland 

 between 1662 and 1688, for the column with 

 names of consecrators is without dates of conse- 

 crations during that period, and is, with very few 

 exceptions, a blank. In continuation of this topic, 

 may I inquire when and where the two following 

 bishops, deprived In 1690, died? — 1. John Hamil- 

 ton, Bishop of Dunkeld ; and 2. Archibald Gra- 

 ham, Bishop of the Isles. The notices given by 

 Bishop Keith, of the other deprived Scottish 

 bishops, are also exceedingly brief and meagre ; 

 nor has Mr. Lawson (^Hist. Scot. JEpis, Ch.) added 

 much. A. S. A. 



Wuzzeerabad. 



Passage in Carlyle. — Carlyle {French Revo- 

 lution, vol. !.), in his description of the horrors at- 

 tendant on the death-bed of Louis XV., mentions 

 the ghosts of the men " who sank shamefully on 

 so many battle-fields from Rossbach to Quebec, 

 that thy harlot might take revenge for an epigram." 

 Who was the harlot, and what the epigram ? 



FiCULNUS. 



Madagascar Poetry. — Can any of the readers of 

 " N. & Q." throw any light upon the origin of the 

 following lines ? I found them among family 

 papers, written about the year 1805, where they 

 are described as the "Invocation of a Madagascrian 



Spirit;" by which, I imagine, we are to infer that 

 they are a translation of some native lay from the 

 island of Madagascar : 



" Spirit that art flown away, 

 Listen to our artless lay. 

 Teach us, Spirit, to do well ; 

 Teach us, Spirit, to excel. 

 Stoop, O Spirit ! ami be kind, 

 Teaching those you left behind : 

 Listen to our artless lay, 

 Spirit that art flown awav." 



c.s. 



Ink. — From the following lines by Whitehead, 

 which I find in my note-book, I am induced to ask 

 who was the inventor of ink ? 



" Hard, that his name it should not save. 

 Who first pour'd forth the sable flood." 



Philip S. King. 



Hamilton Queries (Vol. vi., p. 429.). — Lord. 

 Bratboooke says, in writing of Lord Spencer 

 Hamilton, that he "was a younger son of James, 

 third Duke of Hamilton." I find, on referring to 

 a Peerage, date about 1720 (I cannot quote it 

 more particularly, as it has no title-page), that the • 

 third inheritor of the dukedom of Hamilton was 

 Anne, daughter of the first and niece of the second 

 Duke of Hamilton ; and that she married William, 

 Earl of Selkirk, eldest son of the Marquis of 

 Douglas. The date would better accord with 

 Lord Spencer s being a son of James, fifth Duke 

 of Hamilton. Was it not so ? 



Sir William Hamilton. — Who was the first wife 

 of Sir W. Hamilton, the celebrated ambassador, 

 and when did he marry her ? Who was the 

 second, who has attained such notoriety in con- 

 nexion with Nelson's name ; and when and where 

 were they married ? 



Was Single-speech Hamilton a member of the 

 ducal fixmily of Hamilton ? If so, his lineage from 

 that house ? Tee Bee. 



Derivation of Windfall. — Arvlne, in his Cyclo- 

 pcedia, gives the following plausible reason for the 

 origin of this term, now in such common use. 

 Query, Is he correct ? 



" Some of the nobility of England, by the tenure of 

 their estates, were forbidden felling any trees in the 

 forests upon them, the timber being reserved for the 

 use of the royal navy. Such trees as fell without cut- 

 ting, were the property of the occupant. A tornado 

 was therefore a perfect god-send, in every sense of the 

 word, to those who had occupancy of extensive forests ; 

 and the windfall was sometimes of very great value." 



w.w. 



Malta. 



Do the Sun's Rays put out the Fire? — There is 

 a current and notorious idea, that the admission of 

 the sun-light into a room puts the fire out ; and, 



