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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 183. 



enlarging upon her points in the cheap- jack style 

 to the admiring drovers. V. T. Steknbeeg. 



Jock of Arden. — This worthy of the Eobin 

 Hood class of heroes, is understood to figure very 

 prominently in the legendary history of Warwick- 

 shire. Where can any references to his real or 

 supposed history be found, and what are the 

 legends of which he is the hero ? W. Q. 



Inigo Jones. — Where can a full list of mansions 

 and other important buildings, erected from de- 

 signs after that great master architect Inigo Jones, 

 be found ? A Cobbespondent. 



Dean Boyle. — Wanted, the pedigree of Richard 

 Boyle, Dean of Limerick, and Bishop of Leighlin in 

 1661. He had a brother Roger, also in the church. 

 Was he a grandson of John Boyle of Hereford, 

 eldest brother of Roger, father of Richard, first 

 Earl of Cork ? This John married Alice, daughter 

 of Alex. Hayworth, of Burdun Hall, Hereford- 

 shire. Y. S. M. 



Dublin. 



JEuphormio (Vol.!., p. 27.). — Mention is made 

 of Censura Euphormionis and other tracts, called 

 forth by Barclay's works : where can some ac- 

 count of these be found ? 



P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A. 



Optical Query. — Last summer the following 

 illusion was pointed out to me at Sandwich, Kent. 

 The ingenious horizontal machine to enable the 

 treadmill to grind the wind, in default of more 

 substantial matter, although certainly revolving 

 only in one direction, say from right to left, at 

 intervals appeared to change its direction and turn 

 from left to right. This change appeared to several 

 persons to take place at the same time, and did not 

 seem to be owing to any shifting of the perpendi- 

 cular shutters for regulating the resistance of the 

 ail'. The point from which I viewed it was near 

 the south door of St. Clement's Church. Have any 

 of the readers of " N. & Q." noticed a similar Illu- 

 sion, and can they explain it ? H. H. 



Gloucester. 



Archbishop King. — The well-known William 

 King, Archbishop of Dublin, was Interred in the 

 graveyard of the parish of St. Mary, Donnybrook, 

 near Dublin, as appeai-s from the following entry 

 in the Register of Burials : " Buried, Archbishop 

 King, May 10th, 1729." There is no stone to 

 mark his grave. I would be glad to know whether 

 there is any monument elsewhere. 



I would likewise be glad to know whether there 

 is any good engraving of the archbishop in exist- 

 ence. I have lately procured a copy of a small 

 and rather curious one, engraved by " Kane o' 

 Hara," and "published, Sept. 20th, 1803, by Wil- 



liam Richardson, York House, 31. Strand;" and 

 I am informed by a friend that a portrait (of what 

 size I am not aware) was sold by auction In 

 London, 15th February, 1800, for the sura of 

 3/. 6s. It was described at that time as " very 

 rare." 



Donnybrook graveyard, I may add, is rich in 

 buried ecclesiastics, containing the remains of Dr. 

 Robert Clayton, Bishop of Clogher (a man of note 

 In his day), and other dignitaries of our church. 



Abhba. 



NeaTs Manuscripts. — In Neal's History of the 

 Puritans, he frequently refers at bottom of the 

 page to a manuscript in his possession thus (MS, 

 penes me, p. 88.) : will any of your readers inform 

 me where this MS. is preserved, and whether I 

 can have access to It ? It was evidently a volu- 

 minous compilation, as It extended to many liun- 

 dred pages. T. F. 



Whence the Word " Cossack ? " — Alison says, on 

 the authority of Koramsin (vi. 476,), " The word 

 Cossack means a volunteer or free partisan," &c. 

 (Vide History of Europe, vol. Ix. p. 31.) I have 

 found the word " Kasak" in the Gulistan of Saadi, 

 which there means a robber of the kind called 

 rahzdn. From the word being spelt In the Gulis- 

 tan with a 2, it appears to me to be an Arabic 

 word. Can any reader enlighten Mdhammed ? 



A. N. Club. 



nets' Houses and Argils. — The Cimmerians, a 

 people mentioned by Herodotus, who occupied 

 principally the peninsula of the Crimea, are dis- 

 tinguished by Prichard from the Cimbri or 

 Kimbri, but supposed by M. Amedee Thierry to 

 be a branch of the same race, and Celtic, Many 

 of their customs are said to present a striking 

 conformity with those of the Cimbri of the Baltic 

 and of the Gauls. Those who inhabited the hills 

 In the Crimea bore the name of Taures or Tauri, 

 a word, Thierry says, signifying mountaineers In 

 both the Kimbric and Gaulish Idioms. The tribe 

 of the plains, according to Ephorus, a Greek 

 writer cotemporary witli Aristotle, mentioned in 

 Strabo, lib. v., dug subterraneous habitations, 

 which they called argil or argel, a pure Kimbric 

 word, which signifies a covered or deep place : 



" ''Z<f)0p6s (pricTiv ahrovs iy Karayeiois olKiais o'lKeiv &s 

 KaKovaiv apyiWas." 



Having seen several of the rude and miserable 

 buildings underground in the Orkneys, called 

 Picts' houses, I should like to know something of 

 these argils or argillce, but suppose tliera to be 

 calculated for the requirements of a more ad- 

 vanced state of society than that of the dwellers 

 In Picts' houses. Perhaps some of your corre- 

 spondents could give Information on this matter. 



