May 28. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Strand, London, will be carefully transmitted on the 

 first day of each month, and all correspondents may 

 •expect answers during the course of that month." 



In consequence of this appeal, Mr. Lawson was 

 fipeedily in correspondence with several of the 

 most able geometers then living, and amongst the 

 rest, Messrs. Ainsworth, Clarke, Merrit, Powei', 

 &c., appear to have furnished him with original 

 solutions to his collection of theorems and problems. 

 The manuscript containing these solutions must 

 iave been of considerable size, since a portion of 

 it was sent down to Manchester about July, 1777, 

 ibr the purpose of obtaining Mr. Ainsworth's re- 

 marks and corrections; and Mr. Lawson is re- 

 quested, in a letter bearing date " August 22, 

 1777," to " send the next portion when convenient." 

 Whether Mr, Lawson did so or not, I have not yet 

 teen able to ascertain ; but this much is certain, 

 "the manuscript was never printed, and would most 

 probably either be disposed of at the death of its 

 ^compiler, or previously transferred to the pos- 

 session of some geometer of Mr. Lawson's acquaint- 

 ance. Several of the original letters which passed 

 between the respective parties relating to this 

 manuscript are at present in the hands of two or 

 three of the Lancashire geometers, but no one 

 seems to know anything of the manuscript itself. 

 May I then request that the fortunate holder of 

 this yet valuable collection will make himself 

 known through the medium of the widely circu- 

 lated pages of " N. & Q." T. T. WuLKI^soN. 



Burnley, Lancashire. 



" Wanderings of Memory." — In Brayley's 

 ■Graphic and Historical Illustrator^ p. 293., is a 

 ■-quotation from the Wanderings of Memory, as a 

 jnotto to an account of the ancient castle of the 

 Peverils at Castleton, in Derbyshire : can any of 

 your readers tell me who was the author of the 

 poem in question ? W. R. 



Camden Town, 



" Wandering Willie's Tale." — Has the scene that 

 presented itself to the view of Piper Steenie Steen- 

 ^on, when he was ushered by the phantom of his 

 •old friend Dougal M'Callum into the presence of 

 the ghastly revellers carousing in the auld oak 

 parlour of the visionary Redgauntlet Castle, ever 

 been painted? (See iJerf^aiiwrfe^, Letter xi.) If it 

 lias, is there any engraving of the picture extant 

 or on sale ? C. Forbes. 



Temple. 



Chapel Sunday. — I had the pleasure of spend- 

 ing a Sunday in the course of the last summer in 

 the neighbourhood of Keswick, among the de- 

 lightful lake scenery of England. I there learned 



that in the village of Thornthwaite it was Chapel 

 Sunday, and on inquiry I was told that there were 

 a few other villages in the neighbourhood where 

 there was also a Chapel Sunday. Upon this day 

 it is the custom of young people to come from 

 neighbouring places to attend worship at the vil- 

 lage church or chapel, and the afternoon partakes 

 of a merry-making character at the village inn. 

 There appeared, as far as I could see, no excesses 

 attending the anniversary, all being respectable in 

 their conduct. Can any of your Cambrian readers 

 inform me the origin of this anniversary ? 



Pr£Stoi(ce:iisi&. 



Proud Salopians — I have never heard a satis- 

 factory account of the origin of this title, given to 

 persons belonging to my native county. 



In the neighbourhood the following story is 

 frequently related, but with what authority I can- 

 not tell, viz. " That upon the king (Query which ?) 

 offering to make Shrewsbury a city, the inhabit- 

 ants replied that they preferred its remaining the 

 largest borough in England, rather than it should 

 be the smallest city; their pride not allowing them 

 to be small among the great." 



If this history of the term be true, it would 

 appear that the name should only be applied to 

 burgesses of Shrewsbury. Salopian. 



George Miller, D.D. — In the year 1796, George 

 IMIller, subsequently the author of Modern History 

 Philosophically Blustrated, and many other well- 

 known works (of which a list appears in a recent 

 Memoir), was appointed Donnelan Lecturer in 

 Trinity College, Dublin ; and delivered a course 

 of sermons or lectures on " An Inquiry into the 

 Causes that have impeded the further Progress of 

 Christianity." I should be very glad indeed to 

 know whether these Sermons have appeared in 

 print ; and if so, when and where published ? I 

 have not been able to procure a copy. 



With regard to the Donnelan Lectureship, I 

 may add, that a legacy of 1243/. was bequeathed 

 to the College of Dublin by Mrs. Anne Donnelan, 

 of the parish of St. George, Hanover Square, in 

 the county of Middlesex, spinster, "for the en- 

 couragement of religion, learning, and good man- 

 ners." The particular mode of application was 

 entrusted to the Provost and Senior Fellows ; and 

 accordingly, amongst other resolutions of the 

 Board, passed Feb. 22, 1794, are to be found the 

 following : " That a Divinity Lecture, to which 

 shall be annexed a salary arising from the interest 

 of 1200Z., shall be established for ever, to be called 

 Donnelan's Lecture;" and "That one moiety of 

 the interest of the said 1200Z. shall be paid to the 

 Lecturer as soon as he shall have delivered the 

 whole number [six] of the lectures ; and the other 

 moiety as soon as he shall have ^)MW«'^e<i four of 

 the said Lectures." Adiiba. 



