Sept. 3. 1853.] 



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the memoir, ' wife of William Tiglie, Esq., M.P. 

 for Wicklow, whose residence is Woodstock, county 

 of Kilkenny, author of llie Plants, a poem, 8vo. : 

 published in 1808 and 1811 ; and Statistical Ob- 

 servations on the County of Kilkenny, 1800. Mrs. 

 Tifi^he is described as having had a pleasing per- 

 son, and a countenance that indicated melancholy 

 and deep reflection ; was amiable in her domestic 

 relations ; had a mind well stored with classic lite- 

 rature ; and, with strong feelings and affections, 

 expressed her thoughts with the nicest discrimi- 

 nation, and taste the most refined and delicate. 

 Thus endued, it is to be regretted that Mrs. Tighe 

 should have fallen a victim to a lingering disease 

 of six years at the premature age of thirty-seven, 

 on March 24, 1810.' — The remainder of the short 

 notice does not throw any additional light on 

 Mrs. Tighe, or family; but if you, Sir, or the 

 Editor of " N. & Q." wish, I will cheerfully tran- 

 scribe it. — I am, Sir, yours in haste, Vix. 



" Belfast, Aug. 15." 



[We are indebted for the above reply to the Dublin 

 Weekly Telegraph, which not only does us the honour 

 to quote very freely from our pages, but always most 

 liberally acknowledges the source from which the 

 articles so quoted are derived.] 



Satirical Medal (Vol. vlii., p. 57.). — I have 

 seen the same medal of Sir R. Walpole (the latest 

 instance of the media3val hell-mouth with which I 

 am acquainted) bearing on the obverse — " the 

 GENERousE (sic) DUKE OF ARGYLE ;" and at the 



foot " NO PENTIONS." S. Z. Z. S. 



" They shot him dead at the Nine-Stone Rig " 

 (Vol. viii., p. 78.). — Your correspondent the 

 Borderer will find the fragment of the ballad he 

 is in search of, commencing with the above line, 

 in the second volume of the Minstrelsy of the Scot- 

 tish Border, p. 114. It is entitled "Barthram's 

 Dirge," and " was taken down," says Scott, " by 

 Mr. Surtees, from the recitation of Anne Douglas, 

 an old woman, who weeded his garden." 



Since the death of Mr. Surtees, however, it has 

 been ascertained that this ballad, as well as " The 

 Death of Featherstonhaugh," and some others in 

 the same collection, were composed by him and 

 passed off upon Scott as genuine old Scottish 

 ballads. 



Farther particulars respecting this clever li- 

 terary imposition are given In a review of the 

 " Memoir of Robert Surtees, " in the Athenceum of 

 August 7, 1852. J. K. R. W. 



Hendericus du Booys : Helena Leonora de Sieveri 

 (Vol. v., p. 370.).— Are two different portraits of 

 each of these two persons to be found ? By no 

 means. There exists, however, a plate of each, 

 engraved by C. Visscher ; but the first impres- 

 sions bear the address of E. dii Booys, the later 



that of E. Cooper. As I am informed by Mr. 

 Bodel Nijenhuis, Hendericus du Booys took part 

 in the celebrated three-days' fight, Feb. 18, 19, 

 and 20, 1653, between Blake and Tromp. — From 

 the Navorscher. M. 



House-marks, ^c. (Vol. vil., p. 594. ; Vol. viii., 

 p. 62.). — May I be allowed to Inform Mr. Col- 

 LTNS that the custom he refers to is by no means 

 of modern date. Nearly all the cattle which 

 come to Malta from Barbary to be stall-fed for 

 consumption, or horses to be sold In the gai-rlson, 

 bring with them their distinguishing marks by 

 which they may be easily known. 



And it may not be out of place to remark, 

 that being one of a party in the winter of 1830, 

 travelling overland from Smyrna to Ephesus, we 

 reached a place just before sunset where a roving 

 band of Turcomans had encamped for the night. 

 On nearing these people we observed that the 

 women were preparing food for their supper, 

 while the men were employed In branding with 

 a hot iron, under the camel's upper lip, their own 

 peculiar mark, — a very necessary precaution, it 

 must be allowed, with people who are so well 

 known for their pilfering propensities, not only 

 practised on each other, but also on all those who 

 come within their neighbourhood. Having as 

 strangers paid our tribute to their great dexterity 

 In their profession, the circumstance was published 

 at the time, and to this day Is not forgotten. 



W.W. 



Malta. 



" Quifacitper alium, facit per se." — In Vol. vii., 

 p. 488., I observe an attempt to trace the source 

 of the expression, " Qui facit per alium, facit per 

 se." A few months since I met with the quotation 

 under some such form as " Qui facit per alium, 

 per se facere videtur," in the preface to a book on 

 Surveying, by FItzherbert (printed by Berthelet 

 about 1535), where It is attributed to St. Au- 

 gustine. As I know of no copy of the works of 

 that father in these parts (though I heard him 

 quoted last Sunday In the pulpit), I cannot at 

 present verify the reference. J. Seeednot. 



Halifax. 



Engin-u-verge (Vol. vii., p. 619. ; Vol. viii., 

 p. 65.). — H. C. K. is mistaken in his conjecture 

 respecting this word, as the following definition of 

 it will show : 



" Enffins-d-verge. lis comprenaient les diverses es- 

 peces de catapultes, les pierriers, &c." — Bescherelle, 

 Dictionnaire National. 



B. H. C. 



Campvere, Privileges of (Vol viii., p. 89.). — 

 "Jus Gruis liberae." Does not this mean the 

 privilege of using a crane to raise their goods free 

 of dues, municipal or fiscal ? Grus, grue, krahn, 



