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*' To get into a scrape " is, therefore, to get into 

 trouble. B. II. C. 



Baskerville (Vol. viii., p. 202.).— 



•' Among the articles consumed at Mr. Ryland's at 

 Birmingham, was the body of the late Mr. Baskerville, 

 who by his will ordered that he should be buried in his 

 own house, and he was accordingly interred there. A 

 stone closet was erected in it, where he was deposited 

 in a standing posture. The house was afterwards sold 

 with this express condition, that it should remain 

 there." — Account of the Birmingham riots in 1791, 

 from the Historical Magazine, vol. iii., where it is said 

 the house was burned on Friday afternoon, July 15." 



B. H. C. 



A great-uncle of mine owned the Baskerville 

 property (he, Baskerville, was buried in his own 

 grounds) at the time of tlie Church and King 

 Kiot in 1791 ; but it was the recent growth of the 

 town that occasioned the disinterment. E,. 



Sheriffs of Glamorganshire (Vol. iii., p. 186. ; 

 Vol. viii., p. 353.). — Your correspondent Tewars 

 is certainly wrong in ascribing to the Rev. li. H. 

 Knight the list of Glamorganshire sheriffs in- 

 quired for by Edmund W. It is true this gen- 

 tleman printed a list of them many years after the 

 former, which was privately printed by the Hev. 

 J. M. Traherne, and subsequently published a 

 Cardiff Guide, by Mr. Bird of Cardiff. I have 

 seen both copies, and the latter may doubtless 

 yet be seen upon application to Mr. Bird. I have 

 also seen the more recent list by my learned friend 

 the rector of Neath. Bibliothecar. Chetham. 



Synge Family — siib voce Carr Pedigree (Vol. 

 vii., p. 558. ; Vol. viii., p. 327.). — Has the state- 

 ment made by Gulielmus, as to the origin of the 

 name of Synge, ever appeared in print before ? 

 And if so, where ? I have long been curious to 

 identify the individual whose name underwent 

 such a singular change, and to ascertain if he 

 really was a chantry priest as reported. Was he 

 George Synge, the grandfather of George Synge, 

 Bishop of Cloyne, born 1594 ? Of what family was 

 Mary Paget, wife of the Rev. Richard Synge, 

 preacher at the Savoy in 1715 ? The name appears 

 to have been indifferently spelt, Sing, Singe, and 

 Synge. And I believe an older branch than the 

 baronet's still exists at Bridgenorth, writing them- 

 selves Sing. The punning motto of this family is 

 worth noticing : " Celestia caniraus." 



Arthur Paget. 



Lines on Woman (Vol. viii., p. 350.). — Your 

 correspondent P. W. J. has occasioned me some 

 perplexity in tracing the quotation which he refers 

 to Vol. viii., p. 204., but which is really to be 

 found at p. 292. He appears to have fallen into 

 this error by mistaking the number on the right 

 hand for the paging on the left. As accurac/in 



these matters is essential in a publication like 

 " N. & Q.," he will excuse me for setting him 

 right. The name of the author of the poem of 

 " Woman" was not Eton Barrett, but Eaton Stan- 

 nard Barrett. He was connected with the press 

 in London. Your correspondent is correct in 

 stating that the Barretts were from Coi'k. Eaton 

 Stannard Barrett was a man of considerable ability. 

 He published several works anonymously, all of 

 which acquired celebrity ; but I believe the poem 

 of " Woman," published by Mr. Colburn, was the 

 only work to which he attached his name. He 

 was the author of the well-known political satire 

 called All the Talents ; of the mock romance of 

 The Heroine, in which the absurdities of a school 

 of fiction, at that time in high favour, are happily 

 ridiculed ; and of a novel which had great success 

 in its day, and is still to be found in some of the 

 circulating libraries, called Six Weeks at LoTig's, 

 Eaton Stannard Barrett died many years ago in the 

 prime of his life and powers. His brother, Richard 

 Barrett, is still living, and resides in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Dublin. He is the author of some 

 controversial and political pamphlets, of which 

 the principal were Irish Priests, and The Bible not 

 a Dangerous Book. He afterwards conducted 

 The Pilot newspaper, established for the support 

 of Mr. O'Connell's policy in Ireland, and was one 

 of the persons who sutfered imprisonment with 

 Mr. O'Connell, and who were designated in the 

 Irish papers as the " martyrs." Robert Bell. 



Lisle Family (Vol. vii., p. 365. et ante'). — R. 

 H. C. will find in Berry's Hampshire Genealogies 

 (1 vol. folio, London, 1833) a pedigree of the 

 Lisles he alludes to as being buried at Thruxton, 

 Hampshire. The shield. Lisle impaling Courte- 

 nay, on the altar tomb there would appear to be- 

 long to Sir John Lisle, Kt., who married Joan, 

 daughter of John Courtenay, Earl of Exeter. 



Arthur Paget. 



Duval Family (Vol. viii., p. 318.). — If H. will 

 have the kindness to address himself to me either 

 personally or by letter, I shall be happy to give 

 him any information I can, derived from old 

 family documents in my possession, respecting 

 the Duval family and the Walls of the south of 

 Ireland. C. A. Duval. 



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