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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 206. 



was most curious in tlie cboice both of his paper 

 and ink. J. H. M. 



Lines on Woman (Vol. viii., p. 204.) The 



four beautiful lines which W. V. cites are the 

 conclusion of a poem entitled " Woman," written 

 by Eton Barrett. About the close of the last 

 century, Eton Barrett and his younger brother 

 Richard Barrett were at a private school on 

 Wandsworth Common. My brothers and I were 

 their schoolfellows. The Barretts were Irish 

 boys ; I think (but I speak very doubtfully) from 

 Cork. Eton Barrett was a boy of more than ordi- 

 nary talent. He was a genius among the lesser 

 lights around him. I remember his writing a play 

 with prologue and epilogue, which was performed 

 before the master and his family, &c., with so 

 much success, that the master prohibited any future 

 dramatic performances, fearing that he might 

 incur blame for encouraging too much taste for 

 the theatre. Our master gave up his school be- 

 fore the year 1800. Eton Barrett, a great many 

 years ago, published a little volume of poems, of 

 which " Woman" was one. I do not remember 

 that I ever met him since our school-days. I have 

 heard that he adopted Tory politics in Ireland, 

 and that his brother attached himself to O'Connell, 

 and conducted some newspaper ; but this is mere 

 report. Allow me to take this opportunity for 

 observing, tliat many of the communications to 

 " N. & Q.," such as those in which matters of fact 

 are stated, ought, it may justly be urged, to be 

 authenticated by the signature of the contributor. 

 I feel the truth of this so strongly, that, though I 

 do not sign my name, yet I have thought it right 

 to make myself known to you, so that you know 

 the person who contributes under the signature 



r. w. J. 



Haulf -naked (Vol. viii., p. 205.). — The manor 

 house of Halnaker, adjoining Walberton and Good- 

 wood, is thus spoken of by Dallaway in his Hist, 

 of Sussex, "Rape of Chichester," p. 131. : — "Hal- 

 naker, called in Domesday 'Halneche,' and in 

 writings of very ancient date Halnac, Halnaked, 

 and Halfnaked." Then follows a short description 

 of the old manor-house. 



It has been lately visited by the Archajological 

 Association, under the direction of Lord Talbot 

 de Malahide ; and it is probable that the indus- 

 trious antiquaries of Sussex will soon give us a 

 more detailed account of it in their next volume 

 of Transactions. M. (2.) 



Cambridge and Ireland (Vol. viii., p. 270.). — 

 The story of Irish merchants landing at Cambridge 

 is " very like a whale," " touched upon the deserts 

 of Bohemia." I think, however, that I can trace 

 the source of this glaring and oft-repeated error, 

 as there really exists a documentary connexion 

 between Irish cloth and the town of Cambridge. 



Referring to a collection of notes on the ancient 

 commerce and manufactures of Ireland, which I 

 have lately made, I find — cited as an instance of 

 the general use of Irish cloth in England at an 

 early period — that Henry IV., in 1410, gave a 

 royal grant of tolls, for the purpose of paving the 

 town of Cambridge ; in which, among other arti- 

 cles, Irish cloth is taxed at the rate of twopence 

 per hundred. The grant, " De villa CantabrigiaB 

 paveanda," will be found in Rymer's Fcedera. 



W. PiNKERTON. 



Ham. 



Autobiographical Sketch (Vol. vii., p. 477.). — 

 The fragments found by Chevebells are parts of 

 The Library of Useless Knowledge, by Athanasius 

 Gasker, Esq., F.R.S., &c. : London, W. Pickering, 

 1837. H. J. 



Archbishop Chichely (Vol. viii., p. 198.). — The 

 Statute Book of All Souls College ; Robert Hove- 

 den's Life of Chichely ; and the respective Lives 

 by Arthur Duck and O. L. Spencer, have all been 

 examined for the date of Henry Chichely's birth, 

 but without success. 



The most probable conjecture is, that he was 

 born in 1362; since in 1442 (see his "Letter to 

 Pope Eugenius," printed in the Appendix to Spen- 

 cer's Life) he describes himself as having either 

 completed or entered upon his eighteenth year. 



Edwakd F. Rimbault. 



'■'•Discovery of the Inquisition'''' (Vol. viii., p. 137.). 

 — It is a mistake to suppose that all John Day's 

 publications are rare. Montanus's Discovery and 

 playne Declaration of sundry subtill Practices of 

 the Holy Inquisition of Spayne, newly translated, 

 4to., 1568, is not uncommon. Herbert and Heber 

 possessed copies ; and a copy sold at Saunders's 

 in 1818 for five shillings. My own copy (a re- 

 markably fine one) cost sixteen shillings at Evans's 

 in 1840. The edition of 1569, containing some 

 additions, is of greater rarity. 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



Divining Rod (Vol. viii., p. 293.). — In the first 

 edition of his Mathematical Recreations, Hutton 

 laughed at the divining rod. In the interval be- 

 tween that and the second edition, a lady made 

 him change his note, by using one before him at 

 Woolwich. Hutton had the courage to publish 

 the account of the experiment in the second edi- 

 tion (vol. iv. pp.216 — 231.), after the account he 

 had previously given. By a letter from Hutton to 

 Bruce, printed in the memoir of the former which 

 the latter wrote, it appears that the lady was Lady 

 Milbanke. M. 



" Pinece with a stinh " (Vol. viii., p. 270.). — 

 Archbishop Bramhall's editor should have spelled 

 the first word pinnace, and then your correspondent 

 Mr. Blakiston could easily have understood the 



