April 21. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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No wonder, as Mr. Bird states, that the fact (?) 

 seems entirely to have escaped the notice of all 

 the biographers of Mr, Hume ; that which a man 

 never knew he easily forgets. Mr. Bird farther 

 states : "At that time Mi-. Hume must have been 

 a strong powerful man, so that there is every pro- 

 bability of the circumstance being true." Rather 

 consequential logic this. He ends by stating 

 that, — 



" I have the authority of Mr. Stockdale, Superintendent 

 of Police at Cardiff, to state that his father, then a pub- 

 lisher in Pall Mall, was present and saw the circumstance 

 alluded to." 



Leaving Mr. Stockdale's authority and Mr. 

 Bird's probability and facts to themselves, I would 

 merely remark, in conclusion, that I should have 

 thought the fact that it was Mr. Jerdan who 

 seized Bellinghara to have been as well known as 

 that Wellington was at Waterloo. W. Pollard. 



Guardian Office, Hertford. 



Minax iBueviti. 



Lady Deloraine (Vol. ii., p. 479 ). — Which 

 Lady Deloraine is it that Pope and Lady Suffolk 

 have accused of poisoning ? Was it the widow of 

 Henry, who first bore the title, and died Decern. 

 1730 ; of Francis the son ; or of Henry the grand- 

 son, who married Elizabeth Fenwick, and died 

 1739-40 ; and for what was she " too celebrated ?" 



J. K. 



Times prohibiting Marriage. — Recently having 

 met with the following in an old sheet almanac, 

 perhaps some reader of "N. & Q." may be able to 

 afford some explanation of it. I am aware of 

 marriage being forbidden in Lent. The almanac 

 in question is one for the year 1674, by M. F. 

 Philomath, and was printed at Cambridge by 

 John Hayes : 



" Times prohibiting Marriage this Year. — Marriage 

 comes in on the 13th of January, and at Septuagesima 

 Sunday it is out again until Low Sunday, at which time 

 it comes in again, and goes not out till Rogation Sunday. 

 Then it is forbidden until 'irinity Sunday, from whence it 

 is unforbidden till Advent Sunday, but then it goes out, 

 'and comes not in again till the 13th of January next 

 following," 



Cl. Hopper. 



Cowgill Family. — I would ask of your corre- 

 spondent CowGiLL (Vol. vi. passim) if he has any 

 information relative to a family of that name in 

 Yorkshire? Ellen Cowgill, widow, of Settle in 

 that county, with her family, consisting of four 

 sons and a daughter, arrived in this country in the 

 ship "Welcome," in the fall of the year 1682. 

 Their descendants are quite numerous in this 

 vicmity at this time. Hiboux. 



Philadelphia. 



The first Book published in England having an 

 Appendix, is related to have been Somner's Anti- 

 quities of Canterbury, which appeared in quarto, 

 1640. Can this be verified ? J. R. J. 



" The School of Politicks." — I have a curious 

 and very interesting poem, the author of which I 

 should be glad to identify. It is in small quarto, 

 thirty-two pages, and the title runs thus : 



" The School of Politicks ; or, The Humours of a Coffee- 

 house. A Poem. 



' Tantumne ab re tua otii est, aliena ut cures? ' — Terent. 



The Second Edition, corrected and much enlarged by the 

 Author. London : printed, and are to be sold by, R. 

 Baldwin, at the ' Oxford Arms,' in Warwick Lane, 1691." 



Can you, or any of your correspondents, oblige 

 me by naming the author of The School of Poli- 

 ticks ; and should he be an " illustrious obscure," 

 by stating any other works attributed to him ? 



Robert S. Salmon. 



Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Kidney Club. — About forty years ago there 

 was a society called the Kidney Club, composed 

 of members of Lloyd's Coffee-house. Its first 

 meetings were held at the Blue Posts in Leaden- 

 hall Market. What is the precise date of its 

 formation, and does it still survive ? J. Y. 



Susannah Courtois. — In the Bernal Collection, 

 Lot 1478, a plate, with sheepshearing, illustrating 

 the month of July, is " believed to be the work of 

 Susannah Courtois." At what period did this 

 artist flourish, and where is any account of her 

 or of her works to be found ? L. L. D. 



Campbell's Heroine. — The venerable Dr. Beat- 

 tie, of London, writes to the Home Journal, that 

 the original "Gertrude" of Campbell's Gertrude 

 of Wyoming is a patient of his, and beau- 

 tiful even now. This statement appears in the 

 Washington Union of January 2, 1855. Can it be 

 correct? Wyoming was destroyed in 1778. "In 

 an evil hour (as stated in the advertisement of 

 Campbell's poem, London, Edward Moxon, 1843) 

 the junction of European with Indian arms con- 

 verted this terrestrial paradise into a frightful 

 waste." 



If permitted to ask the question, who may 

 Gertrude be, and what may be her age ? W. W. 



Malta. 



Commemoration of Saints. — Will the Kbv. 

 F. C. HusENBETH, or some of your ecclesiastfcal 

 correspondents, give me the following information, 

 viz. : In the Roman Breviary and Missal it fre- 

 quently occurs in the office of a modern saint, 

 that a commemoration is made of some other and 

 more ancient one : thus, on the 4th Dec, in the 

 office of St. Peter Chrysologus, there is a com- 

 memoration made of St. Barbara. What I wish 



