Jan. 13. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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any one to be found in his own volume. The 

 first is dated in 1800 ; the last, I believe, in 1850. 

 As it is in few hands, I subjoin the title of it : 



" The patriot father ; an historical play, in five acta. 

 Freely translated from the German of Augustus von 

 Kotzebue by Frederic Shoberl. London: printed for 

 private circulation only, [by F. Shoberl junior] 1850." 

 8vo. pp. 66. 



Bolton Cornet. 



^^ Political Register." — Your correspondent P. 

 R. (Vol. X., p. 492.), after declaring, " the writers 

 in it are not known to me, and to speculate on 

 the subject would occupy too much of your 

 space," concludes by stating " Wilkes was cer- 

 tainly a conti'ibutor." How is this apparent in- 

 consistency to be explained ? or is this merely a 

 random assertion, resting on no other ground than 

 the attention (not unnatural, looking at the cir- 

 cumstances of the time and the character of the 

 publication) which the Political Register paid to 

 Mr. Wilkes' affairs ? C. Ross. 



Irish Newspapers (Vol. x., p. 473.). — Your 

 correspondent William John Fitzpatrick, 

 Monkstown, Dublin, states that " the Public Re- 

 gister or Freeman s Journal appeared on Satur- 

 day, Sept. 10, 1763. ISaunders sprang into vitality 

 almost simultaneously with the Freeman, but is 

 I believe its junior." 



As I know the character of " N. & Q." to be to 

 elicit facts, I have to state that No. 13. of the ori- 

 ginal of Saunders's News Letter is in my posses- 

 sion, styled Fsdailes News Letter, bearing date 

 Wednesday, February 5, 1745. 



In 1754, Henry Saunders, printer, became pro- 



Erietor, and changed the name, calling it after 

 imself, as his predecessor had done. At this 

 period it was published three times a week. 



_ In 1777 it became a daily paper, and has con- 

 tinued so ever since; having now attained the 

 greatest amount of circulation ever enjoyed by 

 any daily paper in Ireland. These are facts which 

 cannot be gainsayed, and I authenticate them with 

 my signature. JI. B^ 



Dublin. 



The Belfast News Letter would appear to be 

 the oldest of the existing Irish newpapers (pro- 

 vincial or other). It was established in the year 

 1737. For many years it was published twice, 

 it is now published thrice a week. 



Joseph Wakrin Dobbin, A.M. 



7, Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn. 



Flemings in England (Vol. x., p. 485.). — 

 M.D. is informed that many Flemings came to 

 England with William the Conqueror, more in 

 Henry I.'s time, and many as mercenaries, to help 

 the Norman barons to hold their grants against 

 the Welsh. That the chief authorities for the 



above are, William of Malmesbury, book v. ,' 

 Girahlus Cambrensis, book xi. ; Leland, torn. viii. ; 

 Holinshed, vol. ii. : Camden, p. 154., and p. 652. 

 folio edition ; George Owen and Hoveden, to 

 which one or two others may be added. Wil- 

 liam the Conqueror's queen was Countess of 

 Flanders. 



As to names, if M. D. would favour Welsh 

 archaeologists with some of the more ancient 

 Flemish names, could they be communicated by a 

 native of Flanders, it might be of service to them, 

 living as they do among the descendants of the 

 Flemish, who were collected together from the 

 more fertile provinces of England, where they are: 

 said to have "swarmed" to the no little discontent 

 of his nobles, and drafted into South Wales by 

 Henry. 



Of the names mentioned by M. D., most of thera 

 seem to be of Norman origin. Kemp and Vayle 

 are conjectured to be Flemish, and are found still 

 in South Wales. The result of inquiries after 

 names and customs in Flanders would be gratify- 

 ing. Gilbert de Bois. 



Saint Tellant (Vol. x., pp. 265. 514.). — Db. 

 Rock is quite right as to the sex of St. Tellant ; 

 the feminine termination given at p. 265. being an 

 error of the press. He is, however, mistaken in 

 supposing that I imagined him to be a Flemish 

 saint. My Query was as to the probability of the 

 tradition, which gives the bell «. Spanish origin, 

 containing any shadow of truth. It has been 

 made clear that it does not, the inscription refer- 

 ring to a Welsh saint. Seleucus. 



Col. Maceroni (Vol. x., p. 153.). — In answer 

 to the Queries of D. W. S., I believe there is not 

 any account excepting the Memoir by himself. I 

 believe him to have been far more Italian than 

 English. I believe the name Maceroni not to be 

 fictitious. 



In the summer of 1814, dining at the table of a. 

 German friend at Naples, I was startled by some- 

 thing icy cold touching my neck ; and found it to 

 be a snake, winding about the back of my chair, 

 which was immediately removed by the party next 

 to me, who put it into his hat, and apologised to 

 me for the annoyance : this gentleman was intro- 

 duced to me as Signor Maceroni. My inquiries 

 regarding him established to my belief that his 

 mother was English and his father Italian ; his 

 own manners gave the impression of Italian 

 suavity, enlivened by French vivacity ; he spoke 

 both languages fluently, and without the accent 

 or peculiarities that generally characterise the 

 natives of either country, when speaking the lan- 

 guage of the other ; his English was perfect, but 

 spoken with a flippancy very unusual in a native 

 Englishman, which he certainly was not. During 

 my stay at Naples, we became rather intimate ; 1 



