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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 282. 



Lord Manor Proverb. — In Trenchfield's Cap 

 of Grey Hairs, ed, 1G88, occurs the following : 



" To speak as freelv as the collier that call'd my Lord 

 Mayor knave, when he got upon Bristow Causey." 



How did this originate? Surely such fearful 

 audacity must have left some tradition ! 



V. T. Sternberg. 



Old Lady-day. — Was old Lady-day altered 

 from April 5 to April 6, in the year 1 800 ? Was 

 there a longer interval than usual between the 

 last leap-year in the eighteenth century, and the 

 first leap-year in the nineteenth ? J. T. 



Rutland. 



Marsliulsea Prison — Dr. Reynolds. — What be- 

 came of the Marshalsea Prison, and the burial- 

 place of Dr, Thomas Reynolds, Bishop elect of 

 Hereford, who died within its walls ? 



What branch of the Reynolds family had the 

 following arms ? — Three cocks imp. a leg between 

 two spears. I. G. F. 



Passage in Euripides. — Les Frelons, a pam- 

 phlet of 156 pages, Paris, 1849, is made up of 

 apophthegms and short essays which look like re- 

 printed feuilletons. In one, headed " La Sagesse 

 et les Bons Mots," the author says : 



"Gassendi dit, Nihil est in intellectu quod non prius fuit 

 in sensu. C'est un axiome, Leibnitz ajouta, nisi ipse in- 

 telleetus. C'est nne epigramme chetive, mais Leibnitz est 

 plus connu par cela que par ses grands ouvrages. Hegel, 

 homme laborieux mais sterile, dit. Das Seyn ist nichts. 

 Voilk comme un mot d'Euripede devient la haute m^ta- 

 physique pour les Allemands." 



Though he says " voila," he does not cite the pas- 

 sage, or say where we can see it. Is there any 

 such ? J. E. T. 



Charles Wilson. — Charles Ward, Esq., of New- 

 port, Salop, barrister-at-law, brother of Michael 

 Ward, Bishop of Derry, by his will dated Feb. 7, 

 1726, devised to his godson, Charles Wilson, 

 estates in the county of Wexford in tail male ; 

 with remainder to his brother, Richard Wilson. 

 The property is still in the possession of one of 

 Richard's descendants. Charles Wilson was born 

 at Ballintra, March 29, 1698 ; and his brother in 

 Dublin, in June, 1700. One of the sponsors of 

 Richard was Alice, daughter of INIr. Ward, after- 

 wards the wife of a Mr. Sandford. Charles and 

 Richard were sons of " Charles Wilson, gentle- 

 man," by his wife Susannah, sister (not daughter, 

 as I stated in error in Vol. viii., p. 340.) of Richard 

 Gfering, Esq., one of the six clerks of the Court 

 of Chancery in Ireland. They were married in 

 1696 or 1697. And, unfortunately, the Register 

 for Licenses for 1697 is not to be found in the 

 Consistorial Court in Dublin. I am most de- 

 sirous to trace the pedigree of this Charles Wilson ; 

 he bore the same arms as Charles Wilson of Ches- 



ter (Hunter's Hist, of Sheffield, p. 277.), who was 

 born in 1647, and living unmarried in 1670. 

 Perhaps Mr. Hughes, or some other of your 

 Chester or Shropshire correspondents, may be 

 able to help me to. identify him, if he was the 

 same individual. In the Prerogative Court here 

 I can find no mention of either Charles or his 

 wife Susannah, nor do I know when or where 

 they were married or died. Y. S. M. 



Order of Irish Parliament regarding Armorial 

 Bearings. — 



"6th Feb. [1758]. 

 "It was ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal 

 in the Parliament of Ireland assembled, That the King- 

 at-Arms, attended by his proper officers, do blot out ami 

 deface all ensigns of honour, borne by such persons as 

 have no legal title thereto, upon their carriages, plate, 

 and furniture, and to make regular returns of their proceed- 

 ings Ihcreiiuto the Clerk of the Parliament." — Annual 

 Register, 1758, p. 82. 



Was the above order ever carried into effect ? 

 If so, where can I see a copy of the " returns of 

 their proceedings therein ?" Chas, J. Douglas. 



Map of the Siege of Diincannon. — Can any of 

 your numerous correspondents supply some in- 

 formation on a very curious and, I believe, rare 

 old map of the famous siege of Duncannon, in the 

 county of Wexford, which was sold at Jones's 

 Literary Sale Rooms, D'Olier Street, Dublin, last 

 week, and of which the following is the title ? 



" A Prospect of the late Siedg of The Forte of Dun- 

 canon, w^h began the 20"» of Jan., and was taken the 

 19"' of March, 1644, vnder the comaund and conduict of 

 Generall Preston." 



At the end of the list of references is the name 

 of the engraver, thus : 



" Gasp. Huberti sculp., Kilkenise, A» 1645." 



Under a well-executed little portrait at the top 

 right-hand corner is, — 



" Ill™o nobisq™" Dno' D. Thomas Preston lageniensis 

 exercitus in Hibernia generali arcisq' Duncanon expug- 

 natori gubernatoriq' merit'ssimo." 



The size of the plan is fifteen inches by eleven ; 

 it is well engraved for the time, and is finely pre- 

 served. An antiquarian friend of mine, who takes 

 much interest in matters of this kind, informs me 

 that he never heard of this map of Duncannon 

 before ; but doubtless some of your correspon- 

 dents will be able to enlighten us a little on the 

 subject ; at all events it may be desirable to have 

 preserved in your pages a " note " of this curious 

 map of the siege of Duncannon. R. H. 



Feb. 27, 1855. 



John Touchet. — John Touchet (brother of 

 Henry, seventh Lord Audley, and uncle to 

 George, first Earl of Castlehaven) married Mary, 

 daughter of Sir John Carew of Haccombe, co. 

 Devon. Can any of your readers kindly inform 



