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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 290. 



^SS ' pei'haps made of some sort of glass, or of 

 earth glazed over. It was the distinguishing marie 

 of a Druid. It was sometimes of a blue coloui', 

 sometimes green or white, and sometimes varie- 

 gated with all these colours. Many have been 

 found at different times in Druidical barrows, or 

 near their temples, or cromlechs, or sepulchral 

 chambers. The possession of one or more of these 

 Gemma anguince is anxiously desired by 



L. M. M. R. 



The oldest Paper in Ireland (Vol. xi., p. 35.). 



— At the auction of the library of the late Re- 

 corder of Londonderry recently, a volume of 

 the Dublin News Letter, vol. xi,, Jan. 1735, was 

 sold. This places beyond cavil that the News 

 Letter is the oldest paper in Ireland. B. B. 



Dublin. 



Napoleon's Marshals (Vol. xi., pp. 186. 288.) — 



Perignon, Marshal of France; born at Gre- 

 noble, 1754; died 1819. 



PoNiATOwsKi; born at "Warsaw, 1763. 



Rapp, General; born at Colmar in Alsace, 

 1772; died 1821. 



Reyniee ; born at Lausanne, 1771 ; died at 

 Paris, 1814. R. J. A. 



Additions and corrections to the list given by 

 F. C. H. (p. 288.) : 



Caulaincoubt, Duroc, Junot, and Savart 

 were never (it is believed) raised to the rank of 

 Marshal. 



Lauriston was made a Marshal by Louis 

 XVIII., not by Napoleon ; and died in 1828, not 

 1813. 



Add the names of Gouvion-Saint-Cyr and 

 Grouchy. 



There are several errors and omissions also in 

 F. C. H.'s dates, titles, &c., which can be rectified 

 and supplied by reference to any work containing 

 a biographical sketch of the persons mentioned in 

 his list. M. D. 



Hastings. 



Barrel of Littlecote (Vol. xi., p. 48.). — In reply 

 to L. (1), Waylen, in his History of Marlborough 

 (published 1854), gives an account of the Darrell 

 family, and mentions as various authorities of the 

 Littlecote tragedy, the following, viz., Aubrey, 

 Scott's Notes to Rokeby, Burke's Commoners, Rev. 

 C. Lucas's Metrical Version, Britton's Wiltshire, 

 &c. Cl. Hopper. 



Quotation from St. Augustine (Vol. xi., p. 295.). 



— Henry Delaune's book is rare ; it was published 

 in 1657, not 1651 ; it is priced 84s. in Bibl. 

 Anglo- Poetica, No. 206., where is this remark : 



" Many passages strongly resemble the Night Thoughts 

 of Young in pithiness of style and force of expression." — 



E.D. 



Suppression of the Templars (Vol. x., p. 462.). 



— In Thomas's Handbook to the Public Records, 

 1853, are the following references to MSS. in the 

 Courts of Chancery and of Exchequer, bearing on 

 the history of the Temj)lars : 



"Chancery: Knights Hospitallers and Templars; 

 matters relating to, entered on the Close Rolls." 



" Exchequer : Knights Templars. Queen's Remem- 

 brancer's Department. Ministers' Accounts of the Pos- 

 sessions of the Knights Templars. A book containing an 

 account of part of their possessions by Jeffery Fitz- 

 Stephen, Master of their Order, 1185. . . . Extents 

 of manors, &c., of K. T., seized by Edward II." 



The materials in MS repositories, viz. those in 

 the Exchequer, have been used in part — so far 

 as they relate to the suppression of their Order — 

 by Johnston, in his Assurance of Abby and other 

 Church Lands, 1687. 



For numerous references to printed books on 

 the history of the Templars, see Brunet, Manuel 

 du Libraire, the Penny Cyclopcedia, &c. 



BlBLIOTHECAB. ChBTHAM. 



" The very law which moulds a tear " (Vol. xi., 

 p. 302.). — Semper Eadem will find the first 

 quotation he wants in Mr. Rogers' beautiful 

 " Lines on a Tear," which, however, will be found 

 much superior to the version he has given • 



" The very law which moulds a tear. 

 And bids it trickle from its source, 

 That law preserves the earth its sphere, 

 And guides the planets in their course." 



ESTB. 

 Birmingham. 



Diogenes (Vol. xi., p. 283.). — It was not to 

 Diogenes, but to his master, Antisthenes, that So- 

 crates said that he saw his vanity through the 

 holes in his coat. (Smith's Antiq., vol. i. p. 208.) 



Ritter no doubt gives the original authority, 

 but I have not the book by me at present. 



R. J. Allen. 



Pamphlet by Reo. Dr. Davy (Vol. xi., p. 294.). 



— I have looked through Rev. J. H. Todd's book 

 (which has no index), but ctmnot find any part of 

 Dr. Davy's observati(ms. Will Cuthbert Bedk, 

 B. A., inform your readers how it is " embodied " 

 in a work so widely different ? E. D. 



Passage in Sir W. Scotfs Novels (Vol. xi., 



p. 343.). — The passages referred to by M b 



are as follows. Description of the Antiquary's 

 house : 



" The whole bore the appearance of a hamlet which had 

 suddenly stood still when in the act of leading down one 

 of Amphion's or Orpheus's country-dances." 



And description of St. Ronan's Well : 



" Like a sudden pause in one of Amphion's country- 

 dances, when the huts which were to form the future 

 Thebes were jigging it to his lute." 



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