May 26. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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expenses incurred at that date in repairing the 

 castle of Greeiicastle, in Ulster, amongst which I 

 find this entry : 



" Et pro sablone et aqua ducendo ad morterium facien- 

 dum ad idem, et tractandum a mari usque ad castrum et 

 operariis facientibus morterium, xvjs. yd." 



that a sum of 16.«. Hd. had been paid for bringing 

 sand and water from the sea to the castle, where- 

 with to make mortar. It has been frequently 

 remarked, that tlie mortar which was used in the 

 construction of ancient buildings is of a peculiar 

 kind ; and it probably may be worthy of inquiry, 

 whetlier it has been caused by the use of sea-sand 

 and sea- water. 



In the same record I find the words " libera 

 petra," free-stone ; that is, as I conceive, stone 

 which has been freed from the quarry. That 

 which is now called free-stone in Ireland is pul- 

 verised granite, and is prepared for such house- 

 hold pur[)oses as cleansing wooden vessels, the 

 floor, and such like. J. F. F. 



Dublin. 



^^ Seeing the Lions." — Formerly there was a 

 managerie in the Tower of London, in which lions 

 were kept ; it was discontinued about forty years 

 ago. During these times of comparative sim- 

 plicity, when a stranger visited the metropolis for 

 the first time, it was usual to take him to the 

 Tower and show him the lions as one of the chief 

 sights ; and on the stranger's return to the country, 

 it was usual to ask him whether he had seen the 

 lions. Now-a-days, when a Londoner visits the 

 country for the first time, he is taken by his 

 friends to see the most remarkable objects of the 

 place, which by analogy are called " the lions." 

 One constantly hears the expression, " we have 

 been lionising," or " seeing the lions;" but thou- 

 sands who make use of it are ignorant of its 

 origin. It originated as above. R. S. 



HEluttici, 



THE CALVES'-HEAD CLUB. 



Can any of your correspondents give me any 

 information respe(;ting the Calves'-head Club, held 

 at the Golden Eagle, in Suffolk Street, in the 

 county of Middlesex ? There is a tract entitled 

 The Secret History of the Calves'-head Club ; or 

 the Bepuhlican Unmasked ; with Anthems for the 

 years 1693 and 1699 ; in which it is stated that — 



" Milton and some other creatures of the Common- 

 wealth had iTistituted this club, in opposition to Bisliops 

 Juxon, Sanderson, and other Divines, who met privately 

 on the SOtli of January annually, and, although in the 

 time of the Usurpation, had compiled a form of prayer 

 for the service of the day." 



I have three prints of the club celebrating their 

 festivities. On one is written, " The mob destroyed 



part of the house." Sir Wm. (called Hellfire) 

 Stanhope was one of the members. Mr. Vander- 

 gutch said his father engraved this print from a 

 drawing by W. Hogarth. J. Nicholls, in his 

 Clavis Hogarthiana, mentions one print. A second 

 print has three open windows, the members stand- 

 ing at each window viewing a bonfire below them. 

 Underneath this print is written — the Healths : 



" To the pious memory of Oliver CromwelL 

 D° to the race of the Stewarts. 

 To the glorious j'ear 1648. 

 To the man of tlie mask," &c. &c. &c. 



" New regicides bad as the old dare call, 

 The Martj'rs blood on their own heads to fall, 

 And black as those who frocks and vizors wore, 

 These barefaced hangmen trample on his gore. 

 Can it be silent? Can it cease to cry? 

 Such fiends forbid it in repose to lie. 

 'Tis well the blood of God speaks better things 

 Than that of Abel or of murder'd kings." 



The lines on the other prints are recorded by 

 J. Nicholls. Seven members appear at the festive 

 board ,• who were they ? J. F. Y. 



DEATHS, ETC. OF AUTHOES. 



Is it not in the power of some of your numerous 

 correspondents — different individuals perhaps, in 

 the different cases subjoined — tohelp the inquirer 

 to the time of death, or to any notice connected 

 therewith, of certain authors who flourished chiefly 

 in the first quarter of the present century ? Two 

 of those in question, however, fall perhaps rather 

 within the last quarter of the century before, and 

 the sixth denoted has kept in the public view far 

 down to our own time. But though all are now 

 to be numbered, doubtless, with a bygone genera- 

 tion, the writer can, in neither instance, anywhere 

 detect the exit. The Annual Register, the Gentle- 

 man's Magazine,^lauuders Treasury of Biography, 

 and like oracles, are one and all silent. 



Such a clue is therefore desired for — 1. George 

 Ensor, a writer chiefly in the line of politics and 

 ethics, and of the half-dozen works standing in 

 whose name there may be quoted, The Principles of 

 Morality., 8vo., 1801, and The Independent Man (a 

 work on education), 2 vols. 8vo., 1806; an author 

 whose opinions, religious and political, seem to 

 be radical ; 2. John Monck Mason, an editor of 

 Massinger, 1779, and a commentator on Shak- 

 speare, and whom Watt (article in the Biographia) 

 strangely mixes up with the once popular preacher 

 of New York citj'. Rev. John M. Mason; 3. 

 Richard Graves, D.D., Rector of Claverton, [?] 

 Somerset, who wrote, among other things, Lectures 

 on the Pentateuch, 2 vols. 8vo., 1807-11 (an esteemed 

 work, as recalled to my memory), and an Essay 

 on the Character of the Apostles and Evangelists, 

 8vo., 1799 ; 4. John Watkins, the author of a 



