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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 287. 



Lady Willnughhy . — In the Life of Susanna 

 Perwich, by John Batchiler, 1661, occurs the fol- 

 lowinnr passage. I could wish to know who the 

 Lady Willoujihby therein mentioned was, and the 

 cause of her confinement In the Tower. 



" Some of her acquaintances, and very dear friends, 

 such as the Lady Willougbbj-, and some others not here 

 to be named, who highly valued her, and desired her 

 company (as oft as might be), she frequently visited 

 for several years together, while under their restraint in 

 the Tower of London, to whom after a sweet and more 

 spiritual converse otherwise, she would sing and play 

 with all alacrity imaginable, to comfort them in their 

 sadness ; accounting it a high honour to her, that she 

 was any way able to be a refreshment to those that she 

 thought were dear to God." — P. 26. 



A. RoFFE. 



Somers Town. 



Works of Sir Thomas More. — Where can I 

 see a catalogue of all the editions of the works of 

 Sir Thomas More, including the translations of 

 the Latin works into English, and of both into 

 foreign languajes ? 



Does the edition of his works in English, 1557, 

 contain all he wrote in the vernacular ? 



Are any unpublished works of his known to re- 

 main in manuscript ? Edwaed Peacock. 



Bottesford Moors, Kirton-in-Lindsey. 



Moorish Ballad. — Many years ago, probably 

 not less than thirty, I met with a Moorish ballad, 

 which I have never seen since. I think the title 

 was " Almanzor and Zaida," or something like 

 that. The following are a few lines : 



" Lovely is the moon's fair lustre 

 To the lost benighted swain, 

 When all silvery bright she rises, 

 Gilding mountain, grove, and plain. 



" An old lord from Alcantara 



My stern father brings along." 



and ending with 



" Gracious Allah be thy guide." 

 Perhaps some of your readers can say where it is 

 to be met with, or can furnish a copy for your 

 useful miscellany. Hendon. 



Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Major John Haynes. — This officer, who is re- 

 puted to have been aide-de-camp to William III., 

 was living in 1737. He came to Ireland with 

 King William, and when quartered in Drogheda, 

 was billeted at the house of two maiden ladies 



named , one of whom he " wooed and 



married." He purchased the estate of Cannycourt, 

 CO. Kildare, where he built a mansion. A friend 

 of mine, who married into the Haynes family, 

 possesses two oil portraits of Major Haynes, one a 

 miniature, the other a half-length portrait the size 

 of life. In both he is represented wearing a 

 cuirass, which formed part of the uniform of the 



British heavy cavalry from the year 1685 to 1714, 

 when it was discontinued. I am anxious to learn 

 whether his name is mentioned in any history of 

 the wars of William III., and to what English 

 family he belonged. Query, to that of Haynes, of 

 Thimbleby Lodge, Yorkshire ? I made several 

 unsuccessful searches for his name among the 

 valuable collection of old army lists preserved by 

 Messrs. Furnivall and Parker of Charing Cross. 



G. L. Shannon. 



" Rule Britannia." — 



" The song of Rule Britannia will be the political hj^mn 

 of this countrj' as long as she maintains her political 

 power." — Southey. 



Where is the above passage to be found in 

 Southey ? D. 



Population of Dedham, U. S. — Can any of your 

 readers who may happen to have access to the 

 most recent American Census Returns inform me 

 what is the present population of the town of 

 Dedham, U. S. ? J. B. 



English Residents in France, — Is there any 

 return of the numbers of English residing in 

 France ? Before the year 1830 there were 170,000. 



G. RL. 



Quotation from Cogolludo's " Historia de Yucu- 

 than" — In Fancourt's History of Yucatan, p. 337., 

 is the following quotation from Cogolludo's His- 

 toria de Yucuthan. Can the circumstance here 

 mentioned be caused by electricity decomposing 

 the water ? 



" On the Eastern coast (of Yucatan) is a spring of 

 water which has this strange property, that if you drink 

 of it silentlj' it is clear and good ; but if you speak, in so 

 doing it becomes brackish, bitter, and turbid. The place 

 is called by the Indians HicM." 



W. M. M. 



Droitwich. 



Heraldic. — To whom do the following arms 

 belong ? I find them emblazoned on a fire- 

 place in this city (Chester), bearing date 1510. 

 The arms occupying the first and fourth quarters 

 of the fir§t shield may be those of some cadet of 

 the Corbet family ; but I cannot find any of that 

 name resident in Chester at the period in question ; 

 those in the second and third quarters somewiiat 

 resemble the arms of Frodshum of Elton, or 

 Tr afford of Bridge Tr afford. The coats are thus 

 blazoned : 



Quarterly, first and fourth. Argent, a mullet 

 gules, between two crows or ravens in pale sable ; 

 second and third. Argent, a cross engrailed sable, 

 charged with a garb between four mullets or. 



Again : Argent, a mullet gules, between two 

 similar birds in pale sable ; impaling. Gules, a bird 

 or, between three crescents argent, two and one. 



T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



