Jan. 27. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the Ormonde Collection at Kilkenny Castle ; and 

 am very anxious to ascertain how it came into that 

 family, and the exact date when it left it. 



There is much historical interest connected with 

 this picture, which was a heirloom in the family. 

 The engraving, when seen by Colnaghi, was im- 

 mediately recognised by him as one respecting 

 which there had been much discussion, the paint- 

 ing not being known to be in existence, — in fact, 

 a lost one. 



The print is in the British Museum in three 

 stages of engraving, with the following inscription : 



"Antonio da Correggio pinxit. R. Cooper del. et 

 sculp. 1763. To the Queen this plate is humbly in- 

 scribed by her Majesty's most devoted and humble servant, 

 Richard Cooper. From the original painting of Cor- 

 reggio, formerly in the Ormonde Collection, but now in 

 the possession "of John Butler, Esq." 



Now, in 1716, the Duke of Ormonde had been 

 attainted, and his estates confiscated. He died a 

 pensioner on the bounty of the King of Spain, 

 having taken part with the Pretender. John 

 Butler was heir, and would inherit this picture as 

 a heirloom. In 1791 he became seventeenth Earl 

 of Ormonde, so that the painting was engraved 

 when the title was extinct. 



It has been thought that the painting may 

 have been one of the Escurial Corregglos, and was 

 given by the King of Spain to the Duke of Or- 

 monde for his services. If you can put the 

 Q ueries for me in your publication, so as to elicit 

 any information as to the time when it was given 

 or purchased by the Ormonde family, and the cir- 

 cumstances under which it was parted with, you 

 will confer a great obligation. Margaret Fison. 



New Court House, Charlton, Cheltenham. 



P. S. — There appears to have been a sale at 

 some time or other, at which I believe the picture 

 was purchased, and came from that channel into 

 our possession. 



Churchill Property, — About ten years ago 

 some law proceedings were noted in The Times, 

 referring to a fund for the benefit of persons 

 named Churchill. Can any of your readers furnish 

 the particulars of its origin and distribution, &c. ? 



One of the Name. 



Bells heard by the drowned. — Will any one 

 kindly refer me to the story of a man who was 

 drowned in a Danish lake ; and who described, on 

 being restored, after a long period of suspended 

 animation, that he heard under water, in his last 

 moments of consciousness, the sound of the Copen- 

 hagen bells ? Alfred Gatty. 



Dean Smedley. — I beg to renew my inquiry 

 (Vol. X., p. 423.) after Dean Smedley, both on its 

 own account, and to correct a blunder made by 

 your printer in my former Query, of " Patres sunt 

 octulae," for " Patres sunt retulas," i. e. old women. 



In reply to S. A. H.'s inquiry in the same 

 Number (p. 418.), I am sorry to say that no ex- 

 planation has yet appeared of Pope's agglomerated 

 mention of Blackmore and Quarles, Ben Jonson 

 and Old Dennis, the Lord's Anointed and the 

 Russian Bear. Nor has Mr. Crosslet either re- 

 tracted or supported his assertion as to the appear- 

 ance of " Sober Advice " so early as 1716. I have 

 no doubt that on reconsideration he finds that he 

 was mistaken. Every paragraph of the poem 

 proves that it could not have been written earlier 

 than 1730. C. 



Gelyan Bowers. — What is the origin of the 

 Julian (or Gelyan) Bowers, found in the north of 

 England ? M. J. S. 



Dial. — How may I learn to accurately mark 

 out and set a dial ? John Scribe. 



Death of Dogs. — In November I saw In War- 

 wickshire a printed bill offering a reward for the 

 discovery of " some evil-disposed person or per- 

 sons who did poison a dog." Making inquiry last 

 week, I was told that many dogs had since died 

 in the neighbourhood very suddenly, and where 

 there was not the least reason to suspect that 

 poison had been administered ; but it was a new 

 disease which had afflicted the canine race. Has 

 a similar mortality taken place in other districts ? 

 and what is the nature of the disease ? H. W. D. 



Verses. — In the Exchequer Record Office, 

 Dublin, there is deposited an original paper upon 

 which the following lines have been written : 



" Lett England, old England in glory still rise, 

 And thanks to y" D. y' open'd her eys." 



The document to which I referred bears no date, 

 but It appears to me to have been written in or 

 about the year 1710. To whom is allusion made 

 by the words (or rather the word and letter) " y* 

 D. ?" J. F. F. 



Dublin. 



Psalm- singing and the Nonconformists. — Can 

 any one explain why the early Nonconformists so 

 much neglected the practice of psalm-singing in 

 their worship ? John Scbibb. 



" The Lay of the Scottish Fiddle" a poem in 

 five cantos, supposed to be written by W — — 



S , Esq. ; first American, from the fourth 



Edinburgh edition, London, .James Cawthorn, 

 1814. The names of the author of the above will 

 oblige. R. H. B. 



Heavenly Guides. — Who was the author of 

 The Poor Mans Pathway to Heaven, a small black- 

 letter work, dated about 1600 ? My copy lacks 

 title-page. R. C. Wardb. 



Kidderminster. 



