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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 279. 



sists of nine stanzas, of which those given by C. 

 are the 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 8th. The variations 

 are so numerous, that your correspondent has 

 probably given the lines from memory. This 

 poem has been hardly treated. Ellis and Camp- 

 bell give seven stanzas only ; Ritson eight, omit- 

 ting the first : 



" Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams ; 



The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. 



So, when affections yield discourse, it seems 



The bottom is but shallow whence they come : 



They that are rich in words must needs discover, 



They are but poor in that which makes a lover." 



Sir Egerton Brydges speaks of this poem as, — 



" A most extraordinary one ; terse, harmonious, pointed, 

 often admirably expressed. It seems to have anticipated 

 a century in its style." 



The eighth stanza, Sir Egerton tells us in 1814, — 



" was, by some strange anachronism, current about fifty 

 years ago, amongst the circles of fashion, as the produc- 

 tion of the late celebrated Earl of Chesterfield." 



It is quoted in his 183rd letter with this preface : 



"A man had better talk too much to women than too 

 little ; they take silence for dulness, unless where they 

 think the passion they have inspired occasions it, and in 

 that case they adopt the notion that — 



" Silence in love bewrays more woe 

 Than words, though ne'er so witty ; 

 A beggar that is dumb, you know, 

 May challenge * double pity ! " 



J. H. M. 



The Irish Palatines (Vol. xi., p. 87.). — In my 

 MSS. Indexes of Aids for Genealogical Re- 

 searches, I find the references, at the word " Pa- 

 latine," to the Irish Lords Journals, vol. ii. p. 312. ; 

 History of Queen Anne, vols. i. and ii. ; but yet 

 more to a manuscript in Primate Marsh's library 

 here, classed V. 3. i. 27., wherein are, as I entered 

 the title some years since, " Documents relative to 

 the Palatines, and Lists of their Families." 



John D'Alton. 

 48. Summer Hill. Dublin. 



Sir Thomas Prendergast (Vol. xi., pp. 12. 89.). 

 — It may be interesting to learn that this Pren- 

 dergast succeeded in obtaining two grants of, in 

 the total, 7082 acres, " upon (as the first Report 

 of the Commissioners of the Forfeitures in De- 

 cember, 1699, expresses it) the most valuable 

 consideration of his discovering a most barbarous 

 and bloody conspiracy to assassinate the king's 

 most excellent majesty, to destroy the liberties of 

 England, and in consequence the Protestant re- 

 ligion throughout Europe." The Irish House of 

 Commons had for this service passed a vote of 

 thanks to him in September, 1697. It would 

 W)pear, from the correspondence of the Lords 

 Justices of Ireland at the period, that he was him- 

 self at first apprehended, on his return from 



* "Deserves a." — Lord C. 



France, as being implicated in the conspiracy ; 

 that he made his terms by informing, and therein 

 implicated Sir John Friend, who was on the 

 strength of his information executed for high 

 treason. The " solemn entry " to which Mr. 

 Deane alludes may therefore be considered but 

 the natural daguerreotype of an ever-present and 

 painful reminiscence. John D'Alton. 



48. Summer Hill, Dublin. 



Sir Samuel BagnaU (Vol. xi., p. 85.). — I do 

 not find this individual projected in Ireland until 

 the close of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, when 

 his " doings " in Munster are frequently chroni- 

 cled in the Pacata Hibemia. I should think, when 

 in this country, he was not encumbered with wife 

 or children, and that Chartham's Queries will be 

 best directed to England. The name did not appear 

 at all in Ireland until the time of Edward VI., in 

 the county Down. It was subsequently esta- 

 blished of tenure and rank in the counties of 

 Wicklow and Carlow. In one of the genealogical 

 MSS. in our Trinity College (F. 3. 27.), are pre- 

 served some broken links of the pedigrees of 

 Bagnalls of Newry, of Dunlukney, and of Idron. 



I take this opportunity of again soliciting any 

 attainable manuscript aid touching the campaign 

 of 1640-1 in this country, towards enriching and 

 verifying my illustrations of the families in King 

 James's Army List. 1 have already fair copied 

 four hundred pages (about half the proposed 

 work) for the press. John D' Alton. 



48. Summer Hill, Dublin. 



I cannot at present answer the Queries of your 

 correspondent Chartham regarding Sir Samuel 

 Bagnall ; I think it very probable that I shall be 

 able to do so later, and in that case will not fail to 

 do so through your paper. In the meantime I 

 can assure him that Sir Ralph Bagnall did marry 

 Elizabeth, the daughter of my ancestor, Robert 

 Whitgreave of Burton, but that that lady was the 

 third, and not the second daughter of Robert 

 Whitgreave (as stated by your correspondent). 

 The second daughter bore the name of Margaret, 

 and died unmarried. Francis Whitgreave. 



Burton Manor, near StaflEbrd. 



Booch or Butch Family (Vol. xi., p. 86.). — 

 Any requisition as to King James's army I take 

 aa personal; but the question in this case is too 

 vaguely put to be answered. " Elizabeth Booch, 

 or Butch, settled in Dublin one hundred years 

 since. Her husband's father was an officer in 

 James's army." His name is not given. If Booch 

 was the name expected to be found, I distinctly 

 negative its being on the roll ; a William Boole, 

 lieutenant in Colonel Charles Cavanagh's infantry, 

 is the closest assimilation I can find on the whole 

 List. John D'Alton. 



48. Summer Hill, Dublin. 



