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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 219. 



Who is its author, and in what poem does it 

 occur ? J. W. T. 



Dewsbury. 



Lord Fairfax. — In the Peerage of Scotland I 

 find this entry : 



" Fairfax, Baron, Charles Snowdon Fairfax, 1627, 

 Baron Fairfax, of Cameron ; sue. his grandfather, 

 Thomas, ninth baron, 1846. His lordship resides at 

 Woodburne, in Maryland, United States." 



Fairfax is not a Scotch name. And I can find 

 no trace of any person of that family taking a part 

 in Scotch affairs. Cameron is, I suppose, the 

 parish of that name in the east of Fife. 



I wish to ask, 1st. For what services, or under 

 what circumstances, the barony was created ? 



2ndly. When did the family cease to possess 

 land or other property in Scotland, if they ever 

 held any ? 



3rdly. Is the present peer a citizen or subject 

 of the United States ? if so, is he known and ad- 

 dressed as Lord Fairfax, or how ? 



4thly. Has he, or has any of his ancestors, since 

 the recognition of the United States as a nation, 

 ever used or applied for permission to exercise the 

 functions of a peer of Scotland, e. g. in the elec- 

 tion of representative peers? 



5thly. If he be a subject of the United States, 

 and have taken, expressly or by implication, the 

 oath of citizenship (which pointedly renounces 

 allegiance to our sovereign), how is it that his 

 name is retained on the roll of a body whose first 

 duty it is to guard the throne, and whose exist- 

 ence is a denial of the first proposition in the 

 constitution of his country 'i 



Perhaps Uneda, W. W, or some other of your 

 Philadelphia correspondents, will be good enough 

 to notice the third of these Queries. W. H. M. 



Tailless Cats. — A writer in the New York 

 Literary World of Feb. 7, 1852, makes mention 

 of a breed of cats destitute of tails, which are 

 found in the Isle of Man. Perhaps some generous 

 Manx correspondent will say whether this is a 

 fact or a Jonathan. Shirley Hibberd. 



Saltcellar. — Can any of your readers gainsay 

 that in saltcellar the cellar is a mere corruption 

 of saliere f A list of compound words of Saxon 

 and French origin might be curious. H. F. B. 



Arms and Motto granted to Col. William Carlos. 

 — Can any reader of "N. & Q." give the date of 

 the grant of arms to Col. William Carlos (who 

 assisted Charles II. to conceal himself in the 

 " Royal Oak," after the battle of Worcester), and 

 specify the exact terms of the grant ? p. 



Naval Atrocities. — In the article on " Wounds," 

 in the Encyc. Brit., 4th edition, published 1810, 

 *the author, after mentioning the necessity of a 



surgeon's being cautious in pronouncing on the 

 character of any wound, adds that " this is parti- 

 cularly necessary on board ship, where, as soon as 

 any man is pronounced by the surgeon to be mor- 

 tally wounded, he is forthwith, while still living 

 and conscious, thrown overboard," or words to 

 this effect, as I quote from memory. That such 

 horrid barbarity was not practised in 1810, it is 

 needless to say; and if it had been usual at any 

 previous period, Smollett and other writers who 

 have exposed with unsparing hand all the defects 

 in the naval system of their day, would have 

 scarcely left this unnoticed when they attack 

 much slighter abuses. If such a thing ever oc- 

 curred, even in the worst of times, it must have 

 been an isolated case. I have not met elsewhere 

 with any allusion to this passage, or the atrocity 

 recorded in it, and would be glad of more inform- 

 ation on the subject. J. S. Warden. 



Turlehydes. — During the great famine in Ire- 

 land in 1331, it is said that — 



" The people in their distress met with an unex- 

 pected and providential relief. For about the 24th 

 June, a prodigious number of large sea fish, called 

 turlehydes, were brought into the bay of Dublin, and 

 cast on shore at the mouth of the river Dodder. 

 They were from thirty to forty feet long, and so 

 bulky that two tall men placed one on each side of the 

 fish could not see one another." — The History and 

 Antiquities of the City of Dublin from the Earliest 

 Accounts, by Walter Harris, 1766, p. 265. 



This account is compiled from several records of 

 the time, some of which still exist. As the term 

 turlehydes is not known to Irish scholars, can any 

 of the readers of " N. & Q." say what precise 

 animal is meant by it, or give any derivation or 

 reference for the term ? U. U. 



Dublin. 



Foreign Orders — Queen of Bohemia. — It. is 

 well known that in some foreign Orders the 

 decorations thereof are conferred upon ladies. 

 Can any of your correspondents inform me 

 whether the Order of the Annunciation of Sar- 

 dinia, formerly the Order of the Ducal House of 

 Savoy, at any time conferred its decorations upon 

 ladies ; and whether the Princess Elizabeth, after- 

 wards Queen of Bohemia, ever had the decoration 

 of any foreign order conferred upon her ? In a 

 portrait of her she is represented with a star or 

 badge upon the upper part of the left arm. 



S. E. G. 



Pichard Family. — Is the Pickard, or Picard, 

 family, a branch of which is located in Yorkshire, 

 of Norman origin ? If so, who were the first settlers 

 in England ; and also in what county are they most 

 numerous ? One or the Family. 



Bradford. 



