Jan. 14. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



31 



All statements throughout being verified by 

 authorities. 



Already have I compiled and arranged the ma- 

 terials for illustrating the eight regiments of horse 

 upon this roll, viz. Tyrconnel's, Galmoy's, Sars- 

 field's, Abercorn's, Luttrell's, Sutherland's, Par- 

 ker's, and Purcell's ; a portion of the work in 

 which, according to my plan, the illustrations will 

 be appropriated to the families of — 



Aylmer. Lawless. Prendergast. 



Barnewall. Luttrell. Purcel. 



Butler. Matthews. Kedmond. 



Callaghan. M'Donnell. Rice. 



Cusack. M'Namara. Roche. 



De Courcy. Meara. Sarsfield. 



Dempsey. Morris. Sheldon. 



Everard. Nagle. Synnott. 



Gernon. O'Sullivan. Talbot. 



Hamilton. O'Kelly. &c. &c. 



Kearney. Plunket. 



And this section (about 100 pages) is open to 

 inspection on appointment. 



The above is but a tithe of the surnames whose 

 genealogical illustrations I propose to furnish. 

 The succeeding portions of the work, comprising 

 six regiments of Dragoons, and upwards of fifty 

 of Foot, will offer for notice, besides numerous 

 septs of the O's and Mac's, the An<jlo-Irish names 

 of- 



My inquiry touching Lord Dover, who heads 

 the List, has heretofore elicited much curious in- 

 formation ; and I confide that all who can afford 

 literary assistance to the undertaking, by let- 

 ters, inspection of documents, or otherwise, will 

 promptly communicate on the subject. 



John D'Alton. 



48. Summer Hill, Dublin. 



#flmar flaXzH. 



Authors and Publishers. — As " N. & Q." is, 

 I believe, much read by. booksellers as well as 

 authors, would not both parties find great advan- 

 tage by the latter advertising in your pages the 

 completion and wished-for publication of any work 

 on which they may have been engaged ? Pub- 

 lishers, in this way, might hear of works which 



they would be glad to bring before the public, and 

 authors be spared much unnecessary and often 

 useless trouble and correspondence. Authors, I 

 know, may feel some delicacy in coming before the 

 world in this manner before publication, although 

 after that rubicon is passed, their names and pro- 

 ductions are blazoned on all the winds ; but as a 

 previous announcement in " N. & Q." may be 

 made anonymously, as respects the name of the 

 writer, although not of coui'se as regards the nature 

 of his work, there seems no just reason why honor- 

 able and beneficial arrangements may not be made 

 in this way as well as by any other. To me this 

 plan seems to offer some advantages, and I throw 

 out the hint for the consideration of all whom it 

 may concern.* Alpha. 



Inscriptions on old Pulpits. — "N. & Q." has 

 given many kinds of inscriptions, from those on 

 Fonts and Door-heads down to those on Watch- 

 papers ; perhaps, therefore, it may not be without 

 its use or interest to make a beginning for a list 

 of inscriptions on old pulpits. The first inscrip- 

 tion I quote is from Richard Baxter's pulpit, of 

 which 1 have given a full description in Vol. v., 

 p. 363. : 



1. Kidderminster. Baxter's pulpit (now pre- 

 served in the vestry of the Unitarian Chapel). 

 On the panels of the pulpit : 



"ALICE . DAWKS , WIDOW . GAVE . THIS." 



On the front of the preacher's desk : 



" PRAISE . THE . LORD." 



Round the sounding-board : 



" O . GIVE . THANKS . UNTO . THE . LORD . AND . CALL 



UPON . HIS . NAME . DECLARE . HIS . WORSHIP 



AMONG . THE . PEOPLE." 



At the back of the pulpit : 



"anno . 1621." 



2. Suckley, Worcestershire ; round the sound- 

 ing-board (apparently of very old date) : 



" BLESSED . ARE . THEY . THAT . HEAR . THE . WORDE . OF 

 GOD . AND . KEEPE . IT." 



3. Broadwas, Worcestershire ; on the panels : 



" WILLIAM . NOXON . AND . ROGER . PRINCE . C . W . 1632." 



Round the sounding-board, the same text as at 

 Suckley. Cuthbert Bede, B.A. 



Recent Curiosities of Literature. — Thackeray, 

 in the second number of The Newcomes, describes 

 an old lady's death as being caused from her head 

 having been cut with a bed-room candle. N. P. 

 Willis, in his Health Trip to the Tropics, speaks 



[* Any assistance which we can afford in carrying 

 out this suggestion, which we may remark comes from 

 one who has had practical experience on the subject, 

 we shall be most happy to render. — Ed.] 



