Feb. 25. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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While I write, as if writers of all kinds were 

 resolved to join in perplexing the use of these un- 

 fortunate words, I read in a journal, " objective 

 discussion, in the sense of hostile or adverse dis- 

 cussion, discussion which proposed objections." I 

 think this is hard upon the word, and unfair 

 usage of it. W. 



Lucy Walters, the Duke of Monmouth's Mother. 

 — The death of this unfortunate woman is usually 

 stated to have taken place at Paris. The date is 

 not given, and the authority cited is John Evelyn. 

 But Evelyn's words have been misunderstood. 

 He says, speaking of the Duke of Monmouth's 

 execution : 



" His mother, whose name was Barlow, daughter of 

 some very mean creatures, was a beautiful strumpet, 

 whom I had often seen at Paris; she died miserably, 

 without anything to bury her." — Diary, July 15, 1685. 



This passage surely does not imply that she died 

 at Paris ? In the Parish Registers of Hammer- 

 smith is the following entry : 



" 1683, June 5, Lucy Walters bur." 



which I am fully persuaded records the death of 

 one of King Charles's quondam mistresses. 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



General Haynau's Corpse. — A most extraor- 

 dinary account has reached us in a private letter 

 from Vienna to a high personage here, and has 

 been the talk of our salons for the last few days. 

 It appears that the circumstance of the death of 

 General Haynau presented a phenomenon of the 

 most awful kind on record. For many days after 

 death the warmth of life yet lingered in the right 

 arm and left leg of the corpse, which remained 

 limpid and moist, even bleeding slightly when 

 pricked. No delusion, notwithstanding, could be 

 maintained as to the reality of death, for the other 

 parts of the body were completely mortified, and 

 interment became necessary before the two limbs 

 above mentioned had become either stiff or cold. 

 The writer of the letter mentioned that this strange 

 circumstance has produced the greatest awe in 

 the minds of those who witnessed it, and that the 

 emperor had been so impressed with it, that his 

 physicians had forbidden the subject to be alluded 

 to in his presence. Query, Can the above sin- 

 gular statement be verified ? It was copied from 

 a French paper, immediately after the decease of 

 General Haynau was known in Paris. W. W. 



Malta. 



"Isolated." — This word was not in use at the 

 commencement of the eighteenth century, as is 

 evident from the following expression of Lord 

 Bolingbroke's : 



" The events we are witnesses of in the course of the 

 longest life appear to us very often original, unpre- 



pared, single, and unrelative ,• if I may use such a word 

 for want of a better in English. In French, I would 

 say isoles." 



The only author quoted by Richardson is 

 Stewart. R. Cary Barnard. 



Malta. 



Office of Sexton held by One Family. — The 

 following obituary, copied from the Derbyshire 

 Advertiser of Jan. 27, 1854, contains so extraor- 

 dinary an account of the holding of the office of 

 sexton by one family, that it may interest some of 

 your readers, and may be difficult to be surpassed. 



" On Jan. 23, 1854, 

 Bramwell, sexton of the 

 le- Frith. The deceased 

 forty-three years ; Peter 

 years ; George Bramwell, 

 years ; George Bramwell, 

 years ; Peter Bramwell, 

 fifty-two years : total 223 



aged eighty-six, Mr. Peter 

 parish church of Chapel-en- 

 served the office of sexton 

 Bramwell, his father, fifty 

 his grandfather, thirty-eight 

 Ins great-grandfather, forty 

 his great-great-grandfather, 

 years." 



S. G. C. 



Sententious Despatches (Vol. viii., p. 490. ; Vol. 

 ix., p. 20.). — In addition to the sententious dis- 

 patches referred to above, please note the follow- 

 ing. It was sent to the Emperor Nicholas by one 

 of his generals, and is a very good specimen of 

 Russian double entendres : 



" Folia Vaschd, a Varschavoo vsiat nemogoo." 

 " Volia is your's, but Warsaw I cannot take." 

 Also, — 



" Your will is all-powerful, but Warsaw I cannot 

 take." * * * * 



J. S. A. 

 Old Broad Street. 



Reprints suggested. — As you have opened a list 

 of suggested reprints in the pages of " N. & Q.," 

 may I be allowed to remark that some of Peter 

 Heylin's works would be well worth reprinting. 



There is a work of which few know the value, 

 but yet a work of the greatest importance, I mean 

 Dr. O'Connor's Letters of Columbanus. A care- 

 fully edited and well annotated edition of this 

 scarce work would prove of greater value than 

 any reprint I can think of. Mariconda. 



PICTURES FROM LORD VANE'S COLLECTION. 



My family became possessed of six fine por- 

 traits at the death of Lord Vane, husband to that 

 lady of unenviable notoriety, a sketch of whose 

 life (presented by her own hand to the author) is 

 inserted, under the title " Adventures of a Lady of 

 Quality," in Peregrine Pickle. I quote from my 



