April 15. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Irish Letters (Vol.ix., p. 246.)-— The following 

 inscription on the monument of Lugnathan, ne- 

 phew of St. Patrick, at Inchaguile, in Lough Cor- 

 rib, co. Galway, is supposed to be the most ancient 

 in Ireland : 



" LIE LUGNAEDOH MACC LMENUEH." 



" The stone of Lugnaodon, son of Limenueh." 



The oldest Irish manuscript is the Book of 

 Armagh, which contains a copy of the Gospels, 

 and some very old lives of St. Patrick. (See 

 O'Donovan's Irish Gramma?; Dublin, 1845, p. lii.) 



Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Bev. John Cawley (Vol. ix., p. 247.). — In reply 

 to the inquiry of C. T. E., What is the authority 

 for stating that the Rev. John Cawley, rector of 

 Didcot, was a son of Cawley the regicide ? I send 

 you the following extract from Wood's Athence 

 (Bliss's edition), vol. iv. col. 580. : 



" John Cawley, son of Will. Cawley of the city of 

 Chichester, gent., was, by the endeavours of his father, 

 made Fellow of All Souls' College (from that of Mag. 

 dalen) by the visitors appointed by Parliament, anno 

 1649 ; took the degrees in arts, that of Master being 

 completed in 1654 ; and whether he became a preacher 

 soon after, without any orders conferred on him by 

 a bishop, I cannot tell. Sure I am, that after his 

 Majesty's restoration, he became a great loyalist, dis- 

 owned the former actions of his father, who had been 

 one of the judges of King Charles I. ; when he was 

 tryed for his life by a pretended court of justice, rayled 

 at him (being then living in a skulking condition be- 

 yond sea) ; and took all opportunities to free himself 

 from having any hand or anything to do in the times 

 of usurpation. About which time, having married 

 one of the daughters of Mr. Pollard of Newnham 

 Courtney, lie became rector of Dedcot, or Dudcot, in 

 Berkshire; rector of Henley in Oxfordshire; and in 

 the beginning of March, 1666, Archdeacon of Lincoln." 



'AAievs. 



Dublin. 



NewZealander and Westminster Bridge (Vol. ix., 

 pp. 74. 159.). — Your correspondents have traced 

 this celebrated passage to a letter from Horace 

 Walpole to Sir H. Mann, and to passages in 

 poems by Mrs. Barbauld and Kirke White. It 

 appears to me that the following extract from the 

 Preface to P. B. Shelley's Beter Bell the Third, 

 has more resemblance to it. It is addressed to 

 Moore : 



" Hoping that the immortality which you have 

 given to the Fudges you will receive from them ; and 

 in the firm expectation, that when London shall be an 

 habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul's and Westmin- 

 ster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins, in 

 the midst of an unpeopled marsh ; when the piers of 

 Westminster Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets 

 of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of 

 their broken arches on the solitary stream ; some trans- 



atlantic commentator will be weighing in the scales of 

 some new and now unimagined sytem of criticism, the 

 respective merits of the Bells, and the Fudges, and 

 their historians." 



John Thrupp. 

 10. York Gate. 



Several passages from different writers having 

 been mentioned in your columns as likely to have 

 suggested to our brilliant essayist and historian 

 his celebrated graphic sketch of the New Zea- 

 lander meditating over the ruins of London, I 

 would beg leave to hint the probability that not 

 one of those many passages were present to his 

 mind or memory at the moment he wrote. The 

 fact is that the picture is so true to nature, and 

 has been so often sketched, and the associations 

 and reflections arising from it so often felt and 

 described, that I cannot for a moment admit the 

 insinuation of a charge of plagiarism, or even un- 

 conscious adaptation of another's thoughts in one 

 so abundantly stored with imagery of his own, 

 that the very overflowings of his own wealth 

 would enrich a generation of writers. It has 

 however occurred to me that his classic mind 

 might have remembered the picture of Marius 

 amid the ruins of Carthage, or, more probably, 

 the still more striking passage in the celebrated 

 letter of Sulpicius to Cicero, on the death of his 

 daughter Tullia, in which he describes himself, on 

 his return from Asia, as sailing from iEgina to- 

 wards Megara, and contemplating the surrounding 

 countries : 



" Behind me lay iEgina, before me Megara ; on my 

 right I saw Pirasus, and on my left Corinth. These 

 cities, once so flourishing and magnificent, now pre- 

 sented nothing to my view but a sad spectacle of deso- 

 lation." 



And he then proceeds with his melancholy reflec- 

 tions on so many perishing memorials of human 

 glory and grandeur in so small a compass. 

 S ' ° P G.W.T. 



Volney wrote thus : 



" Qui sait si sur les rives de la Seine, de la Tamise 

 . . . dans le tourbillon de tant de jouissances . . . 

 un voyageur, comme moi, ne s'asseoira pas un jour 

 sur de muettes ruines, et ne pleurera pas solitaire sur 

 la cendre des peuples et la memoire de leur grandeur?" 

 — Lts Ruines, chap. ii. p. 11. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Misapplication of Terms (Vol.ix., p. 44.). — I 

 cannot pretend to set up my judgment against 

 that of Mr. Squeers, who has in his favour the 

 proverbial wisdom of the Schools. Riddle, how- 

 ever, who I believe is an authority, gives the word 

 Lego no such meaning as "to hearken." If 

 Plautus uses the word in that sense, as it is an 

 uncommon one, the passage should have been 

 quoted, or a reference given. The meaning of 



