April 29. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



395 



were brought to Dublin from St. Mallow in Bri- 

 tanny. In this reign also 200 " grossos arbores," 

 near Drogheda, were valued at 167.; 18 "porcos" 

 were worth 40s. ; 3 " inodios frumenti " worth 

 20s. ; and 5 " lagenas butteri," 20s. During this 

 reign a sum of 300Z. was paid out of the Treasury 

 to Sir William Seyntloo, for the purpose of forti- 

 fying, &o. the Castle of Dyngham, called " The 

 Governor of OfFayley," of which sum he paid to 

 Matthew Lynete, the Clerk of the Ordnance, — 



For the hire of 4 carts from Dublin to the forte, 



28th December, 71s. \\d. ster. 

 3 other carts from Dublin to the sayd forte, 27th March, 



2 Ed\v. VI., 40s. 

 The carters that came from Dublin to the forte, 



15th January and 19th April, 2 Edw. VI., for the 



hire of 4 cartes by the space of 6 dayes, 53s. Ad. 



In the 6 Edward VI. the goods of Thomas 

 Rothe of Kilkenny, merchant, which were seized 

 by a searcher at Waterford, consisted of " 30 

 pecias auri vocat' Crussades," and " un' wegge ar- 

 genti ponderant' xvj uncias argenti precij cujus- 

 libet uncie, 4s." 



In the same year the property of Andrew Tyr- 

 rell, a merchant of Athboy, consisted of — 

 Unam fardellam sive paccam, contain- Sterling. 



ing unam peciam de lychefeldkerfeys, 



price ------ 36s. 



Unam peciam de greneclothe - - At. 

 Di' duoden' pellium vocat' red leese - 3s. Ad. 



1 duoden' de orphell skynnes - - 8s. Ad. 

 6 duoden' de Rosell gyrdels - - 12s. 

 Sex libr' de Brymstone - - - 2s. 



3 duoden' de playng cardes - - 10s. 



Un' gross' de fyne knyves - 48s. 



26 libr' cerici voc' sylke - - - SI. 13s. Ad. 



Un' gross' de red poynts - [104s. or 4s.] 



Un' duoden' de pennars - [102s. or 2s.] 



Sex libr' de bykeres - 102s. 



1000 pynnes " 20rf. 



Sex rubeas crumenas - - 2s. 



Un' bagam de droggs - - - 4s. 



Un' burden' de stele - 3s. 



Sex boxes de comfetts - - - 1 2s. 



6 duoden' de lokyng glasses - -• \8d. 



Un' bolte de threde - - - - 2s. 8d. 

 Duas fyrkins de soketts - 5s. 



Duas duoden' de combes - 12tf. 



2 lb. of packethrede - 6<£ 



1 doz. of great bells - 16c?. 



One payre of ballaunce - 8d. 



One piece of red cloth - - - Al. 



In Queen Mary's time, in Ireland, a yard of 

 black velvet was valued at 20s. sterling ; a yard 

 of purple-coloured damask, at 13s. Ad. sterling ; 

 and a yard of tawny-coloured damask, at 10s. 

 sterling. 



The foregoing have been taken from the ancient 

 records of the Irish Exchequer. 



James F. Ferguson. 



Dublin. 



BISHOP ATTERBURY. 



I have observed in some former Numbers of 

 " N. & Q,.," that an interest has been manifested 

 in regard to the writings, and especially to the 

 letters, of this prelate. It may therefore be in- 

 teresting to your readers to be informed, that an 

 original painting, and perhaps the only one, of the 

 Bishop, is preserved at Trelawny House in Corn- 

 wall ; and from its close resemblance to the en- 

 graved portrait which is found in his works, I 

 have no doubt it is that from which that likeness 

 was taken. There are also several letters in the 

 handwriting of Bishop Atterbury among the 

 documents preserved in the collection at that 

 ancient mansion. That this portrait and the 

 letters should be preserved at Trelawny, is ex- 

 plained by the fact, that before his elevation to 

 the episcopal bench, Dr. Atterbury was chaplain 

 to Bishop Trelawny. J. C. 



Lines by Bishop Atterbury on Mr. Harley 

 being stabbed by Guiscard : 



" Devotum ut cordi sensit sub pectore ferrum, 



Immoto Harlajus saucius ore stetit. 

 Dum tamen huic laata gratatur voce senatus, 



Confusus subito pallor in ore sedet. 

 O pudor ! O virtus ! partes quam dignus utrasque 



Sustinuit, vultu dispare, laude pari." 



I found these lines written on the back of an odd 

 volume of Atterbury's Sermons. Most likely they 

 have already appeared in print. E. H. A. 



Minor $0tr£. 



" Milton Blind." — A little poem bearing this 

 title, and commencing — 



" Though I am old and blind," 



is said to have been included in an edition of the 

 poet's works recently published at Oxford. It 

 was written by Miss Lloyd, a lady of this city, a 

 short time ago. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Hydropathy. — For a long time, I believe in 

 common with many others, I have imagined that 

 the water cure is of late origin, and that we are 

 indebted for it to Germany, to which we look for 

 all novel quackeries (good and bad) in medicine 

 and theology. This belief was put to flight a 

 short time ago by a pamphlet which I discovered 

 among others rare and curious. It is entitled 

 Curiosities of Common Water, or the Advantages 

 thereof m preventing and curing many Distempers. 

 The price of the pamphlet was one shilling, and the 

 author rejoices in the name of John Smith. After 

 his name follows a motto, the doctrine of which it 



