April 29. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Leicester, whither (after Bosworth Field) the dead 

 body of Richard III., naked, trussed behind a pur- 

 suivant-at-arms, all dashed with mire and blood, was 

 there brought and homely buried ; where afterward 

 King Henry VII. (out of a royal disposition) erected 

 for him a fair alabaster monument, with his picture cut 

 out, and made thereon." — Quoted in Nichols's Leices- 

 tershire, vol. i. p. 357. : see also pp. 298. 381.]' 



Binding of old Boohs. — I shall feel obliged to 

 any of your readers who will tell me how to polish 

 up the covers of old books when the leather has 

 got dry and cracked. Bookbinders use some com- 

 position made of glair, or white of egg, which pro- 

 duces a very glossy appearance. How is it made 

 and used ? and how do they polish the leather 

 afterwards? Is there any little work on book- 

 binding ? Cpl. 



[Take white of an egg, break it with a fork, and, 

 having first cleaned the leather with dry flannel, apply 

 the egg with a soft sponge. Where the leather is 

 rubbed or decayed, rub a little paste with the finger 

 into the parts affected, to fill up the broken grain, 

 otherwise the glair would sink in and turn it black. 

 To 'produce a polished surface, a hot iron must be 

 rubbed over the leather. The following is, however, 

 an easier, if not a better, method. Purchase some 

 ** bookbinders' varnish," which may be had at any 

 colour shop ; clean the leather well, as before ; if ne- 

 cessary, use a little water in doing so, but rub quite 

 dry with a flannel before varnishing: apply your varnish 

 with wool, lint, or a very soft sponge, and place to 

 dry.] 



Vessel of Paper. — When I was at school in the 

 north of Ireland, not very many years ago, a piece 

 of paper, about the octavo size, used for writing 

 " exercises," was commonly known amongst us as 

 a vessel of paper. Can any of your correspon- 

 dents tell me the origin of the phrase ; and 

 whether it is in use in other localities ? Abhba. 



[Lemon, in his English Etymology, has the following 

 remarks on this phrase: — "Vessel of Paper: The 

 etymology of this word does not at first sight appear 

 very evident ; but a derivation has been lately suggested 

 to me, which seems to carry some probability with it ; 

 viz. that a vessel of paper may have derived its appel- 

 lation from fasciculus, or fasciola ; quasi vassiola ; a 

 vessel, or small slip of paper ; a little winding band, or 

 swathing cloth ; a garter ; a fascia, a small narrow 

 binding. The root is undoubtedly fascis, a bundle, 

 or anything tied up ; also, the fillet with which it is 

 bound."] 



JtepIteS. 



KING JAMES'S HUSH ARM! LIST, 1689. 



(Vol.ix., pp.30, 31.) 



My collections are arranged for illustrating, in 

 the manner alluded to in the above notice, up- 

 wards of four hundred families. In Tyrconnel's 



Horse, I find a Dominick Sheldon, Lieut.-Colonel. 

 His name appears in the "Establishment" of 

 1687-8 for a pension of 200Z. Early in the 

 campaign, he was actively opposed to the revo- 

 lutionary party in Down and Antrim ; and was 

 afterwards joined in an unsuccessful negotiation 

 for the surrender of Derry. At the battle of the 

 Boyne he commanded the cavalry, and in a gal- 

 lant charge nearly retrieved the day, but had 

 two horses shot under him. When Tyrconnel left 

 Ireland for France, to aid the cause of the Stuarts, 

 he selected this colonel as one of the directory, 

 who were to advise the young Duke of Berwick, 

 to whom Tyrconnel had committed the command 

 of the Irish army, and who was afterwards so dis- 

 tinguished in the wars of the brigades abroad. 

 After the capitulation of Limerick in 1691, Sars- 

 field, then the beloved commander of the last 

 adherents of the cause of the royal exile, intrusted 

 to Colonel Sheldon the care of embarking all who 

 preferred a foreign land to the new government ; 

 and King James (for, in justice to my subject, I 

 must still style him King) especially thanked him 

 for his performance of that duty. When his own 

 regiment was brigaded in France, it was called, 

 par excellence, " the King's Regiment ;" and Do- 

 minick Sheldon, "an Englishman," was gazetted 

 its Colonel. The successes of his gallant band are 

 recorded, in 1702, at the confluence of the Mincio 

 and the Po ; in 1703, against the Imperialists under 

 Visconti, when he was wounded ; in the army of 

 the Rhine, and at the battle of Spire within the 

 same year, &c. He appears, throughout his career, 

 an individual of whom his descendants should be 

 proud ; but I cannot discover the house of this 

 Englishman. 



In the Outlawries of 1691, he is described on 

 one as "of the city of Dublin;" on another, as "of 

 Pennyburn Mill, co. Derry." No other person of 

 his name appears in my whole Arrmj List; although 

 the " Diary" preserved in the Harleian Miscellany 

 (old edit., vol. vii. p. 482.) erroneously suggests a 

 subaltern of his name. In the titular Court of 

 St. Germains, two of the name of Sheldon were of 

 the Board of Green Cloth. Dr. Gilbert Sheldon 

 was Archbishop of Canterbury in the middle of 

 the seventeenth century ; and the Sheldons are 

 shown by Burke to be still an existing family at 

 Brailes House in Warwickshire, previously in 

 Oxfordshire, and semble in Staffordshire. I have 

 made application on the subject to Mr. Sheldon of 

 Brailes House, the more confidently as the Chris- 

 tian name of "Ralph" is frequent in the pedigree 

 of that family, and Colonel Dominick Sheldon had 

 a brother Ralph ; but Mr. Sheldon could not satisfy 

 me. 



One of the adventurers or soldiers in Cromwell's 

 time, in Ireland, was a William Sheldon ; who, on 

 the Restoration, in the royal policy of that day, ob- 

 tained a patent for the lands in Tipperary, which 



