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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 239. 



whether their drill is different to that of the other 

 troops of the line ? I have somewhere heard it 

 said that the 28th (an English regiment) were 

 once armed with swords, whence their name of 

 " The Slashers ? " Is this the real origin of the 

 name ? and if not, what is ? I should also like to 

 know the origin of the custom of wearing un- 

 dress white shell jackets, which are now worn by 

 the Highlanders ? Arthur. 



Ominous Storms. — A remark by a labouring 

 man of this town (Grantham), which is new to 

 me, is to the following effect. In March, and all 

 seasons when the judges are on circuit, and when 

 there are any criminals to be hanged, there are 

 always winds and storms, and roaring tempests. 

 Perhaps there are readers of " N. & Q." who have 

 met with the same idea. John Hawkins. 



Edward Fitzgerald, born 17th January, 1528, 

 son of Gerald, ninth Earl of Kildare, and brother 

 of the celebrated " Silken Thomas," an ancestor 

 of the Duke of Leinster, married Mary, daughter 

 and heiress of Sir John Leigh of Addington, and 

 widow of Sir Thomas Paston (called improperly 

 Sir John). There are contradictory pedigrees of 

 the Leigh family in the Surrey Visitations, e.g. 

 Harl. MSS. 1147. and 5520. Could one of your 

 correspondents oblige me with a correct pedigree 

 of this Mary Leigh ; she is sometimes called 

 "Mabel?" Y. S. M. 



Boyle Family. — Allow me to repeat the Query 

 regarding Richard Boyle (Vol. vii., p. 430.). Ri- 

 chard Boyle, appointed Dean of Limerick 5th Feb. 



1661, and Bishop of Leighlin and Ferns in 1666, 

 died in 1682. Roger Boyle, the youngest brother 

 of Richard, was born in 1617, and educated in 

 Trinity College, Dublin, of which he became a 

 Fellow. On the breaking out of the rebellion of 

 1641 he went to England, and having become 

 tutor to Lord Paulet, he continued in that family 

 till the Restoration, when he returned to Ireland, 

 and was presented with the Rectory of Carrigaline, 

 diocese of Cork. He was made Dean of Cork in 



1662, and promoted to the Bishopric of Down 

 and Connor 12th Sept. 1667. He was translated 

 to Clogher, 21st September, 1672, and died 26th 

 November, 1687. The sister of these prelates 

 was wife to the Rev. Urban Vigors (Vol. viii., 

 p. 340.). They were near relatives of the great 

 Earl of Cork, and many of their descendants have 



. been buried in his tomb, in St. Patrick's Cathe- 

 dral, Dublin. I have not seen any reply to my 

 Query about Mr. Vigors. May I ask is there any 

 list of the chaplains of King Charles I. ? 



Y. S. M. 



Inn Signs. — As the subject of inns is being dis- 

 cussed, can any of your readers tell the origin of 

 " The Green Man and Still ?" And is there any 



foundation for a statement, that "the chequers" 

 have been found on Italian wine-shops, and were 

 imported from Egypt, having there been the em- 

 blem of Osiris. S. A. 

 Oxford. 



Demoniacal Descent of the Plantagenets. — In 

 "N. & Q.," Vol. vii., p. 73., I asked for information 

 as to the demoniacal ancestor of Henry II., con- 

 fessing my own ignorance of the tradition. I 

 received no answer, but was induced to inquire 

 farther by a passage in the article on " A'Becket" 

 in the Quarterly Review, xciii. 349. 



" These words goaded the king into one of those 

 paroxysms of fury to which all the earlier Plantagenet 

 princes were subject, and which was believed by them 

 to arise from a mixture of demoniacal blood in their 

 race." 



The following is from Thierry, torn. iii. p. 330., 

 Paris, 1830: 



" L'on racontait d'une ancienne Comtesse d'Anjou, 

 ateule du pere de Henri II., que son mari ayant re- 

 marque avec efFroi, qu'elle allait rarement a l'eglise, et 

 qu'elle en sortait toujours a la sacre de la messe, s'avisa 

 de l'y faire retenir de force par quatre ecuyers ; mais 

 qu'a l'instant de la consecration, la Comtesse, jettant le 

 manteau par lequel on la tenait, s'etait envolee par une 

 fenetre, et n'avait jamais reparu. Richard de Poictiers, 

 selon un contemporain, avait coutume de rapporter 

 cette aventure, et de dire a ce propos: ' Est-il etonnant 

 que, sortis d'une telle source, nous vivions mal, les uns 

 avec les autres ? Ce qui provient du diable doit re- 

 tourner au diable.' " 



Thierry quotes Brompton apud Scriptores Re- 

 rum Francorum, torn. xiii. p. 215. : 



" Istud Ricardus referre solebat, asserens de tali 

 genere procedentes sese mutuo infestent, tanquam de 

 diabolo venientes, et ad diabolum transeuntes." 



I shall be glad of any assistance in tracing the 

 story up or down. H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Anglo-Saxon Graves. — The world is continu- 

 ally hearing now of researches in Anglo-Saxon 

 graves. I beg to inquire whether Anglo-Saxon 

 coins or inscriptions have been found in any of 

 these, so as to identify them with the people to 

 whom these interments are ascribed ? or upon 

 what other proof or authority these graves are so 

 assigned to the Anglo-Saxons ? H. E. 



Robert Brown the Separatist. — Robert Brown 

 the Separatist, from whom his followers were 

 called " Brownists." Whom did he marry, and 

 when ? In the Biog. Brit, he is said to have been 

 the son of Anthony Brown of Tolthorp, Rutland, 

 Esq. (though born at Northampton, according to 

 Mr. Collier), and grandson of Francis Brown, 

 whom King Henry VlIL, in the eighteenth year 

 of his reign, privileged by charter to wear his 



