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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 241. 



Holy Thursday Rain-water. — In the parish of 

 Marston St. Lawrence, Northamptonshire, there 

 is a notion very prevalent, that rain-water col- 

 lected on Holy Thursday is of powerful efficacy 

 in all diseases of the eye. Ascension-day of the 

 present year was very favourable in this respect 

 to these village oculists, and numbers of the cot- 

 tagers might be seen in all directions collecting 

 the precious drops as they fell. Is it known whe- 

 ther this curious custom prevails elsewhere ? and 

 what is supposed to be the origin of it ? Anon. 



Freemasonry. — A (Hamburg) paper, Der 

 FreiscMtz, brings in its No. 27. the following : 



" The great English Lodge of this town will initiate 

 in a few days two deaf and dumb persons ; a very rare 

 occurrence." 

 And says farther in No. 31. : 



" With reference to our notice in No. 27., we farther 

 learned that on the 4th of March, two brethren, one 

 of them deaf and dumb, have been initiated in the 

 great English Lodge ; the knowledge of the language, 

 without its pronunciation, has been cultivated by them 

 to a remarkable degree, so that with noting the motion 

 of the lips they do not miss a single word. The cere- 

 mony of initiation was the most affecting for all 

 present." 



Query 1. Would deaf and dumb persons in 

 England be eligible as members of the order? 

 2. Have similar cases to the above ever occurred 

 in this country ? J. W. S. D. 874. 



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Lewis's " Memoirs of the Duke of Gloucester." —■ 

 Can you inform me who was the editor of 



" Memoirs of Prince William Henry, Duke of 

 Gloucester, from his birth, July the 24th, 1689, to 

 October 1697 : from an original Tract written by 

 Jenkin Lewis. Printed for the Editor, and sold by 

 Messrs. Payne, &c, London : and Messrs. Prince & 

 Cooke, and J. Fletcher, Oxford, 1789." 



In a rare copy of this volume now before me, it 

 is attributed by a pencil-note to the editorship of 

 Dr. Philip Hayes, who was organist of Magdalen 

 College Chapel, Oxford, from 1777 to 1797. I 

 should be glad to learn on what authority this 

 could be stated. I am anxious also to know the 

 names of any authors who have published books 

 respecting the life, reign, or times of King Wil- 

 liam III. ? J. R. B. 



Oxford. 



[Some of our readers will probably be able to 

 authenticate the editorship of Jenkin Lewis' Memoirs of 

 the Duke of Gloucester. The following works on the 

 reign of William III. may be consulted among others : 

 Walter Harris's History of the Reign of William III., 

 fol., 1749 ; The History of the Prince of Orange, and the 

 Ancient History of Nassau, 8vo., 1688; An Historical 



Account of the Memorable Actions of the Prince of Orange, 

 12mo., 1689; History of William III., 3 vols. 8vo., 

 1702; Life of William III., ISmo., 1702; another, 

 8vo., 1 703 ; The History of the Life and Reign oj 

 William III., Dublin, 4 vols. 12mo., 1747; Vernon's 

 Letters of the Reign of William III., edited by G. P. 

 R. James, 3 vols. 8vo., 1841 ; Paul Grimbolt's Letters 

 of William III. and Louis XIV. Consult also Watt 

 and Lowndes' Bibliographical Dictionaries, art. Wil- 

 liam III. ; and Catalogue of the London Institution, 

 vol. i. p. 292.] 



Apocryphal Works. — Can you inform me where 

 I can procure an English version of the Book of 

 Enoch, so often quoted by Mackay in his admir- 

 able work The Progress of the Human Intellect f 

 Also the Epistle of Barnabas, and the Spurious 

 Gospels ? W. S. 



Cleveland Bridge, Bath. 



[ The Book of Enoch, edited by Archbishop Laurence, 

 and printed at Oxford, has passed through several edi- 

 tions. — The Catholic Epistle of St. Barnabas is included 

 among Archbishop Wake's Genuine Epistles of the Apo- 

 stolical Fathers. — "The Spurious Gospels" will pro- 

 bably be found in The Apocryphal New Testament; 

 being all the Gospels, Epistles, and other Pieces now 

 extant, attributed in the first four Centuries to Jesus 

 Christ, his Apostles, and their Companions, and not 

 included in the New Testament by its compilers r 

 London, 8vo., 1820; 2nd edition, 1821. Anonymous, 

 but edited by William Hone.] 



Mirabeau, Talleyrand, and Fouche. — Can any 

 of your correspondents tell me which are the best 

 Lives of three of the most remarkable men who 

 figured in the age of the French Revolution, viz. 

 Mirabeau, Talleyrand, and Fouche ? If there are 

 English translations of these works ? and also if 

 there is any collection of the fierce philippics of 

 Mirabeau ? Kennedy McNab. 



[Mirabeau left a natural son, Lucas Montigny, who 

 published Memoirs of Mirabeau, Biographical, Literary, 

 and Political, by Himself, his Uncle, and his adopted 

 Child, 4 vols. 8vo., Lond., 1S35.— Memoirs of C. M. 

 Talleyrand, 2 vols. 12mo., Lond., 1805. Also his Life, 

 4 vols. 8vo., Lond., 1834. — Memoirs of Joseph Fouche, 

 translated from the French, 2 vols. 8vo., Lond., 1825.] 



" The Twks in Europe," and "Austria as It Is." 

 — I possess an 8vo. volume consisting of two ano- 

 nymous publications, which appeared in London 

 in 1828, one entitled The Establishment of the Turks 

 in Europe, an Historical Discourse, and the other 

 Austria as It Is, or Sketches of Continental Courts, 

 by an Eye-witness. Can you give me the names 

 of the authors ? Abhba. 



[ The Turks in Europe is by Lord John Russell : 

 but the author of Austria as It Is, we cannot discover j 

 he was a native of the Austrian Empire.] 



"Forgive, blest Shade"— Where were the lines, 

 commencing "Forgive, blest shade," first pub- 



