Oct. 19. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



343 



from the following extract that they were also 

 married by a priest : — 



" Mr. Jolme Lermonth, chnpline to Alexander 

 Archbishop of St. Andrews, hath left upon record in a 

 deduction of the descent of the House of Rowallane, 

 collected by him at the command of the said Arch- 

 bishop (whose interest in the familie is to be spoken of 

 heirafter), that Robert, Great Stewart of Scotland, 

 having taken away the said Elizabeth Mure, drew to 

 Sir Adam her father ane instrument that he should 

 take her to his lawful wife, (which myself hath seen 

 saith the collector), as also ane tcstimonie written in 

 latine by Roger Mc Adame, priest of our Ladie 

 jMarie's chapel (in Kyle), that the said Roger marled 

 Robert and Elizabeth for'''^ But y'after durring 

 the great troubles in the reign of King David Bruce, to 

 whom the Earl of Rosse continued long a great eiiemie, 

 at perswasion of some of the great ones of the time, the 

 Bishop of Glasgow, William Rae by name, gave way 

 that the s'' mariage should be abrngate by transaction, 

 which both the chief instrument, the Lord Duglasse, 

 the Bishope, and in all likelihood the Great Stewart 

 himself, repented ever hereafter. The Lord Yester 

 Snawdoune, named Giffbrd, got to wife the s'^ Eliza- 

 beth, and the Earl of Rosse's daughter was raaried to 

 the Great Stewart, which Lord Yester and Eupheme, 

 daughter to the Earle of Rosse, departing near to one 

 time, the Great Stewart, being then king, openly ac- 

 knowledged the first mariage, and invited home Eliza- 

 beth Mure to his lawfuU bed, whose children shortlie 

 y'after the nobility did sweare in parliament to main- 

 taine in the right of succession to the croune as the 

 only lawfull heirs y'of." 



" In these harder times shee bare to him Robert 

 (named Johne Fairneyear), after Earle of Carrick, who 

 succeeded to the croune; Robert, after Earl of Fyffe 

 and INIaneteeth, and Governour; and Alexander, after 

 Earle of Buchane, Lord Badyenoch ; and daughters, 

 the eldest maried to Johne Dumbar, brother to the 

 Earl of March, after Earle of Murray, and the second 

 to Johne the Whyt Lyon, progenitor of the House of 

 Glames, now Earle of Kinghorn." 



So much for the maiTiagc of Elizabeth Mure, as 

 given by the historian of the House of Rowallane. 

 Can any of your readers inform me whether Eliza- 

 beth had any issue by her second husband, Lord 

 Yester Snawdoune ? If so, there would be a rela- 

 tionship between Queen Victoria and the Hays, 

 Marquesses of Tweeddale, and the Erouns, Baro- 

 nets of Colstoun. One of the latter family received 

 as a dowry with a daughter of one of the Lords 

 Yester the celebrated Waulock Pkaii, said to have 

 been enchanted by thenecromancerHugo de Gillbrd, 

 who died in 12G7, and which is now nearly six cen- 

 turies old. In the Ladi/ of the Lake, James Fitz- 

 James is stylcil by Scott" Snawdon's knight ;" but 

 wliy or wherefore does not appeal', unless Queen 

 Elizabeth Mure had issue by Gilford. Robert II. 

 was one of three ScottisJi kings in succession who 

 married the daugiiters of their own suijjects, and 

 those only oftiic degree of knights ; namely, David 

 Bruce, who married Margaret, daugiiter of Sir 



John Loggie ; Robert II., who married Elizabeth, 

 daughter of Sir Adam Slure ; and Robert III., 

 who married Annabel), daughter to Sir John 

 Drummond of Stobhall. Scotds. 



GRAYS BLEGT. — DRONING. — DODSLEY S POEMS. 



(Vol. ii., pp. 264. 301.) 



I only recur to the subject of Gray's Elegy to 

 remark, that although your correspondents, A 

 Hermit at Hampstead, and W. S., have given 

 me a good deal of information, for which I thank 

 them, they have not answered either of my 

 Queries. 



I never doubted as to the true reading of the 

 third line of the second stanza of Gray's Elegy, 

 but merely remarked that in one place the penul- 

 timate word was printed drony, and other au- 

 thorities droning. With reference to this point, 

 what I wanted to know was merely, whether, in 

 any good annotated edition of the poem, it had been 

 stated that when Dodsley printed it in his Col- 

 lection of Poems, 1755, vol. iv., the epithet applied 

 to flight was drony, and not droning ? I dare say 

 the point has not escaped notice ; but if it have, 

 the fact is just worth observation. 



Next, my doubt is not at all cleared up re- 

 specting the date of publication of Dodsley's Col- 

 lection. The Rev. J. Mitford, in his Aldine 

 edition of Gray, says (p. xxxiii.) that the first 

 three volumes came out in 1752, whereas my copy 

 of "the second edition" bears the date of 1748. 

 Ts tliat the true date, or do editions vary ? If the 

 second edition came out in 1748, what was the 

 date of the first edition ? I only put this last 

 question because, as most people are aware, some 

 poems of note originally appeared in Dodsley's 

 Collection of Poems, and it is material to ascertain 

 the real year when they first came from the press. 

 The Hermit or Holtport. 



iUjilic^ to iHitmr catifn'cii. 



ZiindnadelGuns (Vol. ii., p. 247.). — Jabltzbero 

 "would like to know when and by whom they 

 were invented, and their mechanism." 



To describe mechanism without diagrams is both 

 tedious and diflicult ; but I shall be happy to show 

 Jari-tzberg one of them in my possession, if he 

 will favour me with a call, — for wliicli purpose I 

 inclose my address, to be had at your office. The 

 piinci[)le is, to load at tlie breach, and the car- 

 tridge contains tlio priming, which is ignited by 

 tlie action of a pin striking against it. It is one 

 of tlie worst of many methods of loading at the 

 breacli ; and the same principle was patented in 

 England by A. A. Moser, a German, more than 

 ten years ago. 



