Nov. 30. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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of my narrative respecting the death of voung 

 Allen. Certain it is that I was not " an actor nor 

 spectator" in the riots of 1768, for they occurred 

 some little time before I was born ! It is equally 

 certain that a man well remembered by me as our 

 servant, whose name was " Mac," was a soldier 

 concerned in the affair of Allen's death. As all 

 the tln-ee soldiers had the prefix of "Mac" to their 

 names, I cannot tell which of them it was, but it 

 was not the man who really shot Allen, and was 

 never again heard of; for " JNIae," whom I so well 

 remember, must have lived with my father after 

 the affair of 1768, or J could not have known him. 

 In my youthful remembrance, I have blended the 

 story about him with the riots which I had wit- 

 nessed in 1780 : this is the best and only explana- 

 tion I can give. Sure I am, that all my father 

 related to me of that man was true. I ])resume 

 the " Mac " I knew must have been Maelar.e, as 

 your correspondent E. H. Price thinks probable, 

 because of his trial ami acquittal, which agrees 

 with my father's statement ; and especially as he 

 was singled out and erroneously accused of the 

 crime — as the quotation above referred to states. 

 All I can say is, I can relate no more ; I have told 

 the story as I remember it, and for myself can 

 only apologise that (though not so old as to wit- 

 ness the riots of 1768) I am old enough to expe- 

 rience that Time has laid his hand not only on my 

 head to whiten my locks, but in this instance com- 

 pels me to acknowledge that even the memories 

 of my early days are, like the present, imperfect. 

 The failure is with me, not with my father. 



This vindication of my honoured parent's un- 

 doubted veracity reminds me of a circumstance 

 that I have read or heard in a trial with regard to 

 a right of way across an inciosure. Several aged 

 men had given their evidence, wlien one said, "I 

 remember that a public footpath lor more than 100 

 years." "How old are you ? " said the counsel. 

 " Somewhere about eighty," was the reply. " How 

 then do you remember tiie paih for 100 years?" 

 " I remember (said the old man firmi)'), when a boy, 

 sitting on my father's knee, and he told me of a 

 robbery that took place on that footpath ; and so 

 I know it existed tlicn, for iitij father never told 

 a lie" The jjoint was carried, and tiie footpath 

 remains open to this day, to tell to all generations 

 the heaidij of truth. Senex. 



In Malcolm's Anecdotes of the Planners and 

 Customs of London during the eighteenth Century, 

 4to. 1808, there is a 



" Summary of the Trial of Donald Maclanc, on 

 Tuesday last, at Ciiiildlbrd Assizes, for t'lit.' murder of 

 William Alien Jun. on tlie 10:li of .May last in St. 

 George's l'"ici(ls." 



I Upon the trial mention was made of the paper 

 tsiick up against the walls of the King's liench 

 Prison, from which it appears that it contained the 

 following : 



" Let * * * Judges, Ministers combine. 

 And licre great Wilkes and Liberty confine. 

 Yet in each English heart secure tlielr fame is 



In spite of crowded levies at St. J 's. 



Then while in prison Eiivy dooms their stay, 

 Here grateful Britons daily homage pay." 



The inscription tipon the tomb of William Allen 

 was visible in 1817, and in addition to the inscrip- 

 tion on the north side, which has already been 

 printed in " jSTotks and Queries " (Vol. ii., 

 p. 333.), was as follows: — 



South Side. 

 " O disembody'd soul ! most rudely driven 

 From this low orb (our sinful s.al) to Heaven, 

 While filial piety can please the ear. 

 Thy name will still occur for ever dear: 

 This very spot now liumaniz'd shall crave 

 From all a tear of pity on thy grave. 

 O flow'r of (lowVs ! which we shall see no more, 

 No kind returning Spring can thee restore. 

 Thy loss thy hajjiess countrymen deplore. 



East Side. 

 " O earth ! cover not thou mv blood." — Juh. xvi. 18 



} 



West Side. 



" Take away the wicked from before the King, and 

 His throne shall be established in righteousness." — 

 frov. xxiii. 5. 



Fifteen months afterwards the father of Wil- 

 liam Allen presented a petition to his majesty for 

 vengeance on the nuirderers of his son. 



O. Smith. 



Sappltc^ ta iHinor (Qucn'Ci?. 



O.maburg Bishopric (Vol. ii., p. 358.). — By the 

 treaty of Osnaburg, in 1624, it was stipulated 

 " that the alternate nomination to the Bishopric of 

 Osnaburg should be in the catholic bishops, and 

 in the protestant branches of the house of Lune- 

 burg." Thus, the Pj'inces Ernest Augustus, the 

 father of George I., Ernest Augustus," brother of 

 the same monarch, and the late Duke of York, be- 

 came sovereign-bishops of Osnaburg. But by 

 the treaty of Vienna, in 1815, the bishopric be- 

 came an integral part of the kingdom of Hanover. 

 (Vide Hallidatis House of Giielph, 4to. 1820, 

 pp. 13-1, 135. -335.) F. E. 



Death ofliichard II. (Vol. ii., p. 391.)-— Otter- 

 burn tells us (pp. 228, 229.) that Richard II. 's 

 death took place at Pontefract Castle, on St. Valen- 

 tine's day, and adds, that the body was exposed, 

 to public view in all the principal towns through 

 which it passed on the road to London. See also 

 Walsingham (p. 3G3.) : 



" Clausitqnc diem extremnm npud castrtnn de Ponie' 

 fiaclo, die Sancti Valentiiii." 



