Mar. 29. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



243 



faund in Noble's House of Cromwell, vol. ii. pp. .T19 — 

 329., in which volume will be found an account ol" the 

 family of i'leetwoo.'l.] 



Daughters of the Sixth Earl of Lennox. — J. W. 

 wishes for information as to wlio married, or wliat 

 became of the daughters and granddaugliters of 

 Charles Stuart, the sixth Earl of Lennox, and bro- 

 ther of Darnley ? 



[The brother of D.irnley (the husband of ?.Iary 

 Queen of Scots) was Charles, fifth Earl of Lennox, who 

 left an only daughter, the interesting and opi)ressed 

 Lady Arabella Stuart, as every common Peerage will 

 state. ] 



Wife of Joseph Nicholson. — Any information 

 as to who was the wife of Joseph Nieliolson, who 

 resided in London the Litter part of the seven- I 

 teenth century, would much oblige one of his 

 descendants. ' 



He was secoml son of the Rev. Joseph Nichol- | 

 son, rector of Plnmland, Cumberland, who was 

 married to JIary J\Iiser, of Crofton. 



His eldest brother was Dr. Wni. Nicholson, 

 Bishop of Carlisle, afterwards Bishop of Derry, 

 and died there 17"27. The bishop's nephew, Kev. 

 James Nicholson, son of the above Joseph, came 

 to Ireland as chaplain to his uncle, and became 

 rector of Ardrahan, co. Galway, and died there 

 about 1776. Andrew Nicholson. 



[If our correspondent will refer to the title-page of 

 the iJishop's celebrated work, T/ie Englisli, Scutch, and 

 Irish Historical Libraries, as well as to his corre- 

 spondence with Thoresby, the Leeds antiquary, he 

 will find his name spelt Nicolson, without the letter //. 

 'J'his deserves to be noted, as there was another Dr. 

 William Nicholson, consecrated Bishop of Gloucester, 

 A. D. 16G0.] 



Six Abeiles. — -In Mrs. Barrett Browning's bean- 

 tiful poem, Lthjme of the Duchess May, the fol- 

 lowing lines occur : 



" Six abeiles i' the kirkyard grow, 

 On the northside in a row." 



Will you or some of your readers kindly inform 

 me wliat abeiles are. From the context, they 

 would seem to be some kind of tree, but what tree 

 I cannot discover. M. A. H. 



Monkstown, co. Cork, Feb. 18. 1851. 



[Bailey, \a his Dictionary, says, "An abele-tree is a 

 fine kind of white poplar." See also Chambers' Cyclo- 

 /xrJiu.] 



Southey. — There is a ieu (Tesprit attributed to 

 Southey, on the expedition of Napoleon into 

 Russia, beginning, — 



" Bnonajjarte must needs set out 

 On a sunnner's excursion to Moscow," 

 and ending, — 

 " But there's a place which ho must go to, 



Where the fire is rod, and the brimstone blue, 

 Sacre-blcu, ventre- bleu, 



He'll find it hotter than Moscow." 



I know this was printed, for I saw it when a boy. 

 Where can it be found ? M. 



[See " The Mnrch to ISIo'.cow," in Southey 's Poetical 

 Works, p. 46-1., edit. 1850.] 



Epigram against Burlie. — Can any reader sup- 

 ply me with some lines of great asperity against 

 Edmund Burke, excited (I believe) by the unre- 

 lenting hostility exhibited by Burke against AV^ar- 

 ren Hastings? 



The sting of the epigram is contained in the 

 last line, which, alluding to the exemption of 

 Ireland from all poisonous reptiles, runs as 

 follows : — • 



" And saved her venom to create a Burke." 



And if the said lines shall be forthcoming, I 

 should be glad also to be informed of their re- 

 puted author. A Borderer. 



[The following epigram, thrown to Burke in court, 

 and torn by him to shreds, has been always attributed 

 to Mr. Law (Lord Ellenborough), but erroneously: — 

 " Oft have we wonder'd that on Irish ground 

 No poisonous reptile has e'er yet been found ; 

 lleveal'd the secret stands of nature's work. 

 She saved her venom to create a Burke." 

 The real author was one Williams, notorious for his 

 nom de guerre, Anthony Pasquin Townsend's His- 

 tory of Twelve Eminent Judc/es.^ 



Knights Hospitallers. — Where may a correct list 

 be found of the names of the several persons who 

 held the appointment of blaster of the Knights 

 Hospitallers in England, from the period of their 

 first coming until the dissolution of their houses ? 



S. P. O. R. 



[See Djgdale's Monnsticon Anglicanum, naw edition, 

 vol. vi. pp. 79G — 79S.] 



llcjjltc^. 



MESMERISM. 



(Vol. iii., p. 220.) 



I am much obliged to your correspondent 

 A. L. R. for his kind notice of my pamphlet on 

 Mesmerism, and equally so to yourself for insert- 

 ing it ; because it gives me an opportunity of 

 explaining to him, and others to whom I am per- 

 sonally unknown, and who are therefore not aware 

 of my circnmslanccs and movements, why the 

 work was not continued without delay. In doing 

 this 1 will try to avoid trespassing on your good- 

 ness by one word of needless egotism. In my 

 Preface I described my materials as a " number of 

 fragments belonging to various ages and places," 

 as "scattered facts and hints" wliich I had met 

 with in books which were not suspected of con- 

 taining such matter ; and some of them books not 

 likely to fall into the hands of anybody but a 

 librarian, or at least a person having access to a 

 public library. It may be easily understood that 

 rough materials thus gathered were not fit for 



