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cups and buckets everywhere now-a days. Per- 

 haps such an utensil might have been among the 

 dishes, &c. mentioned in the CatalojTue of the 

 Tradescant Museum. Kerriensis. 



[Sje a curious note on Mazers, used as large drink- 

 ing-cups, or goblets, in Walter Scott's Poetical Works, 

 p. 488., edit. 1848.] 



Traditions from remote Periods through few 

 Hands (Vol. iii., p. 237.). — The following facts 

 may not be uninteresting on this subject. 



The late Maurice O'Connell of Derrynane, co. 

 Kerry, died early in 1825, and would have com- 

 pleted 99 years on the 31 st of March in that year. 

 The writer hereof has heard him tell anecdotes de- 

 rived from the conversation of Daniel M'Carthy, 

 of the same co., who died about 1740, aged at 

 least 108 years. This Daniel M'Carthy was com- 

 monly known by the nick-name of "Dhonald 

 Bhin," or " Yellow Dan," and was tlie first man 

 that ran away from the battle of Aughrim. There 

 is a short account of him in Smith's History of 

 Kerry^ in which he is mentioned as lately deceased. 

 You have thus a period of over 200 years, the tra- 

 ditions of which might be derived through three 

 pei'sons, the survivor of whom, your correspondent, 

 is but middle aged. I remember being told in the 

 CO. Clare, circiter 1828, of an individual then 

 lately deceased, who remembered the siege of 

 Limerick by General Ginkle, and the news of the 

 celebrated treaty of Limerick. It is to be wished 

 that your readers who re.'^ide in, or may visit Ire- 

 land, would take an interest in this subject. I am 

 certain that in remote parts of the country much 

 curious tradition could be thus brought to light ; and 

 it would be interesting to compare the accounts of 

 great public events, as remembered and handed 

 down by the peasantry, with those which we take 

 on the faith of historians. 



As relating to this subject, I may refer to the 

 allusion made in page 2-50. of the same Number to 

 the Countess of Desmond, who was said to have 

 lived to sr> great an age. I have seen the picture 

 alluded to at Glanlearne in Valencia, the seat of 

 the knight of Kerry ; and it must have been taken 

 at a comparatively early period of life, as the 

 Earl of Desmond was outhiwed, and his estates 

 confiscated, in the reign of Elizabeth. Some re- 

 cord of how this old lady's jointure was provided 

 for might yet V>e discovered, and the period of her 

 decease thus ascertained. Kerriensis. 



Latin Epi<rram on the Duchess of Eholi (Vol. iii., 

 p. 208.). — This beautiful epigram, which C. 11. H. 

 has somewhat mutilated even in the two lines 

 which he gives of it, was written by Jerome 

 Atnaltheu.s, who died in 1574, the year in which 

 Henry III. of Fran(;e came to the throne; so that 

 it is unlikely at least that the " Amor" was meant 

 for M.ingirow, his " minion." In the edition of 

 the poems of the three brothers Aiualthei, which 



I possess, and which was printed at Amsterdam 

 in 1689, the epigram runs — 



" DE GEMELLIS FRATRE ET SORORE LUSCIS. 



" Lumine Aeon, dextro, capta est Leonilla sinistro, 

 Et potis est forma vineere uterque Deos. 

 Blande puer, lumen, quod habes concede puellce. 

 Sic tu ccecus Amor, sic erit ilia Venus." 



I have seen it thus translated : 



" One eye is closed to each in rayless night, 

 Yet each has br>auty fit the gods to move. 

 Give, Aeon, give to Leonill thy light, 

 She will be Venus, and thou sightless Love." 



The relationship between the Duchess of Eboli 

 and Mangirow I do not remember. Were they 

 brother and sister ? or was she ever known as 

 Leonilla? 



Among Jerome Amaltheus's other epigrams I 

 find several about this "Aeon;" and one, entitled 

 "De duabus Amicis," begins — 



" Me latis Leonilla oculis, me Lydia torvis 

 Aspicit." 



The mistress of Philip IT. (who here, by the 

 by, seems to have recovered her lost eye) would 

 hardly have been the mistress of an Italian poet. 



H. A. B. 



Trin. Coll. Cam. 



" Harry Parry, ivhen irill you 7nar7-y" (Vol. iii., 

 p. 207.). — E. H. has omitted the last line, which, 

 however, is well known. May it not have the 

 same meaning as the lines in the " Marquis de 

 Carabas " of Beranger : 



" Et tons vos tendrons, 

 Subiront I'honneur 

 Du droit du seigneur?" 



The nursery rhyme may have been sung to the 

 young Baron to teach him his feudal privileges, as 

 the lines — 



" Hot corn, baked poars. 

 Kick nigger down .stairs," 



are used to inculcate the rights of a white man on 

 the minds of infant cotton planters in the Southern 

 States. J. H. L. 



Visions of Hell (Vol. iii., p.L70.). — In solving 

 the Query propounded by F. R. A. as to "whether 

 Bunyan was the author of the Visions?" it is very 

 necessary that all the editions should be known of 

 and collated. I have one not yet referred to, styled 

 The Visions of John Bunyan, being his last He- 

 mains, giving an Account of the Glories of Heaven, 

 the Terrors of Hell, and of the World to come, 

 London, ]n-inteil and sold by J. Ilollis, Shoemaker 

 Row, Blackfriars, pp. 103., with an address to the 

 reader, subscribed " thy soul's well-wisher, John 

 Bunyiin," without date. " Thomas Xewbv, of 

 Epping, Essex," is written in it ; he might have 

 been only the first owner of the book, which was 

 certainly ])ublishcd before tin; year 1828 or 20, 

 but I should say not much earlier. Blowen. 



