July 26. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



77 



female line by the death of William de Ivyme 

 without issue in 12 Edward III. J. P. Jdn. 



Plaids and Tartans (Vol. iv., p. 7.). — 



" The helted plaid was the original dress. It is pre- 

 cisely that of a savage, who, finding a weh of cloth he 

 had not skill to frame into a garment, wrapt one end 

 round his middle, and threw the rest about his 

 shoulders . . . And it is little to the honour of High- 

 land ingenuity, that although the chiefs wore long pan- 

 taloons called trews, the common gael never fell upon 

 any substitute for the belted ])laid, till an English 

 officer, for the benefit of the labourers who worked 

 under his direction on the military roads, invented the 

 fileah leg, philabeg, or little petticoat, detached from 

 the plaid, and fastened by a buckle round the waist." 



Although the above extract from the Quarterly 

 Review, vol. i. p. 186., is not exactly a reply to 

 the Query of A Juror (Vol. iv., p. 7.), still it may 

 be of some use to him. 



I would like also to learn how much of the re- 

 viewer's story is founded upon fact, as I confess I 

 am very much inclined to doubt the truth of it in 



toto. A LOWLANDEE. 



Peace Illumination, 1802 (Vol. iv., p. 23.).— The 

 story referred to by Mb. Campkin does not ap- 

 pear to be so apocryphal as he supposes. Soutliey, 

 who was an eye-witness of the illuminations, gives 

 it as an indisputed fact. His words are : 



" We entered the avenue immediately opposite to 

 M. Otto's, and raising ourselves by the help of a gar- 

 den wall, overlooked the crowd, and thus obtained a 

 full and uninterrupted sight of what thousands and 

 tens of thousands were vainly struggling to see. To 

 describe it, splendid as it was, is impossible ; the 

 whole building presented a front of light. The in- 

 scription was ' Peace and Amity : ' it had been ' Peace 

 and Concord,' but a party of soldiers in the morning, 

 wliose honest patriotism did not regard trifling differ- 

 ences of orthography, insisted upon it that they were 

 not conquered, and that no Frenchman should say so ; 

 and so the word Amity, which can hardly be regarded 

 as English, was substituted in its stead." * 



Douglas Allport. 



Basnet Family (Vol. iii., p. 495.). — I can per- 

 haps give D. X. some information respecting theT 

 ancient family of Uasnet, being related to them 

 through my mother. 



From papers in our possession, we have always 

 considered ourselves descended from Edward 

 Basnet, tlie first married Dean of St. Patrick's ; 

 and I drew up a pedigree of the family, which is 

 in Berry's Berkshire, But the proofs only go as 

 fur as Thomas Basnet, of Coventry, born in 1590. 

 Lawrance Basset, otherwise Bassnet, of Bainton, 

 in the fee of the hundred of Ilatton, in the parish 

 of Budworth, in the palatine of Chester, living in 



• Litlcrs from England, by Don Afannel Alvarez 

 Esprieltd, translated frmn the Sjiunis/i (3 vols. I'Jmo. 

 London, 1 807), vol. i. lett. 8. p. 93. 



the 27th of Henry VIII., anno 1536, was descended 

 of a younger house of Sir Philip Basset, knight, &c. 

 of St. Hillane, in the county of Glamorgan. He 

 I had Piers Basnet, of Bainton aforesaid, lived in 

 ; the time of Henry VIII., anno 1547, purchased 

 land in Bainton of Edward Starkie, of Simonds- 

 ton in Lancashire, married Ann, dau. of Robert 

 Eaton, of Over Whitley, first wife, by whom he 

 had two sons, Thomas and Henry. The second 



wife was dau. of Stretch, of Leigh, had one 



son Robert, of the city of Chester. 



The second son of Lawrance Basset, or Bassnet, 

 was Hugh, of Leigh, living temp. Henry VIII., 

 anno 1543. 



The third son was Thomas, temp. Henry VIII., 

 1539, whose son (we suppose) was Edward Basnet, 

 Dean of St. Patrick's ; whose grandson was an 

 ensign in General Monk's own regiment, the Cold- 

 stream Guards, 1660. He left the regiment in 

 1665. 



In the Egerton Papers, Camden Soc, vol. xii., 

 is this account : 



" Amongst those appointed for the Privy Council 

 for the better government of Ireland, in the year July 

 1550, was Edward Basnet, clerk, late Dean of St. 

 Patrick's, Dublin." 



The arms of the present family are Argent, a 

 cheveron gules, between three helmets, close ppr. 

 Crest : an arm, embowed, in armour, holding a 

 cutlas, all proper. 



By applying to Charles Basnett, Esq., No. 3. 

 Brock Street, Bath, D. X. may have a full account 

 of this family. JuuA R. Bockett. 



Southcote Lodge, July 17. 1851. 



i&i<i(eUnneaus. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



As we last week called attention to the Three Treatises 

 hi/ John Wickliffe just published by Dr. Todd of Dublin, 

 we may very properly record the sale by Messrs. 

 Puttick and Simpson on Tuesday the 8th of this month 

 of a IMS. volume containing twelve treatises (which are 

 all said to be unpublished) written by John Wickliffe 

 and Richard Hampole. The volume, a small 8vo., was 

 of the fourteenth century, with a few leaves supplied 

 bya hand of the sixteenth, and contained " A Trctis 

 on the Ten Ileesiis (/.e. Commandments), A Prologue 

 of the Paternoster, 'Here suen dy verse chapitris ex- 

 citynge men to hevenii desijr,' the Councell of Christ, 

 Off vertuous pacience, Wickliffe's Chartre of Hevene, 

 The Hors or Armour off Hevene, the Name off Jhesu, 

 The Love of Jhesu, Offverri Mekenes, Off the Effect 

 off Manncs Will, Of Actif Liif and Contcniplatif Lyf, 

 The Mirrour of Chastitee. " It was purchased by Bum- 

 stead of Holhorn for Ml. The next lot in the same 

 sale was the original manuscript Diary, extending from 

 October, 1G75, to September, IG84, of Annesley Earl of 

 Anglesey, Lord Privy Seal in the reign of Charles II., 

 which was purchased by Boone, it is believed on 



