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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — Page 



Traiitions from remote Periods through few Hands - 113 

 Minor Notes: — Nelson's Coat — Strange Reason for 

 keeping a Public-house — Superstitions with regard to 

 Glastonbury Tliorn — The miraculous Walnut-tree 

 at Glastonbury — Tlie Three Estates of the Realm - 114 



Queries : — 



Bcnsleys of Norwich ..... 



Minor Queries : — Heraldic Figures at Tonbridge Castle 

 — ICnglisii Translation of Nonnus — Of Prayer in 

 One Tongue — Inscription in ICly Cathedral — Cer- 

 vantes : what was the Date of liis Death ? — Meaning 

 of" Agla" — Murderers buried in Cross Roads ^Wyle 

 Cop — The Devil's Knell — Queries on Poem of 

 Richard RoUe — Did Bishop Gibsnn write a Life of 

 Croaiwell? — English Translation of Alcon 



Replies : — 



John Bodley, hy Dr. E. F. Rimbault and R. J. King - 

 Withcr's' Hallelujah" - - . - . 



First Panorama .--..- 

 John a Kent .----.- 

 The British Sidanen ..... 



Petty Cury ------- 



'I'he Word " Hack " in the Tempest The Nebular 



Theory 121 



Replies to Minor Queries : -Pseudo MSS. : The Devil, 

 Cromwell and his Amours — .\nonymous Ravennas 

 Margaret Maultasch — Pope's Translation or Imi- 

 tations of Horace — Brother Jonathan — Cromwell's 

 Grants of Land in Monaijlian— Stanedge Pole — Bas- 

 kerville the Printer — Inscription on a Claymore — 

 Burton Family — Notation by Coalwhippers — Statue 

 of Charles II. — Serius, where situated ? — Corpse 



115 



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117 



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118 

 119 

 120 

 120 



passini; makes a Right of Way— The Vetworth Register 

 — Holland's " Monumenta^Sepulchralia Ecde-iK S. 



'A Posie of other 



Fauli " — Mistake as to an Eclipse- 

 Men's Flowers," &c. 



MiSCEI.LANLOUS : — 



Notes on Books, Sdes, Catalogues, &c. 

 Books and Odii Volumes wiinted - 

 Notices to Correspondents - 

 Advertisements ... 



- 122 



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- 1'27 



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- 127 



TBADITIONS FEOM EEMOTE PERIODS TIIKOUOH FE'W 

 HANDS. 



On two or three occasions in the " Notes and 

 QoERiEs" instances have been friven of "Tra- 

 ditions from roinote periods through few hands," 

 of which it wouhl not be dilHoult to aihluce 

 nuinei-oiis additional e-xamjiles ; but my j)rcsent 

 purpose is to mention some within my personal 

 experience, or derived from authentic communi- 

 cation. 



In 1781, and my clevcntli year, a schoolfellow 

 took mc to see his i;reat-grandmother, a Mrs. 

 Arthur, in Limerick, then aged one hundred and 



eight years, whose recollection of that city's siege 

 in 1691, when she was eighteen, was perfectTy 

 freshand unimpaired, as, indeed, she was fond of 

 i showing by frequent and even unsolicited recur- 

 I rence to its dread scenes, in which the women, 

 history tells us, fearlessly participated. We are 

 here then presented with an interval of one hun- 

 dred and sixty years between a memorable event 

 and my recollection of its narrative bv a person 

 actively engaged in it. The old lady'sYainily had 

 fiirnished a greater number of cliief magistrates to 

 Limeridf_ than any other recorded in its annals. 



Again in 1784, on a visit to my grandfather in 

 the county of Limerick, during a school vacation, 

 I heard him, then in his eighty -sixth year, say, 

 that in 1714, on the accession to the British 

 throne of the present royal dynasty, he hoard in 

 Cork, where he was at school, a conversation be- 

 tween several gentlemen on this change of the 

 reigning family, when one of them, a Mr. Martin, 

 said that he was bora the same day as Charles II., 

 on the 29th of May, 1631, and was present at the 

 execution of Charles I., the 29t;h of January, 

 1649. _ His fiimily then resided in London, where 

 he joined Cromwell's Ironsides, and thence ac- 

 companied them to Ireland. The transfer to him 

 of some forfeited property naturally induced him 

 to_ settle there. Thus, between me and the eye- 

 witness of the regicidal catastrophe, only one 

 person intervenes. 



In 1830 there died in London, at the eastern 

 extremity, called the AVorld's End, an Irishman, 

 aged one hundred and eleven, named Gibson, 

 whose father, a Scotcliman, he told me, served 

 under the Duke of Monmouth at the battle of 

 Sedgemore in July, 16So, and afterwards, in 

 July, 1690, under AVilliam, at the Boyne. Sup- 

 posing, as we well may, the fatlier to have been 

 iaorn about 1660, in 1830, before the son's decease, 

 the two successive lives tliiis embrace one hundred 

 anil seventy years. I had rendered the son some 

 services which made him very communicative to 

 me.. The fatlicr married and settled in Tipperary, 

 where he became a lloman Catholic, and no adhe- 

 rent of O'Connell could be more ardent in his 

 cause than the son. This veteran had served full 

 seventy years in the royal navy. 



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