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and his helmet beat so close that he could not breathe, 

 pulled off his hehiiet and horsed him again. The king 

 said. Thou shalt hereafter from Truelove be called 

 Air or Eyre, Ijecause thou hast given me the air I 

 breathe. After the battle the king called for him, and 

 being found with his thigh cut off, he ordered him to 

 be taken care of; and being recovered, he gave him 

 lands in the county of Derby, in reward for his services, 

 and the seat he lived at he called Hope, because he had 

 hope in the greatest extremity ; and the king gave the 

 leg and thigh cut off in armour for his crest, and which 

 is still the crest of all the Eyres iu England.'" 



A descendant of this person is the present Earl 

 of I^ewburgh, of Hassop Hall. 



At page 240. is an account of the village of 

 Birchover, and also of the Rowter Rocks, but no 

 mention is made of the family of the Ayres, or of 

 the ruins of any house formeziy belonging to them. 



John Algoe. 



Sheffield. 



T'heDuTie of Monmoutlis Pocket-hookx (Vol. iv., 

 p. 3.). — The paragraph quoted by Sir F. Madden 

 out of Prayers after the confession of sins, and the 

 iense of fardon obtained, and well called by him 

 " striking," is a verbatim copy of a passage in " A 

 Guide for the Penitent," published at the end of 

 Jeremy Taylor's Golden Grove. 



The short preface, by a nameless hand, which 

 precedes this division of the Golden Grove, would 

 lead one to suppose that " A Guide for the Peni- 

 tent " was a posthumous work of Jeremy Taylor ; 

 but this is not exactly stated. The prayers, how- 

 ever, have the same spirit and grandeur of piety 

 which characterise those which are the acknow- 

 ledged compositions of Bishop Taylor. Monmouth 

 was beheaded eighteen years after Taylor died. 

 It would be interesting to identify the author of 

 " A Guide for the Penitent" (should there be any 

 doubt on the subject) : also, to ascertain how far 

 Monmouth quoted, in his " prayers," from Taylor 

 or any other divine. Maegaret Gatty. 



Ecclesfield. 



Buxtorfs Translation of Elias Levitas " Tov 

 Taam" — Your correspondent T.T., in reply to my 

 Query respecting this work, says (Vol. iv., p. 328.) 

 that it "was printed in Venice, 1538, in 4to." 

 This is impossible : for the elder Buxtorf was born 

 in 1564; and it would be singular if he had trans- 

 lated R. Julias' work, and printed it at Venice, 

 twenty-six years before he was born. 



T. T. seems not to have observed that my in- 

 quiry related to Buxtorfs translation, not to the 

 original work of Elias Levita, which, although 

 now rare, is sulUcienlly well known to Rabbinical 

 scholars. I must therefore renew my inquiry 

 (Vol. iv., p. 272.) : has Buxtorf's translation ever 

 been printed, or does it now exist In MS.? 



Jamks II, Todd. 



Triu. Coll. Dub. 



Burke's " Might)/ Boar of the Forest" (Vol. iii., | 

 p. 493.). — Idomeneus awaiting the attack of .^neas | 

 could hardly be compared with Junius attacking [ 

 every body in his way. Burke more probably ] 

 borrowed his boar from even a greater poet than 

 Homer. See Psalm Ixxx. verses 8 to 13 (Common 

 Prayer Version), and the context before and fol- 

 lowing, which contains perhaps the most pictu- 

 resque and beautiful, as well as practical, allegory 

 in the compass even of sacred literature. " The 

 wild boar out of the wood doth root it up, and 

 the wild beasts of the field devour it." J. ^M. G. 



Hallamshire. i 



" Son of the Morning" (Vol. iv., pp. 209. 330.).— 

 I have always understood Byron's apostrophe " Son 

 of the morning, rise ! approach you here ! " to be 

 merely an appeal to one of the Orientals who then 

 ruled in that region. And this appears to me to 

 be confirmed by the suggestion which follows, 

 that the creed of Mahomet shall pass away as that 

 of Jove has done. The words " Come — but molest 

 not yon defenceless urn," did not appear to me to 

 have any reference to the iconoclastic propensities 

 of the person addressed. But this notice of your 

 correspondent is ingenious. W. W. 



Cambridge. 



^^ Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love" 

 (Vol. iv., p. 72.). — This quotation, the author of 

 which was inquired for, — 



" When first I attempted your pity to move," &c. 

 is from a comedy in three acts called the Panel, 

 altered from Bickerstafi^s comedy 'Tis well it's no 

 worse. M. AV. B. 



Bruges, Sept. 26. iS51. 



Anecdote of Curran (Vol. iv., p. 173.). — This 

 anecdote, I beg to observe, is Incorrectly repre- 

 sented ; and surely presents to the reader no ade- 

 quate provocation ibr the sharp retort on hint 

 attributed to the hostess, on his oifering her a 

 glass of wine. But the fact is, that the circum- 

 stance occurred, not at a small country inn, but in 

 the city of Galway ; nor solely in company with 

 a brother advocate, as stated by M.W. B., but at 

 the general bar-mess. The Connaught circuit 

 was not Curran's, who had been called there 

 specially, and who, having heard of the barmaid's 

 ready wit, w;xs determined to test it. Her name, 

 I well recollect, was Honor Slaven ; and her quick 

 repartee to the not very delicate jokes constantly 

 practised on her by the gentlemen (?) of the bar, 

 had spread her fame beyond the province. Curran, 

 however, was far superior to those whom she had 

 foiled in these too often unseendy combats, and 

 was expected to prove that superiority in this 

 contest. Among the customary toasts of that 

 time was a succession of three alliterative ones, of 

 which the last was of flagrant indecency; and this 

 Curran resolved should fall to Honor's turn to 



