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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[254 8. No-2., Jan. 12, 756. 
considered by you good enough to be printed in 
your Macaulay Number. 
“There goes a story about the town, that Dr. Busby, 
walking one day in St. James’s Park, met with Father 
Petre, who saluted Busby, cap in hand, which occasioned 
this following dialogue: 
«“ P, “Reverend Doctor, your humble servant ; how have 
you done this long time ?’ 
“ B. ‘Very well, I thank you; but, Sir, I don’t know 
you, and especially in this dress.’ 
« P, «Not know me, Doctor? why, I was one of your 
scholars.’ 
«“ B. ‘That may be; pray what is your name ?’ 
«“ P, ‘My name is Petre.’ 
“B. ‘Petre! What, not that Petre who has made all 
this noise in the world?’ 
«“ P. ‘The very same, Sir.’ 
“ B. ‘You surprise me very much. You were of another 
faith, Sir, when you were under my tuition; how came 
you to change it, Sir?’ 
“ P, ‘ Because the Lord had need of me.’ 
“ B. ‘Need of you, Sir! why, I have read the Scriptures 
as often as any other man, and I never read that the Lord 
had any need of any thing but once, and that was of an 
ass.’ 
“Here Busby took Petre knapping at his own wea- 
pons.” 
Satire against Sherlock. —The following extract 
from Short Iemarks on the Life of Dr. Kennett, 
p- 19., affords a curious illustration of Macaulay's 
account of Sherlock, vol. iv. pk50. : 
“ On one occasion, Dr. Hickes, Dr. Sherlock, and others, 
were in conversation at the fireside of that honest book- 
seller, Wat Kettilby, when Dr. Sherlock made the follow- 
ing remark: ‘ Brother Hickes, they that take the oaths 
are a3 surely damned as the fire burns.’ To which Dr. 
Hickes replied, ‘I believe I may take them when you 
do.’ But some time after, St. Paul’s Deanery prevailed 
with Dr. Sherlock to take the dose; and some say the 
Vixon was the occasion of it. Upon this account Tom 
Brown has these words, which are ingenious : 
*When Eve the fruit had tasted, 
She to her husband hasted, 
“And chuck’d him on the chin-a: 
“Dear Bud,” quoth she, “ come taste this fruit, 
Twill finely with your palate suit, 
To eat it is no sin-a.” 
«As moody Job in shirtless case, 
With collyflow’rs all o’er his face, * 
Did on the dunghill languish, 
His spouse thus whisper’d in his ear, ” 
“ Swear, husband, as you love me, swear, 
*T will ease you of your,anguish.”’’”’* 
J. Y. 
The Glencoe Massacre —'The annexed cutting 
from the Guardian of Sept. 19, 1855, seems worth 
preserving in “N. & Q.:” 
“ A copy of the warrant authorising the Glencoe mas- 
sacre by King William III., was stolen some time back 
from the archives of the Eglington family. It has been 
recently restored, and is now printed by the Scottish 
Press, which informs us that the paper is merely a copy 
of the warrant, though thought at first to be the original 
document. It does not bear the sign-manual of King 
' * Reasons of the New Converts, pp. 31—32. 
8..B. | 
| William ; but it is written in an antique style of penman- 
ship, and the spelling is peculiar: 
“ee For 
Their Majesties Service 
To Captain Robert Campbell of Glensgow. 
“©¢You are hierby ordered to fall upon the Rebels the 
McKdonalds of Glenco and put all to the sword under 
70. You are to have a speciall care that the old fox and 
his sones doe upon no account escape your hands. You 
| are to secure all the avenues, that no man escape. This 
you are to put in execution at five of the clooke precisly 
and by that time, or very shortly afterit, Dll strive to be 
at you with a stronger pairtie. If I do not come to you 
at five you are not to tarrie for me,-but to fall on. This 
is by the kings command for the good and saftie of the 
Countrie that thes miscreants be cut off root and branch, 
so that he put to execution without fend or favour, else 
you may expect to be dealt with as one not true to king 
or government, nor a man fit to carrie commission in the 
kings service, Expecting you will not faile in the ful- 
filling heirof as you love your selfe, I subsecrive this with 
my hand. Baideresis, Feb. 12, 1692. 
“*RoBeRT DUNCANSON. 
* € sic subscribitor.’ ” 
In connection with this, perhaps some of your 
correspondents would give me the authority for 
what I have seen somewhere stated, viz. that Wil- 
liam of Holland had determined to carry out 
against the Frasers, and some other clan, the same 
murderous measures which were put in execution 
against the MacDonalds of Glencoe. 
Wiii1am Fraser, B.C.L. 
Alton, Staffordshire. 
Mueries. 
THE SCREW BAYONET. 
The third volume of Mr. Macaulay's: History of 
England contains, at page 371., the following pas- 
sage: 
“The immediate cause of his defeat was the difficulty 
of fixing bayonets. The firelock of the Highlander was 
quite distinct from the weapon which ke used in close 
fight. He discharged his shot, threw away his gun, and 
fell on with his sword. This was the work of a moment. 
Tt took the regular musketeer two or three minutes to 
alter his missile weapon into a weapon with which he 
could encounter an enemy hand to hand, and during these 
two or three minutes the event of the battle of Killie- 
crankie had been decided. Macky therefore ordered all 
his bayonets to be so formed that they might be screwed 
into the barrel without stopping it up, and that his men 
might be able to receive a charge the very instant after 
firing.” 
A foot-note refers to Macky’s Memoirs, which I 
have no opportunity of consulting; but as the 
statement seems to me, for reasons I will mention, 
a somewhat doubtful one, I write in the hope that 
some of your correspondents may be able to give 
some additional information on the subject. 
The introduction of the screw bayonet I have 
always understood took place at a later date, by 
some ten or twelve years, than the year 1689; and 
