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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[24 8. No 8,, Jaw, 19. °56, 
there being no Latin word beginning with Y, I 
take the Y in the signature for the initial letter 
of the Greek work vi, and decipher the whole 
signature thus : 
“Salve sancta alma sanctissimi Christi mater 016 
X pt ée ferens cl Almirante.” 
Tuomas Harvey. 
Geneva, Dec, 1855. 
Trish Car-drivers. —1 have lately met with 
what seems a characteristic instance of the way in 
which these amusing, but not very veracious, 
ciceroni often impose on the credulity of unsus- 
pecting travellers. In Miss Grace Greenwood’s 
account of her Your in Europe, she tells us, 
that having inquired of her Jehu the origin 
of the name of ‘“‘ Bloody Bridge,” over the Liffey, 
at Dublin, the man, who doubtless scented a 
“ sympathizer,” gave, as the origin of the name, 
that during the Rebellion of 1798, the captured 
insurgents were strung up over the battlements 
of the bridge, and allowed to remain there till 
they dropped piecemeal into the river below! 
The lady appears to have swallowed all this non- 
sense without hesitation, although the commonest 
books (the Dublin Directory, for instance) would 
have told her that the affray which originated the 
name arose from the attempt of a mob, urged on 
by some interested persons, to destroy the bridge 
while building —an attempt which was not defeated 
without some bloodshed ; and, moreover, that the 
said affray took place, and the bridge received the 
name, which it has ever since berne (among the 
lower orders at least, for it is usually called Bar- 
rack Bridge by the better classes), before any- 
body concerned in the Rebellion of 98 was a 
IV. 
Monumental Brasses.—In the church of Wis- 
beach, St. Peter’s, Cambridgeshire, there is one to 
Sir Thomas de Braunstone, who was constable of 
the castle, dying in 1401. He is represented in 
armour under a decorated canopy, and treading 
on a lion.* The following inscription, which is 
nearly perfect, is round the slab: 
“Cy gist Thomas de Braunstone, jadis Conestable du 
Chastel de Wisebeche, qui moruit le vyngt septisme iour 
de Maii, l’'an de nostre siegnour Mil.CCCC primer. De 
L’alme de qui Dieu par sa grace ait mercy. Amen.” 
There are the remains of some others, but they 
are worn away and obliterated. 
Epwarp BrooxsHaw. 
Tasso’s Erminia. —The readers of the Jerusa- 
lem Delivered will no doubt have their sentimental 
feelings severely shocked by hearing that the 
daughter of the Emir of Antioch, to whom Tasso 
has given the above name, was, as represented in 
{* An engraving of this brass is given in Lysons’s 
Magna Britannia, Cambridgeshire, partii. p. 67. — Ep. ] 
the poem, very reluctant to be ransomed from her 
Christian captors, not from attachment to Christi- 
anity, or love for Tancred, or any other knight, 
but from extreme fondness for pork! —a luxury 
which she knew would be denied her ‘on her re- 
turn to her Moslem kindred. Such, at least, is the 
tale told by Ordericus Vitalis. XIv- 
Epitaph in Harrow Churchyard. — The follow- 
ing lines were found written‘in pencil on a tomb 
at Harrow. They have been ascribed (I believe 
erroneously) to Byron : : 
“ Beneath these green trees, rising to the skies, 
The planter of them, Isaac Greentree, lies ; 
A time shall come when these green trees shall fall, 
And Isaac Greentree rise above them all.” 
J. ¥. 2.) 
Chaucer. —I found lately, in Kirkpatrick’s 
History of the Religious Orders and Communities, 
and of the Hospitals and Castle of Norwich, the 
name of Walter le Chaucer, who is there men- 
tioned as having been on two occasions, viz. A.D. 
1292, and again in the following year, examined 
on oath, together with several others (all of them 
evidently inhabitants of Norfolk, if not, as I sus- 
pect, of the city of Norwich), relative to certain 
property connected with the Grey Friars’ monas- 
tery in that city. As Sir H. Nicolas, in his Life 
of Chaucer, professes to mention (note a, Picker- 
ing’s Aldine edition) all the known persons bearing 
the poet’s name, it may be worth noting the above 
Walter, who does not appear in the list given by 
Sir H. Nicolas. Is it possible that a careful 
search in the records (which existed when I was 
a school-boy, and perhaps still lie undisturbed) 
in the Guildhall at Norwich, may discover farther 
traces of the family ? Bogle 
Provostship of Trinity College, Dubiin. — Mr. 
Phillips, in his highly interesting work entitled 
Curran and his Contemporaries, writes thus of 
Provost Hutchinson : 
« After having amassed a large fortune at the bar, and 
held a distinguished seat in the Senate, he accepted the 
Provostship of Trinity College, and was, I believe, the 
first person promoted to that rank who had not previously 
obtained a fellowship.” — P. 58. 
This was not exactly the case, as one may learn 
from the list of provosts given in the Dublin Uni- 
versity Calendar for 1834, and from the following 
instances to the contrary. 
Adam Loftus, D.D., Fellow of Trin. Coll., Cam- 
bridge, Archbishop of Dublin, appointed to the 
provostship in 1592; Walter Travers, Fellow of 
Trin. Coll., Cambridge, 1594; Henry Alvey, of 
St. John’s Coll., Cambridge, 1601 ; William Tem- 
ple, LL.D., Fellow of King’s Coll., Cambridge, 
1609; William Bedell, D.D., Fellow of Emma- 
nuel Coll., Cambridge, 1627; William Chappel, 
‘D.D., Fellow of Christ’s Coll., Cambridge, 1634; 
Richard Wassington, B.D., Fellow and Vice- 
