72 NOTES AND QUERIES. 
merely an appropriation to Columbus of what was 
probably in existence long before he was born. 
In the following passage of Calderon's play of La 
Dama Duende, we meet with it under another and 
a more likely name. 
: « Ahora sabes 
Lo del Nuevo de Juanelo, 
Que los ingenios mas grandes, 
Trabajaron en hacer 
Que en un bufete de jaspe 
Se tuviese en pie, y Juanelo, 
Con solo llegar y darle 
Un golpecillo, le tuvo? 
Las grandes dificultodes 
Hasta saberse lo son ; 
Que sabido, todo es facil.” 
Tuos. KerGutTLey. 
Jack Ketch. —In Lloyd's MS. Collection of 
English Pedigrees (Brit. Museum) occurs the 
origin of this celebrated cognomen : 
“The manor of Tyburn was formerly held by Richard 
Jaquett, where felons were for a long time executed: from 
whence we have Jack Ketch.” LY 
Dean Kirwan's Charity Sermons. — The follow- 
ing particulars may be interesting, mention having 
been made of Dean Kirwan as a preacher (1* S. 
xi. 232.). 
The first charity sermon for the Female Or- 
phan House, Dublin, was preached in St. Anne’s 
Chureh, in that city, April 22, 1792, by:the Rev. 
Walter Blake Kirwan (subsequently Dean of 
Killala), when the sum of 775/. was collected. 
On the 28th of the same month, in the following 
year, he preached for the same object in St. 
Peter’s Church, Dublin, the collection amounting 
to 808/. 7s. 6d. And on March 20, 1796, the 
largest collection on record for the Female Or- 
phan House, 10157. was obtained, after a sermon 
preached in St. Peter's Church by Mr. Kirwan. 
ABBBA. 
The Samaritans. — Under the title of “Jews 
in China” (1* S. viii. 626.), Mr. T. J. Bucxton 
writes, “The only people known as descendants 
of the ten tribes are the Shomerim, or Samaritans.” 
Whence does Mr. Bucrron learn that the Sa- 
maritans were descendants of any of the tribes of 
Israel? Not from the Bible, certainly, for that 
book positively affirms the direct contrary, even 
in the very passage to which Mr. Bucxrown refers 
(namely, 2 Kings xvii. 24—41.)*, without, as ap- 
pears, having paid the slightest attention to the 
words professedly quoted. Verse 24. informs us 
that — 
“ The King of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and 
from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from 
* The reference is as to when “the ten tribes were 
taken captive,” whereas the former part of the chapter 
(v. 1. to 23.) alone :elates to this subject ; while verse 24. 
to the end solely concerns the nations or tribes who were 
transported to Samaria to replace the Israelites ! ! 
[2nd §, No 4, Jan. 26. °56. 
Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria in- 
stead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, 
and dwelt in the cities thereof.” 
The remainder of the chapter, too long to be 
cited here, undeniably proves, that the new in- 
habitants of the former kingdom of Israel were 
heathen idolaters merely, utler/y unconnected with 
the Jews. If any confirmation should be desired 
for the perfectly clear statement of 2 Kings xvii., 
it will be found in Ezra iv. 1, 2, 3. 9, 10. 
Besides, if the Jews and the Samaritans were 
of the same blood, how does Mr. Buck Ton account 
for the rancorous hostility existing, as recorded 
in the New Testament, between the two peoples ? 
I am rather surprised it should have been left 
to me, when looking over “N. & Q.,” 1% S. viii. 
more than two years after publication, to remark 
the above erroneous assertion; but I cannot dis- 
cover from the Index of Vol. ix. that it has been 
noticed previously. Artuur Hussey. 
David Hume.—I do not remember to have 
heard, nor do his portraits show, that Hume 
squinted ; but I find it stated as a fact in the 
French Esprit des Journeaux for June, 1789, and 
as the points of a sarcastic query of Rousseau, 
when he had most absurdly and ungratefully 
quarrelled with Hume: “ With which eye does 
Mr. Hume look on his friends ?” C. 
Querieg,* . 
TAsso’s ‘‘ ERMINIA.” 
A correspondent (X1v.) states (2"° S. i. 52.), 
that the readers of the Jerusalem Delivered will 
have their feelings shocked by hearing, “ that the 
daughter of the Emir of Antioch, to whom Tasso 
has given the above name,” was reluctant to be 
ransomed from her Christian captors, not from 
any attachment to Christianity, “‘ but from extreme 
fondness for pork,” 
The latter assertion rests, it is said by Xtv., 
upon the authority of Ordericus Vitalis. 
Will Xtvy. have the goodness to quote the pas- 
sage to which he refers; and, at the same time, 
mention the edition, the year and the place printed, 
of the copy from which he quotes? There are 
few writers of the Middle Ages of whom there 
have been more various editions printed, than 
Ordericus Vitalis ; and I should like to have the 
opportunity of looking at the original passage to 
which X1v. refers. 
As to “the daughter of the Emir of Antioch,” 
I confess to a personal interest in that lady, 
having made her a leading character in a book 
that appears in the last advertisement on the last 
page of the same Number of “ N. & Q.” on which 
is published the Note of Xtv._ So leading a cha- 
racter is “ the daughter of the Emir of Antioch” in 
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