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name. Whether the Dukedom of Jreland created 
by Richard II., in 1386, should be regarded as a 
merely Irish peerage or not, may admit of doubt; 
but as it soon became extinct, and its possessor 
was an English earl, this cannot now be more 
than matter of curious inquiry. The Dukedom 
of Ormond, in the ancient family of Butler, con- 
ferred by King Charles I., was lost early in the 
last century by an act of attainder, which we may 
wonder has not been since reversed in favour of 
that eminently loyal house. King James II, in 
1689, raised the Earl of Tyrconnell, whose family 
name was Talbot, to the rank of Duke. Wil- 
liam ITI., in 1692, conferred the title of Duke of 
Leinster on the son of the famous Duke of Schon- 
berg, who fell at the Battle of the Boyne. That 
dukedom soon became extinct. George I., in 
1716, conferred the title of Duchess_of Munster 
on Eyangard Melusina, Baroness of Schuylem- 
bers, whom he afterwards created Duchess of 
Kendal, in England. Those titles became extinct 
in 1743. King George III., in 1766, revived the 
title of Duke of Leinster in fayour of the ancient 
Earls of Kildare, who still worthily bear the dis- 
tinction of the only dukedom in the Irish peerage. 
The Duke of Wharton, who was Lord Lieu- 
tenant of Ireland early in the eighteenth century, 
was Marquis of Carlow in the Irish peerage. His 
dukedom was English. 
These now enumerated are the only ducal titles 
that can be connected with Ireland, and none of 
them was borne by any family of the name that 
E, C, mentions in his Query. The family about 
which he inquires is probably that which still sub- 
sists in Ireland, spelling their name Dry, instead 
of Dreigh. Should this be so, the other particulars 
that he requires may be obtained. ARTERUS. 
Dublin, 
Running Footmen (24 8. i. 80.) — A writer in 
the Bee, July 13, 1791, and referring to thirty 
years previous to that date, or 1761, noticing the 
bad condition of the public roads in Scotland, 
says: 
“ A four-wheeled chaise was then unknown, the usual 
travelling carriage for hire being a close two-wheeled 
chaise, placed very low between the shafts. Coaches were 
the only carriages kept by gentlemen, which were usually 
drawn by siz horses. These were generally accompanied 
by running footmen, who were easily able to keep pace 
with the horses, and whose assistance were often wanted 
to support the coach on each side, to prevent it from being 
overturned on the very few roads where they could be 
carried at all,” 
I have heard it said that in old times running 
JSootmen were kept by the nobility and gentry of 
Scotland, who ran alongside the carriages, and who 
were also employed in carrying despatches from 
place to place. Their speed and endurance were 
so great, asin a long journey to overcome any 
horse. A traditional anecdote is related of one 
of these fleet messengers (rather half witted), who 
was sent from Glasgow to Edinburgh for two 
doctors to come and see his sick master. He was 
interrupted on the road by an inquiry, how his 
master was now, — “ He's no dead yet,” was the 
reply; ‘but he’ll soon be dead, for I’m fast on the 
way for twa Embro’ doctors to come and_ visit 
him.” G. N. 
Hannah Lightfoot (1% S. x. 228.) —A lady who 
is niece to the late Mrs. Henry Wheeler, sometime 
of “the corner of Market Street, St. James’s 
Market,” in a letter to me of yesterday’s date, has 
the following : 
“ Hannah Lightfoot was staying with our late uncle 
Wheeler, and his brother George, when she disappeared 
in so remarkable a way. She was their first cousin, I 
believe. The family haye neyer been able to gain any 
intelligence of her. It is altogether a most mysterious 
affair. Our cousin, Mrs. Phillips, one of Mr. Henry 
Wheeler’s daughters, spent a few days with us in the 
autumn, and we had a long chat about Miss Lightfoot, 
My sister says, when young, Mrs. Phillips was thought 
to resemble her cousin Hannah in person.” 
I will some day ascertain from the régisters of 
a Society of Friends, at Devonshire House, the 
parentage of this Lightfoot, and communicate the 
same to you. G. Sremman STEINMAN. 
January 22, 1856. 
Ballad of Sir Hugh (1% S. xii. 496.; 2" S. 
i. 80.)—The writers of the Notes on this ballad 
are evidently not aware of a work expressly de- 
voted to the subject, entitled : 
“ Hugues de Lincoln, recueil de Ballades Anglo-Nor- 
mande et Ecossoises, relatives au meurtre de cet enfant, 
commis par les Juifs en 1255; publi¢, avee une introduc- 
tion et des notes, par Fraucisque Michel. 8°. Paris, 1834.” 
In this little work will be found, collected to- 
gether, everything known on the subject; and 
also reprints of the Scottish Ballad, as it appears 
in the several collections of Percy, Gilchrist, 
Jamieson, Pinkerton, and Motherwell. It is also 
in Herd’s Collection, 1776; and in the Restituta, 
edited by Sir Egerton Brydges (vol.i. p, 381.), is 
a fragment of the ballad, taken down from recita- 
tion, which resembles closely the one sent to “ N. 
& Q.” by B. H. C. Me 
Passage in General Thanksgiving (1* 8. xii. 
405.) — Your correspondent E. C. H. asks for a 
parallel passage “from any English author of any 
age” to the sentence which he quotes from the 
General Thanksgiving ; viz. — 
“ Give us that due sense of all Thy mercies, that our 
hearts may be unfeignedly thankful, and that we show 
forth Thy praise.” 
Has he ever noticed the following passage from 
the Prayer Book itself? In the first of the 
prayers, towards the end of the Litany, we say — 
“ And graciously hear us, that those evils, which the 
