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Miss Robinson possesses a fund of information 
relative to the family pedigree ; and her niece be- 
lieves she also possesses the genealogical tree, to 
which your correspondent refers as being drawn 
up by her late brother, Mr. C. Robinson. 
Mr. C. Robinson (the eccentric) was a man of 
shy, retiring disposition, never mixing with society ; 
his time being wholly occupied in his library, 
which consisted of an unique collection of old 
books, to which he was constantly making addi- 
tions. Here he spent his days in the, to him, con- 
genial occupations of reading and writing, occa- 
sionally amusing himself by painting, in which art 
he was no mean adept. Of his writings, his niece 
knows nothing. If they are yet in existence, as 
no doubt they are, it would be worth while to 
ascertain whether the glorious inheritance of his 
ancestor's genius had in any measure passed down 
to his descendant. Joun Hawerns. 
Grantham. 
finor Notes. 
The Miss Nightingales of 230 Years ago. — 
“Tf ever women merited the title of the devout sex, 
these gentlewomen [the nieces of Nicolas Ferrar] won it 
by their carriage, and deserved to wear it...... They 
were fine surgeons, and they kept by them all manner of 
salves, oils, and balsams; a room they had on purpose to 
lock up these, and cordial waters of their own distilling. 
None of them were nice of dressing with their own hands 
poor people’s wounds, were they never so offensive.” — 
Dr. Jebb’s Life of N. Ferrar, edited by J. E. B. Mayor, 
M.A,, p. 231. 
Curupert Bepe. 
Nursery Rhymes.—The following nursery rhymes 
I learned when I was a boy, some forty years ago. 
I think them very curious, and that they ought 
to be preserved in the enduring pages of “ N. & 
Q.” The proper tune is that to “ Unfortunate 
Miss Bailey,” and I question if the letters of the 
alphabet can be sung to any other metre. To 
make the rythm apparent, I have placed bars as if 
the words were musically noted. Is there another 
verse? I never saw the words in print, and never 
heard them sung save by my late dear mother. 
“Great | A was a | larm’d at | B’s bad be | haviour, 
Be | cause C, | D, E, F, de | nied G a | favour, | 
H had a | husband with | I, J, | K, and L, | 
M mpell | Mary and | taught her scholars | how to 
spell; 
A, BC, D, | E, F, G, H, | I, J, K, L, | M,N, || 
O, P, Q R, s, T, U, V; | Double U, X, | MZ: l| ., 
R. W. Dixon. 
Seaton-Carew, co. Durham. 
Doctor Lyne. —In Edwards's Cork Remem- 
brancer, p. 174., I find the following rather curious 
particulars : 
“ Doctor Lyne, an Irish physician, who died some years 
ago of the small-pox, aged eighty-five, lived at a place 
called Arloom, in the half barony of Bear, in this county 
(Cork]. It was remarkable that for fifty years together 
nobody died out of his house, though he always had a 
numerous family. His house was built in an odd manner, 
every window had another opposite to it, none of which 
he ever suffered to be shut or glazed, but were continually 
kept open, without any defence against the weather. 
The room the doctor lay in had four windows, two open 
on each side his bed. Upon his death his son glazed all 
the windows, since which time there were several buried 
out of the house.” 
ABHBA. 
Legal Jeu d Esprit. — 
“ Look there, see! 
Leuoga da, seh!” 
No doubt these are the origin of the vulgarism, 
“* Look ye, d’ye see!” 
It.is said that Lord Mansfield, with all his elo- 
quence, had the habit of using this expression, 
and that, seeing one day in court a barrister who 
was reputed to be turning Coke on Littleton into 
verse, the judge asked him publicly how he got 
on with his task, and that he should like to hear 
some of it. To this the other replied, ‘ My lord, 
I have only got as far as the first section, which I 
have arranged thus: 
“ Tenant in fee, 
Simple is he, 
That hath lands of his own tight and clever; 
For, please you, my lord, - 
And look’e, d’ye see, 
They are to him and his heirs for ever.” 
Be Ls P 
Wartensee. 
Door-head Inscriptions: “ God's Providence, 
mine Inheritance.” —I cannot turn to the Number 
of “N. & Q.,” where this particular inscription is 
inquired after*, but I have the following reference 
to it in— 
“ The Virtuous Woman found, &c. A Sermon preached 
at Felsted, in Essex, April 30,1678. At the Funeral of 
that most excellent Lady, the Right Honourable and 
Eminently Religious and Charitable Mary, Countess 
Dowager of Warwick, &c. By Anthony Walker, D.D., 
and Reetor of Fyfield, in the same County.” — P. 42. 
“She was truly excellent, and great in all respects: 
great in the honour of her Birth, being born a Lady, and 
a Virtuosa both. Seventh Daughter of that eminently 
Honourable Richard, the First Earl of Cork, who, being 
born a private Gentleman, and Younger Brother, to no 
other Heritage than is expressed in the Device and Motto, 
which his humble Gratitude inscribed on all the Palaces 
he built — 
“GOD'S PROVIDENCE, MINE INHERITANCE. 
This inscription is upon a house in Chester, 
built (I have the impression), I have heard or read, 
by the Hon. Robert Boyle, and referred to by 
your correspondent. 
The book from which I quote is a curious gos- 
sipping account of everything and every person 
299 
[* See 1 S. xii. 478.] 
