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filinor Queries. 
Abp. Narcissus Marsh. — Allow me_to ask 
whether the whole or any part of Abp. Narcissus 
Marsh’s Diary (unnoticed by Mr. D’Arron) has 
appeared in print? if so, when, and where pub- 
lished? The MS., beginning 20th December, 
1690, remains in his library, at Dublin. He was 
translated from the archbishoprick of Dublin to 
that of Armagh, 18th February, 1702, and died 
2nd November, 1713. ABHBA. 
“ Mort-Tax.’ — An explanation of the words 
“ mort-tax ” wanted. M. R. 
Langport, Somerset. 
Crests assumable at Pleasure. — Dallaway, in 
his Inquiries into the Origin and Progress of 
Heraldry (p. 388.), makes the following startling 
assertion: ‘They (crests) are not held to be ab- 
solutely hereditable, but may be assumed.” The 
“mushrooms” of the nineteenth century appear 
to be entirely in the same mind with Mr. Dalla- 
way, and some of the inventions of their fertile (?) 
brains are exceedingly absurd and palpable to 
heraldic eyes. I should like the opinion of some 
heraldic authorities on this point. 
C. J. Doveras. 
Song Wanted. —I remember, some four or five- 
and-twenty years ago, being amused at a song of 
which I recollect only some fragments ; one verse, 
however, was as follows: 
“T am for Bonaparte, 
He is so stout, so hearty ; 
Besides, he’s the strongest party 
Pour le pauyre sans eulotte.” 
Where is the song to be found ? 
Dublin. 
Bibliographical Queries. —Can you oblige me 
with the names of the respective authors of the 
following works ? — '¢ 
1. “The Present State of Ireland. 
1673.” 
2. “Pou-Rou; or, an Historical and Critical Inquiry 
into the Physiology and Pathology of Parliaments. 8vo. 
Dublin. 1786,” 
3. “ Falkland’s Review of the Principal Characters of 
the Irish House of Commons. 8vo. Dublin. 1789,” 
4. “An Englishman’s Tour in Ireland in the years 
1813 and 1814. 8yvo. Dublin, 1816.” 
5. “The Scientific Tourist through Ireland. 
London, 1818.” 
ABHBA, 
Mr. Richard Jones. —In Willis’s Price Current 
of Literature (Nos. 9, 10, and 11., in 1851, ff. 66. 
76. 83.), there are some recollections of the late 
Mr. Richard Jones, of 14. Chapel Street, Belgrave 
Square, known as “ Gentleman Jones.” 
Many of your readers may have been pupils of 
Mr, Jones ; and it may be remembered, that he 
had a book of collected notes and comments on 
Y. 8. M. 
1i2mo. London. 
12mo. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[2nd §. No 10., Mar. 8. 56. 
the Book of Common Prayer of a very useful 
character, and the whole book marked and pointed 
for the correct reading and emphasis. 
Can any of your readers inform me whether 
this book is still in existence ? and if so, whether 
it could not be published for the public good ? 
May I also ask what teachers now occupy the 
position which Mr. Jones used to occupy as a 
successful teacher of elocution to the clergy and 
to members of the bar, and of the Houses of Par- 
liament ? An Op Puri or Mr. Rp. Jonzs. 
French Protestant Refugees. — Can any of your 
correspondents inform me where, or from whom, 
in London, information is most likely to be ob- 
tained respecting any of the principal families 
among the French Protestant refugees who came 
to England after the revocation of the Edict of 
Nantes, and settled in or near London? G.R. 
Testament in Short-hand,— Walter Wilson, in 
his Life of Defoe, vol.i. p. 10., makes the follow- 
ing statement : 
“During that part of the reign of King Charles II. 
when the nation was under strong apprehensions of a 
Popish government, and religious persons were the 
victims of Protestant persecution, it being expected that 
printed Bibles would become rare, or be locked up in an 
unknown tongue, many honest people, struck with the 
alarm, employed themselves in copying the Bible into 
shorthand, that they might not be destitute of its con- 
solations in the hour of calamity,” 
I have a shorthand MS. New Testament in 
32mo., written in double columns, and ruled with 
red ink. It is bound, but has not, nor does it 
appear to have ever had, any date, label, title- 
page, or inscription on fly-leaves of any kind. Is 
such a manuscript of common occurrence? Does 
the above account from Wilson furnish its pro- 
bable history? And where can be found any 
further account of zeal and industry similarly 
displayed ? 5. W. Rix. 
Beccles. 
Constantia Grierson.— Will you permit me to 
inquire for information respecting the birth-place, _ 
parentage, and wnmarried name of this remark- 
able Irish lady, who died in 1733 at the age of 
twenty-seven. The only works I have seen of 
hers are her edition of the Classics, for which 
she wrote a Dedication in Latin to Lord Carteret, 
then viceroy of Ireland, and a Greek epigram to 
his son. I am informed that she married George 
Grierson, Esq., the first settler in Ireland from 
the Dumfries-shire family of Grierson. She is 
mentioned by Ballard and by Mrs. Pilkington, in 
their Memoirs; by Mrs. Barber; in Gorton’s 
Biographical Dictionary, and in the London 
Monthly Review of Feb. 1753. They do not give 
her name, or any particulars of her private life, 
which are sought for, 
Dublin, 
