372. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[24 S, No19,, May 10. 56. 
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« The bluidy Duke o” Cumberland, 
His day’s black wark was done; 
An’ fain he was to slink to rest, 
At the settin’ o’ the sun, 
_ 
«“ But, O what visions ower his breast, 
That seat o’ wrath an’ sin, 
Cam’, scowling like lang-famish’d wolves, 
To shew what lurked within! 
Ik, 
«“ He was a man, o’ foreign lan’, 
Nae Scottish heart had he; 
Nae feelings 0’ a glorious past 
Brocht the saut tear in his ee. 
Ty. 
« He’d see unmoyed—he’d look unscaithed — 
On deeds 0’ blackest hue, 
That wad mak the verra deevils laugh, 
And man his birth-day rue. 
v. e 
«0 Duke! grim Duke! what brocht ye here, 
We hae nae kin wi’ you, 
For Scotland is a loyal land, 
To King and Kirk aye true? 
VI. 
« And ’twasna for a Popish yoke, 
That bravest men cam’ forth, 
To part wi’ life an’ dearest ties, 
An’ a’ that life was worth. 
vit. 
“ O Bruce and Wallace, whar war ye, 
When this grim auld carle cam o’er? 
Why didna ye upset the boat 
That brocht him to our shore? 
yur. 
« A bonny whommel ’twould hae been 
To hae seen him duck and dive; 
But the bonniest sicht to Scottish een, 
If he’d never come alive, 
pe 
“‘ The grass is green, whar bluid was seen, 
In mony a clotted pool, 
On dark Culloden’s treeless muir, 
To Scotland’s woe and dool : — 
3 x. 
“ But aye when gloamin gently fas 
Aboon the dreary spot 
Whar Scotland strove, but strove in yain, 
Against the wud red-coat, 
xi. 
“ The bluidy Duke o’ Cumberland 
Is heard to shriek and rave, 
To scare awa the pious hands' 
That deck ilk honour’d graye.” 
Scorus. 
fHinor Potes, 
Gutta Percha : its Application. — Of the various 
and novel applications of this material, one of the 
most striking, perhaps, is that in the form of those 
79? 
gentle administrators of civil justice, “ specials 
staves. Are such weapons of gutta percha in 
actual use? Are they hollow, or solid cylinders ? 
Would the same material be available for the 
manufacture of sword-scabbards (for which the 
late Captain Nolan recommended wood, as a sub- 
stitute for the metal now in use)? The gutta 
percha would, I presume, prove equally light and 
noiseless, and might be rendered secure from the 
edge of the sword-blade. - F, Parzorr. 
Spelling of Names unceriain. — A curious in- 
stance of the uncertainty of spelling is found also 
in the archives of the University of Oxford. The 
same person signs thus at three separate times: 
® June 8, 1607. William Beronden. 
Dec. 11, 1607. William Baradell. 
Oct. 27, 1622, William Baradayle.” 
He is a witness in a long cause, and makes three 
several depositions, P.B: 
Oxford. 
Rhyming Receipt to make Ink.—In John de 
Beauchesne’s Writing Book, printed at London 
from wooden blocks, by Richard Field, 1602, is 
the following curious receipt : 
® To make Ink. 
«To make common ink, of wine take a quart, 
Two ounces of gumme, let that be part; 
Five ounces of galls, of cop’res take three, 
Long standing doth make it the better to be; 
If wine ye do want, raine water is best, 
And then as much stuffe as above at the least, 
If ink be too thick, put vinegar in, 
For water doth make the colour more dimme.” 
Ihave never seen the book from whence the above 
is taken. My information is derived from one of 
Oldys’s MS. Note-Books in my possession. 
Epwarp F. RimMBavrrt. 
Rapid Printing and Publishing.—Three editions 
of the last two volumes of Macaulay’s History of 
England have been published in this city by dif- 
ferent booksellers. One of them, of 25,000 copies, 
was set up, stereotyped, printed, and bound, in 
the space of fifty hours. UNEDA. 
Philadelphia. 
Sir William Gage.—In the last number of the 
Sussex Archeological Journal (p. 267.), Mr. Lower 
writes : 
“ The only Sir William Gage I can discover as living 
in 1720, was not a member of the Firle family, but a re- 
presentative of the Gages of Hengrave.” 
Mr. Lower is generally so well informed in all 
that relates to Sussex, that I think it quite as 
likely I misunderstand him, as that he is in error ; 
but still think it right to say, that, according to 
Collins, Sir William Gage, of Firle, 7th baronet, 
succeeded to the title in 1713, and died in 1s 
“The Cow and Snuffers.” —To the notes on 
“ Curious Inn Signs” I have another ta add, one 
