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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'"i S. VI. 132., July 10. '58. 



given IMistress Boulstraid, which brought him great dis- 

 pleasure." 

 ^ J. Y. 



Relic of Charles XII. of Siveden. — I am in 

 possession of a small white glass goblet, about 

 3 inches high, 3 inches in diameter at top, di- 

 minishing to l.| inches at bottom, with the fol- 

 lowing legend engraved round the brim : — 



" VIVAT. PRINZ. CARL." 



It is enclosed in a neat wicker case, with a 

 crown on the cover, and the letters h a l in front, 

 worked in coloured threads. It was presented to 

 my father many years ago, with the accompanying 

 letter : — 



" Dublin, 14. Nassau St. 

 June 15. 1831. 



" Very Revi. Sir, 



" I trust you will not think me presuming in 

 begging your acceptance of a small tribute of my grati- 

 tude—the two glasses which I take the liberty of sending 

 you. They are curious from their very great antiquity, 

 as they were a present from Charles XII. of Sweden to 

 Mr. Ford's great-grandfather. When making a tour of 

 his dominions, the accommodations in tliose countries at 

 that time were so bad that he stayed one night with 

 whatever person was best able to entertain him in the 

 different towns he went through, and in the morning 

 gave these glasses as a memorial that he had been there 

 to Mr. Angel, that being the name of Mr. Ford's rela- 

 tive (you may depend on the authenticity of this). With 

 the sincerest prayers for your and your Family's happi- 

 ness, I beg leave to subscribe myself, very rev^ Sir, your 

 respectful and obedient humble servant, 



" M. A. FORDB." 



I have not been able to ascertain who the 

 writer of this letter was, but it has been kept 

 with the glass, which alone I have got, ever since. 

 The construction of the sentence about the gift 

 of the glasses to Mr. Angel is complicated, to say 

 the least of it; and I don't know whether it 

 means that Charles gave such glasses everywhere 

 he lodged, or not. At all events the relic is cu- 

 rious, and I should be glad if your correspondents 

 could throw any further light upon it. A. A. D. 



Primaeval Stone Implements ivith Wooden Han- 

 dles. — In Worsaae's Primceval Antiquities of Den- 

 mark (translated by William J. Thorns, London, 

 Parker, 1849), p. 12., mention is made of the 

 fact, that, though stone hatchets have been found 

 in Denmark, and such implements must, origin- 

 ally, have been provided with wooden handles, no 

 wooden handle has yet been discovered to one 

 of them. In Ireland, however, according to Mr. 

 Thoms, a specimen was found, some years ago, 

 near Cockstown in the county of Tyrone. Per- 

 haps the following, from the Literary Gazette for 

 the year 1822, p. 605., may throw some additional 

 light upon the matter in general : — 



" In digging a well on the slope of a hill at Ferry 

 Hart}', east end of the Isle of Sheppy, a small house, or 

 hnt, buried under the earth, has been discovered. The 

 newspapers add, that it is of the most remote antiquity 



and that two skeletons have been found. The building 

 had no roof, or it might have been of some perishable 

 material ; the walls were wood, and no iron or other 

 metal is .leen. There are flints and hard stones, appa- 

 rently intended for raes, and cutting instruments, with 

 handles of wood, quite complete, and in good preserva- 

 tion ; and earthenware utensils (one appears to have been 

 a lamp) ; a few fish-hooks of hard stoney horn, and an 

 immense quantity of a kind of horsehair. Mr. Barrow, 

 the resident Commissioner of Sheerness, has arrived ; and 

 by his desire a fence will be erected to inclose and pre- 

 serve this extraordinary remnant of antiquity." 



Drawings of the " cutting instruments with 

 handles of wood " would be very acceptable. 



J. H. van Lennep. 

 Zeyst, July 2, 1858. 



Pilgrims' Tokens. — Where can I find the best 

 account of pilgrims' tokens ? What books have 

 been written on the subject ? Where were they 

 manufactured ? By the monks of the different 

 localities visitations to which they are supposed to 

 commemorate? or were there manufactories which 

 produced them for the use of the different shrines ? 



D. S. 



Wax Work Monuments. — Let me add to the 

 Query on this subject in last "N. & Q."(2"'» S. vi. 

 11.). Do there exist other examples, either in 

 England or on the Continent, of this peculiar class 

 of memorial of the illustrious dead ? Were there 

 not waxen effigies of the royal family of France 

 at St. Denys. W. M. 



Work on Heraldry. — I have somewhere read 

 that an Edinburgh jeweller published, in the year 

 1786, a work on heraldry, which so pleased their 

 majesties, that the queen did not rest until she 

 had prevailed upon the king to grant him a pen- 

 sion of 200^. per annum. The author's name ? 

 and the title of his book ? Abhba. 



Family of Blacker, of Carrick Blacker. — In 

 Burke's History of the Commoners of Great Bri- 

 tain and Ireland, vol. ii. p. 48., it is stated that 

 " this family derives its name and descent from 

 Blacar, king or chief of the Northmen or Danes, 

 who settled at Dublin in the beginning of the 

 tenth century." On what authority is this asser- 

 tion made ? 



Blacar slew with his own axe, March 26, 941, 

 in a pitched battle on the banks of the Bann, 

 Mairchertach, king of Ailech, called the Hector 

 or bravest of his time ; and if the assertion be 

 true, " it is a singular fact that his descendants 

 have for many generations possessed the site of 

 this victory." By some writers he is called Blac- 

 card ; and the name of the family is frequently 

 pronounced Blackard by the lower classes of the 

 people in the north of Ireland. Abhba. 



Joe Miller's Jests. — The three first editions 

 were published in 1739. The fourth in 1740; 

 the fifth in 1742 ; the sixth in 1743 ; the ninth in 



