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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"« S. VI. 136., July 31. '58. 



speare, but the earliest intimatioawe have of Shakspeare's 

 occupation at the theatre. It is from the passage about 

 ' the upstart crow beautified with our feathers,' anil ' the 

 only Shake-scene in a country,' that we obtain the first 

 hint of Shakspeare's dramatic apprenticeship as an adapter 

 to the stage of the writings of others." — Annotated Edi- 

 tion of the English Poets, " Poems of Greene and Marlowe," 

 p. 27. 



In conclusion, I have to thank another cor- 

 respondent, A. B., for his reference to Leigh 

 Hunt's Indicator for May, 1820. 



D. F. M'Caetht. 



Dalkey, Dublin Bay. 



P.S. — With respect to Shelley's visits to Dublin 

 in 1-812 and 1813, I shall have some remarks to 

 make on a future occasion relative to a projected 

 " History of Ireland " to which he alludes in a 

 letter dated " 17. Grafton St. Dublin, 20 March, 

 1812," addressed to Captain Medwin. Of this 

 History, on which he says he was enj^aged " with 

 a literary friend," 250 pages were then printed ! 

 The fate of this curious project has baffled the 

 researches of some of Shelley's biographers. Mr. 

 Hogg, the latest of these, has not noticed it at all. 



Since this Note was forwarded to " N. & Q.," 

 Mk. Tuknbull's courteous and good-humoured 

 explanation has appeared (2°'' S. vi. 54.), which 

 proves that on this subject my second thought 

 has not been my best. The error alluded to is 

 merely typographical, as in my first communica- 

 tion I had supposed it to have been. 



LOBD LYON KJNG-Or-AKMS. 



(2"'i S. v. 496.) 



The following list of Lyon Heralds with addi- 

 tional information respecting them may not be 

 unacceptable to A. S. A., and some of the readers 

 of " N. & Q." :— 



1. Sir Wiltlam Cumyn was second sou of Wil- 

 liam Cumyn of Culter and Inveralochy, an old 

 cadet of the Earl of Buchan, aud received ft-om 

 his father in 1483 the lauds of Inveralochy, Aber- 

 deenshire, on the nan'ative that William had taken 

 his part in a family quarrel against his other sons 

 Alexander (his heir) and James. He seems to 

 have been a bustling personage, acted as macer 

 from 1479 to 1494*; was a pursuivant in 1483, 

 and in 1494 was appointed Marchmont Herald. 

 As such he was knighted in 1507, and is designed 

 October 25, 1518, " Lioune King-of-Armes." 



2. Henry Thomson was Lyon either before or 

 after Sir William Cumyn. In a notice early in 

 the sixteenth century, mention is made of Chris- 



* This office was of more importance in ancient times 

 than of late, when, according to Pleydell (v. Guy Jlan- 

 nering) " one of the requisites to be a macer or officer 

 in attendance upon our Supreme Court ia that they shall 

 he meu of no knowledge." 



tina Douglas, relict " Henrici Thomsone, Leonis 

 Heraldi Regis Armorum." 



3. Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount. 



4. Sir Kobert Forman of Luchrie. John For- 

 man was, February 18, 1594, served heir in gene- 

 ral of his father, " domini Roberti Forman de 

 Luchrie, Militis, Leonis Regis Armorum." 



5. Sir William Stewart. 



6. Sir David Lyndsay of Rathillet. 



7. Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount. 



8. Sir Jerome Lyndsay of Annatland. 



9. Sir James Balfour of Kynnaird, Knt., was 

 constituted for life Lyon King-of-arms by com- 

 mission dated at AVhitehall, May 8, 1630, with a 

 pension of one hundred marks sterling. He died 

 13th, and was buried 19th February, 1657, in 

 Abdie church, where there is a monument to his 

 memory, stating his age to have been fifty-three. 



10. Sir James Campbell of Lawers, Knt., was 

 appointed by Oliver Cromwell, who, having in the 

 later years of his protectorship surrounded him- 

 self with a House of Lords and high officers of 

 state, did not neglect heraldic accompaniments. 

 He therefore nominated Sir James " Lord Lyone 

 King-at-Armes" for life, by patent dated at 

 Westminster, May 13, 1658, a few months before 

 his death. In this he says, " we have actuallie 

 crowned and invested, and by these presents in- 

 vest aud crown him therein," — a strange act for 

 the head of a Republic ! Of course Sir James 

 lost the office on the Restoration, but he had a 

 pardon from Charles 11., December 6, 1661. He 

 was son of Sir Mungo Campbell of Lawers (second 

 son of Sir James Campbell of Lawers, and brother 

 of John Campbell, first Earl of Loudoun, husband 

 of Margaret, heiress of Loudoun), who succeeded 

 to the estate of Lawers on the resignation, in 

 1624, of his father with consent of his elder 

 brother. He was knighted in his father's lifetime, 

 and died in 1702 or 1703.* 



11. Colonel Alexander Durham was appointed 

 Lyon King-of-Arms in succession to Sir James 

 Balfour of Denmylne (to whom he was related) 

 by patent dated August 28, 1660. He was sub- 

 sequently knighted, and having purchased in 1662 

 for 85,000 marks the estate of Largo from John 

 Gibson of Durie, had a charter thereof, January 

 1, 1663. 



12. Charles Erskiue or Areskine, afterwards a 

 baronet, and of Cambo, was installed and crowned 

 by the Earl of Rothes, his Majesty's High Com- 

 missioner at Holyrood House, September 25, 1663. 



13. Sir Alexander Erskine, second Bart, of 

 Cambo, was conjoined with his father in the office 



* Of Sir Mungo and his descendants no notice is taken 

 by Wood in his Peerage of Scotland. The estate of 

 Lawers was acquired about 1723, in consequence of the 

 embarrassed state of their succession, by Colonel, after- 

 wards Lieut.-General Sir James Campbell, K.B., father 

 of the lifth Earl of Loudoun. 



