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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



C2°o S. VI. 145., Oct. 9. '58. 



this custom anything to do with the curfew ? Can 

 any of your readers throw any light on the sub- 

 ject ? C. J. S. Walker. 



CIottoD, Sep. 24. 



Scottish Poetry. — Allow me to ask if the authors 

 of the following are known ? — 



" Eidyllia, or Miscellaneous Poems, with a Hint to the 

 British Poets. By the Author of Animadversions upon 

 15rown's ' Essays on the Charactevisticks ; ' and of a ' Cri- 

 ticism on Holland's Sermons.' 4to. Edin. 1757." 



" The Town Council (Edin.) ; a Poem. Caricature 

 front. 4to. Lond. 1774." 



" Themistocles, a Satire on Modern Marriage. 4to. 

 Edin. 1759." 



" The Genius of Britain ; a Poem. 4to. Edin. 1780." 



" Britain ; a Poem in 3 Books. 8vo. Edin. 1757." 



" Metrical Effusions. 8vo. Woodbridge. 1812. The 

 Work of a travelled Poet, who sings of his ' own dear na- 

 tive AjT.' ' A very small impression taken off.' " 



" The Conspiracy of Gowrie ; a Tragedy. 8vo. Lond. 

 1800." 



" The Shepherd Boy ; a Dramatic Idyl, from the Ger- 

 man of Oehlenschlaeger. 8vo. Edin. 1828." 



" Stray Leaves from a Rhymester's Album. 8vo. Priv. 

 print. Antigua. 1846. Reprinted, 8vo., Edin., 1847." 



J. o. 



Pennant's Visit to Ireland. — In Mr. Pennant's 

 Literary Life, p. 2., is the following paragraph: — 



" In the summer of 1754 I visited the hospitable king- 

 dom of Ireland, and travelled from Dublin to Balli-Castle, 

 the Giant's-Causeway, Colraine, the extremity of the 

 countj' of Donegal, London-Derry, Strabane, Inuis-killen, 

 Galway, Limerick, the Lake of Killarney, Kinsale, Cork, 

 Ciishel, Waterford, Kilkenny, Dublin. But such was the 

 conviviality of the country, that my journal proved as 

 maigre as my entertainment was gras, so it never was a 

 dish fit to be offered to the public." 



What has become of the MS. ? and (if extant) 

 brief and imperfect though it be, and little as the 

 author esteemed it, might not some useful and in- 

 teresting information be gleaned from it at the 

 present day ? Dr. Johnson said of him, that " he 

 had greater variety of inquiry than almost any 

 man, and has told us more than perhaps one 

 in ten thousand could have done in the time he 

 took." Abhba. 



Motto on a Skull. — Among the many fine wood 

 engravings which illustrate Vesalius's folio work 

 on Anatomy, is a remarkable one representing a 

 human skeleton leaning in a contemplative atti- 

 tude, one hand applied to the i'orehead, while the 

 elbow rests on a pedestal upon which is placed a 

 skull, evidently the object of contemplation : the 

 other hand is holding the skull. On the pedejtal 

 is the legend, " vivitue ingenio ; ceteka mortis 

 ERUJJT." Whence derived ? Chirurg. 



Dublin. 



. Celtic Cumberland. — The writer of a leader in 

 the Times of 27 Sept. states that Cumberland 

 was still Celtic in speech at the time of the Re- 

 formation. What authority is there for this pre- 

 cise assertion ? C. 



John Hume, Bishop of Salisbury, 1766 — 1782. 

 — What is known of his birth and parentage? 

 What brothers had he, and when and where did 

 they die ? Any information respecting his family 

 or ancestors will oblige the descendant of one. of 

 his brothers. A. M. W. 



Dean Swift's " Works'' — There is an autograph 

 letter from Sir Walter Scott to C. G. Gavelin, 

 Esq., of Dublin, among the MSS. in the library, 

 Trinity College, Dublin, in which he states that 

 he had nothing whatever to do with the publi- 

 cation or revision of the second edition of the 

 Works of Jonathan Sivift. Who was the editor ? 



Abhba. 



John, Francis, and David Standish. — Dr. Duport 

 (3fus(B Subsecivce, p. 146.) commends the skill in 

 theology and music of the three brothers Standish, 

 all born in Peterborough, and all educated at 

 Peterhouse. They were the sons of David Stan- 

 dish, one of the vicars choral of Peterborough. 

 Francis was B.A., 1647-8, M.A. 1651 ; John was 

 B.A. 1652-3, M.A. 1656, B.D. 1664, D.D. 1680; 

 David was B.A. 1659-60, D.D. 1669; John was 

 chaplain in ordinary to Charles II., Rector of Con- 

 ington, Cambridgeshire, and Therfield, Hertford- 

 shire. He published several sermons, and died 

 1686. We shall be glad of any particulars re- 

 specting Francis and David. 



C. H. AND Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Aborough and Barowe Families. — In Harvey's 

 Visitation of Devonshire, 1564, it is stated that 

 "Erasmus Aborough, of Calais, married Helen, 

 daughter of Charles Farrihgton. The church of 

 Wynthorpo, in Lincolnshire, contains the monu- 

 mental brass of ' Richard Barowe, suintyme mar- 

 chant of the Stapyll of Calys,' who died in 1505." 

 I shall feel obliged for any information of their 

 ancestry, &c. Were those names originally De 

 Burgh ? B. 



R. J. Wilmot. — In the Gentleman's Magazine 

 (N. S.), xxi. 139., it is stated that an article on 

 artificial memory in the ninth volume of the 

 Quarterly Revieiv, was written by R. J. WilmOtj 

 Esq., and his Life (vol. i. p. 391.) is quoted as an 

 authority. Perhaps some of your readers can give 

 me an account of Mr. Wilmot and the date of his 

 biography ? I shall be particularly obliged by a 

 copy of the passage relating to" the above-men- 

 tioned article in the Quarterly. N. R. 



[The i-eference should have been to Bishop Heber's 

 Life, i. 391., where, in a letter to R. J. Wilmot, Esq., 

 M.P. for Newcastle-under-Line, dated March 16,1813, the 

 writer saj'S, " I was disappointed at not seeing your Me- 

 mory' article in the present number of the Quarterly; 

 Heber says, however, that it is at last in print, and ready 

 for the next."] 



