2="> S. VI. 147., Oct. 23. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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tain. He marrieil " Mary Compton " of the an- 

 cient family of that name atHartpury in Glouces- 

 ter. The arras he impales on his shield, however, 

 are not those of " Compton of Hartpury," but 

 those borne by the Marquis of Northampton. 

 The arms as they appear on the monument are, — 

 Or, a /esse check;/ argent and azure, within a bor- 

 diire ermine, for Steward, — impaling, sable, a lion 

 passant gardant or, between three esquires' helmets 

 argent, garnished of the second, for Compton. 

 The crest is, on a ivreath or and azure a regal 

 croicn proper. 



We are at a loss to know who this " Charles 

 Steward" may have been. The costly monument, 

 and a very large and handsome marble slab over 

 the place of his interment, on which the same ar- 

 morial bearings are to be seen, would imply that 

 he was a person of some wealth and station. Can 

 any of your readers give us any information con- 

 cerning him. His death took place in July 1698, 

 and was the consequence, as we learn from a 

 Latin inscription on his monument, of injuries 

 received, in the first instance, by a fall from a 

 horse. William Henry Joses, 



Vicar of Bradford-on-Avon. 



Scotch Macaronic Poem. — In Pinkerton's Sco- 

 tish Poejn.s, vol. iii., is one entitled the " Houlate," 

 written during the reign of James II. By this 

 time the Scottish kings had got completely 

 ashamed of their Gaelic or Irish origin, and of 

 the old court bards who were retained to comme- 

 morate it. The poem now referred to is a satire 

 upon the institution and the language. It is as 

 follows : — 



" The Ruke callit the Bard. 



" Sa come the Ruke, -n-ith a rerde and a rane roch, 

 A bard out of Irlaud with banochadee ! 

 Said ' Gluutow guk d3'Dydrach hala mischly doch ; 

 Keke her a lug of the rost, or scho sail rj-ve thee ! 

 Misch makmory ath niach momitir morh loch ; 

 Set her doun, gif lier drink ; what deill ayles ye? ' 

 O'Derrayn, O'Donnall, O'Dochardy Droeh ; 

 Tliir are the Ireland kingis of the Erchrye; 

 O'Knewlyn, O'Cononuhor, O'Gregre JIac Grane, 

 The Chcnachy, the Clarschach, 

 The Beneschene, the Ballach, 

 The Krekrye, the Corach 

 Scho kennis thame ilkane." 



Will an Irish or a Gaelic reader translate this ? 



H. C. C. 



Motto. — Can any of your readers kindly sup- 

 ply me with a motto for a "thing of shreds and 

 patches ;" in other words, a book containing anec- 

 dotes, episodes, and incidents of travel and social 

 military adventure ? There is nothing of war in 

 its pages, but a great deal of love, &c. An Eng- 

 lish motto would be preferred. M. S. R. 



Destruction of Irish Records and other MSS. hij 

 the English. — An elegant butdilfuse Irish writer 

 of the last century (Mr. William Webb), in his 



Analysis of the History and Antiquities of Ireland, 

 prior to the FiftJi Century, Dublin, 1791, says, 



"It was till the time of James the First an object of 

 (the English) government to discover and to destroy 

 every literary remain of the Irish, in order the more 

 fully to eradicate from their minds every trace of their 

 ancient independence." 



The author afterwards specifies instances of this 

 destruction, viz. by Sir Geo. Carew and Sir Henry 

 Sidney in Queen Elizabeth's reign. Tt "- 



What corroboration can be adduced of this 

 charge (probable, however, in itself) ? Who was 

 Mr, Webb ? H. C. C. 



The Two Families De Albini. — What were 

 the arms : — 1. Of De Albini, Brite, Lord of Bel- 

 Yoir Castle ? 2. Of De Albini, Pincerna, Earl of 

 Arundel? And what were the places, in Nor- 

 mandy or Brittany, from which these two families 

 respectively took their names ? Meletes. 



Celtic Cumbei-land. — Mr. Geo. Ellis, in his 

 Introduction to his Specimens of Early English 

 Metrical Romances (p. 35. of Bohn's edition), in a 

 note, says that the Regiam Majestatem contains 

 many Celtic or British terms, '■'■and so do various 

 old charters respecting Cumberland and Dumfries- 

 shire." Where are these charters ? and what are 

 their dates ? Have any of them been published ? 

 Extracts from them, showing the Celtic or British 

 words, would be a contribution to ethnology. 



H. C. C. 



Royal Fishes. — What are the texts in the im- 

 perial civil law which make the greater fishes a 

 fiscal property ? The germ of the institution 

 seems hinted at by Juvenal, in his 4th Satire : — 



" Si quid Palfurio, si credimus Armillato, 

 Quicquid conspicuum pulchruraque est ajquore toto 

 Res fisci est, ubicunque natat." 



H. C. C. 



Captain Henry Mowatt, R. N. — In Rodd's Ca- 

 talogue of Books and MSS., London, 1843, p. 62., 

 is the following: — 



" ilowatt (Capt. Henry, E.X.), Relation of the Services 

 in which he was engaged in America from 1759 to the 

 close of the American War, 1783, folio." 



Can any of your readers give me any informa- 

 tion of the whereabouts of this manuscript, or of 

 its contents ? I am very desirous to obtain a cor- 

 rect transcript of it, as it will probably throw 

 light on an important point of American History. 



Nottisg Hill. 



Plaistoiv. — There are Plaislow in Essex, Plais- 

 tow near Bromley in Kent, Plaistow in Sussex, 

 near Petwortli, all near Roman sites. The word 

 "Play" is Ibund in the word " Playford" applied 

 to a Roman site in Sufiblk. What does Playstow 

 mean ? Docs it denote the site of a Roman am- 

 phitheatre, a place for plays or games ? 



Htde Clarke. 



