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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»d S. VI. 153., Dec. 4. '58. 



Barretts "Essay on Swift." — Archdeacon 

 Rowan gives the following particulars in p. 43. of 

 his Brief Memorials of the Case and Conduct of 

 Trinity College, Dublin, A.D. 1686-90 (4to. Dub- 

 lin, 1858) : — 



" It would appear tbat Dr. Barrett, -when he wrote his 

 Essay on Swift, must have had access to documents no 

 longer preserved among the records of Colleges. He gives 

 us two extracts from ' A Petition presented by the College 

 to Lord Tyrconnell, praj'ing to be excused from admit- 

 ting Bernard Doyle a Fellow,' to which we find no refer- 

 ence on the Minutes Dr. Barrett also mentions 



that Doyle ' persevered in his applications ' to Lord Tyr- 

 connell, and spared no invectives against the College ; 

 but that in the meantime Mr. Hassett procured a Blanda- 

 mus, &c. As none of these facts appear in the records 

 now before us, and as Dr. Barrett was not a man to quote 

 from an imaginary authority, it is evident he had access 

 to some documents to which he has not left a reference." 



What the documents in question ? and if ex- 

 tant, where preserved ? Any point connected 

 with Swift, directly or indirectly, will excuse a 

 Query. • Abhba. 



Hewitt, Ilewett, Hiiet, or Hewyt Family. — I 

 am, as I have been for some years past (as stated 

 in "N. & Q.," 2°'! S. vi. 294.), collecting ma- 

 terials for the compilation of a series of tested and 

 proved pedigrees of the families, and biographical 

 notices of the worthies of the name, — in fact, a 

 history of the House, and I am anxious to put 

 myself in communication with anybody and every- 

 body who can and will kindly furnish me infor- 

 mation. 



Any person bearing the name whom I may have 

 overlooked, who will send me particulars or tra- 

 ditions of his descent, will much oblige me ; and I 

 shall feel deeply indebted to any gentleman, who, 

 being aware of the occurrence of the name among 

 his records (title-deeds, manorial proceedings, &c.), 

 will favour me with extracts and particulars ; or to 

 any amateur genealogists or antiquaries or clergy- 

 men who will communicate to me any particulars 

 from obituaries in old magazines or newspapers (I 

 have all from the Gent's Magazine), lists of, or 

 extracts from, wills, marriage licences, parish re- 

 gisters, transcripts of same. State Paper or other 

 record offices : no matter how trivial the informa- 

 tion may seem, I shall feel obliged for it. 



J. F. N. Hewett. 



Tyr Mab Ellis, Pont-y-Pridd, Glamorgan. 



Irish State Papers of James II. — In Archdea- 

 con llowan's Brief Memorials of the Case and 

 Conduct of Trinity College, Dublin, A.D. l(i86-90 

 (4to. Dublin, 1858), are the following words, p. 

 44: — 



" I know not whether the Irish State Papers of James' 

 short reign are preserved, or whether they were abstracted 

 in his hasty flight, or otherwise destroyed in the confusion 

 of the time." 



Can any reader of " N. & Q." throw light upon 

 the subject ? Abhba. 



Mipheher Alphery. — Mipheker Alphery is said 

 (Biogr. Brit. 2nd ed. i. p. 164.; Walker's Suf. 

 of Clergy, pt. ii. p. 183.) to have been "of the im- 

 perial line " of Russia, and to have been twice 

 invited to claim the throne of his ancestors. In 

 what degree was he related to either of the Rus- 

 sian sovereigns ? Joseph Rix. 



Waters and Gilbert Arms. — Can no one of the 

 readers of " N". & Q." furnish any answer to the 

 Query on this subject which appeared in " N. & 

 Q.," 2"'"' S. vi. 49. ? Any item in relation to it is 

 desired by Clemest. 



Cambridge, Mass., U. S. 



Walg9-ange, Staffordshire. — In looking over the 

 Heralds' Visitations for Staffordshire, I see a family 

 therein described as of " Walgrange." Not being 

 able to find any mention thereof in Shaw or 

 Erdeswicke, perhaps some of your numerous cor- 

 respondents might be good enough to aiford the 

 information required. Cestkus. 



Leathern Dollar. — I have in my possession a 

 dollar (but of leather silvered on each side), and I 

 have some faint idea of having read somewhere 

 that such were issued to a Spanish army (in the 

 dearth of silver), as a species of assignats, but I 

 cannot recal the circumstances. Can you help 

 me ? D. R. 



The Middle Passage. — Why is the passage of 

 Africans brought as slaves in a slave ship across 

 the Atlantic called the "MiW/e passage ?" We 

 are all quite familiar with the expression of "the 

 horrors of the middle passage," but I have never 

 yet seen any satisfactory reason assigned for the 

 use of the word " middle." Scrutator. 



Charleston, South Carolina, 

 Nov. 8. 1858. 



iiltnflr caucriCiS tottlj '^niiatxS, 



The Dauphin. — There died lately in America 

 the Rev. Eleazar Williams, a priest of the Anglo- 

 American church. Has any one of your readers 

 seen the work, published in New York by Put- 

 nam, 1854, which professes to prove this gentle- 

 man to have been " the Lost Prince ; " i. e. Louis 

 XVII. ? The work was written by the Rev. 

 J. H. Hanson (since deceased), who was a man 

 of talent and of virtue. If any one has read it, I 

 propose two Queries : — 



1. Does it not prove that the common story 

 about the Dauphin is false ? 



2. Does it not raise its point to a high degree of 

 probability ? C. 



[The melancholy story of the little French Dauphin 

 has been so fully and ably discussed by M. A. de Beau- 

 chesne (who devoted twent3' j'ears to the subject), in his 

 Louis XVII., sa Vie, son Agonie, sa Mart; Captivite de la , 

 FamiUe Royale au Temple, Ouvrage enricld d' Autographes, 



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