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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«a S. IX. Jan. 14. '60. 



ence? Is it amongst the Stuart Papers. in the 

 possession of Her Majesty ? 



How much it is to be regretted that those his- 

 torical documents are not in the British Museum. 

 At the present rate of publication the contents 

 will not be known to our historians for half a 

 dozen centuries. The first volume of the Atter- 

 bury Correspondence (from that collection) was 

 published in 1847, and I am still hoping to live 

 to see the second. T. S. P. 



Writers who have been bribed to Silence. 

 — Is there any truth in the allegation made by 

 Cox, in his Irish Magazine for March, 1811, 

 namely, that the Rev. Dr. Charles O'Conor, libra- 

 rian to the Duke of Buckingham at Stow, printed 

 in 1792, at Dublin, A History of the House of 

 O'Conor (2 vols. 8vo.), but that "administration 

 felt alarmed that such a picture of British ar- 

 rogance and Irish subjection should go abroad, 

 and bought it up. It was offered up as a burnt 

 offering in those very cells in Dublin Castle that 

 once enclosed an O'Donel, an O'Neil," &c., &c 

 " This book was one of the most interesting on 

 Irish affairs." Is there any copy accessible of this 

 History of the House of O'Conor? The Rev. Dr. 

 Charles O'Conor was formally suspended by Arch- 

 bishop Troy in 1812. He occasionally wrote 

 under the signature of " Columbanus." W. J. F. 



A Child saved by a Dog. — Is the following a 

 fact ? — 



" A Dundee paper states that as a railway van was 

 going along Keptie Street, a child was in danger of 

 being run over. Seeing this, a mastiff dog belonging to 

 Mr. W. Reid, flesher, sprung from the side paving, seized 

 the astonished and frightened child by the clothes, and 

 placed it in safety to the delight of a great number of 

 lookers on." 



I have this from the New York Independent, 

 vol. xi. No. 573. for Thursday, Nov. 24, 1859. 



J. H. van Lennep. 



Zeyst, near Utrecht. 



Use of the Word " Sack." — The accom- 

 panying extract from the parish register of 

 Havering-atte-Bower, Essex, will, I think, be in- 

 teresting to the readers of " N. & Q.," inasmuch 

 as it exhibits a curious fact, and also as showing 

 the common and ordinary use of the word Sack 

 at a period which I confess caused me some sur- 

 prise, seeing that during the last century the edi- 

 tors of Shakspeare are so full of conjecture as M 

 what this word applied : — 



" At a vestry held at St. Marie's Chappel, Havering, 

 yie gth f Nov. 1717," among other things it was agreed : 

 " Likewise y' a pint of Sack be allowed to y* Minister 

 y l officiates y e Lord's Day y le Winter Season. 

 " Present, 

 " T. Shortland, Chaplain," 

 and six others. 



John Gladding. 



MS. POEMS BY BURNS. 



Having lately purchased a volume of Bums' 

 Poems, dated Edinburgh, April, 1787, being the 

 3rd edition, I was surprised to find when I got it 

 home that at the end of the volume were several 

 pieces in manuscript writing, which I presume were 

 pieces that the poet had composed shortly after 

 the volume was printed : several blank pages had 

 evidently been inserted for the purpose of being 

 written on when it was bound. Could any of your 

 numerous correspondents giveany information whe- 

 ther the handwriting is by Burns, or whose hand- 

 writing ? if not his, whether it is any member of 

 the family ? It is printed by Straban, Cadell, & 

 Creech, Edinburgh, and has the whole of the 

 original subscribers' names inserted with the num.- 

 ber of copies, alphabetically arranged, beginning 

 with the "Caledonian Hunt, 100 copies," &c, &c. 

 The number of pieces in writing is thirteen — five 

 are evidently in the handwriting of a female. 

 Now Cunningham says, in his edition, that the 

 Epistle to Captain Grose, which is in this volume 

 in manuscript, dated 22nd July, 1790, was not in 

 print, before 180- : it is dedicated to A. De Car- 

 donnel, who was an antiquary. I should like to 

 know more about the man, as my volume has also 

 the arms of Mansf S. de Cardonnel Lawson, 

 with the motto, " Rise and shine," pasted in the 

 inside : although Cunningham does say that it 

 was known to exist in manuscript before that 

 date, viz. 180-. The pieces are these, viz. : — 



" Sketch. The first thoughts of an Elegy designed for 

 Miss Burnet o f Monboddo." 



" Epigram on Capt. Grose." 



" Queen Mary's Lament." 



«' Epistle to A. De Cardonnel, (beginning) ' Ken ye 

 ought o' Capt. Grose?'" 



" Tarn O'Shanter. A Tale." 



" Holy Willies Prayer." 



These are in a lady's handwriting. 



" On seeing a wounded Hare limp by me which a fel- 

 low had shot." 



" Song : ' Anne thy charms my bosom fire.' " 



" A Grace before Dinner." 



" Let not woman e'er complain : tune ' Duncan Gray.' " 



" Sent by a lady to Robt. Burns : * Stay my Willie — 

 yet believe me.' " 



" Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear." 



" On Sensibility : to Mrs. Dunlop of Dunlop." 



" Highland Mary. 



" Ye banks and braes, and streams around 

 The castle o' Montgomery." 



I trust you will excuse the length of this epistle, 

 as I found I could not do justice to it unless 

 I gave you full particulars, hoping you will be 

 able to throw some light on the writing, and 

 the name Cardonnel ; as I think the gentleman 

 may have been a personal friend of the poet's, 

 and some relation may be living who can ex- 

 plain the matter. T. Simpson. 



