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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"d s. IX. Jan. 21. '60. 



Grenville, but that he had heard him say positively 

 he did. That be (Mr. Kose) himself had a strong 

 persuasion Gerard Hamilton (Single-speech Ha- 

 milton) was the author ; that he knew him well, 

 and from a variety of circumstances he 'had no 

 doubt in bis own mind of the fact. These ac- 

 counts being so contradictory, I think we may 

 conclude that George III. was not cognisant of 

 the authorship of the Letters of Junius, and so far 

 the question remains still a mystery. 2. 2. 



(Queried. 



Lord Macaulay. — I shall be glad if any of 

 your readers can favour me, — and in so doing 

 your subscribers generally, — with any addition to 

 the pedigree of the late Lord Macaulay, which I 

 here subjoin : — 



Eev. Macaulay 



I (Dmiibarton). 



Eev. John Macaulay = Campbell. 



(Inverary). 



Zachary Macaulay, Esq. 



Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay. 



I have understood that the late lord's kinsmen 

 in Leicestershire claim descent from an ancient 

 house of the name. Was this the house of Ma- 

 caulay of Ardincaple, to whom the grandmother 

 of Smollett the novelist belonged, which is sup- 

 posed to have been a branch of the Earls of Len- 

 nox, but is claimed as Celtic by writers of that 

 school ? The race of a man like the historian is 

 a matter of some interest. Fitzgilbert. 



Canoubury. 



[The following notice of Lord Macaulay's ancestry oc- 

 curs in The New Statistical Account of Scotland, vii. 491., 

 Argyleshire : " Lord Macaulay will be deemed by High- 

 landers-at least, who are said to trace blood relationships to 

 sixteenth cousins, to be not very remotely connected with 

 the parish of Ardchattan in Argyleshire. His grand- 

 mother, the daughter of Mr. Campbell of Inveresragan, 

 in our close vicinity, married the Rev. John Macaulay, 

 minister of Lismore and Appin, to which parish he was 

 translated from South Uist in 1755. From Lismore Mr. 

 Macaulay was, in 1765, translated to Inverary, and after- 

 wards he left Inverary for the parish of Cardross. The 

 property of Inveresragan, which consists only of two 

 farms, was afterwards disposed of to the proprietor of Ard- 

 chattan, otherwise it is believed the family of the Eev. Mr. 

 Macaulay being the nearest heirs would have succeeded to 

 the inheritance." — Ed.] 



Swift's Marriage. — Would one of your able 

 correspondents kindly inform me in your valuable 

 publication of the reason why Dean Swift mar- 

 ried secretly ? Father Prout, in his article on 

 Dean Swift's madness, says : — 



" The reasons for such secrecy, though perfectly fami- 

 liar to me, may not be divulged An infant son was 



born of that marriage after many a lengthened year, &c." 



Who was that child ? Or did the refined and 

 gentle Stella ever become a mother ? I am quite 

 in the dark on the subject. As a matter of course, 

 I \io not credit Father Prout's assertion of his 

 being the lost child whom William Woods kid- 

 napped in the evening of October, 1741. Any 

 information on this subject will oblige, 



H. Baschet. 



Burial in a Sitting Posture. — This custom 

 prevails among the inhabitants of Canara and 

 Telinga in India ; as also among some of the 

 Marattas. Bodies belonging to the " Stone Age" 

 have been found buried in this singular posture. 

 Some of the tribes of North America also, if I 

 remember rightly, adopted this mode of burial. 

 I shall feel much obliged if some of your corre- 

 spondents will kindly inform me of any' other in- 

 stances of this kind they may have come across. 



Exux. 



Monteitu Bowl. — The Corporation of Newark 

 possess a silver bowl, with a movable rim shaped 

 like the top of a chess castle. The inscription 

 round the bowl is as follows : — 



" This munteth and thirteen cups were given by The 

 Honourable Nicholas Saunderson to the Corporation of 

 Newark upon Trent, a. d. 1689." 



Johnson says, " Monteth (from the name of the 

 inventor), a vessel in which glasses are washed." 



" New things produce new words, and thus Monteth 

 Has by one vessel sav'd his name from death." 



King, Art of Cookery. 



In the new edition of Nares's Glossary, it is 

 called " Monteith, a vessel used for cooling wine- 

 glasses." Are these vessels common ? Who was 

 Monteth or Monteith, and what is the exact use of 

 the movable rim ? * R. F. Sketchxey. 



Quotation Wanted. — 



" See where the startled wild fowl screaming rise, 

 And seek in marshalled flight those golden skies : 

 Yon wearied swimmer scarce can win the land, 

 His limbs yet falter on the watery strand, 

 Poor hunted hart ! ~ The painful struggle o'er, 

 How blest the shelter of that island shore : 

 There, whilst he sobs his panting heart to rest, 

 Nor hound nor hunter shall his lair molest." 



BiE. 



Excommunication of Queen Elizabeth. — 

 What was the diplomatic effect, according to the 

 public law of Europe, of the excommunication 

 of Queen Elizabeth ? Did Spain and the Empire 

 regularly declare war subsequently to that bull 

 of Pius V., or in 1588, before the approach of the 

 Armada ? or did they consider England beyond 

 the pale of international courtesy ? Are there 

 any documents preserved upon this point ? Were 

 the expeditions of Drake against Spain regarded 

 as reprisals for the excommunication and the 

 Armada ? There was certainly a difference of 



[* Notices of the Monteith bowl occur in our 1"' S. ix. 

 452. 599. ; xi. 374.— Ed.] 



