2>> d a, ix. Feb. 4. '60.] 



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regicide, married for his second wife, Elizabeth 

 (not Ann, as I am told I have given it), daughter 

 of Ambrose, son of Sir John Dauntesey of West 

 Lavington, Knt. She is called on her monument 

 " ex asse haeres," but had a sister Sarah, a coheir 

 iu blood, married to Sir Hugh Stukely, Bart. 

 Elizabeth Dauntesey was baptized 20th March, 

 1604; died 9th July, 1636, aged thirty-one; 

 buried at West Lavington. She left by Sir John 

 Danvers one son, Henry, who was heir to his 

 uncle, the Earl of Danby ; died 1654, and his 

 father Sir John the year following : also a 

 daughter Elizabeth, married to Robert Villiers, 

 who declined the title of Viscount Purbeck (see 

 Sir H. Nicolas's Adulterine Bastardy), and had 

 issue a daughter, Ann, to whom her brother, 

 Henry Danvers, bequeathed " the whole of the 

 great estate in his power," married Sir Henry 

 Lee of Ditchley, Bart., 1655 ; and Charles Henry, 

 Mary, who died young. Edward Wilton, Clerk. 

 West Lavington, Devizes. 



Familiar Epistles on the Irish Stage (2 nd 

 S. viii. 512.) — I have little doubt that this tren- 

 chant satire is rightly attributed to J. W. Croker: 

 it is included in the list of his works in the Biog. 

 Diet, of Living Authors, 1816 ; and in his biogra- 

 phy in Men of the Time, 1856, it is mentioned as 

 his " first publication," and as giving " earnest of 

 the then power of sarcasm which characterises some 

 of his more mature productions." On the title- 

 page of my copy is written in (as I am led to be- 

 lieve from comparison with a facsimile) CrokerV 

 sprawling hand : " Wm. Gin'ord, Ex dono Au- 

 toris " ; and on the fly-leaf, probably from Gif- 

 ford's neater pen, " by Croker." The author, 

 whoever he may be, was thus described in The 

 Freemaris Journal in revenge for the castigation 

 inflicted on it : — 



" A shabby barrister, who never could acquire as much 

 by legal ability as would powder his wig, has resorted to 

 the expedient of 'raising the wind' by a familiar epistle, 

 assassinating male and female reputation. The infamous 

 production has had some sale, as will whatever is replete 

 with scurrility, obscenity, and falsehood; but this high- 

 flying pedant, of empty-bag fame in his profession, will 

 shortly find that peeping tom will be dragged forth to 

 public view in a very familiar manner." 



The author himself, in the preliminary matter 

 to the fourth edition, has compiled some matter — 

 "disjecta membra poetaj," he calls it — "to enable 

 the world at last to ascertain who I am." Among 

 this we are told that the "Epistles" are attri- 

 buted in various publications to Ball, Croker, and 

 Thomas ; to which the author appends the follow- 

 ing significant note : — 



" Of two of those Gentlemen, I have not the least per- 

 sonal knowledge, and of the third I will venture to say 

 (without meaning any disparagement to his abilities), 

 that how he came to be suspected should rather be en- 

 qnired of \\\* friends than his enemies." 



An interesting account of Edwin and his melan- 



choly end will be found in Mrs. C. B. Wilson's 

 volumes, Our Actresses. It appears that the re- 

 cord on his tombstone alludes to the " murderous 

 attack," and that in his last moments his " impre- 

 cations on his destroyer were as horrible as awful." 

 Nevertheless, it seems that there were other causes 

 for his " fevered frenzy," — Plures crapula quwn 

 gladius. Poor Edwin had invited a friend on the 

 evening preceding his fatal illness, " to help him 

 to destroy himself with some of the most splendid 

 cognac that France ever exported to cheer a 

 breaking heart." The friend did not come ; doubt- 

 less the actor had the less difficulty in achieving 

 his object, — and thus we have to write of him : — 



" Poor fellow ! his was an untoward fate ; 

 'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle. 

 Should let itself be snuffed out, by an article I " 



Don Juan. 



William Bates. 



Folk-lore (2 nd S. viii. 483.) — Stuckling ap- 

 pears to be derived from the German stiick, a piece, 

 and the diminutive affix -ling. 



To feel leer means properly to feel faint from 

 hunger, and connects itself with the German leer, 

 empty. Libya. 



Rev. William Dunkin, D. D. (2 nd S. viii. 

 415.) ■ — I cannot find his entrance into Trin. Coll. 

 Dublin, but I find that Patrick Dunkin, son of 

 the Rev. Wm. Dunkin, born at Lisnaskea, co. 

 Fermanagh, entered that College 29 April, 1685, 

 aged 19 ; and William, son of Patrick Dunkin, 

 Gent, (probably the same person), born in Dublin, 

 entered 9 April, 1725, aged 18. Y. S. M. 



Sans Culottes (2 Dd S. vii. 517.) — The same 

 gentleman who informed me as to the tricolor 

 says, this name was given to the revolutionists, 

 not because they went without the nether gar- 

 ments, but because they wore trousers instead of 

 the knee-breeches, which were then de rigueur part 

 of the costume of every gentleman. The pantaion 

 thus became the mark of the anti-aristocratic, and 

 instead of sans cidottes being a name of reproach, 

 it was adopted by the party as a proud designa- 

 tion. A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



James Anderson, D.D. (2 od S. viii. 169. 217. 

 457. &c.) — The following obituary notice of this 

 eminent antiquary, from the Scots Magazine for 

 1740, may form a fitting sequel to the Anderson 

 papers, which have for some time past appeared 

 in " N. & Q." 



" On Monday, May 28, died at his house in Essex 

 Court in the Strand, London, the reverend and learned 

 James Anderson, D.U., a Member of the Church of 

 Scotland, and native of this kingdom, author of the 

 Royal Genealogies, and several other works : a gentleman 

 of uncommon abilities and most facetious conversation ; 

 but notwithstanding his great talents, and the useful 

 application he made of them, being, by the prodigious 



