2 nd is. IX. Mak. 3. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



171 



years since, under the title, I think, of Neglected 

 Biography. The old man who walked from the 

 coffee-house at Storey's Gate to the porch at 

 Westminster Abbey, where he shot himself, had 

 long been familiar to the inhabitants of London, 

 and was distinguished by his eccentricities and 

 gentleman-like bearing. He had fulfilled many 

 employments, and had witnessed many strange 

 incidents. One strange passage in his life was 

 his dining at Dolly's, with Count Poniatowski, 

 when neither the son of the late King of Corsica, 

 nor he who was afterwards King of Poland, had 

 wherewith to settle the bill. Distress drove the 

 Colonel to commit suicide, and his remains rest 

 by those of his father, in St. Anne's Churchyard, 

 Soho. The Colonel's daughter married a Mr. 

 Clark, of the Dartmouth custom-house. Four 

 children were the issue of this marriage. One of 

 them, a daughter, was established in London, at 

 the beginning of the present century, earning a 

 modest livelihood as an authoress and artist. 

 The following is a copy of the card of this indus- 

 trious lady: — 



" &HZ* ClarS, 



Granddaughter to the late Colonel Frederick, Son of 



Theodore, King of Corsica, 



Paints likenesses in Miniature, 



From two to three guineas, 



No. 116. New Bond Street. 



Hours of Attendance, from Twelve in the Morning, 

 until Four." 



The above is the substance of what I found in 

 the volume of Neglected Biography, to which I 

 have alluded, and which was kindly lent to me 

 by one whose generous promptitude in such mat- 

 ters is well known, — Mr. John Bruce, F.S.A., — 

 when I was engaged in a biographical Sketch of 

 Theodore, to be enrolled among Monarchs re- 

 tired from Business. JoBBf Doran. 



Arms Wanted (2 nd S. ix. 80. 125.) — Has not 

 vour correspondent transposed the tinctures by 

 mistake ? If so, two bars sable within an orle of 

 six martlets gules, is the coat of Paynell, co. 

 Hants and Sussex. See Mr. Papworth's Or- 

 dinary, p. 29. A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



St. Thomas of IIerkford (2 nd S. ix. 77.) — It 

 seems probable that Lancashire, in A. Butler's 

 Life of Saint Thomas Cantilupe, is a misprint, or 

 a mistake for TAncolnshire. Bp. Challoner, in his 

 Britannia Sancta, says that St. Thomas was born 

 at llameldone in Lincolnshire, a manor belong- 

 ing to his father. But there is a mistake here 

 also. An eminent antiquary still living, wrote 

 under the signature of" Clericus" acorrectorium 

 of Alban Butler's Life of this Saint, in a periodi- 

 < il colled the Weekly Register — not the news- 

 paper now bo called — which appeared in the 

 number for October 13, 1849, and in which he 



corrects some mistakes, and supplies some omis- 

 sions. He affirms that St. Thomas was born at 

 Hambleden in Buckinghamshire [Bollandus, Actl. 

 Sanctoimm, torn, i., Oct., p. 539.] ; and having 

 been then in the diocese of Lincoln, may have led 

 Bp. Challoner to place it in Lincolnshire. But as 

 there is no such place in that county, and the 

 name so nearly corresponds, it may be safely in- 

 ferred that this was the real place of the Saint's 

 nativity. F. C. H 



" My Eye and Betty Martin " (2 nd S. ix. 

 72.) — Will Pishey Thompson be kind enough to 

 inform me how he renders in English his origin 

 of the above phrase ? " Mihi et Beati Martini," 

 he says. I am at a loss how to take the et after 

 mihi. Might not " mihi ades beati Martini," or 

 even " mihi et beato Martino," be better than 

 " Mihi et beati Martini ? " Ignoramus. 



DoNNYBROOK. NEAR DUBLIN (2 nd S. vii'l. 129.) — 



1. Holingshed, in his Chronicle, mentions a 

 Bishop "Donat," who held the See of Dublin 

 under Prince Chritius. Though merely a con- 

 jecture on my part, may I venture to suggest to 

 Abhba the plausibility of finding in the name of 

 this bishop the etymology he requires : " Donat's 

 broke" ? 



2. Or, has the name anything to do with the 

 Danes ? 



3. On the roll of Scoto-Irish kings appears the 

 name "Donnachus." Compare this with the old 

 form given in the Registrum Prioi-atus, "Done- 

 nachbrok." I have by me a poem on " Donny- 

 brook," written in the last century, which I shall 

 be happy to forward to Abhba if he will send me 

 his address. I believe I am already in his debt. 



C. Le Poer Kennedy. 

 St. Albans. 



f&iittUimtaui. 



NOTES ON BOOKS. 



Twelve Yearn in China. The People, the Rebels, and the 

 Mandarins. By a British Resident. With Illustrations. 

 (T. Constable & Co.) 



At a moment like the present, when attention is so 

 strongly directed to China and to the nature of our 

 future "relations with that vast empire, this volume is 

 peculiarly well timed. Mr. Scarth, the author, describes 

 in a very amusing and graphic manner, and illustrates 

 very ably, his Chinese experiences during a residence of 

 twelve years in the Celestial Empire. His views as to 

 the policy which has been already adopted, and which 

 ought hereafter to be pursued with reference to the Chi- 

 nese, are directly opposed to those of Sir John Bowring 

 and Mr. Oliphant: and there is much truth in his re- 

 mark, that these frequent wars in China are dangerous, 

 since not only do the Chinese learn the art of warfare by 

 experience, but their climate is as powerful an enemy as 

 their soldiers. Mr. Scarth's sketch-book, which proved 

 so invaluable a passport to him in China, has enabled 

 him to add greatly to the value of his book by charac- 

 teristic illustrations. 



