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precede the road : in both cases it being presumed 

 that the organised civilisation came from these 

 conquerors. What book is there inferring from 

 such considerations the progress of conquest, in 

 Great Britain for instance ? Smith. 



Tithes. — I should feel obliged if any one will 

 inform me if there is any record extant showing 

 that the owner of an estate granted the tithes of 

 his estate to the church of the parish in which the 

 said estate was situated ? I have been led to un- 

 derstand that there have been instances in which 

 tithes have been given away from an estate lo- 

 cated in one parish to a church in another. 



Ralph Woodman. 



Xew Coll. 



Admiral Mooke. — The following paragraph is 

 in the Dublin Chronicle, 5th July, 1787 : — 



" Tt is a singularity in tbe will of Admiral Moore, who 

 Jied a few da3 - s ago near the Blackrock [in the county 

 of Dublin], that he ordered his body to be buried at 

 low-water mark. He was a man of opulence, and so 

 attached has he been to a marine character, that from 

 1he turret of his garden the different naval flags of Eng- 

 j&nd were always seen flying, and in particular a flag 

 for Sunday. The influence of his friends should he ex- 

 erted to rescue his remains from the various revolutions 

 of the tides, and deposit them in peace on the better se- 

 curity of terra ftrma." 



Can anyone oblige me with farther particulars 

 of this Admiral Moore ? Abhba. 



Convocation of the Irish Church. — I wish 

 to know the names of any works which treat on 

 this subject, or references to books containing an 

 account of its constitution and history, the mode 

 of electing proctors, their number, &c. Also, 

 where the records .of the last session of the Irish 

 Convocation are to be found? I am aware of 

 what is said in the church histories of Ireland by 

 Bishop Mant and the Bev. llobt. King on this 

 subject ; but I shall be very glad of any additional 

 information which any of your correspondents 

 may be enabled to give me. Alfred T. Lee. 



Ahoghill Rectory, Balh'iuena. 



Sir Walter Raleigh's House. — Not far from 

 the spot where I am now writing stands an an- 

 cient mansion which is said to have been in its 

 time the residence of the illustrious Sir Walter 

 Raleigh ; and, as I am anxious to prove the truth 

 of this tradition, or, if necessary, scatter it to the 

 winds, I seek for assistance through the medium 

 of your pages. This mansion stands on the east 

 lide of Brixton Hill, in the parish of Lambeth, 

 and is styled at the present day Raleigh House. 

 I cannot as yet meet with any document which 

 will prove Sir Walter's ownership or occupancy 

 of the house, for the title-deeds of the estate, which 

 now belong! to Lady Grant (late Mrs. Lambert), 

 ;irc not in existence for the period of which I am 

 writing. In a list of portraits of Surrey worthies, 



given in Manning and Bray's History of that 

 county, Sir Walter Raleigh would seem to be de- 

 scribed as of Brixton, but this is the only mention 

 I can as yet find of his Brixton residence. The 

 tradition about the neighbourhood is so strong that 

 it'would be heresy and flat blasphemy to deny or 

 doubt it, though I am inclined to do so until con- 

 vinced to the contrary. Opposite to Raleigh House, 

 on the other side of the road, there is another old 

 house which is called Sir Walter Raleigh's Dog- 

 kennel, and there is said to be a subterraneous 

 passage under the road, forming a communication 

 between the two houses. This I simply disbe- 

 lieve. If any of the correspondents of "N.&Q." 

 can assist me in this inquiry I shall feel much 

 obliged. William Henry Hart. 



Folkestone House, Roupell Park, Streatham. 



Buckingham Gentry. — Where can I find 

 the list of gentry in Buckinghamshire of 1433, 

 referred to by Lysons in JIagna Britannia, vol. i. 

 part in. p. 473. St. Liz. 



"The Pettyfogger Dramatized." — Who is 

 the author of this drama in two acts, by T. B. jun , 

 London, 1797, dedicated to Lord Kenyon ? It is 

 not mentioned in the Biog. Dramatica. 



R. Inglis. 



King Pepin and the Cordwainer. — 



" The French jestingly say that the name of Cord- 

 wainer was given to those who, for saving of leather, 

 crunched their customers' feet into shoes too small, and 

 that King Pippin hanged his shoemaker for making his 

 boots so tight that he could not run away in battle." 

 (History of the Gentle Craft, London, 12mo., chap-book. 

 Xo date. Probably early in the last century, pp. 56.) 



Where is the jest? and where is there any 

 story about Pepin ? A. A. R. 



"The Quiz." — In his Reminiscences of a Lite- 

 ral-)/ Life, 1836, Dr. Dibdin gives some interesting 

 particulars regarding his first literary adventure, 

 a short-lived'' periodical entitled The Quiz, add- 

 ing— 



" I do not remember for the last thirty-five years to 

 have seen a copy of the work. Most rare doubtless it is, 

 if not unfindable; and, I confess, crude and jejune as it 

 may be, I would not stick for a trifle to possess a copy, 

 even of so ricketty a progeny of the braiD." 



My authority further names Sir R. K. Porter, 

 Sisters, and a Mr. Poole among the Society of 

 Gentlemen who conducted the work, and ascribes 

 its disappearance mainly to the occurrence of a 

 fire at the publishers, which destroyed all the stock 

 on hand of the unfortunate Quiz. The Doctor's 

 term unfindable is somewhat strong, and applies 

 rather to a 1 'aldarfer. than to The Quiz, ibr in 

 the course of my peregrinations about the stalls 

 and book- shops I have picked up two copies. 

 The book is an octavo, London, Parsons, n. d., 

 with a caricature frontispiece by Sir R. K. Porter, 

 dated 1 797, represent \ng Anthony Serious, Esq., the 



