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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2-d S. IX. Max.. 31. 'CO. 



Christian, the youngest daughter, married to 

 Joseph Martin, Esq., of Windsor Hill, County of 

 Cork. 



From the same branch, in a more distant line 

 than that of Lord Tracton's mother, spring the 

 Penroses of Woodhill, county of Cork, and Sir 

 Charles Wentworth Burdett, Bart., in the female 

 line. 



This gives the status and position of Lord Trac- 

 ton's family by the mother's side. I have given 

 her nieces and grand nieces en suite with her. 



Lord Tracton's only sister's descendants, the 

 Swift Dennis family, may give his male descent. 



My grandfather, Joseph Bulien, was for some 

 time heir in remainder, by Lord Tracton's will, to 

 his estate until after the marriage of his nephew, 

 Swift Dennis. 



The late General Sir James Dennis, who was 

 distantly related to me, must have been of his 

 family. 



It is curious the bull's head is still the crest of 

 my uncle, Thomas Bulien (who, since the decease 

 of his brother, Lieut. Joseph Bulien, H.M. 88th 

 Regiment, represents the family), as it was that of 

 the unfortunate Queen Anna : vide Miss Benger's 

 History of that Queen. Her portraits at Warwick 

 Castle and elsewhere bear a resemblance scarcely 

 fanciful to present members of my family. 



John Crosbie Fuller Harnett, 



Late Captain, 2nd W. I. Pieg. 



37. Upper Gloucester Street, Dublin. 



The Macaulay Family (2" a S. ix. 44. 86.) — 

 I suspect that all attempts to connect the late his- 

 torian's family with persons of aristocratic emin- 

 ence will prove failures. Without, denying that 

 there may have been a landed man of the name, I 

 must recall all speculators on this subject to the 

 well-known fact, that the Macaulays, as a whole, 

 were one of a number of tribes dependent on the 

 Mackenzies of Kintail, latterly Earls of Seaforth : 

 "hewers of wood and drawers of water," I have 

 heard a Mackenzie call them, but that were per- 

 haps too strong a term. Although an admirer of 

 the late baron, I am wicked enough to suspect 

 that, if he had had anything illustrious to look 

 back to in his Highland pedigree, he would not 

 have given quite so unhandsome an account of 

 the Scottish mountaineers as he has done — a pic- 

 ture which could easily be shown to be more un- 

 favourable than truth will warrant. The real 

 turning-point of the genealogical history of Lord 

 Macaulay was the accident of his aunt falling in 

 with and marrying a young English gentleman of 

 good position, for thereby was the gate of distinc- 

 tion opened to his father, and consequently to 

 himself. It is remarkable of his Lordship, that, 

 although he represented a Scottish city for several 

 years in parliament, his general deportment to- 



wards Scotland was unsympathising. I question 

 if he ever made the personal acquaintance of 

 twelve gentlemen of his large constituency here. 

 He shyed his Scottish connexion. 



Philo-Baledon. 

 Edinburgh. 



Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D. (2 nJ S. ix. 78.) 

 — As another precedent for the laudable and 

 spirited conduct of this lady, I would mention the 

 instance of Agnodice, who is thus noticed by 

 Hofman in a quotation from Hyginus : — 



" Agnodice virgo medecinam discere cupiens abscissd 

 coma, liabitu virili sumpto, se Hierophilo cuidam tradidit 

 in disciplinam, a quo probe edocta parturientium mulie- 

 rum morbis rnedebatur, quas sexus sui clam certas facie- 

 bat. Tandem a. medecis dolentitris, se ad foeminas non 

 amplius adminos, in judicium pertracta, quod dicerent 

 hunc esse illarum corruptorem, coram Areopagitis tunica 

 allevatfi, so foeminam esse ostendit. Tunc Athenienses 

 legem emendantes, artem medicam discere mulieribus 

 ingenuis permiserunt." 



West Derby. 



London Riots in 1780 : Light Horse Volun- 

 teers (2 nd S. ix. 198.) — The services of this regi- 

 ment were so highly appreciated by the King and 

 the authorities of the City of London, that His 

 Majesty presented the corps with a standard of 

 Light Dragoons, and the Common Council re- 

 solved on the 19th of June, "That a handsome 

 pair of standards, with the city arms, be pre- 

 sented to the Light Horse Volunteers, and that 

 the Committee of the City lands be directed to 

 provide the said standards." 



These standards were lodged in the Tower in 

 1829, and there await the loyal gentlemen of the 

 City to be unfurled a third time in defence of 

 their country. Tretane. 



Robert Seagrave (2 nd S. ix- 142.) was 

 of Clare Hall, Cambridge, B.A. 1714, M.A. 

 1718, and took orders in the Church of England. 

 Watt enumerates only two works by him. Mr. 

 Wilson (History of Dissenting Churches, ii. 559.) 

 mentions two others, but seems not to have heard 

 of those mentioned by Watt. Of one of the 

 works mentioned by Mr. Wilson he gave the date, 

 but not the place of publication. Of the other 

 he gives neither date nor place of publication. 

 We regret that Mr. Sedgwick is not more spe- 

 cific as to Mr. Seagrave's various tracts. We 

 shall be glad of the title of the hymn-book men- 

 tioned by your correspondent, and the dates of 

 the various editions. 



C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 

 Cambridge. 



Burial in a Sitting Posture (2 dJ S. ix. 44.) — 

 In Clavigero's History of Mexico is a romantic 

 tale of the burial of a princess in this posture ; 

 and I think other examples will be found in Peru. 



F. C. B. 



