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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»* S. IX. April 28. '60. 



great piety, and profound learning. He died as he lived, 

 as a saint, leaving his possessions mostly to be distri- 

 buted for charitable uses, and but little more than his 

 coach and cattle to defray the expenses of his funeral so- 

 lemnity This evening [10th inst.] at 4 o'clock 



the corps of his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin is to be 

 interr'd, according to his desire, at Donnebrooke, a little 

 pleasant village about a mile from this city, in a tomb 

 prepar'd for that purpose, under the direction and ma- 

 nagement of Will. Hawkins, Esq., our King-at-Arms. 

 Nothing has been heard hardly for these two days past 

 but laments for his loss, he being in the publick opinion 

 the best friend to this nation that ever enjoy'd such a 

 dignity in it. Tis talk'd that he will be succeeded by 

 the Bishop of Killmore, or Derry, gentlemen of excellent 

 characters, both for piety and learning. [His successor 

 was John Hoadley, D.D.,Bisbop of Ferns and Leighlin.] 

 His Grace was 83 years old and 11 days." 



In the number for the 13th instant is the follow- 

 ing information : — 



"Saturday night last the remains of our ArchBp. was 

 interr'd at Donebrooke, in a very decent though plain 

 manner, being aceompany'd thither by most of our nobi- 

 lity and gentry, and thousands of our citizens. The corps 

 was put above 2 foot under water, in a grave 9 foot deep, 

 over which we hear a monument will be erected." 



And in the number for 15th August, 1730: — 



" On Tuesday last died the Rev d Dr. Ducat [Robert 

 Dougatt, M.A., who, having been appointed to the arch- 

 deaconry of Dublin in 1715, resigned it in 1710 for the 

 precentorship of St. Patrick's Cathedral], nephew to the 

 late A.Bp. of Dublin, minister of St. Andrew's Church, 

 &c. And on Thursday night last he was interr'd at 

 Donnebroke, with his uncle, where, 'tis said, a stately 

 monument will be erected over them." 



I have no means of knowing whether the monu- 

 ment was erected; but certain I am that for many 

 years past it has not been forthcoming, and that 

 the exact position of Archbishop King's grave 

 cannot now be discovered. His burial, and that 

 of " Robert Dougket, Late AD.," are duly re- 

 corded in the parish register of Donnybrook. 



Abhba. 



Napoleon III. (2 od S. ix. 306.) — Your corre- 

 spondent A. cannot be aware that the present 

 Emperor of the French, Charles Louis Napoleon, 

 had an elder brother, Napoleon Louis. It was 

 the elder brother who married his cousin Char- 

 lotte, Joseph's daughter. S. 



Splinter-bar (2 nd S. ix. 284.) — In the notes 

 which you have done me the honour to insert, 

 under " English Etymologies," there occurs a 

 misprint which perhaps it is as well to notice. 



I must allow that technical words, like proper 

 names, ought to be written with extra care : and 

 it is probably through my fault that feetshdls is 

 printed instead of futchelli. Your printer, per- 

 haps, rather deserves credit for making something 

 so like a real word of it. Why these " longitudi- 

 nal timbers supporting the splinter-bar," as Adams 

 calls them, should be so named, it is beyond me 

 to say. It might, perhaps, be made the subject 



of another Query. Felton spells it with one I, 

 Futchel. Has the word any connexion with the 

 futtocks of naval architecture, or with futtock 

 shrouds in the rigger's department? Johnson 

 says futtochs are a corruption of foot hooks, but if 

 so they must have been " named by the godfathers 

 of the Serpentine River, who gave it that name 

 because it was neither serpentine nor a river." 

 Fust is, I believe, used as an architectural term 

 for the shaft of a column, and the equivalent 

 French fut means also a gunstock. A futchel is 

 not unlike a gunstock in shape, but it also is to 

 the pole pretty much what the stock is to the 

 barrel of a musket or fowling-piece. Futaie is a 

 forest of high trees as distinguished from a mixed 

 wood or from a coppice. J. P. O. 



Tinted Paper (2 nd S. ix. 121.)— The fatal ob- 

 jection to tinted papers is not the extra cost, 

 which would not probably exceed the per-centage 

 named by your correspondent, but the fugitive 

 nature of the colouring matters eligible for tinting 



JO o s 



paper, and this applies particularly to the most 

 agreeable tint?. 



Sober buff, being formed of the oxide of iron, 

 is about the only one that does not change. 



If your correspondent will try a small experi- 

 ment, by exposing to the action of the air the 

 halves of several pieces of tinted papers, keeping 

 the other portions covered, he will soon perceive 

 the disagreeable result in partial discolorations. 



W". Stones. 



Blackheath. 



Derivation of Erysipelas (2 nd S. i. 73. 122. 

 200. 276.) — On a former occasion (2 nd S. v. 

 46G), an old book was the means of verifying 

 Mr. E. S. Taylor's happy guess as to the deriva- 

 tion of " Theodolite ;" pariter I can throw some 

 light on that of " Erysipelas," from the form of 

 the word in Phiorauantefs Secrets, 1582, p. 20. It 

 is there spelt Eri.iipella, and in another place 

 B.isipella, i.e. quasi Rysipella or Russipella, which 

 would be from Russus = Rufus — 'Epv9p6s = red, 

 and Pellis = TXeWa or Hewds = skin, and a 

 being commutable letters. Clammild. 



Athenaeum Club. 



Tromp's Watch (l !t S. x. 307.) <f> 2 — <p writes 

 in the Navorscher, vi. p. 25. : — 



" I have inquired after George Booth, the last known 

 possessor of our Dutch Admiral's time-keeper: but at 

 Brooklyn in the United States, where Ebor supposes the 

 man to have died, the registers of death (as far as could 

 be therefrom learned) do not mention such a name — at 

 least not amongst those of people that of late have died. 

 Perhaps — my informant wrote me — Booth deceased at 

 Brookline in Massachusetts." 



The Query to which the above refers is in- 

 scribed Tan Tromp's Watch. It is strange, that, 

 whilst the English cut off part of de Ruyter's 

 name, calling him " Ruyter," they add a word to 



