2 od S. IX. May 5. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



355 



error been received, let him as soon as it is 

 proved be dismissed the Society. This decree 

 was confirmed, and Jewish descent decided to be 

 not only an indispensable but an essential im- 

 pediment. I therefore doubt the truth of this 

 story. B. H. C. 



Peers serving as Mayors (2 nd S. ix. 162. 292.) 

 — Winchester can show the following peers in 

 the authentic part of her roll of mayors : — 



1661. His Grace Charles, Duke of Bolton. 



1773. „ the Duke of Chandos. 



1774. 



1784. 



B. B. Woodward. 



Watson, Horne, and Jones (2 nd S. viii. 396) 

 ■ — In consequence of the inquiries made by Mr. 

 Markland and myself into the existence of any 

 printed copies of the Rev. George Watson's four 

 sermons preached between the years 1749 and 1756, 

 I have found they are all in the British Museum 

 and the Bodleian Library. I have in consequence 

 taken steps to procure transcripts of them, three 

 of which I have received, with a view to publi- 

 cation. I am glad farther to state that the con- 

 tents of these valuable discourses, by several 

 competent judges, are considered to exceed rather 

 than fall short of the high character given of them 

 by Bishop Horne and the Rev. William Jones 

 of Nayland, and that they will be found to be a 

 valuable acquisition to theology, in learning and 

 in eloquence. Their discovery is another in- 

 stance of the value of " N. & Q." in bringing to 

 light hidden treasures of various descriptions. 



John Mat. Gctch. 



Worcester. 



James Ainslie (2 nd S. ix. 142.) — In the Inqui- 

 sitiones Ab. Ret. Speciules, County Roxburgh, 

 occurs the following entry, which I presume re- 

 fers to this individual : — 



"(146.) Sep. 6. 1631. 



" Andreas Ainslie Mercator burgensis de Edinburgh, 

 hares Jacobi Ainslie mereatoris, burgensis de Edinburgh, 

 patris— in decimis garbalibus terrarum et villa? de Lang- 

 toun, infra parochiam de Jedburgh. 



"A.E. 4. m. N.E. 12. m." xii. 190. 



And under Edinburgh the following : — 



" (528.) Feb. 1. 1625. 



" Magister Cornelius Ainslie hares Jacobi Ainslie mer- 

 eatoris ac burgensis de Edinburgh patris, ■ — in duobus 

 tenementis in dicto burgo. 



"E.3m." viii. 332. 



"(1047.) Sep. 23, 1654. 



" Mr. Cornelius Ainslie, heir of prnvisioun of Mr. James 

 Ainslie doctor of phisick, his brother, — in tenement in 

 Leitb,— 



"E. 3s. id." xxiv. 167. 



The village of Darnick which in these Retours 

 is styled " Darnyk infra dominium et regalitatem 

 de Melrose," or more generally "Dernik in dominio 

 de Melrois," is situated about two miles west from 

 Melrose." 



It is mentioned by Sir Walter Scott in his 

 Border Antiquities as possessed of a " bastel 

 house" for the defence of the inhabitants, re- 

 quired by their proximity to the border. 



This bastel house or fortalice still remains in 

 good preservation. The lintel over the principal 

 doorway has several inscriptions, viz. A. H., 

 J. H., the monogram I.H.S., 1569, H., &c. ; the 

 pannelling being recessed back, leaving the in- 

 scription projecting level with the face of the 

 stone. On another portion of the building is the 

 date 1661, and over a window the following : — 

 « 16 E. C. 44. R.R. LB." &c. 



William Galloway. 



Edinburgh. 



" The Upper Ten Thousand" (2 nd S. ix. 183.) 



— This expression as it stands may have been in- 

 vented by Mr. Willis, as stated by Bartlett ; but 

 there is a line in which the same idea occurs, with 

 which some of your readers may be acquainted : 



" The twice two thousand for whom earth was made." 



Can you inform me who was the author of this 

 line ? It is quoted in The World of London, 

 published some years ago. C. Le Poer K. 



Roff. 



Lewis and Kotska (1 st S. xii. 135. ; 2 nd S. iii. 

 93.) — 



" Stanislaus Kotska, the Polish Saint, and Ludovico 

 and Ghisberto, his Italian imitators, were killed, whether 

 with their own consent or not is uncertain, by being laid 

 on the bare stone floors when sick from starvation and 

 penance, as may be seen in their lives and the pictures of 

 Ribera and Guercino. Saint Dominick rolled in the snow, 

 and St. Francis went to bed in the fire." — Warning 

 against Popery, 8vo., pp. 124., London, 1731. 



A reference to any account of these deaths from 

 cold, and of the pictures, will oblige P. E. 



My Eye and Betty Martin (2 nd S. ix. 315.)— 

 I grieve to see " N. & Q." transmitting to pos- 

 terity incorrect slang. Search all the authorities, 

 and it will surely be found that and has no right 

 to appear. I will answer for it that all old 

 stagers and old books will support me in giving 

 " All my eye Betty Martin " as the true formula. 

 And this affords some small confirmation of the 

 legend that " O mihi Beate Martine" is the source. 



M. 



Wright or Plowland (2 nd S. ix. 174. 313.) 



— There is a pedigree of this family, and some 

 account of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators, in 

 Poulson's History of Holderness, vol. ii. pp. 516, 

 517., 4to., 1841. John Wright, of Ploughland 

 Hall, Seneschale to Henry VIII., " came out of 

 Kent 33 Hen. VIII.," and married Alice, daugh- 

 ter and coheiress of John Ryther, Esq., by whom 

 he had a son and successor, Robert Wright, Esq. 

 (buried at Welwick 18th July, 1594), who, by his 

 first wife Ann, daughter of Thomas Grimston, of 



