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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



|><« S. IX. May 12. '60. 



Author," or merely " A Hymn on the Last Judg- 

 ment?" 



Perhaps Mr. Chapped, who first proposed the 

 question as to authorship of the tune, will be able 

 to answer it so far as Madan and Helmsley are 

 concerned. 



As Mr. Sedgwick has announced a reprint of 

 Olivers's Hymns, with Memoir, it would be well if 

 the question could be settled at once. C. D. H. 



Drisheens (2 rd S. ix. 93.) — Your correspon- 

 dent Mr. Redmond is informed that the materials 

 of which this favourite dish is compounded are, 

 the serum of the blood of sheep mixed with milk 

 and seasoned with pepper, salt, and tansy. This 

 is sold made up in the puddings of sheep which 

 have been purified : they are generally about a 

 yard long, and usually served hot for breakfast, 

 and eaten with drawn butter, and red or black 

 pepper according to taste. A part of the Cork 

 market is exclusively appropriated for the sale of 

 drisheens, tripes, and sheep's trotters. Drisheens 

 were formerly quite a fashionable dish, and were 

 not unfrequently to be met with at the supper- 

 table. Mr. Bryan A. Cody, in his excellent little 

 work, The River Lee, Co?-k, and the Corhonians, 

 p. 118., says : — 



" In Fishamble Lane, some of the choicest spirits of the 

 city, as well as its merriest roisterers, held jovial suppers, 

 seasoned by the most brilliant wit and rare scholarship. 

 Here Millfkin, Maginn, Tolekin, Boyle, and other mem- 

 bers of the Deipnosophists, enjoyed ' the flow of soul,' and 

 pushed their revels far into the night. Tolekin has cele- 

 brated the spot in a song full of racy humour, entitled 

 * Judy M'Carthy, of Fishamble Lane.' It was famous for 

 its oj'sters, beefsteaks and drisheens," &c. 



The verse of the above-mentioned song having 

 reference to our subject, is as follows : — 



" They may rail at the city where first I was born, 

 But it's there they've the whiskey, and butter, and pork ; 

 And a neat little spot for to walk in each morn — 

 They call it Daunt's Square, and the city is Cork. 

 The square has two sides — why one east and one west, 

 And convenient's the region of frolic and spree, 

 Where salmon, drisheens, and beef steaks are cooked 



best: 

 Och ! Fishamble's the Eden for you, love, and me ! " 



R. C. 



Cork. 



The Sinews of War and the Rev. Mr. 

 Struther (2 nd S. ix. 103. 228.)— An old in- 

 stance of this phrase, " the sinews of war," in re- 

 ference to money, is used by a Scotch writer in 

 the following passage. He is speaking of the 

 conquests of the Spaniards in South America, or, 

 as he terms it, " The New found Land," p. 102. : — 



" But it (that countiy) did soone avenge itselfe on 

 these oppresaours by insnaring them with riches : It 

 furnished to Europe the instruments of sinne, the matter 

 of Avarice, Lust, and Strife, and the sinnewes of Wane. 

 The plate of siluer and Gold that came from it is nothing 

 else but allurements to sinne, and wages to entertaine 

 Warres in Europe to revenge her wrongs done to America, 



and so the pontring (digging) in the bowels of that 

 land for money is recompensed by turning Europe in a 

 buriall place." (Christian Observations and Resolvtions, 

 II Centurie, Newlie published by Mr. William Strvther, 

 Preacher of the Gospel at Rdinbvrgh — Edinbvrgh Printed 

 by the Heires of Andro Hart, Anno Dom. 1629, 18 mo , pp. 

 668. 



This quaintly written volume, and from a cele- 

 brated press, is dedicated to " the Right Noble and 

 Potent Earle, John Earle of Wigtoun, Lord 

 Fleyming, Bigger, CumingsAoW, & c ., and one of 

 his Ma most honourable priuie Council," whose 

 mother was " that truelie Religious Ladie Dame 

 Lillias Grahame." 



The author appears to have attended at her 

 death-bed, and had formerly been tutor to the 

 earl (" in directing your Lo. Studies "), to whom 

 and to his "religious Ladie and numerous chil- 

 dren," he wishes preservation " from all the wicked- 

 nesse of this dangero us time," &c. 



Mr. Struther, in his " Epistle Dedicatorie," 

 farther affords us a peep into the religious condi- 

 tion of some of the domestic establishments of the 

 Scottish nobility in the olden times : — 



" Wliat a griefe is it (says he) to see the neglect of Gods 

 worshippe in many Noble Houses : There is great care and 

 prouision for the backe and the bellie, but nothing for the 

 Soule. Manie Seruants, great seruice, and appointed times, 

 places, and dyets for bodilie necessities, but none of all these 

 for the spirituall : If there be any thing of that sort it is at 

 Meale-time, and then a Page is called up from swaggering 

 in the Kitching, or strugling in the Woman house to play the 

 Leuite : So the greatest worke of the House is committed 

 to him that hath least grace," &c. 



I may notice that in looking over old books 

 there are often found dedications to public per- 

 sonages, containing many details and particulari- 

 ties of individual and family history now quite 

 obsolete and forgotten, and, as a source of infor- 

 mation to genealogists and others, they in their 

 own sphere ought not, I think, to be laid aside. 

 No doubt in panegyric they are generally fulsome 

 and exaggerated, but taking along with us the 

 spirit and character of the age in which they were 

 written, and as near as possible adjusting the 

 balance, a few useful hints may sometimes be ob- 

 tained. 



May I inquire whether any of the Edinburgh 

 correspondents of "N. & Q." have made the ac- 

 quaintance of Mr. Struther; and if so, to com- 

 municate ? G. N. 



The earliest use of this expression in English 

 recorded in the editorial answer to this Query is 

 copied from Boyer's Diet. 1702. I venture to 

 offer two extracts of earlier date in which this 

 phrase is used. 



(a.) From The Life and Death of the Illustrious 

 Robert Earl of Essex, by R. Codrington, M.A. 

 London, 1646 : — 



" Money is the Sinew of War, to provide themselves 

 with which the City were desired to bring in their Plato 

 to make it Sterling for that Service." 



