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Dr. John Pellisier (" e stirpe adventitia ortum," 

 as he is described in the College Registry) was 

 Vice-Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and 

 Professor of Divinity in 1746. I lately read 

 somewhere a very plausible statement about Ca- 

 vaignac, which it asserted was none other than 

 Kavanagh in a foreign guise, or rather disguise. 



No sooner was the late atrocious prize-belt 

 barbarity * perpetrated than it was confidently 

 stated that the rival champions were of Irish ex- 

 traction, and we were desired to believe that those 

 " rough diamonds " were Emerald gems. Just as 

 we were beginning to lament the sad degeneracy 

 of the Island of Saints, The Times consolingly 

 assured us in its leading article that it required 

 two great nations to produce two such men. So 

 believing that the " parties " in question came re- 

 spectively frbm the county of Tipperary and the 

 " Kingdom of Kerry," we " laid the flattering 

 unction to our soul," and began to think that 

 things must be looking up when Ireland can be a 

 convertible term for two great nations. 



Alas ! half of the delusion has been ruthlessly 

 dispelled since Bell's Life has given such a cir- 

 cumstantial account of Mr. Sayers's parentage. 

 If not a profanation of your classic pages, — which, 

 as " a medium of intercommunication for genealo- 

 gists," may perhaps tolerate the Query, — would 

 some of your correspondents supply enough of the 

 Heenan pedigree to enable us to judge of that 

 young gentleman's claims to be engrafted on the 

 "ould stock." 



I should be glad also to learn whether there is 

 any truth in the above plausible account of Gari- 

 baldi's parentage. It is strange that those who 

 will sympathise with the Papal Irish brigade 

 should take the trouble to claim such an arch-rebel, 

 as they are pleased to style Garibaldi. 



Strange also it is that fighting should be the 

 forte of all the above-named celebrities! An Eng- 

 lish friend suggests that this very fact is an a priori 

 argument for their Hibernian origin. 



John Ribtox GABSTrx. 



Dudley, Earl of Leicester. — A new life of 

 this celebrated statesman and courtier has been 

 for some time in preparation by a lady, who is 

 anxious to do justice to so important a subject 

 by the careful study and examination of the nu- 

 merous documents relating to him which are pre- 

 served either in print or in manuscript. Every- 

 thing referring to Leicester possesses so much 



[• Had our correspondent read the sensible remarks of 

 the Premier upon this subject, we think he would have 

 somewhat modified his strictures upon what all admit to 

 have been a remarkable display of "pluck" and endur- 

 ance on the part of the representatives of the two " Great 

 Nations." In saying this we would not be understood as 

 advocating a return of the svstem of Prize Fighting. — 

 Ed. "N. &Q."] 



public interest, that short unpublished papers 

 illustrating his history will probably be admissible 

 into the columns of " X. & Q.," while any too long 

 for that purpose would be thankfully received 

 and acknowledged by the authoress referred to, if 

 addressed to Mrs. Pemberton Gipps, No. 10. 

 Hereford Square, Old Brompton, near London. 



J. O. H. 

 Vaticixiim Stultobum: the Talbot Fa- 

 mily. — 



"It has been recorded by Christr. Townley, as a tradi- 

 tion of the neighbourhood in his time, that Hen. VI. 

 when betrayed by the Talbots foretold nine generations 

 of the family in succession, consisting of a wise and a weak 

 man by turns, after which the name should be lost. . . . 

 This, however, is not the only instance in which Henry 

 is reported to have displayed that singular faculty, the 

 Taticiniuni Stultorum." " (See Whitaker's History of 

 WhaUey.) 



In what other instance did Henry VI. display 

 this faculty as here alluded to ? And is it not an 

 almost invariable rule that seldom, if ever, we see 

 the son of a distinguished man possessed of the 

 talents which raised his father to eminence ? • 



Ithltriel. 



Boleyx ant) Hammond. — In Lodge's Peerage 

 of Ireland, under " Ludlow," Pkineas Preston of 

 Ardsallagh, an ancestor of the heiress of that fa- 

 mily, afterwards married to Peter Ludlow, father 

 of the first Baron Ludlow, is said to have married 

 Letitia, daughter of Colonel Robert Hammond, 

 who, it is added, "was descended in the female line 

 from the Boleyn family." Can any of your readers 

 furnish the connecting links between the families 

 of Boleyn and Hammond ? I have reason for 

 thinking that they are to be sought in the fami- 

 lies either of "Knollys" or "Carey," but have not 

 been as yet successful in tracing them out. The 

 Colonel Robert Hammond alluded to is, I pre- 

 sume, the man who had custody of King Charles I. 

 when in captivity at Carisbrooke Castle. W. H. J. 



Mural Burial. — Blomefield mentions an in- 

 stance at Foulden in Norfolk, thus : — On the 

 foundation of the south aisle, facing the church- 

 yard, is an arched monument over a flat marble 

 gravestone, partly covered by the arch, partly 

 by the wall. It appears to be about temp. Ed- 

 ward I. Blomefield says these arched monuments, 

 and this "immuring of founders," were common 

 in ancient days. Did the custom arise from the 

 more barbarous one of burying a living person in 

 the foundation-wall "for luck?" We read of 

 such burials in old history, but they neither 

 averted attack nor ruin. F. C. B. 



Mural Burial. — In the church of Preshute, 

 near Marlborough, co. Wilts, which was restored 

 a very few years since, on pulling down one of the 

 old walls, whieh was of extraordinary thickness, a 

 body was discovered in the wall near the site of 

 the pulpit. Not having met with any archceolo- 



