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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2 nd S. IX. June 30. '60. 



earliest notice we have of him is the licence be- 

 fore-mentioned to found a chantry at Kirkbv, 9 

 Edward II., 1315-16, — a period of sixty years 

 intervening, in which occurred the deaths of his 

 grandfather and father, and, we may assume, his own 

 birth ; and he was murdered ten years later, viz. 

 January 29th, 1S26 ; from which (even on the sup- 

 position that his father died comparatively young) 

 it would ensue that the judge could not have been 

 a very young man at the time of his murder. This 

 is still farther evinced by his widow having sur- 

 vived, according to Burton (Hist, of Leicester- 

 shire, ed. 1777, p. 138.), until the 4th Richard II., 

 1380-1, the long period of fifty-four years, and 

 the fact recorded in Foss's Judges of England, iii. 

 231., that "they had a son Roger quite an infant 

 at the father's death." 



Srdly. The monument at Ashby Folville, " said 

 to be for old Folvile ivho sleio Beler," is almost a 

 fac-simile in design with that at Kirby, although 

 of inferior material and execution, and is clearly 

 of the same or nearly the same period. The head, 

 however, rests on a double cushion instead of on 

 the tilting-helm, and it has one peculiarity which 

 I did not mention in my Query, viz. a thin iron 

 rod, or spike, fixed in the right breast with lead, 

 and protruding several inches, which local tradi- 

 tion asserts to represent the arrow by which Sir 

 Eustace was slain by one of the judge's retainers. 

 The quatretbils enclosing shields on the altar- 

 tomb (if it be the original tomb) would clearly 

 point, as J. G. N. justly remarks, to a later date 

 than that indicated by the armour. 



4thly. I will not positively assert that the effi- 

 gies of the two knights may not originally have 

 been represented as armed with sword and dagger 

 attached to the jewelled bawdriek still remaining, 

 as supposed by J. G. N.; but it is at least ex- 

 traordinary that no fragments of the one or the 

 other weapon should be found adhering to the 

 side of the knights, or to the body of the animal at 

 his feet, in either instance, of which I do not re- 

 collect in my examination of the monuments to 

 have discovered the slightest traces. 



William Kelly. 



Leicester. 



LEONARD MAC NALLY. 



(2 ud S. viii. 281. 341. ; ix. 392.) 



I willingly cooperate in the attempt made by 

 your correspondent Fidelis to produce any 

 available redeeming traits in the character of 

 Mac Nally, the paid counsel of the United Irish- 

 men and the secret pensioner of the Crown. I 

 fear, however, it will not be easy to effect a 

 counterpoise. The following letter, signed "L.M. 

 N.," appeared in a Dublin newspaper in the year 

 1817. Exclusive of the initials, the internal evi- 

 dence suggests that Mac Nally was the writer. 



He was passionately fond of theatricals, and wrote 

 a number of dramatic pieces. Mac Nally's cham- 

 pionship of the oppressed actress is creditable; but 

 the concluding paragraph displays a species of 

 cocpietry to which Mac Nally was sometimes ad- 

 dicted. William John FitzPatrick. 



" To Mrs. Edwin. 

 " Madam, — In a woman modesty and forbearance are 

 amiable properties. They add grace to every acquisition, 

 and reflect lustre upon the whole circle of moral and in- 

 tellectual qualities — that they reign supreme in your 

 mind is certain, and cherish with them this elevated 

 principle — forgiveness of injuries. Your choosing to en- 

 dure the oppression of being banished from the Stage by 

 managerial caprjce, and deprived of all the rights and 

 immunities which the high rank you hold in your pro- 

 fession entitle you to, rather than obtrude your grievances 

 on the public, render you (if possible) an object of stronger 

 interest than ever. Every honest, feeling, and unpreju- 

 diced heart, must consider it a duty to succour and 

 redress an unprotected woman thus situated. Can the 

 Proprietors of Crow-street imagine the taste of the Dublin 

 audience so lamentably debased, and their standard of 

 admiration become so low, as to prefer the wretched me- 

 lange nightly exhibited at the Theatre, which at times 

 would disgrace the Boulevards of Paris, to the legitimate 

 Drama, and your chaste, inimitable performances? Thank 

 heaven, we are not yet quite so vitiated ; we long again 

 to distil sweetness and instruction from Classical Plays, 

 to be again enlightened by the ethereal fire of intellect, 

 and not to feel the ahuchles of subjugation even in our 

 amusements. We shall soon demand what we have a right 

 to expect, your more frequent appearance — glimpses of 

 you, 



' Like angels' visits, short, and far between,' 



will no longer satisfy us. 



"In London the Public are nightly given, at Covent 

 Garden, the united talents of Bliss O'Neil and Miss Ste- 

 phens, why 7 , then, are we not given Mrs. Edwin and Miss 

 Kelly? Let the Managers attend to this wish of the 

 Public, and it will save all parties a world of trouble. It 

 would prove a national good, if legislators were obliged 

 to see that our amusements were well selected, as intel- 

 lectual exhibitions regulate and organize the mind, while 

 those of frivolity debase and demoralize it. 



"Before I conclude allow me, Madam, to inform you, 

 that while I continue your Panegyrist you shall never 

 know me — all old men are more or less eccentric. I have 

 my whims, and one of them is, a dislike to being thanked 

 for doing what I think my duty. Do not be depressed — 

 rest assured, ' you are the people's choice ! ' and the thorns 

 that envy would thrust into your wreath of laurel will 

 soon fall to the ground. Farewell — accept. my wishes, 

 that through life your steps may be strewed with flowers 

 and surrounded with blessings. 



" I remain, Madam, 



Most respectfully, vours, 



L. M. N." 



HERALDIC ENGRAVING. 

 (2 r - d S. ix. 371. 450.) 

 The notice on this subject by C. S. P. is very 

 interesting. That writer does not refer to mine, 

 and I presume did not observe it. 



I have before me the passages from the two 

 works of Marc Vulson de la Colombiere, in each 

 of which he claims, or seems to claim, to be the 



