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NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION

FOR

LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

"When found, make a note of."--Captain Cuttle.

VOL. V.--No. 120. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14. 1852.

Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5_d._




CONTENTS.

                                                                Page


      NOTES:--

      The Old Countess of Desmond                                145

      The Imperial Eagle of France                               147

      Folk Lore:--Valentine's Day--Nottingham Hornblowing--Bee
      Superstitions; Blessing Apple-trees;
      "A Neck! a Neck!"--Hooping Cough                           148

      Note on the Coins of Vabalathus                            148

      The Agnomen of "Brother Jonathan," of Masonic
      Origin                                                     149

      Minor Notes:--Hippopotamus, Behemoth--Curious
      Inscription--Coins of Edward III. struck at Antwerp
      in 1337                                                    149

      QUERIES:--

      Is the Walrus found in the Baltic?                         150

      English Free Towns, by J. H. Parker                        150

      Minor Queries:--Bishop Hall's Resolutions--Mother
      Huff and Mother Damnable--Sir Samuel Garth--German's
      Lips--Richard Leveridge--Thomas Durfey--Audley
      Family--Ink--Mistletoe excluded from
      Churches--Blind taught to read--Hyrne, Meaning of--The
      fairest Attendant of the Scottish Queen--"Soud,
      soud, soud, soud!"--Key Experiments--Shield
      of Hercules--"Sum Liber, et non sum," &c.                  150

      MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Whipping a Husband;
      Hudibras--Aldus--"The last links are broken"--Under
      Weigh or Way--The Pope's Eye--"History
      is Philosophy"                                             152

      REPLIES:--

      Coverdale's Bible, by George Offor                         153

      "As Stars with Trains of Fire," &c.,
      by Samuel Hickson                                          154

      Dials, Dial Mottoes, &c.                                   155

      Can Bishops vacate their Sees?                             156

      Character of a True Churchman                              156

      Wearing Gloves in Presence of Royalty                      157

      Gospel Oaks                                                157

      The Pendulum Demonstration                                 158

      Expurgated Quaker Bible, by Archdeacon Cotton              158

      Junius Rumours                                             159

      Wady Mokatteb not mentioned in Num. xi. 26.,
      by Rev. Dr. Todd                                           159

      Replies to Minor Queries:--Rotten Row--"Preached from a
      Pulpit rather than a Tub"--Olivarius--Slavery in Scotland
      --Cibber's Lives of the Poets--Theoloneum--John of
      Padua--Stoke--Eliza Fenning--Ghost Stories--Autographs of
      Weever and Fuller--Lines on the Bible--Hell-rake--Family
      Likenesses--Grimsdyke--Portraits of Wolfe, &c.             160

      MISCELLANEOUS:--

      Notes on Books, &c.                                        166

      Books and Odd Volumes wanted                               166

      Notices to Correspondents                                  167

      Advertisements                                             167




Notes.


THE OLD COUNTESS OF DESMOND.

(_Continued from_ Vol. iv., p. 426.)

I feel much obliged to J. H. M., who writes from Bath, and has directed
my attention to Horace Walpole's "minute inquiry" respecting the "Old
Countess of Desmond," as also to "Pennant's Tours," all which I have had
opportunity of examining since I wrote to you last. The references do
not incline me to alter one word of the opinion I have ventured as to
the identity of this lady; on the contrary, with the utmost respect for
his name and services to the cause of antiquarian research, I propose to
show that Horace Walpole (whose interest in the question was, by his own
confession, but incidental, and ancillary to his historic inquiries into
the