LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1882.

CONTENTS.- N° 134.

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NOTES:-A Series of Eight Anonymous and Confidential
Letters to James II. and his Queen about the State of
Ireland, 61-Irish Folk-Lore. 63-A Cornish Vocabulary,
64-Shakspeariana-The Philological Society's New Dic-
tionary and the Names of Fruits, 65-Lexicon of the Swiss-
German Dialects-Gundreda, Countess of Surrey-Andrew
Broughton-A Mixed Metaphor, 66-A Bell dated 1295, 67.
QUERIES:-Foreign Tales founded on English History-N.
Parry-Applotted, &c.-"Salve festa dies"-Byron Family
-Flogging at the Cart's Tail-Game of Comet-M. Turner,
Surgeon, 67-H. Sykes-Coat of Arms-Goldsmith's "Tra-
veller"-J. Bobart, Botanist-"Marcasites"-A Roman
Eagle-A Book-plate-"Tales of an Indian Camp"-D.
Trelawny-Leatherbarrow Family-Worley-"Institution
of Philosophy." &c.-"Totalish ""Herschel's Weather
Table, 68-Cabell Family-Goulton-" Oade Oafing
D. Levi" Obeliscolychny"- Prof. Bliss, Astronomer
Royal-Bp. Cradock-Authors Wanted, 69.
REPLIES:-Parochial Registers, 69T. Tyrwhitt, 71-
Bewray" and "Wray"-John Knibb, 72-Lady's
Smock"-Popular Estimate of Southey-"Stork." 73-Old
Sermons-The Owl an Emblem of Death-"Quives "-The
Coronets of Dukes of the Blood Royal, 74-The Armour in
Middle Temple Hall-"Auster"-An Old Book-St. Giles's
Fair-A Biographical Peerage The Squire Papers-The
Witwall-Sir T. Abney. Cenomanni, 75-"Hanger
Curious Book-Plates-" Backstring" "Malte Money
Old Houses with Secret Chambers, 76-Order of Adminis-
tering to Communicants-Parslow Family-"Res subito
gesta"-"Navvy"-"Don't Marry"-Yard of Reer-"Le
Juif Polonais," 77-" County ""Vita sine literis," &c.-
Kentish Sayings-Funeral Armour in Churches-Épergne :
Surtout-Authors Wanted, 78.
NOTES ON BOOKS:-Skeat's "Etymological Dictionary of
the English Language "-Helsby's Ormerod's "History of
the County Palatine and City of Chester"-Gosse's "Gray
-Stuart's Funeral Tent of an Egyptian Queen," &c.
Notices to Correspondents, &c.

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A SERIES OF EIGHT ANONYMOUS AND CON-
FIDENTIAL LETTERS TO JAMES II. AND HIS
QUEEN ABOUT THE STATE OF IRELAND.
(Concluded from p. 23.)

A Copie of Another Letter sent to his Majesty,
Feby 14th 1686.

May it please your Majestie,-I know a Prince of your Malles great experience & the effect of it, yr great stock of wisdom may with as much reason laugh at my writeing to you of state affayrs as Alexander the Great did at the dictats of Diogenes. Yet if you can spare time from the great hurry you are in to read this Letter you wil I hope conclude it comes from a sincere friend to your interest I am sure it do's from a true Lover of your person. The last I sent you by the same hand that delivers this was dated the 23 of Octob last and I Confess I was not soe much pleasd at the writeing of it as the next day with f Marshes sermon against trimming, that jump'd as patly with most of what I offerd as if he and I compard notes I thank God your friends have reason now to be pleasd with the advances you make but of opinion that tho' you performd more in two than another Monarch woud in ten years there is nothing yet don that might not have bin executed sooner with less noyse and danger after the suppression of the late rebellion, for your Enemies were then so Cow'd by the unexpected good success of your small armie and the cutting off the head of that rebellion that you might have don what you pleasd with your parleament for the good of Catholics in order to smooth the way for pro

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pagating your religion & all woud have provd but what t your first goeing publicly to Mass did, Nine Days wonder, but the case is alterd since to that degree that many your then declar'd friends are now becom your Enemies in so much that there are as many if not more Cabals now on foot against you than were in the excludeing days, for the promis you gave them of maintaining Heresie and their believing you irresolut for not pushing on your Designs with that speed and vigor they expected has putt them upon fortifieing themselves against Poperie, and given them hopes of breaking all your Measure to pieces; They all see you resolve to make all the sayle you can (as they tearm it) towards Rome but their Comfort is that they have more than one Bronkard about you that are for slacking the sayles for gaining time: nay tis feard (and I pray God it may be without ground) that there are some near you that feign themselves of your party. that under that Colour they might like Angels of light the more easilie impose upon you. You are no doubt clear sighted enuff to discern friends & foes, but withall of an extream merciful good naturd & credulity which is an errour rather than a vice is an inseparable companion of good Nature, therefore it imports you to overcom in som cases your innat clemency & to be diffident of your self least you be deceavd with dissimulation and appearances nowhere so much practis'd as at Court the proper sphere of artifice; & that you may know who is for you & who against you get all great Men that pretend to be of your religion to make public abjuration of their heresie that their trimming may not prove fatal to you. you need not be told that one enemie within is more dangerous than many without a garrison; Let not your Courtiers run with the hounds and hold with the hair. When they abjure publicly they loos themselves with their party til which you canot reckon them as friendly & real Converts; I know that men of more pollicy than religion & that will choos to run with any tide to keep themselves from sinking may be apt to alleage yt more service can be don you in & out of parleament by Papists in masquerade than bare faced ones and that twere unreasonable to expect their hazarding their Lives & Estates while they may without that risque be full as if not more serviceable. To which plausible reasoning it may be answerd that there is no reason why you shoud show more tenderness to pretended than real Catholics that venture accepting imployments contrary to the (pre. tended) Law. And that no man is fitt to be your Ser vant especialy upon your now great occasion that does not serve God in truth and simplicity of heart which no man can be truely sayd to do that out of a mean servile fear and for worldly ends denies him before men; If men of estates wil not openly embarque with you for carrying on your great work and in order thereunto give what must infinitly contribut to it. good Example; In the name of God shew them that you can rayse men for your purpose. pitch upon persons without Estates but of known honesty & wisdom And (that without wch these two qualities can be of no importance) Courage, gifts not always intayld upon Estates & titles; make Creatures of your own that wil doe your bidding cheerfully, whose gratitude as well as good Conscience will engage them to be faythfull to your interest, be as your relation the French King is the immediat & sole dispenser of your favours that none of your subjects may have reason to say what was sayd to your royal father by my LA Holland who upon his being tax'd with ingratitude towards his King, confidently averr'd he cud not wel be call'd ungratefull. in as much as he was wholy indebted to the Duke of Buckingham. not to his Matie for all ye favors conferrd upon him. I am credibly inform'd that notwithstanding yr declard resolves to

the contrary your graces are at this very instant expos'd to sale not directly by your favorits but by their friends or brokers, that have power wth them and for a spill to themselves putt them upon recomending to your choyce men of good fame and som of 'em Catholics for civil employs especialy in your revenue which shud prevayle with you to make and declare a rule upon the new intended changes to prevent remedies as bad as diseases, that who ever is discover'd to com to any place for a bribe shall be not onely turnd out but for ever incapacitated to bear any office under you; since that of selling, misplaceing out of favor or affection or conferring the Kings graces upon men of great Estates & little meritt (who if once in favour make it their work to exclude men of parts from shareing in the governmt for fear of being eclypsd by them) is the greatest bane of Monarchy and that which has brought shame to its now low condition as the contrary practice has wrought contrary effects in France; of which I canot think without observeing to your Maule the admittance of any men for mony into your Troops of guards proves of very ill consequence for a bankrupt marchant a virulent French Hugonet, a valet de chambre or any little broken tradesman that can but advance sixty pds gets in to be a life guard man, which makes that a scandal now that was formerly counted & courted as an honour; The Guards ought be a Nursery where none shud be planted but known honest gentlemen and the sons of persons of qualitie that might grow up improve & be there ripend & fitted for military employs but many that woud otherwise reckon it a great honour to guard their Princes person do not covet being rankd with a company of scandalous obscure fellows, for instance I was wel assurd by an honest man eighteen months agoe that there was after the late rebellion one receivd into the Duke of Northumberlands troop that was formerly one of Doctor Oateses squires of the body. But the fellow being known by his phisiognomy not by his name I got the informer to come with me three severall days when the guard were amounting to show me him. but the life guard man not appearing & the other being calld into the Country I miss'd of the intended discovery. To remedy which 'twere adviseable to issue out orders to have a strict scrutiny made into the pedigree Lives Conversations & dispositions of those already in and hereafter to be taken into the guards. And as to the rest of your army many of your officers & corrupt Muster Masters cheat you notoriously by fals musters & that you may be satisfied of the truth of this please to ask Major Clifford and Leutenant Burk whether most of the Troops in my Lord Cornberys regiment be not short of their number.

St Most of your protestant officers love your mony but not your service They serve you contre coeur and hate those that serve you zealously as Cap" OConor is hated and envyd by most of the Capn' and under officers in Lord Peterborows regiment for noe other reason than his haveing made up the two best troops in it and brought in som 40 Catholics; you want many such officers in England which makes men of Judgemt wonder at your sending any English Catholics into Ireland in any station. except Ministers of Justice to prevent the Cromwellians charging the Irish with being Judges & parties, since Capable Catholics are far more necessary in England where they are secure than in that Catholic Country that has enow to spare, yet Leut Colonell Dorington is very much belovd & esteem'd by all the Natives there because they perceive he does his Masters busines with more than ordinary diligence affection, whereas the Irish officers & Soldiers in England are by the Natives here detested & look'd on as soe many Eye sores, spies & checks upon the severall companies & troops where they serve. the generalitie of the people here being as avers to as they

there are fond of the greatness of their Monarch which different inclinations proceed from the difference in principles, for nothing aws men more than the fear of God & where that fayles tis necessarie to suply it with that of ye prince who is no longer lovd nor obeyd than he is feard, but when it is in his power to range men of rebellious principles & dispositions to their duty by force & if the forces be made up of men disunited from their King in Religion, they are in case of rebellion raysd by Men of their own persuasion led to the suppression of it forcibly like Doggs that are beaten to make them hunt. against the graine, that never pursue the game heartily wittnes the militia in the West and a great part of the Irish Armie that upon my Lord Tyrconnells intended expedition against Argile were driven to their duty like so many boares to the stakes; sufficient reason for your Male to make as many Catholic head officers as you can. that may be allowd & injoynd to maintain learned & zealous Chaplains to preach Controversie to the respective Regiments to let them see that Popery is not so frightful a bugbear as it is painted which may by degrees convert the gros of your armie that is for the most part composd of the dreggs of the people that have little Religion in the most Catholic Country much less in England, where they have none but their groundles prejudice & aversion to Popery which is now made the standard of their Profession all the Kingdom over. Besides your Male shud loos no time in sending for the Regiment of Guards in Dublin & som of the best squadrons of your Irish Armie to be exchangd for some Protestant Troops to be sent hence into that Catholic Country which method canot but contribut very much to the good success of your affayrs for the Irish squadrons that com hither wil awe the malcontents that want noe incentive to a Rebellion but a head, that the conversation of Catholics with Protestants will remove much of that prejudice that is the main obstacle to their Conversion. Sr you have a greater standing Armie than any of your predecessors ever had which shud encourage you to go thorow stitch with that glorious work that is reserv'd for your performance; Harry the 8th did great matters when he had his dagger & beef-eaters, and your doing far greater depends under God of your will for as my Lord Hallyfax sayd talking of wt yr royall brother might do, Le Roy n'a qu'a vouloir, which putts me in mind of what Sr William Pettie sayd in your reign that we had a Monarch but knew not how much a Monarch he was pleas'd to be.

Sr all your well meaning subjects acknowledge you ever were a nice observer of the Law without violating or stretching of which you may perform what you promised in your first speech to your parleament, Carry the nations glory as far as (nay by infinit distances farther) than any of your predecessors ever did, for the most virulent of your Enemies agreed in the worst times that there never was born a Prince fitter to Govern this headstrong & mutinous generation of people But that you may not inflame their now predispossitions to a Rebellion do not meet them in Parleamt till you are sure of your Army and of what depends thereon their complyance; Pray S consider that hitherto when ever an English Parleament began to play tricks they might have grown worse but never better. Tis hopd you may with Gods grace live to reform that & all other unreasonable Customs, Since our Parleaments are much of the nature of a Bully insolent when they have to do with an easie irresolut Prince but very Calm when they know their man, & their apprehending you woud prove their match made them bend so violently against you when one of them declard that he was for haveing yo Lyon (Supposd in the Lobby) tyd before he were admitted into the house, they took James for a Lyon but find the King a Lamb, but tho you thought it beneath a

inquired, knowing him to be a man of a great deal of information. 'Why, I'm sure you must know," says he.

"A good many years ago there used to be a cow in that bog, like that one I showed you now, sir; and no one could tell how in the wide world she ever came there. All the people of Fermoy used to be milking her, numbers of 'em would come in course of the day, and they'd get their cans (milk pails) full. But one day a woman ov the name on I doesn't think of it now, sir; perhaps I'd think of it by an' by. Well, sir, as I was telling you, this woman, when she filled her can, like every one else, she determined to thry if she'd milk her dhry. So she tuk and began spilling milk on the ground; and, to make a long story short, sir, the cow went away that night, and was niver seen from that day till this." "I wonder, James," said I, "is that all true." "Oh, there's niver a word of lie in it, sir. I often heard it from my father. And my mother, the poor woman (God rest her soul !), said she often heard her mother tell of it. Oh, sir, 'tis a bad thing to make any waste wid new milk; 'tis a thing I never did myself nor ether I wouldn't like to see another do; nor I never saw any good come ov it.

"There was a woman-I knew her well, and so do you too, sir; and as there's no one here but friends, I'll tell you her name, Mrs. J--, and where she lived at, Bally- She used to wash herself and her eldest daughter in a big tub of new milk." "Is it possible?" said I. "There's

niver a word of lie in it; nor 'tisn't wanst nor thrice she did it; and maybe she'd want a drop of milk now.

Indeed," continued he, "I would not say agen a person that 'ud get a piggin* of buttermilk to wash himself in, because 'tis a wholesome thing; and 'tis a fine thing to wash a horse wid, by keeping it a week or two; it makes 'um shine as if you war using curry-comb and brush and everything else you could use wid 'em.

"I remember another story I heard often, nearly about the same thing, which I'll tell you, sir, as we're going along the road, and the day is early yet.

"There was a man living in the Little Island close by the say, and he had a couple of little fields there. Wan Sunday morning he got up, the poor man, he was thinking to go to Mass, of course, like every one else, and what should he see in his little patch ov wheat, or corn, or whatever thing it was, but a cow, and a hansome cow she was by the same token; so he tuk her ondoutidly out of his field, and brought her into his bawnt and got a chain and tied her there, and left her so. Away he went to Mass to Gloun† Farm-yard.

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thane, and he published her there and gave every token about her, but the owner wasn't to be found; so the week passed on and he went to Carrigtowill the next Sunday, and published her there too, and gev every tidings, but no owner was to be found, good nor bad. Well, sir, it came to pass in the course of time, I suppose in five or six years, or maybe longer, that there was four cows, that was got out ov her, milking in the bawn alongside their mother. Well, sir, the old cow began to kick, and she would not let herself be spanselled, let alone being milked, and the man's wife was the woman that was milking the cows, got into a fret wid her as she would not stay aisy, and she tuk up the spansell* and hit her wid it in the ribs. 'Ma-h, ma-h!' says the cow, giving a screech that wud frighten one, and she made at the say, and the four other ones wid her, and dived into it, and they were never seen nor heard of since.

"Tis bad thing," said my informant, when he finished his story; "tis bad thing to hit a cow wid a spansell. I wudn't mind a man wud hit her wid a whip or the flat of a stick; but 'tis not. at all lucky hitting ov her with a spansell."

The Dublin mail coach, coming down the road, obliging James to take care of the horse and butt he was following, put an end to our discourse, and perceiving it was drawing towards evening, Í pushed towards home, leaving him to follow at his leisure.

† A cart.