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NOTES AND QUERIES.

s. n. JULY 2, 190*.

TITULADOES (10 th S. i- 449). -It has already been explained at 5- S. viii 238 that they were persons who were found in possession of lands in Ireland about 1659, and who might be supposed to have a presumptive title to them. In fact, the Census would appear to give a list of the Cromwellian proprietors before the settlement of the Court of Claims after the restoration of Charles II.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

" Tituladoes " is a very late Anglo-Saxon way of writing Castilian titulados= u titled people " or "men of quality." Another proof of the influence of Spain upon Ireland is the fact that the English " sixpence " is still called in the Gaelic of Kerry, as I was there told in 1897, a real, the name of a Spanish coin, now worth only 25 centimes, but formerly more. E. S. DODGSON.

This word is doubtless the Spanish titulado, a person having a title. The so-called Census of Ireland of 1659 appears to have been compiled in connexion with " An Ordinance for the speedy raising of moneys towards the supply of the Army and for defraying of other Publick Charges," which was made by the General Convention of Ireland in 1660, a few weeks before the Restoration. This ordinance, after mentioning the vexatious oppressions which had been occasioned by the unequal levying of public assessments, provides for the imposition of a capitation tax on every person of either sex over fifteen years of age. It orders that those under the rank of a yeoman or farmer should pay 12d of a gentleman 2s., of an esquire 4s., of a knight 10s., of a baronet 20s., of a baron 30s. of a viscount 4., of an earl 5J., and of a marquis 6/., and that a marquis should paj 8/. The tituladoes would therefore appeal to have been the persons who were to be assessed at a higher rate than the populace and the supposition that only those ove fifteen years of age were included in th_ enumeration would show that the population was not then so extraordinarily small as th figures in the Census indicate.

F. ELRINGTON BALL. Dublin.

TRIAL OF QUEEN CAROLINE (10 th S. i. 127 174). See " Minutes of Evidence taken o the Second Reading of the Bill intitule 4 An Act to deprive Her Majesty Carolin Amelia Elizabeth of the Title, Prerogative. Rights, Privileges, and Exemptions of Quee Consort of this Realm, and to dissolve th Marriage between His Majesty and the sai Caroline Amelia Elizabeth,'" which wer

Ordered to be printed 21st August, 1820. ' hey are 'Lords' Paper' 105 of 1820. My opy is bound up with " Communications on he part of the Queen with His Majesty's Government. Laid before both Houses of parliament, June, 1820. London : Printed by I. G. Clarke, at the London Gazette Office, Iso the Bill and a few newspaper extracts, )ne of the last gives a list of the " peers who oted for the Queen on the third reading," ith three columns of figures headed respec- ively * Their Wives,' ' Daughters above 8 years,' 'Mothers, Sisters, and Aunts/ 'hus the first in the list, Arden, is given as aving one wife, three daughters above 8 years, and three of the last category. The otals are 74 wives, 68 daughters above 18, ,nd 220 mothers, sisters, and aunts. Then ollows : " Grand Total of Females 362 ! ! ?he above is an accurate statement of the emale connexions of the Peers who opposed he third reading of the Queen's " (I suppose ence). It is no doubt intended to be implied! ,hat petticoat influence defeated the BilL The extract is without name or date.
 * hat " divorce bill " would complete the sen-

There is a book called " The Royal Exile ; 3r, Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of Her Majesty, Caroline, Queen Consort of

Great Britain by J. H. Adolphus. London,

1821," two volumes. My copy, which has many coloured portraits, &c., has at the end of vol. ii. "The Death-Bed Confessions of
 * he late Countess of Guernsey to Lady Anne

H " thirty-first edition, with a coloured

frontispiece. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

PHCEBE HESSEL, THE STEPNEY AMAZON (10 th S. i. 406). I think, if one may credit the Admiralty and Horse Guards Gazette of some few years back, that Phoebe Hessel's monu- ment in Brighton churchyard gives her birthplace as Chelsea, not Stepney. She served for many years, according to the account alluded to, in the 5th Foot, but Kirke's Lambs were, I believe, the 2nd Foot, Living at Brighton, she became known to George IV., then Prince Regent, who sent to ask what sum of money would make her comfortable. " Half-a-guinea a week," re- plied old Phoebe, " will make me as happy as a princess." This was paid her till 21 December, 1821, when she died, aged 108 years.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. "THE BETTER THE DAY THE BETTER THE

DEED" (10 th S. i. 448). In 4 th S. v. 285 it was pointed out that this was an English render- ing of a French proverb, "Bon jour, bonne ceuvre,"or, making the meaning clear enough, "Aux bons jours les bonnes ceuvres." At