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copy, but ray remembrance is that the par- ticulars required will be found there. Q. V.

NINE MAIDENS (10 th S. ii. 128, 235, 396). May I add to the list the little -known example at Urquhart, on the Innes Estate, near Elgin 1 The circle is now incomplete, as several stones were removed in the last century and broken up.

W. H. QUARRELL.

There are two fine and little-known dolmens in a field opposite the " Cromlech" Inn at Dyffryn, Merioneth. ROBINIA.

"MALI" (10 th S. ii. 426). I am afraid my writing was indistinct. This should be rnale, not " mail." At all events, it is so printed in the extract of book quoted.

JAS. CURTIS, F.S.A.

WILLIAM III.'s CHARGERS AT THE BATTLE OF THE BOYNE (10 th S. ii. 321, 370, 415). I commend perusal of the contemporaneous and circumstantial relation of the battle of the Boyne, by an actual participant, in the Gentilhomme Xormand,' edited by MM. Charles Head arid Francis Waddington, Paris, 1864. This work has twice been mentioned by me in * X. & Q.' (9 th S. xi. 87 ; 10 th S. i. 446). The book may be found in the British Museum, press- mark 10663 g. There is no copy in America known to me other than the one in my possession. A quotation from its pages follows :
 * Memoires In edits de Duraont de Bostaquet,

"A pcine 1'avant-garde etoit-elle arrivee [at the Boyne J que le roi voulut s'approcher de la riviere pour conside'rer de plus pres le camp des ennemis, qui n'e'toient separes de nous que par cette riviere qui, de mer haute, n'est pas gueable en cet endroit. Les ennemis, qui avoient quelquea canons en bat- terie, tirerent sur le roi, et up boulet 1'approcha de si pres qu'il lui emporta partie de la manche de son surtout, rompit meme sa chemise et lui fit une le"gere contusion."' Memoires Inedits,' p. 269.

If the Editor will bear with me, I should like to emphasize here the importance of this truly delectable tale of the " Glorious Revo- lution of 1688." It is surprising that no English scholar has attempted its transla- tion. Extended mention of Dumont de Bostaquet is made in 'The Huguenots,' by Samuel Smiles, who gives an English version of a few paragraphs from the 'Memoires.' As I have before observed, the book, being of undoubted authenticity, merits an un- abridged translation. Lord Macaulay con- sulted the original manuscript when writing his ' History of England,' but made little use of it, owing, no doubt, to the difficulty of deciphering the old Norman-French in which it was written.

" Et n'a pu les utiliser qu'.i dater de la campagne d'Irlande (juillet, 1689) ; encore ne l'a-t-il paa fait comnie s'il ayait eu & sa disposition un document imprimd, au lieu d'un mamtxcrit d'une lecture peu courante." 'M6moires Inedits,' p. xxii, note.

EUGENE FAIRFIELD McPiKE. Chicago, U.S.

I wish to remind COL. MULLOY that MR. CHARLES DALTON in his interesting com- munication correctly surmised that it was not Col. Wolseley, but quite another officer namely, Capt. Mulloy who rendered valu- able assistance to William when he was unhorsed at the Boyne. My affection for Drogheda and its traditions (I am a great- great-grandson of Mr. Peter Dromgople, who not only entertained James II. in his house in Drogheda, but, what is more, was one of the few persons who remained true to their ungrateful king to the bitter end) induced me to enter the conflict originated by MR. DALTON ; and I venture to believe that the unimpeachable evidence I produced proved without any possible doubt whatever that Viscount Wolseley 's statement on the subject in his autobiography has simply no founda- tion in fact. HENRY GERALD HOPE.

119, Elms Road, Clapham, S.W.

How TO CATALOGUE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY TRACTS (10 th S. ii. 388). I do not know whether there is any book dealing specifically with the method of cataloguing such tracts ; but there is a catalogue already in existence which affords an admirable example of how the thing ought to be done. The title is as follows :

"Catalogue of a collection of historical tracts, 1561-1800, in DLXXXII volumes : collected and anno- tated by Stuart J. Reid. The gift of Mrs. Peter Redpath to the Redpath Library, McGill Univer- sity, Montreal. London : Printed by the donor for private circulation. MCMI." Only fifty copies were printed, but there is a copy in the University Library, Birming- ham, and probably in the libraries of other English universities. The collection which it represents is unique, and includes, doubt- less, a large number of the pamphlets with which INEXPERT has to deal. Mr. Reid in a note at the back of the title-page says :

tracts was a group of State pamphlets in forty volumes, gathered by Sir John Bramston, M.P. (1611-1700), Chairman of Committees in the House of Commons in the early years of Charles II. 'a
 * ' The basis of the present collection of historical

reign The collection as it now stands is rich in

Civil War and Commonwealth Tracts." The order is chronological, supplemented by an index to annotations (mainly bio- graphical). Regard being had to the enormous number of pamphlets which were issued