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 ID- s. iv. SEPT. g. 1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 207 extraction, and to have derived the title from De Burgo, one of De Courcy's followers. Can any one explain who this De Burgo was, and the connexion of the Quillins with hint! On the other hand, 1 cull from the State Records, "May 22nd, 1542," "M'Quillin, a Welsh adherent of O'Neil, craves pardon." I am desirous of tracing the arras of the family ; but here, unfortunately, one has not access to Irish pedigrees, and, if I am rightly informed, such things were kept in a very slipshod fashion in Ireland in the years that have gone. Any information on this subject would much oblige. BERNARD LOBD M'QuiLLiN. 3, Garendon Street, Leicester. DANTE'S SONNET TO GUIDO CAVALCANTI.— In the ninth line of Dante's well-known sonnet addressed to Guido Cavalcanti two ladies are referred to among those whom Dante wished to accompany him on his enchanted bark :— E monna Vanna e monna Bice poi. The second name has been held by most commentators, down to Mr.PagetToynbee, to be the abbreviated name of Dante's Beatrice, who is so named in her father's will, notwith- standing the improbability that Dante, who always speaks of his lady iu terms of the deepest reverence, should make use of such a familiar address when alluding to her. Dean Pluinptre, in a note to the sonnet, observes :— " It may be noted that in some MSS. Lagia takes the place of Bice, as though the sonnet had been written by Cino da Pistoia, who addressed many of his poems to a Selvaggia, a name of which Lagia may have been a diminutive." In the' Oxford Dante' Lagia is substituted for Bice ; but as this edition has no notes, no reason is assigned for the change, and the same reading is adopted in the American A. C. White, printed at the Oxford Uni- versity Press. Monna Lagia is said by some to have been the beloved of Dante's friend Lapo Gianni, •who is mentioned in the first line of Dante's sonnet to Cavalcanti. I should like to have some explanation of these changes in the received text of Dante. JOHN HEBB. BLORE'S STAFFORDSHIRE COLLECTIONS. —Can any one indicate the present owner of the «arly volumes of Collections for a History of Staffordshire, made by Thomas Blore, the eminent topographer? Vol. iv. is especialjy •wanted. But vol. vi.—a solid quarto—is in the Salt Library at Stafford ; and, as this volume has within it the name of " W. Hamper, Birmingham, 1814," the collections were probably sold by Thomas Blore himself. I should be greatly obliged to any one giving me a hint of the present whereabouts of the missing volumes. Answers may be sent direct. G. B. BERESFORD. 76, Cambridge Road, Ilford. CURTIS : HUGHES : WORTH. — Hugh Ken- nedy, of Cultra, co. Down (1711-63), married —so Burke's 'Landed Gentry' informs me— Mabel Curtis, coheiress with her sister, Mrs. Forbes. Beyond this I fail to find anything concerning the family. Can any one help me here? A certain "Thomas Hughes, of Tipperary," married, about 1780, Dorothea Newenham, daughter of Sir Edward Newenham, of Cool- more, co. Cork. Was the above-mentioned Thomas Hughes a son, or a grandson, of the Thomas Hughes, of Archerstown, co. Tippe- rary, who married, in 1720, Elizabeth Annes- ley, daughter of Francis Annesley (Valentia) by his wife Deborah Paul ? Any information concerning the Hughes family will be grate- fully received. Edward Worth, Chief Barop of the Exche- quer in Ireland, at the close of the seven- teenth century, married—according to Lodge, ed. 1789—"Dorothy died Gth of May, 1732." Can any one kindly give me her surname ? KATHLEEN WARD. Castle Ward, Downpatrick. GRAHAM FAMILY BIBLE.—From the family Bible—one of the first block prints (1604 ?)— of the Grahams of Edenbrows, Cumberland, of which the late Lieut.-General Sir Gerald Graham, G.C.B., was the head, six of the fly- leaves are missing. These leaves, which con- tain the record of the family, were removed by some member of it about thirty years ago ; and should they be in existence the possessor of them would oblige by communicating with me, so that they may serve their purpose in connexion with the genealogy and history of the house of Graham, on which I am engaged. W. M. GRAHAM EASTON. Great Russell Mansions, W.C. DETACHED BELFRIES. — What other ex- amples exist in this country of the above, besides Chichester. East Dereham, and Evesham ? 1 have illustrations and plan and section of the one that used to exist at Salisbury. Of course, I only require mention of old ones still extant. JOHN A. RANDOLPH. "BusH AND GREASE."—What is the mean- ing of this expression ? It occurs in the excellent German novel 'Jorn Uhl,' by
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