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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. v. MARCH 3, im.

MY DEAR SARAH, Receive him as you do yoir other lovers. Yours, &c.,

WELLINGTON, F. M.

SHERBORNE.

General Sir Robert Boyd was remarkable for the brevity of his dispatches. Whilst Governor of Gibraltar, he is said to have written to his agent Mr. Browne in England for his own private stores in three words : " Browne beef Boyd."

The reply which accompanied the stores was equally laconic: "Boyd beef Browne."

R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

"FROM THE THICK FILM " (10 th S. V. 129).

The extract given by MR BURTON is from a speech by the Right Hon. John Bright, M.P. for Birmingham, delivered in the House of Commons during the debate on the second reading of the Bill for the Disestablishment of the Irish Church, 19 March, 1869. The extract is correct except that the word " reillurnine " should be relume.

The two lines of poetry are from Pope's He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day.
 * Messiah,' slightly altered. They should read :

JOHN PATCHING.

I heard John Bright deliver this speech in the House of Commons, and remember his declaiming the lines, and how he pronounced pour as " power." GRENDIAR.

TYRONE : ITS HISTORY (10 th S. v. 89). DRUMNAFERN may find the following short list of titles useful :

1. A True Relation of the Taking of Mountjoy, in the County of Tyrone, by Colonel Clotworthy. 4to, Lond., 1642.

2. Lectures on Lough Neagh and the Counties Contiguous. 8vo, Dublin, 1751.

3. Statistical Survey of the County Tyrone, with Observations by John McEvoy. 8vo, Dublin, 1802.

4. A Breefe Memoriall of the Lyfe and Death of Doctor James Spottiswood, Bishop of Clogher, in Ireland. 4to, pp. 78, Edin., 1811.

5. Genealogical and Historical Sketch of the

Stuarts of Castle Stuart, in Ireland. By G. A.

Stuart. 4to, Edin., 1854.

6. Newtownstewart : a Graphic and Tragic Tale. With Notes Scenic and Historic. By Nemo (i.e., Francis Gordon). 16mo. pp. 96, Belfast, 1872.

7. Two Centuries of Congregational History (i e., of First Strabane Presbyterian Congregation). By Rev. James Gibson, Strabane, 1872.

8. Topographical Researches in Armagh and Tyrone. By Edward Rogers. 4to, Armagh, 1874.

9. St. Eugene of Ardstraw. By the Most Rev. John K. O'Doherty, D.D., Bishop of Derry. 8vo, pp. 20. Dublin, n.d. (c. 1884).

10. The History of the Corry Family of Castle- coole. By the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Belmore. 8vo, 1891.

11. Notes on the Literary History of Strabane. Bv A. Albert Campbell. ISmo, pp. 92, Omagh, 1902.

12. The History of Two Ulster Manors and their Owners. By the Eirl of Belmore, P.C, G.C.MG. 8vo, pp. xiv and 456, London, 1903. One of the Manors is Finagh, co. Tyrone.

The Rev. W. T. Latimer frequently con- tributes articles on local history to The Tyrone Constitution, Omagh ; and several detached articles with illustrations are to be found in The Dublin Penny Journal and The Irish Penny Journal.

As I am compiling a ' Bibliography of Ulster,' a portion of which has already appeared in The Ulster Journal of Archaeology, I shall be happy to afford any further infor- mation, either through your columns or directly. JOHN S. CRONE.

Kensal Lodge, N.W.

THOMAS POUNDE, S.J. (10 th S. iv. 184, 268, 472 ; v. 14, 96). In view of the interesting contribution by MR. EVERITT at the last reference, the following excerpt from 'The Chronicle of St. Monica's, Louvain, 1548- 1635' (Sands, 1904), at pp, 151-2, may be of interest:

" In the year 1614 was professed, upon the 17th of August, Sister Helen Brittan, daughter to George Brittan of Mountfarderi, * in Wiltshire, an esquire of ancient noble family, who married a niece of the Earl of Southampton and suffered many troubles for his conscience, insomuch that, having a priest taken in his house, he was condemned to death, but escaped by means of good friends, and remained confined to his house, having made away his estate unto his eldest son, Sir Harry Brittan. The rest of the children were left to the' Lady Catherine Corn- wallis, their cousin, to take care of them, their mother being dead, and himself living a holy retired life, saying daily the Roman Breviary, and giving himself to prayer and good works. This his daughter, Helen Brittan, not liking to live accord- ing to the said lady's appointment, got her good- will that she might come over seas to her cousin, Mrs. Fortescue, who lived at St. Omer's." As to Sir Harry Brittan, Thos. Founders nephew, Dom Adam Hamilton (op. cit., p. 88) says:

" In 1621 Sir George More reported to the House of Commons that John Hollis, second son of Lord Houghton, and Sir Henry Bretton, both papists, had been returned for Galton by Mr. Copleys influence, he owning almost all the town, while Sir Thomas Gresham and Sir Thomas Bludder had been chosen by the freeholders. The House declared the election of the two papists void."

As to Lady Catherine Cornwallis, Thos. Pounde's cousin, Dom Hamilton says (at p. 148) that her husband was probably Sir Thomas Cornwallis, of Brome, in Suffolk. This, however, is an error. He was Thomas


 * Monkton Farley.