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Smith ' describes old age as " hostun hirplan owre the field " ; and he makes his "young lassie" contemn the very thought of a venerable partner, because " lie hosts and he hirples the weary day lang.' 3 In a word " to hoast," as used "in Scots dialect" (if, in- deed, that phrase has not a limited applica- tion), is simply to cough, and this holds true, whatever form the explosive utterance may assume. THOMAS BAYNE.

ELECTION JINGLE. While electioneering in crowded central districts during contests years apart I have repeatedly heard this doggerel sung by working class children. The words and air seem to be generally known :

Vote, vote, vote, for Mr. - ;

Put old - on the floor,

For - is the man,

And we '11 have him if we can,

And we won't vote for -- any more.

Obviously, a name of tsvo syllables is best adapted for the verse. The curious part of it is that the last line is sung with gusto, though the candidate may be a. new wooer of the electorate, as with friends of mine. It may be used by any side in politics.

FRANCIS P. MARCHANT.

fStreatham Common.

[Is not this suggested by the rhythm of

Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching, popular in England during the American Civil War ?]

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

FITZMAURICE FAMILY. Can any of your readers say who the first wife was of Thomas Fitzmaurice (b. 1502, d. 1590), sixteenth Lord of Kerry and Lixnaw, and by which of his wives he had issue his son and successor Patrick and his other children ?

This Thomas was in foreign parts when, on the death of his brother Gerald, the fifteenth lord, in 1550, he succeeded to the title. Lodge in his ' Peerage of Ireland ' (1789) says of him :

" Soon after his return to Ireland (being then forty-eight years old) he married, first, Margaret, called ' the fair,' second daughter of James, the four- teenth Earl of Desmond, by whom he had four sons and one daughter; secondly, Catharine, only daughter and heir of Teige Mac-Carthy More, elder brother of Donald, Earl of Clancarre, and by her, who died of the smallpox in the island of Elean- moylenea in Lough-lene, and was buried with her ancestors in the Grey Friary of Irrelaugh [Muck-

ross Abbey], having no issue, he married thirdly Penelope, daughter of Sir Donald O'Brien, brother of Connor, the third Earl of Thomond ; and by her, who remarried with Anthony O'Laughlen, Lord of Burren, he likewise had no issue/' Lough Lein is the ancient and present name of the Lower Lake of Killarney.

In a manuscript pedigree of the Lords of Kerry in the British Museum (Rot. Lansd. 28), described as of the early seventeenth century, the order of Thomas Fitzmaurice's first and second marriages, and the mother of his son and successor Patrick, are given as in Lodge. This manuscript ends with the eighteenth lord, who is described as "now Lord of Keyry." The eighteenth lord suc- ceeded 1600, and died 1630, and it is not unreasonable to suppose that the compiler of this pedigree, a contemporary of the eighteenth lord, would have known who that lord's grandmother was. In agreement also with Lodge is a pedigree of this family in the Cotton MSS., Brit. Mus., as is also the account of Thomas Fitzmaurice in the * Diet. Nat. Biog.' In his description of Patrick Fitzmaurice, the seventeenth lord, Lodge states that he was born in 1541. This, the context shows, must have been a slip, and was probably an error for 1551.

In the account of the Fitzmaurice family, however, given in 'The Complete Peerage' by G. E C. (1892), the order of the first two marriages of the sixteenth lord is reversed, and he is said to have " apparently " married first Catharine, daughter of Teige MacCarthy More, and all his issue is described as having been by her, and his second wife is said to have " apparently" been Margaret, daughter of James, fourteenth Earl of Desmond. G. E. C. produces no evidence in support of this except the statement of Lodge (which there can be little doubt was a clerical error) that Patrick, the seventeenth lord, was born in 1541, and his statement that Thomas Fitzmaurice married Margaret, Desmond's daughter, after he succeeded to the title in 1550. But Lodge mentions the names and gives some account of the four sons and the daughter of this marriage with Margaret Fitzgerald, stating that Patrick, the eldest of these sons, was heir to his father, whom he succeeded in 1590. He also clearly states that Thomas, the sixteenth lord, married, as his second wife, Catharine MacCarthy More, and by her had no issue. Lodge in compiling his peerage is said to have had free access to the papers (now lost or dispersed) of Francis Thomas (d. 1818), twenty-third lord and third Earl of Kerry.

In the earlier editions of Burke's 'Peerage' the order of the wives and the issue of the