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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. x. AUG. i, 191*.

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.

ST. ANGUS. References to information relating to St. Angus will be appreciated. The ordinary works, such as Alban Butler, Baring-Gould, encyclopaedias, &c., fail to name the saint, who was buried within the walls of the old parish church at Bal- quhidder, where an incised stone, men- tioned and figured in Stuart's ' Sculptured Stones of Scotland,' marks the place.

ROLAND AUSTIN.

CAIRNS FAMILY. I should be glad of any information in regard to this family its origin, past history, coat of arms, present representatives, and distribution throughout the United Kingdom. Bibliographical notes in particular would be welcome. C. C.

New Zealand.

REFERENCE WANTED. I shall be grateful if some reader can give me the reference for the following quotation from Br^beuf. The collected works of this poet have been searched, and the aid of the Intermediate des Chercheurs has been invoked, in vain :

Les courtisans sont des jetons ;

Leur valeur depend de leur place :

Dans la faveur, des millions,

Et des zeros dans la disgrace.

It is just possible that the attribution to Brebeuf is wrong. F. P. B.

SEVENTH CHILD or A SEVENTH CHILD. Where may I find the folk-lore on this subject ? Does it apply to the male line only ? I have heard that such a child is supposed to have " second sight," and that his presence at a christening is unlucky ; but I do not know any good authority for this. E. M. F.

[See 5 S. xii. 386 ; 6 S. xii. 204, 346, 428, 500 ; 7 S. i. 47 5.]

MORIARTY : BARRISTERS, INNER TEMPLE. Was the Edward Aubrey Moriarty who translated Dickens's works into German, and whose career is given in F. Boase's ' Modern English Biography,' the same man as the Edward Alexander, son of Christopher Moriarty and Honoria Beytagh, who com- menced his legal studies' at King's Inns, Dublin, in 1836 ? Also, who was the Aubrey Moriarty who in 1873 wrote a book on 'Personality and Disputed Identity ' ? He is described as a foreign jurisconsult.

I am told that the son of a Moriarty, a juris- consult, was a member of the Legion of Honour. How can I find out about this ?

L. E. MORIARTY. 35, Manor Park, Lee, S.E.

NIDDERDALE. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' give me the names of any books containing woodcuts or engravings of any Nidderdale village, published previous to the year 1863 ?

I know of Hargrove's ' History of Knares- borough,' 1798. CARL T. WALKER.

Mottingham, Kent.

THEODORE HAAK. Can any reader inform me where a copy of the following may be seen or purchased ? I should also be glad of information about the author, Theodore Haak.

"A Plain and True Narrative touching the late Version of the Bible out of the Original Tongues into the Belgick or Netherlandish, and the Annota- tions on the same as they came forth together in the year of Christ 1637. With a dedication to His Highness the Lord Protector of the Common Wealth of England, Aug. 24th, 1657."

Please reply direct to J. J. PIPER.

Cintra Park, tipper Norwood, S.E.

GALDY FAMILY OF PORT ROYAL. I should be most grateful if any of your readers could tell me whether the following memorial is still to be found at Port Royal, and whether any of the name are in existence :

" Here lyes the Body of Lewis Galdy, Esquire, who departed this life at Port, Royal the 22 nd of December, 1739, aged 80. He was born at Mont- pelier in France, but left that country for his- Religion and came to settle in this Island, where he was swallowed up in the great earthquake in the year 1692, and by the Providence of God was by another shock thrown into the sea, and miraculously saved by swimming until a Boat took him up. He lived many years after in great Reputation, Beloved by all that knew him, and much lamented his death."

Arms and crest above. Motto : " Dieu sait tout." LEONARD C. PRICE.

Ewell, Surrey.

EARLY PURITANS IN NEWFOUNDLAND. la ' The History of Newfoundland,' by the Rev. Lewis Anspach (1819), a magistrate of that island, the following statement is made in reference to its colonization in 1621 by Sir George Calvert, afterwards Earl of Baltimore, who obtained a patent from King James I. to erect a province there :

" A considerable colony, composed chiefly of Puritans, accompanied to Newfoundland Capt. Wynne, whom Sir George had sent, with the com- mission of Governor, to prepare everything for his reception, while he employed in the meantime his interest and his fortune in securing the success