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NOTES AND QUERIES. [u s. iv. JULY i, 1911.

lay the present Earl), of Mr. Baron Bayley (pre- sented by his son), of the late Earl of Mansfield when Mr. Murray (presented by Sir William Home), of Sir Edward Coke (presented by the present members of the Inn) and of the late Serjeant Hitcham (which from ancient records must have been in the possession of the Society upwards of two hundred years) were arranged in the Compotation Room ; and Lord Kenyon, the Lord Chief Justice Tindal and Lord Abinger declared their intention of presenting to the Society portraits, the latter of themselves, and the former of his father the late Lord Chief Justice.

The only toasts given were " The Queen " and " The Guests who have honoured us with their company." The latter was introduced in a short and eloquent address by Lord Denman. and Marquess Camden (whose grandfather had been called Serjeant in the year 1700) returned thanks. The party did not separate until a late hour.

On the following Saturday a dinner was given to the clerks.

PHILIP NORMAN.

THE FARMER'S CREED. I copied some line 5 so headed from what I took to be an eighteenth-century jug of yellow earthen- ware adorned with agricultural emblems and with a hive, and having the following aspiration and dictum : " God speed the Plough " and " The Husbandman's diligence provides bread."

The Farmer's Creed. Let this be held the Farmer's Creed For stock seek out the choicest breed Tn peace and plenty let them feed Your land sow with the best of seed Let it not dung or dressing need Inclose and drain it with all speed And you will soon be rich indeed. It is \yhat Touchstone would have called " the right butterwomen's rank to market."

ST. SWITHIN.

[Twenty-five years ago the late EDWARD \VALFORD stated in ' N. & Q.' (7 S. i. 448) that he had found the lines written inside the cover of a copy of Bailey's ' Dictionary,' in a handwriting of about 1760 or 1770, and attributed to " Sir John Simpson, Bart."]

" JACOBITE " = " JACOBIN." At 10 S. ix. 368 I drew attention to the facts that " Jacobin " was the name applied by the Earl of Crawford on 4 February, 1690, to the partisans of the exiled James II., and that 4< Jacobite " was used by Secretary Johnstone on 23 April, 1695, in a way to suggest that that now-accepted name was new.

The synonymity of the two names had previously been discussed at 3 S. i. 425 ii. 282 ; vii. 329 ; 9 S. xii. 469. 508 : 10 S. i. 14 ; <t and I wish to add now some proof that Jacobite " was in use earlier than

the date I before noted. The earliest absolute date is in " The Information of John Lunt, gentleman," of 27 June, 1694, wherein " The Papists and Jacobites " are specifically referred to (Historical MSS. Commission, ' Kenyon MSS.,' p. 292) ; but the earliest conjectural date is in a paper in the same collection describing Lord Brandon's Lord Lieutenancy of Lancashire, and doubt- ingly dated 1689-90, in which " great papists and other Jacobites " are alluded to (ibid., p. 235).

A more striking reference is in a letter from Sir John Bland to Roger Kenyon of 31 December, 1695, in which it is said that at the election in the previous month of Sir Thomas Dyke, Bt., for East Grinstead, which was unsuccessfully petitioned against, " the c[ourt] party did not forget to call him ' Jacobite ' " (ibid., p. 387).

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

BOLEYN OR BULLEN FAMILY IN IRELAND.

In a recent issue of ' N. & Q.' appeared an interesting account of the Boleyn or Bullen family (11 S. iii. 134). In The Irish Penny Magazine for 1833 is a drawing by F. R. Lewis of Clongoony Castle, in King's County, and an account of the place. It is situated near Shannon Harbour, and in the ancient district of Dealbna Eathra. From the account given by the writer it appears that in 1803, when some workmen were digging, they unearthed a tombstone on which was the inscription :

Here under leys Elizabeth and Mary Bullyn Daughters of Thomas Bullyn son of George Bullyn the son of George Bullyn Vicount Rochford son of SR Thomas Bullyn Erie of Ormond and Willsheere.

He says that "it is evident the ladies there interred Were second cousins of Queen Elizabeth, and granddaughters of George Bullyn, cousins germane of Anne Bullyn, the unfortunate consort of Henry VIII." He then traces the relationship (too long to reprint) from Sir William Bullyn, K.B., of Blickling, Norfolk, son of Geoffry Bullyn, a native of Norfolk, who Was Mayor of London in 1457, and who married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Butler, seventh Earl of Ormond, by whom he had Thomas Bullyn, who was in 1525 created Baron and Viscount Rochford, and in 1527 Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond, and had four daughters, of whom Anne married John Sackville, ancestor to the Duke of Dorset ; and Alice married John Clere of Ormsby. Mary, daughter of John Clere of Kilburry,