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before the vestry, and among them Edward Henry Purcell, who got nine votes. He was re-elected annually till Easter, 24 April, 1764, when there is an entry of a " complaint having been made against Edward Henry Purcell the present organist. Resolved That the vestry clerk do write to the said Edward Henry Purcell and acquaint him that the Vestry insists on his being regular in his attendance," &c.

To return to Edward, the subject of this notice : his sister Frances (baptized 30 May, 1688) married Leonard Welsted the poet, son of the Rev. Leonard Welsted, Rector of Abington, Northants. Welsted the younger had been a scholar at Westminster, whence he was elected to Trin. Coll., Cambridge. Baker's ' Northamptonshire,' vol. i. p. 17, says : " When very young he married the daughter of Henry Purcell, the celebrated musician, and obtained an appointment in the Secretary of State's Office." Both Frances and Leonard were of the same age (19) when they married. The Registers of St. Margaret's record the baptism of their daughter Frances, 2 Sept., 1708. Mrs. Welsted died in 1724, and the daughter Frances in 1726.

Edward Purcell was the only surviving son of Henry Purcell. Three brothers and one sister died in infancy. The following dates from the Westminster Registers may be useful as a record of these :

1682, 9 Aug. John Baptista, son of Mr. Henry

Purcell. (Baptism. ) 1682, 17 Oct. John Baptista Purcell, a child

(Cloisters). (Burial.)

1686, 3 Aug. Thomas Purcell, a child. (Burial.)

Exact date of birth not known.

1687, 23 Sept. Henry Purcell, a child, in the East cloister. (Burial.) Henry was bap- tized at St. Margaret's, 9 June, 1687.

1693, 10 Dec. Mary Peters, daughter of Henry and Frances Purcell. (Baptism. )

The date of death of this child is not recorded, but she does not appear again in Purcell' s life, nor is she mentioned in the will of either her father or her mother.

I am not aware that there is any pub- lished music by Edward Purcell.

A. L. HUMPHREYS. 187, Piccadilly, W.

SIR WALTER RALEGH'S HOUSE AT YOUGHAL (US. iv. 407). The most accu- rate account of Ralegh's house at Youghal is that published in 1852 by the Rev. Samuel Hayman. He thus describes it :

"A large dining-room is on the ground floor from which is a subterranean passage connecting the house with the old tower of St. Mary's Church In one of the kitchens the ancient wide-arched fireplace remains. The walls are in great part

wainscoted with Irish oak. The drawing-room Sir Walter's study retains most of its ancient beauty with its fine dark wainscot, deep projecting windows [one of these must be " the deep em- brasured window " where Ralegh and Spenser sat when they read together the MS. of ' The Fairy Queen '], the richly carved oak mantel- piece rising in the full pride of Elizabethan style to the height of the ceiling. The cornice rests upon three figures, Faith, Hope, and Charity, between which are enriched circular-headed panels ; and a variety of emblematical devices fill up the rest of the structure. In the adjoining bedroom is another mantelpiece of oak, bar- barously painted over. The Dutch tiles of the fireplace are about four inches square, with various devices enclosed in a circular border. Behind the wainscoting of this room a recess was discovered a few years ago, in which was a part of the old monkish library hidden at the period of the Reformation."

The elder D' Israeli argued that Ralegh could not have written his ' History of the World ' because he had not books of refer- ence in the Tower ; but amongst the volumes found in this recess were two fifteenth- century works a black-letter epitome of early historical events, and Comestor's ' Historia Scolastica ' ; and Sir John Pope HenneFsy, who wrote on the subject, thought that this indicated " the possibility that Ralegh had been taking notes from these volumes for his * opus magnum.' "

CONSTANCE RUSSELL,

Swallowtield Park, Readinsr.

INQUIRER will find a short account of the above house in the Journal of the Kilkenny Arch. Soc., New Series, vol. i., Journal Royal Soc. Antiq. Ireland, vol. iv. pp. 25-8, with an illustration of the exterior, and also of ' Raleigh's Yew Trees.' The house is now called "Myrtle Grove." In 1602 Raleigh sold it to the first Earl of Cork. It was purchased from the second Earl in 1670 by Samuel Hayman, and was in 1849 in the possession of his descendants. See also Lewis's ' Topographical Dictionary of Ire- land.' second edition. A. E. STEEL.

A description of the interior in 1856 is given in an article on the ' Ecclesiastical Anti- quities of Youghal,' by the Rev. S. Hayman, in vol. i., Second Series, of the Journal of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society (now the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland), Dublin, 1858, p. 27. On p. 26 is a small w.oodcut of the exterior of the house. It was then occupied by Mr. W. J. Pirn. W. D. MACRAY.

In The Nineteenth Century for November, 1881, there is an article by the late Sir John Pope Hennessy, the then occupant of this house, entitled ' Sir Walter Raleigh