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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[2nd g. NO 10., MAK. 8. '56.

Abp. Narcissus Marsh. Allow me to _ ask whether the whole or any part of Abp. Narcissus Marsh's Diary (unnoticed by MR. D' ALTON) has appeared in print ? if so, when, and where pub- lished ? The MS., beginning 20th December, 1690, remains in his library, at Dublin. He was translated from the archbishoprick of Dublin to that of Armagh, 18th February, 1702, and died 2nd November, 1713. ABHBA.

"Mort-Tax" An explanation of the words "mort-tax " wanted. M. K,.

Langport, Somerset.

Crests assumable at Pleasure. D all away, in his Inquiries into the Origin and Progress of Heraldry (p. 388.), makes the following startling assertion : " They (crests) are not held to be ab- solutely hereditable, but may be assumed." The "mushrooms" of the nineteenth century appear to be entirely in the same mind with Mr. Dalla- way, and some of the inventions of their fertile (?) brains are exceedingly absurd and palpable to heraldic eyes. I should like the opinion of some heraldic authorities on this point.

C. J. DOUGLAS.

Song Wanted. I remember, some four or five- and-twenty years ago, being amused at a song of which I recollect only some fragments ; one verse, however, was as follows :

" I am for Bonaparte, He is so stout, so hearty ; Besides, he's the strongest party Pour le pauvre sans culotte."

Where is the song to be found ? Y. S. M.

Dublin.

Bibliographical Queries. Can you oblige me with the names of the respective authors of the following works ?

1. "The Present State of Ireland. 12mo. London. 1673."

2. "Pou-Rou; or, an Historical and Critical Inquiry into the Physiology and Pathology of Parliaments. 8vo. Dublin. 1786."

3. " Falkland's Review of the Principal Characters of the Irish House of Commons. 8vo. Dublin. 1789."

4. " An Englishman's Tour in Ireland in the years 1813 and 1814. 8vo. Dublin, 1816."

5. "The Scientific Tourist through Ireland. 12m.o. London, 1818."

ABHBA.

Mr. Richard Jones. In Willis's Price Current of Literature (Nos. 9, 10, and 11., in 1851, ff. 66. 76. 83.), there are some recollections of the late Mr. Richard Jones, of 14. Chapel Street, Belgrave Square, known as " Gentleman Jones."

Many of your readers may have been pupils of Mr. Jones ; and it may be remembered, that he bad a book of collected notes and comments on

the Book of Common Prayer of a very useful character, and the whole book marked and pointed for the correct reading and emphasis.

Can any of your readers inform me whether this book is still in existence ? and if so, whether it could not be published for the public good ?

May I also ask what teachers now occupy the position which Mr. Jones used to occupy as a successful teacher of elocution to the clergy and to members of the bar, and of the Houses of Par- liament ? AN OLD PUPIL OF MR. Ro. JONES.

French Protestant Refugees. Can any of your correspondents inform me where, or from whom , in London, information is most likely to be ob- tained respecting any of the principal families among the French Protestant refugees who came to England after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and settled in or near London ? G. K.

Testament in Short-hand. Walter Wilson, in his Life of Defoe, vol. i. p. 10., makes the follow- ing statement :

" During that part of the reign of King Charles II. when the nation was under strong apprehensions of a Popish government, and religious persons were the victims of Protestant persecution, it being expected that printed Bibles would become rare, or be locked up in an unknown tongue, many honest people, struck with the alarm, employed themselves in copying the Bible into shorthand, that they might not be destitute of its con- solations in the hour of calamity."

I have a shorthand MS. New Testament in 32mo., written in double columns, and ruled with red ink. It is bound, but has not, nor does it appear to have ever had, any date, label, title- page, or inscription on fly-leaves of any kind. Is such a manuscript of common occurrence ? Does the above account from Wilson furnish its pro- bable history ? And where can be found any further account of zeal and industry similarly displayed ? S. W. llix.

Beccles.

Constantia Grierson. Will you permit me to inquire for information respecting the birth-place, parentage, and wwmarried name of this remark- able Irish lady, who died in 1733 at the age of twenty-seven. The only works I have seen of hers are her edition of the Classics, for which she wrote a Dedication in Latin to Lord Carteret, then viceroy of Ireland, and a Greek epigram to his son. I am informed that she married George Grierson, Esq., the first settler in Ireland from the Dumfries-shire family of Grierson. She is mentioned by Ballard and by Mrs. Pilkington, in their Memoirs ; by Mrs. Barber ; in Gorton's Biographical Dictionary, and in the London Monthly Review of Feb. 1753. They do not give her name, or any particulars of her private life, which are sought for, C. M. C.

Dublin,