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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. I. JUNE 18, '98.

ascent to this gallery, south of the chapter- house. The south and west cloisters being lower than the north and east, their upper story would make another approach, with steps up to both entrances to the congrega- tional gallery. The windows of this, and all the clearstory ones, ought to be of clear plate glass, ground to disperse sunlight. Those of the aisles afford place enough for picturing ; but if any higher have figures, they should be in white robes, and only their small amounts of background coloured.

E. L. GARBETT.

" AULD KIRK" (9 th S.i. 368). The following is taken from the Glasgoiv Daily Mail for 10 May :

" Why is Scotch whisky known as ' Auld Kirk '? a correspondent of Notes and Queries wants to find out. If he will turn to the author of 'Oor Ain Folk ' he will get the clue. An old Glenesk minister used to speak of claret as puir washy stuff, fit for English Episcopawlians and the like ; of brandy as het and fiery, like thae Methodists ; sma' beer was thin and meeserable, like thae Baptists ; and so on through the whole gamut of drinks and sects ; but invariably he would finish up by producing the whisky bottle, and patting it would exclaim, 'Ah, the rael Auld Kirk o' Scotland, sir ! There 's naething beats it.' "

H. T.

JUVENILE AUTHORS (8 th S. xii. 248, 372, 457). In addition to the authors cited may be mentioned Leigh Hunt's ' Juvenilia,' written from his twelfth to his sixteenth, and pub- lished in his seventeenth year. A book entitled 'Short Stories' was published at Chicago in 1896, when the author, Myra Bradwell Helmer, was but six years old. The stories are chiefly fairy tales, and in my judgment possess much merit. The copy now before me is the third edition. I do not recall any instance of a book published at an earlier age of its author. GASTON DE BERNEVAL.

Philadelphia.

FRENCH PSALTER (9 th S. i. 368). -For a long list of 'French Hymnology,' see 'N. & Q.,' 5 th S. vi. 351 ; and for a scarce and early edition, dated 1513, 8 th S. xi. 326.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

NICHOLSON FAMILY OF THE NORTH OF IRELAND (9 th S. i. 228, 354). I am obliged to J. P. S. for his reply. I have consulted the 'Six Generations in Ireland' referred to, but it not only does not give the infor- mation sought, but what it does give is erroneous. If J. P. S. will consult the re- cently published 'Life of Brigadier-General Nicholson, C.B.,' he will find the correct

account. The family have been resident at Crannagael since about 1620 (James I.), and the story of the young wife, with her baby, searching the battle-field for her hus- band has been evolved out of the fact of the daughter-in-law of the Rev. William Nicholson and Lady Betty Percy, along with her baby, being the only survivors of the family in the massacre at Tall Bridge (Cranna- gael) by the rebels in 1641. She escaped, and in her flight happily fell in with some English soldiers, who saved her and her infant. The infant returned in manhood, and recovered her lands, which were purchases, not grants. There was no grant of lands from Cromwell, nor does the family hold any such. This young man became a Quaker in 1672. My queries are still unanswered, and I should be glad if any one could inform me : 1. Who was the Lady Elizabeth (Betty) Percy who married the Kev. William Nicholson, circa 1588? 2. To what branch of the Nicholson family did the Rev. William Nicholson belong?

ISAAC W. WARD. Belfast.

GLADSTONE BIBLIOGRAPHY (8 th S. ii. 461, 501 ; iii. 1, 41, 135, 214, 329, 452 ; v. 233, 272 ; 9 th S. i. 436). Perhaps it may be worth noting that an entire chapter of thirty pages (xxiv.) in ' Seven Years at Eton,' by James Brinsley Richards (Bentley & Son, 1883), is devoted to an account of Mr. Gladstone's schooldays at Eton i.e., from 1821 to 1827. From this it appears that his earliest printed effusion, an 'Ode to the Shade of Wat Tyler,' was contri- buted to the Eton Miscellany in 1827.

Gladstone was nominated to a studentship at Christ Church (^Edis Christi Alumnus) by Dr. Samuel Smith, then dean, who afterwards exchanged with Dr. Gaisford for a stall at Durham. An old Oxford Calendar of 1831 gives the names of very many distinguished men amongst the undergraduate students of the house of that date. Amongst them are enumerated Herbert Kynaston, Walter Kerr Hamilton, Henry Denison, Charles Words- worth, George Cornewall Lewis, the Hon. Charles John Canning, William Edward Jelf, Henry George Liddell, Henry Montagu Villiers, and Robert Scott.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. [See ante, p. 481.]

GLOVES AT FAIRS (9 th S. i. 188, 375). A monster white glove, decorated by a garland, and hoisted on the top of a pole, was annually carried through the main streets of Exeter, at the opening of Lammas Fair, by a worthy old wrestler and poacher named Joe Wing-