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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL S, 1899.

CONTENTS. -No. 67.

fOTES : Fletcher of Saltoun Barry O'Meara, 261" Red Lion," Parliament Street, 262 Royal Roads to Knowledge Prophecy concerning Spain, 263 D'Aulnoy and the Microphone Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, 264 Eng- lish Room-panelling " Hogenstore ": " Hognor Bread," 2t55 Great Plague, 1665 Menus with Quotations, 266.

i QUERIES :-' Cupid's Garden ' Verlaine Richard Heber Treacle Bible " Gallock-hand " French Poet ' Red- gauntlet ' : " Trances," 267 Dundas The Azra " Soluta" "When I was a girl," &c. " Securus judicat orbis terrarum " Theophilus Polwheile Malta ' Nooks and Corners of Westminster Abbey ' Askesian Society, 268 " Bailey " Arlington Holy Trinity Brotherhood Jalap Dr. Pinches's School, 269.

REPLIES : Homer and Jewish Rites, 269 "Sween" or " Swean," 270 Earl of Carnwath ' Old St. Paul's' Capt. Francis Abney-Hastings Benedict Arnold ' A Lover's Complaint,' 271" Cutting his stick" Beltchar Book of Verses Miss Frances Moore Latin Ambiguities" Taw" ' The Chant of Achilles 'Johnson and Tea-drinking, 272 Playing Cards on a Church Tower Cricket Lavinia Prime Minister, 273 Author Wanted- Cogan : Barry: Roche Trousers St. Michael's, Crooked Lane, 274 Church at Silchester, 275 Canadian Ring, 276 Letters to the Sovereign De Feritate " No great shakes " " fflores Cortox," 277 Goodhall, Yorks "The policy of pin- pricks," 278.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Bearne's Early Valois Queens ' Lang's Scott's ' St. Ronan's Well 'Magazines.

Notices to Correspondents.

FLETCHER OF SALTOUN.

I HAVE almost completed a bibliography of the works of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, the Scots patriot, and shall be very grateful to any readers of *N". & Q.' who can help me. In particular I require information regarding tracts attributed to him (but not included in the editions of his collected works), portraits, MSS. in his handwriting, references to him in literature, and copies of his works which contain inscriptions.

About the authorsnip of the following six tracts there has never been any doubt :

1. A Discourse of Government With Relation to Militia's.

2. Two Discourses Concerning the Affairs of Scot- land ; Written in the Year 1698.

3. Discorso Delle Cose di Spagna, Scritto nel mese di Luglio 1698.

4. A Speech Upon the State of the Nation, in April 1701.

5. Speeches, By a Member of the Parliament, which began at Edinburgh the 6th of May 1703.

6. An Account of a Conversation concerning a right Regulation of Governments for the Common Good of Mankind. In a Letter to the Marquiss of Montrose, the Earls of Rothes, Roxburg, and Hadington, from London the 1st of December, 1703.

But whether he wrote the following or not

is often a question of great difficulty, and any information or opinions thereanent will be very welcome :

7. State of the Controversy betwixt United and Separate Parliaments. Whether these Interests which are to be United by the present Treaty &c.

8. A Discourse upon the Union of Scotland and

England. Containing, I. A Brief Account &c.

Humbly submitted to the Parliament of Scotland, by a Lover of his Country.

9. An Historical Account of the Antient Rights and Power of the Parliament of Scotland. Humbly

offer'd to the consideration of the Estates &c.

To which is prefix'd, A short Introduction upon Government in general, &c.

10. Scotland's Interest : or The Great Benefit and Necessity of a Communication of Trade with Eng- land. Being A Brief Account of the Chief Motives that ought to engage us to insist on it c.

11. A Speech without Doors, concerning Tolera- tion.

12. Some Thoughts concerning The Affairs of thia Session of Parliament, 1700.

They have all been attributed to Fletcher, but Nos. 8 and 9 are undoubtedly by George Bidpath ; and I have not been able to find out who first connected Nos. 10, 11, and 12 with the Patriot, nor why.

In addition, Fletcher is supposed to have left a treatise on education in MS., and to have written

13. On the Peace of Utrecht. Perhaps the tract " On the Peace of Utrecht, wrote to a Tory Mem- ber," which is mentioned in the sale catalogue of the library of Thomas Sclater Bacon, 1736.

14. A Discourse on Party Government. Title doubtful.

The two following are also somewhat in his style, but there is no direct evidence to show that he wrote them :

15. Proposals For the Reformation of Schools and Universities, In order to the Better Education of Youth. Humbly Offer'd to the Serious Consideration of the High Court of Parliament.

16. A Letter to A Member Of The Convention of States In Scotland. By a Lover of His Religion and Country.

Finally, I should be glad to know whether the 1722 edition of Andrew Fletcher's ' Col- lected W'orks ' which is mentioned by Allibone and Anderson has any real existence.

K. A. SCOTT MACFIE.

34, Moorfields, Liverpool.

BARRY O'MEARA.

IT is somewhat remarkable that so little is known of the origin or family history of Barry O'Meara. The 'D.N.B.' states that

was, in the churchyard of Straboe, Queen's County, an inscription to the memory of the