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 9-S. IV- sm. 30399-1 NOTES AND QUERIES. A 263 penters, so in the Harry Lorre uer incident O’Shaughnessy’s father was, onlliis first sight of the invaders of the meadow under his bed- room window, impressed with the notion that the grass was being (paced by surveyors ro- specting a new roa, until further develbp- ments enlightened him as to their homicidal intentions. Now, writing of Ireland in 1840-1, was the author acquainted with the English stratagem of 1704, published to the world in 1723? Was the theme of his capital story derived from a perusal of Capt. Alexander Smith’s amusing little volume, the subject redressed with ibernian local colouring and characteristic habits and tone? GNOMON. Temple. MACAULAY AND COLIGNY. (See 9“‘ S. i. 30663 -In a note at the above reference I ventur to suggest that the line in Macaulay’s ‘Ivry,’ And good Coligny’s hoary hair all dabbled with his b ood, mi ht have a s cial significance, as rha s allgding to thgeactual words tradil,)fhnall)y attributed to Coligni at the time of his assassination. Since t en I have come across a couplet in Voltaire’s ‘Henriade,’ chant ii., which seems to confirm this supposition. It occurs in the description of the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and refers to Coligny :- Compagnons, leur dit-il, achevez votre ouvrage, Et de mon sang glacé souillez ces cheveux blancs. Possibly, indeed, Macaulay’s line may be an unconscious reminiscence of this one of Voltaire’s. In Smedle ’s ‘ History of the Reformed Religion in l¥rance,’ vol. ii. 5, it is stated that the admiral pointed to is grey hairs as demanding reverence from the assassins. Ba h C. LAWRENCE FORD, B.A. t. LAWRENCE’S PORTRAIT or WARREN HAS- TINGS. -This portrait, now in the National Portrait Gallery, is a well-known one. It was painted in 1811 for the wife of Col. Barton, aide-de-camp to Warren Hastings. There is at Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, a much earlier portrait, in crayons, of the same man by the same artist. T is work, accordin to Sir Thomas Philli§ps’s own cataloglue of ‘Tic- tures at Middle 1ll,’ 1862 (Britis Museum, 577. l. 28 [24B, was drawn by Sir Thomas Lawrence at ath in 1786, and has the auto- ggaph of Lawrence on the back. It was ught at the Warren Hastings sale at Day esford. As this interesting portrait was unknown to the late Sir George Scharf, and also to Sir Charles Lawson, its existence may be recorded here. Apropos of a passage in Sir Charles Lawson’s entertaining work, ‘The Private Life of Warren Hasti(n(s;s,’ p. 150, to the effect that “several of H g)ess Indian landscapes are still preserved at aylesford,” I may mention that the Phillipps catalo ue cited above enumerates twelve views in gal- cutta and a view of the Government House at the same place, all by Hodges. These were purchased also at the Daysleslgord sale. . OBERT8. “MANY A SEVEN.”-This is often used to show that something has been said or done many times. My experience is that it is more of a woman s saying than a man’s ; but both use it. “ I ’ve been many a seven times.” “ You ’ve told me that many a seven times.” These are sufficient to show how the phrase goes. Taos. RATCLIFFE. Worksop. THR SUBJUGATION or IRELAND.-It is im- possible at the present day to determine to what extent Jewish money was utilized for the conquest of the sister isle. Two entries at least on the Pipe Rolls plrove incontestably that such money was fort coming. The Pipe Roll of 16 Henry II. (1170) says:- “ Josce, Jew of Gloucester, owes 100 shillings for an amerciament for the moneys which he lent to those who went over to Ireland against the King’s prohibition.” In 118% when the great Aaron of Lincoln died, the rown pounced upon his numerous debtors, and required them todischarge their obli ations into the Exchequer in lieu of pay- ing iaron’s family. This is what the Pipe Roll of 32 Henry II. says :- “ For findin a conveyance to take the charters of Aaron from Nottingham to Northampton, three shillings; and for carrying the moneys of the Arch- bishop of York and of Aaron (moneys which the King ave to John his son for ing into Ireland) from Nottingham to Tilbury, ei§i)teen shillings.” M. D. I)Av1s. A GRANITE TRAMWAY.-The Northampton Davila/ Reporter of 9 Sept. in recording the deat of a Mr. George Savage, of toke Bruerne, Northamptonshire, aged eighty- four, says :- ° “ The stretch of the roadway known as Watling Street, or Street Road, between Towcester an Weedon, is not very familiar to Northamptonshire men and women, except those whose business takes them from the vicinity of either of those two places to the vicinity o the other. When- ever one first traverses this road he is sure to be struck with a stran e, if not unique arrangement of stones on some of the hilly parts of the road. On two or three of the steepest hills on the left- hand side going up there are laid roughly dressed granite blocks, forming a pair of paral el channels an inch or so lower than the surface of the road. In times of rain the water pours down them m torrents.