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 16 [9tb S. IV. July 1, '99. NOTES AND QUERIES. of FitzGerald's 'Letters,' was so much an echo of the former's style that Lamb him- self declared he envied the writer of it, because he felt he could have done something like him. It would be hard to trace a re- semblance between this poem and the weak amalgams of Tommy Moore and Winthrop Praed that were published in ' The Keepsake.' In 1835, as we know from his letters of that date, FitzGerald, so far from indulging in frivolities of this kind, was undergoing a course of hard reading in Dante, Milton, Barrow, and Jeremy Taylor. It would be a strange instance of the irony of circumstance if it turned out that the verses were actually written by FitzGerald's namesake and aver- sion—Edward Marlborough Fitzgerald, who left Cambridge about the time that E. F. G. entered into residence. Those who are interested in the question would do well to refer to Sir George Young's introduction to his edition of Praed's' Political and Occasional Poems,' 1888, pp. xxiv-xxxi, where the subject of E. M. Fitzgerald's imita- tions of Praed is exhaustively worked out. W. F. Prideaux. The date of the Edward Fitzgerald whom the Editor supposes to have been the author of the poems quoted is given in ' Lyra Elegantiarum' as "circa 1820." If this date is even approximately correct, he would be very young to appear as an author in ' The Keepsake' of 1835. There is a notice of him (by the editor) in Mr. Miles's ' The Poets and the Poetry of the Century '; but no particulars whatever are given, and his date is noted as " 18— ?" He is said, however, to have been a writer for annuals. I have three of his poems in three different anthologies — the same three in each—and shall be glad to know who and what he really was. His name in all the collections is spelt with a little g. C. C. B. Lady Grange (9th S. iii. 407).-T. C. P. will find a long and interesting account of the above at the end of the 'Historical Memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Mac- gregor,' by K. Macleay, M.D., 1818, pp. 308- 403, entitled ' Notices regarding the Mys- terious History of Lady Grange.' John Radcliffe. The best account of the abduction of Lady Grange is in ' Tales of the Century,' by the Sobieski Stuarts, 1847, pp. 233-96. F. C. Buchanan. M.P. claiming Payment of Expenses (9th S. iii. 448).—' N. & Q.' (2nd S. iv., vi., vii.) con- tains many extracts from church records and other documents, referring to days of long ago, when payments were made for the attendance of representatives in Parliament. Among many otners will be found the case of Andrew Marvell in the reign of Charles II., Ipswich from 1448 to 1680, Norwich 1350- 1649, Newcastle-on-Tyne 1647, Southampton 1432, Bodmin 1485-1509 ; and in the reign of Henry VIII. the failure of payment at Mil- brook, Cornwall, was held as a sufficient reason for the disfranchisement of the borough. Everard Home Coleman. 71, Brecknock Road. There is a note upon the payment of members in the late Mr. Taswell-Langmead's ' English Constitutional History ' (p. 273), and a mention of a claim by King, M.P. for Harwich, in 1681, Edward H. Marshall, M.A. Hastings. Holy Wells (9th S. ii. 469, 535).—See also "The Holy Wells of Ireland | containing an I Authentic Account of those Various Places [ of Pilgrimage and Penance | which are still Annually Visited by Thousands of the | Roman Catholic Peasantry | with a Sketch | Descriptive of the Patterns and Stations | Periodically hold in Various Districts of Ireland. | By Philip Dixon Hardy, M.R.I.A. 1836." The pamphlet is illustrated with curious woodcuts. Mr. Hardy was editor of the Dublin Penny Journal. F. E. Manley. Stoke Newington. "Shaving Hat" (9th S. iii. 447).—Elizabeth Canning left the house of her mother, near Aldermanbury, on 1 January, 1753, to visit her friends. On returning home she was robbed and detained by two men in Moor- fields, and was not seen again by her parent until the 29th of the same month. The Daily Advertiser of 6 January, 1753, contains an advertisement offering a reward for her recovery. It gives a description of her person and dress. Among other articles of apparel which she is said to have worn was "a white chip hat bound round with green." A chip hat or bonnet was fashion- able for many years. It was made from a small slip or thin cutting of wood, a kind of straw plait, the leaves of a Cuban palm. Now, might not the description of a " shaving hat" be a facetious description of a hat made of wood 1 Everard Home Coleman. 71, Brecknock Road. This means, I think, a hat made of shavings, or rather of thin and narrow strips of wood much like shavings, though of somewhat greater thickness and more regular forma- tion. It was meant for summer wear. I have