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. vi. NOV. 10, i9oo.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 361 LONDON, SATVBDAr, NOVEMBER 10. 1900. CONTENTS.-No. 150. NOTES:—Col. Phalre, 381—Fallacies about Burns, 382 — Shakespeariana, 363—Passage in Chaucer's • Prologue '— "Sal," "Saimlrl," " Sajou" — " Garland," 365-T'Boy- cotUge "—Frieaic Proverb — Motto on a House —Poker Club—Centenarian Voters—United Free Church of Scot- land, 368. QUERIES :-" Lanted ale "—" Mort "=Lard—Striking the Anvil, 367—Phonological Statistics—Language to conceal Thought—"Carambolage" — Hammond, Schoolfellow of Wnlpole — "None" with Plural — African Exorefam — Roman Remains In London — Culpeper — Early Steam Navigation, 368—•'Jlnnet" : "Jiuted" — One-Volume Novel—Margaret of Bavaria—Author of 'James '—Medal- lion—' Hamlet' Ameliorated—Murden, Sheriff of London —Stanley Family of Paultons—Michelangelo's Mask of Mary—Oallaway — " Furchaoes "—Wesley, 369—" Christ- mas cheers "—Healing Stone—"Jocole," 370. REPLIES :—" Hurtling." 370—" Shlmmoziel "—Counting Another's Button*—Serjeant Hawkins, 371—" Another for Hector ! "—Arms Wanted—Capel Family, 372—Pagination —Chlohester — Parrot in ' Hudihras' — A Friday Super- stition—Broken on the Wheel —"Temperance —Dock- wray, 373—Lincoln Marriages — Corpse on Shlplxiard— Eton College—Truffle-hunting Pigs—Deaths from Small- pox— Langstaff, 374—Ancient Scottish Custom — " Lam- boys "—Guevara—Sign of the Cross—Mediicval Badge— "Orisons," 37o — Quotation from Carlyle — "Like one o'clock " — " Gymnastics " — "Lordship"1' — Sergeant-at- Arms — Eruption at Krakatoa — Bishop of Kllsanor — James II.—Shakespeare and the Sea, 376—Twyford Yew Tree—The AbbS le Loutre—Ancient Names of Cities- George Gilbert, 377—Ancient Towers in Sardinia—" Frail" —"Skilly"—Hunter Street—The Black Rood, 378. NOTES ON BOOKS :-Moring's ' Engraved Book-Plates ' — 'Early Poems of Tennyson* — Bricigman-Metchim's ' Atlantis ' —Reviews and Magazines. §01*1. COL. ROBERT PHAIRE, GOVERNOR OF CORK, 1651. THE history of this remarkable man has on various occasions during the past fifty years formed the subject of inquiry and discussion in the pages of ' N. & Q., and the main facts of his career are well summed up in an article by the Rev. Alexander Gordon in the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' without, however, throwing much new light on his parentage or family origin. None of your correspondents has, however, yet called attention to the following details of Col. Phaire's will, dated 13 Sept., 1682, and proved 10 Nov. next, the original of which is preserved in the Record Tower at Dublin. By this will Col. Phaire made his eldest son OnesiphoruH his heir, and left to him liis own residence near Cork called the Grange; glebe lands at Kilkumory, Classmegariff, Drooaore, and the woods belonging ; Ballygromar, East and West Fergus, and Claramore ; barony of Duhallow; waste lands in the barony of Barrets; and lands leased to testator by Erasmus Smith in the town and county of Tipperarv. All the testator's lands in the county ofWexford, together with the proceeds of ironworks there, he directs to be applied to the payment of certain legacies, ana then to bo divided into two equal parts, the iron- works and lands of Monart, and the barony of Scarawalsh, to be shared by Onesiphorus and his mother during her life, and the other children to share equally the remaining part. To Elizabeth his widow he left gold plate, jewels, household property, and 1,0001., and to his eight children named in the will 1,OOOJ. each. This will clearly suggests that Col. Phaire died possessed of a substantial landed estate situated in the counties of Cork, Wexford, and Tipperary; and the question naturally arises, Whence and hoy did he acquire it? MINIVER, indeed, writes, in a paper printed in 6th S. xii. 48, of "landed estates granted to him [Col. Phaire] by Cromwell in Cork and Wexford which are still held by his descend- ants." Other inquirers assume the same title. But if the original title of the Phaire family to these estates rests on an alleged grant by Cromwell, it might be expected that some sort of documentary evidence would be forth- coming to prove it, but no such evidence has yet been quoted by any one. It is therefore open to doubt whether these Phaire estates owe their title to Cromwell at all; and in the absence of other indications it seems more probable that these estates were inherited by Col. Phaire, and were devised by him to his family in the ordinary course. It appears to me that the solution of this question is calculated to throw much light on the real parentage of Col. Phaire and on the origin of his family, regarding which there are at present several discordant theories. The first is that Col. Phaire was one of the numerous military adventurers who went over to Ireland from England with the Parlia- mentary forces, and that he owed all his for- tune in Ireland to Cromwell. Those who hold this view seek to identify the Phaires with the knightly family of Fer, Fere, and De Ferre, who are connected with the manor of Benhale or Benhall, in Suffolk, and who bore the same coat of arms as the Phaires, viz., Gules, a fer de moulin argent, over all a bendlet azure. See paper on this subject by CHARLES A. BUCKLER in ' N. & Q.,16* S. i. 299. The second theory is that Col. Phaire was of Irish extraction and parentage, of ancient and gentle lineage, whose family held, before Cromwell's time, large possessions in the south of Ireland, and who claimed by tradi- tion to be descended from Eva, daughter of Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster, who married Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke, in A.D. 1170. A third theory would seek to identify Col. Phaire as " possibly" the son of the Rev. Emmanuel Phaire, vicar of Kilshannig, near