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 9* s. vi. DEC. i, 1900.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 433 DAVENANT'S ESSAYS (9th S. vi. 267).—' Collection of Essays and Treatises on Variou Subjects,' by Charles Davenant, LL.D., in S vol.*., London, 1695-1712, will be found ii the Corporation Library, Guildhall, E.C Vol. iv. contains ' Essays on Peace and War, part i. (only), London, 1704. EVERARD HOMK COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. ETHERINGTON (9th S. vi. 190).—The follow- ing may be what is required. The arms ol Sir Richard Etherington, of Ebberstone, co York, are, Per pale argent and sable, three lions rampant counterchanged, a chief of the first. Crest, On a tower decayed sable, a leopard's face argent, confirmed 23 May, 1613. Etherington of Kingston-upon-Hull, the same county, Per pale argent and sable, three lions rampant counterchanged, two and one. Crest, A tower decayed on the sinister side argent, on the battlements a leopard's face proper. JOHN RADCLIFFE. SIMON FRASBR (8th S. x. 156, 223; 9th S. yi. 157, 338).—Strict accuracy in matters of his- torical detail, however apparently trivial the incident, is, I assume, essential to ' N. <fc Q.' Hence it may be as well to quote from the 'Dictionary of National Biography,' vol. xxvii. p. 88, that in August, 1746, Hogarth " etched a characteristic likeness of Simon Fraser. Lord Lovat. when that cunning and impenitent old Jacobite halted at St. Albana on his way to London for trial." I had always understood that the sketch was taken at an inn at Barnet. but that is unim- portant. He is depicted counting on his fingers the numbers of the clans he had relied upon for the rising in the preceding year. Thus, then, the executed portrait was not an oil painting, and, as the involuntary sitting took place nearly eight months before the expiation of my lord's crime on Tower Hill on Thursday, 9 April, 1747, the likeness can- not be said to have been taken "a few hours before that nobleman's execution for high treason." GNOMON. Temple. THE RUINED CHAPEL AT ROSCOFF (9th S. vi. 346).—I revisited Roscoff this autumn and the old chapel dedicated to St. Ninian, the fifth-century apostle of Galloway. MR. CECIL CLARKE remarks that it was erected by Mary, Queen of Scots, to commemorate her first landing there in the year 1548. It may be worth recording that the ruined edifice is also pointed outas the spot from which the unfortu- nate Mary—a widow at the age of nineteen— sailed away from Franco to her hapless home in the North. Some lines are quoted as having been written by her upon that occasion on the deck of her vessel as the outlines of this par- ticular chapel and of the old parish church— a gunshot or so away — faded from view. They begin :— Adieu, plaisant pays de France ! O ! ma patrie La plus cherie, Qui a nourrie ma jeune enfance ! Adieu, France—adieu, mes beaux jours. It was there, too, at Roscoff, Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, landed in France after losing all " fors 1'honneur " and barely escap- ing with his life after the bloody battle of Culloden. HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter. TENURE BY BURNT OFFERING (9th S. vi. 327). —It may be of interest to point to Condal as a place-name, dep. Sa6ne-et-Loiro ; the foot- note as to casson—1 cassine, a villa residence (modern). As to the identification of Condal with a "certain oak," we have Oak House, and many Oaks besides the memorable " villa residence " at Epsom, originally, it is said, the name of a highway alehouse sign. A. H. A THEATRICAL "RUN" (9th S. v. 513).—The following quotation from the Spectator, No. 592, 10 Sept., 1714, is thirty-five years earlier than that given at the above reference : "Criticks fall upon a play, not because it is ill written, but because it takes. Several of them lay it down as a maxim, that whatever dramatick performance has a long run, must of necessity be rood for nothing; as though the first precept in Poetry were not toplcate." G. L. APPKRSON. WESLEY (9th S. vi. 369).—It is not likely ];!' Charles Wesley would be mistaken as to the name of his own grandmother, and as i matter of fact he was not mistaken. The Wesleys, like most of us, had two grand- nothers. What is more remarkable is the 'act that both of them were daughters of a John White. The Wesley pedigree has been Memorials of the Wesley Family,' and my riend the Rev. Richard Green, in his little >ook on Wesley in CasseLTs "Shilling Liibrary," borrows from him the following mrticulars : Bartholomew Wesley, vicar of Jharmouth and Catherston, Dorset, was the aon of Sir Herbert Wesley, of Westleigh, >ne of the most worthy of the Noncon- ormists, who married a daughter of John White, sometime chairman of the Assembly of Divines. Samuel Wesley, rector of Ep- vorth, and father of John and Charles
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