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derived from O'Maol Dhomnaigh, the descen- dants of Maol Dhomnaigh, a man who was maol tonsured for a purpose, saint, or insti- tution, which in this instance ^s dhomnaig/i, the Church=one devoted to the Church. It appears often as Muldowney ^. .^State Papers temp. Elizabeth, and is called by the Irish peasantry Mallowney to the present day MOLONY.

HUITSON FAMILY (9 th S. vii. 129).- A family bearing the name of Huteson existed in JNorth Lincolnshire during the last hundred years. One of them, Ann Huteson, was married at

Banquier) a sa fille, qui vient d'epouser le Prince de Potemkin, etait un cabas en resille de cordonnet blanc, ayant, en place de chaque noRud, de la maille, une tourquoise ; 1'interieur double au moire bleu celeste ; et au bout, deux superbes glands, melanges de crepines blanches, et a filet en perles. '

Would not a complete edition of Lady Morgan's works now be worth editing 1

H. E. M.

St. Petersburg.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &o.

eignty-six. ^ ^ 6 u; " Q lll^ tVA DB. GARDINER had indulged at one time in the

Plymouth, was master ot the ship called me e that the third volume O f t hi s portion of his Little Hunter (B. Randolph, Archipelago, at work wou id cover the events up to the instal- 1687 D 34) Huitson is another form ot f a tion of Oliver Cromwell, in 1657, in Westminster W^vJifenn W. C. B. Hall, "under the pro visions of the 'Humble Petition

and Advice.' " Instead of this, it carries Cromwel

I consider this merelv a variant of Hewit- no further, as regards his continental policy, than

AT^fV," Pnnnf rv name and the arrangement with Mazarm for the siege and the

son, a common North-Country name, a l L urrende ^ to the Bnglish of Dunkirk, then in the pos-

probably of Danish origin. session of Spain. The events, foreign and domestic,

ALFRED I. CUEWEN. dealt with during this period are too numerous

m /nth c * oo -\-\G\ Tn and important to admit of summary treatment.

"TWOPENNY TUBE" (9 th S. vii. 29, I 16 )-J ln Under the latter head they comprise, to speak only

' San Toy,' a piece now running in London, of matters of pr i ma ry importance, the dissolution

one of the characters, Li, a Chinaman, calls O f t h e Parliament of 1654, the establishment of the

this the "twopenny drain." IBAGU& Major-Generals, and the Cromwellian settlement

of Ireland ; under the former the mismanaged

u TAB A " (9 th S vii 85) MR THORNTON is expeditions under Penn and Venables to Hispaniola

probably right in regarding this singular as ^J^^BUke^riu^mtheM^n^^ a malformation, like pea. According to MJ > Protes tant interest, his espousal of the cause of the sixth edition of the ' Dictionnaire de 1'Aca- Vaudois, and his efforts towards establishing a demie Francaise' (1835) cabas meant only a Protestant league with himself as its head. A rush basket for figs, or (in fun) an old carriage, troublous time in all senses it was : a time of plots ^tapper's excellent 'Dictionnaire Synoptique ' against his life, which nothing but the vigilance of

rv.r Q;,;oV, his police defeated; of wrangles with his Parha- compares, as regards etymology, bpanibh l^ whi]e guch wag al]owed to exist. of refusal

capazo, capacho, Portuguese cabaz, but preters on the parfc O f those with nice consciences, even a Latin root cap, from capere. This common among the judges, to carry out his decisions ; and peasants' word cabas was subjected to a of constant efforts on Cromwell's part to restrain fashionable craze in the early part of the | the persecuting rage <rf his friends^ and tojepress nineteenth century. I extract the^ folio wing

from Lady Morgan's ' The Easter Recess ' (in gives ^ account the lucidity and impartiality of ' Dramatic Scenes from Keal Life, vol. 11. | which are alike conspicuous. Much light has been

p. 74, London, 1833) :

Lady Alice (turning to Alexandrine). andrine, bring me down my cabas. I must have something to toss these things in.

cast during recent years upon the persons and A1 i events with which he deals. Most of this has been " ' incorporated into his volume, nothing giving a better idea of the thoroughness of his work than . the manner in which recent publications have been Miss Damer (pausing in her work). A. cabas! Have employed. The appearance of 'The Narrative of you really a cabas ? Why, De Vceux told me there General Venables' has enabled him to give an was not one yet in England ; that it was only men- animated account of the terrible mismanagement tioned in the last Revue Fashionable. that distinguished the West Indian expedition.

Lady Alice. Neither there is, save and except One of the most interesting portions of the volume mine. It was sent me by that dear Comtesse de is that which describes the disruption between Creveccaur. Reads [description of cabas}. " Voila ! Cromwell and the Parliament of 1654. The dispute votre cabas, chere belle mot disgracieux a pro- sprang from no variance on matters of detail. Tt noncer, mais pbjet a faire fureur, ici. Je vous was not even a dispute between military and civil 1'envoie en paille, tressee au jour, doublee en soie government. It arose ^rom a statesmanlike perception rose, nioiree. (Test trs simple mais tres distinguee. by each of the contending parties of the danger that Le cadeau de noces, donn^ par le Tellier (riche | would attend the delivery of the sword into the pos-