MR. PATRICK O'KELLY, THE IRISH BARD. I have just made a careful examination of four different editions of the poems published under the name of this individual. First: "Killarney, a descriptive Poem, by Pat. O'Kelly. 'Ah! sure no Pencil can like Nature paint.' Tompson. Dublin: printed for the author by P. Hoey, No. 33. Upper Ormond Quay, 1791." Pp. 136. In this collection we have "Killarney, and Poetical Miscellanies.' Second: The edition of 1824, pp. 110 (the copy I saw had no title-page), which contains "The Ronian Kaliedoscope, the Eidophusicon, the Manoscope, the Eidouranium, the Deodad," &c. &c. Third: "The Hippacrene; a collection of Poems by Patrick O'Kelly, Esq. 'Exegi monumentum ære perennius.' 'E'en Magerton himself shall pass away, Ere the production of the Muse decay.' Dublin: F. and T. Courtney, Printers, 18. Whitefriars Street, 1831." Pp. 128. In this we find several of his old pieces republished, with some novelties. Among the last the "Lines to a Plagiarist, or the Daw deplumed," deserves particular attention. We quote the opening lines: "Hail Mickey Carty!! Prince of Pirates hail! Do Giants' garbs suit puny pigmies well?" &c. &c. Third. A part of a compilation of some of the old poems with additional matter, no date, which begins at page 105, and ends with page 132. From the character of the type used in this edition I should suppose it was published subsequent, or at all events but a very few years previous, to the edition of 1831 just noticed. To return to the edition of 1824. In this we find the following poem (page 45): "The Simile, Written on the beautiful beach of Lehinch, in the county of Clare: this romantic spot, so long admired by many, is the property of Andrew Stackpool, Esquire. "This erudite gentleman is admired by a numerous circle of friends, and caressed by a grateful tenantry, being one of the most lenient landlords in this land of aristocratic peculation." My life is like the Summer Rose "Yet, as if grievous to efface The vestige of the human race! Who, but the Nine, shall roar for me?" This poem also appears in the edition without date, page 118, with sundry corrections and improvements. Now this poem, taken either as it originally appeared, or as it afterwards was corrected, I have good reasons to suppose, was pilfered by O'Kelly from another. The following lines were published in Philadelphia in 1815 or 16 (perhaps some of your Philadelphia correspondents may help me to the title and exact date of the paper in which they first appeared), with the name of my late father, the Hon. Richard Henry Wilde, attached as the author of them : 66 66 My life is like the summer rose 'My life is like the autumn leaf That trembles in the moon's pale ray; It's hold is frail-it's date is brief, Restless, and soon to pass away; Yet when that leaf shall fall and fade The parent tree will mourn its shade, The wind bewail the leafless tree, But none shall breathe a sigh for me! "My life is like the print, which feet Have left on Sampa's desert strand, Soon as the rising tide shall beat, Their track will vanish from the sand; Yet as if grieving to efface All vestige of the human race, On that lone shore loud moans the sea, I have been furnished with the character of Mr. O'Kelly by my friend R. Shelton Mackenzie, Esq., of New York, who knew him. If anything is wanting to this, I have it in the poet's edition of his works, without date, page 131, where I find a poem entitled "The Tear," precisely similar (excepting some few corrections necessary in making the appropriation) to a piece of the same name written by the late Tom Moore. To this poem O'Kelly has had the impudence to affix a date-1768-twelve years before Moore was born! Mr. Crofton Croker in his Popular Songs of Ireland, p. 184., mentions two editions of O'Kelly's poems between 1791 and 1824. An edition of 1808, entitled "Poems on the Giant's Causeway and Killarney, with other Miscellanies" and an edition of 1812, which contained "The Eudoxologist, or an Ethicographical Survey of the West Parts of Ireland." In the first of these editions appeared that elegant effusion, "The Litany of Doneraile," which I find is repeated in the edition without date, page 116. I quote the opening of this piece: "Alas! how dismal is my tale, I lost my watch in Doneraile; May Fire and Brimstone never fail May all the leading fiends assail The thieving town of Doneraile," &c. &c. Now the object of this Note is to ascertain when O'Kelly first published the poem entitled "The Simile as his own. I have not been able to trace it in his works beyond 1824. Will some of your correspondents who have the editions mentioned by Mr. Croker, or other editions of O'Kelly's Works, be good enough to inform me on this subject? WILLIAM CUMMING WILDE. Is anything known of the early history of Edward Randolph, employed by the British government from 1675 to 1684 in an agency for vacating the charters of Massachusetts, and afterwards as secretary and collector in that colony? He had, perhaps, been previously a clerk in one of the public offices in London. Where are the papers (if extant) of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Governor of Plymouth about 1620, described as "Sir Ferdinando Gorges, of Ashton Phillips, in Somerset ? " Does the will of John Cabot, the voyager to North America, exist in the Will Office at Worcester, or elsewhere? Are there any unpublished materials of a nature to illustrate the connexion of Sir Henry Rogwell, of Ford Abbey, with the Massachusetts Company? During the first sixty or seventy years of the New England settlements, many conspicuous Englishmen must have held large correspondence with the leading men of those colonies, the discovery of which would be of the highest historical value. Has any such correspondence survived? The following names immediately occur in connexion with this question, viz. Richard, Earl of Warwick, Lord Say and Sele, Lord Brooke, Sir George Downing, Sir Henry Vane, Hugh Peters. [In the British Museum will be found the following MSS. relating to Sir Ferdinando Gorges: "His Declaration, A. D. 1600-1," Birch and Sloane MS. 4128; "An Answer to certain Imputations against Sir Ferd. Gorges, as if he had practised the Ruin of the Earl of Essex, written in the Gatehouse," Cotton MS. Julius, F. VI. art. 183; "Warrants to him from the Earl of Essex, Jan. 1597," Addit. MS. 5752, ff. 104-110; "Letter to T. Harriott," Ibid, 6789; "Letter to Sir J. Davis, concerning his Confession," A.D. 1603, Ibid, 6177, p. 387. Also, "Papers relating to the Virginia Company, Jac. I.," and "Notes by Sir J. Cæsar of the Patents granted to the said by the Virginian Company," 1b. 14,285. "William Company," Ib. 12,496. "Forms of Patents, Grants, &c., Strachey: The History of Travaile into Virginia Britannica, expressing the Cosmography and Commodities of the Country, together with the Manners and Customs of the People, with several figures coloured," Birch and Sloane MS. 1622. "Answer to Capt. Nath. Butler's unmasked face of Virginia, as it was in the winter of 1622," Ibid, 1039. "The Declaration of the People of Virginia against Sir William Berkeley and others," Ibid, 4159.] Minor Queries. Husbands authorised to beat their Wives.-There exists what I conceive to be a popular error, namely, a belief that a husband is by the common law of England authorised to chastise his wife; and Judge Buller is often quoted, as having given it as his judgment that the husband is justified in administering personal chastisement to his better half, provided he uses a stick no thicker than his little finger, or, as some severer disciplinarians say, his thumb. either of these statements ? Is there any foundation for HENPECKED. Dr. Bray's Libraries in America, &c. - The inquiry made through your pages respecting parochial libraries in England, having met with much attention from many valuable correspondents, permit me to extend the Query originally made in "N. & Q." from England to America, where, we are informed *, Dr. Bray "begun and advanced libraries more or less in all the provinces on the Continent (of America), as also in the factories in Africa." Some of your American correspondents will no doubt be happy to reply to an inquiry which will show the present state of these libraries, and their good effects in promoting religion and learning. I find the following places mentioned as having had libraries established in them by the care and exertions of Dr. Bray, who received thanks on account of them; Maryland, Boston, Baintree, Newfoundland, Rhode Island, New York, Philadelphia, North Carolina, Bermudas, Annapolis, the Factories in Africa. Oxford. J. M. Can R. J. any of Queen Charlotte's Drinking Glass. your readers authenticate the following? It is extracted from a letter from one James Heming, containing an account of George III.'s coronation: "Our friend Harry, who was upon the scaffold, at the return of the procession, closed in with the rear; at the expence of half a guinea was admitted into the hall; got brimfull of his majesty's claret, and in the universal plunder, brought off the glass her majesty drank in, which is placed in the beaufet as a valuable curiosity." C. J. DOUGLAS. Inscription for a Watch. — "Could but our tempers move like this machine, Not urg'd by passion nor delay'd by spleen; And true to nature's regulating power, By virtuous acts distinguish every hour: Then health and joy would follow, as they ought, The laws of motion and the laws of thought; Sweet health to pass the present moments o'er, And everlasting joy, when time shall be no more." Scots' Magazine, Oct. 1747. Who is likely to be the author of these fine verses ? G. N. "Think of me.” · Who is the author of the lines "Think of me," given in Sir Roland Ashton, * Biog. Britan. Prayer for Unity. Is it known who wrote the touching Prayer for Unity," which appears in our present office for the 20th of June, being the day on which Her Majesty began her happy reign? It is not contained in the form of 1704, as printed in Keeling's Liturgica Britannicæ. A. A. D. Dream-Books. Dr. Mackay tells us, in his Popular Delusions, that the maxims of the pseudoscience of oneirology have been so imperfectly remembered, that at the present day they differ in different countries, and the same dream which delights the peasant in England terrifies him in France or Switzerland. Can your readers put me in the way of obtaining a few of the dreambooks in circulation among the credulous on the Continent? Notes are desired on the bibliography of dreambooks during the last two centuries, to link the works of Artemidorus, Astampsychus, and Achmet, with the Seven Dials' publications of the present day. Communications through the medium of " N. & Q.," or privately to the care of the editor, will oblige R. T. SCOTT. Instrument of Torture. "Late heavy rains at Jamaica have exposed an instrument of torture made of iron hoops, with screws, and so constructed as to fit the largest or smallest person; attached to it are manacles for the hands. The inside of the knee-bars, and the resting-place for the soles of the feet, are studded with spikes. When found, the perfect skeleton of a negress was enclosed in the instrument." The above statement coming from a reliable source, it may be asked if at any time in the English West India Islands instruments of torture were applied to slaves? And if so, for what crimes? Malta. W. W. KARL. Author of the "Voice of the Rod." — Can any of the readers of "N. & Q." favour me with the full reading of the initials "L. N." of the following work: "The Voice of the Rod, or God's Controversie pleaded with Man, being a plain and brief Discourse on Mich. vi. 9., by L. N., philomathes. London: printed for Walter Dight, Bookseller in Exeter, 1668. 12mo., pp. 288." There are prefixed a "Dedication to the Infinite, Eternal, and All wise God," &c., and an "Address to the Readers," dated "Ab Eremis meis, Aug. 28, 1666." The discourse is a very serious one, and appears to have reference to the Plague in London, 1665, and to the Fire, 1666. By these dreadful calamities the progress of the author's work in some of its departments had been impeded, as at the end of it, he adds a "Postscript to the Readers:" "Sirs, — If anything in these sheets seem to be born out of due time, know that they have had a hard Travail. They were at first prepared for 1665, but through the astonishing difficulty of our late Junctures, the Author's unbefriended Obscurity, and want of those Minerval powers which are now become essentially requisite in such cases, they have lingered hitherto," &c. G. N. Arnold of Westminster. — In 1680, July 17, one John Giles was convicted, the government having offered a reward of 100l. for his apprehension, of assaulting and wounding dangerously on the previous April 17, in Bell Yard, Temple Bar, John Arnold, Esq. In 1688, one Arnold, the king's brewer, was of the jury on the trial of the bishops; and in one of the Letters of the Herbert Family, he is called Captain Arnold; and is said to have a considerable party to support him in his wish to represent Westminster in parliament. In 1692, John Arnold, Esq., was member for Southwark; and Nicholas Arnold was a gentleman pensioner. In 1708, Nehemia Arnold was paymaster of malt tickets. In, or previously, and perhaps subsequently to 1722, Nehemia Arnold, Esq., was living in Westminster. Can any reader of "N. & Q." inform me if any and what family connexions exist amongst these Arnolds, or give me any particulars of any of them? N. N. New York Murder Congrelaticosualists. — Permit me to ask, if you or any of your readers can satisfy my curiosity on either of the two following points? 1. You are probably acquainted with the Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by the late American poet, Edgar Allan Poe. In one of these, entitled "The Mystery of Marie Roget," the author, under pretence of describing the murder of a Parisian grisette, analyses the particulars of the murder of a New York cigar girl. It is stated in a note that the subsequent confessions of two people connected with the New York murder completely verified the conclusion to which Poe, by analysis, had come. Can anybody tell me where I can find an account of the New York murder; or tell me the real names, dates, and fate of the murderers? The murder was committed before November 1842, as that is the date of Poe's tale in Marie Roget. 2. Secondly, you will find in one of Sydney Smith's Essays on America (p. 240. of the 8vo. edition, in one volume), in a list of the places of worship in Philadelphia, one mentioned as belonging to a sect called "the Congrelaticosualists." I have never met with this word anywhere else. It is not to be found in any dictionary. Nor can I conceive what its derivation can be, or from the words of what language it can be compounded, if it be a compound. The best scholars with whom I have had the opportunity of conversing can give me no information. If the meaning or derivation be not known, can any one give me information as to the peculiar tenets, &c., of the sect? T. H. D. The Kalends or Calends at Bromyard. — In a short visit to Herefordshire I was struck with the name which the inhabitants of Bromyard gave to a long narrow footpath enclosed with high walls, and leading to the churchyard; they called it the Kalends or Calends. I could not find out the precise spelling of the word, and no one seemed to know much about it. Can any of your readers enlighten me on the subject, or as to the origin of the word? Perhaps it is a mere provincialism, but it struck me there might be some connection between this singular name and the Calendar (or Kalandar); in what way I would not, however, presume to say. R. PATTISON. Torrington Square, "I could not lett this bearer my Ld. Wentworth goe, without giueing your Matie the trouble of a letter, and to lett your Matle know that I send him to the K. of Denmarke to desire his assistance, and recommendation to the States on my behalfe, I will not say any more at present, because I haue commanded the bearer to giue your Matie an account of all that's a doeing heere, only to desire your Matie to giue credite to him, and to me that I am, "Madame, "Your Maties most humble and most affectionate nephew and seruant, "CHARLES R." The letter bears a small seal, and is endorsed, "For the Queene of Bohemia my Deare Aunt." I am possessor of a remarkable picture of this title and subject, painted by the late Thomas Cole, whose classic reading may have furnished the subject, but whose own poetic capacity was so large, that he (artistically speaking) invented his own subjects and painted them, epic, fanciful, and dramatic. Should this Query find answer I will gladly send you a Note of the treatment of the subject. J. M. F. New York. William the Conqueror's Joculator. -In Specimens of early English Metrical Romances, chiefly written during the early part of the 14th Century, by George Ellis, Esq., speaking of the minstrels, he says: "They were obliged to adopt various modes of amusing, and to unite the mimic and the juggler, as a compensation for the defects of the musician and poet. Their rewards were in some cases enormous, and prove the esteem in which they were held; though this may be partly as He then states that William the Conqueror assigned three parishes in Gloucestershire as a gift for the support of his Joculator, and adds: Queries. Can any of your readers determine or conjecture the year in which this letter was written? Is there any account of Charles apply-cribed to the general thirst after amusement, and the ing to the "K. of Denmarke, to desire his asdifficulty of the great in dissipating the tediousness of sistance?" Who is meant by "the bearer my life." Ld. Wentworth ?" An early answer would be very acceptable. Vox. Were Charles I. and Oliver Cromwell distant Cousins? What authority has the writer of the amusing and interesting article on the "Causes of the Civil War," in the newly published number of the Quarterly Review, p. 109., for the assertion of the relationship which forms the subject of this Query, and is declared in the following passage? "In addition to Sir Oliver the 'Golden Knight' (Sir Henry Cromwell) left five sons and five daughters. It is a singular circumstance that from his children should have sprung the two most famous leaders in the great rebellion, for his second daughter was the mother of Hampden, as his second son Robert was the father of the Protector. Another curious circumstance is that Robert married a widow, Mrs. Lynne, whose maiden name was Steward, and who came of the royal race. The fact is now established beyond question that Charles I. and Oliver Cromwell were distant cousins. The Protector certainly did not exaggerate his descent when he said in a speech to his first Parliament, I was by birth a gentleman; living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity." C. O. C. "Obnoxious."-What is the meaning of the word obnoxious? Walker says "liable." Why then do almost all modern authors, including Macaulay and, I think, Dickens, use it in the sense of "disagreeable" or "disgusting?"* S. B. Belper. "Titan's Goblet." -Will you, or some one of your readers, oblige me with the locus in quo I can find anything relative to the "Titan's goblet?" [The various senses in which obnoxious is used has been incidentally noticed in our 1st S. viii. 439.] "This may, perhaps, be a less accurate measure of the minstrel's accomplishments than of the monarch's power, Ellis, vol. i. p. 19., and of the insipidity of his court.” &c. "Three parishes in Gloucestershire" must at any time have been an immense donation for almost any services one can imagine; and I should be much obliged to any reader of "N. & Q." to point out which were these three parishes, and the name of the fortunate joculator, if it has descended to posterity. - Λ. "Wheel for the Borough of Milborn Port." I have a small old print, of which the following is a description. The figure of a wheel, about three inches in diameter, round the edge of which is the following :." (1x) Antient (VIII) Wheel (vii) for (vi) the (v) Borrough (1) of (111) Milborn (11) Port (1)." Nine names, representing the spokes of the wheel, commence opposite the numerals, each meeting in the centre, and each divided by a wave line. The names, commencing with No. 1., are, "William Carent, William Raymond, Robert Gerrard, William Caldecut, John Huddy, James Hannam, Roger Saunders, George Millborn." Milborn Port (Somerset), to which this figure probably refers, was formerly one of the principal towns in the southern part of the county, and for a very long period sent two members to parliament. It was one of the "rotten boroughs swept away by the Reform Bill. Queries. What is the meaning of this " an |