Notes and Queries, Number 230, March 25, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 230, March 25, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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"Mr. Howel Walsh, in a corporation case tried at the Tralee assizes,
observed that a corporation cannot blush. It was a body, it was true;
had certainly a head--a new one every year--an annual acquisition of
intelligence in every new lord mayor. Arms he supposed it had, and long
ones too, for it could reach at anything. Legs, of course, when it made
such long strides. A throat to swallow the rights of the community, and
a stomach to digest them! But who ever yet discovered, in the anatomy
of any corporation, either bowels or a heart?"
HENRY H. BREEN.
St. Lucia.
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_Devereux Bowly_ (Vol. ix., p. 173.).--In reply to UNEDA'S inquiry,
Devereux Bowly, watchmaker, of Lombard Street, London, died Mar. 15, 1773,
in his seventy-eighth year.
He was a member of the Society of Friends, and being at the time of his
decease a widower, and without family, he left a large portion of his
property to their school, then at Clerkenwell, in the neighbourhood of
which he resided.
T. S. N.
_Reversible Names_ (Vol. viii., pp. 244. 655.).--There is a gentleman in
this island who bears the name and surname of _Xuaved Devaux_, which are
mutually reversible.
HENRY H. BREEN.
St. Lucia.
Your correspondent BALLIOLENSIS, in speaking of reversible or palindromic
English names, seems to have overlooked the names of _Hannah_ and _Anna_.
X.
_Duval Family_ (Vol. viii., pp. 318. 423.).--A grant was made by the crown
in Ireland on the 4th July, 1 James II., to Garret Wall, _alias_ Duvall,
sen., Esq.; Garret Wall, _alias_ Duvall, jun.; Jas. Wall, _alias_ Duvall;
and Michael Wall of the manor, town, and lands of Culenemucky, co.
Waterford.
J. F. FERGUSON.
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