Notes and Queries, Number 240, June 3, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 240, June 3, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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_Richard Fitz-Alan, ninth Earl of Arundel._--Can any one tell me why
Richard Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, who married Eleanora,
daughter of Henry Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster, relict of Henry Lord
Beaumont, received the _sobriquet_ of "Richard with the Copped Hat?"
H. M.
_French Refugees._--During the time of the French Revolution, 1789-1800,
many families emigrated to England, and received shelter and support at an
hospital then situate in Spital Fields. I should feel obliged for any
information relating to the books or registers of that hospital wherein
would be found the names of the emigrants, and also whether there is any
publication relating to them.
J. F. F.
Dublin.
"_Dilamgabendi._"--What is the precise meaning of the word _Dilamgabendi_;
is it of ancient British origin, or to what language does it belong?
A TRAVELLER.
_Mr. Plumley._--In the _Literary Intelligencer_ for March, 1822, No. 131.,
in an article entitled "Extremes Meet," it is said:
"Mr. Plumley concludes one of his tragedies with a dying speech and an
execution. And gives an appendix of references to the passages of
Scripture quoted in his plays."
Who was Mr. Plumley, and what did he write? I cannot find any book to which
the above passage can refer in the British Museum.
C. L.
_Designation of Works under Review._--I shall be much indebted to the
Editor of "N. & Q.," or to any of his correspondents, if he or they will
inform me of the designation under which the works, whose names stand at
the head of a review, should be technically referred to by the reviewer.
C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.
Birmingham.
_North-west Passage._--In 1612, Captain Thomas Button made a voyage to
discover the north-west passage, and was afterwards knighted by King James.
Can any of your readers refer me to a pedigree, or other particulars, of
Sir Thomas Button's family? They appear to have been seated at Duffryn, in
Glamorganshire, as early as the fourteenth or fifteenth century. Sir
Thomas' daughter Ann married General Rowland Langharne, of St. Bride's,
Pembrokeshire, a noted character in the civil war.
NOTARY.
_Fountains._--Will some kind reader obligingly state the names of any works
that give representations or descriptions of foreign fountains?
AQUARIUS.
_Pope and John Dennis._--What is the authority for the universal assumption
that Pope wrote _The Narrative of Dr. Robert Norris_? It is said, in the
notes to the _Dunciad_, to have been published in Swift and Pope's
_Miscellanies_, vol. iii. This does not prove that Pope wrote it. Farther,
it is not {517} in the third volume of the _Miscellanies_ as republished in
1731. What are the facts?
P. J. D.
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