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-"As pleased as Punch"-Robert Bale-Altarage-Reli-
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George of Greece-Name of Author Wanted-Pre-Existence
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Journal of F. White, 52-Dollar-The Sobriquet " Albé"
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LINKS WITH THE '45.

(Continued from 7th S. iii. 511.)

The late Mr. G. Hetherington, of Brampton, who died in 1881, aged eighty-three, told me that he had often heard his grandmother, Elizabeth Smith, who died in 1813, aged eighty-nine, describe the crowd and commotion occasioned by the coming of the deputy-mayor and corporation of Carlisle to Brampton to deliver up the keys of the city to the prince, which ceremony they went through on their knees. Among that crowd she said she well remembered having seen one Margaret Ewing, a girl of sixteen, who had come with the army from Scotland. That girls did accompany the army we know, from what happened at the crossing of the river Esk, then much swollen from recent floods, on their way back to Scotland:

"1748, Dec. 28. John Richardson and Margaret Ewing, both of Brampton, married."

John Richardson was of the ancient yeoman family of the Richardsons of Easby, a township of Brampton, and on the death of his father in 1759 he succeeded to the small estate at Easby, about fortyfive acres, which is known from the Book of the Barony of Gilsland' to have been in the possession of his ancestors in 1603, and may have been so for centuries earlier. He died in 1799, aged seventythree. His wife, Margaret, was a remarkable to have been of a noble house. But "if so," says a woman, believed by her Brampton contemporaries local record, "she kept her secret well, as she was in no way communicative to those about her, not even to her husband, who always stood in great awe of her." She died in 1813, aged eighty-four, leaving the estate to her grandson Richard Richardson, to whom it is said she left it on the condition that he inscribed on her tombstone the following epitaph :

Here rest my old bones; my vexation now ends;
I have lived far too long for myself and my friends.
As for churchyards, and grounds which the parsons call
holy,
In short I despise them; and as for my soul,
'Tis a rank piece of priestcraft, and founded in folly;
It may rise the last day with my bones from this hole;
But about the next world I ne'er troubled my pate;
If no better than this, I beseech thee, O Fate,
When millions of bodies rise up in a riot,
O, pray, let the bones of old Margaret lie quiet!
The record goes on to say that "the then vicar of
the parish, his attention having been called to
this epitaph, sent a copy of it to the chancellor of
the diocese, who at once hastened to Brampton
and actually stood over the mason, one George
Rowell, until he had picked out the objection-
able lines with a chisel and mallet."
vicar knew nothing about the epitaph until his
That the
attention was called to it may to some appear
strange. But the churchyard is a mile and a
half distant from the church, vicarage, and town;
and in later times a tombstone has occasionally
been placed there without the knowledge of the
vicar. The chancellor, however, I think, must
have ordered the stone to be altogether broken
up, for the stone which now surmounts Margaret
Richardson's grave does not look as if it has ever
borne any other inscription than her present epi-
taph, which consists of ten lines, orthodox enough
to have been composed by the chancellor himself,
beginning thus :-

Throughout the world's immeasurable space
Go, sinful man, and learn thy God to trace !
Mr. A. Ormiston, Carlisle diocesan surveyor, writ-
ing to me about the original epitaph, says :—

"None were lost, except a few girls, who, for love of the white cockade, had followed the army throughout the whole of its singular march, with an heroic devotion which deserved a better fate."-Chambers's History of the Rebellion in 1745,' first edition, vol. i. p. 238. From such a fate, at all events from the risk of it, Margaret Ewing saved herself when, on the departure of the Highlanders from Brampton, she "An old friend of mine, Elizabeth Story (née Burgess), voluntarily chose to be the girl they left behind who died in 1855, aged eighty-three, informed me that them. Penrith parish register contains the follow-she had seen the tombstone, and that it was a common ing entry :

practice amongst young folk to gather together in Brampton churchyard for the purpose of reading the

strange epitaph on old Margaret. Her testimony was borne out by another old person whom I knew, Elizabeth Armstrong, who died in 1858, aged seventy-four, and was buried at Lanercost."

Mrs. Story's version of the epitaph, copied from her dictation by Mr. Ormiston, is identical with that given above, with the singie exception of the word "lie" instead of "rest" in the first line. Mrs. Barton, of Carlisle, whose late husband was a grandson of John and Margaret Richardson, has a version which, besides differing as to several words from that of Mrs. Story, omits altogether

all proper, and supporters of the French ducal and comtal families of that name, two swans, wings elevated, and another motto, epitomizing the entire The same arms, an annulet on the chevron, and history of the race, " Pro Deo, honore, et patria." the neck of the swan in the crest, presumably a mark of cadency, with the somewhat plaintive device, possibly conceived during the dark days of persecution," Dum spiro, spero," minus the supporters, not generally used, or allowed to the of the United Kingdom, were borne by the only untitled aristocracy or simply armigerous families omitted by Mr. J. C. Jeaffreson, who, in his Book surviving branch still possessed of landed property about Doctors' (p. 203), assigns the authorship of John Walsh, of Fanningstown, a magistrate of in southern Ireland, that is to say, by the late this epitaph to Dr. Messenger Monsey, physician Kilkenny, well known and beloved by us all. This to Chelsea Hospital, who died in 1788, aged ninety-venerable gentleman, of undoubted honour and five. Mr. Jeaffreson gives the last four lines thus:What the next world may be I ne'er troubled my pate; And, be what it may, I beseech thee, O Fate, When bodies of millions rise up in a riot, To let the old carcase of Monsey lie quiet! The first four lines as given by Mr. Jeaffreson agree exactly with the version which I have quoted

the two middle lines. The same two lines are

from the local record.

(To be continued.)

THE WALSH FAMILY.

(See 7th S. iii. 168.)

W.

veracity, without that overdose of family pride almost excusable in Irishmen of ancient lineage, firmly believed in his race, was not ignorant of its filiation, and as a matter of course claimed kinsmanship with his foreign cousins, who, though exiled from the home of their fathers, yet found honour, distinction, wealth, and fame in other more favoured regions.

Had they elected to remain in Ireland, they would, under the grinding tyranny of the penal laws, then in full vigour, have met with constant obloquy and insult from the parvenu and triumph

had recently possessed themselves of so large a portion of the confiscated land of Erin.

See the late Lord Macaulay, when, in his own inimitable style, he expatiates so vividly on the position attained by a Count Wall, minister of the Catholic king, dictating his conditions in the palace of the Escurial to the ambassador of Walpole, minister of George II., the English king; and how mournful indeed would have been his existence had so gifted a statesman continued in Ireland, immured in the sullen seclusion even of his beautiful domain of Coolnamuck, on the banks of our own silvery, wide-expanded Suir! See also my late father, Sir Thomas Wyse, in his Catholic Association, vol. i. c. ii. pp. 51, 52.

It is generally accredited in the South of Ire-ant Cromwellian squires, their neighbours, who land that the illustrious family of Walsh, of the Walsh Mountains-in its different ramifications of Bally-Hale; of Fanningstown, in the county of Kilkenny; of Carrigmaine, in Wicklow; of Oldcourt, in Meath; of Cranagh, Roscommon (these the sons of Geffrey), there transplanted by Cromwell, subsequently of France and Brittany, Comtes and Ducs de Serent, by creation 1753, and by brevet; of La Mothe-Houdancourt, grandees of Spain; of Teneriffe, in the Canary Islands, now Cologan, "titulados de Castilla," under the denomination of "Marqueses de Arénal"; Counts von WallisCarrighmaine,in Austria-derive from one common stock, three brothers, Welsh knights, companions of Strongbow, two of whom, Philip and David, rendered themselves for ever famous through their The exiled noblesse, of Ireland, banished at the rare intrepidity at the siege of Limerick, then de- close of the seventeenth century for their inviolable fended against Raymond le Gros by Donald fidelity to the Stuarts, whom they considered as O'Brien, Prince of Thomond (1172). The passage their lawful monarchs, as likewise for their unof the Shannon is figured, I should imagine, not-purchasable attachment to the national faith, withstanding an opinion alleged to the contrary in 'N. & Q.,' 3rd S. xi. 495, by the armorial bearings and crest since borne by many branches of the Walsh family, called by Madame de Créquy, in her more or less authentic Memoirs,' edited by M. de Courchamps, "très seigneuriale," which, together with the characteristic motto, "Transfixus sed non mortuus," are thus marshalled: On a silver shield, a chevron gules between three pheons sable; the crest, a swan pierced through the neck,

have enriched the armorial of almost every European country, whilst their martial prowess in the field and skill in the council-chamber have contributed to "make the history" of many countries throughout the globe.

How many glorious names on the roll of fame, but the nomenclature would be too tedious to recapitulate here, O'Neills, MacMahons, O'Donnells, Lacys, D'Altons, O'Rorkes, O'Reillys, Dillons, Walshes, and countless others of pure Milesian,

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