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THE WALSH FAMILY. (Concluded from p. 44.)

In Birmingham Tower, thanks to the courtesy of the present Ulster King-at-Arms, I have seen a document, 1733, countersigned Hawkins, one of his predecessors, beginning thus, "Genealogia Nicolai Walsh hodie Téneriffe incolæ, qui per longam seriem præclarorum virorum a David Walsh legitime est oriundus." This Nicholas, deriving from the above-mentioned progenitor, reckoned amongst his ancestors Sir Patrick Walsh, Knight, twice Mayor of Waterford (1525, 1532), and founder of the Holy Ghost Hospital in that city (1545), is now represented in blood by Don Tommaso Cologan (or his descendants), of the Island of Teneriffe, who, according to Sir Bernard Burke, in his 'Heraldic Illustrations,' where he does not hesitate to speak of the great house of Walsh of the county of Waterford, bears his arms in the following fashion: Quarterly, 1, Azure, a lion rampant between three pheons argent, which is Cologan, formerly MacCologan; 2, Azure, two greyhounds erect and respectant, supporting between them a sword erect proper on the centre chief point, a castle of the second (Fallon); 3, Argent, a chevron gules between three pheons sable, which is Walsh;* 4, Gules, a bunch of grapes argent, surmounted by a bend or, for Gaunt, a Spanish family, apparently. Motto, "In Deo spes mea." Sir Patrick Walsh was nearly related to Sir Nicholas Walsh, Master of the Rolls, and the illustrious Archbishop of Cashell Thomas Walsh (1626-1654), son of Robert Walsh and of Anastasia Strong, an eminent Waterford house, whose life has been written by a contemporary, F. S. Leger, of the Company of Jesus, and by F. Meehan, of Dublin, was probably a near kinsman. See Irish Hierarchy of the Seventeenth Century.' That there were other descendants of David Walsh, but of a younger branch, I should infer from the different tincture of the armorial shield, in this instance gold instead of argent, as I have seen it in the maternal proofs of a descendant in the fourth degree of Mr. Walsh of Pill-town, namely, Anne MacCarthy, wife of Edward D'Alton of Grennanstown, in the county of Tipperary, a Count of the Holy Roman Empire, chamberlain, and general in the service of the Emperor of Germany, killed 1793 at the siege of Dunkirk. Col. Walsh of Pilltown 1775, the last of this branch I surmise, I have heard was a most accomplished gentleman of fascinating address, much appreciated at the Court of Versailles and in the then Parisian society. His aunt Thomassine Walsh became the wife of Col. Masterson of Castletown and Monaseedy, co. Wex

By the marriage of his grandfather, John Cologan, with Margareth, daughter of Bernard Walsh of Teneriffe, representative of the great house of Walsh of the county Waterford (Sir Bernard Burke, 'Heraldic Illustrations').

ford, of ancient Cheshire lineage, first located at Nantwich since the reign of Edward III. (Ormerod), but afterwards established in Ireland by Sir Thomas Masterson of Ferns, knight, a valiant soldier, who exercised the office of seneschal for Queen Elizabeth in Wexford. This family, bearing the wheatsheafs so frequently found in Cestrian coats of arms and now extinct, is represented in the female line by the writer of this and some other families-Mr. Power O'Shee of Gardenmorris, co. Waterford; Count William O'Shee of Paris; also by the Vicomte de Coux, of the chateau of S. Jean-Ligoure, in the department of the Haute Vienne, France. The estate of this junior branch of the Walshes has long since dwindled away. It has been acquired by a successful attorney of the name of Kennedy, the direct ancestor of the present Sir John Kennedy, Bart., who bears the arms slightly modified of the Kennedys of Clondalkin, co. Dublin, an offshoot of the O'Brien or Dalcassian stock, but chief remembrancers of Ireland tempore Charles II.

Historique sur l'Irlande, contenant l'Origine de In 1837 was printed at Brussels a work, 'Essai toutes les Familles Nobles de ce Pays, par le Comte O'Kelly d'Aghrim, Ancien Employé au Conseil Suprême de Noblesse, au Royaume des Pays Bas, where (p. 119) mention is made of the Walsh family. The noble author, head, I am given to the eldest branch of the once princely house of understand, under the "predicate" of Aghrim, of Imaney, styled in the old Celtic days Hereditary vincial kings, the O'Connors, was a genealogist Marshalls of Connaught, subordinate to its proand herald of no mean repute. He quotes the writing of the Walshes of Ireland within the historiograph and antiquary Camden, who in Pale continues, "quorum ut nobilitas antiqua, ita

hoc tractu numerosa.

Several families of Walsh, or Walshe, in the for instance, bear a coat of arms somewhat discounty Dublin, seated at Shanganagh, near Bray, similar, to wit, Azure, a lion rampant argent, debruised by a fess paly argent and gules, and nevertheless they belong essentially to the same race, the remote ancestor being Gilbert, son of Sir David Walsh, to whom was granted the estate of Carrigmaine, in Wicklow. These double coats of arms are sometimes to be met with in Irish heraldry. I could quote at least three coats of O'Connell and two of Power, as of a few others. Here the military family of Counts Wallis (1716), likewise styled Barons von Karrighmaine, which had acquired great renown in Austria, in their rather complicated and augmented escutcheon, equally bear the swan pierced through the neck, and the Shanganagh or Carrigmaine emblazonment, the white lion on a field azure, and while consulting Simon, 'Armorial de l'Empire Français,' vol. ii. pl. xxxvi. p. 32, L. W. may perceive that

Monsieur Walsh de Serent, "Comte de l'Empire Français,' bore for arms quarterly the insignia of counts, presidents of electoral colleges, in this instance Morbihan, Walsh proper, FitzGerald, and Walsh Shanganagh. The Shanganagh coat has been exemplified by the authority of the College of Arms, Dublin, to that able and most acute lawyer the Right Hon. John Walsh, who died 1869, Master of the Rolls in Ireland, a canton or, for difference. However, the present Archbishop of Dublin, Walsh, bears in addition, empaled with the usual archiepiscopal blazon at all times inherent to his see, as his own private or paternal arms, those of Walsh of Shanganagh, but with what authenticity I am unable to state.

I have now, to the best of my ability, but how deficiently I am but too well aware, endeavoured to reply to the query of L. W. (7th S. iii. 168). Connected as I am by the most intimate ties of family and of long-established tradition with that warm, genial, kind-hearted, witty, poetic, and brave south-eastern tract of Ireland, it has, in the midst of these dry bones of the past, been almost a labour of love with me to have penned the above. I am persuaded that both in the southern provinces of Waterford and of Ossory, the original home of the family, object of this note or reply, many a forgotten legend, many a fast-fading ballad or dim memory may yet be disentombed by the industrious searcher, and when the "Awen" or inspiriting muse of historic research shall have touched with her magic wand the soul of so laborious an unraveller of the past, facts-numerous hitherto unknown-hidden away and all but buried under the accumulated dust of ages shall then be quickened into life and finally unveiled to the world.

A Cuvier of history to the mouldering, almost fossilized remnants of the past, in order to reconstruct logically, scientifically, and inductively an entire epoch, is perhaps wanting. The Brannaghs are enshrined in our legends; they form part and parcel of our very selves, lovers, quand même, of a glorious past, of which no one need be ashamed. We have given them their Gaelic name, as the Comerfords and the Powers, the descendants of the grand huntsman of Prince John in Ireland, and the latter, claiming to be Pohers or Lepoers, ungrammatically De la Poers, of the Dukes and Kings of Brittany, were called, the first O'Comerthune and the second Pearaigh. The Italo-Norman race FitzGerald were MacGarrait, &c.

Other notices on the Walsh family may be found in the pages of Lachenaye des Bois, in those of the 'Nobiliaire" of Brittany, by M. de Courson, and possibly in those of M. de Bettencourt, who wrote on the leading families of the Canary Islands; but not having the books of that eminent Spanish heraldic writer at my disposition it is impossible for me to say whether such be really the case or not. In the Kilkenny Archaeological Journal are given many details on the Walshes, particularly the Castle Howell or Ballyhale branch (M. D'Alton, 'King James Army List,' &c.). I regret, indeed, that in the otherwise invaluable "recueil," or golden treasure-house of priceless genealogical lore, the result of a long life laboriously devoted to arduous research, I mean the 'Dictionnaire des Familles de l'Ancien Poitou,' edited by M. Beauchet-Filleau, piously walking on the traces of his venerable ancestor M. Filleau of Poitiers, no mention whatever is made of the Walshes, as of the Keatings, now Orfeuille, another Irish family fixed in Poitou, who, however, possessed the important "seigneurie" of Chassenon, near Bressuire, within the limits of that most historical province. Nevertheless, the scarlet and black uniform of the "Regiment de Walsh," one of the Irish Brigade in the service of France, was far from an unfamiliar sight in the city of Poitiers and the different Poitevin towns where this brilliant regiment NEPOS- OR NEPUS- GABLE.-In the title-deeds often before the Revolution held garrison. Justly of an old property in St. Enoch Square, Glasgow, popular with all classes, its officers, composed of now occupied as an hotel called "His Lordship's the pure élite of our exiled gentry, nobly upheld Larder," reference is made to "the garret room, the honour of the old fatherland, equally by 10 feet square, in the middle or nepos of the their dash in the hunting field in the country of storey." This word is not in the 'Imperial DicJacques du Fouilloux, the celebrated veneur and tionary. In Jamieson I find "Nepus-Gable," but cynegetic writer of the sixteenth century, and their with no definition or derivation, only this quotachivalrous bearing in the salons and chateaux of tion: "There being then no ronnes on the house, that truly hospitable region. As elsewhere, history especially where the nepus-gables were towards the has not been oblivious of its exploits on the battle-streets, the rain came gushing in a spout."—"The field. See M. Belin de la Liborlière, Poitiers Provost' (John Galt), p. 201. avant 1789'; O'Callaghan, 'The Irish Brigade in the service of France.'

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If I have extended myself too discursively perhaps I have one excuse, this one, namely, sua detur antiquitati venia." NAPOLEON BONAPARTE-WYSE.

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I fancy I know now what is meant by the nepos. It seems to be the sort of front gable, if that is not a contradiction in terms; but I cannot con

Which were, in the dexter quarter of each shield, jecture why it is called nepos, or nepus, or nipos, Azure, three lozenges conjoined in fess or,

as I see it is sometimes spelt.

In Jamieson gavel, which is still commonly used by masons and builders in Scotland for gable, is defined "the end wall of a house, properly the triangular or higher part of it"; and in Parker's 'Concise Glossary of Architecture,' s. v. "Gable," "This term was formerly applied to the entire end wall of a building, the top of which conforms to the slope of the roof which abuts against it, but is now applied only to the upper part of such a wall above the level of the eaves.' "I think it is exactly the reverse. Whatever may formerly have been the meaning, the word-in Scotland, at any rate-now applies to the whole wall. stantly speak of a mutual gable, or a gable being mean and common to conterminous proprietors. Ruskin uses the word gable as applicable to the See Stones of Venice,' vol. ii. chap. vi. section lxxxii. p. 210,

whole roof in Gothic architecture.

ed. 1874:

We con

"Although there may be many advisable or necessary forms for the lower roof or ceiling, there is in cold countries exposed to rain and snow only one advisable form for the roof-mask, and that is the gable, for this alone will throw off both rain and snow from all parts of its surface as speedily as possible. Snow can lodge on the top of a dome, not on the ridge of a gable";

and at the end of the same section, "Gothic architecture is that which uses the pointed arch for the roof proper and the gable for the roof-mask."

When Dr. Murray gets to the length of G we shall no doubt get a correct definition of the word gable, but that may be some time yet.

J. B. FLEMING.

DEATHS OF ENGLISH KINGS.-The following lyrical, but not very musical, bit of history "in a nutshell," culled from a Canadian newspaper, may be worth a corner in 'N. & Q.':

William the First got a bruise from his horse,
A random shot arrow made Rufus a corse;
Henry the Clever, on fish too well fed,
Stephen of Blois died quietly in bed;
Henry the Second of grief broke his heart;
Cœur de Lion got killed by a dart;
John, by the fever-and nobody sighed,
Harry of Winchester naturally died;
Edward the First died marching to fight,
Edward the Second was murdered at night;
The warrior Edward passed calmly away,
Richard, deposed, was starved out of the way;
Henry the Fourth died of fits to excess,
Henry the Fifth in the noon of success;
Henry the Sixth died of grief in the Tower,
'Twas lust brought Edward the Fourth his last hour;
Edward the Fifth, in the Tower, too, was killed
By Richard the Third-slain at Bosworth Field;
Henry the Seventh owes death to the gout,
Disorders untold put his namesake to rout;
Edward the Sixth died a natural death,
Mary, in quietness, exhaled her last breath;
Queen Bess closed in anguish an ill-spent reign,
Scotch James the First passed away without pain;
The First King Charles died under the knife,
Charles, his son, passed off without strife;

His second son, James, died exiled from his throne,
William the Third broke his right collar bone;

Queen Anne very suddenly went to her doom,
Apoplectical fits sent King George to the tomb;
King George the Second turned out in a rage,
His long-reigned successor slipped off in old age;
The Fourth King George, and William, his brother,
With an osseous heart left this life for another;
Victoria reigns-so good and so wise,

And she 'll be greatly missed whenever she dies.
ROBERT F. GARDINER,

SHAKSPERE AND SHAKE-SPEARE: SHAKE-SPEARE of his book, 'Studies on the Science of General AND PALLAS ATHENE.-Dr. G. G. Zerffi, in part ii. History' (London, Hirschfeld Brothers, 1887), now takes her name from vibrating a lance. Durga is publishing, writes at p. 90: "Durga, like Pallas, with wisdom." In reply to my inquiry as to the the Indian representative of heroic valour united lightened my ignorance by writing as follows:occult meaning of the passage, Dr. Zerffi has en

that Tallo, Taleobai, Tadλev, from which Pallas "Please take up a Greek dictionary, and you will see the proper name is derived, means to brandish, to sway, to quiver, to shake. That is quite clear. The Sanskrit word Durga has the same meaning, to shake, to vibrate. Athens, and as she was represented scarcely ever without Pallas Athene means literally, the Shaking Goddess of a spear, whether anybody called her the Shaking Goddess has nothing to do with the fact that her name was derived from shaking,' and as she was represented with a spear, anybody might have called her allegorically 'The Shake-speare Goddess.'

This sentence seems to me suggestive, and may interest some of your readers as bearing upon Thomas Fuller's appropriation of the name "Hastavibrans "* to the author of the Shake-speare plays. WILLIAM HENRY SMITH.

1A, Blomfield Place, W.

MICHAEL RICHARDS.-In a copy of the 'Emmanvelis Alvari e Societate Jesu Prosodia,' Antwerp, 1680, on the cover is written :

If I do chance to loose this book,
Here is my name if you do look;
But if yo are accustom'd to lye,
And still my book from me denye,
Yo are mistaken, my sweet freind;
It was not bought to such an end
Yt such a silly fool as thee

The owner of this book should bee.
MICH. RICHARDS.

Michael Richards must have been on July 12, 1687, a pupil in some Jesuits' college. Did he not afterwards become known as a member of the Society? RALPH N. JAMES.

DISUSED BURIAL-GROUNDS. (See 6th S. viii. 423; ix. 117.)-On Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars, being taken by a firm of agricultural implement makers for their show-room, the remains of the Rev. Rowland Hill (interred beneath the pulpit, in accordance with his wish) were removed to

*The word is written by Fuller and always quoted as "Haste-vibrans."

Christ Church, Westminter Bridge Road, on the morning of April 14, 1881. DANIEL HIPWELL. 34, Myddelton Square, W.C.

"THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT': PERSIAN PARALLEL.-I copy the following from Chodzko's 'Popular Poetry of Persia,' p. 484 :—

"I went upon the mountain top to tend my flock. Seeing there a girl, I said, 'Lass, give me a kiss.' She said, Lad, give me some money.' I said, 'The money is in the purse, the purse in the wallet, the wallet on the camel, and the camel in Kerman, 'She said. You wish for a kiss, but the kiss lies behind my teeth, my teeth are locked up, the key is with my mother, and my mother, like your camel, is in Kerman."

Tehran, Persia.

J. J. FAHIE.

A SILLY SUPERSTITION.-The annexed is from the Daily Telegraph of July 7. Can such things be in this age of School Boards and in this year of Jubilee?

"A farm labourer named Thos. Ryder, residing at Cornwood, a village in Devonshire, was sharpening his scythe on Tuesday, when he cut his wrist, and severed two of the arteries. His friends, instead of securing medical assistance, sent for a man and his wife who have a local reputation as charmers,' and these people endeavoured to stop the flow of blood by the ceremony of 'charming.' Ryder, seeing how fruitless these efforts were, begged to be taken to the hospital at Plymouth, some eight miles off, and was removed in a trap for that purpose; but he lost so much blood on the road that it was deemed advisable to convey him to the workhouse at Plympton, about midway between Cornwood and Plymouth, and here the poor fellow died shortly after his admission,"

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THE ANTI-GALLICAN SOCIETY.-Can any of your readers give me any information about this society, its members, its objects, or its place of meeting, &c.? I can discover nothing about it, except that it existed about the middle of last century, and possessed an elaborate coat of arms. A china tea-service, of which a specimen is now before me, has this coat of arms painted upon Arms, on a field gules St. George ppr. slaying tortoise azure charged with three fleurs de lys or. Crest, between six flags of St. George ppr. the figure of Britannia holding in the dexter hand an

it:

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olive branch ppr. Supporters, on the dexter side a lion rampant gardant with man's face (?) or. On the sinister side a double-headed eagle, with wings displayed argent. Motto, "For our country." A. H. H. M.

CHAMOUNI.-I shall be much obliged to any of your readers who can indicate to me poems or prose descriptions of Mont Blanc and the Valley of Chamounix by eminent authors other than the following, which I already possess :

1. Lines by Byron in 'Childe Harold' and 'Manfred,' 2. Lamartine's poem on Mont Blanc.

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3. Coleridge's Hymn before Sunrise in the Valley of Chamouny.'

4. The same poem translated into German by Pfizer. 5. Shelley's poem on Mont Blanc.

6. Ruskin's poem on Mont Blanc.

Morning in the Vale of Chamouny. 7. Wordsworth's Processions suggested on a Sabbath

8. Italian verse translation of Shelley's poem on Chamonix,

9. Observations on Chamonix by Ruskin in 'Præterita' and in Byron's 'Life.'

I shall be glad to know of poems on Mont Blanc and Chamounix in any language. S. Travellers' Club.

THE ROYAL STUARTS.-Can any of your readers inform me whether the royal Stuarts were descended from Charlemagne, and how?

MAC ROBERT.

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CUSTOMS OF THE FRENCH LADIES IN 1810.— "(Communicated by a Gentleman in Paris to his Friend in Dublin.) I never see any of the French ladies dressed in riding-habits, which they call here, with reason, habillée en Amazone. Some time ago, the French ladies, as I am informed, made some attempts to introduce this English fashion, but the experiment did not succeed; and yet there is no European dress which displays the shape of a fine woman to more advantage. The French ladies seldom go on horseback, and when they do, they generally ride like the men; but though this method is certainly more safe, convenient, and natural, it does not appear so agreeable to the modesty of the fair sex, as to sit on a side saddle."-The Hibernia Magazine, November, 1810.

the memory of people still living, rode like the How attired were these French ladies who, within of Paris? men; and did they thus appear upon the streets C. DE Bosco.

JOHN LAMB. In the year 1810 Charles Lamb mentions that his brother John had just produced

a book "about 'Humanity,"" published by one Wilson. Is anything further known about this work? If a copy is known to exist, I should be grateful to the possessor for permission to inspect it. ALFRED AINGER.

sion that Venice was his birthplace, but afterwards fixed on Bristol. It would, I think, if possible, be interesting to discover which city is the proud possessor. There are not in this case (as with Homer) seven competitors in the field. Were registrations of births, &c., kept so early as 1472 at Venice? EDWARD R. VYVYAN.

EDWARD FRANCIS CUNNINGHAM, OR CALZE. Edward (or Edmund) Francis Cunningham is said to have been born of good family about 1742, at SPINNING-WHEEL ALLEY, OLD BEDLAM. Kelso. In 1745 his father fled from Scotland to Ludovick Muggleton was buried in the churchItaly. Cunningham became an artist, and adopted yard there, I see by Brayley's 'London,' iii. 339. the surname of "Calze," doubtless from Kelso, his What churchyard would that be? In Boyle's native place. He had some success as a portrait-View,' 1799, this alley is not named. Both alley painter at Berlin and elsewhere, and died in Lon- and churchyard have, I presume, disappeared now. don in 1795. Can any one help me to discover C. A. WARD. who his parents were, and to what family they belonged? LIONEL CUST, F.S.A.

British Museum,

Haverstock Hill,

THE ARMS OF THE CITY OF LONDON.-It has been pretty conclusively proved that the adoption HUGH POTTER, M.P. IN THE LONG PARLIA- of the dagger in the first quarter of the arms of MENT.-He was elected for Berwick-upon-Tweed this corporation is not attributable to the boldly in the Short Parliament of April, 1640, and for successful action of Sir William Walworth—was, Plympton, November 20, 1640 (vice Slanning, in fact, adopted by the Common Council some few who preferred Penryn). After the Restoration he months previously. But I am ignorant whether sat for Cockermouth in 1661 till his decease in the following description of the earlier and, per1662. How long was he a member of the Long haps, original arms is familiar to many. The inParliament; and what side did he take in the Civil sinuation that to Stow we are indebted for the War? He is invariably described as a Royalist, popular version of the story may be taken cum and said as such to have sat in the "Mongrel Par-grano, since it was written by a contemporary and, liament" at Oxford. But the list of that assembly does not contain his name. If ever he joined the king he must have returned to Westminster, inasmuch as he was certainly there in 1648, and is included by Prynne among the "} secluded members of that year. On the other hand, the "The ancient arms of London, as they stand in our valuable list of 'Parliamentary Champions' printed Ladye Church at Antwerp, in which church-window by Francis Leach in July, 1646, does not include stand the effigies of King Edward III. and all his chilhim among the members then sitting at West-dren, with most of the arms of the corporate towns of England at that time, and this standeth first, and hath minster. The inference would seem to be that he an old Roman L in the first quarter. Which John Stowe was changeable in his political tendencies. I shall took, in an old seale which he had seen, for a sword, be glad of proof of his Royalism or of any informa- affirming thereby that it was the sword of St. Paul, tion respecting him or his family. Patron of the said City."

Leigh.

W. D. PINK.

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probably, not too friendly hand. The extract is from Harl. MS. 1349, Plut. iv. H. It would be interesting to know if our Ladye Church" has preserved this, perhaps, only specimen of the original design :—

Is anything known of this window; or is the whole
an invention of a libellous contemporary ?
JOHN J. STOCKEN.

3, Heathfield Road, Acton, W.

MANUAL FOR COMPOSING THEMES OR ESSAYS. -I remember to have seen and used as a boy a small 12mo elementary school-book of this kind. Can any reader of N. & Q.' help me to its title and to the name of its author? There seems to be no such work in existence now? I think that it would be found to "supply a want." Can no "enterprising" publisher bring one out? E. WALFORD, M.A.

7, Hyde Park Mansions, N.W.

GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN.-Some thirty odd years ago this society was established, and I have just come across the prospectus, as well as the report for the year 1854.

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