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THE O'DRISCOLL FAMILY (2nd S. x. 521.)-In the Miscellany published by the Celtic Society in 1849, your correspondent THETA will find ample information regarding the O'h-Eidirsceoils, now barbarised into "O'Driscoll." Prefixed to that volume is the genealogy of CORCA LAIDHE, a district or barony in the west of the co. of Cork, the ancient patrimony of the O'Driscolls, with an illustrative map of the territory.

"In the year 1413, Simon Wickin, Mayor of Waterford, Roger Walsh and Thomas Sault, Bailiffs, surprised and took prisoners O'Hedriscol, his family, and the rest of his followers, in his strong Castle of Baltimore, in the Co. of Cork. They took with them a strong band of men in armour, on board a ship belonging to the City, and arrived at the Castle on Christmas-day at night. The Mayor landed his men and marched up to the gate, and called to the porter, desiring him to tell his lord that the Mayor of Waterford was come to the Haven with a ship of wine, and would gladly come in to see him; upon this message the gate was set open, and the whole family made prisoners."-MS. in T. C. D. Library.

In the year 1450, stat. 28 Hen. VI. No. 10.: "As divers of the King's subjects have been taken and slain by Finin O'Hedrischol, Chieftaine of his nation, an Irish enemy, enacted that no person of the ports of Wexford, Waterford, &c. shall fish at Korkly (Corca Laidhe) Baltimore, nor go within the country of the said O'Hedrischol with victuals, arms, &c., and that proclamation be made of this by Writs in the parts aforesaid, under the penalty of the forfeiture of their goods and ships to those who shall take them, and their persons to the King;

and the town who receives the said O'Hedrischol or any of his men shall pay £40 to the King." (See the Statute itself; see also Rot. Stat. 28 Hen. VI. a 10.)

The Irish name for Baltimore in Dun na Sead, i.e. the fortress of the jewels. CLARACH.

THE BEGGARS' PETITION FROM WINCHESTER (2nd S. x. 401.)-I cannot agree with T. B. P. in looking upon this as a petition against an existing corporation. If I understand it rightly, it is a petition consequent upon the dissolution of the corporation.

The facts to be inferred from the petition appear to be, that a surrender had been made in the time of King Charles II.; that this surrender was enrolled on the 23rd of March, 1687-8; that the corporation was thereby dissolved; and that the beggars had, consequently, ceased to be relieved out of the corporation estate.

The prayer of the petition is, in effect, that the fines to be imposed upon the officers of the late corporation should be distributed among the beggars, and that a Commission of Inquiry should be issued to members of the late corporation not having held office.

If, as T. B. P. suspects, the petition was got up to serve a purpose, the main object probably was, by means of a Commission, to further the interests

of such of the townspeople as sought to be appointed to the vacant offices, and to have the management of the estate; the distribution of the fines being introduced with no other view than to gain the signature of the beggars.

quainted with the history of Winchester, may be Perhaps some of your correspondents, acable to explain what were the legal proceedings

taken with reference to the surrender; and what were the consequences that resulted from it?

P. S. C.

HOPPESTERES (2nd S. x. 227. 523.) — I am acquainted with most of the explanations of the word offered by commentators. Speght interprets it, pilots; Tyrwhitt, female dancers; Mr. Boxs, in your pages (2nd S. iv. 409.), suggests upholsteries, i. e. places where ships are built and fitted out, dockyards.

All these explanations are, to say the least, unsatisfactory; and I humbly offer mine as more reasonable than any yet given.

I used the word composants, from having heard it commonly employed by sailors; but, as it is evidently corrupted from the Spanish designation of this meteor, cuerpo santo, E. G. R. is quite right in supposing corpusants to be its orthography.

T. Q. C.

IS ASTRAL SCIENCE STILL PRACTICABLE? (2nd S. x. 500.)-PHILOMATH is clearly correct in believing that the science is still studied in England; but the nature of the books used in learning its principles, which are chiefly applicable to advanced students, and are generally of a dry and repellent character, is a serious drawback in the case of the amateur, who will find in the Manual of Raphael an exception to this objection; as it is as readable a work upon the subject, generally, as the inexperienced traveller to the Temple of Urania can desire to have, and is well calculated to explain some of its numerous curiosities. All the authorities named by PHILOMATH are orthodox, but the Manual is for the young artist especially. MERCURY.

LATE HARVEST (2nd S. xi. 9.) - Your correspondent X. quotes, from the Suffolk Chronicle, an instance of harvest in December in the late extraordinary season. I may mention as a parallel case, that a field of wheat in the parish of Lindridge, co. Worcester, not usually a late district, was partly uncut at the commencement of January, 1861. And a field of oats, in a neighbouring parish of Upper Sapey, co. Hereford, was only secured at the close of December last.

T. E. WINNINGTON.

GUN MONEY OF JAMES II. (2nd S. xi. 13.)—The Roman numerals vi., xii., xxx., were intended to denote the current value of each piece in pence, and not the day of the month. JOSEPH RIX.

St. Neots.

"THINKS I TO MYSELF (2nd S. ix. 64.) — This work was republished in Dove's English Classics, and was some few years since to be bought for a mere trifle. ALFRED COPLAND. "LIFE OF PETER D'AUBUSSON" (2nd S. x. 513.) -If J. M. will go to the British Museum and consult the Grenville Catalogue, Part I. p. 114., he will find three articles under the name of "Caoursin" which will give him the information he requires. All these three books are rare and interesting. F. H.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS.

Carthage and her Remains: being an Account of the Excavations and Researches on the Site of the Phoenician Metropolis in Africa, and other adjacent Places. Conducted under the Auspices of Her Majesty's Government. By Dr. N. Davis, F.R.G.S. (Bentley.)

The recent discoveries at Carthage-that Carthage of which it has been said that all traces of it are so completely lost, that the very ruins of it have disappearedhave excited so much interest among scholars and antiquaries, that a narrative of the excavations which have led to such important results cannot fail to attract a large share of public attention. And although classical students and admirers of ancient art will be among those who will peruse with the greatest anxiety Dr. Davis's narrative, its perusal will not be by any means confined to such classes. The volume abounds with so many pictures of the natural scenery of the country, and of the social condition of the people, as to make it one of considerable interest to the general reader. It is profusely and admirably illustrated, and must take its place among the most interesting books which the present season has produced.

The Greatest of all the Plantagenets. An historical Sketch. (Bentley)

Although distance may lend enchantment to a view, we doub if it tends at all to give interest to history. Our sympathies are more alive to the times and contemporaries of our grandsires than to the events and heroes of half-a-dozen centuries since. But despite of this disadvantage, and thanks to his own talents and researches, no less than the personal character of his hero, "the most sagacious and resolute of English princes," as Walter Scott describes him, the author of this historical sketch of the life and times of the first Edward has produced a most interesting volume one which will well repay the time bestowed on its perusal, but which we fear will not be received with the same favour north of the Tweed, with which it will be regarded in England.

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The Bibliographer's Manual of British Literature. By William Thomas Lowndes. New Edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged. Part VI. (Bohn.)

Manuel du Libraire et de l'Amateur de Livres, &c. Par Jaques Charles Brunet. Cinquième Edition Originale, entièrement refondue et augmentée d'un tiers par l'Auteur. Tome I. 2me purtie. (Williams and Norgate.)

Le Bibliomane, No. Ì. (Trübner & Co.)

This week has brought us three valuable additions to our stock of bibliographical knowledge. The new Part of Bohn's Lowndes, which extends from M to O inclusive, contains not only a number of names not contained in Lowndes's original work, but so much additional matter that the present part is fully one-fourth larger than the corresponding division of the first edition.

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The second part of the new edition of Brunet, which occupies upwards of 900 closely printed columns, extends from Bibliothek to Chytræus, and will be welcome to all lovers of books and students of literature.

The third work on our list is a new periodical devoted to Bibliography, written in French, beautifully got up by our old friend Richards (the printer of the pretty devoted to English Bibliography. Percy Society's books), and in its materials principally

BOOKS RECEIVED.

The Bee and the Wasp. A Fable in Verse, with Illustrations designed and etched by George Cruikshank. (Pickering.)

A fable with a good moral, gracefully told; and admirably illustrated by the immortal George.

Routledge's Illustrated Natural History. By the Rev. J. G. Wood, M.A. Parts XIX., XX., XXI., XXII., and XXIII. (Routledge.)

Mr. Wood seems to be on as familiar terms with the feathered creation, and as much master of his subject, when he comes to treat of them, as he was with the Mammals. The illustrations are of the same excellence, and we have no doubt the popularity of the book keeps pace with its progress.

Correspondence between the Bishop of Exeter and the Rt. Hon. T. B. Macaulay, on Certain Statements respecting the Church of England. (Murray.)

This interesting correspondence, which took place in 1849, is indispensable to the completion of Lord Macaulay's History.

Medals of the British Army, and how they were Won. By Thomas Carter. Parts IV. V. and VI.

The medals treated of in these three parts are the Sardinian and Turkish, and that, noblest of all, "for distinguished conduct in the field."

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Wanted by Rev. J. C. Jackson, 5. Chatham Place East, Hackney, N.E.

Notices to Correspondents.

THE INDEX TO VOLUME TEN, SECOND SERIES, will be issued on Saturday, January 19.

COSTARD MONGER. Mr. Chadwick is referred to Richardson's Dictionary for the etymology of this word.

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A CONSTANT READER will find the Rev. C. Colton's death noticed in our 2nd S. v. 238. Consult also any modern biographical dictionary.

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G. N. The incident in the life of Dr. Goldsmith has been noticed by his biographers. ERRATA. 2nd S. x. p. 305. col. ii. 1. 7. from bottom, for " London read" England; p. 512. col. i. 1. 44., for" omne read "omni;" p. 515. col. i. 1. 29.. for read : p. 516. col. i. 1. 21. for "decreta" read "decreto;" 1. 23., for optimatium" read" optimatum; p. 518. col. ii. 1. 24., for "assailed "read" fell upon;' p. 519. col. ii. 1. 10., for Grea" read" Great; p. 520. col. ii. 1. 25., for "muleto" read" mulcto."

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QUERIES WITH ANSWERS: Louis Maimbourg The
Richard Milbourne, Bishop of Chichester
Nicholas Gibbon, 49.
REPLIES:-Mary Queen of Scots and Douglas of Lochleven,
50-Admiral Sir Thomas Dilkes, 52-Satirical Allusion to
Johnson, Ib.-"Collino custure me," 53-Choirs and
Edwards-John Huss-Anesthetics - Yepsond, or Yep-

Chancels, 55-The Bordeaux New Testament, 56-Talbot

sintle-Concolinel-Paraphernalia - Lord Chesterfield's Opinion of Music-Burial in an Upright Posture-Centenarianism-Woollett's Monument - Clovis: Bidloo Henshaw-Golden Verses- The Beggars' Petition from

the Queen's ear, had also misrepresented him to her. La Nottingham carry'd things so far, as to speak against him in the House of Lords ; and Walpole and Aislabie, in the House of Commons. All or part of this had made so strong an impression on the Queen, that she in a manner put her negative upon him; and his two great friends, tho' they had the sincerest desires for his higher promotion, found themselves unable to effect it, and so were forced to banish him (for in that light he always regarded it) to the Deanery of St Patrick. He went thither to be installed; but received so many letters from the ministers (who cou'd not well be without him), to hasten him back to London, that his stay in Ireland was no longer than a fortnight. I doubt not but that he had been of use to them by his advice in the Cabinet, as well as by his writings with the publick; and he continued to be so in both, as long as they held together.

The condition of his two great friends was (in a point very fatal to themselves, but very happy perhaps, for the nation) like that of Cæsar and Pompey; Ld Oxford cou'd bear no equal, and La Bolingbroke no superior. In the beginning of their differences, Dr Swift used all his endeavours, by writing, by advice, and by en

Winchester-Pencil Writing-Midwives - Severe Frost treaties, to restore peace and to re-establish a

of 1789, 56.

Notes. SPENCEANA.

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE, WRITINGS, AND CHARACTER OF DR. SWIFT.

(Concluded from p. 23.)

Dr Swift was now arriv'd to the highest character as a writer of politics with all the party, and to a near and settled friendship, both with the Treasurer and La Bolingbroke; and seem'd, at that time, to stand the foremost for any preferment that might become vacant. But by the very means that he obliged those two great men so much, he had disobliged many others very greatly; and on the apprehensions of his being in the fairest way for a mitre, some of these made very strong remonstrances against him. real good man, Dr Sharpe, Archbishop of York, in particular, waited upon the Queen, by the desire of his brother of Canterbury, to represent to her Majesty of what prejudice it might be, if a man of Dr Swift's character shou'd be promoted to the lawn, whom several people had not scrupled to accuse of irreligion, and who certainly had shown too much levity in some of his actions and writings. The Dutchess1 of Somerset, who had

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1" Archbishop Sharpe, and a lady of the highest rank." Lives of the Poets, v. 86. This lady was the Dutchess of Somerset: Mr Trapp, from his father, who was Chaplain to Ld Bolingbroke.

friendship between them; and when he found that neither was practicable, and forsaw that their feuds must be the ruin of them, he retired to a friend of his in Berkshire, ten weeks before the Queen's death; and immediately after that fatal blow to all the party, returned to reside at his Deanery in Dublin. As the generality of the people there had entertain'd very strong suspicions of the Queen's late ministry being engaged in designs which, had they had time to ripen, wou'd probably have terminated in the destruction both of our church and state; and as the Dean of St Patrick's had been connected so closely with some of the chief and most suspected of those ministers, and had been so particularly active in the defence of them and their avowed measures; he was also very strongly suspected of being concerned in their most private designs. No Dean, therefore, was ever worse received than he was at his first coming to settle among them. The Chapter of St Patrick thwarted him in every thing he propos'd; they avoided him as 1 Mr Swift, p. 157. Having been driven to this wretched kingdom by his (ye Lord Treasurer's) want of power to keep me in what I ought to call my own country; tho' I happen'd to be dropt here, and was a year old before I left it."-Dr Swift's Letter from Dublin in 1737 to the then Ld. Oxford, son of the Treasurer. Mr Swift, 343. 2 Hawksworth, p. 23. 3 Mr Swift, p. 342.

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one would an infected person1; and look'd upon him as one who had been contriving the invasion and ruin of his country. When he walked thro' the streets, he was frequently pointed at, and treated with abusive language by the shopkeepers and mechanics, and the meanest of the people flung dirt and filth at him as he passed. All this the Dean got over by degrees. The indignities he receiv'd from the populace he regarded, probably, not without a secret indignation in his breast, but outwardly, with a superior contempt; and the prejudice and animosities of his Chapter he conquer'd to such a degree, that when presiding over them, "he looked," as Ld Orrery says in a high stile, "like Jupiter in the synod of the gods," governing them all by his nod. Tho' the stroke which the Dean had received from the quarrel between the ministers was a very severe one, and was extreamely aggravated by the death of the Queen soon after, yet it did not render him wholy unactive. He wrote a sketch of his History of the Four Last Years of her Reign during his stay in Berkshire; just warm from the occasion, and with all the heat of party upon him, and gave it a fuller form in the first year after his return to Ireland [1715]. Immediately after this was finisht, he began his Travels of Gulliver [1716], and carried that work on, at intervals, for 3 or 4 years. I am apt to imagine, too, that in this period [1720] of six years after his return to Ireland, he might employ himself a good deal in considering the distresses of his native country, and in laying in part of that fund of knowledge of its wants and interests which he made appear at times, in his writings, through a series of almost twenty years after it. Dr Swift's acquiring so absolute a power over his Chapter, when they had been so violently prejudiced against him, is a strong proof of his great knowledge and dexterity in the management of affairs; but what is more strange, this so much hated and despis'd Dean at his first coming to settle in Dublin, in a few years after, became the highest favorite and idol of the people in general. He saw their poverty, their misery, and sufferings; he consider'd their causes, and how they might be alleviated or remedied; and his compassion for them, still the more animated, perhaps, by his hatred to the men in power, made him enter on that great task of becoming their patron and defender in his writings.

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In the beginning of the year '21, he published a treatise to recommend the use of their own manufactures only to his countrymen, for which the printer was so ill us'd by Lord Chief Justice Whitshed, and Whitshed himself so much lasht and persecuted in songs and epigrams by the

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1 Lives of the Poets, v. 87.

2 Mr Swift, p. 182.

3 Waters; Mr. Swift, p. 184. 4 Waters, Mr. Swift, p. 184.

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Dean. About 3 years after, he defeated the imposition of Wood's adulterated coin on the people of Ireland' by his Drapier Letters; which gave so much offence to the government, that a reward of 300l. was offered by proclamation for the discovery of the author of the Fourth Letter; and a new printer that he had employed was on the brink of being try'd before Whitshed, but escaped by the Grand Jury's not finding the bill. "These Letters united the whole nation (to use Mr. Hawksworth's words) in the praises of the Dean, filled every street with his effigies, and every voice with acclamations." Swift, on this occasion, redoubled his strokes on the Chief Justice, who had used the Grand Jury (as he represents it) illegally, on their not finding the bill; and, in spite of all opposition and persecutions, continued his writing for the good of people, as long as he was capable of writing anything that required thought and pains.

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The D had been almost twelve years since the Queen's death in Ireland, without making a single visit to his friends in England, when he gave them one in the summer of '26, and repeated it in that of '27. The writers on his life and actions have not given the reason for these two journeys, but I think they may be easily accounted for.

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About 10 years before the first of them, the Dean had been privately married to the Stella of his poems, Mrs Johnson-a most agreeable and sensible lady. Her constitution began to break in '248, and she died in the beginning of '28. 'Tis probable, therefore, that he might make these two journeys in this interval, partly to avoid the miseries he must have felt in seeing her in so languishing a condition, and partly on a scheme which was then set on foot for an exchange of his Deanery in Ireland for some preferment in England. This continued a good while in his thoughts, and was much desired by some of his old friends on this side the water, and particularly by Mr Pope. I have good reason to think, that the latter had engaged a lady of particular influence at Court, about that time, in his favor; and it is confirm'd by several of the letters 10 that passed between Swift and Pope in this period.

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It appears, from the same, that this thought was kept up (at least by his friends) for several years on; but all their invitations could never prevail upon him to cross the water after the year 27.

He continu'd on in Ireland from that time to his death sometimes writing little pieces of hu1 Mr. Swift, p. 186., and Hawksworth, 42. 2 Harding. 3 Mr. Swift, p. 139. 4 P. 42. 5 Mr. Swift. 6 Id., see p. 286. 7 Married in 1716, Mr. Swift, p. 92.; and Hawksworth, p. 36.

8 Mr. Swift, p. 181..

9 Mrs. Howard, afterwards Countess of Suffolk.

10 See first papers, A 3., Nos. 1-4., with Pope's Letters.

mour, sometimes even idle things, for his diversion; and sometimes more useful ones for the service or direction of his countrymen. Among these was his share in the paper call'd The Intelligencer [1728]; his Modest Proposal the year after [1729]; his pieces, relating to the taking off the Test Act, in '31 and '32; his Advice to the Freemen of Dublin, in '33; and his Proposal for giving Badges to the Beggars in Dublin, in '37. It has been mentioned, toward the beginning of this account, that the Dean had been troubled with a coldness of stomach, and a giddiness, before he was twenty. Some time after, he began also to be very subject to deafness. Both these latter ailments grew upon him, and affected his spirits very much. On the loss of his Stella, this gloomy cast of his thoughts was greatly encreas'd: but the cloud did not obtain entirely over his mind till after1 he was '70. From that unhappy period, he was lost to the world, to his friends, and to himself. He died in a very easy, and almost imperceptible manner, toward the close of the 78th year of his age [1745].

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VAN LENNEP'S "HEER VAN CULEMBURG." I am desirous of calling your attention to a circumstance relating to a Dutch work, Nederlandsche Legenden, by Van Lennep, who, both as a poet and a novelist, enjoys a deserved reputation in Holland.

In the first canto of the legend "Jacoba en Bertha," I find a song introduced entitled "Heer van Culemburg," which resembles so closely the celebrated song "Young Lochinvar" in Marmion, that one may be considered as the translation of the other, with such alterations as are necessary to adapt it to another locality.

I enclose a copy of this Dutch song, so that you may place before your readers the whole of it, or such extracts from it as you may deem advisable :

"DE HEER VAN CULEMBURG.
Lied van Bertha.

"O! Culemburgs Heer kwam gereden met spoed, Geen paard aan de Lek als het zijne zoo goed; Geen wapenen droeg hij dan 't heupzwaard alleen : En zonder gevolg kwam hij voorwaart gereên; Zoo trouw aan zijn liefste en zoo kloek in 't geweer, Was nimmer een Ridder als Culemburgs Heer. "Hem stuitte geen hoogte, geen diepe moeras:

En vond hij geen brug, hij zwom over den plas;

1 He was 70 in the year 1737; his will is dated 1740; and that was his last writing, as well as his last will. 2 Oct. 19, 1745, Mr. Swift, p. 375.

Maar toch, toen hij afsteeg aan 't Benthemsch kasteel, Daar vond hij de Bruid reeds gedoscht in 't fluweel: Een lafbek in 't minnen, een knaap zonder eer, Verloofd aan de liefste van Culemburgs Heer. "Het Benthemsch kasteel kwam bij binnen getreên, En vond er verwanten en speelnoots bijeen; De Vader der Bruid sloeg de hand aan 't gevest, En sprak (want de Bruîgom hield zwijgen het best) Zeg brengt gij hier krijg en verschijnt ge in 't geweer?

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Of komt gij als speelnoot, o Culemburgs Heer?' ""Lang vrijdde ik uw dochter, 'k heb vrucht'loos gehoopt, Zwelt liefde als een duinwel, een duinwel verloopt; En nu kom ik hier en mijn hart is weêr vrij, Eén dans will ik leiden, één beker voor mij. Uw dochter moog' fraai zijn, ik ken er wel meer Die graag zouden huwen aan Culemburgs Heer.' "De Bruid schonk den kroes in en kuste den rand, Hij leegde de kelk en hij wierp ze uit de hand. Zij bloosde en zag neder: zij zuchtte en zag op: Een lagchje op de lippen: in de oogen een drop: Hij nam (spijt de moeder) haan handje zoo teêr, Nu ééns in de rondte,' sprak Culemburgs Heer. "Zoo minzaam een blik, een gestalte zoo stout, Was nimmer in feestzaal noch leger anschouwd. De moeder keek spijtig, de vatter verstoord, De Bruîgom stond suf-maar hij sprak niet een woord. De speelnootjens lispten, 'Het voegde veel meer Dat nichtje de Bruid waar' van Culemburgs Heer.' "Eén drukje in de hand en één woord in het oor, Zij naakten de zaaldeur: de klepper stond voorToen zwaaide hij 't meisje gezwind op het ros, Sprong zelf in den zadel en draafde in het bosch ; Mij 't Bruidje! gereden door heide en door meer, Wie 't lust, moge ons volgen,' riep Culemburgs Heer. "Toen stegen de Benthems en Gemens te paard, En volgden het Bruidje met lans en met zwaard. Men joeg en men rende door heide en door woud. Maar nooit werd de Bruid meer te Benthem aanschouwd;

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Zoo koen in zijn liefde en zoo kloek in 't geweer, Was nimmer een Ridder als Culemburgs Heer." Among the notes appended to this legend there is one expressly referring to this song, which, nevertheless, makes no allusion to Walter Scott, or to "Young Lochinvar."

The note, however, purports to explain the origin of the story, and is to the following effect: sight, since the occurrence with the Lord of Culemburg took place certainly ten years later than the time which my legend embraces.

"The beautiful Bertha seems to have a spirit of fore

"The story is this:-John, the 4th of that name, the 11th Lord of Culemberg, had for his first wife the daughter of the Lord of Gemen, by whom he had no children.

"After the death of this wife he was invited by his brother-in-law, the then Lord of Gemen, who was betrothed to Aleide van Gutterswijck, sister of the Count of Benthem, to come to his wedding feast.

"The Lord of Culemberg came and proceeded to salute the intended bride by way of courtesy, upon which the young lady said,

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"Wat wild y van Ian van Gemen kallen, kalt van uzelven.'

"They understood each other at once, and he set his sweetheart behind him on his horse, and carried her to his castle at Waert."

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