10 8. XL MAR. 27, 1909.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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As there does not seem to be any good
reason for doubting the accuracy of this
derivation, the time has come for the
correction to be made.
B. W. GREEN, M.D.
University of Virginia.
[The ' X.E.D.,' in the section issued on 1 Jan., 1905, says : " Patagon. Obs. (a. Sp. patagon, large clumsy foot. ) A member of a tribe of South American Indians, whence Patagonia received its name."]
BISHOP MORDECAI CAREY OR CARY. This Anglo-Irish bishop was son of John Carey of London, citizen and Cook ; was born 7 Aug., 1687 ; admitted into Christ's Hospital in July, 1695, from the City parish of St. Faith, having been presented by the Worshipful Company of Cooks upon the gift of Mr. John Phillips, deceased. He was sent on admission to the Junior School at Hertford, and thence removed in March, 1696, at the age of little more than eight and a half years, to the Hospital's Grammar School in London, by a special order of the examining or visiting Governors.
Preferred and sent to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1705, on one of the Hospital's exhibitions, he graduated B.A. in 1708/9, and M.A. in 1712. He was sometime Fellow of Trinity ; elected Bishop of Clonf ert 1731 ; and translated to Killala in 1735.
His great-grandson, the Rev. Henry Francis Cary (1772-1844), the translator of Dante, is, unlike the Bishop, the subject of a memoir in the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' The Bishop, however, is mentioned not only in the memoir of his great-grandson, but also under the name of James Jurin, M.A. and M.D. (1684-1750), an older C.H. scholar, who became Secretary of the Royal Society, and President of the Royal College of Physicians.
The future Bishop's admission at Trinity College is recorded in a letter, now in my possession, addressed " To Mr. John Reeve at Christ's Hospital near Newgate Street, London," an exact copy of it being appended, in the hope that it may prove both interesting and amusing to some of the readers o: ' N. & Q.' The writer was Mr. John Baker M.A. and afterwaros D.D., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College in 1705 :
Trin. Coll. Cantab.
Mav 19, 1705. Sr
I desire you to present my most humble service to y* Governors, and to acquaint 'em that this morning Mordecai Carey was admitted of ou College ; I find him a good youth, and do no in y e least question but He will do well here I shall take care to find a sober Chamber-fellow
for him, but I believe it will be necessary for him
to have a Bed of his own, There being very few
in College y' have Beds y 1 can conveniently hold
two people ; however I shall expect to hear
farther from you as to this matter, and propose
that an ordinary second hand Bed may be bought
for him. He wants nothing but Gown, & Cap,.
& Surplice, & these I shall provide as cheap as J
can. If he lyes Single (as I fear he must) another
pair of sheets will be wanting. I am Sr
Yr very humble Servt
J. BAKER.
A. W. LOCKHART, F.R.Hist.S. Christ's Hospital, Horsham.
BRITISH MUSEUM TICKETS. There has been a spirited correspondence lately in the columns of The Athenceum respecting the recent action of the British Museum autho- rities in demanding the production of eaders' tickets ; but if the following extract rom a recent novel (' Hilary on her Own, T by Mabel Grundy) represents the general attitude of the public, one more than under- tands why occasional inspections are neces- ary :
" ' You would require a reader's ticket for the British Museum. I don't know about St. Martin s ^ane, but probably the rules there are the same.^ "'Oh, but I wanted to go this morning,
- said, disappointed
'"I could lend you my ticket for *-day. have one for the British Museum,' said Mr.
" I thanked him and he disappeared, bringing ,he ticket to the drawing-room a few minutes
ater I asked him the form of procedure
low I was to obtain the volumes I required.
" ' There are catalogues, and you write down the number and class of the books you require on. a slip of paper and hand it in to the librarian, ic replied."
Had Mr. Inglis ever used his ticket him- self ? one wonders. M. H.
[We must decline to discuss the arrangements-
for tickets, as The Athenceum has done.]
KITTY FISHER'S DEATH. In consequence of the scepticism of a writer in ' N. & Q- who at 4 S. v. 319 challenged the statement* of previous contributors, all sorts of strange periods have been suggested as the correct date of Kitty Fisher's demise. The two following paragraphs from The Public Adver- tiser of 1767 should set the matter at rest :
Sat., March 14." By a letter from Bath, dated March 11, we hear that the celebrated Miss Kitty Fisher arrived there in her way to Bristol Monday last. She was taken speechless the nex morning, and died in a few hours at the Three luns r in that City."
\Ved., March 18. "Bath, March 12. Tuesday died here, on her way to Bristol, Mrs. Norris, Lady of John Norris, Esq^., M.P. for Rye." This information is confirmed by The Bath Chronicle, 12 March; Bristol Journal,
