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NOTES AND QUERIES, [ii s. vin. AUG. 23, 1913.
Rabbit Rime.—I should be glad of references to the magazine in which, some thirty-five or forty years ago, a poem for children appeared about the Black Rabbit, of which I append some remembered lines. It may have been in Good Words for the Young, Little Folks, or Peepshow. I want the complete poem.
It was a black bunny with spots on his head,
Alive when the children went happy to bed
Oh, early next morning poor bunny was dead!
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"The bunny will come back again," baby said,
"And be a white bunny and never be dead."
MONTAIS, ON THE RIVEB SELLE. Can any
reader inform me of the whereabouts of
" Montais, on the river Selle " ? In Banks's
1 Dormant Peerage,' vol. i. p. 402, reference
is made to Sir Lewis of Robsert, who with
his elder brother
" were the sons of John, Lord Robsert, who the 14th Edward III. was one of those expert com- manders that surprised John, Duke of Normandy, eldest son of King Philip of France, in his quarters at Montais, on the river Selle."
The atlases I have referred to do not index Montais, and I am anxious to verify this statement. . H. I. HALL.
22, Hyde Park Gate, S.W.
EDWARD ARNOTT. I should be thankful for information which might lead to the discovery of the parents of Edward Arnott, an actor who was associated with Dion Boucicault, and Went with him to America, where he died. LEO C.
BURFORD.. (See 10 S. iv. 114.) There appeared at this reference a note signed by MR. F. HITCHIN-KEMP, 6, Beechfield Road, Catford, S.E., respecting the Journal of Christopher Kempster, and quoting entries respecting the sending of stone from Kitts's Quarries, Burford, for the building of St. Paul's Cathedral. Can any one inform me where this Journal now is ? MR. HITCHIN- KEMP mentions that he had a photograph of the leaf containing these entries, but, unfortunately, my letter to him on the sub- ject has been returned, he having removed. E. J. HORNIMAN.
Burford Priory, Oxon.
" ENTITLED " = " LIABLE." The lower orders in England often use these words as interchangeable. I am informed that the educated classes in Scotland so use them too. Is this correct ?
JAS. CURTIS, F.S.A.
GEORGE WALKER, GOVERNOR OF
LONDONDERRY, 1688. (11 S. vii. 348; viii. 54.)
WITH reference to MR. McCREA's suggestion that the Walker family were descended from the Scotch family of McCraith, I would draw his attention to the Governor's own statement that he was descended from a Yorkshire family, and in confirmation of this statement is the fact that the coat of arms appearing on the engraving of Kneller's portrait of the Governor, and also that on the seal attached to the will, dated 18 Feb., 1705, of his widow Isabella, are identical with that registered by Carney, Ulster, to Ellis Walker, D.D., head master of Drogheda Grammar School 1694-1701. In his matriculation entry in Trin. Coll., Dublin, this Ellis W T alker is described as " son of Oswald Walker, born in York."
Governor Walker descended from a family the names of several members of which appear in the records of the dioceses of Derry, Raphoe, and Armagh as holding various ecclesiastical offices, viz. :
Rev. Richard Walker, B.A., T.C.D., 1617, M.A. 1620, "a toward young man and a preacher" in 1622. Held the parish of Drumragh (Omagh), diocese of Derry, 1619- 1626 ; the rectory and vicarage of Togherna- Gormerkie, alias Templebogen, diocese of Raphoe. from 1625. Prebendary of Killy- mard. Raphoe, in 1629. Rector of Clonleigh, Lifford, from 1625. Died at Lifford 1641.
Rev. Gervase Walker, M.A., "a grave man and an ancient preacher" in 1622. Rector of Cappagh, diocese of Derry, and of Badoney in same diocese 1622-36, when he was succeeded by the Rev. George Walker in both benefices. He would appear to be the " Mr. Garvis Walker " buried in Derry Cathedral on 1 July, 1642. He was probably the father of the Rev. George Walker, B.A. 1621, M.A. 1624, D.D. 1663 (T.C.D.). Succeeded the foregoing in the rectories of Cappagh and Badoney in 1636 ; fled to England in 1641, where he m. Ursula, dau. of Sir John Stanhope of Stotfold and Melwood Park by his wife Mary, dau. and sole heir of William Hawley of Stotfold, Yorks. In the Stanhope pedigree in vol. iii. p. 989 of 'Familia Min. Gent.,' Harl. Soc., vol. xxxix., he is described as " Archdeacon of Derry." See also Cotton's ' Fasti.'
