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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.i. JAN. 29,1916.
Frances and Mary is shown by pedigrees in Harl. MS. 807; that one daughter died in 1580, and that at his death in 1590 Frances was his sole surviving child, are facts for which there is abundant evidence.
What then is the cause of the error in the life of Christopher Carleill? The biographer seems not to have noticed that Sir Francis Walsingham was Carleill's stepfather, and, seeing him described by Stow ('Annales,' 1605, p. 803) as Carleill's' "father-in-law" (a very common equivalent of "stepfather" in the English of that day), thought it necessary to marry him to one of Walsingham's daughters. Whom Carleill did marry I have not discovered. In a letter to Lord Burleigh of June 10, 1590,[1] he speaks of "my poore wief and children"; but though he seeks relief for his "most ruyned and distressed estate," his patrimony having been spent in the service of his country, he does not base any claim on the services of Walsingham, which he might well have done if his wife had been Walsingham' s daughter. That her name was Mary is seen from a note appended to the will of Alexander Carleill (31 Loftes) stating that on April 27, 1594, after the death of his widow Anne and his son Christopher, administration of the estate was granted to Mary, relict of the aforesaid Christopher, for the use of the children of the same Christopher. But she was certainly not Mary Walsingham.
" BETTY " IN 1756 : WILLIAM TOLDERVY.
(See 9 S. xi. 227 ; 10 S. iii. 6.) On p. 5 of
vol. iii. of " The History of Two Orphans.
In Four Volumes. By William Toldervy.
London : 1756," one finds the sentence :
"'No, Sir,' .said the most talkative of them, ' we are bound for Manchester, but shall remain here two days, in order to finish a parcel of fine old Florence at the Talbot : dam'e, I drank five betties last night for my own share, and one for Mr. Quillit; but, for all that, I am very well to- day.' "
This example of the use of " betty," in the sense of a wine-bottle, ought to be added to the second edition of ' The Oxford Dic- tionary,' which contains other quotations from the same author, e.g. under " per- happen." Where is the best memoir of William Toldervy ? According to W. T. Lowndes, he wrote also ' Select Epitaphs ' (London, 1755) and ' England and Wales described in a Series of Letters ' (London, 1762). E. S. DODGSON.
- Lansdowne MS. 64, art. 54, printed (by N.
Carlisle) in ' Collections for a History of the Family of Carlisle,' 1822, pp. 24-6.
RABBI HIRSCH AND PRUSSIAN TYRANNY.
Prof. Emil G. Hirsch in a monograph of his
father, Rabbi Samuel Hirsch of Philadelphia^
published in The Jewish Exponent, records
of him an incident by no means exceptional
in the careers of these holy men. German
by birth, he settled in 1848 in Luxembourg,
then under Prussian control. It was custom-
ary before his advent there for Jewish
recruits to be sworn in more judaico, in some
degrading manner, which implied that no-
Hebrew could be got to serve the colours
" unless intimidated by invocations of
divine curses." To that insulting mode ^ of
recruiting his young brethren in faith
Rabbiner Hirsch took the gravest possible
exception, and declined to be a party to
those detestable proceedings. He so far
succeeded in removing the official slur by
securing that Hebrew fathers should accom-
pany their sons to the synagogue, where
Hirsch himself dedicated them to their
country's service, " on the National Flag,"
like other citizens.
M. L. R. BRESLAR*
(Qmras.
WE must request correspondents desiring in* formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries,, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
DESCENDANTS OF THE REV. JOHN
CAMERON (1653-1719),
NON- JUROR; AND INCUMBENT OF KINCAR- DINE, PERTHSHIRE, 1681-9 .
FOR many years past I have interested myself in what is called, in Mackenzie's ' History of the Camerons,' the " Worcester branch of the family." In 1901 I became possessed of a quantity of family letters written by the following, viz. : Thomas Cameron ( 1704-77), Barbara Anne Came- ron (1716-73), Charles Cameron (1748- 1818), Anne Cameron (1751-1815), Franeis Cameron (1780-1804), &c.; as well as a number of Jacobite papers, including a letter from James II., dated Aug. 20, 1670, in which he gives his reasons for becoming a Roman Catholic ; two letters from Prince Charlie to his father, dated Sept. 10 and 21, 1745, respectively, and six letters to his wife and one to his son, written by Dr. Archibald Cameron from the Tower on June 6, 1753, on the eve of his execution. Since then I have acquired, or had access to, a number
of other letters covering the period 1796-
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