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Scottish drefs. In thofe engravings, the Lowlander is clothed in loofe, and the Highlander in close trews.

There is an engraving of James I. of Scotland, in the poffeffion of George Chalmers, Efq. of the Board of Trade, in which that monarch is dreffed in the clofe treas and as the picture from whence that engraving was taken must have been executed in Scotland, there being a view of Dunbarton Castle in it, there is thence every reafon to imagine, that it was the dress of that fovereign, during his refidence in his own king

dom.

In a work, though written many years ago, yet only lately printed, entitled, "The History of the Troubles and Memorable Tranfactions in Scotland, from the year 1624 to 1645, from the original MS. of John Spalding, then Commiffary Clerk of Aberdeen*,it would appear that the trews were very commonly worn at that period.

In the first volume of that work, (p. 39) we are told, that the Laird Balnadalloch, efcaping from a twenty days imprifonment, goes with his coat and treaus all rent and worn to the place of Innes, and it would appear (from p. 37) that it was the ufual garb he wore, for he had been fitting at fupper in it in his own house.

In the fecond volume (p. 196) the Marquis of Huntly, the moft powerful Chieftain in the North, is defcribed as croffing the Spey dreffed in a coat and trews, with a black bonnet on his head.

In the fame volume (p. 232) we are told, that the celebrated Marquis of Montrofe, coming from England, to commence that fuccefsful career which has rendered his name fo famous, came fecretly to Scotland, clad in coat and

trenus.

Traditional evidence is certainly in favour of the point I wish to establish.

A very intelligent officer of the Brea. dalbane Fencibles, Capt. Robinson, informs me, that in Athol the trews did not fall into difufe till about the beginning of the prefent or end of the laft century, and that it was not totally difcontinued till within the last thirty years. He remembers being told by a very old gentleman of that country, that he recollects the Marquis of Athol mustering

all his numerous vaffals and tenants at Dunkeld, a great part of whom, and the Marquis himself, were dreffed in trews. He alfo remembers being told by an old gentleman prefent upon the occafion, that when the first Duke of Athol held a court at Loggierait, before the abolition of the heretable jurifdictions, the Duke was dreffed in a blue bonnet, a fhort coat, and trews of plaiding, the name given to a fort of wock len tuff of the natural colour of the wool.

Captain Robinson. who has paid particular attention to fuch enquiries, is of opinion, that the trews was undoubtedly the antient drefs of people of condition, or of any refpe&tability, both in the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland; it was more especially worn by perfons on horfeback, often without boots; it was commonly made of a kind of chequered ftuff called Tartan, though fometimes of ftuff of one colour only. It completely fupplied the place of breeches and stockings, covering the feet, the legs, and the thighs. As a winter drefs, particularly in time of fnow, it was reckoned infinitely preferable to the kilt. When the trews were worn upon a journey, the plaid was carried over the left shoulder, and drawn under the right arm.

In addition to the circumstances above mentioned, it may be proper to add, that when the wearing of the Highland drefs was prohibited, by act 19 George II. c. 39. after the rebellion in 1745, the trews were included among the other articles enumerated upon that occafion as a part peculiarly belonging to the Highland garb, and confequently is mentioned in the act 22 George III. c. 63. by which that pro hibition was repealed.

Thefe are hints which I thought it right to take this opportunity of throwing together and preferving, in case the point to which they relate, though a matter of curiosity rather than of real ufe, fhould ever become the fabject of future difcuffion.

N. B. Some additional information upon this fubject will, I understand, be laid before the Public by Mr. Pinkerton, in one of the Numbers of his Portraits of the Illuftrious Perfons of Scotland.

In two volumes, octavo, printed at Aberdeen for J. Evans, Paternofter-row, Angus and Son, Aberdeen, and William Creech, Edinburgh, Anno 1797.

LYCOPHRON'S CASSANDRA, L. 359.

Η πολλὰ δὴ Βόυδειαν, "Αιθυιαν, Κόρην
Αρωγὸν ἀυδάξασα, τα οθον γάμων,

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χώσεται στρατῷ.

Multum Budeam, Fulicam, Virginem
Vindicem invocans, depultricem nuptiarum,
Illa verò
irafcetur exercitui.

INTERPRETERS fuppofe Minerva to be meant by Βόυδειαν,"Αιθυιαν. They have therefore rendered τάῤῥοθον by depultricem nuptiarum. But Tájfodos bears a different fenfe; a fenfe which pays confirms. It means adjutrix. See the fame word in that fenfe 2. 1. 490, 1040 ; and let Lycophron be his own interpreter. Boudaz is a town in Theffaly, where Venus was worhipped. "Aviar, a fea-fowl, fignifies, in the language of Caffandra, Venus, fprung from the fea. Kópn, virgo, is applied at 1. 851 to Helen, Tpáropos nópns;

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To the EDITOR of the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE.

SIR, IN your laft Magazine I read an entertaining account of Robert late Earl of Clancarty; but I apprchend the ingenious Author has made a miftake in faying that Sarah Duchefs of Marlborough was aunt to him. This fhe could not be, as her maiden name is well known to have been Jennings. The Earl's mother was Elizabeth, daughter to Henry Spencer Earl of Sunderland; he was fifter to Charles Earl of Sunderland, who married Lady Ann Churchill, one of the daughters of the faid Sarah Duchefs of Marlbo

rough. I find in Nichols's Irish Compendium (or Peerage) for 1745, that the faid Earl of Clancarty married a daughter of Captain Plyer of Gofport, and that he was Captain of the Adventure man of war in 1731. Therefore the Lady your Correfpondent fays he married when he was fixty-three years old (and whofe name he has not given us), must have been a fecond wife.

I fhould be thankful to be informed what became of his Lordship's brother Juftin MacCarty, who married a daugh

ter of PaulDavys Viscount Mount- Cashell (a family now extinct in the male line). If the late Lord Clancarty has a fon living, I imagine he has a right to claim the title of his ancestors; but a title, without eftate to fupport it, is of very little value. One trait in the late Lord's character I cannot but admire that, though he lived among the French, he defpifed their national character for duplicity and deceit; and, notwithstanding his being an exile from his native land, was always partial to the perfons and manners of Britons.

Many years ago I paid a vifit to Blarney Caftle (tuated three miles from Cork), the antient feat of the antient family of the Mac Cartys. It was then inhabited by Saint John Jefferys, Efq. the owner of it, who, in the German War of 1759, railed a company at Cork, at his own expence, for Crauford's British Volunteers. I remember, the Serjeants, when they had used to stop to make their speech to engage men to inlift, frequently flung a handful of guineas on the drum head, faying, "My lads, hearken to

the

the Blarney goldfinches." The regiment ferved at Belleifle and other places, and was reduced in 1763.

But to return to the Caftle. Adjoining to the inhabited manfion there was a large fquare tower, with winding fione ftairs to the top the floors were all gone, but the roof, which was of ftone, was entire, in the crevices of which, and on the battlements, parfley grew in great luxuriance and abundance. It was a fingular cuftom here for all ftrangers who afcended to the top of the rower to creep on their hands and knees to the corner stone of the highest pinnacle and kits the fame, by virtue of which the parties ever after were faid to be endowed with extraordinary powers of loquacity and perfuafion. Nobody really believed that kiffing the ftone could have any fuch effect, but the custom was complied with for much

the fame reafon (i.e. a little innocent mirth) as new comers are fworn at the Hotns at Highgate; and it was a common faying at Cork, when they heard a wheedling prating fellow, to say, "He has been at Blarney."

Captain Jefferys was at confiderable expence in improving and enlarging the village near the Caftle, and establishing the linen manufactory there: notwithftanding which, many peasants of the old ftock had ufed to fpeak with regret at their not being under the protection of the Mac Cartys their antient Lords.

I was much pleased with the Gothic Fragment in your last Number, and fhould be thankful to fee fome more of it. Yours, &c.

Walfall, July 10, 1996.

J. G.

EPITAPH in BATH CATHEDRAL, written by C. AÑSTY, Author of "The BATH GUIDE." ·

H..S. E.

Vir fummis cum animi tum corporis dotibus
Egregiè ornatus

GULIELMUS DRAPER Balnei Eques

In Schola Etonenfi educatus

Col. deinde Regal. Cantabrigiæ et Alumnus et Socius
Quorum utrumque tam moribus quam ftudi:s honeftavit
Altiore tamen a Natura ingenio præditus
Quam ut umbratili

In Academiæ otio delitefceret
Ad militiæ laudem fe totum contulit

Ein divers Europe Afiæque partibus ftipendia meruit.
Ja India Orientali A. D. 1758 Exercitui Regio imperavit
Obfeffamque a Gallis SANCTI GEORGII ARCEM
Cum diu fortiter defendiffet

Strenua tandem facta eruptione
Hoftium copias capto legionis præfecto repulit.
Flagrante poftea Hifpanienfi bello anno 1762
Expeditionis contra MANILLAS
Auctor idem et Dux fuit

Quibus expugnandis dubium reliquit
BRITANNIE NOMEN
Virtute magis

An clementia infigniverit.

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To the EDITOR of the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE.

SIR,

I HAVE lately found among fome old family papers, a collection of Anec. dotes of the times in which they were written. Some of thefe I have tranfcribed in the inclofed fheet, and if you think them worth your notice, I will fend you more at a future opportunity. They were written by the Rev. J. HINTON, Rector of Alderton, in Northamptonshire, and, generally, at the end of each is added the name of the perfon from whom he had the information, with the year in which it was communicated, as in the first, of VOLUBOVE I doubt not to find, when I have time to fearch for them, more books of the fame nature, as he feems to have been fond of using his pen when, owing to frequent fits of the ftone, he could not otherwife employ himself. I find alfo references from this one book to pages which it does not contain, from which I judge it is the first of the collection, as this bock is perfect, and contains fortyeight pages of clofe written matter, quarto fize. I give the preference to your Magazine from motives of gratitude, as I have found frequent entertainment and information from anecdotes of the like kind, of the fame times, and concerning fome of the fame perfons.

I am, Sir,

Your obedient humble fervant,

ANECDOTES.

EDWARD MONTAGUE, EARL OF

SANDWICH.

MR.VOLUBONE, father to Mrs. Bur rell, of Adftock, in Bucks, being Secretary to the Earl of Sandwich, and in the hip with his Lordship (the Sove reign), at the engagement with the Durch in 1672, his mafter faid to him, whilft he was putting the George on him, "Now, Vol, I must be facrificed," meaning to the hatred of the Duke of York,by whofe management his fhip had noboat wherein toefcape at an extremity, and he was engaged with feven or eight Dutch hips, till of 1100 men they had but 80 left; fo throwing himself into the fea, he was drowned. They charged him with want of courage in a former engagement, to make him, as he said to Mr. Volubone, expofe and lofe his life, that he might wipe off the tain. Mr. Volubone firft defcried the Dutch Fleet, and was the laft man that left the fhip; in confideration whereof, when he brought his Mafter's George to King Charles II. he gave him a place of 8eol. per annum, which he enjoyed all his reign. Mr. Volubone fwam two hours before he was taken up by Sir Edward Spragg. Mr. Burrell," 1726.

LORD BRERETON.

Lord Brereton, of Cheshire, the first of the family that was ennobled, who built the fately feat there in Queen Elizabeth's reign, had a book (which Mr. Aldfworth found in the houfe) VOL. XXX. JULY 1796..

E. T.

containing all the orders of the family, the business of each particular fervant (who at his first coming had his para. graph wrote out for him as his rule, which if he did not obferve, he was turned off), and the particular dishes to be ferved up every day in the year. A neighbouring Lord fending him word one morning that he would dine with him, he called for the cook, and asked him before the fervant what he had for dinner that day, and having heard him recount it, bid him put another turnip into the pot.

The estate is 2000l. per annum, which the late Lord's fifter gave by an irrevocable deed equally between Sir Cloberry Holt and Colonel Tyrrell, with this difference, that the first was to have all if the Colonel died without ifue male.

This the Colonel is difputing at law, endeavouring to vacate the deed, that it may come equally be tween them in every respect, urging that he was non compos, or had not fanity, being for a great while before he made it difabled from faying any thing but aye and no, and often con founding thefe, as the chaplain, phyfician, apothecary, and steward, witness for the Colonel. This fuit has coft the Colonel 1200l. without one hearing. 8ool. was expended on one Committion, for examining witneffes, and 80. hé gave to four eminent Counsel only, for confidering whether the Lord Chancel lor would try it in his court, or remit it

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to the Common Pleas, because it was likely to hold three days, and he fcrupled allowing paper evidence in a caufe of fuch confequence. The stamped paper on which the depofitions were wrote coft 81.

SARAH DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH.

The Duchefs of Marlborough hath mifunderstandings with all her relations gives a great deal in charity with an ill grace. A lady begged fomething of her for the family of, Prebendary of Windfor, lately deceafed, faying, the Earl of Godolphin's lady had given her twenty guineas; whereat the Duchefs fell into a paffion; and after faying many hard things, as, that the might give away all he had, if it were ten times as much; and that the fuppofed it was expected the should give even more than the other lady, and the like, went and fetched her forty guineas. Her Grace gave Sool. to the filter of Arthur Mayn waring, Efq. who having her fortune in his hands, he put it, together with the money he fold his eftate for, at the inftigation of Mrs. Oldfield, into the South Sea, and left it altogether to her, who was his miftrefs, his head be ing difordered with the curing of the diftemper which he had given him, as it was faid. This ifter lived with Mr. Maynwaring, and confented to the felling of the plate, to please him, thinking all would be her's in the end. But Mrs. Oldfield, upon the commencing of a lav-fuit, fearing to lose all, gave up the lady's fortune.

Dr. Clark, of St. James's, is her greatest confidant, going to her con

tinually, and is faid to be writing the lives of King James II. William III. and Queen Anne, by the memoirs and inftructions the furnishes. His picture was lately drawn by Richardfon for her Grace.

None of her Grace's relations befides the Duke of Bridgewater would appear for her on the caufe with the workmen in the House of Lords. She pleaded a promife from Queen Anne to finish the building at her own expence, on the Duke's objecting to her plan that it did not befit a fubject, and would be too much for a private purfe. The Queen likewife, when the chose this model, faid, fhe did not mean it for a private house, but a monument of his worth, and the nation's gratitude.

The Duke was fo covetous in Flanders, that he made a shift to dine with one officer or other every day, to fave the expence of a table. When they came to him on bufinefs, or with a requeft, he would fay, "Aye, it must be, but I have not time to talk of it now; I'll come and dine with you to-mor row." It was happy for the nation he was fo niggardly and fordid, and, confequently unpopular; for what might he not have done at the head of 100,000 men, when a few regiments, and many of them new raised, did fo much at the rebellion of Preston ?

The Duchefs will give 2000l. a year to each of Lord Sunderland's two brothers. She told Mr. Holloway it would coft her 100l. a night in wax candles, if the lighted as many as the houfe required.

AFFECTING STORY OF MR. HALL.

[From "CAMPBELL'S JOURNEY OVERLAND TO INDIA," in Page 40.] ALTHOUGH you are now, my dear friend! a witness to my being the moft perfectly wretched of all created beings, yet the time is not long paft, when Fortune fmiled upon and gave me promife of as much happiness as Man in this wretched vale of tears is allowed by his circumfcribed nature to hope for. I have feen the time when each revolving Sun rofe to usher me to a day of joy,

and fet to confign me to a night of undisturbed repofe-when the bounties of Nature, and the productions of Art, were poured with the profufion of fond paternal affection into my lap-when troops of friends hailed my rifing prof pects when health and peace made this perfon their uninterrupted abode→→ and when the moft benignant love that ever bleffed a mortal filled up the mea

By Mr. Maynwaring's will, dated 27th Sept. 1712, he bequeathed to his fifter 1000L and the remainder of his eftate. real and perfonal, to Mrs. Oldfield and her fon by him, to be equally divided (See a copy of this will in the Appendix to Mrs. Oldfield's Life, by William Egerton, 8vo 1731). Of the calumnious report propagated at the time, that his death was occafioned by an infamous disease, fee an ampie refutation in Oldmixon's "Life and Posthumous Works of Arthur Maynwaring," 8vo. 1715. P. 344.-EDITOR.

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