Notes and Queries 1863-05-09: Vol 3 Iss 71
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362 NOTES AND QUERIES. (3*¢ S. ITT. May 9, °63, landynge off our beggarly Skotts,* cleane cutt mee off | people; “yet Googe alludes to none of these, | Many of his letters, however, have not been pre- | served, and those may have been the most jn. ffrom ffarther lookynge. I have hear remayned now allmoast three quarters off a yeare, comynge over wyth Intentyon to have stayd butt two monthes. And whear ffytzwyllyam, ¢ Syr Nycholas Malbey, Syr Henrye Wal- lopp, { and Syr Nycholas Whyte, so gratefyed wyth honorable Curtesyes and Bowntyes, as mye servyce heare was rather pleasure then peyne, so have 1 nowe, synse my last comynge, exceptynge the two last named Knyghts, receaved neyther ffavour nor countenance att any man’s hands. Ffor the fformer beneffytts as I wholye attrybut them to your Lordshypp, ffor whose onley saake | knowe I receayed them, so I trust I maye boldlye chalenge the latter to my selff, wythout anye offense on my parte to your Lordshypp. Mye Offyce, syns my comynge, hath beene so fileeced and shorne, as itt is nowe to me rather a Burdyn then a ‘Beneffytt. Thear is taken ffrom me, whych evry Marshall beffore my tyme enioyed, the Marshall’s gay! at Gallway, whych veffore tyme I was bye the Earl of Essex, Syr Wyllyam teresting. Still, the letters and extracts now printed here for the first time, throw a new and certain light, fitful though it be, on the biography | of one of whom scarcely anything had previously | been known; exhibiting an unlooked for episode in the life of an author of considerable note in his | day, and whose name must ever find a place in | the history of English literature. was to me xx! yearly, the keepynge off the pledges; § | whych, though I yett receaved never a penny, woolde have been worth unto me C' bye year. And nowe dothe Syr Rychard Byngham seeke to taake to hym selff the beneffytt off my hydes in evrey Jorney, whych was never knowen beffore offred to any in my place; besyds my Jewtie off the Prayes,|| the o ’ at I hadd | ; Dewtie off the Prayes,|| the onley proffetts that I hadd | you have pulled off your stocking, clap the sole of ffor myne owen parte. Syns I hav nott wynd, acordynge to my desyr, to stem so strong tyde, I meen, God wyl- lyng, to rydd my handes off itt as well and as soone as I | may, nott spendynge my tyme eyther ffarther or ffondlyer in itt. Thus, humblye cravynge your Lordshypp’s par- don ffur my long Bablyng, | earnestly pray God long to preserve your Lordshypp wyth many yeares and increase of honour. From Athloan.” This is the last of Googe’s letters preserved in the Irish State Papers; he returned to England a short time afterwards. For Lord-Deputy Sir John Perrot, writing from Dublin Castle to Se- cretary Walsingham, on April 24, 1585, says : — “ Albeit I am in mynde to discharge a man of myne owne shortlie unto you with myne answere to her Maties lettres, and yours, for the matter wch I latelie touced in my letter unto you, yet having so convenient a mes- senger as this bearer, Barnabie Googe . . . .” IIe, it appears, received his patent, and sold it to Barkley; for the Liber Munerum Hibernia states, that Googe surrendered the patent of Pro- vost Marshal of the Presidency Court of Con- naught to Barkley, April 24, 1585. The meagre character of Googe's letters, the little information of any kind that they contain, has no doubt been noticed by the reader. And | this is the more surprising, as Lord Burghley was | ever anxious to obtain intelligence of every kind | from his correspondents. Mere rude soldiers write to him of the natural aspects and productions of Ireland—the customs and family history of its * An invasion of the Hebridean Scotch, not uncommon at the period. + Lord-Deputy from 1571 to 1575. : Treasurer at War. § Hostages. Generally the sons of Irish chieftains, surrendered as pledges of their fathers’ good behaviour. Prey of cattle taken from the enemy. Wutu1aM Poyxertox, FOLK LORE. Fork Lore or a Stocxine Foot.—This morn- ing I went into a Huntingdonshire cottage to call upon an aged couple, our oldest inhabitants. They soon discovered that I was suffering from sore- throat, and prescribed for me the following infal- lible cure: —\“ When you go to bed, as soon as it to your throat, lap the stocking round it, and your throat will be well by morning. We always do so ourselves, and it always cures us; and we know hundreds that it has cured.” I suggested that, as the benefit was probably derived from the warmth of the worsted stocking, a piece of flannel would be equally efficacious. This they stoutly denied. When I further asked whether the leg of the stocking just taken off, or a clean stocking, might not be used, they assured me that sucha proceeding would infallibly be detrimental tos cure. It must be the sole of the stocking that must be placed next to the throat; and the stocking, when taken off the foot, must be instantly applied to the part affected. “It's the sweat of the foot as does it!” said the old man ; and his wife nodded agreement to the statement. Although I have frequently heard, in an indefinite way, a stocking recommended to be wrapped round a sore throat, yet the precise nature of the charm has hitherto been hidden from me; and as I think this bit of folk lore to be new to these pages, I here makes note of it. Curusert Beps. Susmercep Towns.— An old Yorkshireman, 4 great collector of traditions, relates one of a lake which he calls “ Simmerwater,” somewhere in the north of England, which is quite like the story of “Baucis and Philemon,” or that of “ Lough Neagh.” He says it was once a town ; and that two “saints,” whose names he has heard but does not remember, came there and begged for hos pitality ; which was refused by all but a poo man, who lived in a little cottage outside of the town: — e. ee. ° tamen una recepit, Parva quidem, stipulis et canna tecta palustri.” es. 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