A KERRY PASTORAL 
 
 IN IMITATION OF 
 
 THE FIRST ECLOGUE 
 OF VIRGIL. 
 
 EDITED, 
 
 WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, RY 
 
 T. CROFTON CROKER, ESQ. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 REPRINTED FOR THE PERCY SOCIETY. 
 
 M.DCCC.XLIIf. 
 
COUNCIL 
 
 OP 
 
 €l)t perrp ^orietp* 
 
 President. 
 
 The Rt. Hon. LORD BRAYBROOKE, F.S.A. 
 THOMAS AMYOT, Esq. F.R.S., Treas. S A. 
 WILLIAM HENRY BLACK, Esq. 
 
 J. A. CAHUSAC, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 WILLIAM CHAPPELL, Esq. F.S.A., Treasurer . 
 
 J. PAYNE COLLIER, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 T. CROFTON CROKER, Esq. F.S.A, M.R.I.A. 
 
 PETER CUNNINGHAM, Esq. 
 
 REV. ALEXANDER DYCE. 
 
 WILLIAM JERDAN, Esq. F.S.A., M.R.S.L. 
 
 SIR FREDERICK MADDEN, K.H., F.R.S., F.S.A. 
 
 T. J. PETTIGREW, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A. 
 
 E. F. RIMBAULT, Esq. F.S.A. Secretary. 
 
 WILLIAM J. THOMS, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 JAMES WALSH, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq. M.A., F.S.A. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 H E Kerry pastoral now pre- 
 sented to the Members of 
 the Percy Society, is re- 
 printed from a copy, 12 
 pages 4to. believed to be 
 unique, in the possession of 
 the Editor, to whom it was 
 given by Sir William Betham, in 1829. 
 
 Dr. Smith in his history of Kerry, p. 418, thus 
 refers to this composition. “ Some of the inhabit- 
 ants have produced tolerable specimens of poetry, 
 not only in their native language, but also in 
 English ; for besides some occasional verses 
 already hinted at, p. 108,* not many years ago a 
 humorous eclogue called 4 a Kerry Pastoral,’ was 
 addressed by a poet of this country to the fellows 
 of T. C. D. which had no inconsiderable share of 
 merit.” But slight glances at the history of the 
 county in which this poem was circulated — at the 
 
 The passage referred to is copied at p. 34. 
 
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 period, just when the Hanoverian succession was 
 established, and at the circumstances under which 
 it was written, are necessary to place its object 
 and merits fairly before the English reader. In 
 addition to which, the Editor has been induced to 
 support the allusions to local peculiarities by 
 extensive extracts from various works, which 
 prove how very accurate a picture is given of Irish 
 manners at the time. 
 
 The most extensive grant of lands in the county 
 of Kerry, under the Act of Settlement, according 
 to Smith, was “ made to the Provost and Fellows 
 of Trinity College, Dublin, who, by letters patent 
 of K. Charles II, dated November 10th, 1666, 
 had a very large estate settled on the said Uni- 
 versity for ever, with courts leet and courts 
 baron at Noghavel and Carigfoil, together with 
 fairs, markets, &c., and the king was pleased to 
 reduce the crown rents of the said estate in this 
 county, to the sum of <P100 per annum.’ 1 Look- 
 ing at the time when this grant was made, it 
 appears to have been a patriotic and judicious 
 proceeding, for its object was the encouragement 
 of literature and science. “ The kingdom of 
 Kerry,” as the southern part of the county is still 
 facetiously termed, was, with a small part of the 
 county of Cork, a palatinate jurisdiction under 
 the Earls of Desmond ; and when Elizabeth 
 
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 waged the warfare of extermination against Ge- 
 raldine dominion, the advantages of Kerry as a 
 military position for guerilla movements, became 
 generally known, and, in consequence, its moun- 
 tain fastnesses were, at various subsequent periods, 
 the retreat of those who defied English power, 
 
 “ When all but hope was lost.” 
 
 The settlers, who had been introduced under 
 the grants made by Charles II, were seriously 
 disturbed during the reign of James II ; their 
 bawnes were attacked, — their cattle carried off*, 
 — their granaries plundered, and their improve- 
 ments destroyed, by swarms of wild mountaineers, 
 whom they were unable to repress. 
 
 These mountaineers received and welcomed 
 among them men who, having been deprived of 
 their inheritance by legal forfeiture, supplied the 
 places of their natural leaders, and, true to their 
 policy, protracted an irritating conflict for feudal 
 supremacy ; every act of plunder, and even mur- 
 der itself, was considered by them as a justifiable 
 deed of retribution. 
 
 The state of the county of Kerry at this period 
 may be gleaned from “ An exact relation of the 
 persecutions, robberies, and losses, sustained by 
 the Protestants of Killmare [Kenmare] in Ire- 
 
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 land,”* in which the following cases are referred 
 to as having particularly interested the writer R. 
 0. [Richard Orpen], the agent for “ the Lady 
 Petty, her son Lord Shelborne, and James 
 Waller, Esq.” 
 
 “ Daniel Mac Tiege Carthy, one of those that 
 murdered Edward Grilles, a smelter, for endeavour- 
 ing to defend himself from being robbed at noon 
 day of forty shillings, which they knew he had 
 about him, in the year 1 680. 
 
 “ Owen Sulwan (a loose gentleman), for coming 
 unawares behind R. 0. in a dark night, and run- 
 ning him through the body with a sword, for offer- 
 ing to recover a debt due to him from Sulwan’s 
 friend, in the year 1680. 
 
 “ Teague a Glanna and others, that murdered 
 the Pursivant for daring to come into that part 
 of the country, to arrest a papist, at the suit of 
 Sir William Petty, or of any Protestant whatever, 
 in the year 1685. 
 
 u Daniel Mac Dermot, and half a score others, 
 for robbing a parcel of French Protestants that, 
 having escaped out of France, were, by stress of 
 weather, forced into the river of Killmare, in the 
 year 1686. 
 
 * 4 to. pp. 30. London : printed for Tho. Bennet, at the 
 Half Moon in St. Paul’s Church Yard ; and are to he sold by 
 Randal Taylor, near Stationers’ Hall. 1689. 
 
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 “ Daniel Crouly, and seven more tories, that, 
 in the year 1687, attempted to murder and rob 
 R. O. and his brother, but without success, their 
 captain having received a shot in the head, and 
 two more of the chief of them in the shoulder and 
 thigh ; being made prisoners, they lived till they 
 were hanged at the assizes following.” 
 
 In 1688, we are told that “ The officers of the 
 new raised levies, being persons of broken and 
 desperate fortunes, not able to maintain them- 
 selves, or their soldiers, were forced to filch and 
 steal black cattle and sheep, all over the kingdom 
 for their subsistence , and more especially in the 
 county of Kerry, where the natives were more 
 indigent, the thieves appeared publicly in great 
 numbers, thirty, forty, and oftentimes seventy in 
 company, well armed with pikes, swords, guns, 
 pistols, &c., marching openly through the glins 
 and mountains, with droves of six or seven score 
 cows and bullocks at a time, in such terror to 
 the Protestants, that when they saw their cattle 
 hurried away before their faces by the rogues, 
 they durst not pursue nor enquire for them.” 
 
 The consequence was, that Mr. Orpen and the 
 little party of English settlers whom he had been 
 the means of organizing for self-defence into an 
 armed association, fled into England in the spring 
 of 1689. 
 
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 The mountaineers, whose fathers had been 
 dispossessed by Cromwell’s grantees, and those 
 who had suffered under the Act of Settlement, 
 sprung with savage joy and ferocity upon lands 
 which they had compelled the English settlers 
 to abandon, and they endeavoured to hold by 
 force these re -captured possessions for years 
 after the Articles of Limerick (1691) were sup- 
 posed to have adjusted the political settlement 
 of property in Ireland. Formidable armed 
 parties, termed Tories and Rapparees (the latter 
 an Irish name for robber), paraded through the 
 country, and in the mountain fastnesses of Kerry 
 especially, defied the military sent against them. 
 On the 20th of March, 1693, Captain Waller 
 wrote from Kinsale to Sir Robert Southwell : 44 I 
 am just now going towards Kerry with a party of 
 soldiers, towards suppressing the Rapparees, who 
 are grown very numerous in these parts.”* 
 
 The following extract, prefixed by Miss Brooke 
 to her exquisite translation of the lament of 
 44 Ned of the Hill,” — the soubriquet of Captain 
 Edmond Ryan, — upon the loss of his mistress, will 
 illustrate the deplorable situation in which both 
 those who attempted peaceably to farm lands in 
 
 * Southwell MSS. Sold at Messrs. Christie’s by Auction, 
 Feb. 1834, by order of the Executors of Lord De Clifford. 
 Thorpe’s Catalogue IV. 1834. No. 361, p. 198. 
 
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 the vicinity of the mountain districts of Cork, 
 Limerick, Clare, and Kerry, were placed at the 
 commencement of the last century, as well as that 
 of their opponents. 
 
 Of Ryan, observes Miss Brooke, u many 
 stories are still circulated, but no connected ac- 
 count has been obtained, further than that he 
 commanded a company of those unhappy free- 
 booters, called Rapparees, who, after the defeat 
 of the Boyne, were obliged to abandon their 
 dwellings and possessions, 4 hoping (says Mr. 
 O’Halloran) for safety within the precincts of the 
 Irish quarter : but they were too numerous to be 
 employed in the army, and their miseries often 
 obliged them to prey alike upon friend and foe ; 
 at length some of the most daring of them formed 
 themselves into independent companies, whose 
 subsistence chiefly arose from depredations com- 
 mitted on the enemy. It was not choice, but 
 necessity that drove them to this extreme ; I 
 have heard ancient people, who were witnesses to 
 the calamities of these days, affirm, that they 
 remembered vast numbers of these poor Ulster 
 Irish, men, women, and children, to have no other 
 beds but the ridges of potatoe-gardens, and little 
 other covering than the canopy of heaven : they 
 dispersed themselves over the counties of Lime- 
 rick, Clare, and Kerry ; and the hardness of the 
 
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 times at length shut up all bowels of humanity, 
 so that most of them perished of the sword, cold, 
 or famine/ ”* 
 
 Under the state of things described, this Kerry 
 pastoral was composed and circulated. The 
 College lands had yielded little or no produce 
 to the University, and the object of this ingeni- 
 ous pamphlet, in which reference is made to a 
 variety of local customs and superstitions, was to 
 procure respectable bona fide tenants, who would 
 improve the College estates, instead of “ middle 
 men,” or farmers, whose object was to underlet 
 the ground at what is called a rack rent. The 
 idea was certainly a benevolent one, of endea- 
 vouring to lead men to think correctly as to what 
 would be to their advantage, as well as for the 
 advantage of those whom they considered as 
 opposed to them ; and it is to be regretted that 
 the College authorities have failed in the object 
 inculcated in the following verses. This, how- 
 ever, appears to be the case from the account 
 given by the Rev. Csesar Otway in his Sketches 
 in the South of Ireland (1827). “ To return to 
 
 Lord Lansdowne’s estate on one side of the 
 river and that of Trinity College on the other, I 
 observed, as I drove slowly along, that his Lord- 
 ship’s lands were much better cultivated ; the 
 
 * O’ Hallo rail’s Int. to the Hist, and Ant. of Ireland, p. 382. 
 
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 farms better stocked ; the cabins fewer ; more 
 grass land ; what houses appeared were of a 
 better description than on the Collegiate lands, 
 and, on alighting to walk up a hill, I entered into 
 chat with a poor sickly looking fellow who was 
 going towards Nedeen (Kenmare). There is no 
 countryman in Ireland so easy, or, I would say, 
 so polished, in his address and manners as a 
 Kerry man. I was really surprised as I passed 
 through the country, to receive answers and 
 procure directions, fraught with civility and in- 
 telligence, superior much to what I have met 
 elsewhere. 4 Are you, my good friend, a tenant 
 of Lord Lansdowne’s?’ 4 Ah, no, sir, and more 
 is my loss ! No, sir, if it were my luck to be 
 under the great Marquis, I would not be the 
 poor naked sinking crathur that I am. His 
 Lordship allows his tenants to live and thrive ; 
 he permits no middlemen to set and re-set over 
 and over again his estate ; he allows no J ack of a 
 Squireen to be riding in top-boots over the 
 country, drinking and carousing on the profits of 
 the ground, while the poor racked tenant is 
 forced, with all his labour, often to go barefooted, 
 and often to live and work on a meal of dry 
 potatoes. No, sir, look across the river there — 
 look yonder at that snug farmer’s house — there 
 the man’s forefathers lived, and there he himself 
 
and his seed after will live and do well , paying a 
 moderate rent, and there's no fear at all of their 
 being disturbed.’ 
 
 “ ( Well ! but, my friend, on your side of the 
 river is it not the same ? To be sure, I see not 
 so much comfort ; I see many, very many poor 
 cabins.’ 
 
 “ c Oh ! sir, how could it be otherwise ? There 
 are twenty landlords between the College and the 
 man who tills the grounds. The land is let, re- 
 let, and sub-let, it is halved and quartered, 
 divided and subdivided, until the whole place 
 will become a place of poverty and potato gardens. 
 I have four acres of land. How can I live and 
 rear my children, and pay thirty shillings an acre 
 off that ? And I am subject to have my pig, or 
 the bed from under me, canted by one, two, 
 three, four — och ! I do not know how many land- 
 lords. And now I am going to Nedeen, to get 
 some physic from the poticary ; for the dry po- 
 tatoes, master, agree but poorly with my stomach 
 in the spring of the year. Och ! then, it’s I that 
 wishes that the great College that does be making 
 men so larned and so wise, would send down 
 some of these larned people here, just to be after 
 making their own poor tenants a little happier 
 and a little asier.” 
 
The Editor cannot conclude without expressing 
 his thanks to Mr. How of Fleet street, the Pub- 
 lisher of Mr. and Mrs. S. 0. Half's Ireland, for 
 the embellishments which have been introduced 
 to illustrate the notes. 
 
 T. 0. 0. 
 
 Rosamond's Bower , Fulham, 
 27th April, 1843. 
 
A 
 
 PASTORAL 
 
 IN 
 
 IMITATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Firft Eclogue 
 
 OF 
 
 V I R G i L : 
 
 Xnfcrib’d to the 
 
 Provoft , Fellows , and Scholars , of Trinity College ? 
 DUBLIN; 
 
 By Murroghoh 0 Connor oi Aughanagraun, 
 
 D U B L I N : 
 
 Printed by James Carfon , in CoghiWs Courts in Dames - 
 ftreet , opposite to the Cqf tie -Market, 1719. 
 
A 
 
 PASTORA L 
 
 In Imitation of the Firft 
 
 Eclogue of VIRGIL, &c. 
 
 YYYTrvrrrYrYYYrYYYV'rYr 
 
 Murroghoh 0 Conner and Owen Sullivan. 
 
 The ARGUMENT. 
 
 Murroghoh Me Tigue. Me. Mahoon Leagh, Me 
 Murroghoh O’Connor, of Aughanagraun in the Ba- 
 rony of Iraghty Connor, and County of Kerry, was 
 among other College Tenants turned out of his Farm 
 of Ballyline, hut being recommended to the College by 
 several Gentlemen of that Country is Restored in this 
 eclogue ; therefore he own y s his Obligations to the 
 College, and the Happinefs of his Condition. 
 
 Owen Sullivan of Rincarah, near the Island of 
 Valenti a, in the Barony of Ivrahagh ( another College 
 Under-Tenant) meeting with some Misfortunes and not 
 having reprefented Jus Case to the College , loofes hit 
 Farm , which is given to a Captain of that Country . 
 
 OWEN. 
 
 J^/J”y Old Acquaintance , and my dearest Friend, 
 My Murroghoh ! what Joys on you attend ! 
 Ten thousand Blessings seem at once to shine 
 fjpon yohr Faffft ihid Tlbitse of Ballyline ; 
 
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 Since you’re Restor'd to Native Land and Ease, 
 The World’s your own, and Use it as you please 
 Now tell the Glories of your noble Name, 
 
 How Prince O'Connor from Hispania came, 
 Sprung from Milesian Race , of great Renown, 
 By right of Conquest made this Isle his own, 
 Banding at Shannons Mouth, the noble Flood 
 Enrich’d Ierne with his Royal Blood ; 
 
 For from his Loins , as from her flowing Springs , 
 Our Irish Veins are fill’d with Blood of Kings. 
 But I alass, can no such Honours boast, 
 
 Since sweet Rhincarah — dear Ivr'ah is lost : 
 
 My Blood runs low, I’m poor and in Disgrace, 
 And dare not own I’m of Milesian Race. 
 
 You top the World , as great a Monarch are, 
 
 As Connor Sligo , Connor Faly were, 
 
 And at your Ease beneath Arbutus laid, 
 
 Leaning against the mossy Tree your Head, 
 With Harp , and Voice , the College Praises sing, 
 Till Woods and Rocks, the College Praises ring. 
 
 MURROGHOH. 
 
 ’Tis true to sing her Praises is my Choice, 
 She shall for ever have my Harp and Voice : 
 To her I owe the Happiness you see, 
 
 ’Twas she restor’d my Farm and Liberty. 
 
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 For which full Mathers to her Health we’ll drink 
 And to the bottom Stranded Ilogsheds sink, 
 
 Good Stranded Claret , Wreck’d upon our Shore ; 
 And when that’s out we’ll go in search for more. 
 Whole Nights we’ll spend, to break of Day sit up, 
 Then Deogh a Dorus for the parting Cup. 
 
 OWEN. 
 
 My dearest Murrogh , I am glad to find, 
 
 So much Content and Pleasure in your Mind : 
 
 But I poor Owen , Grieve lament and moan, 
 
 You see I’m Packing up , and must be gone. 
 
 My bended Shoulders with my Burthen bow, 
 
 And I can hardly drive this limping Cow. 
 
 Not long ago, which gave me Cause to Fret, 
 
 A Sea Hog at the * * * § Scallogs broke my Net. 
 
 The Sea did not up to Rhincarah flow, 
 
 \Mangertori! s top was Black , and wanted Snow. 
 
 With mournful song lamented, the \Bantee. 
 
 Foretold the Ruin of my House and me. 
 
 When all these Omens met at once, I knew 
 What sad Misfortunes must of Course ensue. 
 
 Rut tell me Murrogh , what the College is, 
 
 There’s nothing more I long to know than This. 
 
 * A Rocky Island near Rincarah. 
 
 t The highest Mountain in Kerry , near Rincarah , which all the 
 
 Year round is remarkable to have Snow on it. 
 
 § A spirit which, according to Irish Superstition , appears and 
 bewails any Signal Calamity, either with Respect to Life or 
 Fortune of any Ancient remarkable Families. 
 
MURROGHOH. 
 
 Owen I was so foolish once I own, 
 
 To think it like Little School in Town, 
 
 Or like the School that’s in Tralee , you Know 
 Where we to Sizes and to Sessions goe, 
 
 And when Arrested , stand each others Bail , 
 
 And spend a Cow or two in Laiv and Ale . 
 
 I might compare W Drumcon to WKnochanore , 
 
 (3 ) Curragli of Ballyline to ^Linamore 
 
 With much more Reason — But my Dearest Friend, 
 
 The College does our Schools so far transcend, 
 
 Or all the Schools that ever yet I saw, 
 
 As f5 ) Karntfs Cabbin is below ^ Lixna. 
 
 OWEN. 
 
 But what good Fortune led you to that Place.?. 
 
 MURROGHOH. 
 
 To tell my Sufferings, and Explaine my Case , 
 To be restor’d, to find a just Redress 
 From those who glory to relieve Distress. 
 
 Tis true I lost my Land-Lords Favour by’t 
 
 (1) A rising near MurrogKs Farm. 
 
 (2) A very high Mountain upon the College Estate. 
 
 (3) A small Shrub on Murroglis Farm. 
 
 (4) The great College Wood. 
 
 (5) A Cotter in Murroglis Farm. 
 
 (6) Lord Kerry's House. 
 
But then, Dear Owen , I regain’d my Right ; 
 
 All my Renewal Fines with him were vain, 
 
 Nor Pratfrs nor Money cou’d my Farm obtain ; 
 What Cou’d I do, but to the College run, 
 
 And well I did, or I shou’d be undone. 
 
 There did I see a venerable Board, 
 
 Provost and Fellows , Men that kept their Word, 
 Sincere and Just, Honest , and Fair, and True, 
 Their only Rule is to give all their Due. 
 
 No Bribes or Interest can Corrupt their Minds, 
 Unbiassed Laws the Rich and Poor Man finds ; 
 Alike to all, their Charity Extends, 
 
 Ev’n I a Stranger found them all my Friends ; 
 Such were the Saints that once possess’d this Isle, 
 And drew down Blessings on our happy Soil. 
 They soon (for Justice here knows no Delay) 
 Gave this short Answer. Murrogh go your way , 
 Return , improve your Farm, as heretofore , 
 
 Be gone , you shall not be Molested more. 
 
 OWEN. 
 
 Happy Milesian, happiest of Men ! 
 
 Then Bally line is now your own Again. 
 
 ’Tis Large enough, tho’ not* a whole Plow-land, 
 And has a lovely Prospect to the Strand. 
 
 A Kerry Denomination of Land. 
 
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 Tho’ Bogs and Rocks deform that Spot of Earth, 
 Consider Murrogh that it gave thee Birth, 
 
 Those Bogs and Rocks your Cows and Sheep surround, 
 Keep them from Trespass Pledge , and Starving Pound. 
 Thrice happy you, who living at your Ease, 
 
 Have nought to do but see your Cattle Graze, 
 
 Speak * Latin to the Stranger passing by, 
 
 And on a Shambrog Bank reclining lye ; 
 
 Or on the Grassy Sod Cut Points to play 
 Backgamon ; and Delude the f Livelong Day. 
 
 When Night comes on to pleasing Rest you go, 
 
 Lull’d by the soft \Cronaan , or Sweet ( a ) Speck show 
 When KircheCd Sheelah strains her warbling throat, 
 In tuneful Ham, and Sleeps upon the Note. 
 
 MURROGHOH. 
 
 Dingle and WDerry sooner shall unite, 
 
 Shanon and Cashan both be drain’d out right, 
 
 And Kerry Men forsake their Cards and Dice , 
 
 Dogs be pursu’d by Hares , and Cats by Mice , 
 
 W iter begin to burn, and Fire to wet, 
 
 Before I shall my College Friends forget. 
 
 * ’Tis natural for the Cow Boys in the County of Kerry to 
 speak Latin. 
 
 f They are such Gamsters in the County of Kerry , that they 
 Cut Points in the Sods , by way of Tables , and [use ?] Potato's and 
 Turnips for men. 
 f Humming of a Tune. 
 
 (a) An Irish Ground. 
 
 (b) The Two remotest Parts of Ireland. 
 
 (c) So fond of Cards, that they never go without them. 
 
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 OWEN. 
 
 But I must quit my Dear lvragh and roam 
 The World about, to find another Home ; 
 
 To Paris * * * § go with Satchel cram’d with Books, 
 
 With empty Pockets and with hungry Looks ; 
 
 Or else to Dublin to Tim j* Sullivan 
 To be a Drawer or a waiting Man ; 
 
 Or else perhaps some favourable Chance 
 By Box and Dice my Fortune may advance, 
 
 At the Groom Porters cou’d I find a Friend, 
 
 That wou’d poor Owen kindly recommend. 
 
 There I cou’d nicely serve, and teach young Men 
 The Art to Cog , and win their Coin again. 
 
 But shall this Forreign Captain force from me, 
 
 My House and Land , my Weirs , and Fishery ? 
 
 Was it for him I those Improvements made ! 
 
 Must his Long Sword turn out my Laboring Spade ? 
 Adieu my Dear abode — 
 
 I shall no more with Brogue §Boan Scribiogh climb 
 Steep WMulloghbert, enthron’d on top sublime, 
 
 * ’Tis a Kerry shift, to go to Paris , when Reduc’d, 
 
 f A Kerry Man who keeps the London Tavern , very kind and 
 
 Generous to his Country Men. 
 
 § A Brogue with a Scollop’d Heel , which none but Gentlemen 
 are allow’d to wear. 
 
 (a) The Hill of Reference, where the Head of the Clan sitting 
 every Sunday and Holy-Day on two stones desides all Contro- 
 
 versies. 
 
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 Head of my Clan , determine ev’ry Case, 
 
 To make my Vassals Live at home in Peace, 
 
 To teach them Justice a much cheaper Way, 
 
 Keep them from Lawyers Fees , and Court’s Delay , 
 Nor shall [I] see you Curagh* Can a Wee , 
 
 Full often have I made a song for thee, 
 
 Least some Disaster should attend my Life, 
 
 My tender Children, or my Loving Wife. 
 
 Nor the t Knockdrum where our Forefathers set, 
 Upon thy Lofty Toy th’ Insidious Net , 
 
 To catch Desmonian wild , a sight more rare 
 To British Eyes , than Scandinavian Bear. 
 
 Valentia too I bid farewell to thee, 
 
 Title to best of Men great Anglesey . 
 
 Desmond tho’ last, not least belov’d farewel, 
 
 By whose great Lord whole Troops of Brittains fell, 
 Thy Glories shall in distant Lands be known, 
 
 And all the World superior Desmond own. 
 
 MURROGHOH. 
 
 But stay Dear Owen cosher here this Night, 
 Behold the Rooks have now begun their Flight, 
 
 * There is an old Tradition amongst them, that if Travellers 
 do not make a Rhime in praise of this Mountain, some Misfor- 
 tune will befall them or some one belonging to them, 
 f A Hill in that Country. 
 
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 And to their Nests in Winged Troops repair, 
 They fly in hast, and shew that Night is near. 
 The Sheep and Lambkins all around us bleat, 
 The Surfs just down, to Travel is too late. 
 Slacaan and Scollops shall adorn my board, 
 Fit Entertainment for a Kerry Lord, 
 
 In Egg Shells then we’ll take our parting Cup, 
 Lye down on Rushes , with the Sun get up. 
 
 FINIS. 
 

 
P. 3, — The Argument.] Whether the names of the 
 speakers and the localities mentioned are all strictly correct or 
 imaginary, the Editor cannot state, but if imaginary, the 
 semblance of truth has been most carefully preserved. 
 
 Murroghoh O’Connor, the accepted tenant of the Provost 
 and Fellows is said to be of Aughanagraun, or the ground 
 which can grow r corn or grain. 
 
 “ On the first arrival of the English into these parts,” says 
 Smith, in his History of Kerry, p. 27, “ they found the 
 O’Connors possessed of the northern tract of this county, from 
 which family that part still retains the name of Iraghticonnor,” 
 — this literally means the ploughed ground belonging to the 
 house of Connor. The name of Murroghoh, a common one 
 in all the clans upon the South West Coast of Ireland, such 
 as the O’Sullivans, O’Briens, &c. is the Irish for a sailor or 
 mariner, — see Muireach in O’Brien’s Irish Dictionary. 
 
 Owen Sullivan, the other speaker, is said to he of Bincarah, 
 
] 4 NOTES. 
 
 that is, of the rocky promontory, a locality laid down in Smith’s 
 map of Kerry as “ Rineaharagh,” on the main land, opposite 
 to Cromwell’s Fort on Valentia Island. “ The Southern parts, 
 [on the first arrival of the English in Kerry,] were occupied,” 
 says Smith, “ by the O’Sullivan’s, the barony of Dunkerroii 
 being then called O’Sullivan’s country, of which he had the 
 title of Prince given him by the Irish. They had also large 
 possessions in Iveragh.” The latter name, like most local 
 names, is highly descriptive ; meaning the territory of ex- 
 ample or warning, from the numerous shipwrecks that have 
 occurred on this rocky coast.” 
 
 P. 4, 1. 4, — “ from Hispania came ”'] See Moore’s History 
 of Ireland, Vol. i. p. 77. 
 
 P. 4, 1. 10, — “ Blood of Kings .”] See Cohcubhar in 
 O’Brien’s Irish Dictionary. 
 
 P. 4, 1. 16, — “ Connor Sligo , Connor Foly”] The two 
 principal families of the name were thus distinguished. The 
 opposition given by O’Connor Kerry to English power iii 
 Ireland, in the reign of Elizabeth, is recorded in the Pacatd 
 Hibernia. 
 
 P.4, 1. 17, — “ beneath Arbutus laidf] i. e. “Arbutus Unedo.” 
 
 “ The Arbutus,” says Derrick, in a letter addressed to Lord 
 Southwell from Killarney, dated 6th October, 1760, “ flourishes 
 all the year, bearing, at one and the same time, leaves; blossoms, 
 berries, and fruit in different stages of maturity. The leaves 
 are of a very beautiful green, with a red stalk ; the blossom 
 resembles the lily of the valley ; the berries are first green, 
 then yellow, acquiring at length a colour like the finest scarlet 
 strawberry: it is called by gardeners the strawberry tree.” 
 Although the Arbutus is well known in the gardens of England 
 as a shrub, Mr. and Mrs. S, C. Hall state, that “in Diflii 
 Island there is one,’ the stem of v^hich is seven feet ih circtitfT 
 
NOTES. 1 5 
 
 ference, and its height is in proportion, being equal to that 
 of an ash tree of the same girth which stands near it ; and on 
 Rough Island, opposite O’Sullivan’s cascade, there is another, 
 the circumference of which is nine feet and a half. Alone, 
 its character is not [Quere, not ?] picturesque ; the branches 
 are bare, long, gnarled, and crooked, presenting in its wild state 
 a remarkable contrast to its trim, formal, and bush-like figute 
 in our cultivated gardens. 
 
 <l It is said that, although now found universally in Ireland* 
 and more especially in the counties of Cork and Kerry, it (the 
 Arbutus) is not a native of the soil, but was introduced into 
 the country by Spanish monks.” A note however in Hall’s 
 Ireland , Vol. i. p. 181, states, that upon this point botanists 
 are divided in opinion ; and the opinions of two of the most 
 eminent in Ireland are there given; 
 
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 NOTES. 
 
 P. 4, lines 19, 22, — Harp and voice.'] Upon this famous 
 instrument, the Irish harp, at the period when these lines 
 were written, almost every one played; the term “every one” 
 is to he understood in the same sense as applied to the Piano- 
 forte at present. Few specimens of the Irish harp remain. 
 The Editor believes the only one in England to be in his pos- 
 session. It was made for the Rev. Charles Bunworth in 1734, 
 by John Kelly, who also appears to have been the maker of a 
 harp in 1726, engraved in Walker’s “ Memoirs of the Irish 
 bards;” but Mr. Bunworth s harp is probably more accurately 
 delineated, as copied from a sketch by Mr. MacClise. 
 
NOTES. 
 
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 P. 5, 1. 1 , — u full Mathers to her health we'll drink”] The 
 Mather, a compound of two Irish words, Maide (wood), and 
 er (noble), was applied to an ancient drinking vessel, gene- 
 rally made of the wood of the crab tree. The annexed sketch 
 was made by the Editor from a Mather in his possession, 
 presented to him by the late Mr. Samuel McSkimin, of Car- 
 rick fergus. 
 
 Generally speaking the Mather was round at bottom, 
 and quadrangular at top, with a handle on each of its four 
 sides. It varied from 1\ to 8f inches in height, and from 
 10^ to 18 inches in circumference, and held from three pints 
 to upwards of two quarts. Figures of the two Irish Mathers 
 from which this description is collected, are given in the 
 Dublin Penny Journal, vol. i. No. 38, p. 300 ; and vol. ii. No. 
 84, p.249. On the latter the name and date of DermotTully, 
 1590, are engraved. 
 
 To drink out of the Mather, it was necessary to apply one 
 of the four corners, and not the side, to the mouth. The fol- 
 lowing anecdote is told respecting this national mode of drink- 
 ing: “ When Lord Townshend left the vice-royalty of Ireland, 
 he had two massive silver mathers made in London, where they 
 were regularly introduced at his dinner parties; and guests most 
 usually applied the side of the vessel to the mouth, and seldom 
 
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 escaped with a dry neck-cloth, vest, or doublet. Lord Towns- 
 hend, however, after enjoying the mistake, usually called on 
 his friend the late Colonel O’Reilly (afterwards Sir Hugh 
 Nugent by the King’s sign manual), to teach the drill, and 
 handle the Mather in true Irish style.’’ 
 
 In Dean Swift’s translation of O’Rourk’s feast, we find 
 
 " Usquebaugh to our feast 
 In pails was brought up, 
 
 An hundred at least, 
 
 And a madder * our cup.” 
 
 Laurence Whyte, from whose poem of “ The Parting Cup” 
 an extensive extract is made in a subsequent note, thus closes 
 Canto II : 
 
 “ The harper at each interval 
 Had dram or madder at his call, 
 
 Together with his horn of snuff, 
 
 Of each we saw he took enough, 
 
 And when he could no longer play, 
 
 Speakshoyech ushered in the day.” 
 
 In the Irish Hudibras, 1689, a fleet of small boats or 
 corracles, are said to be — 
 
 “ Like Meddars formed of the whole piece ; 
 
 Meddar, which is a pretty black, 
 
 A deep, round, four-square wooden Jack; 
 
 An ill-shaped trunk of carved tree, 
 
 An uniform deformity.” 
 
 P. 5, 1. 2, — “ Stranded Hogsheds 1. 3, — u Stranded 
 Claret “ The* Lady Nelson port’ is still famous in Kerry, 
 and a glass of it is sometimes offered as a bonne bouche .” — 
 Lady Chattertons Rambles in the South of Ireland. Vol. i, p. 
 308. 
 
 * Wooden vessel. 
 
NOTES. 
 
 19 
 
 Mr. Weld in his Account of Killarney, mentions visiting 
 Lough Inc, where he was regaled with some delicious oysters ; 
 a boy appeared carrying a basket after a gentleman, by whose 
 boat the oysters had been taken; and “ copious libations were 
 poured from bottles which had evidently been filled in France, 
 and the wine proved to be nothing less than Burgundy of a 
 most delicious flavour.” 
 
 In a note which Mr. Weld thought it necessary to attach in 
 a second edition to this passage, in consequence of some ob- 
 servations, made by the Rev. Horace Townsend, calculated to 
 throw discredit upon this statement, he asks with much 
 naivete : “ Are there no shipwrecks on this rocky and dan- 
 gerous coast ?” 
 
 P. 5, 1. 6, — “ Then Deogh a Dorus for the parting cup /”] 
 Doch-an-dorrach (a Gaelic term), is explained in the glossary 
 to the Waverly Novels, as “stirrup-cup; parting cup.” It 
 is literally, “ the drink at the door,” respecting the legal im- 
 munities attached to which, see Sir Walter Scott’s note to the 
 Chapter XI of Waverly. 
 
 Laurence Whyte, “ a Lover of the Muses and Mathema- 
 ticks” as he styles himself on the title page of “ Original 
 Poems on various Subjects” [2nd Ed. Dublin, 1742], has enti- 
 tled one of his productions “The Parting Cup; or, the Hu- 
 mours of Deoch an Doruis, alias Theodorus, alias Doctor 
 Dorus, an old Irish gentleman famous (about 30 years ago), 
 for his great hospitality, but more particularly in Christmas- 
 time — ” 
 
 “ When folks have little else to do 
 But try what ale their neighbours brew, 
 
 To drink all night, and sing in chorus 
 And when they part drink Deochadorus. 
 
 But it so happens that Whyte’s poem, besides illustrating 
 
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 the common use of the phrase, has preserved a faithful picture 
 of the state of Irish society at the period to which the Kerry 
 Pastoral belongs : — 
 
 “ Lest any should mistake the time, 
 
 By this our prelude put in rhime, 
 
 We shall explain it if you please, 
 
 It was in Christmas holidays. 
 
 About the thirtieth of December, 
 
 As near as I can well remember ; 
 
 The moon was just a quarter old, 
 
 The wind at north, the weather cold ; 
 
 In Anna’s long victorious reign, 
 
 Who triumphed over France and Spain. 
 
 When Marlborough’s fame thro’ Europe ran, 
 
 Who fought the battles of Queen Ann ; 
 
 Then did the name of Deochadorus 
 Become so numerous and glorious, 
 
 As well Strongbonians as Milesians 
 Kept open house on all occasions. 
 
 That scarce a parish or a town 
 Throughout the kingdom but had one. 
 
 Then Cromwell’s tribes of later date, 
 
 Laid by their civil jars and heat, 
 
 Became more generous and free, 
 
 Drank Deochadorus neighbourly, 
 
 And tho’ they could not mouth him well, 
 
 They into all his humours fell ; 
 
 For all who breathe the Irish air 
 Must in its happy influence share ; 
 
 It gives them such a turn of mind 
 As makes them candid, free, and kind.” 
 
 This lively sketch however is followed by a melancholy 
 portrait : 
 
 “We can’t forget young A r’s frakes, 
 
 His drinking bouts with jolly rakes — 
 
 How many he has killed with drinking. 
 
 How many more sent home a blinking? 
 
NOTES. 
 
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 In stealing homowards, group'd their way 
 At midnight, or at break of day ; 
 
 How many he has sent home reeling 
 Blind drunk, without the sense of feeling ? 
 
 ’Twas Deochadorus night and day, 
 
 Until he drank himself away.” 
 
 And White honestly concludes with — 
 
 “ Such is the practice of our isle, 
 
 Where scarce one tribe of Deochadorus 
 But stand in misery before us.” 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall, who, in their recent work on 
 Ireland, have recorded the change which has taken place in 
 the popular habits of the Irish people, state that;— “If a 
 guest were able to mount his horse without assistance in 
 the ‘ good old times,’ he was presented with a cleoch an dur- 
 rass glass, which he was forced, seldom 
 against his will, to 4 drink at the door/ 
 
 This glass usually held a quart; it was 
 terminated by a globe, which of itself con- 
 tained a 4 drop,’ sufficient to complete the 
 business of the night. 5 ’ [vol. i. p. 33.] 
 
 And the print by which the deoch an 
 dorras glass is illustrated in their work was 
 from a sketch which the Editor made in 
 1829 of one in the possession of two old 
 ladies named Baylee, who resided in the 
 Desmonian stronghold of Lough Gur, in 
 the County of Limerick. 
 
 “ The door cup” however was not always of glass ; in the 
 Irish Hudibras, we find Nees (the hero) 
 
 “ Swearing he could not part, not for his 
 Own leef, till he got Dough a Dorris. 
 
NOTES. 
 
 2 *) 
 
 With that the porter brought them out 
 A meddar stopt with a clean clout ; 
 
 Which, tlio’ ’twas reckoned but a small one, 
 
 Contained three halfs of a whole gallon.” 
 
 P. 5, 1. 14, — “ A Sea Hog at the Scallogs broke my net .”] 
 For “Sea Hog,” the reading should he Sea Dog , and for 
 “ Scallogs,” Skeligs. Smith in his History of Kerry, mentions 
 that Salmon in the Kenmare river are “ much destroyed by 
 seals and sea dogs, which are so numerous there, that in summer 
 all the rocks on the shore are in a manner covered with them.” 
 And Doctor Smith adds, “ some people have proposed a method 
 of taking them in strong nets, made of thick cordage on purpose, 
 which scheme has not been tried because of its expense.” 
 The rocks called the Skeligs, are about nine miles from the 
 mouth of the Kenmare river. Upon the larger one a light- 
 house was built, in 1826. Lady Chatterton has preserved, in 
 her “Rambles in the South of Ireland,” Vol. i. chapter 13, 
 an account of the Skeligs, by Mr. Maurice O’Connell, and 
 also of a visit made by the Editor to the greater Skelig, 
 26th April, 1825. 
 
 P. 5, 1. 15, — “ The Sea did not up to Rhincarah flow .”] 
 This means the Atlantic had receded from the South Western 
 shore of Ireland. 
 
 P. 5, 1. 16, — “ Mangerton' s top was black a7id wanted snow .”] 
 Mangerton “ was for many years considered the highest 
 [mountain] in Ireland, and set down in the old maps and 
 surveys as being 2,470 feet in height.” “ It is now ascertained 
 by the measurement of Mr. Nimmo, that the height of 
 Mangerton is 2,550 feet, while that of Carran Tual, [not far 
 distant] is 3,410. — Wright's Guide to Killarney. 
 
 P. 5, 1. 17, — “ The Bantee .”] Sir Walter Scott in his 
 
NOTES. 
 
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 letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, speaking “of some 
 leading superstitions, once perhaps common to all the countries 
 of Europe, but now restricted to those which continue to be 
 inhabited by an undisturbed and native race; of these,” 
 continues Sir Walter Scott, “ one of the most beautiful is the 
 Irish fiction, which assigns to certain families of ancient 
 descent and distinguished rank the privilege of a Banshee, as 
 she is called, or household fairy, whose office is to appear 
 seemingly mourning while she announces the approaching 
 death of some one of the destined race.” 
 
 The following verses descriptive of Banshee superstition, are 
 translated by the Editor from a Caoine (Keen), upon the death 
 of a Knight of Kerry, who was killed in Flanders about the 
 year 1642. 
 
 “ I had heard lamentations 
 And sad warning cries 
 From the Banshees of many 
 Broad districts arise ; 
 
 I besought thee, O Christ, 
 
 To protect me from pain ; 
 
 1 prayed, hut my prayers 
 They were offered in vain. 
 
 “ Aina from her closely 
 Hid nest did awake 
 The woman of wailing 
 At Gur’s voicy lake ; 
 
 From Glen Fogra of words 
 Came a mournful whine, 
 
 And all Kerry’s hags 
 Wept the lost Geraldine. 
 
 “ The Banshees of Youghall 
 And of stately Mogeely 
 Were joined in their grief 
 By wide Immokilly. 
 
 Carah Mona in gloom 
 Of deep sorrow appears, 
 
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 And all Kinalmeaky s 
 Absorbed into tears.* 
 
 “ The prosperous Saxons 
 Were seized ■with affright, 
 
 In Tralee they packed up 
 And made ready for flight. 
 For there a shrill voice 
 At the door of each hall 
 Was heard, and they fancied 
 Foretelling their fall. 
 
 “At Dingle, the merchants 
 In terror forsook 
 Their ships and their business, 
 They trembled and shook. 
 Some fled to concealment — 
 
 The fools thus to fly ! 
 
 For no trader a Banshee 
 Will utter a cry.f 
 
 “ The Banshee of D unqueen 
 In sweet song did deplore 
 To the spirit that watches 
 On dark Dun-an-oir ; 
 
 And Ennimore’s maid 
 
 By the Feal’s gloomy wave 
 Did mourn, with clear voice, 
 The death of the brave. 
 
 “ On stormy Slieve Mis 
 
 Spreads the cry far and wide ; 
 From Slieve Finnalaun 
 The wild eagle replied ; 
 
 ’Mong the reeks, like the 
 Thunder-peal’s echoing rout, 
 It burst, and deep bellows 
 Bright Brandon gives out.” 
 
 * Literally, ‘ 
 
 ‘ Kinalmeaky is drained from crying.” Kinalmeaky is a 
 
 district of bog in the county of Cork. 
 
 + This is the verse quoted by Dr. O’Brien in his Irish Dictionary, to 
 shew that the Banshee is solely an aristocratic appendage. 
 
NOTES. 
 
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 P. 6, 11. 3, 4,— “ Tralee you know , Where we to Sizes and to 
 Sessions goe “ Tralee is the shire-town of the county of 
 Kerry, ever since the attainder of Gerald Earl of Desmond; and 
 was during the existence of that earl’s palatinate the place where 
 he chiefly resided and exercised his jurisdiction.” — Seward’s 
 Hibernian Gazetteer. 
 
 P. 6, 1. 5, — “ And when Arrested stand each others Bail .”] 
 “ A Kerry witness” is a proverbial expression for a person 
 who will swear any thing in a court of justice. 
 
 P. 6, 1. 8, “ Curragh of Ballyline. v ~\ Curragh which is 
 
 explained in the foot note as “ a small shrub,” is probably a 
 misprint for “ a small bog.” The glossary to the Irish Hudi- 
 bras renders Currogh “ heath ;” but Currach is explained in 
 O’Brien’s Irish Dictionary, as “ a bog, or fen.” — Moin , he 
 adds, “ is drier ground than what they call currach .” And 
 hence the Editor may observe comes Moineen , a little springy 
 piece of turf to dance upon. The Air of Moore’s “ Minstrel 
 Boy,” though published as “ The Moreen ” ought to have 
 been Moneen. But any word the meaning of which is not 
 understood gets sadly mangled — 
 
 “ At coushers [gossiping] wakes ; could play Mageen [Margery] 
 
 Whip off Dunboyn, and dance a Myneen.” — 
 
 The Irish Hudibras, 1689, p. 27. 
 
 P. 6, 1. 12, — “ Lixna?~\ Lixnaw, an ancient seat of the 
 Earls of Kerry, is described by Smith, in 1774, about which 
 time it was suffered to fall into ruin, as “ standing agreeably 
 on the river Brick, which is here cut into several pleasant 
 canals that adorn its plantations and gardens. The improve- 
 ments are very extensive, most of the vistaes and avenues 
 terminating by different buildings, seats, and farm-houses. 
 The tide flows up to the gardens, whereby boats of considera- 
 
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 bio burden may bring up goods to the bridge near the house ; 
 here are two stone bridges over the Brick, the oldest of which 
 was built by Nicholas, the third baron of Lixnaw, who was 
 the first person that made causeways to this place, the land 
 being naturally wet and marshy. 
 
 “ The present house,” continues Smith, “ consists of a large 
 building with wings on each side, and several offices that 
 inclose an handsome area : in one of these wings is a chapel 
 the walls of which are painted in fresco by a foreigner called 
 John Souillard, being copies of the celebrated cartoons of 
 Raphael, at Hampton Court, particularly the lame man healed 
 by Peter and John, Elymas the sorcerer, Paul preaching at 
 Athens, &c. The figures are as large as life ; and over the 
 door, between festoons and other decorations, are the heads of 
 Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Pope, all in claro obscuro by the 
 same hand.” 
 
 P. 7, 1. 7, — “ Provost and Fellows Doctor Baldwin was 
 Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, from 1717 to the time of 
 his death, 30th September, 1758. Doctor Claudius Gilbert 
 was Vice-Provost from 1716 to 1735, and the donor of 13,000 
 volumes to the College Library. Among the Fellows of Tri- 
 nity College, at the time that this Kerry Pastoral was written 
 (1719), were, — the philosophic Berkeley, advanced to the 
 deanery of Derry 1724, Bishopric of Cloyne 1733, Delany, 
 afterwards Dean of Down ; Bindon, afterwards Dean of Lime- 
 rick; Madden, afterwards Dean of Kilmore; Synge, after- 
 wards Bishop of Clonfert 1730, Ferns 1733, and Elphin 
 1740 ; Clayton, afterwards Bishop of Killala 1729, Cork 
 and Ross 1733, Clogher 1745 ; and Stopford, afterwards 
 Bishop of Cloyne. 
 
 “ Men that kept their word. 
 
 Sincere, and just, honest, and fair, and true." 
 
NOTES. 
 
 27 
 
 P. 7, 1. 22, — u ZVs large enough though not a whole Plow- 
 land”'] In Kerry “ the land is held not by the aere ; for in 
 these mountains, such minute divisions are of little importance ; 
 but, according to the language of the country, by the lump ; 
 that is, by large tracts ; and, after agreement has been made 
 with the landlord for their respective shares, it is usual for 
 many different families to form a partnership and make a 
 joint concern of their several farms. Where pasturage alone 
 is followed, great benefit accrues to the little community from 
 this practice. It saves labour and expense of multiplied 
 superintendence ; it excites attention to the general interest, 
 and prevents disputes that would otherwise arise concerning 
 boundaries, where the benefit to be derived from their existence 
 is not adequate to the cost of their erection. Each man to 
 the computed extent of his land is permitted to maintain a 
 certain number of cattle ; and in many instances, where the 
 parties have confidence in each other, they have a joint stock, 
 both of their kine and their produce.” — Weld’s Killarney. 
 
 P. 7, 1 . 23, — “ a lovely prospect to the Strand”] The 
 “ Stranded Hogsheads” and “ Stranded claret” mentioned in 
 p. 5, lines 2 and 3, explain the loveliness of the prospect. 
 
 P. 8, 1. 7, — u Speak Latin to the stranger passing by”] 
 Sir Richard Cox, writing about the time the Kerry 
 Pastoral appeared, says, “ very few of the Irish aim at any 
 more than a little Latin , which every cow-boy pretends to , and 
 a smattering of logic, which very few of them know the use 
 of.” 
 
 “ It is asserted, that Latin has been very generally studied 
 in Kerry, even by the lowest ranks of the people ; and I have 
 heard more than one gentleman bear testimony to the circum- 
 stance of the bare-footed boys having been found reading 
 classical authors in the fields. It is related of one of these 
 
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 poor fellows, that upon an expostulation having been made 
 with him on such an unprofitable use of his time, he replied, 
 with much spirit : — 
 
 “ Est quodam prodire tenus, si non datur ultra.” 
 
 “ Classical reading,” says Dr. Smith, in his History of 
 Kerry, “ extends itself even to a fault amongst the lower and 
 poorer kinds of this country ; many of whom, to the taking 
 them off more useful work, have greater knowledge in this 
 way than some of the better sort of other places.” Similar 
 testimony is borne by other writers : “ In alighting to take a 
 view of the ancient family seat at Pallice, I gave the bridle of 
 my horse to a poor boy, who seemed to look for it with eager- 
 ness. From his manner of answering some questions I asked 
 him, I was led to enquire into his situation ; and was not a 
 little surprised to find that though sunk in the most abject 
 poverty, he was nevertheless a good classical scholar. He 
 was well acquainted with the best Latin poets ; had read over 
 most of the historians ; and was then busy with the Orations 
 of Cicero. I found upon further enquiry, that this classical 
 spirit is very general among the lower sort of people in 
 Kerry .” — Description of Killarney. Anonymous. 
 
 Mr. Weld is of opinion that these accounts are “ either 
 very much exaggerated, or the taste for classical learning is 
 less prevalent than formerly”— for during his visits to Kerry, 
 between the years 1800 and 1811, he “ was unable to procure 
 an interview with one of these learned peasants.” He how- 
 ever says : “ A gentleman of my acquaintance indeed, who 
 was with me at Killarney, once happened to be present when 
 a poor boy came into the inn yard, and asked for alms in good 
 Latin ; and he observed that several of the town’s-folk who 
 were bystanders, replied to him in that language, and for 
 some minutes continued the conversation in that language 
 with apparent facility.” 
 
NOTES. 
 
 29 
 
 P. 8, 1. 8,— “ A Shambrog J]ank”,] It is scarcely necessary 
 to observe, that the Shamrock is the National emblem of 
 Ireland. Keogh, Threlkeld, and other Irish botanists, assert 
 that the Scamer oge or Shamrog , is the trifolium repens ; 
 this however has been disputed. 
 
 “ Other countries” says the late Ca3sar Otway, in the Dublin 
 Penny Journal, “ may boast of their trefoil as well as we ; hut 
 nowhere on the broad earth, on continent, or in isle, is there 
 such an abundance of this succulent material for making fat 
 mutton. In winter as well as in summer, it is found to spread 
 its green carpet over our limestone hills, drawing its verdure 
 from the mists that sweep from the Atlantic. The seed of it is 
 everywhere. Cast lime or limestone gravel on the top of a 
 mountain, or on the centre of a bog, and up starts the 
 shamrock.” 
 
 P. 8,11. 9, 10.—“ On the grassy sod , cut points to play 
 Backgammon ;”] “ In some parts [of Kerry] they have a 
 
 singular and primitive mode of playing at backgammon in 
 the fields. The turf is cut out, so as to make a board of large 
 size ; flat stones are used for men ; and to perform the busi- 
 ness of dice, a person sits with his back to the players and 
 calls out whatever cast he pleases; upon this principle the 
 play is conducted.” — Mr. and Mrs. S. C . Hall's Ireland , 
 vol. i. p. 256. 
 
 P. 8, 1, 12, — “ LulVd by the soft Cronaan .”] Cronaan is 
 explained in the glossary to the Irish Hudibras as a song.— 
 
 “But sing dyself the sweet Cro-naan." 
 
 At an Irish wake. 
 
 “ some laugh, some weep ; 
 
 Some sing Cronans, and some do sleep.” 
 
 are the passages upon which this explanation is offered. The 
 
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 NOTES. 
 
 true meaning of the word is a monotonous melody, correspond- 
 ing with what we should now call recitative. 
 
 “ Cronan, the base in music. Cr6nan I ache* archanus, 
 Cantus-bassus.” 
 
 “ Cronan, any dull note, also the buzzing of a fly or other 
 insect.” — O'Brien. 
 
 In “ a dissertation on Italian and Irish Music,” by Laurence 
 Whyte, [1742], speaking of the manner in which the former 
 has superseded the latter, he says that Irish Music 
 
 “ flies to Munster for the air, 
 
 To clear her pipes and warble there. 
 
 Poor Cronaan, being turn’d out of play, 
 
 With Rinke Mueenagh flew away, 
 
 To the remotest parts of Kerry, 
 
 In hopes to make the vulgar merry, 
 
 But scarce one cabin in their flight 
 W T ould give them lodging for the night ; 
 
 So taken up with foreign jingle, 
 
 Tralee despised them ; likewise Dingle.’ 
 
 P. 8, 1. 12, — “ Sweet Speck show”~\ This melody is com- 
 monly known as “ the humours of Joyce’s country,” and its 
 musical notation is preserved in Walker’s memoirs of the Irish 
 bards. “ Several districts of this kingdom,” says Walker, 
 u have certain appellations for airs which originated in them, 
 as Speic Seoach , the Speic or humours of Joyce’s country,” 
 which he adds was “ pricked from the voice by the Rev. Dr. 
 Young, while on a visit last winter, 1785, in the county 
 of Roscommon.” Speice according to O’Brien is a prop or 
 support, and Seoach is the Irish mode of writing Joyce ; the 
 literal meaning therefore is “ the leader of the Joyces,” a 
 gigantic race inhabiting the wild district of Connamara, in 
 the county of Galway, respecting whom and which, see “ A 
 Tour round Ireland, by John Barrow, Esq. in 1835.” 
 
 In a letter addressed to Mr. Walker, 1788, giving an 
 
NOTES. 
 
 31 
 
 account of the inhabitants of the Rosses, islands on the coast 
 of Donegal, the writer says — “ Their songs, called Speic 
 Seoachs , were recitals of exploits achieved by the giants and 
 warriors and hunters of old.” That is to say, the deeds of 
 Joyces. Speice is probably from the Latin spes. 
 
 P. 8, 1. 13, — “ Kircherd Sheelah”] The Irish Kercher or 
 Cailleach as it was sometimes called, from being worn by old 
 women, was a large handkerchief tied under the chin ; the 
 other ends at the back of the head, falling loosely upon the 
 shoulders. Mr. Beaufort has stated to Mr. Walker, (“ Histor- 
 ical Essay on the Dress of the Ancient and Modern Irish, ”) that 
 the simple head dress of the Cailleach “ was worn by both sexes, 
 but usually by men, and made of the skin of a beast.” The 
 Editor perfectly recollects it as the common costume of the 
 female peasantry of the South of Ireland. 
 
 P. 8, 1. 16, — “ Shanon and Cashan”] The Shannon River, 
 “ all circumstances considered, is one of the finest in the 
 British dominions ; not only on account of its rolling 200 
 miles, but also of its great depth in most places, and the 
 gentleness of its current.”— Seward's Hibernian Gazetteer. 
 
 Spenser in his “Fairy Queen,” Book iv. Canto 11th, calls 
 it — 
 
 “ The spacious Shenan, spreading like a sea.” 
 
 The Cashin, which is formed by the confluence of three 
 rivers, the Galey, Feal, and Brick, falls into the Shannon not 
 far from its mouth. 
 
 P. 8, 1. 17, — “ And Kerry men forsake their cards and 
 dice”'] Among the evil persons whom Spenser, in his view 
 of the State of Ireland, recommends getting rid of in that 
 country by “ the short riddance of a Marshal,”— are a class 
 
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 called ‘‘ Carrows;” “ which,” he tells us, “ is a kind of people 
 that wander up and down to gentlemen’s houses, living only 
 upon cards and dice ; the which, though they have little or 
 nothing of their own, yet will they play for much money ; 
 which if they win, they waste most lightly ; and if they lose 
 they pay as slenderly, but make recompence with one stealth 
 or another ; whose only hurt is, not that they themselves are 
 idle lossels, but that through gaming they draw others to like 
 leudness and idleness.” 
 
 P. 9, 1. 3, — •“ To Paiis go with satchel crarrfd with hooks .”] 
 The Sorbonne was crowded with Irish “ wranglers,” who, for 
 a gratuity undertook to defend certain theological or metaphy- 
 sical theses against all impugnants. Boileau talks of the 
 “ figures hihernoises v of these Irish disputants; and in “ Gil 
 Bias,” they are commemorated as a striking feature at Sala- 
 manca. Goldsmith, in rambling through Italy, often got a 
 dinner and a viaticum by defending propositions in the halls 
 of the convents and universities : (see Prior), and from Duns 
 Scotus, and Columbanus, to the most recent period, Ireland 
 was the great mother of polemical spirits in the Continental 
 schools of Divinity. Pelagius was a Welshman; his Greek 
 name being only a translation of Morgan. 
 
 P. 9, 1. 18, — “ Brogue Boan Scribiogh .”] This Irish name, 
 literally means the shoe of true writing that is scalloped or 
 indented like a legal document or “ Indenture,” which in 
 Irish is called han-scrihbin. Laurence Whyte in “ A Disser- 
 tation on Fashions,” [1742] says : 
 
 “ The shoes reform’d and fashion’d so, 
 
 The heel is lower than the toe, 
 
 And if 1 may believe my sire 
 
 The brogue-bunscreeb was something higher. 
 
 The harness buckle of the shoe 
 In days of yore would make us two ; 
 
NOTES. 
 
 3 .-} 
 
 They are good moveables of late, 
 
 To pledge or sell, when made of plate ; 
 
 When rakes at taverns, or at stews, 
 
 Drink out their buckles, and their shoes.” 
 
 A note upon Brogue-buns creeb , adds, u A kind of scalloped 
 Brogue, with two lifts more fashionable than ordinary, for 
 gentlemen and the better sort of people to wear, before shoes 
 came in fashion in Ireland.” 
 
 “ The brogue or shoe of the Irish peasantry,” is said by 
 Mr. and Mrs. S, C. Hall, to differ “ in its construction from the 
 shoe of any other country. It was formerly made of untanned 
 hide, but for the last century at least, it has been made of 
 tanned leather. The leather of the uppers is much stronger 
 than what is used in the strongest shoes, being made of cow 
 hide dressed for the purpose, and it never has an inside lining 
 like the ordinary shoe ; the sole leather is generally of an 
 inferior description. The process of making the brogue is 
 entirely different to that of shoemaking ; and the tools used 
 in the work, excepting the hammer, pinchers, and knife, bear 
 little analogy. The awl, though used in common by both 
 operators, is much larger than the largest used by the shoe- 
 maker, and unlike in the bend.” Much curious information 
 respecting the manufacture of brogues, may be found in the 
 work to which the Editor is indebted for this extract. — (Hall's 
 Ireland , Vol. i. pp. 189, 190), where it is stated, that “ the 
 brogue makers pride themselves on the antiquity of their 
 trade ; and boast over the shoemakers, whom they consider 
 only a spurious graft on their more noble art.” 
 
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 NOTES. 
 
 P. 9, 1. 19,—“ Steep Mulloghhert? ] Mulloghhert, which 
 is explained in the note as “ the hill of reference,” is literally 
 the hill of judgement. (Mullach heart). Spenser in his 
 View of the State of Ireland, says : “ There is a great use 
 among the Irish to make great assemblies together upon a 
 Rath or Hill, there to parly (as they say) about matters and 
 wrongs between Township and Township, or one private per- 
 son and another. But well I wot, and true it hath been of- 
 tentimes proved, that in their meetings, many mischiefs have 
 been both practised and wrought ; for to them do commonly 
 resort all the scum of the people, where they may meet and 
 confer of what they list, which else they could not do without 
 suspicion or knowledge of others. Besides, at these meetings 
 I have known divers times, that many Englishmen, and good 
 Irish subjects, have been villanously murdered by moving one 
 quarrel or another against them. For the Irish never come 
 to those Raths but armed, whether on horse, or on foot; 
 which the English, nothing suspecting, are then commonly 
 taken at advantage like sheep in a pen-fold. 
 
 A view of one of those judgement seats, on the hill of Kyle, 
 in the Queen’s County, is given in Dr. Ledwich’s “ Antiquities 
 of Ireland.” He says “ it was common in Wales to throw up 
 an earthen mount, whereon the judges sat; and this was called 
 a Gorsedde.” 
 
 P. 10, 11. 5, 6 , — “ Curagh Can a Wee, Full often have I made 
 a song for thee?] Dr. Smith (p. 108) describing the parish 
 of Glanbehy, in the barony of Iveragh, says that it is “so 
 named from the river Behy which waters it ; the greater part 
 of it is extremely rough. The road from the other parts of 
 Kerry, into this barony, runs over very high and steep hills, 
 that stand in this parish, called Drung and Cahircanawy ; 
 which road hangs, in a tremendous manner, over that part of 
 
NOTES. 
 
 35 
 
 the sea that forms the bay of Castlemain, and is not unlike the 
 mountain of Penmenmaure in North Wales, except that the 
 road here is more stony and less secure for the traveller. 
 There is a custom among the country people, to enjoin every 
 one that passes this mountain, to make some verses to its 
 honour, otherwise they affirm, that whoever attempts to pass 
 it without versifying, must meet with some mischance : the 
 original of which notion seems to be, that it will require a per- 
 son’s whole circumspection to preserve himself from falling off 
 his horse. They,” continues Doctor Smith, “ repeated to me 
 several performances, both in Irish and English, made on this 
 occasion ; but this mountain is not, like that of Helicon, con- 
 secrated to the Muses, for all the verses that I heard were 
 almost as rugged and uncouth as the road on which they were 
 made, — for which reason I shall not trouble the reader with 
 them ; although I had several copies given me for that pur- 
 pose.” 
 
 A writer under the nom de guerre of Dr. M‘Slatt, presumed 
 to be Mr. Windele of Cork, says : “ The sound or strait be- 
 tween Clear and Skerkin (in the county of Cork) is called Gas- 
 canan, and is singular for a usage which requires that all who 
 cross it for the first time should improvise, at least a couplet ; 
 otherwise some mischance may be the consequence. A simi- 
 lar exercise of the little of poetry within us is required on 
 passing the rugged pathway of Cahircanawy, overhanging the 
 dizzy cliffs of Castlemain ; and I doubt not but a collection 
 of these effusions would afford a rare picture of the mind of 
 the gentry who frequent these passages of song.” 
 
 P. 10,11. 9, 10, 11, — “ Knockdrum, where our forefathers 
 set Upon thy lofty top th? insidious net , To catch Desrnonian 
 ivild.”~] Gerald, the sixteenth Earl of Desmond, and his fol- 
 lowers, were literally hunted down by the English. It is the 
 
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 NOTES. 
 
 popular tradition, that some of the wild Irish in Kerry were 
 taken by netting them. 
 
 P. 10, 1. 14, — u Great Anglesey.”] Sir Arthur Annesley, 
 the sixth Viscount Valentia, succeeded to the title on the death 
 of his brother, 18th Sep., 1710. He had been “a Gentleman 
 of the Privy Chamber to William and Anne ; and, after his 
 succession to the honours, was appointed (11th October), joint 
 Vice Treasurer of Ireland ; and, 19th, sworn of the Privy Coun- 
 cil in England. In 1711, he was one of the Commissioners for 
 building fifty new churches ; and 9th July that year, sworn of the 
 Privy Council in Ireland, taking his seat the same day in the 
 House of Peers. On the death of the Queen, he was one of the 
 Lord Justices of England, to administer affairs until King 
 George I arrived from Hanover; who (1st October 1714) called 
 him into his Privy Council of both kingdoms ; and 15th J anuary 
 following, made him joint Vice Treasurer and Treasurer at 
 War. On the death of the Duke of Manchester, he was 
 elected in full senate (16th February 1721) High Steward of 
 the University of Cambridge, where he had his education, and 
 which he had represented in three several parliaments. On 
 the 29th November 1727, he was made Lord Lieutenant and 
 Governor of the County of Wexford, and sworn a Privy 
 Councillor to King George II on his accession to the crown.” 
 — Lodge's Peerage. 
 
 Viscount Valentia died 1st April 1737, without issue, and 
 was succeeded in the title by Lord Altham. 
 
 P. 10, 1. 15, — “ Desmond .”] “ A considerable part of 
 
 Kerry was formerly a distinct county in itself, called Desmond ; 
 it consisted of that part of Kerry which lies south of the Mang, 
 with the barony of Bear and Bantry in the County of Cork ; 
 and was a palatinate under the jurisdiction of the Earls of 
 
NOTES. 
 
 37 
 
 Desmond. It is true the ancient country of Desmond, or 
 South Munster, extended much farther, as appears by the 
 grant of Henry II to Robert Fitz Stephen and Milo de 
 Cogan. Its limits were from the hill of St. Brandon [in 
 Kerry] to the river Blackwater, near Lismore, and compre- 
 hended the County of Cork as well as Kerry.” — Smith's Kerry. 
 
 P 10, 1. 19, — “ Cosher here this night.”^\ An invitation to 
 bed and board. The Irish word cosair signifies both a bed 
 and a banquet. “ Coshering” is incorrectly explained in the 
 Irish Hudibras as “ gossiping although the meaning of the 
 word in that work is clearly established by the lines : — 
 
 “ A very fit and proper house, sir, 
 
 For such a worthy guest to cosher .” 
 
 In the Vocabulary appended to the Irish State Papers of the 
 reign of Henry VIII, published by royal authority, “ cosher , 
 cosherer , coshy , couchery , or coyssher” are defined, — “ an ex- 
 action of lodging and victuals for the lord and his retinue.” 
 
 P. 11,1. 5, — “ Slacaan.”'} The edible sea weed in England 
 is called laver. The Irish name is compounded of two words 
 signifying “ mud-butter 
 
 P. 11, 1. 7, — u Egg shells .”] No uncommon mode of 
 measuring whiskey, in the absence of a glass, was by an egg 
 shell. 
 
 P. 11,1. 8, — u Lye down on rushes .”] The French tra- 
 veller, M. la Boullaye le Gouz, who visited Ireland in 1644, 
 speaking of the residences of the higher classes says, — “ Ils 
 ont peu de meubles, et ornent leurs chambres de iong, dont ils 
 font leurs licts en Este, et de paille en Hyuer, ils mettent vn 
 pied de iong autour de leur chambre et sur leurs fenestres, et 
 plusieurs d’entr’eux ornent leurs planchers de rameaux.” At 
 
3S 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 the close of the seventeenth century, a cabin is described in 
 the Irish Hudibras, — 
 
 “ The floor beneath with rushes laid, stead 
 Of tapestry ; no bed nor bedstead.” 
 
 And a feast as furnished — 
 
 “ With napkins wove of flags and rushes.’’ 
 
 THE END. 
 
 RICH Alins, PRINT HR, ST. martin’s lane. 
 
Society 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 PUBLICATION OF ANCIENT BALLADS, SONGS, PLAYS, MINOR 
 PIECES OF POETRY, AND POPULAR LITERATURE. 
 
 At a General Meeting of the Percy Society, held 
 at the Rooms of the Royal Society of Literature, 
 No. 4, St. MarthTs-place, Trafalgar-square, on Monday, 
 the 2nd of May, 1842, 
 
 The Right Hon. Lord Braybrooke in the Chair.— 
 
 The President having opened the Meeting with a 
 speech expressive of the great interest he felt in the 
 welfare of the Society, 
 
 The Secretary read the Report of the Council, dated 
 the 2nd of May, whereupon it was — 
 
 Resolved — That the said Report be received and printed, 
 and that the thanks of the Society be given to the Council 
 for their services. 
 
 The Report of the Auditors, dated the 30th of April, 
 was then read by Lewis Pocock, Esq. F.S.A., where- 
 upon it was — 
 
 Resolved — That the said Report be received and printed 
 for the use of the members, and that the thanks of the So- 
 ciety be given to the Auditors for their trouble. 
 
 The Meeting then proceeded to the election of Offi- 
 cers, when — 
 
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 The Rt. Hon. LORD BRAYBROOKE, F.S.A. 
 was elected President, and 
 
 THOMAS AMYOT, Esq. F.R.S. Treas. S.A. 
 
 WILLIAM HENRY' BLACK, Esq. 
 
 J. A. CAHUSAC, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 WILLIAM CHAPPELL, Esq. F.S.A. Treasurer . 
 
 PETER CUNNINGHAM, Esq. 
 
 J. PAYNE COLLIER, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 T. CROFTON CROKER, Esq. F.S.A. M.R.I.A. 
 
 REV. ALEXANDER DYCE. 
 
 WILLIAM JERDAN, Esq. F.S.A. M.R.S.L. 
 
 SIR FREDERICK MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. F.S.A. 
 
 T. J. PETTIGREW, Esq. F.R.S. F.S.A. 
 
 E. F. RIMBAULT, Esq F.S.A. Secretary. 
 
 WILLIAM J. THOMS, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 JAMES WALSH, Esq, and 
 
 THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq. M.A. F.S.A. 
 
 were elected the Council of the Society for the ensuing 
 year 
 
 Thanks were then voted to the editors of the Society's 
 Publications ; to the Local Secretaries, and to the 
 Treasurer and Secretary for their services during the 
 past year. Thanks were also voted to the President 
 for his able conduct in the Chair, and to the Royal 
 Society of Literature for the liberal manner in which 
 they granted the use of their rooms for the General 
 Meeting of the Society. 
 
REPORT 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Council of tlK ^ocictp, 
 
 Dated 2nd of May, 1842. 
 
 The Council, elected on the 1st of May 1841, feel 
 great satisfaction in being able to report that the affairs 
 of the Society continue in a very prosperous state. 
 Although the full number of Members to which the 
 Society is limited (viz. 500), has not yet been attained, 
 the Council have been enabled, by the progressive in- 
 crease of the Society, to print twelve works, — three 
 more than during the first year. The quantity of paper 
 and print which each Member receives from the Percy 
 Society in return for his Annual Subscription of «f?l, is 
 already considerably greater than any other society 
 similarly constituted has given, and the quality of both 
 has not been surpassed. This is the best guarantee 
 the Council can give to the Members of the economy 
 with which the affairs have been conducted. 
 
 The Council have been enabled to add the following 
 gentlemen to the number of Local Secretaries : 
 
 G. Evans Aubrey, Esq,, Neath , Glamorganshire. 
 
 Thomas Coombes, Esq., Dorchester 
 
 Mr. M. A. Richardson, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 
 
 Mr. Charles Muskett, Norwich. 
 
 G. Townshend Smith, Esq., Lynn, Norfolk. 
 
 James Crossley, Esq. Manchester. 
 
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 The publications of the past year have been — 
 
 10. “ Strange Histories, or Songes and Sonets of Kings, Princes, 
 
 Dukes, Lordes, Ladyes, Knights, and Gentlemen. Very pleasant 
 either to be read or songe,” &c. By Thomas Deloney. Imprinted 
 at London for W. Barley, &c. 1607. Delivered on the ls£ of June. 
 
 1 1. Political Ballads of the age of Cromwell, collected and edited 
 by Thomas Wright, Esq. M.A. F.S.A. Delivered on the 1st of July. 
 
 12. “ The Pleasant History of the two angry Women of Abington. 
 With the humorous mirth of Dicke Coomes and Nicholas Proverbs, 
 two Servingmen. As it was lately playde by the Lord High Ad- 
 mirall his servants.” Written by Henry Porter. 1599 The first 
 of a series of old plays. Edited by the Rev. A. Dyce. Delivered on 
 the IsJ of August. 
 
 13. The “ Boke of Curtasye;” an English Poem illustrative of the 
 Domestic Manners of our forefathers. Edited, from a MS. of the 
 fifteenth century in the British Museum, by James Orchard Halliwell, 
 Esq. F.R.S., Hon. M.R.I.A., F.S.A., &c. Delivered on the ls£ of 
 September. 
 
 14. “ Kind-Harts Dream. Conteining five Apparitions, with their 
 Invectives against abuses raigning. Delivered by severall Ghosts 
 unto him to be publisht, after Piers Penilesse Post had refused the 
 carriage.” Containing Notices of Shakspeare, Nash, &c. Printed 
 without date in 1592. Edited by Edward F. Rimbault, Esq.F.S.A. 
 Delivered on the ls£ of October. 
 
 15. “ The Meeting of Gallants at an Ordinarie ; or the Walkes in 
 Powles. 1604.” Edited by J. O. Halliwell, Esq. from an unique 
 copy in the Bodleian Library. Delivered on the 1st of November . 
 
 16. A Collection of Old Christmas Carols, chiefly taken from 
 manuscript sources. Delivered on the 1st of December . 
 
 17. The Nursery Rhymes of England, arranged in Classes, with 
 an Historical Introduction. Edited by James Orchard Halliwell, 
 Esq. Delivered on the ls£ of January 1842. 
 
 18. The Pleasant and sweet History of Patient Grissell. Shewing 
 how she, from a poore man’s Daughter, came to be a great Lady in 
 France, being a patterne to all vertuous Women, &c. London, 
 printed by E. P. for John Wright, &c. No date. In prose and 
 verse. Edited by J. Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. Delivered on the 
 Is* of February. 
 
 19. Specimens of the English Lyric Poetry of the Thirteenth and 
 Fourteenth Centuries. Edited by T. W right, Esq. M.A., F.S.A. De- 
 livered on the ls< of March. 
 
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 20 “A Marriage Triu mplie. Solemnized in an Epithalamium 
 in memorie of the happie Nuptials betwixt the Count Palatine and 
 the Lady Elizabeth. Written by Thomas Heywood. London. 
 Printed for Edward Marchant, &c. 1613.” With an introduction, 
 giving an account of other poems by different authors on the same 
 event. Delivered on the ls£ of April. 
 
 21. “ A Knights Conjuring, Done in Earnest, Discovered in Jest. 
 By Thomas Dekker, 1607.” Edited by E. F. Rimhault, Esq. F.S.A. 
 To he delivered on the 2nd of May. 
 
 The following Works are now passing through the 
 Press : — 
 
 1. Paraphrase on the Seven Penitential Psalms, in English Metre 
 (in Stanzas) of the Fifteenth Century ; presumed to be the produc- 
 tion of a Lollard. To be edited by W. H. Black, Esq. 
 
 2. The Crown Garland of Golden Roses. By Robert Johnson, 
 1659. To be edited by W. Chappell, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 3. A Collection of Lyrical Pieces contained in Old Plays of a 
 date prior to the suppression of Theatrical Representations in 1647. 
 To be edited by Edward F. Rimhault, Esq., F.S.A. 
 
 4. The French Invasion of Ireland illustrated by popular Songs, 
 in three Parts, with an Introduction. To be edited, by T. Crofton 
 Croker, Esq. F.S.A. M R. I A. 
 
 The following Works are suggested for Publica- 
 tion : — 
 
 1. A Collection of Broadsides relating to Fairs, Public Exhibi- 
 tions, Wonderful Sights, &c. during the seventeenth and early part 
 of the eighteenth Centuries. To be edited by Edward F. Rimbault, 
 Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 2. Specimens of Lord Mayors’ Pageants, including Hey wood’s 
 Porta Pietatis, 1638; Tatham’s Royal Oak, 1660; Jordans London’s 
 Resurrection to Joy and Triumph, 1671, &c. To be edited, with 
 an Historical Introduction and Notes, by F. W. Fairholt, Esq. 
 
 3. The Poems of Blind Awdlay, from the original MS. in the 
 Bodleian Library. 
 
 4 “ The Request and Gude of a true harted Englyshe Man 
 wishing the weal of his native contrey. By William Cholmeley. 
 1553.” To be edited, from a MS. in the Advocates’ Library, Edin- 
 burgh, by James Maidment, Esq. 
 
 5. “A Dialogue of Witches and Witchcraft. By George Gyfforde.” 
 Reprinted from the original edition, printed in 1603. 
 
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 6. Reynard the Fox. To he reprinted from Caxton’s edition, with 
 an Introduction by W. J. Thoms, fEsq. F.S.A. 
 
 7. Historical Ballads, in the Scottish Dialect, relating to events 
 in * the years 1570, 1571, and 1572; from the originals printed 
 by Robert Lekpreuik ; preserved in the Library of the Society of 
 Antiquaries, London. To be edited by David Laing, Esq. F.S.A. 
 L. and Sc. 
 
 8. A Collection of Jacobite Ballads and Fragments, many of 
 them hitherto unpublished. To be edited by William Jerdan, Esq. 
 F.S.A., M.R.S.L. 
 
 9. The First Part of the Eighth Liberal Science, entituled Ars 
 Adulandi, the Art of Flatterie, &c. By Ulpian Fulwell. From 
 the edition of 1579, 4to. compared with the later impression. To be 
 edited by J. Payne* Collier, Esq. F.S.A. with an account of the 
 Author, and of his other productions. 
 
 10. “ A most pleasant and merrie new Comedie, intituled a Knack 
 to knowe a Knave. Newlie set foorth, as it hath sundrie times bene 
 played by Ed. Allen and his companie. With Kemp’s applauded 
 Merriments of the Men of Goteham in receiving the King into 
 Goteham, 1594.” To be edited by the Rev. Alex. Dyce. 
 
 11. Ballads and Songs illustrative of the Fairy Mythology of 
 England. To be edited by Thomas Wright, Esq. M.A., F.S.A. 
 
 12. A Selection of unpublished Ballads of Robin Hood. To be 
 edited by J. M. Gutch, Esq. from a Manuscript Collection in his 
 possession. 
 
 13. A Collection of Ballads relating to May-day and May-games. 
 
 14. “ A Strange Foot-Post with a Packet full of Strange Petitions. 
 After a long Vacation for a good Terme. By Anthony Nixon. 
 1613.” To be edited by Edward F. Rimbault, Esq. 
 
 15. A Collection of Old English Ballads, from the Reign of 
 Henry VI to that of Edward VI. To be edited by William 
 Chappell, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 16. Grange’s “ Garden of Golden Aphroditis.” To be reprinted 
 from the edition of 1577. 
 
 17. A Selection of Stories, Anecdotes, and Jokes, from various 
 Jest Books printed prior to the end of the reign of Charles I; with 
 an account of the origin of many of them, and of the manner in 
 which they are to be traced through several European languages. 
 
 18. The Batcheler’s Banquet, or a Banquet for Batchelers. 
 
 Wherein is prepared sundry dainty dishes, &c. Pleasantly dis- 
 coursing the variable humours of Women, &c. By Thomas Dekker. 
 London. Printed by T. C. &c. 1603. 
 
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 19. The English Metrical Version of the Seven Sages. To he 
 
 edited from the earliest known MS. i 
 
 20. Latin Stories written in England during the 13th and 14th 
 Centuries, illustrative of the History of Fiction. To be edited 
 from the original MSS. with translations by Thomas Wright, Esq. 
 M.A. F.S.A. 
 
 21. Songs and Poems by known and unknown Authors, to be 
 found in Musical Miscellanies published during the reigns of 
 Elizabeth and James I. 
 
 22. The Compters Common-wealth, or a Voiage made to an 
 infernall Hand, long since discovered by many Captaines, Sea- 
 faring men, Gentlemen, Marchants, and other Tradesmen, &c. 
 By William Fennor, his Majesties servant. 4to. 1617. 
 
 23. A notable and pleasant History of the famous renowned 
 Knights of the Blade, commonly called Hectors, or St. Nicholas 
 Clerks. 4to. 1652. 
 
 24. A Collection of Charms, illustrative of English superstitions 
 in former days. From early manuscripts. 
 
 25. Diogenes in his Singularity. Wherein is comprehended 
 his merry Baighting, fit for all Mens benefit. Christened by him, 
 A Nettle for Nice Noses. By Thomas Lodge. To be edited by 
 J. Payne Collier, Esq. 
 
 During the last year, the Council of the Percy Society 
 have had under their serious consideration the forma- 
 tion of a Collection of Ballads, and of works illustrative 
 of Ballad Literature, for the general use of the Society; 
 and although they have not been enabled to take any 
 decisive steps in this matter, it has occupied their at- 
 tention ; and they cannot resign their office without 
 earnestly recommending their successors to resume at 
 an early period the consideration of this matter ; and 
 they are induced to solicit the cooperation of all the 
 Members in forwarding the attainment of so important 
 an adjunct to the Society. 
 
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 The Council have farther to state, that as the com- 
 mencement of this Library, they have ordered a bound 
 set of the publications of the Society to be laid before 
 the General Meeting. 
 
 The Council have to regret during the past year the 
 death of their Printer, Mr. Richards, to whom they 
 were much indebted for the gratuitous use of a room 
 expressly fitted up for their meetings ; as well as for the 
 delivery of Books, and receipt of Subscriptions. They 
 are also bound to acknowledge that the same accommo- 
 dation has been in every respect continued to them by 
 his Successors. 
 
 Signed by order of the Committee. 
 
 J. PAYNE COLLIER, Chairman . 
 EDWARD F. RIMBAULT, Secretary . 
 
Clie lUertp Society 
 
 REPORT OF THE AUDITORS, 
 
 Dated 3 Oth April 1842. 
 
 We, the Auditors appointed by the Council of the Percy 
 Society to examine the Accounts of the Treasurer, from 
 the 1st of May 1841, to the 29th of April 1842, certify 
 that the Treasurer has exhibited his Accounts to us, and 
 that we have thoroughly examined the same, together with 
 his Receipts and other vouchers, and that we find them to 
 be perfectly correct and satisfactory. 
 
 And we farther report that the following is a correct 
 abstract of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Society, 
 during the period to which we have referred : — 
 
 RECEIPTS. 
 
 
 
 EXPENDITURE. 
 
 
 
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 Balance from last year - 3 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 To Mr, Richards for Printing 237 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 Annual Subscriptions due on 
 
 
 
 Messrs. Fuller and Thornhill 
 
 
 
 the 1st May 1841 •• - 384 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 for Paper - - - 93 
 
 4 
 
 9 
 
 Composition - - - 10 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Transcripts - - - 38 
 
 4 
 
 0 
 
 Annual Subscriptions due on 
 
 
 
 Binding - - - - 17 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 the 1st May 1842 - - 17 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Petty Expenses - 11 
 
 Balance in the Treasurer’s 
 
 0 
 
 11 
 
 
 
 
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 4 
 
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 £414 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 £414 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 We also certify that the sum of £14, part of the several 
 sums paid for Transcripts, has been paid on account of 
 the expenses of the ensuing year. 
 
 And also that the Treasurer has reported to us, that 
 there remains outstanding in the hands of Local Secreta- 
 ries and others, the sum of £ 80 , which sum is expected to 
 be shortly received. 
 
 WILLIAM HARNESS. 
 LEWIS POCOCK. 
 
members’ flames 
 
 Those Members to whose Names (c.) is prefixed have compounded for their Annual 
 Subscriptions. 
 
 The Members whose Names are printed in Capitals are on the Council of the 
 present Year. 
 
 Adolphus, John, Esq. F.S.A. Barrister- 
 at-Law. 
 
 Advocates’ Library, Edinburgh 
 Allen, G. E Esq. Batharapton 
 Amyot, T. Esq. F.R.S., Treas. S.xA. 
 Aspland, A. S. Esq. 
 
 Aspland, Rev. R. Brook 
 Atkinson, Henrv, Esq. Manchester 
 Aubrey, George E. Esq. Neath, Glamor- 
 ganshire, Local Secretary. 
 
 Aungier, G. J. Esq. 
 
 Avarne, Captain 
 Athenaeum Club (The) 
 
 Bacon, R. M. Esq. Cossey 
 Bagot, the Hon. Alfred 
 Bartlett, J. Esq. Blandford 
 Barton, Thomas P. Esq. Manchester 
 Beare, S Esq. Norwich 
 Besant, John J. Esq. Dorchester 
 Beckwith, G. M. Esq. Royal Mint 
 Bell, F. J. 
 
 Bell, Robt. Esq. Manor-house, Chiswick 
 Benecke, R. Esq. Denmark Hill 
 Bentley, Richard, Esq. 
 
 Bentley, Rev. John Charles 
 Berridge, Samuel, Esq. Leicester 
 Besly, Rev. John, D.C.L. Vicar of Ben- 
 ton, Northumberland. 
 
 Betham, Sir William, Ulster King-at- 
 Arms, V.P. Dub. Soc. F.S.A., Local 
 Secretary for Dublin. 
 
 Bevan, Edward, Esq. 
 
 Bibliotheque du Roi, Paris 
 Black, John, Esq. 
 
 Black, William Henry, Esq. 
 
 Black, William, Esq. M.D. 
 
 Blakesley, The Rev. J. W.,M.A. Trim 
 Coll. Cambridge 
 
 Blood, Bindon, Esq. F.R.S.E., F.S.A. 
 
 Scot., M R.I.A. Edinburgh 
 Bohn, Henry G. Esq. 
 
 Bompas, Charles S. Esq. 
 
 Booth, B. W. Esq. Manchester 
 Bowley, R. K. Esq. 
 
 (c.) Botfield Beriah, Esq. M.P., M.A., 
 F.R.S., F.S.A., Norton Hall 
 Boyd, E. L. Esq. 
 
 Braybrooke, The Right Hon. Lord, 
 F.S.A. President 
 Bremridge, J. Esq. 
 
 Bright, Benjamin Hey wood, Esq., Ham 
 Green, near Bristol 
 
 Brooke, J. Brown, Esq. Ashton-under- 
 Lyne 
 
 Brown, W. M. Esq. 
 
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