precept, which ought to be bound up with the existence of every Cymro, "The truth against the world." Consequently, I have found that much of what is put forth as evidence on this ques tion is, as Mr. Corney has very justly intimated, quite inadmissible; in short, unworthy of belief. Still, the inquiry has afforded me sufficient reasons for viewing the question of Prince Madoc's emigration as a fact, and for supporting it as such as far as my humble testimony will allow. GOMER. Caerphili Castle.-With reference to "Pwcca's" query (No. 10. p. 157.), it may be noted that Full is the Welsh word for "haste," and, if the derivatur, must allude to the original structure having been hastily erected. GOMER. Origin of word Bug.-I should feel obliged by your informing me whether the word Bug is not of Celtic origin, signifying a "Ghost or Goblin?" Vide Shakspeare's Taming of the Shrew, Act I. Scene II.: "Tush, tush, fright boys with bugs." This anecdote is introduced, in the form of a This expression is much more ancient than the In Spenser, f. 2. v. ii. 27.:- The which her sire had scrap't by hooke and crooke, And whether, in Matthews' Bible, A.D. 1537, the In Holland's Suetonius, p. 169.:— 5th verse of the 91st Psalm is not thus rendered: [Bug in Welsh means a ghost or goblin. It is pro. bably the same with the Icelandic Paki, an evil spirit. But on this etymology our correspondent can consult an article by Sir F. Palgrave, on the " Popular Mythology of the Middle Ages," in the Quarterly Review, vol. xxii.; a paper, by Mr. Thoms, on the "Folk Lore of Shakspeare," No. 6.; "Puck's several names," in The Athenæum, Oct. 9, 1847; and lastly, Mr. Keightley's most interesting work, The Fairy Mythology, vol. ii. p. 118., of which we are happy to hear that a new and enlarged edition may shortly be expected.] MISCELLANIES. Execution of Duke of Monmouth.-Among the memorials of the "rash but unfortunate Duke of Monmouth," which have recently attracted much attention, and for which the public are principally indebted to certain inquiries originated in the "NOTES AND QUERIES," I have not observed any notice taken of an anecdote respecting him, which is current among our neighbours on the Continent; namely, that he gave six guineas to the executioner, the JOHN KETCH of that day, to perform his work well!— "Le Duc de Monmout, donna six guinées au Bourreau de Londres, pour lui bien couper la tête; mais le misérable ne méritoit par ces guinées puisqu'il la lui coupa très mal." "Likewise to get, to pill and poll by hooke and crooke, so much, as that In a letter of Sir Richard Morysin to the Privy "Ferrante Gonzaga, d'Arras, and Don Diego, are in this subject, which appeared in No. 11. p. 172., Cupid Crying. 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Fortitude in ADVERSITY, its Antidote the Balm of Causes of-Consolation in AFFECTION, Characteristics of Courage of Domestic-in Families AFFLICTION, the Balm of Causes of Comfort in Consolation ANGELS, Appeal to their Protection-Attendants of Man - Celestial Essences - Celestiality of-their Compassion-Description of their Ethereal Course Harbingers of the Most High-of the Lord-Messengers of Divine Wrath-their Reverence-the Solace of Affliction. 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New Street Square, in the Parish of St. Bride, in the City of London; and published by GEORGE BELL, of No. 186. Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Dunstan in the West, in the City of London, Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet Street aforesaid.-Saturday, February 9. 1850. A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. No. 16.] NOTES: "When found, make a note of."- CAPTAIN CUTTLE. Lacedæmonian Black Broth SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16. 1850. Page 241 242 242 243 244 CONTENTS. Daniel Defoe and his Ghost Stories Pet Names, by Rev. B. H. Kennedy A Hint to intending Editors Notes on Cunningham's London, by E. F. Rimbault Folk Lore-Easter Eggs-Buns-Gloucestershire Custom-Curious Custom 244 I feel obliged by your intelligent correspondent "D. S.," having ascertained that De Foe was the author of the Tour through Great Britain. Perhaps he may also be enabled to throw some light on a subject of much curiosity connected with De Foe, that appears to me well worth the inquiry. Mrs. Bray, in her General Preface prefixed to the first volume of the reprint, in series, of her Novels and Romances, when giving an account of the circumstances on which she founded her very graphic and interesting romance of Trelawny of Trelawne, says — "In Gilbert's History of Cornwall, I saw a brief but striking account, written by a Doctor Ruddell, a clergyman of Launceston, respecting a ghost which (in Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d. the year 1665) he had seen and laid to rest, that in the first instance had haunted a poor lad, the son of a Mr. Bligh, in his way to school, in a place called the Higher Broom Field.' This grave relation showed, I thought, the credulity of the times in which the author of it lived; and so I determined to have doctor, boy, and ghost in my story. But whereas, in the worthy divine's account of the transaction, the ghost appears to come on earth for no purpose whatever (unless it be to frighten the poor boy), I resolved to give the spirit something to do in such post-mortem visitations, and that the object of them should be of import to the tale. Accordingly, I made boy, doctor, and the woman (who is said after her death to have appeared to the lad) into characters, invented a story for them, and gave them adventures." Mrs. Bray adds — "Soon after the publication of Trelawny, my much esteemed friend, the Rev. F. V. T. Arundell*, informed me, that, whilst engaged in his antiquarian researches in Cornwall, he found among some old and original papers the manuscript account, in Dr. Ruddell's own hand-writing, of his encounter with the ghost in question. This he lent Gilbert, who inserted it in his History of Cornwall; and there I first saw it, as stated above. A few months ago, I purchased some of the reprinted volumes of the Works of Daniel de Foe. Among these was the Life of Mr. Duncan Campbell, a fortuneteller. To my great surprise, I found inserted in the Appendix, (after verses to Mr. Duncan Campbell), without either name of the author, reference, or introduction, under the heading, A remarkable Passage of an Apparition, 1665,' no other than Dr. Ruddell's account of meeting the ghost which bad haunted the boy, so much the same as that I had read in Gilbert, that it scarcely seemed to differ from it in a word. The name of Mr. Bligh, the father of the boy, was, however, omitted; and Dr. Ruddell could only be known as the author of the account by the lad's father calling the narrator Mr. Ruddell, in their discourse about the youth. The account is so strangely inserted reference, that, had I not previously known the circumin the Appendix to the volume, without comment or stances above named by Mr. Arundell, I should have fancied it a fiction of De Foe himself, like the story * Of Landulph, Cornwall, the author of Discoveries in Asia Minor, and the well-known Visit to the Seven Churches of Asia. Mr. Arundell is now dead, |