ate. Thus endued, it is
to be regretted that Mrs. Tighe should have fallen a victim to a lingering
disease of six years at the premature age of thirty-seven, on March 24,
1810.'--The remainder of the short notice does not throw any additional
light on Mrs. Tighe, or family; but if you, Sir, or the Editor of "N. & Q."
wish, I will cheerfully transcribe it.--I am, Sir, yours in haste,

VIX.

"Belfast, Aug. 15."

[We are indebted for the above reply to the _Dublin Weekly Telegraph_,
which not only does us the honour to quote very freely from our pages,
but always most liberally acknowledges the source from which the
articles so quoted are derived.]

_Satirical Medal_ (Vol. viii., p. 57.).--I have seen the same medal of Sir
R. Walpole (the latest instance of the mediaeval _hell-mouth_ with which I
am acquainted) bearing on the obverse--"THE GENEROUSE (_sic_) DUKE OF
ARGYLE;" and at the foot--"NO PENTIONS."

S. Z. Z. S.

"_They shot him dead at the Nine-Stone Rig_" (Vol. viii., p. 78.).--Your
correspondent the BORDERER will find the fragment of the ballad he is in
search of commencing with the above line, in the second volume of the
_Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border_, p. 114. It is entitled "Barthram's
Dirge," and "was taken down," says Scott, "by Mr. Surtees, from the
recitation of Anne Douglas, an old woman, who weeded his garden."

Since the death of Mr. Surtees, however, it has been ascertained that this
ballad, as well as "The Death of Featherstonhaugh," and some others in the
same collection, were composed by him and passed off upon Scott as genuine
old Scottish ballads.

Farther particulars respecting this clever literary imposition are given in
a review of the "Memoir of Robert Surtees," in the _Athenaeum_ of August 7,
1852.

J. K. R. W.

_Hendericus du Booys: Helena Leonora de Sieveri_ (Vol. v., p. 370.).--Are
two different portraits of each of these two persons to be found? By no
means. There exists, however, a plate of each, engraved by C. Visscher; but
the first impressions bear the address of E. du Booys, the later that of E.
Cooper. As I am informed by Mr. Bodel Nijenhuis, Hendericus du Booys took
part in the celebrated three-days' fight, Feb. 18, 19, and 20, 1653,
between Blake and Tromp.--From the _Navorscher_.

M.

_House-marks, &c_. (Vol. vii., p. 594. Vol. viii., p. 62.).--May I be
allowed to inform MR. COLLYNS that the custom he refers to is by no means
of modern date. Ne