Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850 by Various
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the Rosicrucian) ever been translated into English? I make the same
Query as to _Le Compte de Gabalis_, which the Abbé de Rillan founded on Borri's work? JARLTZBERG. _Bonny Dundee--Graham of Claverhouse._--Can any of your correspondents tell me the origin of the term "Bonny Dundee?" Does it refer to the fair and flourishing town at the mouth of the Tay, or to the remarkable John Graham of Claverhouse, who was created Viscount of Dundee, after the landing of the Prince of Orange in England, and whose person is admitted to have been eminently beautiful, whatever disputes may exist as to his character and conduct? 2. Can reference be made to the date of his birth, or, in other words, to his age when he was killed at Killycrankie, on the 27th of July, 1689. All the biographies which I have seem are silent upon the point. W.L.M. _Franz von Sickingen._--Perusing a few of your back numbers, in a reply of S.W.S. to R.G. (Vol. i., p. 336.), I read: "I had long sought for a representation of Sickingen, and at length found a medal represented in the _Sylloge Numismatum Elegantiorum of Luckius_," &c. I now hope that in S.W.S. I have found the man who is to solve an |
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