Notes and Queries, Number 185, May 14, 1853 | Page 8

on the finger; the pain is much less, and there is no blister.
UNEDA.
Philadelphia.
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Queries.
WALMER CASTLE.
In Hasted's History of Kent, vol. iv. p. 172., folio edition, we have as
follows:
"Walmer, probably so called quasi vallum maris, i. e. the wall or
fortification made against the sea, was expressed to have been a
member of the port of Sandwich time out of mind," &c.
Again, p. 165., note m, we find:
"Before these three castles were built, there were, between Deal and
Walmer Castle, two eminences of earth, called 'The Great and Little
Bulwark;' and another, between the north end of Deal and Sandwich
Castle (all of which are now remaining): and there was probably one
about the middle of the town, and others on the spots where the castles
were erected. They had embrasures for guns, and together formed a
defensive line of batteries along that part of the coast," &c.
To the new building of these castles Leland alludes, in his Cygnea
Cantio:

"Jactat Dela novas celebris arces Notus Cæsareis locus trophæis."--Ver.
565.
There are clear remains of a Roman entrenchment close to Walmer
Castle. (See Hasted, vol. iv. p. 162., notes.)
Any of your correspondents who could give me any information
tending to show that an old fortification had existed on the site of
Walmer Castle, previous to the erection of the present edifice--or even
almost upon the same site--would do me a very great kindness if he
would communicate it, through the columns of "N. & Q.," or by a
private letter sent to the Editor.
C. WAYMOR.
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SCOTCHMEN IN POLAND.
Can any of your readers throw any light on this passage in Dr.
Johnson's Life of Sir John Denham?
"He [Sir John Denham] now resided in France, as one of the followers
of the exiled king; and, to divert {476} the melancholy of their
condition, was sometimes enjoined by his master to write occasional
verses; one of which amusements was probably his ode or song upon
the Embassy to Poland, by which he and Lord Crofts procured a
contribution of ten thousand pounds from the Scotch, that wandered
over that kingdom. Poland was at that time very much frequented by
itinerant traders, who, in a country of very little commerce and of great
extent, where every man resided on his own estate, contributed very
much to the accommodation of life, by bringing to every man's house
those little necessaries which it was very inconvenient to want, and
very troublesome to fetch. I have formerly read, without much
reflection, of the multitude of Scotchmen that travelled with their wares
in Poland; and that their numbers were not small, the success of this
negociation gives sufficient evidence."

The title of Denham's poem is "On my Lord Crofts' and my journey
into Poland, from whence we brought 10,000l. for his Majesty by the
decimation of his Scottish subjects there."
PETER CUNNINGHAM.
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BISHOP JUXON AND WALTON'S POLYGLOTT BIBLE.
In the library at this island, which formerly belonged to the Knights of
Malta, there is an edition of Walton's Polyglott Bible, which was
published in London in 1657. This work is in a most perfect state of
preservation.
On the title-page of the first of the eleven volumes, there is written, in a
bold and perfectly legible manner, the following words:
"Liber Coll. Di Joannis Bapt^a Oxon Ex dono Reverendiss. in Xt^o
Patris Gvil^i Jvxon Archiep. Cantvariensis. A^o D^{ni} 1663."
Just below, but on the right of the above, there is written in a clear hand
as follows:
"Ex Libris domus Abbatialis S. Antonij Viennensis, Catalogo Inscript
an. 1740. No. 11."
That the question which I shall ask at the end of this Note may be the
more easily answered, it will perhaps be necessary for me to state, that
in the year 1777, Rohan, the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta,
succeeded in annexing the property belonging to the Order of St.
Antonio de Vienna to that of Malta. In accepting of these estates, which
were situated in France and Savoy, Rohan bound himself to pay the
many mortgages and debts with which they were encumbered; and so
large an amount had to be thus defrayed, that for a hundred years the
convent would not be reimbursed for its advances, and receive the
120,000 livres, at which sum their annual rental would then be valued.
Of the foundation of this Order a recent writer (Thornton) thus remarks:

"In 1095 some nobles of Dauphiny united for the relief of sufferers
from a kind of leprosy called St. Anthony's fire, which society, in 1218,
was erected into a religious body of Hospitallers, having a grand master
for chief. This order, after many changes in its