[Leamchuill is in the barony of Portnehinch, Queen's County. Archdale, in his Monasticon Hibernicum, p. 595., states, that "St. Fintan-Chorach was abbot here towards the close of the sixth century. By some writers he is said to have been interred here; and from
others we learn that Cluainednach, or Clonfert Brendan, was the place of his sepulture. St. Mochonna was abbot or bishop here, but at what period is unknown." Stevens, however, says this abbey was in Leinster. "St. Fintan, otherwise called St. Munnu, in the sixth century, founded the abbey of Cluian Ædnach; those of Achad-Arglass, Achad-Finglass, and Lanchoil in Leinster, and those of Dumbleske and Ross-Coerach in Munster." (Monasticon Hibernicum, p. 377., edit. 1722.) Consult also the authorities quoted in Butler's Lives of the Saints, art. St. Fintan, October 22nd.]
Orte's Maps, Edition of 1570.—I have in my possession a quarto volume of fifty-three coloured maps, by Abraham Orte, and printed at Antwerp in 1570.
Almost all the maps are ornamented with some miniature paintings, representing the ships or galleys used in the country which the map describes. On many of these there are also the figures of whales and flat-fish. On the map of Russia, in one part, there are three large tents, with three men, clothed in coloured garments, at the entrance of them; and near by some camels are grazing. In another part is seen a cluster of trees, and seated in the branches of the first and largest there is the figure of a saint, to whom it would appear five men, or priests, are kneeling and praying, with their heads uplifted and hands outstretched. On the branches of the trees in the background several persons are hanging.
On the twenty-eighth map there is a large town represented at the foot of a hill, and above it these words: "Urbis Salis Burgensis genuina Descriptio." Can any of your correspondents inform me if there is another copy of this work known to be extant; and, if so, whether the maps are like those I have briefly described? In a catalogue of rare books, I have seen no mention made of this edition of 1570, though reference is made to one of twenty years a later date.
W. W.
Malta.
[This edition is in the British Museum, and agrees in every respect with the one possessed by our correspondent, except that it is in folio. It appears extremely rare.]
Prayer for the Recovery of George III.—In 1815, when I first went to school, one of my schoolfellows had (I think in manuscript in the fly-leaf of his Prayer-Book) a prayer for the king's recovery, of which I remember only two detached portions:—"Restore, we implore Thee, our beloved sovereign to his family and his people"—"and whether it shall seem fit to Thine unerring wisdom, presently to remove from us this great calamity, or still to suspend it over us, dispose us, under every dispensation of Thy Providence, patiently to adore Thine inscrutable goodness." The rest I forget. Can any of your correspondents supply the remainder of the prayer; or tell me where it is to be found, or who was the author?
Laicus.