Quakers' Calendar.—What month would the Quakers mean by "12th month," a century and a half since?
D.
[Before the statute 24 Geo. II., for altering the Calendar in Great Britain, the Quakers began their year on the 25th of March, which they called the first month; but at the yearly meeting for Sufferings in London, Oct. 1751, a Committee was appointed to consider what advice might be necessary to be given to the Friends in relation to the statute in question. The opinion of the Committee was, "That in all the records and writings of Friends from and after the last day of the month, called December, next, the computation of time established by the said act should be observed; and that, accordingly, the first day of the eleventh month, commonly called January, next, should be reckoned and deemed by Friends the first day of the first month of the year 1752." Consequently the twelfth month, a century and a half since, would be February. See Nicolas's Chronology, p. 169.]
"Rodondo, or the State Jugglers."—Who was the author of this political squib, three cantos, 1763-70; reproduced in Ruddiman's Collection, Edinburgh, 1785? In my copy I have written Hugh Dalrymple, but know not upon what authority. It is noticed in the Scots Mag., vol. xxv., where it is ascribed to "a Caledonian, who has laid about him so well as to vindicate his country from the imputation of the North Briton, that there is neither wit nor humour on the other side the Tweed."
J. O.
[A copy of this work in the British Museum contains the following MS. entry: "The author of the three Cantos of Rodondo was Hugh Dalrymple, Esq. He also wrote Woodstock, an elegy reprinted in Pearch's Collection of Poems. At the time of his death he was Attorney-General for the Grenades, where he died, March 9, 1774. His daughter married Dr., afterwards Sir John Elliott, from whom she was divorced, and became a celebrated courtezan.">[
Rathlin Island.—Has any detailed account of this island, which is frequently called Rahery,
and is a few miles from the northern coast of Ireland, appeared in print? The locality is most interesting in many particulars, historical and geological, and might therefore be made the subject of an instructive paper. A brief account was inserted, I think, a few years ago in an English periodical.
Abhba.
[An interesting and detailed account of this island, which he calls Raghery, is given in Hamilton's Letters concerning the Northern Coast of the County of Antrim, 1790, 8vo., pp. 13-33. Consult also Lewis's Topographical History of Ireland, vol. ii. p. 501.]