Duke of Berwick (Vol. iv., p. 133.).
—The Duke of Berwick, born in 1671, and so created the 19th of March, 1687, by his father (natural) James II., was indeed a Spanish grandee, which he was made by Philip V., after his victory of Almanza, in 1707; but the title was Liria, not Alva, which belonged to the great house of Toledo, and was rendered famous (or infamous) by its bearer under Philip II. Berwick, however, transferred this Spanish title of Liria to his son James, by his first wife Honera de Burgh, daughter of William, seventh Earl of Clanrickard, with the annexed territory, or majorat. She was the widow of Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan, who conducted 14,000 Irish refugees to France in 1691, after the surrender of Limerick to Ginkle. She died of consumption, still young, at Montpelier, in 1698. The Duke of St. Simon, in his Mémoires, tome ii. p. 92., describes her as "belle, faite à peindre, touchante—une nymphe enfin;" but, though personally acquainted with her, he names her the daughter, instead of the widow, of Lucan. Berwick afterwards married Miss Buckley, one of the Queen Mary d'Este's maids of honour, by whom he had several children, who assumed the name of Fitz-James. Their descendants were colonels or proprietaires of the Irish Brigade regiment, called, after their founder, Berwick. The Spanish branch still maintains its rank and estates. Berwick was killed at the siege of Philpsburg, in Baden, the 12th June, 1734. His military talents were of acknowledged superiority; so far more resembling his uncle Marlborough than his father, whose dastardly flight at the Boyne he indignantly witnessed. His Mémoires, in two volumes 12mo., were published from his manuscript by his grandson, the Duke of Fitz-James, in 1778.
J. R.
Cork.
Nullus and Nemo (Vol. iv., p. 153.).
—The interpretation of "M.'s" woodcut will be found in Ulrich von Hutten's elegiac verses, which are exhibited in his ΟΥΤΙΣ, NEMO. Your correspondent's amusing conjecture about "nobody's child" was quite correct, as these lines prove:
"Quærendus puero pater est: Nemo obtigit. At tu,
Si me audis, alium stulta require patrem."
I suspect that "M.'s" old 4to. tracts bear a somewhat earlier date than 1520-30; but probably, this matter might be determined by Burckhard's Commentarius de Ulrici ab Hutten fatis et meritis, or by his Analecta (Cf. Freytag, Adpar. Lit. iii. 519.), or by means of Münck's collection of De Hutten's works. I happen to have copies of two editions of the Nemo, which, though they are undated, must appertain to the year 1518. This was not, however, the period of the first publication of the poem; for the author, in a letter addressed to Erasmus in October, 1516, mentions it as having then appeared (Niceron, Mémoires, xv. 266.): but the original impression of this satirical performance is without the prefatory epistle to Crotus Rubianus [Johan Jager], who is believed to have had no inconsiderable share in the composition of the celebrated Epistolæ obscurorum Virorum.
R. G.