Fossil Deer (not Elk) of Ireland, C. Megaceros (Vol. ii., p. 494.).—­Your correspondent W.R.C. will find in Mr. Hart’s description of a skeleton of this animal (Dublin, 1825), in a pamphlet, published by W. Richardson (Dublin, 1846, M’Glashan), in Professor Owen’s British Fossil Mammalia, and in the Zoologist (Van Voorst) for 1847 and for 1848, p. 2064., all that is known and much that has been imagined on the subject of his inquiry.  The rib which he mentions is well known, and is in fact one of the principal bones of contention between the opposing theorists.  I never before heard the story of the specimen shot in 1533, although several years ago I devoted some time to the subject.  I am inclined to suspect that it must have been found in some Irish manuscript which has been discovered, since (in the year 1847) some bones of the fossil deer were found in a certain {27} lake in the west of Ireland in company with those of a turkey.  (See Zoologist, ub. sup.)

W.R.F.

Lincoln’s Inn, Dec. 21. 1850.

“Away, let nought to Love displeasing” (Vol. ii., p. 519.).—­This song, usually entitled “Winifreda,” has been attributed to Sir John Suckling, but with what justice I am unable to say.

It has also acquired additional interest from having been set to music by the first Earl of Mornington, the father of the Duke of Wellington.

The author should certainly be known; and perhaps some of your correspondents can furnish a clue by which he may be discovered.

BRAYBROOKE.

Red Sindon (Vol. ii., pp. 393. 495.).—­I have only just seen your correspondent, B.W.’s Query respecting the “red sindon,” and refer him to Du Cange, where he will find—­

    “Sindon pro specie panni [Byssus tenuis], etc.”

It was a manufacture that was used for dresses as well as hangings, and is constantly mentioned in inventories and descriptions of the middle ages.

J.R.  PLANCHE.

Jan. 1. 1851.

Coleridge and the Penny Post (Vol. iii., p. 6.).—­Mr. Venables asks a question in a way that may lead the reader to infer an answer, and an ungenerous answer; and he calls on Mr. Hill to give him satisfaction, as if Mr. Hill had nothing better to do than to inform Mr. Venables, and correct Miss Martineau’s blunders.  If Mr. Venables had taken an active part in bringing about the greatest moral movement of our age, he would have known that, amongst the hundred other illustrations adduced by Mr. Hill, was the very anecdote to which he refers; and that Mr. Hill quoted it, not once or twice, but dozens of times, and circulated it, with Coleridge’s name, over the whole length and breadth of the three kingdoms, by tens of thousands of printed papers.  Mr. Hill has not had a tithe of the honour he deserves—­and never will have—­and I cannot remain silent, and see his character questioned, though in matters too trifling, I think, even to have occupied a corner in “NOTES AND QUERIES.”