Kilkenny, Oct. 11. 1851.
[There are several references to the Hotham family in Sims' _Index
to all the Pedigrees and Arms in the Heralds' Visitations and
other Genealogical MSS. in the British Museum_, under Yorkshire.
Granger (_Biographical Hist._, vol. ii. p. 217.) has given a short
account of Sir John Hotham, Governor of Hull _temp._ Charles I.
See also _Gentleman's Mag._, vol. lxiv. p. 182., for a notice of
Sir Charles; and vol. lxviii. p. 633. for an account of the death
of Lady Dorothy Hotham.]
_Vogelweide._--What authority has Longfellow for his legend of _Walter
of the Bird Meadow_? I find this epitaph given as his in Hone:
"Pascua qui volucrum vivus, Walthere, fuisti,
Qui flos eloquii, qui Palladis os, obiisti!
Ergo quod aureolam probitas tua possit habere,
Qui legit, hic dicat--'Deus istius miserere!'"
Has Julius Mosen's _Legend of the Crossbill_, translated by Longfellow,
any more ancient foundation?