a-"* S. VII. Jak. 15. '59.] 



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45 



may fall upon the 25th April, which is St. Mark's 

 day. In this case Good Friday falls on St. George's 

 day, and Corpus Christ! (the Fete Dieu) on St. 

 John's day. This coincidence is very rare, and 

 has given rise to another French proverb, very 

 old and little known, and which deserves to be 

 noted : — 



" Quand George Dieu crucifiera, 



Que Marc le ressuscitera, 



Et que Saint-Jean le portera, 



Le fin du monde arrivera." 



The first three facts will be realised in 1886. 



J. K. 



Fine for an Asmult in 1582. — The following 

 extract from the Corporate Records of Wells, is a 

 curious instance (though not then an uncommon 

 one here) of punishing for an assault : — 



"Wheras at the last gea'all convocacon hit was af- 

 firmed that Peter Archer, one of the burgeses of this 

 borough, made an Assalte vppon Richarde Fronche, an- 

 other burges of the same borough, and fr' hym drewe 

 bludd, and that John Budge did the lyke vppon the sayd 

 Peter, contrarie to the order of the sayd M' and Coialtie ; 

 Therfore hit is nowe, bj' th' assente and consent of all 

 the psons above-named (the Corporators) agreed that 

 the sayd Peter Archer and John Budge, and eyther of 

 theyra, shall paj' a Pottell of Wyne apece, to be payed at 

 the next Potacoa to be kept wythin the borough afore- 

 sayd." 



In A. 



Bath Epigrams. — I carry in my head the two 

 following epigrams on the Abbey Church at Bath, 

 reported to me many years ago as the productions 

 of the late Bishop Shuttleworth, and of his dear, 

 gentle, talented brother-in-law John Shute Dun- 

 can ; — 



" These walls, so full of monument, and bust, 

 Show how Bath- waters serve to lav the dust." 



" Messieurs, vous voyez tr^s bien ici. 

 Que ces oeaux ne sont pas d'oeaux de vie." 



C. W. B. 



Feminine of His'n. — Most of the readers of 

 ".N. & Q." have, doubtless, heard of his'n, but the 

 feminine form, as quoted in " Cupid's Garden," a 

 song printed in the Scowring of the White Horse, 

 will, perhaps, be new : — 



" Zays she, Let thee and I go our own way. 

 And we'll let she go shis'n." 



P. J. F. Gantillon. 



Bp. French's " The Unkinde Deserter" — In p. 

 97. of the Catalogue of the library of John Dunn 

 Gardner, Esq., sold by Messrs. Sotheby and Wil- 

 kinson in 1854, there is a copy of a full and very 

 interesting statement, which was inserted by Mr. 

 Sheffield Grace in his copy of Bp. French's ex- 

 tremely rare little volume, entitled The Unkinde 

 Desertor of Lay all Men and True Friends, 1676. 

 I am not aware that the statement in question has 



appeared elsewhere in print; but whether or no, a 

 reference to it deserves, I think, a corner in " N. 

 & Q. Abhba. 



Queen Elizabeth. — This being the tercentenary 

 of the accession of Queen Elizabeth, a circum- 

 stance recently celebrated in England, I would 

 direct attention to translations of two letters writ- 

 ten in French to Henri IV., copies of which are 

 in the archives of Geneva, and were inserted in 

 the Record of December 6, 1858, by Merle D'Au- 

 bigne, — the first addressed to Henry before his 

 change of religion, the second after. Also to an 

 extremely rare* poem by R. Verstegan, entitled 

 England's Joy, printed in 4to., n. d., laudatory of 

 that sovereign (with acrostic upon her name), oc- 

 casioned by Lord Mountjoy's defeat of the Irish 

 rebels under the Earl of Tyrone. The acrostic I 

 subjoin : — 



" E England's blisse and blessed Queene 

 L Live your prayses in perfection, 

 I In your subjects harts bee seene 

 Z Zeale in humble loves subjection. 

 A Aungels in your love attend you, 

 B Blessed Jesus ever blesse you, 

 E Ever so his hand defend you, 

 T That no harmefull thought distress you : 

 H Holy powers of Heaven preserve you, 

 A And all faithfull subjects serve you. 



R Royall graces ever grace you, 

 E Ever true love live about you, 

 G Glorious angels arms embrace you, 

 I Joy in England none without you, 

 N None but grace and virtue note you, 

 A And the world for wonder cote you." 



ItHUBIEIi. 



Minat ^mvlti. 



« The Battle of Agincourt." —In « N". & Q." (1" 

 S. i. 445.) your correspondent, C. W. G., mentions 

 having noted down the quaint air to which the 

 ballad commencing , 



" As our King lay musing on his bed," 

 was sung " from the lips of an old miner in Derby- 

 shire." Will C. W. G. favour me with a copy of 

 that version, in exchange for one derived from 

 another source ? I should feel much obliged by 

 the exchange. Printed copies of the words are to 

 be found in the Roxburghe Collection, 3358 ; and 

 in Halliwell's Collection, Chetham Library, No. 

 286. W. Chappell. 



201. Regent Street. 



''The Fore-castle Sailor.** —WiW any Co-re- 

 spondent of " N. & Q." inform me how I may ob- 

 tain the song of " The Fore-castle Sailor," or even 

 a stanza ? I have the tune (and a truly noble 

 tune it is), but have not the words. I am told 

 that they were printed in some collection of the 



* It consists of four leaves only, small 4to., and sold 

 for eight guineas. 



