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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2fi'i S. VII. ApniL IG. '59. 



porated in the same at Oxford. He succeeded 

 Peter Lilly in 1615 as vicar of Fulham. The 

 " Epistle Dedicatory " to the Oplick Glasse is 

 subscribed " From my Study in St, John's, x. 

 Calend. March," and in the margin we find the word 

 "Camb." Here is evident proof that the writer 

 of the work in question was a " Cambridge man." 

 Thomas Wenman, whom Mr. C. Mansfield In- 

 GLEBY has brought forward as a claimant to the 

 authorship of the Opticli Glasse received his edu- 

 cation at Oxford. Wood tells us " he took his 

 degree of M.A. Feb. 19, 1.590, was afterwards 

 Fellow of Balliol College, and Public Orator of 

 the University of Oxford, 1594." I am afraid 

 that Wenman must take his place with two other 

 rejected claimants to the authorship of this once 

 popular work, Thomas Wilbie and T. Wombwell. 

 Edward F. Rimbault. 



Separation of Sexes in Churches (2"'' S. vil. 

 177.) — Happening some years ago to be at the 

 villege of Splugen on a Sunday, I found in the 

 Protestant church there the women sitting on the 

 left as you went in, and the men on the right, 

 facing the east, I believe ; and when the service 

 was over, the women all went out of the church 

 before the men began to leave their seats. 



J. P. 0. 



In the Roman Catholic cathedral of Ferns, co. 

 Wexford (Ireland), the see of the diocese, I re- 

 member, more than thirty years ago, the then Rev. 

 William O'Neill, whq had been recently appointed 

 parish priest, separating the sexes in the building. 

 It is a cruciform church. The men were confined 

 to the nave and Gospel (left hand) side of the altar, 

 and the females to the Epistle side, or right hand. 

 He would not allow them to enter or exit by the 

 same door, and stated it was an early custom of 

 the church. I^e was a very learned man. I be- 

 lieve the custom is still continued there. He is 

 long since dead. G. Redmond. 



Liverpool. 



Playing on the Sult-hox (2"* S. vii. 280.)— The 

 following is in farther illustration of the former 

 use of this article as an instrument of music : — 



" The impetuosity of Mr. Clarke was a little checked 

 at sight of a gridiron which Ferret branded with uncom- 

 mon dexterity; a circumstance from whence the com- 

 pany were, upon reflection, induced to believe that before 

 he plunged into the sea of politics, he had occasionallj' 

 figured in the character of that facetious droll who ac- 

 companies your itinerant physicians under the familiar 

 appellation of INIerry Andrew or Jack Pudding, and on 

 a wooden stage entertains the populace with a solo on the 

 salt -box, or a sonata on the tongs and gridiron." — Smol- 

 lett, Sir Launcelot Greaves, chap. 4. 



Charles Wylie. 



Heraldic Query (2'"> S. vii. 257.) — The arms of 

 Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, K.G., were 

 barry of ten, argent and gules, a lion rampant, or. 



Selracii. 



Hymns (2"^ S. vii. 262.) — The hymn com- 

 mencing " Beyond the glittering starry sky " was 

 composed, the first three verses by the Rev. James 

 Fanch of Romsey ; the rest by the Rev. Daniel 

 Turner of Abingdon. It has been much muti- 

 lated in the Congregational Hymn Booh. See the 

 original in Daniel Turner's Sacred and Moral 

 Poems, 18mo., 1794, in twenty-two verses. 



Much historical matter relating to the hymns 

 of the last century is in existence. See John 

 Gadsby's Mernoirs of Hy^nn-Writers of the 17th 

 and I8th Centuries, 



The collections which contain the hymns un- 

 altered are the following ; E. Williams and J. 

 Boden, John Dobell, John Bailey, Lady Hunting- 

 don ; and " Hymns for the Children of God in all 

 Ages, beginning with Scripture Hymns, down to 

 the Year 1754, containing upwards of 1155 Hymns 

 from all Sources ; compiled and translated by the 

 learned Bp. Gambold ;" from the Hebrew, Greek, 

 Latin, Welsh, German, and other languages ; a 

 work of very considerable interest, and much 

 research. 



It is to be hoped that the investigation and re- 

 search that has of late years been made on the 

 subject of our original English hymns, may not 

 cease till the whole of them are republished per- 

 batim. Z. 



Letters to Mr. Bayes (2"^ S. vii. 1-17. 227. 284.)— 

 " Rosa. — 



Aquel Eco, que nunca la voz dexa, 



Repitio las razones de su quexa ; 



Pues aves, prado, monte, passajero, 



Han de asustarse al golpe de mi azero : 



Vegas, flores, y plantas, eco y rio, 



La ira han de temer do mi alvedrio ; 



Y pues que Rosa soi la valerosa, 



Teman de las espinas de la Rosa. 

 " Mahomat. — 



Rosa valiente, Rosa celebrada, 



Desde el Africa a Espaiia trasplantada; 



Rosa que al desplegar del sol los rayos, 



No te haze Mayo a ti, tu hazes los Mayos : 



Perfeccion del coraje, y del denuedo, 



Hermana de Celim, Rei de Toledo." 

 La Gran Comedia de Neustra de SeTiora de Atocha, 



en lenguage Antiguo, Jornada, i. 1. 46. 

 Comedias de Don Francesco de Rojas Zorrilla, ii. 



86. Madrid, 1645. 



Mahomat is Rosa's lieutenant, not her lover. 

 There is a good notice of Rojas in Ticknor's His- 

 t07-ia de la Literatura Espafiol, iii. 84. (Spanish 

 translation), and a better in Schack's Geschichte 

 der Dramalischen Literatur imd Kunst in Spanien, 

 iii. 295. H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Lawrence of Tver (2"^ S. vii, 47. 139.) — In 

 Rawlinson's MS., B. lxxvii. (Bodl. Lib.), the 

 arms of the family are given thus : " A., a crosse 

 raguled G., on a cheife of the 2nd a lion pass, gar- 

 dant or." W. D. Macray 



