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an old ballad of the same date preserved in the 

 State Paper Office, entitled : " From the brave 

 lads at the Bound-Rod, whose strength depends 

 upon our God," and ending with the remarka- 

 ble verse : — 



" God save Charles the king', 

 Our royal Koy ; 

 Grant hirn long for to reign 



In peace and joy ; 

 The Lord that in the lieaven dwells 



Convert his Grace, 

 All such Achitophels 

 From him to chase." 



Which clearly proves that either this song must 

 have been written subsequently to Dr. John 

 Bull's " God save the King," or that both must 

 have been drawn from a common source of much 

 earlier date, as suggested by Froude in his History 

 of Henry VIII., vol. iv. p. 421. 



W. Douglas Hamilton. 



Bunyans Shove (2"'' S. vi. 190.) — Recently 

 perusing the Blemoirs of James Lachington, the 

 eccentric bookseller, at p. 98. 13th ed. is given a 

 list of books which formed his library when a 

 young man, among which is the following : Bax- 

 ter's Shove for a "heavy-a* * *d" Christian; his 

 Call to the Unconverted, Sec. S^^c, by which it ap- 

 pears that Baxter was the original author of such 

 a tract. Z. 



[Nichols tells us, in a note to Dr. W. King's Works, ii. 

 135., that several treatises, viz. A Shove, &c. and £!i/es 

 and Hooks for Unbelievers' Breeches, were fathered on 

 Baxter by ^'Estrange. See " N. & Q ," 1'' S. v. 416. 515. 

 594. ; vi. 17. 38. ; 2"^ S. vl. 80. 190.] 



The Forecastle Sailor (2°^ S. vii. 45.). — In 

 Johnson's New London Song Book, p. 313., there 

 is a song called "The Forecastle Man" com- 

 mencing — 



"Your finikin sirs may in finery appear." 



Should this be the song inquired for by Mr. 

 Chappell, I shall be happy to transcribe it for 

 him. Edmund Oatbidgb. 



Martley, near Worcester. 



Legitimacy (2"^ S. vii. 112.) — The general ac- 

 curacy of the papers which appear in " N. & Q." 

 leads me to call attention to what I take leave to 

 consider a mis-statement of the law by your corre- 

 spondent Simon Ward, in your number of 5th 

 February, as regards the legitimacy of children 

 born in wedlock. 



Mb. Ward states that he informed a clergyman, 

 who told him that he always entered children in 

 the register born within a certain time after 

 marriage, as the base born child of the mother, 

 " that in so doing he was liable to punishment, for 

 no matter who the father was, it became the child of 

 the husband if bom an hour after marriage." 



Such is not, and I believe never has been, the 

 law of England. The legitimacy of a child is a 



fact, to be proved, if questioned, like any other 

 fact. The fact of its being born in wedlock is 

 nothing more than a presumption that it is legiti- 

 mate, not a rule of law, and is therefore liable to 

 be repelled by circumstances inducing a contrary 

 presumption. " Let a man," as was said by Lord 

 Eldon in the Banbury Peerage case, " live with a 

 woman as if they were husband and wife, let there 

 be access, let there be children born, let the pro- 

 duction and the recognition of the children be 

 proved, all this would go for nothing if evidence 

 could be given that he had not the organs of gene- 

 ration." 



Bracton and Fleta both show that these prin- 

 ciples were early introduced into the English law, 

 and we have an instance, as long ago as the reign 

 of Edward I. (Foxcroft's case, 10th Edward I.), 

 of a child being declared illegitimate who was 

 born twelve weeks after marriage, it being shown 

 that it was impossible that the husband could 

 have been the father. 



The law is said (how truly it is not for me to 

 say) to be " the perfection of reason," which it 

 could hardly be if It was so absurd as to father a 

 child upon a man who, from absence or any other 

 cause, could by no possibility have begotten it. 



F. W. Slade. 



Temple. 



The Shakspeare Society and the Chandos Por- 

 trait (2"'' S. vii. 123.) — As S. Wmson suggests 

 that Mr. Collier should fulfil his promise to the 

 Shakspeare Society, allow me to ask whether the 

 Society might not, could not, and should not be 

 revived ? If it lacked support a few years ago 

 (as I fear was the case), surely it would be better 

 supported now : and your own readers would al- 

 most secure it from loss. There is a great and 

 growing interest about Shakspeare and all relat- 

 ing to him, and the tercentenary of 1864 will have 

 to be provided for efficiently by some influential 

 body. Allow me to suggest, too, that the Life of 

 Shakspeare, prefixed to Mr. Collier's recent edi- 

 tion, should be issued in a separate form, for the 

 convenience of readers who do not require the 

 Works. EsTE. 



Anne, a Male Name (2°« S. iv. 12. 39. 59. &c.) 

 — I observe that this week there is announced in 

 the papers the death of General the Duke de 

 Plaisance (Anne Charles Lebrun), Grand Chan- 

 cellor of the Legion of Honour and Senator. He 

 was born in Paris, December 28, 1775. He en- 

 tered the army shortly after the 18th Brumaire, 

 and rose rapidly. He was aide-de-camp to Des- 

 saix, and was named Colonel of Hussars at Ma- 

 rengo, and General of Brigade at Eylau, 1807; 

 General of Division at the commencement of the 

 Russian campaign in 1812. He adhered in 1814 

 to the Bourbons, but having in the Hundred Days 

 accepted a command in Champagne and the post 



