2'"»S. VII. Mar. 5. '69.] 



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or " burninw bee," the one more than the other. 

 I have often heard, nay repeated, the rhyme 

 when in N^orfolk, and being still interested in 

 natural history and insect nomenclature, should 

 like to hear of some more probable derivation 

 from one of the sources of Norfolk phraseology. 



SliOANEUS. 



Belgravia. 



Royal Rosebuds ; or Historical Sketches of Illus- 

 trious Children. — A pretty little volume with the 

 above title has been recently published by Messrs. 

 J. and C. Mozley. As it is desirable that such 

 works should be as accurate as possible, I venture 

 to point out a slight error into which the writer, 

 has fallen in giving Queen Anne's son, the Duke 

 of Gloucester, the Christian name of Henry in- 

 stead of William (heading of chap, x.), E. H. A. 



Specimens of Proverbial Philosophy of the 

 Dutch : — 



" A fool does not want bells, you're warned by his 

 tongue." 

 " It sounds like a bell of lead." 



"That chimney's on fire, said Jack, and he saw the 

 Etna." 

 " He wants to burn up the Belt." 

 "If I admit j'ou're in the right, said the farmer, we'll 

 have nothing more to quarrel about." 



" Take a Brabant sheep, a Guelderland ox, a Flemish 

 capon, and a Frisian cow." 



"No fuel more entertaining than wet wood and frozen 

 peat, said Peter, for the wood sings and the peat listens 

 to it." 



" He who speaks of eggs unlaid." 

 " Husband's gain, 

 Joy for twain." 

 " The man that wants to wax thin only has to become 

 a miser " (or an envier). 



"Pride and no property to boot 

 A body is without a foot." 

 "The early dawn of day 

 Hath many a golden ray." 



J. H. VAN Lennep. 

 Zeyst. 



Music. — Father Anselmo Sehnbiger, a monk in 

 a convent in Germany, states that he has disco- 

 vered a key to the different systems of musical 

 notation in use in the middle ages. He explains 

 this discovery in a memoir on St. Gall's celebrated 

 School of Singing, a work supposed to have been 

 written before the twelfth century.* — Bulletin. 



J.Y. 



cauerifisf. 



WHO WAS THE FATHER OF WII-LIAM OP WICKHAM ? 



This question has never been settled, an<l in all 

 likelihood never will be. It was mooted in the ear- 

 liest times. Lord Burleigh, nearly three centuries 

 ago, took notes of the pedigrees then propounded, 

 and which may still be seen at the State Paper 



[* Query, about the ninth century?— Ed.] 



Office, in, if I mistake not, his own handwriting. 

 There was then a lull; but the subject was started 

 afresh about the year 1635, yet still nothing ap- 

 proaching to satisfactory proof was adduced, one 

 way or the other. All this may be seen on reference 

 to the earlier volumes of the Collectanea Topogra- 

 phica et Oenealogica. At the conclusion of the 

 papers there printed, the contributor (your corre- 

 spondent) deliberately — possibly too deliberately 

 —expressed his opinion that Wickham was so named 

 " a loco unde natus est, et non a parentihus." Some 

 years after, Mr. Wykeham Martin, a descendant 

 of the ancient knightly family of Wykeham of 

 Oxfordshire, roused by this assertion, entered the 

 field with a very interesting article which he 

 printed in the Topographer and Genealogist, con- 

 troverting the opinion put forth, and with much 

 plausibility, especially as regarded the armorial 

 bearings, but still defective in proof. Time out 

 of mind it is on record that Wickham was reputed, 

 correctly or incorrectly I cannot say, to have been 

 the son of a John Long, and that he was, most un- . 

 doubtedly, a native of Hampshire. I now venture 

 to submit what I will only call certain curious co- 

 incidences to the consideration of your readers : — » 



1. It is evident, on reference to the will and pe- 

 digrees of Wickham, that the Eingbornes were 

 his relations, and the general conclusion seems to 

 be that a William Ringborne married the bishop's 

 sister or aunt, and that they had a son William, 

 who married an Estermy of the old Wiltshire 

 family from whom the Seymours are descended. 



2. It farther appears from the various pedi- 

 grees that Felicia Aas, abbess of Romsey, was of 

 kin to the bishop. 



3. By two inquisitions, the first of Hen. IV. and 

 the first of Hen. VI,, the moiety of the manor of 

 Barton Stacy in Hampshire appears to have been 

 Tield by these Ringbornes, while the other moiety 

 came by descent to the family of Long. 



4. By a final concord, 16 Hen. VI., William 

 Ringborne is mentioned, apparently as a trustee, 

 and without any beneficial interest, in the convey- 

 ance of the manor of Draycot Cerne in Wiltshire 

 from John Heryng to John Long, the son of 

 Robert Long, with remainders. 



5. This same Robert Long held the manor of 

 North Bradley in Wiltshire under the Abbess of 

 Romsey, and was a cotemporary of Felicia Aas. 

 He died 25 Hen. VI., and his son and heir was 

 then thirty. Felicia Aas died in 7 Hen. V. 



6. We have the inq. p. m. of William Ring- 

 borne taken at Bradford in Wiltshire, 28 Hen. 

 VI. It recites that Sir John Seymour, Robert 

 Purfitt Clerk, and Henry Long, Armiger (this was 

 the son and heir of Robert Long), had, as trustees, 

 devised the manors of Figheldean and Tytcombe in 

 Wiltshire to William Ringborne and Elizabeth 

 his wife. Also that Robert Long, William Long, 

 parson of Priston, and Thomas Tropenell had, in 



