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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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King Oenrge the Third, and other works. Is the 

 author still living ? Z. 



Proctors. — Where can I see a list of admissions 

 to this profession ? and does such list contain the 

 name and rank of the father of the admitted ? 



C. J. R. 



Number of Letters in the Old Testament. — In a 

 recent number of the Manchester Guai-dian it is 

 stated by an anonymous correspondent that the 

 number of letters in the Old Testament is 2,728,100. 

 Can this be verified by any one who has made the 

 computation ? G. J. F. 



Bolton. 



" Oh call us not weeds," §x. — The author and 

 publisher of a poem commencing as follows : — 



" Oh call us not weeds — we are flowers of the sea, 

 For lovely and bright and gay-tinted are we, 

 And quite independent of sunshine and showers, — 

 Then call us not weeds, we are ocean's gay flowers." 



c. s. 



Robert Luchyn, ALP. — Can Messrs. Cooper 

 give any information about Robert Luchyn, M.P. 

 for Cambridge in 1G23 ? C. J. R. 



Itev. Charles Wolley. — Can any of the readers 

 of " N. & Q." furnish particulars of the parentage, 

 education, ordination, and death of Rev. Charles 

 Wolley, minister of Alford in Lincolnshire, be- 

 tween 1680 and 1700 ? N. Y. 



Waits: Anomes, what are they? — In the ex- 

 cellent edition of " the famous history of Doctor 

 Faustus " (Thoms's Early English Prose Ro- 

 mances, vol. iii. p. 178.), this word is evidently 

 used to signify not the player, but a musical in- 

 strument itself. The passage runs : 



" Lastly was heard by Faustus all manner of instru- 

 ments of musick, — as organs, clarigolds, lutes, viols, cit- 

 terns, toaits, hornpipes, anomes, harps, and all manner of 

 other instruments." 



In an account given in the Gentleman^ s Maga- 

 zine for Feb. 1756, of the " manner of making 

 freemen of Alnwick," the correspondent writes : 



" They are general!}' met by women dressed up with 

 ribbons, bells, and garlands of gum-flowers, who welcome 

 them with dancing and singing, and are called timber- 

 wnits, perhaps a corruption of timbrel-waits ; players on 

 timbrels, Waits being an old word for those who play on 

 musical instruments in the streets." 



Skinner, Gloss., suh voce, evidently understands 

 the word In this sense ; he calls them " Lyricines, 

 Tibicines, Citharoedi ; " and speaks of them as 

 musicians who go in processions. But the writer 

 of the Romance evidently consHcrs the word to 

 mean an instrument, not a player. Can any reader 

 of " N. & Q." refer to any passage where the 

 word is used in that sense, and can they inform 

 me what instrument is meant ? and also what an 

 anome is ? The harmony is described as being of 

 the most "ravishing" description, and is probably 



meant to be soft music, as there is no mention of 

 trumpet or drums. A. A. 



Toet's Corner. 



Lady Sherard of Stapleford, circa 1700. Who 

 was she ? N. Y. 



Sarcasm. — Can you or any of your readers help 

 me to a satisfactory definition ? Perhaps I may 

 as well explain that I do not consider invective, 

 such, for example, as abounds in Junius, sarcasm. 

 I should say, so far as I can venture to say any- 

 thing about it, that it holds a middle place between 

 invective, and wit, properly so-called. 



Ravensboubnb. 



Sam. Hieron. — Where can I find some bio- 

 graphical particulars of the author of 



" A Help vnto Deuotion, containing certain Moulds or 

 Forms of Prayer, fitted to seuerall Occasions, and penned 

 for the furtherance of those who haue more desire than 

 skill to poure out their soules b}' petitions unto God. By 

 Sam Hieron. The third edition, reuieued by the Author 

 and much enlarged. I'hil. iv. ver. 6., 'In all,' §'c. At 

 London, printed by XL L. for Samuel Machane, 1611." 



Fine typography in black letter, with ornamental 

 type, margins, and of small pocket size, pp. 475. 

 " The Epistle Dedicatorle," is " To the Right 

 Worshipfull, the Ladle Mary Strode of Newlng- 

 ham in Deuon," dated from " Modbury, the tenth 

 of October, 1608." Also an address "To the 

 Christian Reader." The composition of these 

 prayers I think to be very beautiful, and the ema- 

 nations of a pious mind. 



I noticed some time since in a London sale 

 catalogue the following, incidentally relating to 

 the author, of which I made a note : — 



" Bishop Nicholson's copy of the 39 Articles, and Oath 

 of Allegiance for the Diocese of Gloucester, with 80 pages 

 of Subscriptions attached in the autographs of the Clergy 

 of the Diocese — Among the most interesting of Avhich 

 may be named the autograph of Bishop Bull (9 lines) on 

 his presentation to Suddington, Nov. 14, 1633 ; that of 

 Dr. Anthony Horneck (8 lines) ; Tim Nourse, T. Graile, 

 Sam Hieron, Sfc, Ato. half calf neat." 



I think the author ranks among the Puritan 

 divines, and long ago I have read, without being 

 able to recollect where, that as a godly friend he 

 was acquailited with another of the same worthy 

 stamp, Mr. 'Richard Greenham. (His Works, in a 

 thick (parcdiment covered) folio volume small, 

 printed at London, 1601.) The two met in con- 

 ference, and* it was likely on some distressing 

 matter that Richard had to give this counsel to 

 the author, to keep up his spirits, for that God 

 would provide for the young Herons. G. N. 



[Samuel Hieron was born at Epping, in Essex, in 

 1572 ; educated at Eton and at King's College, Gam- 

 bridge; after which he became rector of Modbury in 

 Devonshire, where he died in 1617. He was inclined to 



