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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d S. VII. April 30. '59. 



there any wills or inventories existing known to 

 have been printed under this patent ? T. F. 



Rev. Richard Wynne. — Any information about 

 the Rev. Richard Wynne, some time about the 

 middle of the last century minister of St. Alphage, 

 London, will oblige. C. W. Staunton. 



[Ob. Julys, 1799; see Gent. Mag. for July, 1799, p. 

 €29,— Ed.] 



HandeVs '^ Queen Caroline Te Deum." — Can 

 any reader of " N. & Q." inform me on what oc- 

 casion was composed the "Te Deum" of Handel, 

 generally called " The Queen Caroline Te Deum ? " 

 and said by Arnold (a very bad authority) to have 

 been composed in 1737. V. Schcelchee. 



Psalms of David in Prose and Metre, 1633.' — 

 I recently got possession of a copy of the above. 

 It is a thick fcap. 8vo. volume of about 500 pp., 

 printed at Aberdeen in 1633. I subjoin the title 

 and a few particulars of the contents, &c. Can 

 you inform me if it is a scarce work, and of its 

 value ? — 



" The Psalms of David in Prose and Metre, with the 

 whole Forme of Discipline, and Prayers according to the 

 Church of Scotland. The Psalms in prose being of the 

 last translation, translated by the Speciall Commande- 

 ment of King James the Sixt, 1610. Aberdene: printed 

 by Edward Raban, 1633, for David Melvill." 



Following this general title comes " A Kalendar 

 of the Epact, Golden Number, and Sundayes Let- 

 ter for XIX. Years." Following the Kalendar are 

 prayers for " Confession of our Sinnes ; " " before 

 and after the Sermon ; " " in time of Affliction ; " 

 " Prayer for the King (our most gracious Sover- 

 aygne Charles, together with his Queene, and 

 their happie offspring) " ; "A Confession of Fayth 

 used in the English Congregation at Geneva;" 

 Visitation of Sick ; " " Lord's Supper," &c. The 

 prayers occupy 202 pp. of the work. Then follow 

 " the Common Tones in foure parts, diligently 

 Revised and amended ;" 15. pp. of music, " King's 

 tone," " Duke's tone," " French tone," &c. The 

 Psalms of David in Prose and Metre occupy the 

 remainder of the work, the prose portion printed 

 on the margin ; in front of title-page of the psalms 

 ■specially, there is a small rude woodcut intended 

 for King David, with crown and harp. With each 

 psalm is given the music or tune to which it is 

 fiung ; also are given the names and initials of the 

 composers of the verses, viz.Thom.Sternh. (Stern- 

 hold?), L C, W. K., L H., N., W. W., &c. At 

 end of psalms there are the Ten Commandments, 

 Lord's Prayer, Creede, &c. in rhyme. A leaf or 

 more is wanting, as at the " Song of the blessed 

 Marie, called Magnificat," it is broken off. N". 



[In a copy of this scarce work, now before us, we find 

 the following note in an old handwriting: — "The His- 



torian's Guide saith, 'twas in 1637 a Liturgy was sent into 

 Scotland ; so not this. The Psalms in prose on the mar- 

 gent of the Singing Psalms are word by word the same 

 with them in the middest of Bibles. This is a Church 

 Prayer Book after the Presbyterian Forme, that was then 

 used in Scotland, viz. 1633. The Singing Psalms ai-e the 

 same that were metred by Tho. Sternhold, Jo. Hopkins, 

 and others, in the Book of Common Prayer and Adminis- 

 tration of Sacraments for the Church of Scotland, 1637, in 

 fol. Ex Hancock's Catalogue of his Auction at New 

 Inn, Exon. The IManner of the Election of Ministers 

 (page 68.) here begins, ' John Knox being Minister at 

 Edinburgh the 9. of March, 1560,' and then states that 

 ' Mr. John Spotswood was presented to be made a Super- 

 intendent,' (a famous man). See 'h.ia'History of the Church 

 of Scotland in fol., who made his refuge to England in the 

 first insurrection in Scotland." This work is a reprint, 

 slightly altered, of The Liturgy of the Church of Scotland, 

 or John Knox's Book of Common Order, as prescribed by 

 the General Assembly, Dec. 26, 1564, and used in tho 

 Church of Scotland at and after the Reformation. It was 

 also reprinted in 1840 by Dr. Gumming, but without the 

 Metrical Psalms.] 



Sir Wm. Alexander. — In Colonel Sleigh's Hac- 

 matack Clearings is an interesting story of one La 

 Tour of Cape Sable, who agreed (in conjunction 

 with Sir William Alexander), to establish on his 

 Canadian property a party of Scotch emigrants. 

 Can you or any of your readers give me Colonel 

 Sleigh's authority for this statement ? And at 

 the same time can you give me any information 

 respecting the sale of Canadian property to the 

 French by Sir Wm. Alexander, as stated by 

 Urquhart ? G. H. K. 



[The story of La Tour is quoted by Colonel Sleigh 

 from Abraham Gesner's New Brunswick, 1847, p. 22., &c. ; 

 and Gesner's references for it are to Hugh Murray's His- 

 torical Account of British America, i. 125. ; Haliburton's 

 History of Nova Scotia, i. 43, 44. ; and Alexander Deu- 

 cher's Memorial from the Stirling Papers.'] 



De Urhe. — Does "de Urbe," in the following 

 names, mean any city in particular ? I am chiefly 

 interested in the second name ; and if any corre- 

 spondent would explain it. I should be extremely 

 obliged. I can find nothing, in such books as I 

 possess, to solve the meaning : — 



1. Anglus Jacobi Barthol. de Urbe, a.d. 1289. 



2. Jacobus Chinchii Guidonis de Urbe, A r>. 1300. 



3. Saracen de Urbe, c. a.d. 1300. 



4. Ursinus de Urbe, a.d. 1327. 



6. Ursus de Ursinis de Urbe, a.d. 1354. 



They were all clerics, and are taken from Ry- 

 mer's Feed, and Le Neve's Fasti. Patonce. 



[When the proper name is not added, Urhs is to be 

 taken as signifying Rome. " Urbis appellationem, eti- 

 amsi nomen proprium non adjiceretur, Romam tamen 

 accipi, est receptum." — Quintil, lib. vi. c. 3. Pegge 

 {Anonymiana, p. 344.) says, " As the Latins used urbs, 

 Kar i^oxriv, for Rome, their capital, so we, at this day, use 

 the word town for London ; as when we say. When do you 

 go to town ? " Urbicus in med. Latin signified a citizen, 

 a Roman. " Urbicus, Romanus, eadem ratione qua Roma 

 Urbs appellatur." (Henschel.) This, therefore, appears 

 to be the true signification, also, of the mediseval phrase 

 de Urbe.l 



