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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



t2«"i S. VII. May 21. '69. 



It is rather interestinjy that the warrant should 

 be dated on the very day of Cromwell's pic-nic 

 (as Carlyle calls it) and accident in the Park, of 

 which the diarists make so much. I have thought 

 it just possible that Mr. Nicholas Lambe might 

 have earned his 20/. by his services on this occa- 

 sion. Any elucidation of the matter would be 

 gratefully received. C. W. Bingham. 



PRIORS OF BUSHMEAJ), CO. BEDFORDSHIRE. 



The Cartulary, now in the library at Bushmead 

 Priory, is certainly not (as suggested in Dugdale's 

 Monasticon, ed. 1830, vi. 280.) the same which in 

 1640 was in the possession of A. Trevor, Esq. It 

 consists of ninety-six leaves of vellum, contains 

 copies of above three hundred charters, and was 

 apparently written about the close of the four- 

 teenth century. On the first page is a list of the 

 priors, of whom six only occur in Dugdale: — 



" No'ia o'im Prior de Bisshemade : — 

 Joseph de Copmanford. 

 Joh'es de Oyldebouf: qui obiit monachus Warden. A" 



D'ni m'lmo cclj. 

 Simon de Colesdene. 



Ric'us Foh'ot: tempe Regis Henric tercij. 

 Simon de Redbourne; qui resignauit post I prelaco'is sue 



anrios. A» E. pmi et Secu'di. 

 Rob'tus de Lobbenham : qui resignauit post xxxiiij pre- 

 laco'is sue annos. A" E. Tercij. 

 Ric'us de Stoktoa: qui obiit post ij prelaco'is sue annos. 

 Simon de Grantesdene : qui resignauit post j et di' pre- 

 laco'is sue annu. 

 Adam de Leuerington: qui resignauit post ij et su di' 



prelacois sue annos. A" E. Pcy' xxix. 

 Johannes de Ryslee : qui resignauit post xxviij prelacois 



sue annos. 

 Will'ms de Lj-tlyngton. 



Rob'tus Techemers, xxv prelacionis sue annu'. 

 Will'ms [Flann?], xxv resignauit. 

 Will'ms Stokton : qui obiit post octo prelaco'is annos. 

 Thomas Stokton : qui resignauit post octo prelacois sue 



annos. 

 Robertas de potton p'or qui resignauit post unu' Annu' 



p'laco'is sue. 

 Johannes de bosworthe, prior, qui obiit post xj et di' pre- 

 lacionis sue annos. 

 Majist'gregorynorwj'ch p'iorqi resignau* postxvij annos 



sue p'laciois. 

 M' Nicholaus Smyth, p'or q> resignauit post xx prelac' 



sue annu'. 

 Dn's Ric' Rorgord quo'dam p'or de broke et p'or istius 

 eccl'ie qui obiit post ij mens' prelac' sue a" Dni m" v" 

 xxxj", A" r' R' henriei octaui post conquestu' xxiij°. 

 Dn's Robt' Burre, p'or q\" 



Joseph Rix. 

 St. Neots. 



Photographing Sound. — Allow me to direct at- 

 tention to the following passage in Sir J. Her- 

 schel's Discourse on Natural Philosophy, p. 248. : 



" A curious and beautiful method of observation, due 

 to Chladni, consists in the happy device of sti'ewing sand 



over the surfaces of bodies in a state of sonorous vibration, 

 and marking the figures it assumes. This has made their 

 motions susceptible of ocular examination." 



May not a misunderstanding of this method of 

 rendering sound visible have given rise to the 

 recent statements about " photographing sound," 

 &c. ? S. C. 



'■'■Execution of Judas. " — The following extract 

 from the Cork Examiner of April 25, 1859, may 

 be worth preserving in the pages of "N. & Q. :" — 



"Tlie old custom of hanging Judas, the arch-traitor, 

 was represented on Good Friday on board a Portuguese 

 schooner lying at our quays. About one o'clock, amidst 

 shouts and jeers, the figure of a sailor, intended to per- 

 sonate Judas, was suspended from one of tlie yard-arms, 

 and beaten most mercilessly, after which it was cut down 

 and soused in the river." 



EvERARD Home Coleman. 



79. Wood Street, Cheapside. 



The Poet Burns. — By the last mail from Eng- 

 land the centenary of Burns's birth seems to have 

 been well and fully honoured. I believe, from what 

 I learnt in the neighbourhood, that the following 

 fugitive lines of his have never appeared in print. 

 I copied them from his own handwriting (so re- 

 puted) on a pane of glass in the "Globe" public- 

 house at Dumfries, where, in October, 1857, they 

 were still to be seen : — 



" Whate'er ye seek, be 't ale or beer. 

 Or whate'er fits your nob, 

 At moderate fare ye'll find it here, 

 The best that's in the Globe." 



On another pane, equally religiously preserved, 

 and certainly in the same hand, was, — 



" Gin a body meet a body 

 Coming thro' the grain, 

 Gin a body kiss a body. 

 The thing's a body's ain." 



These two stanzas are looked upon as genuine 

 relics of the bard. W. T. M. 



Hong Kong, 30. March, 1859. 



An Irish Deathbed Scene. — In the year of grace 

 1793, an aged peasant, whose cabin neighboured 

 my then residence, lay in extremis, lovingly tended 

 by his wife and daughter. The Christmas Eve 

 was nearing its close, and they religiously believed 

 that, should he pass away at its synchronism with 

 the Christmas morning, he would escape purga- 

 tory, and directly enter paradise. The church 

 clock began to strike twelve. The wife took the 

 bolster from under the dying man's head and 

 pressed it down on his face : the daughter seated 

 herself on his breast : and their purpose was ac- 

 complished : no secret being made of the deed • — 

 no- wonder manifested — no notice taken. 



Was this a murder ? So far from possessing 

 murder's primary condition — malice — it was 

 done in all affection and piety. The husband and 

 father could not survive another hour : a mo- 



