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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'^ S. VII. May 21. '69. 



with the Princess Maria Clementina Sobieski, 

 grand-daughter of John, King of Poland, of which 

 country it was also the badge. The white cockade 

 thus became the distinctive mark of the adherents 

 of the exiled family, in opposition to the orange of 

 Nassau and the black cockade of the House of 

 Hanover : — 



" There's a rose in Kenmure's cap, Willie, 

 There's a rose in Kenmure's cap, 

 He'll steep it red in ruddie heart's blude, 



Afore the battle drap. 

 Here's him that's far awa, Willie, 



Here's him that's far awa, 

 And here's the flower that I lo'e best, 

 The rose that's like the snaw. 

 A feather is in his bonnet, a rose aboon his bree. 

 He's a bonnie bonnie laddie, an you be he." 



" White was the rose in his gay bonnet, 



As he faulded me in his broached plaidie. 

 His hand whilk clasped the truth o' luve, 

 it Avas aye in battle readie. 



My father's blood's in that flower tap, 

 My brother's in that hare-bell's blossom. 



Tills white rose was steeped in my luve's blood, 

 And I'll aye wear it in my bosom." 



" My love he wears a bonnet, 

 A bonnet, a bonnet, 

 A snawy rose upon it, 



A dimple on his chin." 



" leeze me on the philabeg, 

 The hairy hough and gartered leg ! 

 But aye the tiling that blinds my e'e 

 Is the white cockade aboon the bree." 



The black cockade is generally supposed to be 

 English, but it was not known in this country be- 

 fore the accession of George I., who bore it as a 

 vassal of the Empire. Black, with some distinc- 

 tion, is the universal cockade of the great Ger- 

 manic body : thus, the Austrian is black and 

 yellow ; the Prussian black and white ; the Hano- 

 verian black. The other European nations use 

 bright colours : e. g. France and Poland, white : 

 Spain, scarlet; Portugal, white and blue; Hol- 

 land, orange. These coloured and parti-coloured 

 cockades may frequently be seen worn in the 

 streets of London by the servants of the ambas- 

 sadors from the Continental States. In Austria 

 and Bohemia many of the great families, like our 

 own Scottish clans, use their own family cockades 

 according to their special badges or armorial 

 blazon. 



Having thus seen the derivation -and nature of 

 the black cockade, there would seem to be little 

 difficulty in determining who has a right to carry 

 it. The limitation of its use to military and naval 

 officers, as supposed by Stylitbs, is evidently in- 

 correct. All retainers of the crown are entitled 

 to the distinction ; and upon this ground I con- 

 clude that it is, and may be, used by Privy Coun- 

 cillors, magistrates, deputy-lieutenants, and gen- 

 tlemen holding distinct offices under the sovereign, 



or belonging to the great public departments of 

 the state. * John Maclean. 



Hammersmith, 



The distinction between army and navy cockades 

 as worn by officers' servants given by J. A. P. N. is 

 not, I think, generally known or acted upon. I do 

 not remember ever to have seen an English servant's 

 cockade without a fan on the top. Its projecting 

 above the crown of the hat or not is, I apprehend, 

 a matter of fancy or of convenience ; those which 

 project being very liable to accidents. Deputy- 

 lieutenants of counties are in the habit of putting 

 cockades in their servants' hats, probably because 

 they are held to rank with lieutenant-colonels in 

 the army. J. P. 0. 



PARAPHRASES USED IN THE SCOTCH KIRK. 



(2°^ S. vii. 358.) 



Your correspondent, Senex, expresses a desire 

 to know something more than what has been 

 given as to who the authors of the others, and for 

 the most part beautiful Paraphrases, were. I beg 

 leave to subjoin the following list of names of 

 those who are understood to have been the au- 

 thors, translators, or compilers of such*; and also 

 of the five Hymns, viz. : — 



No. 1. Dr. Isaac Watts, but altered by Wm. Cameron, 

 minister of Kirknewton, in Linlithgowshire. 



2. Dr. Doddridge, altered by the Rev. John Logan, 



minister of Leith. 



3. Watts, altered bj' Cameron. 



4. Robert Blair (author of " The Grave "), slightly 



altered by Cameron. 



5. Watts, but considerably altered. 



6. Not known, but has been ascribed to Watts. 



7. Watts, altered by Cameron. 



8. Logan. 



9. Ditto. 



10. Ditto. 



11. Ditto. 



12. Watts, but ascribed with greater probability to 



Dr. Martin of Monimail, Fifeshire. 



13. Watts, but considerably altered. 



14. Cameron. 



15. Watts, slightlv altered. 



16. Dr. Thomas Blacklock. 



17. Cameron. 



18. Logan. 



19. Dr. John Morrison, minister of Canisbay, Caith- 



ness. 



20. Watts, considerably altered by Dr. Blair. 



21. Morrison. 



22. Watts, considerably altered. 



23. Not known, but altered by Logan. 



24. Watts, very much altered. 



25. Rev. William Robertson, minister of the Old 



Grayfriars Church, Edinburgh. 



26. Not known, but altered b.v Cameron. 



27. Logan and Morrison, jointly, 



28. Ditto ditto. 



29. Morrison. 



30. Ditto. 



31. Logan, 



