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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°dS. No58.,rEB.7. '57. 



ship of the two following dramatic works, printed 

 there, both of them very scarce, — Philander and 

 Hose, a musical pastoral, songs only printed, 

 12rao., Manchester, 1785 ; A Family Story, a 

 comedy in five acts, privately printed at Man- 

 chester in 1814? Tliere is a short notice of this 

 last piece in Mr. Martin's Catalogue. X. 



John Drummond. — Can any of your Edinburgh 

 readers give me any account of John Drummond, 

 a schoolmaster in Edinburgh, who published an 

 Introduction to English Grammar, 8vo., Edinb., 

 1767 ? I think he also published a collection of 

 pieces in prose and verse for the use of schools. 



X. 



St. Germain Lords. — I mean to designate by 

 this imperfect title, which I use only for want of 

 a better, all lords created by James II. after the 

 Revolution, or by his son or grandson. Can any 

 of your correspondents refer me to any published 

 list of these creations ? L. S. 



Heraldic. — I should feel obliged to any of your 

 correspondents who would inform me as to the 

 names of families to which the following coats of 

 arms are to be referred ; they are quarterings of 

 the Stanley coat : 



1. Gu. ten escallop shells, argt. 4, 3, 2, and 1. 



2. Arg. a lion ramp. gu. ducally crowned, or. 



3. Quarterly 1 and 4 az. seme of fleurs-de-lis, or, 

 2 and 3 gu. the sun in splendour, or. 



4. Barry of ten arg. and az., over all a lion 

 ramp, guard, gu. 



5. Arg. 3 bends (or bendlets) gu. on a chief 

 .... an escallop. . . ^ ■ 



6. Azure, a lion ramp, (or wolf) arg. 



7. Arg. 3 fishes hauriant sab. within a bordure 

 engrailed of the last. 



8. Chequy, az. and or. 

 Also from another shield : 



1. Arg. a lion ramp. gu. collared, or. 



2. Gu. a fesse chequy, az. and or, bet. 3 eagles 

 displayed of the last. 



3. Erm. a fesse, az. 



4. Az. a cross, or, (the particular cross not re- 

 cognisable). 



5. Arg. 3 garbs, gu. 



6. Arg. on a cross azure, five fleurs-de- 

 lis, or. 



7. Or, a lion ramp, guard, az. 



8. Arg. 3 martlets, gu. J. B. 



St. Bees College. — Is there extant any register 

 of admissions to this college that supplies informa- 

 tion respecting the students, as to parentage, 

 place of birth, or school-education ? and if there 

 is such a register, how far back does it go ? * 



E. H. A. 



[* The St. Bees College Calendar for 1851, contains a 

 list of members admitted from the foundation, but no 

 particulars of their birth and school education.] 



" The Vicar and Moses" — Who is the author 

 of a poem or ballad entitled " The Vicar and 

 Moses," and where is it to be found ? Many 

 years since I saw a copy, with a large picture 

 above, representing a funeral performed in the 

 night by the aid of a lantern carried by Moses. 

 I remember the following : 



" V. The body we'll bury, 



But pray where's the hurrj-? 

 M. Why, look, sir, the corpse it doth stay. 

 V. You fool, hold j'our peace, 

 Since miracles cease. 

 A corpse, Moses, can't run away." 



T. W. Rs., M.A. 



[There are two versions of this song in Dr. Barney's 

 Collection of Ballads, in the British Museum. In vol. i. 

 p. 136., it is entitled "The Vicar and Moses," and com- 

 mences — 



"At the sign of the horse, old Spin text of course, 

 Each night took his pipe and his pot, 

 O'er a jorum of nappy, quite pleasant and happy,' 

 Was plac'd this canonical sot." 



This is the version quoted by our correspondent, and 

 has sixteen verses. The other, with the same title, oc- 

 curs in vol. vii. p. 141., and commences — 



" There was once, it was said, but it's out of my head. 

 And more so, yet true is my tale, 

 That a round belly'd vicar, bepimpled with liquor. 

 Could stick to no text but his ale." 



This has the initials 6. A. S., that is, George Alex- 

 ander Stevens, and has seventeen verses.] 



liichard Smyth. — 



" A Letter from Mr. Richard Smith to Dr. Henry Ham- 

 mond concerning the sence of that Article in the Creed, 

 He descended into Hell, Together with Dr. Hammond's 

 Answer. London, Printed for Richard Chiswell, 1684." 

 Pp. 78. 12mo. 



The above is the title of a little book I picked 

 up a fQVf days ago at a stall, having been given to 

 understand that Chiswell never printed or pub- 

 lished anything worthless. May I ask whether 

 the little work is scarce ? and who was Mr. Ri- 

 chard Smith? — " a gentleman," says Chiswell, in 

 his Introductory Letter to the Reader, " well 

 known to most of the learned of his time." He 

 dates from Little Moor Fields, April, 1649. 



E. H. A. 



[Richard Smith, or Smyth, was indeed "well known 

 to most of the learned of his time," as our correspondent 

 will find, if he will only consult his amusing Obituary, 

 edited by Sir Henrj"- Ellis for the Camden Society. The 

 best account of Richard Smyth is to be found in Wood's 

 AthencB Oxonienses (Bliss), iii. 1031. " He was a person," 

 says Wood, " infinitely curious in, and inquisitive after 

 books, and suffered nothing considerable to escape him 

 that fell within the compass of his learning, desiring to be 

 master of no more than he knew how to use. He was 

 constantly known every day to walk his rounds among 

 the booksellers' shops (especially in Little Britain), in 

 London, and by his great skill and experience he made 

 choice of such books that were not obvious to every man's 



