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cept by miracle, tbat a " bone of him should not 

 be broken." 



2. From authority. In addition to the authors 

 quoted by Mb. Buckton, we have Justin, Ire- 

 na?us, St. Augustine (Medit, lib. vi.), Gregor. 

 Turonensis, de Gloria Martyr, (lib. i. c. vi.), Pope 

 Innoc. III. ; and later, Cardinal Bellarmine, who 

 says that he had himself examined the most an- 

 cient MSS. in the royal library at Paris, in which 

 he says Christ crucified was often represented, bid 

 always " quatuor clavis." I certainly never saw 

 a really old Greek painting with only three nails. 

 Ayala says, that the Albigenses were the first who 

 discarded the ancient precedent of four nails, and 

 adopted the three. How far this is true, I cannot 

 say. J. C. J. 



" God Save the King" (2"'^ S. ii. 96.) — Some 

 time ago my attention was directed to a work in 

 Trinity College Library, Dublin (I. I. q. q. 35.), 

 by the Rev. C. H. Minchin, of Dublin, from which 

 I extracted the following : 



" This celebrated air (God Save the King) was composed 

 by Anthony Young, organist (a descendant of Alexk. 

 Young, Gentleman of the Chamber to King James I., 

 and of Sir Peter Young, the King's preceptor), as 

 avowed and affirmed by the composer's five grand- 

 children, Cecilia Young, Mrs. Anne Isabella Young, Mrs. 

 Lumpe, Esther Young, Mrs. Jones, and their two cousins, 

 Thomas Young, of Morden College, Blackheath, emAMury 

 Lucretia Young, his half sister, to their great niece and 

 relative Cecilia Maria Barthelemon Henslowe, now 

 living, and mother to the Author of this Book." 



The work is entitled : 



" Phonarthron. By the Rev. "Wm. H. Henslowe, M. A., 

 Perpetual Curate of Wormegay, near Lynn, Norfolk; 

 formerly of Jesus College, Cambridge, and Author of 

 Sermons addressed to the Roj'al Regiment of Artillery, in 

 the Barracks Chapel, Woolwich." 



The words in Italics are so in the book itself, 

 with a double line under, for the purpose of ar- 

 resting particular attention to the pedigree. In 

 the title-page the author expresses himself in the 

 following style : 



" Go forth mj' Book — If England hail thee not, 

 The friendly Foreigner will save thee from dry rot ; 

 And tho' a present age thy Author scorn, 

 Thou shalt be scrutinized by beings yet unborn." 



Henslowe. 

 I find that I have omitted to take down the 



publisher's name and date. Geo. Lloyd. 



[The melody of " God Save the King" stands in the 

 MS. of Dr. John Bull, who lived in the reign of Queen 

 Elizabeth and James I. See " N. & Q." 2°^ s. ii. 96.] 



Boohs Burnt (2"*" S. passim.') — Add the follow- 

 ing, from the Cambridge Chronicle for January 3, 

 1857, to your already long list : 



" An Extraordinary Recantation. — On Christmas Day 

 a singular scene was witnessed in Norwich market-place. 

 Mr. J. Comley, an individual who formerly professed he- 

 terodox opinions, and sent them forth to the world in 



various publications, publicly renounced his errors ; and 

 afterwards taking up a large bale of his works, which he 

 designated a 'bundle of lies,' proceeded to Mousehole 

 Heath, and there committed them to the flames. Mr. 

 Comley has for some little time been an active preacher 

 of the Gospel he formerly reviled." 



I know nothing of the circumstance beyond the 

 fact of having just seen this paragraph in the 

 paper. W. Sparrow Simpson. 



William Andrew Price, E.sq., Governor of 

 Surat in 1774 (2"'» S. ii. 466.) — If Glwysig 

 will enable me to communicate with him privately, 

 I may be able to give him some information con- 

 nected with the above-named person. I send my 

 address to the editor of " N. & Q." E. A. D. 



University Degrees (2"'^ S. iii. 12.) — The Gra- 

 duates of the Universities of Dublin and Durham 

 are admitted ad eundem gradum in either of the 

 two Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Duchess of Marlborough (1" S. xii. 125.) — 

 The passage to which the Query refers is : 



"Three furies reigned in her breast, the most mortal 

 enemies of all softer passions ; which were, sordid Avarice, 

 disdainful Pride, and ungovernable Rage." — "History of 

 the Four last Years of the Queen." — Swift's Works, xvii. 

 25. 8vo edit. Lond. 1775. 



F. 



Songs (2""* S. iii. 11.) — I cannot exactly 

 satisfy T. H. D. with regard to the authorship of 

 the song which he found quoted in my Table 

 Traits. A step in that direction I am, however, 

 enabled to make, after referring to the Inde An- 

 glaise of Monsieur Edward Warren. He says of 

 the stanzas in question, that they are " sublimes 

 de genie, de tristesse, et de sauvagerie, composes 

 par une des dernieres victimes." The last words 

 allude to the cholera of 1833, one of the victims 

 of which is said to have been the author of this 

 Devil's Carol. J. Doban. 



Major Andre (1" S. viii. ix. x. xi. xii. passim.) 



" A lady afterwards carried me to the State Paper 

 Office, where I saw interesting documents, among them 

 some letters characteristic of the firm purpose-like Wash- 

 ington, and a most touching original note, containing 

 poor Andre's request for a soldier's death, instead of that 

 of the gibbet. The calm gentlemanly writing, without 

 tremor, and unmarked by haste — not an unnecessary 

 stroke nor a useless word — takes one into the very heart 

 of the man who wrote it. Washington was deeply moved, 

 but gave no reply. After all he was right. Though poor 

 Andrd was the victim of that wretch Arnold, who lived 

 only to die a hundred times over under the scorn of Eng- 

 land and America, still he was taken in disguise ; and 

 since Washington felt that an example had become ne- 

 cessary, he was obliged to condemn Andre as the spy, not 

 as the soldier." — Hon. A. Murray's United States,'Cuha, 

 and Canada, vol, i. p. 254. 



E. H. A. 



