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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 56^ Jan. 24. '57. 



of Christ and the faithfull professors of his Gospell. De- 

 clared at Large in the Historic of the Waldenses and 

 Albigenses, apparently manifesting unto the world the 

 visibilitie of our Church of England, and of all the re- 

 formed Churches throughout Christendome, for above foure 

 hundred and fiftie years last past. Divided into three 

 parts. The first concerns their originall beginning, the 

 puritie of their Religion, the persecutions which they have 

 suffered throughout all Europe, for the space of about 

 foure hundred and fiftie yeares. The second contains the 

 historie of the Waldenses called Albigenses. The third 

 concerneth the doctrine and discipline which hath bene 

 common amongst them, and the confutation of the doc- 

 trine of their adversaries. All which hath bene faith- 

 fully collected out of the Authors named in the page 

 following the Preface. By J. P. P. M. (sic). Translated 

 out of French by Samson Lennard. London : Printed for 

 Nathanael Newberj', and are to be sold at the signe of 

 the Starre under Saint Peters Church in Cornhill, and in 

 Popes-head Alle3', 1624." 



[A copy of this work before us contains both title- 

 pages; that entitled Luther's Forerunners is the first, and 

 has six lines printed in red ink. — Ed.] 



Baptism of William Cecill, Lord de Boos. — 

 LordBurleijjh, in his Notes of the Reigns of Queens 

 Mary and Elizabeth (printed in Murdin's State 

 Papers), thus records the birth and baptism of his 

 great-grandson, among the public and private 

 events of the period : 



" 1590, May. William Cecill, Lord Ross, born at 

 Newark." 



"June 4. Willielmus Cecill, post mortem Matris Ds, 

 de Ross, baptizatus est in Castello de Newark." 



William Cecill, grandson of Lord Burleigh, and 

 son of Thomas first Earl of Exeter, married Eliza- 

 beth Manners, daughter and sole heiress of Ed- 

 ward Manners, third Earl of Rutland, of which 

 marriage William Cecill, Lord de Roos, was the 

 eldest son. 



William Cecill, the father, built a house in or 

 near Newark, I believe on the site of the Hospital 

 of St. Leonard ; but I should like to be informed 

 whether he occupied the castle in 1590, and if so, 

 in what capacity. 



Also, if any of your correspondents can refer 

 me to a contemporary or subsequent account of 

 the birth and baptism of Lord de Roos, or of the 

 rejoicings on the occasion, or to any verses on the 

 subject ? I have not found the event mentioned 

 in any of the collections of the Cecil Correspond- 

 ence to which I have had access. G. R. C. 



Great Tom of Westminster. — The ancient clock- 

 tower, in the New Palace Yard at Westminster, 

 is said to have been erected from a fine of eight 

 ■ hundred marks paid by Ralph de Hingham, chief 

 justice in the reign of Edward I., for having been 

 induced, corruptly we must presume, to mitigate 

 a poor man's fine from a mark to a noble, and to 



erase a roll of record for that purpose. (See this 

 related in Thoms's Anecdotes and Traditions.') 

 According to Aubrey, the great bell was of no 

 older date than John, Earl of Salisbury, who died 

 in 1400 : 



" The great bell at Westminster, in the Clockiar at the 

 New Palace Yard, 36,000 lib. weight. See Stow's Survey 

 of London, de hoc. It was given hy Jo. Montacutc, Earle 

 of (Salisbury, I think). Part of the inscription is thus, 



«c. ' annis ab acuto monte Johannis.' " — Aubrev's 



History of Wiltshire, 4to., 1847, p. 102. 



Stow says notliing of the age or donor of the 

 bell. Is any other copy of its inscription extant ? 



J. G. N. 



Devonshire Anti-Cromwellian Song. — Upwards 

 of thirty years ago, the following loyal eflusion 

 was commonly sung by old nurses, and others of 

 the humbler classes, in the West of England. 

 They adapted it to the music of the chimes ; or 

 rather, the singers used to say that it was what 

 the chimes expressed : — 



" I'H bore a hoale in Crummel's noase, 

 And therein putt a string. 

 And laid 'en up and down the teown. 

 For murdering Charles our King." 



I should be glad to know what are its claims to 

 antiquity ? and whether there are any more 

 verses ? As the anniversary of the martyrdom 

 is near at hand, the time is appropriate for 

 endeavouring to ascertain whether this reminis- 

 cence of Devonshire loyalty really dates so far 

 back as the period of the Restoration. 



Royalist. 



A Leading Coach. — What is a leading coach ? 

 If any reader of your useful miscellany can solve 

 this question, I shall be obliged by his communi- 

 cating it. The term occurs in Memoirs of the 

 Reign of George IT., by John Lord Hervey, edited 

 by Mr. Croker, 2 vols. 8vo., London, 1855 (vol. i. 

 p. 272.). The Prince of Orange having arrived 

 in London for the purpose of marrying the Prin- 

 cess Royal, the eldest daughter of George II., was, 

 on Nov. 8, 1733, fetched from Somerset House to 

 St. James's in an equipage sent for him by the 

 king, termed " a leading coach." Mr. Croker, 

 who certainly has great aptitude to unravel ob- 

 scure phrases, as well as to adapt English idioms 

 to the French, &c., acknowledges his inability to 

 give the peculiar meaning of a leading coach, but 

 has discovered that the same sort of carriage was 

 sent for the Duke of Wirtemberg, when he came 

 over to marry the Princess Royal, daughter of 

 George III., now sixty years ago ; and that, there- 

 fore, a leading coach seems to have been the most 

 suitable equipage. From coaches to stables the 

 transition is not so outree ; but I may, I presume, 

 be permitted to ask what a bottle-groom and a 

 hobbt/'gj'oom, in the royal stables, were ? I mean 

 what were their peculiar duties ? ♦. 



