2°' S. N» 55, Jan. 17. '57.] 



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printed as usually sung in our churches. As I 

 did not make a note of the title-page, I cannot 

 give its proper date ; but well remembering the 

 book, a duodecimo, and that Mr. Barham con- 

 sidered it a curiosity, and kept it locked up among 

 the more choice works in that library, besides it 

 being entered in the catalogue there kept, I have 

 no doubt, if Dr. Gauntlett is anxious to see it, 

 he will easily find it by applying to the present 

 librarian (the Rev. R. C. Packman, I believe). 



M. C* 



Enclosed are extracts from The Doncaster 

 Gazette, on the subject of the Old Hundredth 

 Psalm, recently noticed in your very interesting 

 paper, which you may deem worth notice. 



" The long-disputed question whether Purcell or Han- 

 del was the author of the grand music of the Old Hun- 

 dredth has been set at rest by a discovery made a few 

 davs since in Lincoln Cathedral library. Purcell died in 

 1695, and Handel in 1759. But in the cathedral library 

 a French psalter, printed in 154G f, contains the music of 

 the Old Hundredth, exactly as it is now sung ; so that it 

 could not be the production of either of the great musi- 

 cians to whom it has been attributed." 



G. H. B. 



Muggy (2'"^ S. ii. 310.) — If Fuit will accept 

 of Webster and Richardson's classification of 

 muggy with muck, he will also be satisfied with 

 the explanation by the latter of muggy as applied 

 to weather, ^. "wet, damp, dark (dense and 

 damp, witli some degree of warmth)." 



N.B. The etymology, and explanation given 

 from Dr. Ogilvie, is the property of Dr. Webster. 



Muck (Tooke) is the past tense and past parti- 

 ciple of A.-S. Mic-jav, meiere, mingere. Q 



Diamond Rock (2"^ S. ii. 508.) — The " Dia- 

 mond Rock " was registered in the Navy List as a 

 sloop of war ; it is an island-rock off Martinique, 

 and was fitted with an armament of three 24- 

 pounders and two 18-pounders in Jan. 1804, by 

 the crew of the " Centaur," 74, Capt. Murray 

 Maxwell, by the orders of Capt., afterwards Sir 

 Samuel Hood. This ingenious and difficult opera- 

 tion is described in the Naval Chronicle, xii. 206 , 

 and James's Naval Hist, under the year 1804. 

 Lieut. Jas. Maurice of the " Centaur," with a 



[♦ The question is, " Whether the Old Hundredth be a 

 Lutheran, or French, or Flemish melodj' ? " Dk. Gaunt- 

 m;tt, as we understand, declares it is not of Lutheran 

 origin ; and as Luther died in 154G, those who maintain 

 the tune is his are bound to show some authority of that 

 period in support of that opinion. We ask, " Where is 

 the llymu to which Luther made the Old Hundredth 

 tune, if be made it at all, for Luther was not a tunemaker 

 as men are in these days, but he made a hymn first, and 

 then a tunc, which has never been separated from the 

 hvinn."3 



'[t Where it appears, probably, as the composition of 

 Claude Goiidimel, to whom it is unhesitatingly ascribed 

 by Latrobe. See « N. & Q.," 2'»i S. ii. 34.— Ed. " N. & Q."] 



crew of 120 men and boys, hoisted his pendant on 

 the rock, with rank of Commander of H. M. sloop 

 of war " Diamond Rock." 



Mackenzie Wai^cott, M.A. 



Burial without Coffins (2°" S. ii. 321.) —As to 

 this practice I may mention, for the information 

 of your readers, that the late Rev. John Bernard 

 Palmer, first abbot of the Cistercians in England 

 since the Reformation, was buried in the Chapter- 

 House at Longborough without a coffin. An in- 

 teresting memoir of him may be seen in the 

 Metropolitan and Provincial Catholic Almanack 

 for 1855, and in the forthcoming valuable and 

 interesting Collections by Canon Oliver, relative 

 to the Slissions in the Six South-Western Coun- 

 ties, both published by Mr. Dolman of New Bond 

 Street. M. L. 



Lincoln's Inn. 



Baptismal Superstition (2"^ S. i. 303.) — The 

 custom spoken of by G, N. of persons, when car- 

 rying infants to church for baptism, taking with 

 them bread and cheese to be given to the first in- 

 dividual met, is not yet gone into disuse. One 

 Sunday forenoon, about two years ago, when 

 walking along Candleriggs, I saw the practice 

 carried out, amid a little laughter, in all its en- 

 tirety. On this occasion a silver coin was given 

 in return for the eatables. I was told that the 

 appearance of coppef in such transactions was, if 

 possible, to be avoided. 



In our rural parishes, where the child to be 

 baptized had sometimes to be carried a consider- 

 able distance before the church was reached, it 

 was not an unusual sight, some sixty or seventy 

 years ago, I have been told, to see a quantity of 

 common table salt carried withershins (i. e. con- 

 trary to the course of the sun) round the baby 

 before the baptismal company left the parental 

 dwelling. This done, no harm, it was believed, 

 would befal the little stranger in its unchristened 

 state. I have conversed with an old woman, a 

 native of Ayrshire, who had seen the custom put 

 in practice Avhen she was a girl. J. 



Glasgow. 



Cold Tea (2"'^ S. ii. 467.) — WJiat this liquor 

 was, your correspondent will perceive from a 

 quotation out of A New Dictionary of the Terms, 

 Ancient and Modern, of the Canting Crew, in its 

 several Tribes of Gypsies, Beggars, Thieves, 

 Cheats, ^c, by B. E. CJent; London, sine anno 

 {circa 1700). Under the letters " C. O." we have 

 " Cold Tea, Brandy." From this there can be 

 little doubt it was a cant term for brandy in the 

 beginning of the eighteenth century ; and in those 

 days conjured up a more calorific beverage to the 

 imagination than it would in the present teetotal 

 times. John Walker, 



Aberdeen. 



