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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 55., Jan. 17. '57. 



surrounded by a rough oval, from which spring, 

 right and left, reeds or grass apparently. 



I shall be happy to furnish any correspondent 

 with an impression. Samuel Eveeshed. 



Arundel House, Clifton Road, Brighton. 



Brooke Pedigree (2"'' S. iii. 12.) —The follow- 

 ing extract from The Expedition to Borneo of H. 

 M. Ship Dido, &c., &c , by Capt. the Hon. Henry 

 Keppel, R.K (Chapman & Hall, 1846), affords, I 

 think, a satisfactory reply to a part of the Query 

 of your correspondent Resupinus. The author, 

 upon the authority of " a mutual friend, acquainted 

 with him (Rajah Brooke) from early years," 

 states that — 



" Mr. Brooke is the lineal representative of Sir Robert 

 Vyner, Bart., Lord Mayor of London in the reign of 

 Charles II.; Sir Robert had but one child, a son, Sir 

 George Vyner, who died childless, and his estate passed 

 to his heir-at-law, Edith, the eldest sister of his father, 

 whose lineal descendant is our friend." — VoL i. p. 2. 



The only other piece of information I remember, 

 given by Capt. Keppel, of Sir James's family, is 

 that his father was Thomas Brooke, Esq., of the 

 H. E. I. Company's Civil Service. 



Merc^tob, A.B. 



Nearsightedness (2"'' S. ii. 149. 236. 257. 397.)— 

 It is stated in the Paris Medical Gazette, " that of 

 the 3,295,220 young men examined in France for 

 military service, during nineteen , years, 13,007 

 were exempted for nyopia." W. W. 



Malta. 



Family of Chamberlayne (2°'^ S. ii. 168.) —The 

 individual to whom Capt. W. Herbert bequeathed, 

 in 1694, the patronage of the Church of Stretton 

 on Dunsmore, was Francis Chamberlayne, who 

 had a son, William, living at that date. 



Capt. Herbert also names his cousin, Edward 

 Chamberlayne of Princethorpe, and Mary his 

 daughter. 



Mary Chamberlayne, in 1580, was plaintiff in a 

 fine passed of the manor of Princethorpe. 



Edmund Chamberlayne, sen., deforciant in an- 

 other on the same manor in 1624. 



The Visitation Pedigree, which is very meagre, 

 does not apparently touch this branch of the 

 family. Perhaps these additional Notes may help 

 to produce an answer to the Queries in the above 

 page, or some further information concerning their 

 pedigree. Memok. 



Sayings about the Wmther (2"'^ S. ii. 516.) — 

 The Worcestershire, Norfolk, and Dorset saw, 

 about a " Saturday's moon " and its evil portents, 

 is quite current here, with a slight variation from 

 the forms already recorded : it is as follows : 



" Saturday's mune an' Sunday's prime, 

 Ance is aneugh in seven years' time." 



Of course, a Saturday's "mune" means change of 



moon on that day, and this homely distich shows 

 how dreaded such an event was, and in fact is, 

 by our rural wiseacres and weather prophets, as 

 it was thought to have come often enough if once 

 in seven years. I do not know if it is common all 

 over Scotland ; but the extent to which, even 

 (what are commonly called) educated people be- 

 lieve in the moon's influence on the weather's 

 changes hereabouts would not be believed by 

 strangers. I have often tried to get some of our 

 weatherwise rustics to explain to me how the 

 same moon can cause such various weather as the 

 telegraph informs us it does at one and the same 

 time over England and Scotland, and even in 

 neighbouring Scotch counties, but I could see 

 that the mere hint of disbelief, on so serious and 

 well ascertained a subject, was to put myself down 

 as a sheer atheist in their idea. C. D. Lamont. 

 36. Eldon Street, Greenock. 



Jewish Versions of the Hebrew Scriptures (2"'' 

 S. ii. 428.) — There is a " Jewish School and 

 Family Bible," lately translated by Dr. A, Be- 

 nisch, " under the supervision of the Reverend the 

 Chief Rabbi," and published by Darling, 81. Great 

 Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. It is pub- 

 lished in parts ; the first part consisting of the 

 Pentateuch. Inquirer and Delta would find it 

 of much interest and use in the present contro- 

 versy. GOODWYN BaRMBY. 



Lancaster. 



Churches under Sequestration (2""* S. i. 412.) — 

 In Stephen's Commentaries on the Laws of Eng- 

 land, vol. iii., it is stated that — 



" The repairs of the church, and inclosure of the church- 

 yard, fall of common right on the parishioners ; but those 

 of the chancel on the parson, or supposing the benefice to 

 be a vicarage, then, generally, on the impropriator." 



If a benefice were under sequestration, the se- 

 questrators (generally the churchwardens) would 

 doubtless, as a matter of course, repair the chancel 

 out of the funds coming to their hands. Such 

 being the case, I apprehend no special Act of 

 Parliament would be necessary in the cases alluded 

 to by J. A. W. H. W. T. 



Somerset House. 



The Old Hundredth (2»'» S. i. 494. ; iii. 18.) — 

 Dr. Gauntlett has such a strong claim on every 

 church musician, that I cannot refrain from a 

 communication which may be of interest tq him 

 personally, and to all those who are seeking the 

 origin of the above tune. I remember, some years 

 ago, while making a musical search in tlie Dean 

 and Chapter's library at St. Paul's Cathedral, the 

 Rev. R. H. Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby of legen- 

 dary fame), being then librarian, accompanied me 

 to the library " up the church," and he showed 

 me a Genevan Psalter, by Theodore Beza and 

 Clement Marot, in which the Old Hundredth is 



