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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 65., Jan. 17. '67. 



white sarcenet, with a white cross ; 10 pair of al- 

 muyne rivelets, 1 harness for a horseman, 6 black 

 bills, 16 arming swords, 7 sheaves of arrows and 

 6 daggers. Another inventory, of the date of 

 1628, enumerates — 



" 1 drum was buckram case and 2 brass sticks, 1 ancient 

 and staff, 9 corslets furnished, 1 armour for a horseman, 

 with sword and dagger, 1 musket with a rest, 12 cul- 

 livers, 11 flasks, 9 toucht oxes, 12 swords, 9 daggers, 2 

 leather belts, 3 pair of old hangers, 1 waist girdle, 1 good 

 piece for a horseman, 7 headpieces for shot, 2 black bills, 

 2 old pilles haying no heads." 



The parish accounts contain the following ad- 

 ditional information : 



£ s. d. 

 " 1548. Paid to 11 men for wearing the same 



harness at the muster-day to every man 



6d. - - G 6 



1581. For scouring the armour and the shot 



against the musters in Tothill Fields - 26 

 Paid for powder for the soldiers upon the 



mustering daj's - - - - -0 12 4 

 Paid for brown paper for them - - - 

 Paid to the soldiers, the ancient-bearer and 



him that pla3'ed on the drum - - 27 4 

 1517. To Mr. Fisher for nisyng the Butts 



in Tothill 27 " 



By an agreement. May 20, 1668, the tenant 

 was to be allowed 20*. out of his rent to keep the 

 shooting house in Tothill Fields in repair, and 

 make a new pair of buttg, tvU dice and billiards be- 

 ing prohibited. By a Vestry Order, Oct. 31, 1667, 



"All the arms, both offensive and defensive, then re- 

 maining in the dark Vestry for their better preservation 

 were removed to the house newly erected in the Artillery 

 ground in Tothill Fields." 



Steele, in The Tatler, says : 



"You shall have a fellow of a desperate fortune, for the 

 gain of one half crown, go through all the dangers of 

 Tothill Fields or the artillery ground, clap his riglit jaw 

 within two inches of the touch hole of a musket, fire it off 

 with a huzza with as little concern as he tears a pullet." 



In 1559, the city of London furnished 600 men 

 " in broad blue cloaks garded with red," in har- 

 ness, with " pikes, and guns and bows and bills." 

 And for the siege of Calais, St. Margaret's sent 

 out her levy on Jan. 7 ; and in the last year of 

 Q. Mary, 5 soldiers to fortsmoutlj at £^ cost of 

 33s. 4d. 



In the I Mace. vi. 51, it i? said, "IJe set their 

 artillery with eqgipes ; " and though in the passage 

 of the Book of Samue} cited by your correspon- 

 dents, the word stands obviously for the archer's 

 weapons, yet here it includes the harness and 

 equipment of a man-at-arms : and this appears 

 borne out by tjie cptempor^ry p9.ssages vyhich I 

 have quoted. Mackenzie Wai-cott, M.A. 



^* Maurice and Berghetta" (2"^ S. ii. 450.) — 

 The author was the late Wm. Parnell, Esq., M.P., 



00. of Wicklow (next brother of Sir Henry Par-; 

 nell, afterwards Lord Congleton). F. 



University Boohs (2°^ S. ii. 31.')— W. (Bombay) 

 will find a ready accq^s to tlje University matri- 

 culation books and lists of Graduates, at Oxford, 

 by application to the Rev. Dr. Bliss, keeper of the 

 archives : at Cambridge, to Mr. Roniiliy of Tri- 

 nity College. The " usu^l fees" depend on the 

 time and labour occupied in the search required ; 

 but I can safely assure W. that this is a subject 

 on which he need entertain no very formidable 

 apprehensions. J. M. H. O. 



"Not lost, but gone before " (2"'> S. iii. 12.) — 1 

 Thess. iv. 14. (Anon.) : 



" Sa}', why should friendship grieve for those, 

 VVho safe arrive on Canaan's shore ? 

 Released from all tjigir hurtful foes. 

 They are not lost — bat gone before. 



" How many painful days on earth, 

 Their fainting spirits number'd o'er ! 

 Now they enjoy a heav'nly birth. 

 They are not lost — but gone before, 



" Dear is the spot where Christians sleep. 

 And sweet the strain which angels pour; 

 Oh, whj' should we in anguish weep? 

 They are not lost — but gone before. 



" Secure from every mortal care. 



By sin and sorrow vexed no more. 

 Eternal happiness they share. 

 Who are not lost — but gone before. 



■ " To Zion's peaceful courts above. 



In faith triumphant may we soar, 

 Embracing in the arms of love 

 The friends not lost — but gone before. 



" On Jordan's bank whene'er we come, 

 And hear the swelling waters roar, 

 Jesus, convey us safely home, 



To friends not lost — but gone before." 



I find iheAe lines in R. A. Smith's Edinburgh 

 Harmony, 1829, where they are stated to be anony- 

 mous. The author probably did not originate the 

 expression, but adopted it as a burden to a few 

 charming stanzas. S. U. U. 



St. John's Wood. 



I know not whether it will satisfy Mintmus to 

 be directed to a hemistich almost identio.il, and to 

 the same purport, as that about which he inquires ; 

 but I copied, some years since, a quaint epitaph 

 in Westminster Cloisters, of date 1621, as follows : 



"With diligence, and trust, most exemplary 

 Did Gabriel Laurence serve a Prebendary. 

 And for his paines {now passed before — not lost') 

 Gained this remembrance at his Master's cost. 

 Oh, read these lines againe, you seldom find 

 A Servant faithful, and a master Kind. 



" Short -hand he wrote —his flow'r in prime did fade, 

 And hasty Death, short-hand of him hath made. 

 Well couth he numbers, and well measured land. 

 Thus doth he now that groud whereon you stand, 



