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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd 3. No 59., Fku. 14, '57. 



Village. The air became known in England by 

 J. B. Cramer's arrangement for tlie piano-forte, 

 ■which had ahnost the largest sale of any piano- 

 forte piece on record. However, the air, as 

 printed by Cramer, and now generally adopted, is 

 not precisely as Rousseau wrote it. At the time 

 Cramer* arranged it he had not seen Rousseau's 

 opera, but received the copy from a pupil, through 

 the master of a military baud. Wm. Chappell. 



Oliver Cromwell (2">^ S. iii. 91.) — Medicus 

 will find what he inquires for in the Dublin Quar- 

 terly Journal of Medical Science for 1848, p. 339. 

 The paper is entitled — " Historical Notes con- 

 cerning certain Illnesses, the Death, and Disinter- 

 ment of Oliver Cromwell." Jatdee. 



A7-ms of Llewellyn Voelgrwn (2"'' S. ii. 490.) — 

 The arms of Llewellyn Foelgwyn, of Maen, are — 

 Arg., a lion passant, sa., a border indented, gu. 

 Authority, " The Salisbury Pedigree." E. C. 



Gresford, Denbighshire. 



Mrs. Scott (2"^ S. iii. 78.) — At Simonburn 

 church, in Northumberland, there is a monu- 

 mental inscription that for its genealogical in- 

 formation may be worth recording in " N. & Q. :" 



" Here lies the body of 



Annabella Scott, 



who departed this life Jan. 28, 1779, 



aged 73 years. 



She was mother to James Scott, D.D., 



Rector of this parish, 



and granddaughter to 



Tobias Wickham, Dean of York, 



The grandson of William Wickham, 



Bishop of Winchester, 



who married Antonia Barlow, 



one of the five daughters 



of William Barlow, Bishop of Chichester, 



all of whom 



were married to Bishops, viz. 



One to Tobye Matthew, Archbishop of York, 



Another to Wickham, Bishop of Winchester, 



A third to Overton, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 



A fourth to Westphaling, Bishop of Hereford, 



and the fifth to Daj^ Bishop of Chichester. 



It is remarkable that William Barlow 



was the first English Bishop 



that ever married." 



E. H. A. 



Bai-on Munchausen's Travels (P*^ S. iii. 117. 

 305. 453.) — It may be well to note, that in the 

 Gent. Mag. for Jan. 1857, it is satisfactorily made 

 out that these two volumes were written at Dol- 

 coath Mine, in Cornwall, by Mr. Raspe, a German, 

 who was the storekeeper of that establishment. 



H. T. E. 



" Half Seas over'' (2°'i S. iii. 30.) — If Threl- 

 KELD will just cross from Folkstone to Boulogne, 

 when there is a gentle swell upon the waters — on 

 arriving in mid channel, his cheeks will be man- 

 tling with livid hue, his eyes turning up, and 



his stomach preparing to do so, and then he will 

 be able to answer his own Query, — what is the 

 origin of the term " half seas over ? " There is 

 the reply of L. A. T. 



The Wogan Family (2"'' S. iii. 25.) —The ac- 

 count of Thomas Wogan, the regicide, reminds me 

 of an anecdote related by Bourne in the History 

 of Newcastle-upon- Tyne, p. 239. : 



" In the spring this year an unknown gentleman came 

 to reside at Winlaton, living very private, and daily more 

 inquisitive after news and every circumstance of the 

 Restoration ; who, upon understanding the passing the 

 Act of Indemnit}-, together with the exception of the 

 murderers of the late King, went into an adjoining wood 

 and hanged himself." 



E. H. A. 



Leaning Towers (2""^ S. iii. 74.) — I must ven- 

 ture a few observations upon the communication 

 of Mr. T. J. BucKTON respecting the causes which 

 have produced the leaning and twisted appearance 

 of Chesterfield Church spire. I cannot agree with 

 him that the distorted shape of the spire is the 

 result of design, or attributable to symbolic mean- 

 ing ; though I am far from doubting that many of 

 the peculiarities in form and arrangement of other 

 parts of churches may be traced to some such 

 veiled meaning. 



In regard to this spire, a careful examination of 

 its construction has shown that the crooked shape 

 may have arisen from natural causes, which have 

 in this particular instance produced the most re- 

 markable effect. 



This subject was very fully discussed at a meet- 

 ing of the Institute of British Architects on the 

 8th of January, 1855, when an interesting paper 

 upon the matter was read from Mr. Scott, and is 

 published in the Transactions of the Institute. It 

 was ascertained that the oak plates on which the 

 framework of the spire rests were much decayed 

 on one side, causing a divergence from perpen- 

 dicular, and that the timbers had appearances of 

 being used when in a green and unseasoned con- 

 dition. The action of the sun upon the spire 

 would therefore cause it to become crooked, and 

 this may account for the distortion without attri- 

 buting it to design. An examination of the lean- 

 ing towers at Bologna and Pisa lead me to the 

 same conclusion, that they derive their inclination 

 from failure in foundation during erection, when 

 it becomes too late to correct the mischief by any 

 alteration in the outline ; at Pisa, however, an at- 

 tempt of this sort has been made in the Campanile, 

 and at a moderate height from the ground there is 

 an evident alteration in the beds of the masonry, 

 indicating the experiment. 



Regarding the entasis in spires, it would be an 

 interesting subject for further examination than 

 has yet been made ; many appear to hollow in- 

 wards, as described by Mr. Buckton. But there 

 are also a great number which have considerable 



