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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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early German Hymnal, and never popular in Ger- 

 many. The rhythm is French, not German, nor 

 Anglican, nor Gregorian, nor Latin. Our English 

 books in the first instance call it a French tune. 

 An attempt has been made to consider it Latin 

 or Gregorian. Old Latin or Gregorian it cannot 

 be, for the Hexachord is against this conjecture ; 

 and the rhythm decisive. Modern Gregorian is 

 undeserving a thought. H. J. Gauntlett. 



" A sorrow's crown of sorrow " (2°^ S. iii. 369.) 

 — A similar thought is found in Dante's Inferno, 

 canto 5. v. 121. : 



" * * * nessun maggior dolore 

 Che ricordarsi del tempo felice 

 Nella miseria," • * *^ 



Also Chaucer : 



" For of Fortune's sharp adversite 

 The worst kind of infortune is this, 

 A man to have been in prosperite. 

 And it remember when it passid is." 



Troilus and Cresgeide, b. iii. 

 And Marino : 



" Che non ha doglia il misero maggiore 

 Che ricordar la gioia entro il dolore." 



Ado7ie, c. XIV. St. 100. 

 So also Fortinguerra : 



" Rimembrare 11 ben perduto 

 Fa piu meschino lo presente stato." 



Ricciardetto, c. xi. st. 83. 



The original thought perhaps was in Boetlus, de 

 Consol. Philosoph.\- 



" In omni adversitate fortunse infelicissimum genus est 

 infortunii fuisse felicem et non esse." — L. ii. pr. 4. 



Petrarch also has a line, canzone 46. : 



" Con dolor rimembrando il tempo lieto." 



Louisa Julia Nokman. 



University Hoods (2"'» S. iii. 308. 356.) — There 

 are at least two inaccuracies in Me. Walcott's 

 statement, as the following extract from the Cam,' 

 bridge Calendar will prove : 



" Masters of Arts of less than five years' standing, and 

 Doctors of less than two, compose the Regent or Upper 

 House, or White Hood House, from its members wearing 

 their hoods lined with white silk. [Not satin, as Mr. W. 

 says.] All the rest constitute the iVo«-Regent, or lower 

 house, otherwise called the Black Hood House, from its 

 members wearing black silk hoods." 



Mr. W. says the Regent M.A. hood is black. 



The Regent M.A.'s are those who are eligible 

 to certain University offices, which those of five 

 years' standing are exempt from, and so non- 

 Regent. J. Eastwood, M.A., Cant. 



The hoods worn by Bachelors of Arts at Oxford, 

 Cambridge, and Durham, are alike ; all are fringed 

 with a white fur. I believe that the B.A. Dublin 

 hood is the same. 



The M.A. Oxford hood is lined with red. At 

 Cambridge a M.A. of less than five years' standing 

 wears a hood lined with white silk; whence the 



Regent, or Upper, House of Convocation, to 

 which those Masters of Arts belong, is called the 

 "White Hood House." The M.A. of higher 

 standing wears a black hood, and votes in the 

 Non-Regent, or " Black Hood House." 



At Dublin the M.A. hood is lined with blue. 

 At Durham the M.A. hood is lined with silk of a 

 peculiar colour, called " Palatinate Purple." It 

 is the colour which the Bishops of Durham, as 

 Counts Palatine, were entitled to wear, and differs 

 not from the purple worn by other bishops. At 

 the death of Bishop Van Mildert, in 1836, the 

 Palatinate was separated from the See of Durham, 

 and the peculiar colour, no longer required for 

 the purpose for which it had hitherto been used, 

 was adopted as a distinguishing characteristic of 

 the University, of which Bishop Van Mildert, the 

 last Bishop Count Palatine, was one of the muni- 

 ficent founders. 



At Oxford and Cambridge, and I suppose at all 

 Universities, every person to be admitted to a 

 degree is presented wearing the hood of that de- 

 gree ; but there is no ceremony or form of words 

 used in receiving the hood. 



M.A. of Oxford, Cambridge, and Durham. 



Pupilla Oculi (2"'' S. iii. 389.) — It is probable 

 that the MS. which J. C. J. possesses formerly 

 belonged to Bangor Cathedral, that church being 

 dedicated to S. Daniel or Deiniol, first bishop of 

 the see, by whom the monastery was founded in 

 a.d. 516, and whose death is recorded in the 

 Welsh Annals under the year 584, a date for 

 which 554 might perhaps, with more probability, 

 be substituted. Several other churches in the 

 diocese are dedicated in his name ; e. g. Llan- 

 Deiniolen in Carnarvonshire, and Llanddeiniol- 

 Fab in Anglesey. Manuscripts of the Pupilla 

 Oculi are by no means uncommon. 



W. D. Macray. 



Bangor Cathedral is dedicated to St. Daniel, 

 who was consecrated Bishop of Bangor by Du- 

 bricius. It is probable that your correspondent's 

 copy of John de Burgh's book may have belonged 

 to the library of that cathedral. J. Sajjsom. 



Ludlow the Regicide (2"'^ S. iii. 236.) — Want 

 of opportunity alone prevents my replying in full 

 to J. G. N.'s desire for further information as to 

 the "slabs" of the Ludlow family in Maiden 

 Bradley church. I am not sure whether there 

 are more slabs than one ; but one I ana positive 

 of, for two Sundays ago I walked over it.. That 

 Sunday was the only whole day I have been at 

 Maiden Bradley since my Note appeared in print, 

 and as I was only aware of J. G. N.'s desire the 

 evening before, 1 had no fit opportunity of copy- 

 ing the inscription. However, on my return I 

 will do so, and forward it to the editor of " N. 

 & Q." Henri. 



