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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°* S. No 78., June 27. '57. 



Articles, 1551 — 2., § xlvi., forbids them; as did 

 Ridley in the preceding year. (^Injunctions, Works, 

 p. 320.) Tyndale says, " They make perpetuities 

 to be prayed for for ever ; and lade the lips of 

 their beadmen or chaplains with many masses, 

 diriges," &c. {Obed. of a Christian Man, 331.) 

 Bishops ordinarily signed themselves your humble 

 bedeman. (Comp. Donee's lUiistrat. on Gent, of 

 Ver., Act I. So. 1.) The transition from this use 

 of the word as " servant " to " almsman " was very 

 easy. The bead-roll was always used on All 

 Saints Day. In 1504, John Hedge of Bury be- 

 queathed to the parish priest 4s. 4d. " for a San- 

 grede to be prayed for in the bede-roll, for his 

 soul and his good friends' souls by the space of a 

 year complete." (Bury Wills, 100.) 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



William Cruden (2"'' S. iii. 447.) — This Mr. 

 Cruden became minister of Logic Pert, near 

 Montrose, in 1753, and there he remained at least 

 thirteen years. It has been said that about the 

 year 1767 he resigned his parochial charge and 

 became a minister at Glasgow, in connexion with 

 the body then known as the Presbytery of Relief. 

 While he was minister of Logic Pert he published 

 a small volume entitled. Hymns on a Variety of 

 Divine Subjects, Aberdeen, printed by J. Chalmers, 

 1761 (pp. 232, containing 175 hymns founded on 

 passages of scripture). In 1766 he published a 

 larger work, entitled Nature Spiritualised, in a 

 Variety of Poems containing Pious Observations on 

 the Worlis of Nature and the ordinary Occurrences 

 in Life, London, printed by J. & W. Oliver, &c. 

 This volume extends to 295 pages and contains 

 109 poems. Both works must be scarce: for 

 about two years ago a man of considerable wealth, 

 whose dying brother longed earnestly for a perusal 

 of the hymns, which in his early years had been 

 recited or read to him by his mother, a native of 

 Logic Pert, used every effort to procure a copy, 

 and never succeeded till he applied to an inde- 

 fatigable collector, who was gratified by having it 

 in his power to minister to the comfort of a stranger 

 on his death-bed. The writer of this brief notice 

 has not been able to discover that there was any 

 relationship between William Cruden and the 

 compiler of the Concordance. But he thinks it 

 right to add, that he possesses a volume of Ser- 

 mons by William Cruden, as well as copies of his 

 other works. Anon. 



Baxter, a Baker (2°'i S. iii. 328.) — I cannot 

 concur in the " impression " of " K., Arbroath," 

 or Abcrbrothock, not " Aberbro^AecA," regarding 

 the foregoing. I would, suggest reading the 

 rhyme cited by him — 



" The Wahster ga'ed up to see the mune." 



But be that as it may, I here beg to give an ex- 

 planatory extract from a document extracted 



from the Lord Lyon's Books, to wit, a descrip- 

 tion of the arms of Mr. Baxter, M.P., Angus 

 Burghs : 



" Ermine, on a cheveron, betw. three mullets, gules, as 

 many garbs" [golden sheaves of wheat']. "Or;" — In 

 chief, a label of three points, as a mark of cadency. 

 "Crest. — A lion rampant guardant, sable," charged with 

 a label, gules, 



" Motto. — Vincit Veritas." (Truth conquers.) Matr. 

 1855. 



D. MacGkeqor Petee. 



Professor Hurwitz (2"^ S. iii. 389.)— A me- 

 moir of this scholar from the pen of a gentleman 

 peculiarly well informed, appeared in the now ex- 

 tinct Jewish periodical, The Voice of Jacob, 

 vol. iii. p. 196., being the issue numbered 79, and 

 dated Aug. 2. 1844. Anon. 



chad:s Caul (2"^ s. iii. 497.)— w.h. w.t. 



will find a digest of evidence and information upon 

 the child's caul in the last edition of my little 

 volume, Things not generally Known. 



John Timbs. 



Portrait of George III. (2°^ S. iii. 447.) — 

 When at Homburg some years ago, I was shown, 

 in the rooms of the Princess Elizabeth in the 

 palace, a portrait in oil about 12 X 15 in., exactly 

 as described by W. W. W. The attendant told 

 me that it was done when the king was blind and 

 his mind affected. When the princess saw it she 

 was so much grieved that she could not have it 

 exposed, and it consequently was never taken 

 from the box in which it was sent, and I saw it in 

 that state. I have a sort of recollection that the 

 attendant said copies were made for all the family 

 of George III., but I am not sure of this. Be- 

 yond a supposed truthfulness I did not observe 

 any artistic merit in the painting, but I did not 

 examine it very closely. C. L. 



Edinburgh. 



Sir William Keith (2"'^ S. iii. 454.)— It is stated 

 by R. R. that Sir William Keith " died Novem- 

 ber 18, 1749, in the Old Bailey, but ichether this 

 was a street or the prison of that name does not 

 appear." He must have died in the street of that 

 name, in which at that period persons of con- 

 sideration resided ; as there never was any prison 

 in London called the Old Bailey. In the street of 

 that name there is a court-house for the trial of 

 criminals^ the correct name of which I believe is, 

 "Justice Hall in the Old Bailey;" and persons 

 tried there (before the Central Criminal Court 

 was constituted in 1834), were said to have been 

 tried " at the Old Bailey." F. A. Caerington. 



Ogbourne St. George. 



Monoliths (2"'i S. iii. 189.) —The four columns 

 at the gate of Edinburgh College are noble spepi- 

 mens of monoliths. I am not acquainted with 

 their dimensions. Stdfhuhn. 



