2nd s. No 76., Junk 6. '57.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Imndredos, seu vrapentachia, suoquo olim subaudiens ma- 



fistraUii quern Ledgrevium appellabant." — V. etiam 

 andys, Cons. Kancia, p. 56.] 



John Sobieski and Charles Edward Stuart. — 

 Who are the " John Sobieski " and " Charles Ed- 

 ward " Stuart, authors of Lays of the Deer Forest, 

 published by Blackwood in 1848 ? What is 

 their history, and what foundations are there for 

 the claims they seem to set up to be the descend- 

 ants and representatives (?) of the " Ciievalier ? " 

 Are they, or the "Louisa Sobieska" and the 

 " Charles," to whom the volumes of the " Lays " 

 are respectively dedicated, still living, and where ? 



Rbos Gwyn. 



[We had always been led to believe that the celebrated 

 inscription on the tomb of Cardinal York in St. Peter's at 

 Rome, announced an historical fact, "Here lies the 

 LAST OF THE Stuarts." But in 1842 a m3-sterious per- 

 sonage in the Highlands came forward to instruct his Jess 

 learned countrymen in the mysteries of plaids and badges 

 in a work entitled Vestiarium Scoticum, by John Sobieski 

 Stuart. About thirty years ago, a description of the MS. 

 of this work, with a transcript of a portion of it, was sent 

 to the Society of Scottish Antiquaries, with a request 

 that they would patronise its publication ; and by their 

 Secretary the specimen was placed in the hands of Sir 

 Walter Scott. Sir Walter assured the Society that the 

 style and dialect of the specimen shown him were a most 

 feeble and clumsy imitation of the genuine writing of the 

 period, and indignantly declared his conviction that the 

 MS, itself must be an absolute fabrication. But it was 

 not till the year 18-17, that a more bold attempt was made 

 to persuade the world that Charles Edward Stuart had 

 left a legitimate male progeny. This was done in a work 

 entitled Tales of the Century; or Sketches of the Romance 

 of History between the Years 174G and 1846. Bv John 

 Sobieski and Charles Edward Stuart. This led a' writer 

 in The Quarterly Jieview to investigate the claims of 

 these two brothers to the illustrious pedigree the)' 

 had concocted, and by exposing their genealogical fic- 

 tion, has clearly shown that tiiese modern Pretenders are 

 no other individuals than John Hay Allan and Charles 

 Stuart Hay Allan. As the reviewer justly remarks: 

 " Now this is a serious matter. We are far from wishing 

 to curb in any way the fancy of our historical novelists, 

 or to examine too closely the actual existence of every 

 knight or noble whom a writer of that class maj' present 

 to us as achieving mighty deeds in the train of Philip Au- 

 gustus or of Pedro the Cruel ; but when we are told that 

 a legitimate son of Charles Edward Stuart was alive as 

 late as 1831, and that two of his sons are writing or edit- 

 ing books in 1846, the truth or falsehood of such a state- 

 ment concerns the history of our own time and country 

 much too nearly to be so Tightly disposed ot"— Quarterly 

 Review, vol. Ixxxi. p. 67. See also Burke's Romance of 

 the Aristocracy, vol. ii. p. 245.] 



The Hymn of Roland. — Hume, in hia History 

 of Hai-old, temp. 1088, says : 



" He (Duke of Normandy) ordered the signal of battle 

 to be given ; and the whole army, moving at once, and 

 singing the hymn or song of Roland, the famous peer of 

 Charlemagne," &c. 



Where could I lay my hands on a copy of this 

 " hymn or song " ? George Lloyd. 



[Dr. Crotch printed a tune in the 3rd edition of his 

 Specimen of Various Styles ofMufic, vol. i. p. 133., as the 



" Chamson Roland, sung by the Normans as they ad- 

 vanced to the battle of Hastings," which Mr. Chappell 

 has reproduced in the 2nd vol. (p. 7.) of his Popular Music 

 of the Olden Time ; to which we beg to refer our corre- 

 spondent for much curious information upon this point. 

 The Chanson de Roland, edited by M. Francisque Michel, 

 in 1837-8, from the original MS. in the Bodleian Library, 

 is a metrical romance in praise of the hero of Boiardo 

 Berni and Ariosto, and though it probably originated in 

 the popular estimation in which the earlier song was held 

 — from its length, about 4000 verses — to say nothing of 

 its being a more recent composition, could not have been 

 the song chanted by Taillefer. See also the Chanson de 

 Roland printed in Histoire de la PoSsie Scandinave, par M. 

 Eddlesland Du Me'ril. Paris, 8vo. 1839. p. 484.] 



Quotation Wanted : " Warms in the Sun," SjC. — 

 Can any of your readers inform me where the 

 following lines are to be found ? I heard or read 

 them when a child ; and from their peculiar 

 rhythm they have fixed themselves in my me- 

 mory : — 



" Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze. 

 Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; 

 Lives through all life, extends through all extent, 

 Spreads undivided, operates unspent." 



tJ. X. 



[These lines, corrected as we have printed them, will 

 be found in Pope's Essay on Man, bk. i. 1. 271-4.] 



Captain Ously. — Was the bold Capt. Ously, 

 who tossed the Tory mayor of Scarborough in a 

 blanket, fortunate in having a local historian to 

 record the deed which Narcissus Luttrell reports? 

 Some write that he threatened only. G. R. L. 



[Thomas Aislabie, Esq., was appointed Mayor of Scar- 

 borough by " the Regulators " sent by James II. to re- 

 model corporations. He was the last mayor under this 

 charter, and ended his career by the ceremony of being 

 tossed in a blanket, on August 13, 1688. (MS. note in 

 Hinderley's Scarborough, p. 136., edit. 1811.) See two 

 satirical songs on this memorable transaction in The 

 Muses' Farewell to Popery and Slavery, 8vo., 1690, en- 

 titled "A New Song of the Mavor being tossed in a 

 Blanket, in the North," p. 57., and " Fumbumbls : or the 

 North- Country Mayor," p. 140.] 



Sir Francis Knollys. — Can you favour me with 

 information relative to the parentage, birth-place, 

 &c., of Sir Francis Knollys, Treasurer of Queen 

 Elizabeth's Household, &c. ? A. W. D. 



[Sir Francis Knollys was son and heir of Robert 

 Knollys, gentleman of the privy chamber to Henry VIII. 

 Sir Francis was born at the family seat, Rotherfield Gray, 

 near Henley in Oxfordshire, and educated at Magdalen 

 College, Oxford. His first entrance at court was as gen- 

 tleman-pensioner to Henry VIII. Under Edward VI. he 

 distinguished himself so much by his zeal for the Re- 

 formation, that he found it prudent to retire into Ger- 

 many on the accession of Queen Mary; but upon her 

 death he returned into England, and was sworn of the 

 privy council to Queen Elizabeth, who afterwards made 

 him her Vice-Chambeilain, Treasurer of her Household, 

 and Knight of the Garter. He was nearly allied to Her 

 Majesty by marrying her cousin-german, Catherine, 

 daughter of William Carey, by Lady Mary Boleyne, 

 sister of Queeu Anne Boleyne. Ob. March 22, 1595-6. 



