Jan. 31. 1852.] 



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According to tradition, however, the boiling, or 

 broiling rather, of the Wizard-Earl Soulis, was 

 still more frightful : — 



" On a circle of stones they placed the pot, 

 On a circle of stones but barely nine ; 

 They heated it red and fiery hot, 



Till the burnished brass did glimmer and shine. 



•' They rolled him up in a sheet of lead, 

 A sheet of lead for a funeral pall ; 

 Tliey plunged him in the cauldron red, 

 And melted him, lead, and bones, and all." 



R. S. F. 



Perth. 



SXciilit^ to i^inor dhuttitS, 



List of English Sovereigns (Vol. v., p. 28.). — 

 The principal reason why the names of the Em- 

 press Matilda, King Henry junior, and Queen 

 Jane (Grey or Dudley), are not inserted in the 

 lists of English sovereigns, as J. J. S. suggests 

 they should be, arises from the fact of the periods 

 of their supposed reigns being concurrent with 

 those of other monai'chs, and our constitution 

 recognising one only at a time. The name of 

 Queen Jane has, however, found a place in some 

 recent lists ; following that given in Sir Harris 

 Nicolas's Chronology of History (edit. 1833, 

 p. 330.), where he states that her nominal reign 

 extended from the 6th to the 17th July, 1553. 

 Appended to The Chronicle of Queen Jane and 

 Queen Mary (printed for the Camden Society), I 

 have given a list of all the public documents or 

 state papers known to be extant which bear dute 

 in the reign of Queen Jane, and the last is a letter 

 of the Privy Council to Lord Rich, dated the I9th 

 July; this extends the period two days longer 

 than in the Chronology of History, and was cer- 

 tainly the last public document that recognised 

 Jane's authority. Only one private document so 

 dated has been discovered. It is a deed relating 

 to the parish of St. Dunstan's in Kent (dated 15th 

 July), whicli was communicated by Mr. Hunter 

 to the Retrospective Review, N. S vol. i. p. 505. 

 But an act of parliament of the 1st March, 1553-4, 

 legalised all documents that might be so dated from 

 the 6th of July to the last day of the same month 

 (Nicolas, p. 316.). Among our historians, Heylin, 

 in his History of the Reformation, has apportioned 

 a distinct division of his narrative to " The Reign 

 of Queen Jane." John Gough Nichols. 



Moravian Hymns (Vol. v., p. 30.). — I cannot 

 tell H. B. C. what is the editio princeps of these 

 hymns ; but as he appears to know of no edition 

 atiterior to 1749, I beg to observe that an edition 

 of Psalms and Hymns for the use of the Moravians 

 was published by the Rev. John Gambold, one of 

 their bishops, at London, in 1738. It is in 12mo. 

 without the name of any printer. There is a copy 



of this book in the archiepiscopal library at Lam- 

 beth. But as it is five-and-twenty years, or more, 

 since I saw it, I have no recollection of the parti- 

 culars of its contents. H. C. 

 Thurles. 



In 1801 a Moravian Hymn-book was issued, 

 which, being out of print, was reprinted in 1809. 

 I should suppose the book a great improvement 

 upon the old Moravian hymn-books. I have a 

 copy of the edition of 1809 : about half the hymns 

 are translations from the German, and the rest 

 selected from Watts, Wesley, Steel, Robinson, and 

 others. The hymn " To you, ye Jesus' wounds " 

 is not in it. The book contains also their simple 

 and beautiful liturgy, offices for baptism, burial, 

 ordination of bishops, priests, and deacons, &c. 



James Edmeston. 



Homerton. 



The following is the title of a book, printed 

 in 1749, for James Hutton, Fetter Lane: — ■ 

 Hymns composed for the Use of the Brethren by the 

 Right Rev. and most Illustrious C. Z. (Count 

 Zinzendorf ?) I ti-anscribe some specimens. 



" God's side hole, hear my prayer. 

 Accept my meditation ; 

 On thee I cast my care. 



With childlike adoration. 

 While days and ages pass, and endless periods roll, 

 An everlasting blaze shall sparkle from that hole. 



Lovely side hole, dearest side hole ! 



Sweetest side hole, made for me ; 

 O my most beloved side hole ! 



I wish to be lost in thee. 

 O my dearest side hole ! 



Thou art to my bride soul 

 The most dear and loveliest place; 

 Pleura's space ! 

 Soul and body in the pass. 



The daughters reverence do, 



Christess and praise thee too, 



Thou happy Kyria, daughter of Abijah ; 



We reach each sister of Jehovah, 



Manness of the man Jeshuah, 



Out of the pleura Hosannah." 



James Cornish. 



Age of Trees — " Essex Broad Oak " (Vol. v., 

 pp. 10. 40.). — Was not the "Essex Broad Oak" 

 identical with the " Fairlnp Oak ? " The Fairlop 

 Oak is thus described in Excursions through Essex 

 (Longman, 1818, vol. ii. p. 56.) : 



" In Hainault Forest, about one mile from Barking- 

 side, stands an oak which has been known through 

 many centuries by the name of Fairlop. For an 

 account of this celebrated tree (which seems to have 

 escaped the attention of the laborious Camden, and his 

 indefatigable continuator, Mr. Gough) we are indebted 



