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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Xo. 115. 



Ribbesford and Highlington, nearBewdley (Wor- 

 cestershire), about the twelfth century. Several 

 legends, approachinji very near to facts, are extant 

 in this neighbourhood concerning him ; one of the 

 best authenticated is as follows : 



Hunting one day near the Severn, he started a 

 fine buck, which took the direction of the river ; 

 feanng to lose it, he disctharged an arrow, which, 

 piercing it through, continued its flight, and struck 

 a salmon, which had (as is customary with such 

 fish in shallow streams) leaped from the surface of 

 the water, with so much force as to transfix it. 

 This being thought a very extraordinary shot (as 

 indeed it was), a stone carving representing it was 

 fixed over tiie west door of Ribbesford Church, 

 then in course of erection. A description of this 

 carving is, I believe, in Nash's History of Wor- 

 cestershire, but without any mention of the legend 

 The carving merely shows a rude human figure 

 with a bow, and a salmon transfixed with an arrow 

 before it. A few facts concerning this " John of 

 Horsiil " would be hailed with much pleasure by 

 your well wisher, II. Coeville Waede. 



Kidderminster. 



St. Crispins Day. — In the parishes of Cuck- 

 field and Hurst-a-point in Sussex, it is still the 

 custom to observe St. Crispin's day, and it is 

 kept with much rejoicing. The boys go round 

 asking for money in the name of St. Crispin, bon- 

 fires are lighted, and it passes off" very much in 

 the same way as the fifth of November does. It 

 appears, from an inscription on a monument to one 

 of the ancient family of Bunell in the parish church 

 of Cuckfield, that a Sir John Bunell attended 

 Henry V. to France in the year 1415, with one 

 ship, twenty men-at-arms, and forty archers ; and 

 it is probable tliat the observance of this day in 

 that neighbourhoo<l is connected with that fact. 

 If so, though the names of — 



" Harry the kino;, Bedford, and Exeter, 

 Warwick and Talbot, Srdisbury and Gloster," 



have ceased to be "familiar as household words" 

 in the mouths of the people, yet it is a curious proof 

 for what length of time a usage may be trans- 

 mitted, though the origin of it may be lost. 



If any of your correspondents can inform me 

 whether St. Crispin's Day is observed in their 

 neighbourhood, and, if so, whether stich cases can 

 be connected, as in the present instance, with some 

 old warrior of Agincourt, they will much oblige 



R. W. B. 



Poniatowshi Gems. — When were these gems 

 sold in London, and where can I get particulars 

 of the prices, purchasers' names, &c., and any 

 critical remarks upon them that may have ap- 

 peared on the time of the sale ? A. O. 0. D. 



Why Cold Pudding settles ones Love ? — At a 

 Christmas party, recently, the question occurred, 



" Whence the origin of the supposed attribute of 

 cold plum pudding of settling one's love?" No 

 one present being able to give a satisfactory solu- 

 tion, it was agreed that I should take your opinion 

 on the subject. I therefore ask. How old is the 

 saying ? and to what part of England or Great 

 Britain may it be traced ? 



An " F. S. A." -WHO loves Pudding. 



Pocmby Camden. — Where is the Latin poem by 

 Camden, De Connubio Tham,ai et Isis, to be found ? 



Camden (in Britannia, sive Regnomm Anglice 

 Chorographica Descriptio, folio, London, 1607) 

 quotes very largely from this poem, of which he 

 is the reputed author, viz., page 215, 19 lines; 

 page 272-3, 64 lines; page 302, 12 lines. 



Dr. Kippis, Biographia Britannica, article 

 "Camden," in vol. iii., assigns the poem to Camden ; 

 and Dr. Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica., 

 speaks of it under Isis, and refers to a translation 

 of it by Basil Kennet, the brother of White Ken- 

 net, Bishop of Peterborough. 



These authorities induce me to think either the 

 Latin poem, or the translation, must be in exis- 

 tence, though, I regret to say, I cannot find either. 



Qu.'EBO. 



[A query relating to this poem has already appeared, 

 see " N. & Q." Vol. ii., p. .392. Having investigated 

 it, we are inclined to think, that only those portions of 

 it which appear in the Britannia have been published. 

 Mr. Salmon, in his Herlfordahire, p. .3., speaking of the 

 word Tamesis being a compound of the two rivers 

 Tame and Isis, says, " Of this Mr. Camden was so 

 assured, that he hath left us an elephant poem upon the 

 marriage of these two streams in his Britannia." As 

 to Dr. Basil Kennet's translation, it is clear from 

 Bishop Gibson's Preface, p. xiv., that he only trans- 

 lated what has been given in this work. The Bishop 

 snys, " The vers2S which occur in Mr. Camden's text 

 were translated by Mr. Kennet, of Corpus Christi 

 College in Oxford."] 



3f arches of Wales and Lords Marchers. — Can 

 any of your correspondents define briefly the 

 Marches of Wales, what localities were com- 

 prehended within the Marches, the meaning of the 

 word, as also the term Lords Marchers? Is 

 there any work in which the explanation sought 

 can be found ? "• 



[Consult Camden's Britannia, by Gibson, vol. i. 

 p. 470., vol. ii. p. 199. ; Warrington's History of Wales, 

 vol. i. pp. 369 — 384. ; and Penny Cychpeedia, art. 

 Marches.'] 



MORAVIAN HYMNS. 



(Vol.iv., p. 502.) 

 I offer P. H. the best information I have. It is 

 scanty, but as a fevr years ago there was much 



