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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 115. 



in the Thames, often amuss tliemselves in calm weather | 

 by throwing little stones along the surface of the water, | 

 so as to make ducks and drakes, as it is called. This 

 practice the English look at with great astonishment, | 

 and wonder at a use of the hands so different from that 

 which they make of their own in boxing." 



Bilderdyk speaks contemptuously of Pope : yet 

 it may be surmised, from the above commentary, 

 that he was but ill qualified to criticise him, other- 

 wise he would not have supposed that "plump" 

 could have the remotest allusion to the light skim- 

 ming amusement of "ducks and drakes;" not to 

 mention that he would have suspected that it was 

 no " steentje" that plumped into the lakes. 



Satii'ical Verses on the Chancellor Clarendoiis 

 Downfall— In ]\IS. Add. 4968., British Museum,^ 

 a duodecimo volume containing a collection of 

 arms and achievements tricked by a painter-stainer 

 in the reign of Charles II., at fol. 62°. is the fol- 

 lowing poem " On the Chancellor's Downfall," 

 which, if not already printed, may be worth pre- 

 serving : — 



Pride, lust, ambitions, and the kingdom's hate, 

 The Nation's broker, ruin of the State ; 

 Dunkirke's sad loss, divider of the fleet, 

 Tangier's compounder for a barren sheet ; • 

 The Shrub of Gentry married to the Ci'owne, 

 And 's daughter to the heir, is tumbled downc. 

 The grand contemner of the Nobles lies 

 Groveling in dust, as a just sacrifice, 

 T' appease the injured King, abused Nation, — 

 Who could beleeve this suddaine alteration ! 

 God is revenged to, for stones he tooke 

 From aged Paules to build a liouse forth' Rooke. 

 Goe on, great Prince, thy People doe rejoyce, 

 . Meethinks I heare the Nation's totall voyce 

 Applauding this day's action to bee such. 

 As resting Rump, or beating of the Dutch. 

 More cormorants of State as well as hee. 

 Wee shortly hope in the same plight to see. 

 Looke now upon thy withered Cavaliers, 

 Who for reward hath nothing had but teres. 

 Thankes to this Wiltshire hogge, son of y'= spittle. 

 Had they beene lookt on, hee had had but little. 

 Breake up the coffers of this hording theefe. 

 There monies will be found for there reliefe. 

 Pve said enough of lynsey woolsey hide, 

 His sacriledge, ambition, lust, anil pride. 



Execution of Chai-les I. — In a letter which is 

 preserved in the State Paper Office, addressed to 

 Secretary Bennet, by Lord Ormonde and the 

 Council of Ireland, and dated the 29th of April, 

 1663, their Lordships request the Secretary to 

 move his Majesty that " Henry Porter, then known 

 as Martial General Porter, standing charged as 

 being the person by whose hand the head of our 

 late Sovereign King Charles the First, of blessed 



memory, was cutt off, and now two years impri- 

 soned in Dublin, should be brought to trial in 

 England." J. F. F. 



Dublin. 



Sorn loithin the Sound of Bow Bell. — In his 

 edition of Stow's Survey of London, Mr. Thoms^ 

 appends the subjoined note to the account which, 

 is given of Bow Church and its bells: — 



" From the absence of every allusion on the part of 

 Stow to the coinmon definition of a cockney, a person, 

 born within the sound of Bow Bells, the saying would 

 appear to be of somewhat more recent date." 



Stow's work was first published in 1598, and 

 the author died in 1605. Fuller, author of the 

 Worthies of England, was born in 1608 : and it 

 would seem that during his lifetime the definition 

 of a cockney was well-known ; for thus does. 

 Fuller speak : 



" [He was born within the sound of Boio Bell.'J 

 This is the periphrasis of a Londoner at large, born 

 within the suburbs thereof; the sound of this bell' 

 gXceeding the extent of the Lord Mayor's mace." 



Can any correspondent of " N. & Q." refer 

 me to an earlier writer than Fuller for the same- 

 definition ? Alfred Gattt. 



(Sttertfg. 



ARE OUK LISTS OF ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS 

 COMPLETE ? 



It must have often occurred to students of En- 

 glish history that the current and usual lists of 

 English sovereigns somewhat arbitrarily reject all 

 mention of some who, though for short periods, 

 have enjoyed the regal position and power ii> 

 this country. There will at once occur to every 

 reader the names (first) of the Empress ^^Laud^ 

 who, in a charter, dated Oxford in 1141, styled 

 herself " Matilda Imperatrix, Ilenrici regis filia, et 

 Anglorum, Domina ;" (secondly) the young King 

 Henry, the crowned son of Henry 11. ; and 

 (thirdly) |Lady Jane Grey, who, in a few public 

 and private docum.ents, is cited as " Jane, Queen 

 of England, Domina Jana, Dei Gratia Anglise, 

 Franciaj et Hiberniaj Regina," &c. 



I am desirous now of calling the attention of 

 your historical readers to the second case, my at- 

 tention to the subject having been specially di- 

 rected thereto by recently consulting the Chronicon 

 Petroburgense (edited for the Camden Society by • 

 Mr. Stapleton), in which occur various notices of 

 Henry, the crowned son of Henry II., as Henry///. 

 I beg to quote these passages. Under the year 

 MCLXix. the chronicler records that — 



•' Hie fecit Henricus Rex coronare filium suum al> 

 archiepiscopo Eborum." 



Sir Harris Nicholas, in his Chronology of His- 

 tory, states that he was crowned on Sunday the 



