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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 126. 



Buke of Orleans, in July 1842. By following out 

 the same principle of addition, the next great 

 national event appears to be in store for the year 

 1857. Of course the superstitious reader must 

 shut his eyes on 1848. 



1794 - Period of Robespierre. 



1 



7 



9 



4 



1815 - Waterloo. 



- Revolution. 



1842 



Death of the Duke of Orleans. 



" Black Book of Scone." — The Black Book of 

 Scone, containing the history of Scotland from 

 Fergus I., was in Sir Robert Spottiswood's library, 

 and was given by Lewis Cant (a Covenanting 

 minister) to Major-General Lambert, and by 

 Lambert to Col. Fairfax ; wliich book Charles I. 

 had ransomed from Rome by a considerable .sum 

 of money : and it is certain Archbishop Spottis- 

 "vvood bad it and the Black Book of Paisley, signed 

 by three abbots, when he compiled his History, 

 which, with the famous Red Book of Pluscardine, 

 Buchanan says he had, and frequently cites. — Sir 

 George Mackenzie's Defence of the Antiquity of 

 the Royal Line of Scotland; and also Lives of 

 Scotch Writei-s. 



The fate of the Black Book of Scone may be a 

 clue to the inquirer after the Black Book of 

 Paisley. It is not now in the library at Spottis- 

 wood ; and most of Sir Robert Spottiswood's pro- 

 perty was pillaged and ransacked during his im- 

 prisonment. L. M. M. R. 



Cracked Glass. — Some years ago, being a 

 schoolboy at the time, I spent my Christmas 

 holidays at my grandfather's house in Somerset- 

 shire. The members of the family were assem- 

 bled for evening prayer, when suddenly music, 

 resembling that of an /Eolian harp, was heard, 

 produced apparently by some person upon the 

 lawn immediately beneath the window. As soon 

 as the prayers were concluded I opened the hall 

 dooi', and was greatly surprised to find the mu- 

 sician had departed. On returning to the draw- 

 ing-room I was informed that the moment I had 

 left the room the music ceased. Believing that 



some village friend had 'come to serenade us, we 

 drew our chairs round "the fire in expectation of 

 his return. A few minutes only elapsed when the 

 music was again distinctly heard. A second visit 

 was made to the hnll door, but with no better 

 success. It was then resolved to open the shutters, 

 which was no sooner done than the mystery was 

 clearly explained. During the day a pane of 

 glass had been cracked,2and the music was pro- 

 duced by the two pieces of glass vibrating against 

 each other. We found, from repeated experi- 

 ments, that it required the atmos{)here of the 

 room to be at rather a high temperature to pro- 

 duce the effect, for the moment the door, or one 

 of the other windows, was opened, the vibration 

 ceased. I have only to add that the music was 

 very pleasing to the ear, and consisted of rapid 

 cadences. I have often mentioned the circum- 

 stance, but I never found any one who had met 

 with a similar musical fracture. M. A.^ 



Spanish Verses on the Invasion of England. — 

 I carry in my memory the following verses. Arft 

 they to be found in any Spanish canzonero ? I 

 certainly have not invented them. 



" Mi hermano Bartolo ^ 



Va in Inglatierra 

 A matar et Draque 



Y a tomar la reyna. 

 , Y delos Luteranos 



De la banda-messa 

 Tiene a traer mi 

 A mi de la guerra 

 Un Luteranico 

 Con una cadena 



Y una Luterana." 



Here my memory fails me. 



L. H. J. T, 



caucn'p^. 



LEGAL WOETHIES, QUERIES RESPECTING. 



I shall be much obliged for any information or 

 hints as to the following Queries : — 



1. Is there any list extant of the Protlionotaries 

 of the Supreme Courts of Judicature from the time 

 of Edward III. downwards, or any source from 

 which their names could be obtained ? Was John 

 Hayward a prothonotary of one of the courts in 

 Edward III.'s time, or during the reign imme- 

 diately following ? or can any information be 

 furnished about a lawyer of that name about that 

 time? 



2. Is anything known of a place called " Schyp- 

 men Hall" existing in London or elsewhere in the 

 time of Edward IV. ? 



3. When did " Mr. Goldsborough, one of the 

 Prothonotaries of the Common Banke," flourish ? 



4. Is anything known of Traherne, said to have 



