Apeil 10. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



353 



not quite sure whether the Spanish ballad is given 

 by Mr. Ticknor or not ; but the following is a part 

 of the English translation : — 



" And Bartolo, my brother, 



To England forth is gone, 

 Where the Drake he means to kill ; 

 ^ And the Lutherans every one, 



Excommunicate from God. 



Their Queen among the first 

 He will capture and bring back, 



Like heretics accurs'd : 

 And he promises, moreover, 



Amongst his spoils and gains, 

 A heretic young serving-boy 



To give me, bound in chains ; 

 And for my lady grandmamma, 



Whose years such waiting crave, 

 A little handy Lutheran, 



To be her maiden slave." 



These stanzas are cited by Mr. Ticknor to illus- 

 trate the state of public feeling which prevailed in 

 Spain respecting Sir Francis Drake and his coun- 

 trymen. Lope de Vega was also, it will be re- 

 membered, the author of a poem on Drake's last 

 expedition and death, entitled La Dragontea. 



F. L. 



Temple. 



Templars (Vol. v., p. 295,). — With respect to 

 the somewhat modern imposture of the Paris 

 Templars, E. A. H. L. had better consult Thilo's 

 CudexApocryphus. In the generality of foreign 

 masonic books he will find the derivation of the 

 Freemasons from the Templars asserted as being 

 their tradition. As to " the succession of Grand 

 Masters kept up" by them, I question whether 

 that is asserted by them, or elsewhere than in the 

 Parisian imposture. The masonic formularies 

 called Thuilew; and M. de Bonneville's Magon- 

 nerie Ecossaise, may be consulted. But the his- 

 tory of the order subsequent to that worthy, ■ 

 Jacques de Molai, will not there, or elsewhere, be 

 traced. The facts of common external history 

 which relate to the abolition of that order, such a's 

 the foundation of the Portuguese Order of Christ, 

 will all be found in Wilke's German History of the 

 Temple Order. A. N. 



E.A.H. L. will find a valuable Kote, with re- 

 ference to the principal authorities, in Hallam's 

 Supplemental Notes, p. 48. fi". See also Mill's His- 

 tory of Chivalry. The Grand Masters, since the 

 suppression, seem to have been principally French- 

 men. The chi ef authority is, I believe, the Manuel 

 des Templiers, which is only sold to members of 

 the society. E. S. Jackson. 



Saffron- Walden. 



Story of the Greek referred to hy Jeremy Taylor 

 (Vol. iv., pp. 208. 262. 326.). — It may interest 

 those correspondents of " N. & Q." who, in answer 

 to my Query on the above point, have given re- 



ferences to similar stories in Don Quixote, and the 

 life of St. Nicholas in the Legenda Aurea, to learn 

 that I have lately traced the story to its real source, 

 on which probably the parallel versions in question 

 were based. The name of the Greek was Arche- 

 timus of Erythraea; that of the victim of the artifice 

 Cydias of Tenedos. The story is given at length 

 in the Loci Communes J. Stobcei, Antonii Melissce, 

 et Maximi Monachi, cura Gesner, Serm. cxvi. 

 p. 362. ed. fol. Francof. 158 L 



Alexander Taylor. 



Emaciated Monumental Effigies (Vol. v., p. 247.). 

 — The legend repeated to me whilst viewing the 

 tomb of John Baret, some few years since, is some- 

 what different from that related by your corre- 

 spondent BuRiENSis. A portion of the roof over 

 the tomb is elaborately diapered with stars of lead 

 gilt, collars of SS., and a monogram of the letters 

 LB., together with the motto, " Grace me governe." 

 (A specimen of the diaper is given in Ceilings' 

 Gothic Ornaments, 4to., London, 1848.) The sexton 

 informed me that the person commemorated by the 

 emaciated figure had undertaken to diaper the 

 whole roof of the church in a manner similar to 

 the work above his tomb ; but, on discovering that 

 his life would be insufficient for the task, was so 

 afiected that he starved himself to death. I pre- 

 sume that Bawt is a misprint for Baret, in p. 247. 

 of your present volume. 



The tradition alluded to by your correspondent 

 has been, I believe, attached by some to the 

 emaciated figure at St. Saviour's, Southwark. A 

 good example of this kind of memorial is found 

 in the ante-chapel of St. John's College Chapel, 

 Cambridge. 



What foundation is there for the account, that 

 the superb roof of St. Mary's, Bury St. Edmund's, 

 was constructed in France, and put together after 

 it was brought to England ? 



W. Sparrow Simpson. 



Deaths from Fasting (Vol. v., pp. 247. 301.). — 

 In the Oxford MauTml of Sepulchral Brasses, 

 pp. 168 — 175., will be found a curious list of 

 monumental representations of skeletons and ema- 

 ciated figures in shrouds (1472 — 1598), which 

 may, perhaps, prove interesting to Buriensis. It 

 is by no means improbable that some of the ex- 

 amples are intended to commemorate persons 

 whose deaths occurred in consequence of fasting. 



E.N. 



London Genealogical Society (Vol. v., p. 297.). — 

 I presume your correspondent W. P. A. refers to 

 the Heraldic and Genealogical Society of Great 

 Britain and Ireland for the Elucidation of Family 

 Antiquity, which issued a prospectus a few years 

 ago ; but whether or not it is still in existence I 

 am unable to say. Gentlemen desirous of joining 

 the society were requested to transmit their names 



