Apeil 10. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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AimlesclQugh, supposed to be a corruption of 

 £!lms-cleugh, which may possibly have a common 

 origin with the locality referred to by your Har- 

 rowgate correspondent. Strange to say, the first 

 meaning of the word cleugh, or cleuch, as given in 

 Jamieson's Dictionary, is " a precipice, or rugged 

 ascent." E. N. 



Artificial Memory (Vol. v., p. 305.). — The 

 hexameters on English counties given by C. S. P- 

 remind me of the following verses, which used to 

 assist the oblivious student at Oxford when pre- 

 paring for an examination on Scripture history. 

 It will be observed that the prosody is not strictly 

 correct. 



1. The five Cities of the Philistines. (Josh. xiii. 3.) 



Askelon, Azotus, Gath, Gazsque additur Ekron. 

 (Azotus is the same as Ashdod.') 



2. The six Cities of Refuge. (Josh. xx. 7 — 9.) 



Bezer, Golan, Gilead, urbes oriente locataa ; 

 Solis ab occasu, Kadesh, Hebronque, Shechem. 



3. The seven Deacons. (Acts vi. 5.) 



Diaconi Septem, Stephanus, Philipque, Nicanor, 

 Parmenas et Prochorus, Nicholas atque Timon, 



4. The seven Churches of Asia. (Rev. i. 11.) 



Septem Smyrna, Ephesus, Philadelphia, Laodicea ; 

 Pergamos et Sardis, nee Thyatira deest. 



E. K 

 Punishment of Boiling to Death (Yol. v., pp. 32. 

 112.184.). — It may not be uninteresting to ad- 

 duce an instance in this town : 



" 1 53 1 . This year here was a maid boiled to death in 

 the Market-place for poisoning her mistress." 



J.N.C. 



King's Lynn. 



Barnard's Church Music (Vol. v., p. 176.). — 

 In addition to the " odd parts" mentioned by your 

 correspondent Amanuensis, may be included a 

 tenor, and a counter-tenor part, in my possession. 



Mr. Beriah Botfield, in his Notes on the 

 Cathedral Libraries of England, p. 439., mention- 

 ing the music-books in the Library of the Dean 

 and Chapter of Westminster, says : 



"I may here notice Day's Service Book, 1565, with 

 music ; the tenor, Morning and Evening Prayer, im- 

 perfect, but of which only three or four copies are 

 known ; Barnard's Cathedral Music, only found else- 

 where at Berlin ; and several English Music Books 

 of great rarity." 



I am tolerably well acquainted with the contents 

 of the Westminster Library, but have not been 

 fortunate enough to discover the copy here men- 

 tioned. Perhaps Amanuensis may be more lucky. 

 At present I am under the impression that Mr. 

 Botfield is in error as to the existence of a copy 

 o£ Barnard at Westminster. 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



Portrait of Basherville (Vol. iv., p. 211.). — For 

 the information of your correspondent W. Cornish, 



I am enabled to inform him that there is a beau- 

 tiful portrait of that celebrated typographist Bas- 

 kerville in the possession of the Messrs, Longman 

 of Paternoster Row, and painted too by that most 

 exquisite of English artists, Gainsborough. Of 

 this portrait there is also a private plate (copper), 

 from which I happen to possess, through the 

 kindness of a very old friend, an impression to 

 add to a collection of Worcestershire portraits. 



A former correspondent, Vol. iv., p. 40., states 

 that Mr. Merridew assured him there was no por- 

 trait of Baskerville ; but Mr. M.,.in his catalogue of 

 Engraved Warwickshire Portraits, p. 4., notices a 

 " woodcut " from an original picture in the pos- 

 session of the late Thomas Knott, Esq. 



J. B. Whitborne. 



Autograph Music by Handel (Vol. v., p. 247.). — 

 I have the pleasure to inform the Rev. W. Spar- 

 row Simpson, that the duet mentioned by him : 

 " Va, va, speme infida pur va non ti credo," 



forms the Fifth Number of Handel's celebrated 

 Chamber Duets, and was first printed, I believe, 

 by the late Dr. Samuel Arnold, in his noble edi- 

 tion of the Works of Handel. 



The circumstances attending the composition of 

 these chamber duets are thus alluded to in the 

 &noiiymon& Memoirs of Handel, 8vo., 1759, p. 85.: 



" Soon after his [Handel's] return to Hanover [in 

 the year 1711], he made twelve Chamber Duettos, for 

 the practice of the late Queen, then Electoral Princess. 

 The character of these is well known to the judges in 

 music. The words for them were written by the 

 Abbate Mauro Hortensio, who had not disdained on 

 other occasions to minister to the masters of harmony." 



I must, however, beg leave to express my 

 opinion that Mr. Sparrow's MS. is not an auto- 

 graph of the great composer, on the ground that 

 the original MSS. of the Chamber Duets are pre- 

 served in the Queen's library at Buckingham 

 Palace. Handel used not to make more than one 

 copy of his various pieces, unless (as was seldom 

 the case) he made additions or alterations. 



I should mention that a new edition of the 

 Chamber Duets is now in the course of publication 

 by the Handel Society. Edward F. Rimbault. 



Dr. Fell (Vol. v., p. 296.). — Your correspon- 

 dent, who inquires about the lines of which the 

 above is the subject, may find some answer to his 

 question in Life of Canning, by R. Bell, p. 193., 

 where, after describing the various attempts of the 

 Pitt party to get Addington to resign the premier- 

 ship, it is said : " In vain Sheridan exhausted his 

 wit upon Addington, and threw the House into 

 convulsions by his parody on Martial : 



' I do not like thee, Doctor Fell,' &c. " 



E. B. 



The author of the lines is Tom Brown, the witty 

 and facetious writer of Dialogues of the Dead, in 



