April 17. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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it generally prevails, from the time of heathenism." 

 In addition to the interesting notice of the preva- 

 lence of this custom in Europe, and many remote 

 parts of Asia and Africa, given by Brand, I find 

 traces of it amongst the American tribes at the 

 period of tlie Spanish conquest. In 15-12, when 

 Hernando de Soto, the famous conquest-actor of 

 Florida, had an interview with the Cacique Gua- 

 choya, the following curious incident occurred : — 

 " In the midst of their conversation, the Cacique 

 happened to sneeze. Upon this, all his attendants 

 bowed their heads, opened and closed tlieir arms ; and 

 making their signs of veneration, saluted their prince 

 with various phrases of the same purport ; ' May the 

 sun guard you,' ' may the sun be with you,' ' may the 

 sun shine upon you,' ' defend you,' ' prosper you,' and 

 the like; eaoh uttered the phrase that came first to his 

 mind, and for a short time there was a universal mur- 

 muring of these compliments." — The Conquest of 

 Florida under Hernando de Soto, by Theodore Irving, 

 vol. ii. p. 161. 



Whence could the natives of the New World 

 have derived a custom so strikingly similai' to that 

 which the ancients record ? K. S. F. 



Perth. 



Marlboroui^h 5th November Custom. — At Marl- 

 borough, Wiltshire, on the 5th of November, two 

 or three years ago, I noticed a peculiar custom the 

 rustics have at their bonfires, to which I could 

 attach no meaning; and I did not, at the time, 

 inquire of any person there regarding it. 



They form themselves into a ring of some dozen 

 or more round the bonfire, and follow each other 

 round it, holding thick club-sticks over their 

 shoulders ; wliile a few others, standing at dis- 

 tances outside this moving ring, with the same 

 sort of sticks, beat those the men hold over their 

 Moulders, as they pass round in succession, all 

 shouting and screaming loudly. This might last 

 half an hour at a time, and be continued at inter- 

 vals till the fire died out. Can any correspondent 

 inform me whether this has any meaning attached 

 to it? J. S. A. 



Old Broad Street. 



Spectral Coach and Horses (Vol. iv., p. 195.). — 

 A similar legend was within a few years current 

 near Bury St. Edmunds, in the same county, 

 where on Christmas Eve, at midnight, a coach 

 drawn by four headless horses, and driven by a 

 headless coachman, might be seen to come in a 

 direction from the parish of Great Barton, across 

 the fields, regardless of fences, and proceed to a 

 deep hole called " Phillis's Hole " near " the two- 

 mile spinney," in the parish of Rongham, and there 

 find a resting-place. A few years since, wishing 

 to learn whether this sight was among the things 

 still looked for or believed in, I proceeded to the 

 locality at the time stated, but met with no one 

 but a gamekeeper, whom I found to be quite 



familiar with the legend. He said he had heard 

 a good deal in his younger days about the " coach," 

 but had never seen it. There was, however, an 

 old woman then living who had seen It often, and 

 who declared that the coach was occupied by a 

 gentleman and a lady, also without heads, but he 

 did not know what to say to it. All he knew was, 

 that when a man was out on dark nights, " he 

 could draw anything into his eye that he liked ! " 



BUEIENSIS. 



ANTIQUARIES OF THE TIME OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. 



I have a copy of Weever's Ancient Funerall 

 Monuments, which once belonged to William Bur- 

 ton, the historian of Leicestershire ; on a fly-leaf 

 at the end of the volume is the following list in the 

 autograph of that celebrated antiquary, which, 

 perhaps, may not be without Its Interest to the 

 readers of "N. & Q." I have appended some 

 notes of Identification, which I have no doubt 

 some of your correspondents could easily render 

 more complete. 



" Antiquarli temp. Eliz. Reg. 



1. Recorder Fletewode, 23. Willm Camden, 



W™. 24. Mere. Patten. 



2. Mr. Atey. 25. Samson Erdeswike. 



3. Mr. Lambard, WiUm. 26. — Josseline. 



4. Mr. Cope. -7- Hen. Sacheverell. 



5. Mr. Broughton y« 28. W"'. Nettleton de 



Lawyer. Knoccsborough. 



6. Mr. Leigh. 29. John Feme. 



7. Mr. Bourgchler. SO. Robt. Bele. 



8. Mr. Broughton y" 31. John Savile de Tem- 



Preaeher. plo. 



9. Mr. Holland, Joseph. 32. Daniell Rogers. 



10. Mr. Gartier. 33. Tho. Saville. 



11. Mr. Cotton, Rob'. 34. Henry Saville. 



12. Mr. Thinne, Francis. 35. llog. Keymis. 



13. Jo. Stowe. , 36. John Guillim. 



14. — Combes. 37. — Dee. 



15. — Lloyd. 38. — Heneage. 



16. — . Strangman. 39. Rich. Scarlet. 



17. Hen. Spelman. 40. — Wodhall. 



18. Arthur Gregory, 41. Dent de Baco Regis. 



19. Anth. Cliffe, 42, — Bowyer, 



20. Tho. Talbot. 43. Robt. Hare. 



21. Arthur Goulding. 44. — Harrison, school em'. 



22. Arthur Agard. 45. — Harrison, niinistV 



1 . William Fleetwood, Recorder of London, " a 

 learned man and good antiquary," ob. 1593. (^Wood, 

 ed. Bliss, i. 598.) 



2. Mr. Atey. Was this Arthur Atey, Principal of 

 St. Alban Hall, and Orator of the University of Ox- 

 ford, who was secretary to the Earl of Leicester, 

 knighted by King James, and who died in 1604 ? 



3. William Lambarde, the learned author of the 

 Perambulation of Kent, the first county history at- 

 tempted in England, died in 1601. 



4. Mr. Cope. 



5. Mr. Broughton the Lawyer, i.e. Richard Brough- 



