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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 131. 



sit or lie down, tlie better to cover them from fire 

 till the moment of attack ; and the Duke's com- 

 mon practice was, just as the enemy came close, 

 and was on the point of attacking him, he attacked 

 them. What he may have said on this occasion, 

 and probably did sai/, was, " Stand up, Guards ;" 

 and then gave the commanding officers the order 

 to attack. One would not pledge oneself to the 

 very syllables of such a command on such an occa- 

 sion ; but what I have stated is the recollection of 

 one who was present, and it is equivalent at least 

 to the popular version of " Up, Guards, and at 

 themr C. 



[Our correspondent's doubt, whether Waterloo itself 

 is not a myth, was intended, we presume, as a hit at the 

 historical scepticism of the present day.] 



Bawderich, and Bells (Vol. iii., pp. 328. 435. 

 503.). — May I be allowed to call the attention of 

 your readers who are curious in such matters, to 

 a cut of the Buwdrich and its Gear, engraved in 

 the 13th and 14th Numbers of Willis's Current 

 Notes, about which there have already been seve- 

 ral notices in your interesting periodical ? 



I would also request any gentlemen who have 

 access to ohl parish records, to see what entries 

 they can find relating to the item in question, and 

 anything about the " whcles " of the belles. It is 

 desirable to find out by whom, and when, the pre- 

 sent whole wheel was introduced. Originally a 

 half-wheel only was used, and such may still be 

 found in some towers. In Dorsetshire the half- 

 wheel is common ; and there being no '■'■ JUlet'" nor 

 "■ground truck," "peals of changes" cannot be rung 

 as they are in other towers. H. T. E. 



Algernon Sydney (Vol. v., p. 318.). — Mil. Hep- 

 WOBTH Dixon invites your readers to furnish him 

 with references to any works which may throw 

 light on the history of Algernon Sydney. May I 

 suggest to him to look at the article on Macaulay's 

 History of England which appeared in the Quar- 

 terly Review two or three years ago, wherein there 

 are statements, from cited authorities, which seem 

 to prove that that "illustrious patriot" was no 

 exception to the famous rule, that "every man 

 has his price." C. E. D. 



" History is Philosophy teaching by Examples'''' 

 (Vol. v., p. 153.). — It' your correspondent T., who 

 cannot find this passage in any of Lord Boling- 

 broke's writings, will turn to the second letter of 

 that nobleman, "On the Study and Use of His- 

 tory," he will perceive that the sentence is there 

 quoted from Dionysius of Ilalicarnassus. The 

 •writer in the Encxjclopccdia Mctropolitana evidently 

 takes it at second-hand from this work ; and there 

 can be no doubt that the currency of the quota- 

 tion is entirely attributable to Lord Bolingbroke's 

 use of it. This sentence is the text which he il- 

 lustrates at much. length in his historical essay. 



Joshua G. Fitch. 



On a Passage in Pope (Vol. i., p. 201.). — 

 P. C. S. S. has an inquiry respecting the interpre- 

 tation of these lines in Pope's Imitation of Hor ace's 

 " Epistle to Augustus : " 



^" The hero William and the martyr Charles, 



One knighted Blackmore, and one pension'd Quarles; 

 Which made old Ben, and surly Dennis swear, 

 ' No Lord's Anointed, but a liassian bear ! ' " 



And C. having repeated this Query (Vol. iv.j 

 p. 59.), I am induced to impart to them a "guess" 

 which I made not long since. I must premise by 

 asking your correspondents whether the unctuous 

 substance known as " bear's grease " was in use at 

 the period referred to ; and if the reply be in the 

 aOirmative, 1 would suggest the following inter- 

 pretation of the couplet. 



King William and King Charles had shown so 

 little wisdom and discrimination in their knighting 

 and pensioning of worthless poets, that they must 

 be supposed to have been anointed, at their corona- 

 tion, with bear's grease, instead of the holy oint- 

 ment commonly used for such purposes, and which 

 is considered to possess the power of conferring on 

 the kingly office those very virtues in which Wil- 

 liam and Charles had shown themselves so deficient. 

 In this sense. Old Ben and Dennis, each in refer- 

 ence to the sovereign of his time, might have ex- 

 claimed, — 



" No Lord's Anointed, but a Russian bear." 

 — the word " Russian " being obviously intended 

 to describe bears in general. 



It is not for me to say how far this guess about 

 "bear's grease" may suit the fancy of C. and 

 P. C. S. S. They will probably look upon it as 

 " tire par les cheveux." If so, let them produce a 

 better solution. Henry H. Bkeen. 



St. Lucia. 



Plague Stones (Vol. v., pp. 226. 333.). — Near 

 Ravensworth Castle is a stone column, concernmg 

 Avhich there is a tradition that it was one of the 

 crosses erected to hold markets at during the 

 great plague at Newcastle in 1645j when the pro- 

 duce of the county was not allowed to be exposed 

 for sale at a less distance than three miles from 

 that town. ^- ^' 



There is another stone of this description on 

 the boundary between Dent and Widdal, in the 

 West Riding of the county of York ;_ it is near an 

 old road from Dent to Hawes, and is now called 

 the " Cross upon Cross-hills." W. B. M. 



Dee Side. 



" Archmologia Cambrensis, Vol. L, 'ind Edit.'" — 

 In reply to the Queries of R. H. (see No. 125. 

 p. 274.), 1. "Why the reprinted pages of the 1st 

 volume of the Archaologia Cambrensis do not 

 fio-i-ee with those in the original copies?" and 

 2? Why " nearly a whole page of interesting mat- 



