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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11. 1860. 



N*. 241.— CONTENTS. 



NOTES: — An Elizabethan Marriage.lOl— Jacobite Honours, 

 102 — Catapult, 103 — Leigh Hunt's Father, 104— Bishop 

 Burnet's Manuscripts, 105. 



MiNOE Notes : — Old English Military Uniform — Coronar 

 tionof EdwardlV. : Feast of St. Leon— Books Burnt — 

 Clerical Heroes — Mrs. Sherwood's Autobiography : Butts' 

 Pedigree — Owen Glendower, 105. 



QUERIES: — Hatch, 107 — Mrs. Thomas and the Duke of 

 Montague — Magpie Castle — Meaning of "End" as used 

 bvBunyan, 1684 — Hooks and Eyes v. Buttons — Confes- 

 sion in Verse — Marshal Due de Berwick — Leighton 

 Family — Captain in 1721 — Figures in Weston Church, 

 Salop — River Jordan — Kant's Wig — Colchester — Ward 

 of Farringdon — " The Cloak Knavery " — Kent jsh Miller — 

 Marquis de Sabran — Edward Randolph, 107. 



QuEsras ■WITH Answers :— Sonnet on Sir Thomas Sey- 

 mour —" Essays," &c.— Ballad on Abp. Laud — "Nancy 

 Dawson " — " Cassandra " — The Pool at Aphaca — William 

 Wogan, 110. 



REPLIES : — " King's Prerogative' in Impositions, 111 "— 

 Publication of Banns — Boleyn and Hammond Families — 

 Aislabie of Studley — Judseus Odor — " Aunt Sally " — Es- 

 say of Afflictions — The Father Rector at Burells — Civic 

 Hunting — Excommunication since the Reformation — 

 Per Centum Sign — Church Towers — Church Chancels 

 — Antrobus — Cold Harbour — Lodge Family— Lines on 

 a Pigeon — Poetical Periodicals — Longevity of Clerical 

 Incumbents — Diatessaron — Witton — Socrates — The 

 Rev. E. W. Barnard— Country Tavern Signs —Baptismal 

 Names, 117. 



Notes on Bodes. 



. AN ELIZABETHAN MARRIAGE. 



Among the Heyricke papers (preserved at Beau- 

 manor in Leicestershire from the time of Sir 

 William Heyricke, jeweller to King James I., and 

 afterwards one of his Tellers of the Exchequer,) 

 I have found the following poetical fragment. It 

 is part of a metrical epistle, written in the reign 

 of Elizabeth, upon the model of the psalms of 

 Sternhold and Hopkins ; and it describes the fes- 

 tivities of a marriage, which was celebrated not 

 only with gorgeous raiment of silks and velvets, 

 and chains of glistering gold, and with well-loaded 

 tables of venison and roast, spread upon the green 

 grass ; but also, as was then customary, enlivened 

 by a masque, for which the apparel is stated to 

 have been " brought down from the Queen : " by 

 which I conjecture is meant that the costumes 

 were derived from the stores of the royal ward- 

 robe, which were preserved for festive purposes, 

 and occasionally lent out by the favour of her 

 majesty or her oflicers. Possibly the children of 

 the chapel royal, who were occasionally dramatic 

 performers, were permitted to engage in these 

 matrimonial masques, of which it "will be remem- 

 bered there is an example represented in the great 

 historical picture of the XJnton family, engraved 

 by Strutt. 



The upper part of the verses has been tOTn 

 away, and they now begin thus : — 



" Yet studye for to please your minde 



with these I would full' fayne, 

 Youre parentes both, God bee thanked, 



in vertue which exel, 

 Youre sisters all', and Tobias, 



are in good health, and wel. 

 The servantes also of the house 



whom I neede not to name, 

 Doe wish daylye for youre good heltb, 



and T doe wish the same. 

 The chefest cause whye unto you 



at this tyme I doe write " 

 Is partlye for to tell' some nuse 



wherof I will' endite. 

 My mind I cannot half express, 



nor it fuUye declare, 

 Of the great day, and manage 



of maister Clement Chare. 

 Such Londiners there did com downe 



so bravely to behold, 

 In silkes and velvets trimlye drest *, 



and chajmes of glystering gold. 

 There weare such maskes of gallants gay 



the like was never seene. 

 Air th'apareir which they did weare 



was brought downe from the Queene. 

 The bride, and the bridesgrome also, 



for thre or foure long dayes, 

 Wear clothd, a thing most exelent, 



in changeable arayes. 



«TeA09. The 



These words are at the foot of the first page, 

 but the former seems to be misplaced, for the same 

 subject appears to be continued on the verso of the 

 fragment : — 



" Ther was a banquet provided 

 ofveneson, and of rost. 

 Ther was such bowling, and such sport, 



the lik was never seene. 

 The table, with the formes, did stand 



uppon the grasse greene. 

 The meat was all' prepard at home, 



. and readye drest also. 

 And wee like lusty serving men 



throwgh out the streetes did goe. 

 With napkins [tied] about our neckga 



niost comly for to see. 

 Air this is true that I have spoke 



and noe lye, beleve mee. 

 Although I lack som eloquens 



wherwith to please your mind 

 Yet in good part tak these, I pray, 



til better you doe find. 

 Thus fare you wel, God geve us grape 



to walk both night and day 

 In perfect love of Jesus Christ, 



to whom I daylye pray, 

 In air goodnes to prosper you 



and send you good successe, 

 Tyl you have runn, and wun the gole f 

 of everlastingnesse. 



Amen. 

 Will'm Eyricke. 

 Gwiliam Robinson. 

 George Brooke." 



Jn MS. dert. 



t In MS. gold. 



