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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



C2"d S. X. Aug. 18. '60- 



AixPOKT Family. — For some years past I have 

 been making genealogical collections respecting 

 this family. Any communication of information 

 respecting any individuals of the name, either 

 living or dead, or in whatever station of life, 

 wills, deeds, monuments, &c., will be very accept- 

 able. W. A. Leighton. 



OiiB English Tunes. — There are still some old 

 English tunes of more or less worth played by 

 chimes in country churches, and, as far as I know, 

 not to be found elsewhere. Would ilr not be 

 worth while, before they be all changed or done 

 away with, to get them noted down ? which some 

 one would be found to do in any parish, if Mr. 

 Chappell or Dr. Kimbault would ask as much 

 in " N. & Q." 



Will they, or any other of your contributors, 

 help me to the story of the person, tune, and words 

 (if there were any) of the delightful old " Nancy 

 Dawson ? " She danced at Sadler's Wells I know 

 some hundred years ago, and was buried in some 

 London church — St. Bride's, I think.* I also know 

 the print of her just about to fling off in her 

 " jigg." But what else ? Parathina, 



Tory Song. — On a recent occasion, Lord John 

 Manners, at the end of a speech to propose 

 " Church and State," said, he could not better 

 conclude than in the words of a well-known Tory 

 song : — 



"Here's a health to Old England, 

 Her Queen and her Church, 

 And may all plotting contrivers 

 Be left in the lurch," 



Where can I find the song of which this forms, 

 I suppose, the conclusion ? G.W, M. 



Richard Johnson : Sir Thomas Parkyns. — 



" John Wilds Two Penny Accidence ; . . . , Particularly 



For Thomas Smith, School -Master in Gotham 



Nottingham : Printed by Will. Ayscough in Woolpack- 

 lane, for the Author, John Wild of Little-Leak." 



The 36 pp, apparently contain a satirical parody ; 

 there are books from the same press dated 1714, 

 1716, 1717, and on the title-page E, H. Barker 

 noted it as circa 1720. The contentious Richard 

 Johnson was Master of Nottingham Grammar- 

 School from 1707 till 1720 or 1721, in which last ! 

 year he was drowned, and it is not improbable ; 

 that the above formed part of the controversy I 

 in which he was engaged ; but it seems to bear 

 no reference to his Aristarchus or Nodes : his j 

 Grammatical Commentaries I have no present op- ' 

 portunity of comparing. In "yl Practical and j 

 Grammatical Introduction to the Latin Tongue, j 

 by Sr. Thomas Parkyns of Bunny, Bart j 



[* This famous hornpipe dancer died at Hampstead, j 



May 27, 1767, and was buried in the cemetery of St. | 



George the Martyr, Queen Square, Bloomsbury, where i 



there is a tombstone to her memory with the laconic in- j 



scription, " Here lies Nancy Dawson," — Ed,] I 



The second edition. Nottingham : Printed hj 

 William Ayscough in Bridlesmithgate, 1716," 

 there is a confused jumble in the Syntax which 

 might have given a hold to the pseudonymous 

 author ; in the preface Johnson's critical learning 

 is mentioned. Wanted the date, author's name, 

 and design of the former book. S, F. Creswell,. 

 Kadford, Nottingham. 



" Pelopidarum Secunda," — In the Harleian 

 MSS, (5110.) there is an English tragedy in 

 blank verse called " Pelopidarum Secunda," acted 

 at Winchester School in the seventeenth century. 

 Can you inform me about what year this piece 

 was acted ? Is there any reason to believe that 

 this play was composed by the master of the 

 school ? What is the subject of the play ? Iota.. 



Mrs, H. Stewart. — Helen D'Arcy Cranstoun, 

 who became the wife of Dugald Stewart, Profes- 

 sor of Moral Philosophy in the University of 

 Edinburgh, was authoress of an exquisite song 

 beginning "The tears I shed must ever fall," Can 

 any of your readers tell me whether this accom- 

 plished person wrote any other pieces ? T.. 



Coddington Racecourse. — In an article in 

 the Athenceum, May 19, on Ruff's Guide to the- 

 Turf, occurs the following passage : — 



"Then [in the reign of James the First] not only New- 

 market and ' Gualtres,' but Roj-ston and Coddington .... 

 grew into celebrity as courses." 



I shall feel obliged to any correspondent who- 

 can refer me to accounts of Coddington races, I 

 presume that a place of that name near Newark 

 is meant, because the corporation of Newark were 

 formerly expected to provide a plate to be run fov 

 by race-horses on Coddington Moor, 



R, F. SkETCHLET. 



Family op Ap Rhys, or Rice. — In a letter,, 

 written in the year 1758, an account is given of" 

 the pedigree of this family, settled at Mothvey, 

 Carmarthenshire, in a.d, 1220. It is stated to be 

 descended from " Caradog Freichoras," and to bear 

 his arms, viz. " Sable, a chevron between 3 spears' 

 heads argent, their points embowed, impaled with 

 sable a chevron between 3 garbs argent." A re- 

 ference is made to a " Dr. Davies's Dictionary" for 

 information as to the family. 



Can any of you*- readers inform me whether 

 ^uch a book is known as containing biographical 

 or genealogical information ? I have in vain 

 searched the British Museum Catalogue. Or the 

 book in question may possibly be The Display of 

 Heraldry, by J. Davies, published at Salop, 1716 

 (which I believe is scarce), mentioned in Moule's 

 Bihliotheca Heraldica. It appears to give the arms 

 and names of the families descended from the an- 

 cient Welsh tribes. Where could I get a sight of 

 this book ? Any information on the subject would 

 much oblige A Descendant or the Family.. 



