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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



C2»<« S. X. Aug. 25. *60, 



also before me a very early printed missal, an. 

 1484, in which the day is thus marked in the 

 Calendar : " iiij kl." (Julii) [id est, 28 Junii] 

 " Sci Leonis pape. non transf. Vigilia." And in 

 the Calendar of a Sarum breviary printed at Paris, 

 1524, I find the day thus marked : " iiii kal. Leo- 

 nis ppe " (I guess at this last contraction, as it is 

 blotted out according to the command of Henry 

 VIII.) " et conf. 3 lect. cu no. Vigilia. 28." 

 That Sir Harris Nicolas, therefore, should assign 

 the 13th day of June as the Feast of Leo, on the 

 authority of the Cotton MS., is somewhat sur- 

 prising. I cannot help suspecting also a little 

 oversight on the part of your correspondent as to 

 the reading of the document from which he quotes. 

 It would have been better, I think, to have sent 

 you the original Latin (as I suppose the whole is 

 in Latin) of the first as well as the second part of 

 the extract; for it is in the first part that the 

 whole of the question, — the date of the corona- 

 tion, — lies. However, it is sufficiently clear that 

 the day of Edward IV.'s coronation was the 28th : 

 and it is worthy of special remark, that the coro- 

 nation day of our most gracious Queen is also the 

 28th of June. John Williams. 



Amo's Court. 



Rev. George Watson (2"'^ S. viii. 396.; ix. 

 281. 355.) — I have only during the last few days 

 been able to look over " N. & Q." for the last 

 four months. 



I have in my possession a MS. Sermon, given 

 me by my father some years ago, and upon which, 

 on his authority, I marked the name of Eev. 

 George Watson as the author. I have every 

 reason to believe in the correctness of this state- 

 ment, as the subject of Mr. Gutch's inquiry was 

 an intimate friend of my great-grandfather, the 

 Rev. Benjamin Rudge. Had I time I think I 

 should find in my father's correspondence some 

 particulars of Mr. Watson. Perhaps a search 

 amongst the records of Winchester School might 

 give some information. 



The text of the sermon referred to is James iv. 

 6., and at the end are references to Eccles. vii. 8., 

 Proverbs, iii. 34., as if the sermon was to do duty 

 for each of the three texts. 



The sermon has evidently been used by others 

 besides its author. 



Whether my father had many of Mr. Watson's 

 sermons I cannot say ; if so, they were gradually 

 destroyed. I have, however, fragments of two, 

 which from a comparison of handwriting are, I 

 think, by Mr. Watson, rather than by Mr. Rudge. 

 One was intended for a Sermon on Isaiah, Ixiii. 

 1. The subject of the other is the Resurrection. 



F. B. Relton. 



Dacre Park, Lee. 



Withered Violets (2°* S. ix. 427.) — In com- 

 pliance with the wish of N. J. A. I send the en- 



tire of this poem, which I copy from an old scrap- 

 book of mine. As well as I recollect, I copied it 

 upwards of thirty years ago, but from what book 

 or periodical I cannot now say. I have a lin- 

 gering memory that it was from TTie Literary 

 Gazette, but perhaps the words suffixed will afford 

 a clue : — 



" Long years have pass'd, pale flowers, since you 

 Were culled, and given in brightest bloom. 

 By one whose eye eclipsed your blue. 



Whose breath was like your own perfume. 



•' Long years, but the' j'our bloom be gone, 

 The fragrance which your freshness shed, 

 Survives as memory lingers on, 

 When all that blessed its breath have fled. 



*' Thus hues and hopes will pass away — 

 Thus youth and bloom and bliss depart ; 

 Oh, what is life when these decay ? 

 The faded leaf, the withered heart." 



Rouge et Noir. 



Horn Books (2"^ S. ix. 101.) — Pocock, the 

 printer of Gravesend, was a very clever and in- 

 dustrious man. He was the founder of the first 

 Kent Archaeological and Naturalist Society. He 

 died at Dartford, and is buried in Wilmington 

 Churchyard. His con, who served in Portugal 

 under General Evans, gave me the following in- 

 formation, which may serve as a clue to the period 

 of the extinction of the Horn Book : " My father 

 printed a Child's First Book, or Reading made 

 Easy, vulg, ' Redamadazy,' 2 years before Rusker, 

 who usually has the credit of that work." (And 

 I may add that the wood-blocks with which it was 

 illustrated are now in my possession, together 

 with the blocks Pocock used for perhaps the first 

 halfpenny edition of Cock Robin, Jack the Giant 

 Killer, and other children's nursery literature.) 

 Pocock, Senior, was the author of The History 

 of Gi-avesend, Memoirs of the Tufton Family, Earls 

 of Thanet, &c. &c., and he was the projector of 

 The Navy List. His Museum was sold by Pearce, 

 an auctioneer, at the Town Hall, Dartford. 



Alfred John Dunkin. 



Dartford. 



Excommunication since the Reformation 

 (2"" S. ix. 364. 428.; x. 1 1 7.)— Instances of ex- 

 communication in the early Protestant church are 

 by no means uncommon, and may be frequently 

 met with in the reigns of Eliz. and James I. The 

 following extracts are from a paper in the State 

 Paper Office, Doni. Car. I., assigned to the year 

 1630, and relate to fees payable to Dr. George 

 Pai'ry, Chancellor to the Bishop of Exeter : — 



" Nicholas 



cited to appear in the Chancellor's Court of Exeter for 

 not standing at the be[lief] to which they answered that 

 they weare reguler and desired to be dismist, but cold not 

 till thej' brought a Certificate the next Conrte, and payd 

 tliere fees, before which Court day, they haveing occation- 

 to ridd to London, were excommunicate and paid 29* „ 2^, 

 and 12<i a piece for their oath."^ 



