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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



r [2»'i S. X. Nov. 3. 'CO. 



Mylton, at whose travell and cliardge the same have ben 

 so pursued. And being lykewise enformed of dj'verse 

 other Recus*" that doe inhabite in the North Riddinge 

 of the same county to be in I yke case prosecuted to con- 

 viction by this Bearer, whereof no certificat or extraictes 

 be made unto his Ma'«* Bencheyo*' wold therinbe pleased 

 to geve warrant that a speciall certiorari be presently 

 awarded for the removing of the Record in that behalf, 

 this xxiij"> of Feb"- 1607. 



" Yc ver}' loving ftyend." 



With o.ne word more I would trespass on your 

 columns. A question has been raised and a con- 

 troversy excited touching the aristocracy of Mil- 

 ton's descent, and much has been written upon the 

 arms of the family, &c., supported by a seal, and the 

 sijrn over his father's shop. This coat of the double- 

 headed eagle displayed, &c., is borne also by the 

 family of Mytton, with which family his biographers 

 ■seem to desire to blend the ancestors of the poet. 

 Mytton or Mutton, as is sometimes the orthogra- 

 phy, seems to have no consonance or harmony 

 with the name of Milton. How much easier, and 

 how much simpler, it would have been to have gone 

 rather to the widely ramified and ancient family 

 of Millington (by an easy gradation corrupted 

 into Milton), and which rejoices in precisely the 

 =sam,e a)-mo?-ial bearings as those ascribed to the im- 

 mortal bard. 



Throwing out this hint, I leave to your readers, 

 more learned in heraldry and genealogy than my- 

 self, the task of tacking on John Milton's name 

 '(ever illustrious in itself without either the ad- 

 juncts of coat-armour or ancestry) to a long line 

 of wealthy or renowned pi-ogenitors. 



Raymond Delacourt. 



THE LORICA, OR GOLDEN VEST. 



The field in which this curious piece of antiquity 

 was found is near the town of Mold in Flintshire, 

 and known by the name of Cae Ellyllion, which 

 means, " the Field of the Goblin." The story of 

 the " Golden Spectre," handed down by tradition, 

 is, that a man of gigantic stature is to be seen stand- 

 ing upon a tumulus in the said field, with a golden 

 breastplate or vest, and many are the persons 

 now who have passed the spot at night, and been 

 much frightened by this appearance! In 1833 the 

 overseer of the roads caused the tumulus to be 

 removed to mend the roads (it being supposed 

 from its depth to be a gravel-pit). When nearly 

 at the lower part, some large bones w^ere found, 

 a skull of greater than the usual size, and. a bright 

 corslet with 200 or 300 amber beads. 



The late Dr. Owen Pughe, the celebrated 

 Welsh antiquary and historian, discovered from 

 ancient Welsh MSS. and the Triads that the per- 

 son here buried was Benlli Gawr (Benlli the 

 Giant), who lived^at Yr Weyddgrug, now called 

 Mold. The hill, upon the summit of which he 

 collected his warriors, is still called Moel Benlli. 



This hero lived a.d. 500. It was the custom to 

 throw 400 loads of stones upon the grave of any 

 celebrated warrior, as a tribute of respect to his 

 memory, by his friends. 



This corslet is now in the British Museum. I 

 made a drawing of it when first found ; portions 

 of the leather lining then remained. The gold 

 was thin, but extremely pure, and the workman- 

 ship beautiful. There is a print of it in a pub- 

 lication called Old England, but evidently in not 

 so complete a state as when I first saw it. 



E. C. Gresford. 



SHAKSPEARE MUSIC. 



(2"d S. X. 53.) 



The song and chorus, " What shall he have that 

 kill'd the deer?" {As You Like it) is to be found 

 set by John Hilton (1652) as a round for the 

 singular combination of four bass voices ; the 

 burthen, "Then sing him home," is omitted. This 

 composition has been reproduced in Mr. Charles 

 Knight's Shakespeare. Mr. J. Stafford Smith 

 also has set these words as a glee for alto, two 

 tenors, and bass ; he likewise omitting the burthen. 

 This composition Mr. Linley has transferred t« 

 his Dramatic So7igs of Shakespeare, adapting it, 

 however, for two sopranos and a bass, and apolo- 

 gising for a liberty wiiich he observes he has 

 taken, of introducing a strain to the burthen 

 " Then sing him home," which, says Mr. Linley, 

 whether by accident or design, Mr. Smith has not 



taken notice of. Mr. L also adds this remark 



concerning those words : — 



"It is certainly' difficult to conceive why they were 

 omitted, if they were designedly so, as thej' are surely as 

 strikingly characteristic as any in the whole song." 



Sir H. Bishop, upon this point, appears to have 

 agreed with Mr. Linley, and has written (for the 

 Comedy of Errors), in his effective and dramatic 

 style, a setting (as glee and chorus in four parts), 

 of " What shall he have that kill'd the deer," with 

 the words, "Then sing him home" included. 

 They are not, however, treated strictly as a bur- 

 then, but are wrought into the composition. 



The song " Take, oh take those lips away," 

 sung to the " dejected Mariana " at the moated 

 grange (^Measure for Measure), has been set to 

 music in the various forms of solo, duett, and 

 glee. The earliest setting I have yet met with is 

 one by John Weldon (about 1707), as a solo. 

 It will be found in a Collection of New Songs by 

 Mr. Weldon, which the title-page informs us were 

 " Perform'd att his Consort in York Bildings." 



In Mr. Linley's work will be found another 

 setting of these words as a solo, by himself. Mr. 

 Linley was apparently unacquainted with Wel- 

 don's composition, as he makes no mention of it. 

 simply observing, as a reason for giving one of hi? 



