2n«i S. X. Dkc. 8. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



459 



The only correct harmonised edition, adapted 

 to our present office, of which I am aware, was 

 published in The Ecclesiologist of last June (Mas- 

 ters), and this I am happy to say is shortly to be 

 issued in a cheap form (sixpence). I have been 

 asked to collect names of subscribers, and, though 

 I have myself no pecuniary interest in the work, 

 should be pleased to include Regedokum in my 

 list. 



I take it that Regedonum Is aware of the beau- 

 tiful music set by Morley, Purcell, and Croft to 

 our Burial Service, and which is generally used 

 at the present day at funerals of the great ; but I 

 am hi doubt whether these sublime anthems would 

 be easy enough for his purpose. At all events 

 they would be less complete, and more costly, than 

 that I have named. Edmund Sedding. 



Clifton. 



Regedonum will find plain, simple music to the 

 sentences in the Burial Service, published by 

 Harrison, Pall Mall, from the Parish Choi?-, for a 

 few pence. Also, published by Masters, as ar- 

 ranged by Mr. Redhead. Both these settings 

 profess to follow the ancient melodies given by 

 Marbeck. The most recent, and perhaps best, 

 arrangement of harmonies has lately been printed 

 in the Ecclesiologist, adapted to our present office, 

 from Marbeck. See number for June last. 



Regedonum should notice that the rubric in 

 the Prayer- Book directs that these sentences shall 

 be sung by the "■priest and clerks" the latter being 

 either in holy orders, or lay-clerks or choir, — not 

 by the " congregation.''' John Maclean. 



Hammersmith. 



Ride v. Drive (•2"'» S. x. 390., &c.) — After the 



able summing up of Prof. De Morgan, I do not 



offer any opinion of my own, but think there may 



still be room for one authority and one example : — 



" Now driving out one morning in the coach." 



" Oae of the significations Dr. Johnson gives of the verh 

 ' to ride ' is ' to travel in a vehicle,' but perhaps the ex- 

 amples he cites do not verj' distinctly bear him out. At 

 any rate, according to modern usage at least, I should 

 have been justly taxable with teaching Stella vulgar 

 English, had I made her talk of herself and her mother 

 'riding in a coach.' " — Lord Glenbervie, Translation of 

 the First Canto of Ricciardetto, note to St. 49., London, 

 1822. 



" Now to Fleet-market driving like the wind, 

 Amid the murdered mutton rode the hind, 

 All in the ro5-al cart so great, 

 To trj' to sell the royal meat." 



Peter Pindar, The Royal Sluep. 



H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



In this counti'y the expression, " riding in a car- 

 riage," is 7iot " obsolete." It is quite as common 

 to hear of riding m a carriage, in a stage-coach, 

 in a railroad-car as of riding 021 a horse. M. E. 



Philadelphia. 



Po5,Ms BY Burns and Lockhart (2"^ S. x. 

 158.) — The verses to which Mr. Skene refers 

 are, probably, the glee composed by the Earl of 

 Mornington (the Duke of Wellington's father), 

 commencing : — 



" 'Twas you, Sir, 'twas j-ou. Sir, 

 That look so very blue. Sir, 

 'Twas you that kissed the prett}- girl, 

 'Twas you, Sir, you I " 



Uneda. 

 Philadelphia. 



Vicar and Curate (2"^ S. x. 426.) — A Con- 

 stant Reader has not exactly hit upon the true 

 relation of the terms vicar and curate. The French 

 cure is the parochial clergyman, and the vicaire is 

 his assistant or deputy. But in England the case 

 is thus : Curate simply means the clergymian who 

 has spiritual charge. lie maybe a rector, a vicar, 

 or neither. The vicar is a clergyman, and the 

 rector a clergyman, layman, or corporate body (In 

 fact a rector is a corporation sole), who has certain 

 rights in the temporalities of the church. 



Anciently every parson was curate of his own 

 parish. Afterwards, in the case of a parsonage 

 being through appropriation vested In some eccle- 

 siastical body, the vicar or deputy of such body 

 acted as curate of the parish. Curates, then, were 

 of two sorts ; those who were parsons, and those 

 who were only vicars. Chaucer's host knew that, 

 when 



" ' Sire preest,' quod he, ' art thou a vicary ? 

 Or art thou a Person ? say soth by thj- fay ? ' " 



Gradually the vicars acquired certain tempo- 

 ralities in their vicarages which rendered them 

 independent in a great measure of the appropria- 

 tors in whom the parsonages were vested; but 

 there yet remained parishes in which the parochial 

 clergyman was neither rector nor vicar, but sim- 

 ply curate. To sum up : a vicar is always, and a 

 rector when not a lay impropriator Is generally, 

 curate of his parish. But as all parochial clergy- 

 men are curates, and only some are vicars and 

 rectors, the. title which implies the possession of 

 temporalities is preferred to that which simply 

 denotes spiritual functions. W. C. 



Quotation Wanted (2"** S. vii. 359.) — 

 " Behold this ruin, 'twas a skull. 

 Once of etherial spirit full," &c. 

 In the Common Place Booh of Poetry, published 

 in 1830, the lines beginning as above are attri- 

 buted to Mrs. Niven. Can any of your corre- 

 spondents furnish any account of that lady ? 



H. E. Wilkinson. 

 Quotation Wanted (2°'' S. x. 428.)— The 

 line referred to is in Byron's description of Cin- 

 tra, Childe Harold, Canto i. 20. : — 



" Deep in this cave Honorius long did dwell, 

 In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell." 



C. W. Bingham. 



