2"* S. X. Dec. 1. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Westminster in any of his most interesting works, 

 — a tale which rather bears upon the clergy of 

 the olden times. 



The curate, there can be little doubt, was 

 originally the incumbent, the person who had the 

 aire of souls, and the vicar, as the word implies, 

 was his substitute ; but whereas the care of the 

 parish and the ewe of souls was very generally 

 left to the latter, he came to be considered and to 

 be called, and was in fact the curate. 



Meanwhile the curate (in the original sense of 

 the word) when he did condescend to do the duty, 

 might well be considered to be acting vicariously 

 for the usual minister, his own, too often under- 

 paid, proxy, and thus the incumbent acquired 

 and retains the title of vicar. 



A Constant Eeader. 



Lord Chesterfield's Opinion of Music. — In 

 his 148th letter to his son, who was then at Venice, 

 his lordship, after having enumerated music 

 among the illibe?-al pleasures, adds : — 



" If you love mnsick, hear it; go to operas, concerts, and 

 pay fiddlers to play to j'ou ; but I must insist upon your 

 neitber piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentle- 

 man in a very frivolous and contemptible light; and 

 brings, him into a great deal of bad corapanj', and takes 

 up a great deal of time, which might be much better em- 

 pioj-ed. Few things would mortify me more than to see 

 you bearing a part in a concert, with a fiddle under your 

 chin, or a pipe in your mouth." 



Again, Letter 153. : — 



" A taste of sculpture and painting is, in mj' mind, as 

 becoming as a taste of fiddling and piping is unbecoming 

 a man of fashion. The former is connected with history 

 and poetry, the latter with nothing but Lad compamj.'" 



Again : — 



"Painting and sculpture are very justly called liberal 

 arts; a livelj' and strong imagination, together with a 

 just observation, being absolutely' necessarj' to excel in 

 either; which, in my opinion, is by no means the case of 

 musick, though called a liberal art, and now in Italy 

 placed above the other two : a proof of the decline of that 

 country-." 



The lovers of music may well afford to have the 

 opinion of Lord Chesterfield quoted against them, 

 while they have that of Shakspeare, and a host of 

 other great poets, in their favour. 



Query, Is the opinion of Lord Chesterfield sin- 

 gular ? Or can any similar ones be found in the 

 writings of the last century ? 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



Scohchats, Scrochats, Scrochettes (Innes's 

 Scotland in Middle Ages, Sfc.) — What are these, 

 and whence the name ? They were a table 

 " sweet " imported into Scotland in the fifteenth 

 century, but of what sort ? M. 



Asbfield. 



Lines to S. Gosse. — 



" To S. Gosse on her leaving Riiigwojd. 

 " While Spring her verdant robe resume?, 

 While 3'ether soft-e3-ed primrose blooms, 

 And violet fragrance loads the gale,- 

 BJy Delia seeks a distant vale ; 

 The.spot that nursed her infant hours 

 Forsakes — her family of flowers 

 Ilesigns — where oft at close of day 

 With curious eye she loved to stray ; 

 ' Trained round the tufted jasmine bower 

 The Viigrant woodbine's houej'M flower ; 

 Jjreath'd tiie vale-lily's soft perfume, 

 And nursed her fragrant myrtle's bloom. 

 Ah, pleasing shade, ah, sweet retreat, 

 B}' friendship rendered far more sweet ! 

 'J'here, oft retired at close of day 

 The peaceful moments stole ■dwa.y ; 

 AVhile flowed our converse, unconiiued, 

 In simple truth, from mind to mind. 



Uut Delia bids these scenes adieu, 

 A nobler science to pursue ; 

 To dress with care a nobler soil, 

 And, oh, may peace reward the foil ! 

 Delightful work — task how refined, 

 To cultivate the infant mind; 

 T' explore the tender breast with care. 

 And ' j.lant the generous purpose' there. 

 Enraptured may my friend behold 

 Tiie budding virtues all unfold; 

 With voice persuasive lead the youth, 

 Fair votaries, to the shrine of truth. 

 And oh, 3'e little sportive train. 

 Let not the muse presage in vain ; 

 Still nurse the flowers her genius rears. 

 Fit ornaments for future years. 

 But chief the pious precept love. 

 And Delia shall the choice approve, 

 Instruction with delight shall blend, 

 The gentle monitress and friend. 

 Accept, dear maid, the humble laj' 

 That fain would strew thy arduous way. 

 With fairest flowers of choicest kind, 

 Flow'rs suited to a taste refined : 

 Friendship for this attuned the l^'re. 

 And thus her artless strains aspire : — 



" Sweet Health, let not thy roses fade; 

 Sweet Peace, extend thy olive shade ; 

 Hope, shed around thj' cheerful rays, 

 And ileav'n protect my Delia's ways." 



Gent Mag.'F&Tt I. p. 3U3., 1794, April. 



These lines are subscribed " L. Miller, after- 

 wards Waring." They strike me as remarkably 

 pretty, both in sentiment and imagery. Is any- 

 thing known or remembered, at lliugwood, about 

 the authoress ? W. D. 



[See also the Gent. 3Iag. for June, 1810, for some other 

 lines by this lady, dated from Alton. — Ed.] 



Barricades. — What is the first mention in his- 

 tory of the use of " barricades" in street-fighting ? 

 And is this mode of fighting on record, as having 

 been used by any other nation than the French ? 



J.F. 



Andrew Henderson. — Wanted some biogra- 

 phical particulars of Andrew Henderson, an author 

 of last century. He was a native of Scotland, 



