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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Cambridge men of llie old school " flourish the 

 hood " before it is put on. 



As regards another point : B.A. and S.C.L. 

 wear the same liood (sheep skin the trimming, 

 and the material not silk, is the " regulation pat- 

 tern ") ; the latter the full-sleeved gown. L.L.B. 

 the white-lined hood ; in this case certainly without 

 any change to black, because an L.L.B. never can 

 be a Non-regent, and has no vote in either house ; 

 the distinction of Regent and Non-regent cannot 

 apply to him. My old friend was a coteraporary 

 of Powell, and Farmer, and Beadon, Waring, 

 CoUignon, Cole of Milton, &c. &c. I will men- 

 tion a few more n,otes I can supply from the 

 winter evening's chat round the vicarage study 

 fire of the days long past, in reference to these 

 matters I am writing upon. The slit in the 

 sleeve of the Cambridge B.A. gown was by suf- 

 ferance, and for the convenience of dining ; not, 

 as now, the distinctive mark whereby to discern 

 the Cambridge man from the like grade at Ox- 

 ford. No B.A. would, in days of yore (had the 

 Proctor been of his college) have appeared with- 

 out gown looped up at the elbow, either in hall 

 or at chapel. The person to whom I have al- 

 luded was the originator of a move which per- 

 mitted all undergraduates to wear the square ca2) 

 as at present. Up to that date (probably about 

 1770) some of the colleges used " the Monmouth 

 cap " till the undergraduate took his B.A. degree. 

 This explains the allusion in the Gradus ad Can- 

 tahrigiam : — 



" My head with ample square cap crown. 

 And deck with Hood my shoulders." 



This privilege was obtained by a petition. The 

 collegians met, summoned by a circular from one 

 of the Monmouth cap undergraduates. The silk 

 gown now so generally assumed was then con- 

 fined to noblemen graduates, honorary M.A.s, 

 and the Public Orator ; all others used only 

 prince's stuff, fine cloth, or bombazine. 



The B.D., wearing a non-regent habit, was yet 

 distinguished as of superior grade, by his cassock 

 as a divine, fifty years back at the chancellor's 

 levee, or on presenting an address to the throne ; 

 this peculiarity was carefully observed. 



To revert to the former portion of my paper. 

 If the white lining cannot with propriety be re- 

 tained by those who so habited were admitted 

 M.A., and have never become Non-regents or 

 black hoods, it follows that every Cambridge 

 M.A. of five years' standing may be confounded 

 with an Oxford B.D., a Cambridge B.D. (if I am 

 a cassocked priest), a Cambridge ten years' man, 

 a Durham B.D., a Dublin B.D., and should Mr. 

 GuTCH be correct (but that I doubt in this case), 

 a Cambridge L.L.B. These remarks may call 

 attention to this-anomaly ; if habits are to be in- 

 telligible, indications of a man's rank and univer- 

 sity, he does not indeed lie under the imputation 



of " wearing garments to deceive ; " but if any 

 one desires to know the truth, he must ask the 

 wearer of the plain black hood, in shape and 

 material common to six or seven different gradua- 

 tions. 



If Oxford gives the D.C.L. crimson lining to 

 her masters, why should not our Alma Mater 

 concede to us either our unpretending white in 

 perpetuity, or the brighter rose-colour betokening 

 our university fraternisation with the divinity 

 colours of Cambridge. Distinctions of regent and 

 non-regent are unknown beyond Trumpington : 

 why should the difference of habit be obligatory 

 upon any who are anxious to escape the in- 

 consistency of a " discrimen obscurum " so evi- 

 dently confessed on all hands, and which, to a 

 certain extent, the continuation of the regent 

 white lining would correct ? E. W. 



3Sit}flitS to :^m0r ^xxtvit^, 



Michael Di'uytons Poems, Lijrick and Pastorall 

 (2""^ S. vii. 457.). — In Bibliotheco Heheriana, part 

 4., No. 629., a copy of this rare work occurred, 

 with the following note : — 



"It seems to have been printed in or about 1G05, to 

 complete the reprint of Drayton's Works which still 

 wanted his Pastorals, first printed in 1593, under the title 

 of Idea. Here they are found, though altered and im- 

 proved most materially, and by way of novelty Drayton 

 added twelve Odes, and a Poera called the Man in the 

 Moon. But one other copy of this edition is known, and 

 it was sold recently among Mr. Caldecott's Books. He 

 supposed it to be the only copy extant." 



In Caldecott's Sale Catalogue (No. 321.), the 

 note to the article in question runs thus : — 



" First Edition of these Poems, and probably the only 

 copy extant : they were evidently printed about the year 

 1605 ; but they were all omitted in the subsequent col- 

 lected Octavo Editions of the author's Poems, appearing 

 for the second time in the folio edition printed by W. 

 Stansby (1619). The edition appears to have been un- 

 known to Eitson, Warton," &c. &c. 



Although perfect copies of this edition of Dray- 

 ton's Poems are of the greatest rarity, imperfect 

 ones seem to be comparatively common. The late 

 Mr. Singer possessed one ; I am the owner of an- 

 other, and your correspondent J. H. W. C. has a 

 third. Mr. Singer's copy wanted a great portion 

 of the latter part ; my copy ends abruptly before 

 the conclusion of " The Eight Eglog ; " but the 

 copy possessed by your more fortunate correspon- 

 dent, wants only a leaf or two at the end of " The 

 Man in the Moone." Edwakd F. RiMBAfLX. 



Cardinal Howard (2"^ S. viii. 53.) — Philip 

 Howard, afterwards cardinal, was admitted a fel- 

 low commoner of S. John's College, Cambridge, 

 4 July, 1 640, but took no degree. 



C. H. & Thompsois Coop£R. 

 Cambridge. 



