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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d s. VIII. July 23. '69, 



of Drury Lane Theatre? and if she was the 

 mother of Mr. Linley, the eminent violoncellist ? 



C.J. 



Cromwell and Scotland. — In Carlyle's Crom- 

 well (vol. ii. p. 245.) is an extract from Whit- 

 locke to the following effect : — 



" I. William of the Wastle, 

 Am now in my Castle ; 

 And aw the dogs in the town 

 Shanna gar me gang down." 



It appears that this was the reply, by the 

 governor of Hume Castle, to a summons by 

 Colonel Fenwick, one of Cromwell's officers, to 

 surrender. 



Little Scotch boys of the present day play at 

 " King of the Castle," and sing — 



"Hey! Willie Wastle ! 

 I'm in your castle," &c. 



Allow me to conclude with a Query. Was the 

 above message the original of the children's song? 

 or did the governor of Hume Castle parody a 

 rhyme used by the boys of the seventeenth cen- 

 tury in their games ? J. G. Morten. 



Cheam. 



Shelley and Barhamwick. — In the 23rd year of 

 the reign of Queen Elizabeth an action was 

 brought by one Nicholas Wolf against Henry 

 Shelley of Barhamwick in the county of Sussex. 

 In this action there was laid down by the counsel 

 a rule of law which was acquiesced in by the 

 Bench, and which, amongst le^al men, is known 

 as " the rule in Shelley's case, ' and is as familiar 

 in their mouths as " household words." I have 

 reason to believe that the defendant Henry Shel- 

 ley, who was a gentleman of large property in 

 Sussex, was an ancestor of the poet Percy 

 Bysshe Shelley, whose family belonged to that 

 county. Can any of your readers inform me if I 

 am right in my conjectures ? and also where- 

 abouts in Sussex is the manor of Barhamwick, 

 of which hitherto I have found no trace ? 



w. o. w. 



Shooting Soldiers. — In Rocque's Map of Lon- 

 don, published 1745, on the spot where the Marble 

 Arch now stands, is a small mark, and this in- 

 scription : " The stone where the soldiers are 

 shot." It seems to throw strange light on the 

 fondness of our ancestors for capital punishments. 

 Can any of your readers give farther information 

 on the subject ? and particularly why such a spot 

 should be ntarked by a stone ? A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



^'- An History of British Worthies.^* — In Bara- 

 tariana, 2nd edit., Dublin, 1773, p. 321., occurs 

 the following note : — 



" To preserve the imperishable infamy of these de- 

 tested names (amongst many others equally illustrious,) 

 and to hand down to posterity in their native colours, 



without diminution or impair, an ingenious gentleman is 

 now [1773] preparing for the press a work entitled, An 

 History of the British Worthies of Our Own Times. In this 

 will appear a full display of tho hallowed mysteries of the 

 monks of Bedmenham (^sic) Abbey, and some anecdotes 

 of the Beef -steak Club, never before published." 



Was this work ever published ? and is the au- 

 thorship known ? W. B. 



MS. Question in Paraphrase of Erasmus. — In 

 the church chest at Bacton, Norfolk, is a black- 

 letter copy of The Paraphrase of Erasmus upon 

 the Newe Testament, London, 1548. On the title- 

 page is written, in a handwriting nearly as old as 

 the book, — 



" Man cam into the worlde 



To ask that was not in ye worlde. 



He gave yt him that had it not, 



And God himself cam for it." 



Then in a later writing, — 



" You that can and will this reison showe, 

 I pray ye set it downe, that men may it knowe. 

 This was the question of a learned man ; 

 Wherfore I pray you all shew it yt can." 



J. L. 



County Voter's Qualification. — When was forty 

 shillings fixed as the annual value of property to 

 qualify a county voter ? and what proportion of 

 its then value does that sum bear to the like 

 amount now ? X. N". 



Winh. — One of your contributors would oblige 

 me by explaining the meaning of the word loink, 

 as applied to the following names of places, viz. 

 Winkbourne, Winkfield, Winkhill, Winkleigb, 

 and Winkton ? E. 



James Read, D.D. — Who was James Read, 

 D.D,, the author of an 8vo. volume published irt 

 London in 1737, and entitled An Essay on the 

 Simony and Sacrilege of the Bishops of Ireland, 

 pp. 221. ? and was he the author of any other 

 works? He speaks of himself as one of " the in- 

 feriour clergy." The book begins with a "Letter 

 to Primate Boulter," and is rather scarce. 



Abhba. 



Paintings at Vauxhall. — What has become of 

 the paintings which decorated the alcoves at Vaux- 

 hall, and which were said to have been, some the 

 work of Hogarth, others of Hayman ? Were they 

 ever engraved ? If not, does there exist any full 

 description of them ? M. N. S. 



[From Timbs's useful Curiosities of London we learn, 

 " that the Gardens are well described in The Ambulator 

 (12tli edition, 1820), where the paintings by Hogarth 

 and Hayman are enumerated." And at p. 748., we are 

 told, that at the sale of the movable property in October, 

 1841, twenty-four pictures by Plogarth and Hayman pro- 

 duced but small suras : they had mostly been upon the 



