2°'! S. VIII. Nov. 26. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Cleanctus (2'^'* S, viii. 310.) — 



I never read Theophrastus, but think I can 

 save M. E. the trouble of a search without going 

 so far : — 



" Kal irrpaTtiiyoi ovfi' oc ets 

 Tiiv jrpOTOu <rCrri<riv y)-nja' ipofievot K\taiveTov." 



Eqvites, v. 670. 

 " Never then did general. 

 Though ambitious of the Hall, 

 Pay the tribute of his knee 

 To Cleaenctus *, that he 

 Might his commons get cost-free." 



The misprint repeated probably overcame the 

 doubt which the hitch in the fourth line must 

 have suggested to so good a versifier as Mr. 

 Dyer. H. B. C. 



V. U. Club. 



John Pope, Gentleman (2"* S. viii. 378.)— I be- 

 lieve the John Pope inquired after by Me. Corner, 

 was the only brother of Sir Thomas Pope, the 

 munificent founder of Trinity College, Oxford. 

 He was settled at Wroxton, in Oxfordshire, in the 

 reign of Edward VI., where he was buried Jan. 

 24, 1583. He appears to have been a large holder 

 of Abbey lands. In 1544 he purchased of Henry 

 VIII. the estates belonging to the dissolved Canons 

 of Kenilworth for 1501Z. 13s. 8c?. (Dugdale's 

 Warwickshire, p. 474.) In the same year he re- 

 ceived a grant of the site of the house of Fran- 

 ciscan Friars at Lincoln (Tanner's Not. Mon., fol. 

 p. 281.); as also, with others, the site of the 

 Black Friars at Beverley, in Yorkshire {Ibid., p. 

 689.). In 1545, he received some lands belong- 

 ing to the Priory of Blleigh, in Essex (Newcourt's 

 B.ep., ii. 610.). Numerous other instances from 

 patents and privy seals might easily be adduced, 

 but probably the above is sufficient to show the 

 nature of his large possessions. 



He was three times married, and left issue 

 three sons and seven daughters. A curious and 

 minute account of his descendants is given in the 

 Appendix to Thomas Warton's Life of Sir 

 Thomas Pope, 2nd Edition, with Corrections and 

 Additions, 8vo., 1780. Edward F. Rimbault. 



" O whaur got ye that ionnie blue bonnet" (2"^ S. 

 viii. 148. 258. 363.) — The Scotch song sent you 

 by Yemen, from Arabia, is evidently a modern 

 imitation of the original words of the Scotch air 

 "Bonnie Dundee," better known perhaps as " Saw 

 ye my wee thing," from being now generally sung 

 to Hector M^^Neil's song commencing with these 

 words. It was probably composed by some female 

 member of the family among whose papers it was 

 found. D. M. L.'s memory is evidently at fault 

 in supposing it part of the song he furnishes. 



* " Cleaenctus was the author of a law which limited 

 the admissions to the Prytaneum. All persons, therefore, 

 who were ambitious of this honourable distinction took 

 care to pay their court previously to him." — Mitchell's 

 Translation, vol. i. p. 211., Lond. 1820. 



which was furbished up by Burns for Johnson's 

 Museum, and which seem to have been floating in 

 his memory. J. M. furnishes both stanzas of the 

 song ; of which the first four lines are old, and 

 the others are by Burns. There is a variation in 

 the recitations of the first line : one set being 

 "hauver meal bannock," i. e. a cake baked of a 

 mixture of oat and barley-meal ; and the other, 

 and apparently more correct version, " a bonny 

 blue bannet," certainly a more appropriate pre- 

 sent from a "bonny Scots callant.'! The other 

 rendering may have easily arisen from a person 

 having learned the song by ear, without having 

 any idea of the meaning of the words. Thus a 

 friend of mine learned the song, " The Laird of 

 Cockpen" in her youth, and used to sing about 

 Miss Jean being " a penniless lass with a lamp o' 

 degree,^' instead of " a penniless lass wi' a lang 

 pedigree," the latter word being evidently far 

 above her comprehension. I lately observed 

 among the newspaper scraps, that a young lady 

 had learned one of Moore's Irish Melodies by ear, 

 and used to delight herself and enchant her com- 

 panions by singing of two lovers, that — 

 " He bolted the hock ; 

 She salted it down." 



Till, unluckily, one day she by chance found the 

 words in print, and for the first time learned that 

 they ought to be — 



" He bold as the hawk ; 

 She soft as the dawn." 



Which, of course, would silence her on this sub- 

 ject for ever. J. A. Perthensis. 



The Boyle Lectures (2"^ S. viii. 352.)— I have 

 diligently referred to the places indicated in your 

 last number, but have only gleaned from them 

 one name of a Boyle Lecturer in addition to the 

 list given by Darling : that of Canon Words- 

 worth, who is said to have preached and pub- 

 lished in 1854. Mr. Maurice's date is 1846- 

 1847. This information only adds to the list of 

 lacuncB. What preachers filled the oflice before 

 Canon Wordsworth ? And who have been ap- 

 pointed since ? 



Your columns also say that the trustees " are 

 (were, 1854,) the Duke of Devonshire, the Earl 

 of Burlington, and the Bp. of London." Two of 

 these eminent persons are dead. The Earl of 

 Burlington is now the Duke of Devonshire. 



Again I ask, who are the existing trustees ? 

 Have they funds ? If not, why not ? If they 

 exist, how are they used ? Is there no clerk or 

 solicitor to the trustees ? Are there no records ? 



It is certainly very curious that there should be 

 more difficulty in ascertaining the fate of an in- 

 stitution not two centuries old, than in discover- 

 ing the names of Athenian orators, and fixing the 

 date of their orations. 



I have an idea that the present Bishop of Lin- 



