2»* S. N» 35., Aug. 30. '56.] 



NOTDS AND QUERIES. 



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Like tlie Prophets of old, so tliey do anoint, 

 Tlieir sanctified Fingers are laid to the Work, 

 With Jure Divino in every joynt, 

 'Tis all one to them be he Cliristian or Turk ; 

 Reason, Reason, nothing but Reason, 

 Nothing but Reason they would be at, 

 Nothing but Reason, nothing but Reason, 

 Non-swearing Parsons would bubble the State. 



To bring in the French whom now they adore, 

 Most piously they combin'd in a Plot 

 To murder the King that sav'd them before, 

 A Villany sure that will ne're be forgot ; 

 Treason, Treason, nothing but Treason, 

 Nothing but Treason up to the ears. 

 Nothing but Treason, nothing but Treason, 

 Passive Obedience in Colours appears. 



A few years ago it can't be forgot, 

 Be certain Pie tell you no more than is true, 

 'Twas a damnable sin to be found in a Plot, 

 As then was observed by some of their Crew : 

 Ely, Ely, Reverend Ely, 

 Reverend Ely left us i' th' lurchj 

 Reverend Ely and his grave Elders 

 Want French Dragoons to settle the Church. 



Our grave Elder Brother^ the worst of the Four, 

 Lies close in liis Den like a Boar in the Stye, 

 The Blood of all Ireland lies at his Door, 

 And from the Almighty for judgment doth cry t 

 Ely, Ely, William and JEly, 

 William and Ely, Franck and Tom, 

 William and Ely, William and Elyj 

 , William and Ely, Francis and John. 



The Cut-throat Petitioners acted their part. 

 And gravely kept time with the Plot and the Crew, 

 They wanted a Mayor with a Jacobite heart 

 To Murther the King when they found it would 

 do; 



Dodson, Dodson, Dingo and Dodson, 

 Dingo and Dodson, Coward and Fool, 

 Dingo and Dodson, Dingo and Dodson, 

 To bring up the Rear, will serve for a TooL 



No. 1155. of the Collection of Proclamations, 

 &c., presented to the Chetham Library, Man- 

 chester, by James O* Halliwell, Esq., F.R.S. 



BiBLIOTHECAR. Ch£THAM. 



Curious accidentai. circumstance. 



The followitig anecdote may be considered 

 worthy of being preserved in the pages of " N. i& 

 Q." It was told me by an old gentleman many 

 years since deceased, and occurred about eighty 

 years ago. I am sorry for not having preserved 

 the particulars more minutely, but the matter of 

 fact may be depended oh. 



The farm lease of a tenant in the parish of 

 Cathcart (near Glasgow) was about expiring. 



By this he was thrown into difficulties as to work- 

 ing his ground for the crops of the subsequent 

 year, and also from his lanmOt'd being absent in 

 London without any one knowing his address. 

 The farmer, however, nothing daunted, took his 

 staff in his hand, and in three weeks accomplished 

 the distance entirely by a pedestrian journey. He 

 arrived in the Metropolis on a Sunday morning, 

 and was so struck with the magnitude of the city, 

 and the seeming utter impossibility of discovering 

 his landlord, that he gave himself up to a sort of 

 despair. In this perplexity, finding himself near 

 a church, he entered!^ it during divine service, 

 when, to his astonishment and joy, whom should 

 he descry but his landlord in a pew of the front 

 gallery. An appointment having been made for 

 next day, the lease was talked over and renewed, 

 the farmer immediately left the city, and in another 

 three weeks was at his own ingle. 



The probability is, that on his travels, like the 

 cattle drovers, he carried along with him as his 

 chief subsistence his bag of oatmeal, which, mixed 

 with cold water, composed the well-known mess 

 of crowdie. In the course of his journey home 

 he halted in a provincial town at the ordinary of 

 a qilakeress, who set before him for dinner a large 

 roast of lamb, which soon wholly disappeared. On 

 inquiring for his bill the landlady in amazement 

 addressed him as follows : " Friend, thou hast 

 surely not seen meat since thou hast been in Scot- 

 land ; that piece of lamb cost me twenty-pence, 

 but it is the rule of my house not to charge more 

 than eight-pence for thy dinner ;" and I have no 

 doubt the canny Scot saw the propriety of not ex- 

 ceeding the usual fare. G. N. 



THE NINE CHURCHES OF CHItCOMBE, NEAR 

 WINCHESTER. 



Amongst the means which have been resorted 

 to by some local historians for the purpose of en- 

 hancing the glory of the former metropolis of 

 England, in the times before the Reformation, 

 none have met with so easy an acceptance as that 

 of multiplying the number of churches which then 

 beautified Winchester and its neighbourhood. 

 Dr. Milner, in the Appendix to his History of 

 Winchester, No. VI., after reckoning up ninety- 

 two churches and chapels, all of which he places 

 in the city and immediate suburbs, says in a note, 

 that he believes "the number of churches and 

 chapels was much greater than those here enu- 

 merated, especially before the destructive civil 

 war in King Stephen's reign ! " The city, it must 

 be remembered, is about half a mile in length, and 

 somewhat more than three furlongs in breadth ; 

 whilst the suburbs — the Soke and the Liberties 

 — cannot have extended above a quarter of a mile 

 beyond each gate ; and, consequently, the largest 



