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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the value in which the book was held- Pieces of writing 

 paper, about the size of half-a-crown, are very neatly- 

 pasted into the holes, and the words needed to supply the 

 sense are transcribed from the memory, and it is said, in 

 the handwriting of Prior." 



This is an interesting anecdote of the poet, if 

 true ; but the evidence is not greatly in its favour. 

 The bibliographical readers of "N. & Q." will 

 smile at the writer's idea of the market value of a 

 copy of Raleigh's History of the World! 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



Plagiarism hy Sir Walter Scott. — In S. C. 

 Hall's Bopk of British Ballads, Second Series, 

 p. 416., we are told that " Sir Walter Scott added 

 to the ballad of ' Auld Robin Gray ' the following 

 verse, in which it will be perceived that he has 

 borrowed ?in idea frpm the 'Continuation'" (of 

 the ballad) : 



" Nae langer she wept, her tears were a' spent, 

 Despair it was come, and she thought it content ; 

 She thought it content, but her cheek it grew pale. 

 And she droop'd like a lily broke down by the hail." 



The lines in the " Continuation " are, — 



"Though ne'er a word he said, his cheek said mair 

 than a'. 

 It wasted like a brae o'er which the torrents fa'." 



The thought and words plagiarised by Sir 

 Walter Scott are from Tickell's poem of Colin 

 and Lucy, the third stanza, and run thus : 



" Oh ! have j'ou seen a lily pale. 

 When beating rains descend? 

 So droop'd the slow-consuming maid, 

 Her life now near its end." 



Your readers are doubtless familiar with the 

 exquisite paraphrase of these lines by Vincent 

 Bourne : 



" Vidistin' (quin sfepe vides !) ut languida marcent 

 Lilia, quae subitsc prsegravat imber aquae? 

 Lento sic periit tabo, sic p^Uuit ilia. 

 Ad finem extremo jam properante die." 



JUVERNA, M.A. 



WomerCs Entrances in Churches. — In Brewer's 

 Oxfordshire (p. 443.), the following occurs : 



" The principal entrance of the church [Stanton Har- 

 court] is by a round-headed arch, on one side of which 

 is a small stone receptacle for holy water. At a small 

 distance is another door, used by the women only, as, 

 from a custom of immemorial standing, they never pass 

 through the same entrance with the men." 



The separation of the sexes in church is not 

 uncommon ; but do any other examples of sepa- 

 rate entrances for each sex exist ? 



R. W. Hackwood. 



Library at St. Mary's, Marlborough. — The 

 following is extracted from a terrier of the lands 

 and profits of the above yicarage, taken in the 

 year 1698: — 



" Item. The Library of Mr. White, late Rector of Pusey, 

 in the county of Berks, given to Cornelius Yeate and his 



successors, Vicars of St. Marie's in Marlborough, which 

 Books are now in the possession of the said Mr. Yeate 

 till a more convenient place can be assigned for them, 

 and the Catalogues of the Books is in tlie Chest of the 

 Mayor and Magistrates." 



This library is still preserved in excellent con- 

 dition, and is lodged in the vicarage house. Mr. 

 Yeate was instituted to the benefice in 1677, and 

 resigned it in 1707, when he had been for some 

 time archdeacon of Wilts. Patonce. 



Forensic Wit. — Some years ago an action was 

 brought, at Cardiff Assizes, by a rich plaintiff 

 against a poor defendant, who was unable to pay 

 a counsel, when Abraham Moore, Esq., of Exeter, 

 a barrister, volunteered to defend him, and Jekyll 

 wrote this : 



" Dives and Lazarus. 



" Dives, the Cardiff Bar retains. 

 And counts their learned noses. 

 Whilst the defendant Lazarus 

 On Abraham's breast reposes ! " 



In a cause tried at Exeter Assizes, some years 

 ago, Serjeant Pell kept cross-questioning an old 

 woman, trying to elicit from her that a tender had 

 been made for some premises in dispute ; when 

 Jekyll threw a scrap of paper across the table, 

 directed to him, containing these lines : 



" Cease, Brother Pell, that tough old jade 

 Will never prove a tender maid." 



Chudleigt. 



W. COX-LTNS, M.R.C.S. 



€i\itneg. 



GENEALOGICAL QUERIES. 



Family of Herbert. — A branch of the Herbert 

 family (bearing for their coat per pale az. and gu. 

 3 lions ramp, with a mullet for difference, ar. and 

 crest a wivern with wings displayed vert, holding 

 in its mouth a sinister hand couped at the wrist, gu., 

 on the neck a collar and chain, or) was settled in 

 Warwickshire in the sixteenth century, at Stretton- 

 on-Dunsmore, Astley, Princethorpe, and Chilvers- 

 coton. The earliest will in the diocesan registry is 

 that of Thomas Herbert of Chilverscoton, dated 

 1574, at which date his son, John Herbert, pur- 

 chased an estate at Stretton, now possessed by his 

 descendants. He died in 1603, setat. eighty, and 

 was buried at Stretton (vid. Dugdale), leaving by 

 Agnes ? his wife, Thomas Herbert, who succeeded 



him, and died in 1642, leaving by his wife ? 



a first son, Thomas Herbert*, who married Ca- 

 therine Jennens, daughter of James Jennens, and 

 a second son. Captain William Herbert, who dying 

 s. p. V. in 1694, by his will endowed the vicarage 

 of Stretton, which was thereupon severed from 



* Whose brother, Richard Jennens, was High Sheriff 

 of Berks ? His descendants, if any ? 



