2ud s. ]Njo 43., Oct. 25. '56.] 



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years before, in 1721." It so happens, I knew 

 Dr. Rimbabi-t had this copy of the Cheque-book ; 

 and although I had found 1740 affixed to William 

 I\IorIe_y's chant, desiring to be veiy correct, I took 

 the pains of consulting Dr. Rimbault himself 

 In his biographical notices prefixed to his pub- 

 lished collection of chants, Dr. Rimbault asserts, 

 that William Morley graduated in 1715, published 

 some songs in 1720; and concludes -his notice in 

 these words : " He (i. e. William Morley) is sup- 

 posed to have died about 1738." Now, .as the 

 Chapel Royal men live for ever, and no speculator 

 in reversions can ever be induced to touch a life 

 insurance from such a quarter, I thought 1740 an 

 early date for this man's death, and trusted im- 

 plicitly to Dr. Rimbault. In matters of title- 

 pages and verifications of dates, I have been in the 

 habit always of trusting Dr. Rimbault. I have not 

 ~ copied the Cheque-book : I should as soon think 

 of copying the cheque-book of the Royal British 

 Bank. In return for this childlike faith of mine in 

 Dr. Rimbault's statements touching title-pages 

 and dates, he comes forward and declares I have 

 blindly fallen into the ditch, forgetting that he 

 himself led me there : for, says he, William Mor- 

 ley died about 1738. This is Dr. Rimbault's 

 gratitude. A well-known definition of gratitude 

 makes it consist in " a lively sense of favours to 

 come." Dr. Rimbault will never more have an 

 opportunity of thus showing his gratitude, for I 

 shall never more place any reliance on either his 

 title-pages or his dates. I notice that Dr. Boyce 

 prints this chant, attributed to William Morley, 

 in breves and semibreves. Can Dr. Rimbault 

 give any manuscript authority for this chant of 

 the date of 1720 ? H. J. Gauntlett. 



8. Powys Place, Oct. 14, 1856. 



^z^Xiti ta Minax caucrfei. 



_ New England Queries (2"^ S. ii. 108.) — The 

 highly interesting account of Virginia, mentioned 

 as amongst the Birch and Sloane MSS., was pub- 

 lished in 1849, with the following title : 



"The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia; 

 expressing tlie Cosmographie and Commodities of the 

 Country, together with the Manners and Customes of the 

 People. Gathered and observed as well by those who 

 went first thither, as collected by William Strachej', Gent., 

 the first Secretary of the Coionv. Now first edited from 

 the Original Manuscript in the British Museum, by R. H. 

 Major, Esq., of the British Museum. London : Printed 

 for the Hakluvt Society." 



Vox. 



The Caramagnolles (2""^ S. ii. 269.) — One of 

 the old rebel airs, or as they were styled " Cara- 

 magnolles," was set upon the church bells at the 

 old cathedral church at Chamounix, which was 

 destroyed iu the late conflagration there. I will 



be happy to send you the notation of the air, as 

 I took it down carefully on hearing the chime. 

 The bells were only chimed on the eve of saints' 

 days, and on children's funerals. The air was of a 

 light character, and, on questioning the propriety 

 of such a chime on the solemn occasion of a fune- 

 ral, the peasants' reply was, — "We are rejoiced 

 at the child's going to Heaven!" How simple, 

 how beautiful ! Rex. 



Dublin. 



Tyzack Family (2"'i S. i. 271.) — In Hodgson's 

 Hist, of Northumberland, it is stated, so far as I 

 recollect, that this family was of Flemish origin ; 

 and that the founder of it settled in Northumber- 

 land or Durham in the reign of our Edward III. 

 I cannot speak positively, as I have not the book 

 at hand for reference. Tyzack Is a not uncom- 

 mon name in Northumberland, and it is not im- 

 probable that this family may have Introduced the 

 glass manufacture on the banks of the Tyne. 



Henry T. Riley. 



Hops (2"'' S. ii. 243.) — If your correspondent 

 Mr. Yeowell will look Into the Northumberland 

 Household Book, item 22, he will find frequent 

 mention«»nade of " Hopps," as being used for 

 brewing, in England, in the year 1512; and I 

 have little doubt that they were similarly used 

 some years before that period. Another version 

 of the distich quoted, is as follows : 



" Hops, pickerel, and beer, 

 Came into England, all in one year — 



meaning the year 1532. It is not Improbable 

 that it was in this year that beer, i. e. malt liquor 

 hopped, was first imported from abroad ; and that 

 the old rhymer. In his ignorance, was led to be- 

 lieve that this was the period also of our first ac- 

 quaintance with hops. Henry T. Riley. 



G. W. J. pronounces me wrong in concluding 

 that " hope tymbre " refers to hop poles, and con- 

 siders that it more probably refers to underwood for 

 making hoops. Why ? Were "hoops" rather than 

 " hops " the staple commodity of Kent ? L. B. L. 



Showers of Wheat (2"'» S. ii. 289.) — The fol- 

 lowing extract, from Mrs. Loudon's British Wild 

 Flowers (p. 185.), seems sufficiently to account for 

 the fall of seeds like wheat, " but softer, greener, 

 and mealier." 



" The seeds of ivy, when deprived of the pulpy 

 matter which surrounds them, bear considerable resem- 

 blance to grains of wheat ; and hence the numbers whicli 

 are sometimes fqjind lying about are supposed to have 

 given rise to the stories of wheat being rained from the 

 clouds, which were once so popular." 



Eden Wabwick. 



Birmingham. 



Clarence : Lady Jane Grey (2"'^ S. Ii. 221. 297.) 

 — The story related of Lady Jane Grey by M''' 



