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tune very clearly In recollection, and the resem- 

 blances cannot be considered accidental. I dislike 

 the tune upon its artistic demerits. The fourth 

 sound in the first line, e, is a false rythmic accent. 

 The fourth sound in the second line, a, is the same 

 with the concluding sound of that line, and a great 

 blot. The fourth sound of the third line, and also 

 the fourth line, a, is the same as in the previous 

 line, and a still greater blot. The accented suc- 

 cession of the sound a no less than four times in a 

 short tune consisting only of eight accents cannot 

 be defended on any principle of musical art ; but 

 these objections do not apply to the tune in its 

 original rhythm, which, being a French creation 

 out of the Iambic trimeter, is offensive to English 

 notions of the march of the choral or hymn tune. 



H. J. Gauntlett. 

 8. Fowys Place, Oct. 21, 1856. 



*' CAEMINA QUADBAGESIMALIA." 



(2°'' S. ii. 312.) 



I have to thank Mr. Gunner for the trouble 

 which he has so kindly taken in forwarding a list 

 of the authors of the poems in the 2nd vol. of 

 Carmina Quadragesimalia to " N. & Q." The 

 first name on his list is, I imagine, the celebrated 

 one of — 



" William Markham, born ia 1719-20, who was edu- 

 cated at Westminster, and Ch. Ch., and for fourteen 

 years Head Master of Westminster, from 1750 to 1764 ; 

 he was afterwards Dean of Rochester, which he vacated 

 after the short period of two years for the Deanery of 

 Ch. Cli. In 1771, he was consecrated Bishop of Chester, 

 and in 1777, translated to the Archbishoprick of York, 

 which he held until the period of his death, A.D. 1806, 

 and lies buried in the Cloisters at Westminster. Dr. 

 Markham was also tutor to George IV." 



It is matter of doubt with me whether the 

 third name on the list, that of Impey, be that of 

 Sir Elijah Impey, of whom Macaulay speaks in 

 such severe terms of censure in his celebrated 

 essay on Warren Hastings. Impey had been a 

 schoolfiellow of Hastings, at Westminster, circa 

 1742, under the mastership of Dr. NIcolI, and 

 when Vincent Bourne, of classic fame, was one of 

 the ushers (who does not recollect the Latin 

 poems of VInny Bourne, " Cicindela, Cornicula," 

 and his pupil Cowper's English version of tliem ?) ; 

 but I do not know whether he was at Ciirist 

 Church. Sir Elijah Impey went to India as 

 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The date of 

 the second volume of the Carmina Quadragesi- 

 malia is 1748. 



Lord Stormont was perhaps a nephew of Lord 

 Mansfield. 



If my conjectures are wrong I hope some of 

 your numerous readers will rectify them : at any 

 rate, I heartily concur in Mr. Gunner's wisb, 

 " that some one may be found willing to tell us 



something of men whose youthful efforts gave 

 such promise of future eminence." The j)oem3 

 are so beautiful, and replete with elegance, that it 

 Is much to be regretted they are comparatively so 

 little known. Oxoniensis. 



The following list of the authors of the first 

 volume of Carmina Quadragesimalia may be in- 

 teresting to some of your readers. It is taken 

 from a copy once the property of Elijah Impey, 

 Faculty student of Christ Church, son of the cele- 

 brated Sir Elijah, and nephew of Dr. James Im- 

 pey. The names given in the second volume vary 

 in some instances from those given by Mr. Gun- 

 ner, and in other instances the names of the 

 authors are given where they do not seem to have 

 been assigned in his copy. I have placed an aste- 

 risk over those numbers in vol. i. where a double 

 authorship is pointed out : 



Anonymous. 7. 15, 16. 19. 21, 22, 23, 24,25. 30, 31. 39. 57, 

 68. 60, 61, 62, 63. 65, 66. 77, 78, 81. 83, 81. 89. 91. 93, 94. 

 99, 100, 101. 107, 108. Ill, 112. 121. 126. 134. 141. 146, 

 147. 156, 157. 160. 170. 172. 176. 189, 193, 194. 199. 205. 

 209. 214. 



Bramstone. 1. 13. 18. 41. 56. 169*. 



Terry. 2. 206. 



Stanyan. 3*. 35. 37. 201. 



E. Smith. 3*. 14. 43*. 95. 103. 



Welborn, 4. 



Stratford. 5. 152*. 



Manaton. 6. 185*. 



Cade. 8. 52. 165. 



Wigan, Jun. 10. 75*. 82. 120. 130. 138. 155. 197*. 203. 210. 



G. 'Wigan. 11, 12. 50, 51. 67. 102. 114. 140. 185*. 192. 207. 

 208, 215. 



Barton. 17. 



Lee. 20. 45. 54. 59. 125*. 142. 166. 181. 188. 



Este. 26. 143. 171. 173. 213*. 



Forrester. 27. 38, 70. 72. 91. 109. 164. 178. 183. 196. 



Booth. 28, 113. 158, 159, 163. 187. 



Tho/nas. 29*. 33, 34. 40. 85. 105*. 123*. 125*. 151. 177. 190. 



Davis. 29*. 87. 115. 



Haslavi. 32. 74. 76. 122. 127. 148. 



Knipe, sen. 36. 48. 92*. 131. 



Ahop. 42. 128*. 145. 204. 



Adams. 43*. 



Sealy. 44. 



Manton. 47. 



Warren. 49. 



Battely. 53. 



W. Jones. 55. 96. 161, 162. 



L. Stevens. 04. 150. 195*. 



Wainwright. 68. 105*. 136. 



Bold. 69. 184*. 



Toilet. 71. 



Sherman. 73. 128*. 



Trelawney. 75*. 92*. 98*. 110. 123*. 121. 197*. 200. 213*. 



Sutton. 79. 97.117. 



Palmer. 80. 90. 



Gregory. 86. 133. 202. 212. 



Sainsbury. 88. 



Funshaiv. 106. 149. 174. 



Stephens. 98. 169. 



Le Hunte. 104. 



Friend. 116. 137. 



Wyatt. 118. 135. 



Smalridije. 119. 179. 184*. 195*. 



