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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°* S. NO 49., Dec. G. '56. 



■who removed them to his residence at Water-Oakley, 

 near Windsor, where he bviilt a gallery, lighted at the 

 top by a dome, and an ante-room, for their reception. 

 The 3Iemoirs of the Celebrated Persons composing the Kit- 

 Cat Club, fo\. 1821, is ilhistrated with forty-eight portraits 

 from the original paintings by Sir Godfrey Kneller.] 



Quotations Wanted. — 



" Flumina amem silvasque inglorius." 

 [Virgil, Georg., lib. ii. 486.] 



" . . , Amongst the coollj^ shade 



Of tlie green alders by tlie Mullaes shore." 



r Spenser, " Colin Clout's come Home again," line 58.] 



^' They found no end, in wandering mazes lost." 



[ISIilton's Paradise Lost, book ii.] 



G. Fv. B. 



Boston, Mass. 



Yellow for Mourning. — I do not know whether 

 the question has been mooted before, but I take 

 my chance. 



Mr. Froude says, in his History of England : 



" The Court was ordered into mourning : a command 

 which Anno Bolyne only had the bad taste to disobey." 



There is a note from Hall : " Queen Anne wore 

 yellow for mourning." Why should he take Lin- 

 gard's authority against Hall's ? or can it be pos- 

 sible that he is not aware that yellow was mourn- 

 ing, as the old song, "Black and Yellow," might 

 have told him ? E. H. K. 



[Pepys, on the Lord's Day, Sept. 16, 1660, says, " To 

 the park, where I saw how far they had proceeded in the 

 Pell-Meli, and in making a river through the park, which 

 I had never seen before since it was begun. Thence to 

 White Hall Garden, where I saw the king [Charles II.] 

 in purple mourning for his brother " [Henry, Duke of 

 Gloucester]. To this passage is appended the following 

 note from Ward's Diary, p. 177 : " The Queen-mother of 

 France died at Agrippina, 1642, and her son Louis, 1643, 

 for whom King Charles mourned in Oxford in purple, 

 which is Prince's mourning." Of. " N. & Q." 1" S. x. 

 178.] 



OBSERVATION OF SAINTS* DATS. 



(2°'' S. ii. 43.) 



Your correspondent F. S. has referred to a pas- 

 sage in Mr. Fynes Clinton's Literary Remains 

 (p. 387.), where that learned writer states, that 

 " the authority upon which the saints' days stand 

 in our Calendar ought to be considered, being 

 carried only in Convocation by a single vote." 



We may ask whether Mr. Clinton has here 

 given a perfectly candid statement ? His lan- 

 guage might lead us to suppose that the observ- 

 ance or non-observance of saints' days was the 

 single subject debated ; but the fact is, that several 

 other articles were at the same time offered for 

 consideration to the Lower House, to be approved 

 or rejected, viz. : 



1. The position of the minister when reading 

 prayers. 



2. The omission of the cross in baptism. 



3. Kneeling at the Holy Communion. 



4. The surplice to be used. 



5. Organs to be removed. 



On these several articles there was " a great 

 contest in the House," particularly as to the 

 kneeling at the Holy Communion. Those who 

 favoured the Articles, we are told, were " divines 

 who had lately lived abroad, either in Geneva, 

 Switzerland, or Germany. The divines on the 

 other side reckoned the wisdom, learning, and 

 piety of Cranmer, Ridley, and other reformers of 

 the Church, to be equal every way with those of 

 the foreign reformers." (Strype's Annals^ vol. i. 

 part I. p. 5m.') 



Latimer, however adverse to making new holy- 

 days, and strong in his language against the abuse 

 of holydays in general (Sermon 5,), voted with 

 the majority. 



Strype numbers twenty-five other divines 

 (Including seven deans and nine archdeacons) 

 " that appeared not at this concertation, neither in 

 person nor proxy." May we not assume that 

 many of them might in opinion be numbered with 

 the majority, and add to the number of fifty-nine? 



A striking proof of the ignorance of the clergy 

 in Latimer's day is given in Sermon 38., where 

 he says : 



" It were better for me to teach my family at home, 

 than to go to church — and spend my time in vain, and 

 so lose my labour ; if the curate were as he ought to be, 

 I would not be from the church upon the holiday." 



J. H. M. 



PEOPORTION OF MALES AND FEMALES. 



(2"'i S. ii. 268.) 



The proportion of the sexes is so nearly equal, 

 that there is not the slightest excuse for the gross 

 and absurd customs of the Mormonites. It Is a 

 well-established fact that in Europe more boys 

 are born than girls, and yet the women usually 

 exceed the men in number. (See Malthus.) This 

 may be easily accounted for from the fact that 

 men are usually exposed much more to accidents 

 than women, who generally lead a sedentary life ; 

 and the immense drain of war on the male popu- 

 lation must not be overlooked. A writer in the 

 Quarterly Review (June, 1845), in an article on 

 the " Census of 1841," says : 



" In European populations the co-existent females ex- 

 ceed the males about 5 per cent., whilst in the United 

 States the white males exceed the females about 4 per 

 cent. The only approach to a solution seems to be in the 

 greater proportion of male immigrants, &c. ... In 

 the free coloured population of the United States the ex- 

 cess of females over males is 6-7 per cent, more than in 



