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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2>'-« S. No 62., Dec. 27, '56. 



Enharmonic Ovitar, folio, Goulding, 1830. Also, 

 articles on the same subject In the Westminster 

 Beoiew, under the following titles, " Enharmonic 

 of the Ancients," " Harmonics of the Violin," 

 " Enharmonic Organ," " Woolhouse's Essay on 

 Musical Intervals," &c., &c. The above were 

 published in the Westminster Review between the 

 years 1832 and 1833; but the whole of Major- 

 Gen. Thompson's articles in that periodical, with 

 other works by him, were republished in 1842, in 

 6 vols, small 8vo., by Effingham Wilson, Royal 

 Exchange. 



An enharmonic organ that had been con- 

 structed under Major-Gen. Thompson's superin- 

 tendence was exhibited among the musical in- 

 struments at the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park 

 in 1851. R. H. 



Kensington. 



Clergymen wearing Cassocks (2"^ S. ii. 412.) — 

 If any proof were wanting that clergymen, in the 

 last century, were in the habit of wearing their 

 cassocks in some cases as their every-day costume, 

 that proof is to be found in Joseph Andrews. 

 Parson Adams travelled about the country in it. 

 " Is the gentleman a clergyman then ? " says 

 Barnabas, "for his cassock had been tied up when 

 he first arrived." " Yes, Sir," said the footman, 

 " and one there be but few like." And when the 

 hounds attacked him, cheered on by their master, 

 to the infinite disgust of the huntsman, who said, 

 "That it was tlie surest way to spoil them to make 

 them follow vermin, instead of sticking to a hare," 

 he escaped with the loss of a third part of it. 



It is clear that Fielding would not have clothed 

 parsons in a mere fancy dress. R. W. B. 



" Knowledge is Power " (2"* 8. ii. 352.) — The 

 original idea is King Solomon's, Proverbs, xxiv. 

 5., " A wise man is strong." P. P. 



** Drowned" in the sense of "Buried" (2"<» S. 

 ii. 221.) — Mr. James Gairdnbr has supplied 

 you with an ingenious and elaborate article on the 

 use and abuse of the word drown. His theory 

 goes to prove that drown is analogous to bury, and 

 that so far as the Duke of Clarence is concerned, 

 he was not drowned in a butt of malmsey, but 

 simply buried, or his body consigned to the deep 

 in a vessel of that description. 



On reading Kennett's History of England the 

 other day, I met with a passage in which the word 

 drown is certainly not applied in its usual signifi- 

 cation : 



" But the princes drew their cannon up another hill on 

 the right hand of the enemy, there l>eing a large bottom, 

 and a hill of vineyards, betwixt the two armies, which 

 were not visible bat from thence; for the one hill 

 drowned the other to them in th« bottom." — Vol. ii. 

 p. 723. 



S. D. S. 



Double Christian Names (2"* S. i. 253.) — Your 

 correspondent Y. S. M. being anxious to collect 

 instances of double christian names previous to 

 1730, I annex a memorandum from the register 

 book of St. Augustine the Less, Bristol : 



" 1714. IFilliam Calford, son of John and Mary Woot- 

 ton, baptized 11th October." 



Anow. 



Due de Luurugnois (1" S. ix. 538.) — Your 

 correspondent appears to doubt the truth of the 

 assertion that the duke wore the remains of his 

 wife's body in a ring. I believe that it is the 

 truth ; and I have always understood that the 

 chemical process to which E. H. A. alludes was 

 repeated combtistion; till at length all that remnined 

 of the body was reduced to a caput mortuum in tiie 

 crucible, the size of a small pebble, and of a glassy, 

 green, appearance. 



I should think that this ring is still in existence, 

 and probably treasured as an invaluable relic by 

 the representatives of the duke. 



Henrt T. Rilet. 



Sayings about the Weather (2"'' S. ii. 227.) -- 

 The "saying" recorded by Cuthbert Bedb is 

 not confined to Worcestershire. It extends to 

 Norfolk, where it is worded thus : — 



" Saturday's change, and Sunday's full, 

 Never brought good, and never wull ! " 



I suspect the first line in the Worcestershire- 

 saying ought to run thus, to rhyme with the 

 second : 



" Saturday's change, and Sunday's full moon." 



F. C. H. 



In the county of Dorset the lines run thus : 



" A Saturday's change and a Sunday's full 

 Comes too suon whenever it wool." 



Clericcs RusTicus. 



Custom at Dunchurch Church (2""^ S. ii. 266.)— 

 I remember reading (in an old book of anecdotes, 

 I believe) that at a certain church the beadle was 

 accustomed to go round the edifice, during service, 

 carrying a long staff, at one end of which was a 

 fox's brush, at the other a knob ; with the former 

 he gently tickled the faces of those sleepers who 

 were of the female sex, while on the heads of 

 their male compeers he bestowed with the knob a 

 sensible rap. And often in country churches, 

 where the children of the national schools sit in 

 the aisles, the beadle may be seen rapping those 

 who fall asleep (as well as those who are disor- 

 derly) with a cane. I have seen it done at Little 

 Hampton Church, Sussex. I should think such 

 work would seldom be performed by the church- 

 warden. Thrblkeld. 



Cambridge. 



Sir Thomas More (2""' S. ii. 455.) —The knight 

 of this name, who was sheriff of Dorset and So- 



