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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Aug. 4. 1855. 



Edward of York, the fourth and fifth j-ou see 



In fourteen sixty — fourteen eighty-three. 



In eighty-three too, barbarous Dick the third, 



Of whom some folks have monstrous things averred. 



In fourteen eighty-five the seventh Harry 



Began to reign — but backward seemed to marry. 



Huge Hal the eighth descended from each line, 



The sceptre grasped in fifteen hundred nine. 



Edward the sixth and Moll the first you'll see 



In fifteen forty-six and fifty-three. 



Sage Elizabeth in fifteen fifty-eight. 



Just James the first the kingdoms did unite. 



And both the realms in sixteen hundred two 



Became that gentle King's undoubted due. 



Good Charles the first in sixteen twenty-five, 



The very best of monarchs ! — then alive. 



In sixteen forty-eight and eighty-four 



The second Charles and James the sceptre bore. 



And O ! in sixteen hundred eighty-eight 



Brave Will. — blessed Moll, set all things right : — 



But hold, I'd like to have forgot, thej-'re reckoned, 



William the third forsooth, and Mollthe second. 



In seventeen hundred one, the great Queen Anne 



O'er Britons blessed her happy reign began. 



And in the years fourteen and twenty-seven. 



The first and second George were sent by heaven. 



To make us pious, wise and great. 



And render our prosperity compleat." 



Anon. 



F. C. H.'s belief, that he " had learnt this song 

 by heart before the date of Scripscrapologia 

 (1804), is reconcilable with the statement that 

 Collins was the author of the song, which had been 

 produced many years before " in the author's 

 once popular performance, called The Brush." 

 I cannot imagine that Collins would have called 

 such particular attention to this song, alluded to 

 the many imitations of it, and claimed its author- 

 ship, without having indeed been its author. His 

 song of " The Chapter of War " thus commences : 



" The Chapter of Kings, which I wrote myself." 

 That Dibdin was not the author of the song, 

 is pretty well proved by the fact of the song 

 not having been admitted into the collection of 

 Dibdin's songs, edited by T. Dibdin, and published 

 by Bohn, under the patronage of the Queen and 

 the Lords of the Admiralty (3rd edition, 1852). 



CUTHBERT BeDE, B. A. 



Though "I say it, that should not say it," yet I 

 must say that I prefer the following termination 

 of the above song, which I wrote for my children 

 a year or two ago, to that of F. C. H. : 



" Queen Ann added much to Old England's fame ; 

 And Georgey the First from Hanover came ; 

 Georgey the Second the next appears ; 

 And Georgey the Third reign'd sixty years. 



" Georgey the Fourth was a man of ton ; 

 And Willy the Fourth as a sailor shone; 

 And now we rejoice in Victoria's sway. 

 For whom, as our Queen, we will ever pray." 



D. S. 



No. 301.] 



napoleon's "descents en angletebre" medal. 

 (Vol. xil., p. 43.) 



When Buonaparte meditated the invasion of 

 England, a die was prepared under the direction 

 of M. Denon to commemorate the success of the 

 undertaking. The device was Hercules strangling 

 a sea monster : the legend was " descente en 

 ANGLETERRE," and in the exergue " erappee a 

 LONDBES." The die, in this state, was never 

 hardened ; and whatever impressions were taken 

 off", were in soft metal. When Buonaparte issued 

 his Berlin and Milan decrees, by which he ex- 

 pected to ruin the commerce of England, and 

 exclude this country from all intercourse with the 

 Continent, the die was brought out of its repose. 

 The " FRAPPEE A LONDKES," being in small letters, 

 was easily obliterated : the same was attempted 

 with the legend, and " toto divisos obbe bbi- 

 TANNOs" was substituted. The die was then 

 hardened, and medals struck ; but under the pre- 

 sent legend may be seen the traces of some of the 

 letters of the original legend. How many of the 

 soft metal impressions were struck, I could never 

 ascertain. When I applied to Droz, the die en- 

 graver, for a specimen, he assured me that all had 

 been delivered to M. Denon. When I applied to 

 him, he wished me to believe that I had been mis- 

 informed, and that no such medal had been struck 

 or in contemplation. 



One of these medals is certainly in England ; it 

 was purchased at Paris, I believe, by Mr. MIl- 

 lingen, for Dr. Burney, with whose entire collec- 

 tion it passed to Mr. Charles Stokes : after this 

 gentleman's death the collection was dispersed, but 

 the medal in question was reserved by his nephew 

 and executor, Mr. Hughes, in whose possession it 

 now remains. I have casts in copper from two 

 originals : one was made from that then in Mr. 

 Stokes's collection ; the other was given to me by 

 a French artist. 



When Sir Edward Thomason stated that one 

 had been lent to him by the Duke of Wellington, 

 he probably forgot to mention that it was only in 

 a dream, and that when he awoke the medal was 

 no longer in his possession. In his copy the por- 

 trait of Buonaparte is not the same which was 

 struck upon the soft metal originals. One was by 

 Droz, the other by Jouffroy. Edw. Hawkins, 



NURSERY HYMN. 



(Vol. xi,, p. 206.) 



Each of the four verses of this hymn is often to 

 be heard separately used, and some of them I 

 have seen in old primers which I cannot now 

 specify. It is evidently made up of a number of 

 detached ancient sayings strung together. Mr. 



