July 7. 1855.' 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



11 



Anonymous Hymns. — Can you or any of your 

 correspondents inform me of the authorship of the 

 following hymns ? 



1. " Bring helpless infancy to me." 



2. " The food on which thy children live." 



3. " When His salvation bringeth." 



4. " Captain of Thine enlisted host." 



5. " Lord, look on all assembled here." 



6. " Great Ruler of the earth and skies." 



7. " See, gracious God, before Thy throne." 



8. " To God, the only wise." 



9. " Praise the Lord, ye heav'ns, adore Him." 



10. " With all my pow'rs of heart and tongue." 



11. " Lord, when my thoughts delighted rove." 



12. " Plung'd in a gulph of dark despair." 



13. " Thou art the way, to Thee alone." 



14. " Thanks for mercies past receive." 



15. " O Thou that dwellestin the heavens so high." 



16. " Our God, our help in ages past." 



Also whether 



" Come, thou long-expected Jesus," 



is by Oliver? C. H. H.W. 



Dublin. 



[We can supply the authorship of a few of these 

 hymns: N"os. 6, 7, and 11. are by Mrs. Anne Steele, and 

 will be found in her Poems on Subjects chiefly Devotional, 

 by Theodosia, 3 vols. 8vo. Bristol, 1780. Nos. 8. 10. 12. 

 and 16. are by Dr. Watts.] 



Homer and Lord North. — The following; stanza 

 occurs in " An Ode to Lord North," in Fugitive 

 Pieces of the Last Sessio?i, London, 1782 : 



" Take timely counsel. Lend thine ear 

 To Homer's words ; for prophet ne'er 

 Did deeper wisdom utter : 

 'Tis hard to fight or press demands 

 'Gainst a majority which stands 

 Up for its bread and butter." 



Is any corresponding passage in Homer ?s J. D. 



[There is a line in Homer (_Iliad, book ii. 24.) analo- 

 gous in sentiment to the words in the "Ode to Lord 

 North : " 



" Ou xPV Tawuxiov evSeiv pov\r)<f>6pov avSpa ;" 



i. e. A statesman should be ever taking counsel, by night 

 as well as by day.] 



Battle of Patay. — I am anxious to know 

 whether the battle of Patay, at which Joan of Arc 

 was present, was fought on the 10th or the 18 th 

 of June, 1429. The books of reference which I 

 have consulted do not agree as to the day of the 

 month. Clericus (D.). 



[In L'Art de Verifier les Dates we read, "Le 18 Mai, 

 elle combat a la bataille de Patai, en Beauce, oil Talbot, 

 ge'ne'ral des Anglais, aprfes avoir perdu deux mille 

 hommes, est pris avec plusieurs autres chefs."] 



BACK, 



(Vol. ix., p. 517.) 

 If Barrett's conjecture as to the origin of thi» 

 word, as locally applied at Bristol, is to be ad- 

 mitted, it would perhaps rather be a ferry than a 

 river, from which it originated. The following 

 extract from a curious little volume * tends to 

 show that this was the case : 



" Sur la Tamise est basty un pont de pierre oeuvre fort 

 rare et excellent. Ce pont a vingt arches faictes de 

 pierre, de 60 pieds de haulteur et de 30 pieds de large, 

 basties en faijon de voulte. Sur le pont de coste et 

 d'autre y a maisons, chambres et greniers, en sorte qu'il 

 semble mieux estre une rue qu'un pont. Quant a la 

 fondation du dit pont, faict k noter qu'au commencement 

 il n'y avoit apparence de pont, raais c'estoit un bac, pour 

 passer y repasser les gens et les marchandises amenees 

 h, Londres. Par ce bac le passager s'enrichit merveilleuse- 

 ment, pour I'occupation qu'il en fait par longues annees. 

 Apres son decfes, il le laissa par legs testamentaire h, une 

 sienne fille nommee Marie Andery [1. Overy]. Elle 

 s'estant saisie d^s biens de defuncts ses pere et mere, et 

 apres aussi avoir amasse tout pleiu de biens par le moyen 

 du dit bac, fut conseillee de fonder une Keligion de Non- 

 nains, un peu au-dessus du Chceur de I'Eglise qui depuia 

 fut appellee Saincte Marie Andery (i. e. St. Mary Overies), 

 aux fauxbourg de Soutwark lez Londres, en laquelle elle 

 fut enterree. A I'entretenement de laquelle Eglise, icelle 

 Marie donna par testament ledict bac et les profits pro- 

 venants d'icelluy," &c. — Sig. L. iiij. 



It is evident that Bac is here used for Ferry^ 

 but it strictly meant the vessel, or rather movable 

 bi-idge, by means of which carriages, horses, and 

 passengers were ferried over, as appears from that 

 valuable old dictionary of Nicot, the prototype of 

 our worthy Cotgrave : 



" Bac, m. acut. est un grand bateau k passer char- 

 rettes, chevaux, et gens de pied d'un bord de rivifere k 

 autre. Ponto, en Latin : Lequel mot retenants en maint 

 lieux, celuy qui passe I'eau aux allans et venans est 

 appelM Pontonier, qu'on dit en autres endroits Passagier, 

 et Barquerol pour le mesme." 



It is singular that Stow, in his Survey of London^ 

 has related the same account of the origin of the 

 Priory of St. Mary Overies, which he is said to 

 have obtained from Bartholomew Linsted, the last 

 prior, but which Tanner says "is not confirmed 

 by any other authority in print or manuscript that 

 had occurred to him." We have here, at least, 

 an earlier authority than Stow by twenty years. 

 Whether the tradition was derived by Jean Ber- 

 nard from the same source or not, does not appear. 



S. W. SiNGEE. 

 Mickleham. 



No. 297.] 



* Discours des plus Memorables faicts des Roys et 

 grands Seigneurs d'Angleterre, &c. Plus une Traict^ de 

 la Guide des Chemins, les assiettes et Description des 

 principales Villes, Chateuaux et Rivieres d'Angleterre, 

 par Jean Bernard, 12o, k Paris, 1579. 



