Aug. 25. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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lume of his Original Poems, Songs, and Essays, 

 published in 1854. 2. The Rev. Charles William 

 Chalklen, of Trinity College, Cambridge. There 

 is a short account of him published along with his 

 poetical works, published, I think, in two vols, in 

 1847. R. J- 



[William Gardiner was born at Whitchurch, in 

 Herefordshire, April 16, 1766, and educated at Bristol 

 under the celebrated mathematician Mr. Donne. In 1793, 

 soon after his marriage, he left England for Philadelphia, 

 where for two years he engaged in commercial pursuits. 

 In 179G, he embarked a second time for America, and 

 settled at Baltimore as a schoolmaster, where he remained 

 till the spring of 1803. In 1804, he removed to Lydney, 

 where he conducted a boarding-school. In 1817, he was 

 introduced to Mr. D. Mackay, of Newgate Street, who 

 engaged him to write some works of fiction, and as editor 

 of The British Lady's Magazine. He died on May 18, 

 1825. A list of his numerous pieces will be found in The 

 Narrative of his Life, by his daughter. 



Charles William Chalklen was born in 1803, and 

 received his classical education from the Rev. Oliver 

 Lodge, at Barking, in Essex ; thence he removed to St. 

 Paul's School, and, in 1822, having obtained an exhibi- 

 tion of lOOZ., he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830. He obtained the curacy of Ring- 

 stead, in Northamptonshire; thence he removed to 

 Blechingley in Surrey ; afterwards to Louth ; and finally 

 was appointed to the licensed curacy at Northborough in 

 Northamptonshire, where he continued to reside to the 

 time of his death, January 28, 1816. Besides his dra- 

 matic poem Semiramis, an Historical Morality, in Two 

 Parts, he contributed numeroxxs articles to Blackwood, the 

 Gentleman, and the Christian Monthly Magazines; and a 

 paper evincing great research was published in the West- 

 minster Revieiu for March 1845, entitled " Chronology of 

 Egyptian History."] 



Heraldic. — I am anxious to discovei' the owner- 

 ship of a coat of arms, painted on a slab, forming 

 the top of a table, which I presume was formerly 

 in the possession of George II., or of his son. 

 The slab is ornamented with a landscape, fruit, 

 and flowers, executed partly in coloured stone, 

 partly in stucco ; and around the border, among 

 other painted designs, are medallions of George II., 

 Queen Caroline, Frederick, Prince of AVales, and 

 (I presume) his wife. Being ignorant of heraldry, 

 I cannot give a verbal description of the arms, 

 but must trust to a rough sketch. The birds 

 appear to be doves, each holding a branch in the 

 beak. The motto is " Audaces fortuna juvat." 



Jaydee. 



[We are sorry that we cannot reply satisfactorily to 

 Jaydee's inquiry. We have searched several books of 

 good authority, without being able to discover the arms 

 in question. From the connexion Avhich they appear to 

 have had with the royal family of the House of Bruns- 

 wick, it is probable they belong to some German familj' ; 

 and from the motto, to some one holding military rank. 

 We have, however, consulted Fursten's German Arms, 

 containing a very numerous collection, without eflfect.] 



Aerolites. — There is a block of stone in the 

 British Museum, said to be an aerolite, weighing, 

 at a rough estimate, about a ton, or a ton and a 



No. 304.] 



half. It is supposed, I understand, by some 

 meteorologists, that this stone was propelled from 

 the moon's surface with such violence as to fly 

 beyond the influence of gravitation, and to have 

 come within the sphere of the earth's gravitating 

 attraction. La Place mentions similar specula- 

 tions. Can any of your readers give me in- 

 formation on this subject ? J. S. F. 



[We would commend to the notice of our correspondent 

 a A'aluable article on Aerolites, or meteoric stones, in the 

 Penny Cyclopedia, vol. i. p. 150., which notices the hypo- 

 thesis entertained by La Place, that they are bodies 

 thrown out by the volcanos which are known to exist in 

 the moon, with such force as to bring them within the 

 sphere of the earth's attraction ; but Olbers and other 

 astronomers are of opinion that the velocity of the meteors 

 is too great to admit of the possibility of their having 

 come from the moon. This opinion has also been ad- 

 vanced by Sir Humphry Davy in the Philosophical 

 Transactions for 1817. The writer in the Penny Cyclo- 

 pcedia has also given a list of works for those who wish to 

 investigate this curious subject.] 



Glass Windows in Almvick Castle. — In the 

 case of Bishop and Elliott, reported in the twenty- 

 fourth volume of the Law Journal, Exchequer 

 Chamber, p. 230., on a question of fixtures, Mr. 

 Justice Maule is reported to have observed, in 

 the course of the argument on the case, " In 

 former times I believe chimney-pieces were re- 

 moved from one house to another. They were 

 generally of wood, fixed with screws. In old 

 days the glass windows from Alnwick Castle were 

 brought to the town when the family came to 

 London." I have in vain looked and inquired 

 for Mr. Justice Maule's statement, and believe he 

 has been misinformed. Can any of your anti- 

 quarian readers refer me to an authority ? . 



Fra. Mewbuen. 



Darlington. 



[That glass Avindows were moveable appears from the 

 following notice of Alnwick Castle by George Clarkson, 

 surveyor of the lands of the Earl of Northumberiand, 

 A.D. 1567, quoted in Hutchinson's Northumberland, vol. ii. 

 p. 202. :— " And because throwe extreme winds the glasse 

 of the windowes of this and other my Lord's castells and 

 houses here in this cuntrie doothe decay and waste, y' 

 were goode the whole leights of evrie windowe at the 

 departure of his Lp. from lyinge at anye'of his said cas- 

 tells and houses, and dowring the tyme of his Lps. absence 

 or others lying in them, were taken doune and lade up in 

 safetie ; and at sooche tyme, as other his Lp. or anie other 

 sholde lye at anie of the said places, the same might then 

 be sett uppe of newe, with smale charges to his Lp. wher 

 now the decaye therof shall be verie costlie and charge- 

 able to be repayred."] 



" Lycidas," a Masque. — Who is the author of 

 the following volume of poems ? — Lycidas, a 

 Masque, to which is added Delia, a pastoral 

 elegy, and verses on the death of the Marquis of 

 Carmartlien : London, Pote, 4to., 1762. R. J. 



[In a copy before us it is attributed to Thomas Lambe, 

 formerly scholar at Eton College.] 



