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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Oct. 20. 1855. 



llshed In 1709. Unfortunately, I neglected Capt. 

 Cuttle's advice, and am now unable to find it. I 

 am also desirous of ascertaining whether a Sermon, 

 preached by Dr. Sherlock, on St. Cecilia's Day, 

 1699, was preached at St. Paul's or St Bride's. I 

 need these particulars for the purpose of an ac- 

 count of the musical celebrations of St. Cecilia's 

 Day, for which I have long been collecting mate- 

 rials. Any information as to the authors or com- 

 posers of the various odes, anthems, &c., preachers 

 of sermons, and the years and places of perform- 

 ance will be very acceptable. W. H. Husk. 



FAddison's Ode, 1699, which was set to music by Pur- 

 cell, will be found in Anderson's British Poets, vol. vii. 

 p. 223., in the Reading Room of the British Museum. 

 Dr. Sherlock's Sermon on St. Cecilia's Day, was preached 

 at St. Paul's Cathedra], Nov, 22, 1699, being the Anni- 

 versary of the Lovers of Music. See also Dr. Charles 

 Hickman's Sermon on St. Cecilia's Day, on Psalm c. 1., 

 Oxford, 1695, 4to. Dryden's Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, 

 1697. Pope's Ode on St. Cecilia's Birth-day, 1713. Bon- 

 nell Thornton's Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, adapted to the 

 Ancient British Music, 1762, 4to. Tlie following odes 

 occur in The Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems, 

 edited by E. Fenton, 1709 : " Ode to St. Cecilia, Patroness 

 of Music," anonymous ; and " An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, 

 1693," by Tbeo. Parsons. We must not overlook Henry 

 Dodwell's remarkable Treatise concerning the Laivfulness 

 of Instrumental Musick in Holy Offices, 8vo., 1700, with its 

 learned preface in vindication of the use of organs in the 

 Christian Church.] 



Single-speech Hamilton, — The Right Hon. Wm. 

 Gerard Hamilton, who was Chancellor of the 

 Exchequer in Ireland, and at one time repre- 

 sented Wilton, Wilts, I find, by the True Briton 

 daily paper of Monday, July 18, 1796, died the 

 preceding Saturday, in Upper Brook Street, aged 

 sixty- eiglit. This gentleman made a solitary 

 speech, which obtained him the sobriquet of " Sin- 

 gle-speech;" and I beg to be informed when and 

 where he delivered this noted oration ; I am also 

 very desirous to see it, if it has been recorded in 

 print. A Norfolk Querist. 



Great Yarmouth. 



[The speech which obtained :Mr. Hamilton Ins sobriquet 

 was made on the opening of the session, Nov. 13, 1755, 

 when, to use the words of Waller, " he broke out, like the 

 Irish rebellion, three-score thousand strong, when nobody 

 was aware, or in the least suspected it." Of this cele- 

 brated speech there is reason to believe that no copy re- 

 mains ; but of the great impression which it made when 

 it was delivered, abundant proof is given in one of Horace 

 Walpole's letters. See Works of Horatio, Earl of Orford, 

 vol. V. p. 41.] 



Nine Kirks. — There is a place of this name In 

 the Scottish border country, and there are many 

 Neunkirchen in Germany ; to what does the name 

 refer ? J. Y. J. 



[^Ninekirhs, or Nine-Church, is in the parish of Broug- 

 ham, Cumberland, and is commonly supposed to have 

 derived its name from St. Xinian, a Scottish bishop, " to 

 which kingdom," according to Dr. Burn, "this church 

 did probably belong at the time of its dedication. It is 



No. 312.] 



sometimes called the Church of St. Wilfrid ; so that we 

 must suppose that the Scots had one tutelar saint of the 

 church and the English another." See Burn's Cumberland, 

 vol. i. p. 390.] 



Monetary Change, temp. Edward VI. — In the 

 Saxilby churchwardens' accounts the following 

 item twice appears : " In allowance at the fall of 

 the money, iii*. y\d." Will any of your learned 

 readers explain the above item ? Can it be, that 

 at the period in question (1551) there had been a 

 change in the value of the current coin ? Other 

 suggestions occur to me, but none of them are 

 satisfactory. Fra. Mewburn. 



Darlington. 



[About this time twenty thousand pounds' weight of 

 bullion was appointed to be so alloyed that the king might 

 gain thereby 220,000/. Wade's British History, p. 131.] 



Thomas Henchman, Esq. — I have had lent to 

 me an engraving of Thomas Henchman, Esq., by 

 S. W. Reynolds, from a painting by J. Northcote, 

 R.A., and published (London, 1803) by the en- 

 graver, 47. Poland Street. Can any of your 

 readers Inform me who this Individual was, where 

 he lived, and to what family of the Henchmans 

 he belonged ? Any other information about him 

 would be acceptable. W. H. C. 



[There was a Thomas Henchman, Esq., residing at this 

 time in New Burlington Street, who died, as stated in the 

 Gentleman's Magazine, vol. Ixxiv. p. 699., at Botleys, in 

 Surrey, July 24, 1804.] 



" O. D. T. M. D." — In an edition of the Greek 

 Testament (my copy of which wants the title ; but 

 it is called the second edition, and must have been 

 issued by Wetstein, about 1720), there are P?'o- 

 legomena, by G. D. T. M. D. For what do these 

 initials stand ? E. H. D. D. 



[The initials denote that the Prolegomena were edited 

 by Gerardus De Trajecto, Mosa Doctor, that is, Gerard von 

 Maestri cht, a sj'ndic of the republic of Bremen. There 

 are two editions of this Greek Testament, 1711, 1735; the 

 second was revised by the celebrated critic J. J. Wetstein, 

 and is considered by Dr. Dibdin as the very best critical 

 duodecimo (or rather small octavo) edition of the Greek 

 Testament. The text is formed on the second Elzevir 

 edition of 1633, and Curcelteus's editions.] 



H0pTt0^. 



reward for the quadrature op the circle. 



(Vol. xii., p. 58.) 



The reward which my correspondent declares 

 was offered by the British Government, for the 

 solution of this problem, was widely advertised in 

 every part of the world, except Great Britain. I 

 am not sure that the notion is yet extinct. Twenty 

 years ago, a priest from South America — a Jesuit, 

 I think — who had come to this country with his so- 

 lution and a newspaper paragraph in his pocket — 



