Nov. 3. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



341 



iSlmnr iiaiea. 



An Old Fifth of November Song. — The fol- 

 lowing parody on Wolfe's admirablo b..lhu!, has 

 never, I believe, been printed. It will, perhaps, 

 fill a corner at the present season : 



"Not a squib went fiz, nor a rocket whiz, 

 As tlie Guy to the gallows was hurried ; 

 The mob were afraid of the New Police, 

 And therefore were deucedly flurried. 



They carried him out as soon as 'twas night, 

 Down the courts and alleys turning ; 



By the smouldering bonfire's murky light, 

 And the paper lanthorns burning. 



No useless garments enclosed his limbs. 



For his breeches were coarse as a hulker's ; 

 And he hung like a felon taking his swing 



In the morning at Saint Sepulchre's. 

 Few and short were the jokes they flung, 



For fear of the laws did them twitch hard ; 

 But they steadfastly gazed on the Guy as he hting, 



And bitterly thought of Sir liichard.* 



Slowly and sadly the bonfire burned, 



Till it reached to his upper story ; 

 They fired not a gun nor a pistol — but turned. 



And there left him alone in his glory." 



M. N. S. 



Notes from Fly Leaves. — In a Horce JB. Vir- 

 giiiis, English use, is the following memoranda : 



"Pater meus natus fuit apud Milbeck prope Cocker- 

 mouth xvi raille passus a Penrith in Com Cumber. 



" Memorandum quod die Mercurii xV die Maii, anno 

 dni millesimo quingentesimo xxi et anno Regis Hen. VI 1 1, 

 tercio decimo. Johannes Lucas de Agheford in Com 

 Cant. Pater meus obiit ibidem circa horam undecimam 

 ante meridiem, ejusdem diei. Litem dominicalis eodem 

 anno (F) et aureus numerus (U). Cujus ale propicietur 

 Detis." 



Then comes : 



« Item die Veneris ex tunc proxima sequentis, Ed- 

 wardus Dux Buckingham decapitatus fuit pro alta pro- 

 ditione apud Tower Hill, London. Johannes Kyme et 

 Johannes Everington tunc Vic. London, existen." 



This must have been Edward, made ninth Earl of 

 Stafford (I486), and Duke of Buckingham, Lord 

 Constable, beheaded 1521. 

 At the end of the book are the following lines : 



"Thowe synful man, knelle downe for shame, 

 "Wl'.en thowe heryst thus the Lorde's name, 

 For it is reson, man, that thowe so dowe, 

 Whene angells and devells knelle downe theretowe." 



I should be much obliged for any information 

 about John Lucas de Ashford, if he is known. 



In another Horce, York use, there are the fol- 

 lowing lines : 



" Richard Redman (Redmaj'ne) (owns) this booke. If 

 any man fynde it, geve him yt agayne, or else he shall be 

 hangyd on a (tree)." 



• Birnie. When the parody was written, the presiding 

 genius of Bow Street. 

 No. 314.] 



The two words in Italics are doubtful, being 

 nearly obliterated. J. C. J. 



Ilacknsy. 



7 «e Sarmati. — Tacitus (Hist., bk. i. c. 79.), 

 speaking oi this people, says : 

 " Ubi per turmas attvenere, vix uUa acies obstiterit." 



The far-famed Polish lancers have shown them- 

 selves worthy of their ancestors It is curious to 

 observe how modern nations have preserved their 

 ancient manners and character. The Highlanders 

 yet retain the " ingentes gladii,"* and have only 

 lately cast off the " breves cetrae " f of their Cale- 

 donian forefathers ; recent events have shown 

 that, as of yore, " Grseca fides " is still " nulla 

 fides ; " and the brave nation which gave the 

 greatest Roman general so much trouble to con- 

 quer, is now itself conquering as formidable a 

 foe. A. G. (1.) 



Pinchbeck, the Metal why so called. — This took 

 its name from one Mr. Christopher Pinchbeck, a 

 celebrated astronomical and musical clockmaker. 

 The following Note I take from a MS. of the 

 commencement of the eighteenth century : 



" Mr. Xtopher Pinchbeck had a curious secret of new 

 invented metal, w"'' so naturally resembles gold (as not 

 to be distinguished by y« most experienced eye), in 

 colour, smell, and ductibility. Y® secret is communicated 

 to his son. 



" Mr. P. has finished a fine musical clock, said to be a 

 most exquisite piece of workmanship, and worth ab* 

 £1500, w"'! is to be sent over to y King of France, and a 

 fine organ to y® great Mogul, £300." 



Cli. HOPPJEB. 



Money and a Friend. — 



' I had both \ 

 I lent my t 



I sought my ( 



I and a ^ 



\ to my f 



Money -( > Friend 



] from my I 



I lost my ) {. and my 



At length with ^ / came my -v 



I got my > Money <, but my y Friend 



But had I I J and a I 



I'de keep my / \ and my ) 



In handwriting of seventeenth 



! of either thought I store, 

 and tooke his word there- 

 fore ; 

 wliich I had wanted long, 

 and waa not this a wrongi? 



i which pleas'd me won- 

 d'rous well, 

 away quite from me fell; 

 as I have had before, 

 andplaythefoolnomore." 



century. 



W. C. Treveiyaht. 



A Curious Notice of a Death. — 



" Died in Vernon, Vermont, July 2, 1855, widow, 

 Catherine Lucia, aged one hundred years and seven 

 months. She was of French descent, five feet eight inches 

 in height, and twenty-foiu: inches and a half across her 

 shoulders." 



w. w. 



Malta. 



Churchdown. — The parish of Churchdown, three 

 miles E. of Gloucester, includes within its pre- 

 cincts an outlying hill of the same formation as 

 the Cotteswold range. Capping its summit, stands 

 the parish church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew ; 

 a church-like structure, with a square embattled 



Tac. Agricola. cap. 36. 



t Ibid. 



