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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Dec. 22. 1855. 



have heard much without being able to meet with 

 it. Lio. 



[We liave not at present sufficient margin to give these 

 extracts ine.vtenso; but our correspondent will find them 

 in the following works: Tiie fragment of Solon is pre- 

 served in Clemens Alexandi-inus, Opera, Oxonii, 1715, 

 torn. ji. p. 814.; and in Solonis Aihenlensis Carmiwim 

 qiuB supersuHt. Edente Nicolans Bachius. Bonn. 1825, 

 p. 64. Dr. Markham's imitation in Garmina Quadragesi- 

 maiia, &c. Auctore Gul. Markham. Edente Rev. F. 

 Wrangham. Privately printed, 1820. p. 10.] 



'•■'■ Glo7'ia in Excelsis" — The doxology in tlie 

 Communion Service of the Church of England 

 (beginning " Glory be to God on high "), and 

 which the rubric directs shall be either "said 

 or sung," is, as far as my knowledge extends, 

 always " said " by the officiating clergy and cele- 

 brants, and not " sung." Can any of your corre- 

 spondents inform me of any churches in which it 

 is regularly " sung" ? and, if so, where the music 

 may be obtained ? Sigma. 



[The earliest music to the Gloria in Excehis is that 

 given by Marbeck in his Boke of Common Pruier Noted. 

 That b.y Tallis may be considered the next, and is still in 

 use. The hymn has been frequently set to four-part 

 music, and where there are quires there will be no diffi- 

 culty in finding examples for selection. Several settings 

 are given in Drs. Boyce's and Arnold's Cathedral Music. 

 It is sung, we believe, at the Temple Church, Gray's Inn, 

 St. Barnabas, Pimlico, and St. Andrew's, Wells Street, 

 Oxford Street. Consult Jebb on the Choral Service."] 



Miss Nightingale. — What is the title of the 

 work to which Mr. Jewitt alludes, at p. 22. of his 

 Stroll to Lea Hurst^ the Home of Florence Night- 

 ingale ? — 



" And ably has she given the world the result of some 

 of her experiences and observations in a well-written work 

 of which she is the authoress." 



Your Querist is proud of being able to claim 

 relationship, however distant, with this truly ad- 

 mirable lady through her maternal grandmother 

 (Miss Frances Coope, wife of Will. Smith, Esq., 

 M.P. for Norwich), and is very desirous of perus- 

 ing what he is sure must possess much interest. 



E. H. A. 



[We have been informed that the following is the title 

 of the work from the pen of this estimable lady : The In- 

 stitution of Kaiserwerth on the Rhine, for the Practical 

 Training of Deaconesses. London, printed by the Inmates 

 of the Ragged Colonial Training School, 28. St. Ann's 

 Street, Westminster. To be had at Hookham's, Bond 

 Street. 3 



Burt's " Letters from Scotland^'' — What evi- 

 dence is there that Letters from a Gentleman in 

 the North of Scotland were written by Burt? 

 Who was Burt, and where is there an account of 

 him? X. O. B. 



[The best edition of these Letters is the one edited by 

 Mr. Robert Jamieson, enriched with some curious contri- 

 butions from the pen of Sir Walter Scott. London, 2 vols. 

 8vo., 1818. The editor states, that " the author of these 

 Le-tters (the genuineness of which has never been ques- 



No. 321.] 



tioned in the country where the accuracy of his deline- 

 ations may best be appreciated) is commonly iinderstood 

 to have been Captain Burt, an officer of engineers, who, 

 about 1730, was sent into Scotland as a contractor, &c." 

 Gough, in his British Topography, vol. ii. p. 573., farther 

 informs us, that " some say this was written, or at least 

 revised, by Major Caulfield, fort-major at Fort Augustus, 

 who superintended the finishing of Gen. Wade's military 

 roads through the Highlands, and resided at Inverness, 

 where he afterwards came to an unhappy end. By others 

 it is ascribed to one Burt, a sutler or contractor under 

 Gen. Wade, a poor, illiterate, hireling scribbler, who is 

 reported to have afterwards hanged himself at his lodg- 

 ings at Charing Cross." It is right to state, that in the 

 copy of Gough before us, there is a duplicate leaf of 

 pp. 573-4., in one of which the passage attributing it to 

 Major Caulfield is omitted.] 



THE BALLAD OF SIB HUGH. 



In Vol. vili., p. 614., six verses of this ballad 

 will be found contributed by myself. In reply to 

 inquiries since made, I have received six verses 

 and a half additional. I copy these from the ori- 

 ginal MS. of " an old lacemaker, who obliged me 

 with these lines," as my informant says. I have 

 corrected errors of orthography and arrangement. 

 For the sake of the variations I copy the whole : 



" It rains, it rains in merry Scotland, 

 Both little, great and small ; 

 And all the schoolfellows in merry Scotland 

 Must needs go play at ball. 



" Thej' toss'd the ball so high, so high, 

 With that it came down so low ; 

 They tossed it over the old Jew's gates, 

 And broke the old Jew's window. 

 " The old Jew's daughter she came out, 

 Was clothed all in green. 

 ' Come hither, come hither, you young Sir Hugh, 

 And fetch your ball again.' 

 " • I dare not come, nor I will not come. 

 Without my schoolfellows come all ; 

 For I shall be beaten when I go home 

 For losing of my ball.' 

 " She 'ticed him with an apple so red, 

 And likewise with a fig ; 

 She threw him over the dresser board. 

 And sticked him like a pig. 

 " The first came out the thickest of blood, ' 

 The second came'out so thin. 

 The third came out the child's heart-blood. 

 Where'er his life lay in. 

 " < O spare my life ! spare my life ! 

 spare my life ! ' said he : ' 

 ' If ever I live to be a young man, 

 I'll do as good chare for thee. 

 " ' I'll do as good chare for thy true love 

 As ever I did for the King ; 

 I will scour a basin as bright as silver, 

 To let your heart-blood run in.' 

 " When eleven o'clock was past and gone,' 

 And all the schoolfellows came home. 

 Every mother had her own child, 

 But young Sir Hugh's mother had none. 



