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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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another name for the former, and indicates one of 

 its uses, — a walk for the females of the institu- 

 tion, and from which they viewed the processions 

 alonjj the nave of the church. The Glossary of 

 Architecture does not give the derivations of the 

 terms. P- C. 



Punch Ladles. — It appears to have been a very 

 common custom with our ancestors during the 

 last century, to insert a gold or silver coin in the 

 bottom' of the bowl of a silver punch ladle. Can 

 any of your readers enlighten me as to the origin 

 and meaning of such custom ? F. N. L. 



Hood's " Essay on Little Nell" — In the Preface 

 to the Old Curiosity Shop, Mr. Dickens writes as 

 follows ; 



« I have a mournful pride in one recollection associated 

 with 'little Nell.' While she was yet upon her wander- 

 ings, not then concluded, there appeared in a literary 

 journal, an essaj' of which she was the principal theme, so 

 earnestlj', so eloquentlj-, and tenderly appreciative of her, 

 and of all her shadowy kith and kin, that it would have 

 been insensibility in me, if I could have read it without 

 unusual glow of pleasure and encouragement. Long 

 afterwards, and when I had come to know him well, and 

 to see him, stout of heart, going* slowly down into his 

 grave, I knew the writer of that essay to be Thomas 

 Hood." 



Query, Where can I find the essay here al- 

 luded to, and what is its title ? J. B. W. 



Leeds. 



" Confusions Master Piece." — Was the follow- 

 ino- work a poetical dramatic piece ? " Confu- 

 sions Master Piece ; or, Paine s Labour Lost. Being 

 a Specimen of some well-known Scenes in Shak- 

 speare's Macbeth revived and improved ; as en- 

 acted by some of his Majesty's Servants before the 

 Pit of Acheron." By the writer of the Parodies 

 'mtho. Gentleman's Magazine. 1794. The writer 

 of the Parodies was, I believe, the Rev. Dr. Ford, 

 rector of Melton Mowbray, who died May 13, 

 1821. Iota. 



India. — Is the extraordinary demand for silver, 

 which has recently been sent in such quantities 

 from this country to India and China, to be at- 

 tributed to, or in any way to be connected with, 

 the mutinies now so prevalent in Bengal ? 



SCOTUS. 



• 

 [The only and obviously real cause of the great demand 

 for silver in the East, is the fact of a large annual ba- 

 lance of trade (value of imports and exports) being 

 against Great Britain as well as against the United States. 

 The balance against us is about four to five millions 

 sterling: that against the States has ruled at about two 

 and a half millions. Now the American trade through- 

 out the world is conducted almost entirely upon credits 

 in England j wherefore most payments made in foreign 

 ports by American merchants are in drafts upon Eng- 



land. The result is to throw a great additional quantity 

 of English bills on the market (already overstocked for 

 payment of English balances), and thus to turn the 

 exchange strongly against us. This accounts not only 

 for the drain of our silver, but for its inordinate value in 

 the East (in Shanghae Spanish pillar dollars have been as 

 high as equal to 7s. Id. British, lately) ; because silver in 

 preference to gold is the standard representative of values 

 in the East. Precisely the same conditions, though with 

 less force, often operate in South America, as Brazil, 

 Chili, &c. With respect to India it must be borne in 

 mind that we are hardly more than importers (except 

 the single item of cotton fabrics, which we do not ex- 

 port to any value equivalent to our general imports), and 

 that consequently, instead of the'public service being able 

 to remit its public payments hence by bills on India, it is 

 obliged to export silver for almost the whole excess of 

 those payments over the land revenues, and they are 

 enormous. Of course the loss of a great deal of treasure 

 and of materiel (temporary or not) in India must for the 

 time increase the demand for money (silver) supplies 

 from home. But the drain is chronic, and has been 

 steadily increasing with the extension of our relations 

 with the East. The East India Company alwaj's has 

 numbered specie amongst its largest exports. See the 

 valuable Trade Reports of Messrs. Bell, Robertson, and 

 others, H. M. Consuls in China Seas, at Canton and 

 Shanghae.] 



Edward Windsor. — The Chiesa dei SS. Gio- 

 vanni e Paolo at Venice, with its pictures, eques- 

 trian statues, mausolei grande, monuments, and 

 the superb grande finestra of coloured glass, by 

 Mocetto, in the sixteenth century, possesses such 

 attractions as rivet the attention of every visitor. 

 There is there in the 1st Cappella the grand mau- 

 soleo oi Andrea Vendramino, 71st Doge, ob. 1749, 

 which is the richest and most elegant of its kind 

 in all Venice : and near this I observed another 

 mausoleo of an Englishman, Edward Windsor, 

 who died in 1574, at the age of forty-two. May 

 I request some reader of your miscellany to in- 

 form me who this Edward Windsor was, and if he 

 were delegated by Queen Elizabeth on an em- 

 bassy to Venice ? Delta. 



[The mausoleo is that of the third Lord Windsor, who 

 was made one of the Knights of the Carpet, Oct. 2, 1553, 

 the day after Queen Mary's coronation. In 1557, when 

 the town of St. Quintin, in Picardj', was taken by storm, 

 Sir Edward Windsor was one of the first that advanced 

 the English banner on the wall. In 1558 he succeeded 

 his father William in the barony. On Queen Elizabeth's 

 return from visiting the University of Oxford in 1566, 

 she favoured this Lord Windsor with a visit at his seat 

 at Bradenham, where she was highly entertained. (Wood's 

 Athence, Bliss, ii. 358.) Being a rigid Romanist he re- 

 sided on the continent on account of his religion till he 

 was summoned home by Queen Elizabeth, to whom he 

 sent a petition to be excused from returning, printed \yy 

 Strj'pe, Annals of the Reformation, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 378., ed. 

 1824. He died at Venice, Jan. 24, 1574-5. See Collins's 

 Peerage, by Brydges, iii. 675, Several of Lord Windsor's 

 letters will be found in Cotton. MSS., Titus B. ii. and vii., 

 many of them written in the year 1574 ; and two im- 

 portant ones in the Harl. MS. 6990, " Edward Lord 

 Windsor to Secretary Cecil, giving an account of his 

 travels, dated Naples, May 16, 1569 ; " and " Lord Wind- 

 sor to Secretary Cecil, of a conference with a French 



