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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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The last passage to be considered is the one 

 used in the Occasional Oratorio at the words, 

 " War shall cease ; welcome Peace," and by Arne 

 for his opening phrase at " When Britain first, at 

 Heaven's command." It is almost identical in 

 the two authors, but it is not the exclusive pro- 

 perty of either, having been used by another 

 above twenty years before the production of the 

 Occasional Oratorio. The Necromancer, composed 

 by John Ernest Galliard, was produced in 1723, 

 and in Leander's song, " While on ten thousand 

 charms I gaze," this passage is to be found at 

 the words, " With Love's fires my bosom burns." 

 (This song is in the British Museum Library.) 



In the case of this passage, also, Arne's use of 

 it is different to that of either Handel or Galliard : 

 with Handel it occurs in the body of a song, and 

 with Galliard on the second line, being also a 

 modulation into the major key of a song in the 

 minor key. Arne's little touches have improved 

 and rounded the phrase, and he has given it a 

 new significance by using it as his commencement. 

 Upon the whole, he has used the various passages 

 so as to produce an air of an uncommonly well- 

 marked, stately, and condensed style, Jitting it for 

 what it has become — a National Anthem. 



Alfred Roffe. 



^tvli^S tfl Minat ^mviti, 



Genevra Legend in England (2"'' S. iv. 398.) — 

 I believe Klof is mistaken in supposing Mrs. 

 Cunliffe Offley to have imagined that the story of 

 the bride having hid herself in the chest took 

 place in Cheshire. This melancholy event was 

 known to have happened in a house in Scotland, and 

 was related to Mrs. Cunliffe Offley by her mother- 

 in-law Lady Cunliffe, who was a Scotch woman, 

 and well acquainted with all the sad circum- 

 stances. She was in the habit of narrating it, in 

 a most graphic and impressive manner, as a warn- 

 ing to her children and their companions to avoid, 

 in their game of *' hide and seek," ever placing 

 themselves in any of the large chests in the house. 

 Mrs. Cunliffe Offley was intimately acquainted 

 with Mr. Rogers, and, I have no doubt, told the 

 story to him, and that it was the origin of " Ge- 

 nevra" in his Italy. He adds, in a note : — 



" This story is, I believe, founded on fact. Except in 

 this instance and another, I have everywhere followed 

 history or tradition; and I would here disburden my 

 conscience in pointing out these exceptions, lest the 

 reader should be misled bv them." 



E.G. 



Gresford. 



Macaulay's Essays: St. Cecilia (2""^ S. iv. 415.) — 

 In the account of this matter there is a mistake, 

 which I venture to rectify. The picture described 

 as St. Cecilia in the catalogue of the Manchester 

 Exhibition, and contributed by Sir W. W. Wynn, 



Bart., of Wynnstay, is not the celebrated one 

 painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, representing 

 Miss Linley, afterwards Mrs. Sheridan, as St. Ce- 

 cilia. That beautiful picture (of which there is a 

 good mezzotint engraving) is in the collection of 

 the Marquess of Lansdowne. My friend Mr. R. 

 Brinsley Sheridan, M. P., of Frampton Court, has 

 a most interesting letter of Sir Joshua's, relating 

 to this picture, which shall be sent to you for pub- 

 lication in a future number. B. Ferret. 



Black Dog of Bungay (2"* S. iv. 268. 314.) — 

 Is not this another variety of the spectral dog 

 called in Norfolk " Shuck" (P* S. i. 468.), or " Old 

 Shock" (videForby, Vocab. of East Anglia), from 

 the Saxon 8cucca rceocca, Satan, the Devil ? This 

 is the ordinary form spirits are said to assume in 

 Norfolk. (Vide Norfolk Archaeology, vol. ii. pp. 

 300. 307.) E. S. Tatlob. 



Stonehenge (2^^ S. iv. 453.) — It is so long ago 

 as April 29, 1840, that I was at Stonehenge. The 

 guide whom I found there (not with a wooden 

 leg) told me, in respect to the fallen stones, that 

 it was not in the memory of man, nor was there 

 in any known record, any mention of the fall of 

 any of the stones, except of the great trilithon on 

 the north-west side in the oval. On turning to 

 Gough's Camden, 1 see that this fell January 3, 

 1797, and I think the guide mentioned the same 

 date. He added that it was in contemplation to 

 re-erect this trilithon ; but with respect to the 

 others, concerning which nothing was known of 

 their fall, and over which there hung a mystery, 

 they would not be meddled with. If any more 

 stones have fallen, the circumstances must have 

 occurred since I was there. P. Hutchinson. 



Sidmouth. 



Bombardment of Algiers by Lord Exmouth (2°'^ 

 S. iv. 453.) — The description given by Septimus 

 of the picture in his possession tallies exactly 

 with my boyish remembrance of a painting exe- 

 cuted about forty years ago by a very able artist, 

 Mr. P. H. Rogers, then residing at Devonport 

 (at that time known by the name of Plymouth 

 Dock), and who afterwards settled in London. 

 A large and finely-executed engraving was made 

 of this picture, and I have no doubt that many 

 copies are to be found in Devonport and Ply- 

 mouth. I had one myself, some years ago, which 

 was presented to my late father by Mr. Rogers. 

 After his removal to London (if not before), Mr. 

 Rogers contributed works to the Exhibitions of 

 the Royal Academy. H. E. Caerington. 



Chronicle Office, Bath. 



Separation of Sexes in Churches (2"^ S. Jii. 108. 

 178.; iv. 54. 96.) — A friend, who has travelled 

 much in Holland, has just informed me that the 

 custom of separating the men from women exists 



