Aug. 5. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Two years after appeared an Epitome of the Bruidic Sys- 

 tem, by Edward Williams, the venerable bard of Glamor- 

 gan : it will be found at the close of the second volume of 

 his Lyric and Pastoral Poems. In 1804 the Rev, Edward 

 Davies published his Celtic Researches on the Origin, Tra- 

 ditions, and Language of the Ancient Britons. This work 

 is interspersed with valuable notices on the subject of 

 Druidisra, and supplies the deficiencies of preceding 

 writers.] 



Psalm Ixvlii. 4. — In our present editions of the 

 Book of Common Prayer, this verse reads " Praise 

 Him in His name Jah, and rejoice before Him." 

 In all the early editions, viz. those of Elizabeth 

 and James I., in the sealed copy of the last Re- 

 vision in the Tower of London, and in the edition 

 of 1662, and others, printed from it, and in the 

 Prayer Books of 1707, the reading is "Praise 

 Him in His name, yea and rejoice before Him." 



I do not possess an edition between 1707 and 

 the present century, and cannot tell how much 

 longer the latter reading was continued. Can 

 you give the information at what time, and by 

 what authority, the alteration was made ? 



VOKAEOS. 



[We have before us The Booke of Common Prayer, pre- 



?ared by authority of Archbishop Laud, for the use of the 

 Ihurch of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1637, foL, in which the 

 reading is Jah. Lewis, in his History of the Translations 

 of the Bible, p. 129., edit. 1818, speaking of Cranmer's, or 

 the Great Bible of 1539, says, "According to this trans- 

 lation were the Psalms, Epistles, and Gospels, &c. in our 

 Liturgy, with very little variation, of which this is one, 

 that whereas in this edition of 1539, Psalm Ixviii. 4. is 

 rendered 'Praise him in his name Jah, and rejoice before 

 Him,' by some mistake or other the word Jah, in the after 

 editions, is printed Yea." J 



Coroners' Inquests (Vol. ix., p. 483. " Notices to 

 Correspondents"). — I find in my note-book the 

 following extract from the register of Denton 

 Church, Hunts (the church in which Sir Robert 

 Cotton was baptized) : 



" Anno 1678. John, the son of Will. Callis, was drowned 

 25''' of Aprill, and buried 28"», after y" coroner had past 

 his verdict upon him. Anno p. dicto." 



I also made the following extract from the same 

 register : 



" 1704. April y« 9"*, collected on y« Brief for y« poor 

 Protestants, y« sum of ten shillings. Collected at y« same 

 time, on y* Wapping Brief, y'' sum of three shillings." 



Who were the "poor Protestants" thus re- 

 lieved; and for what was "the Wapping brief?" 



CUTHBEBT BeDE, B.A. 



[The London Gazette of Dec. 20-23, 1703, contains the 

 following order: "Whereas Her Majesty has been gra- 

 ciously pleased to grant a brief for a collection towards 

 the relief of the poor sufferers by the late dreadful fire at 

 Execution Dock in Wapping, near London, most of whom 

 are seamen, sea artificers, and poor seamen's widows, 

 whose loss amounts to 13,040/." In the Postman of 

 Feb. 1-3, 1704, it is stated that "On Sunday last Her 

 Majesty's Brief for the relief of the persecuted Protestants 

 of Orange was published, not only in most of the churches. 



but also in the meeting-houses of the Protestant Dis- 

 senters of the city."] 



" TaJUages" — Can any of your readers inform 

 me of what talliages consisted ? I am aware of 

 their general nature, but I want to know whether 

 they were imposed on individuals or on parishes, 

 and by whom and by what authority ? It was nq 

 uncommon thing for charitably disposed persons 

 to leave property to a parish, in aid of its " rents, 

 talliages, and assessments." C. F. K. 



[Talliage was a general word including all subsidies, 

 taxes, tenths, or other charges laid upon any person. 

 Madox, in his History of the Exchequer, p. 480., fol., says, 

 " There were two sorts of talliage : one paid to the king, 

 the other to a subordinate lord. The talliage rendered to 

 the king was raised upon his demesnes, escheats, and 

 wardships, and upon the burghs and towns of the realm. 

 In the elder times it was usually called donum and assisa, 

 Donum was used with great latitude. To avoid confusion, 

 I have in mj"- own mind reduced its meaning to two or 

 three particular heads : that is to say, when it was paid 

 for or out of lands which were not of military tenure, it 

 signified hidage ; when it was [paid out of knights' fees, 

 it was scutage; and when it was paid by towns and 

 burghs, it was talliage : or it signified in general, accord- 

 ing as it was applied, either aid, scutage, or talliage."] 



Pengwem Hall. — In the neighbourhood of 

 Llangollen is a farm-house named Pengwem 

 Hall, some portions of which bear marks of an- 

 tiquity : as, for instance, in the Shippon are two 

 pointed, trefoil, arched windows of the sixteenth 

 century, and in another outbuilding a debased 

 window of the same antiquity; while within the 

 house there is what is there styled a crypt, with 

 groined roof, which is stated or supposed to be of 

 great antiquity. I have looked in all the guide- 

 books, and in Pennant, who state that this wa« 

 an old palace of Tudor Trevor, who flourished 

 A.D. 924. Can any of your correspondents give a 

 more full account than the brief statement con- 

 tained in the guide-books? or refer me to any 

 source for information ? 



There is a confused tradition in the neighbour- 

 hood about some king buried at Pengwern : who ? 



^ F. R. L 



[Llys Pengwem now forms a portion of Mostyn Hall, 

 the seat of Lord Mostyn, of which a detailed account 

 is given in Beauties of England and Wales, vol. xvii. 

 pp. 727-36.] 



Prince Charles's House in Derby. — Can any 

 one give me information of an old house in Derby, 

 said to have been occupied by Prince Charles, 

 while he was in that town ? I have heard lately 

 that such a house still exists, and that it is likely 

 to be pulled down, if some one who values the 

 associations connected with it does not save it. 



L. M. M. R. 



[This house, situate in Full Street, is noticed by Pil- 

 kington and Lysons, who state that at the time Charles 

 Edward Stuart entered the town (December 4, 1745) it 

 belonged to the Earl of Exeter. In 1789 it was occupied 

 by a Mr. Bingham, and in 1817 by Mr. Edwards.] 



