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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 265. 



Lines in '^ Childe Harold" (Vol. iv., p,223. ; 

 Vol. X., p. 314.). — Your correspondent Cervus 

 does not seem to be aware that the readinjj of this 

 line has been indisputably settled. In Murray's 

 last reprint of the poem (12mo. 1854) it is given, — 

 " Thy waters wash'd them power while they were free." 

 and the editor appends the following note : 

 " This line has hitherto been printed, — 



' Thy waters wasted them while they were free,' 



which is not sense. Lord Byron wrote to Mr. Murray to 

 inquire what it meant. The present reading, which is 

 extremely fine, is from the original MS." 



W. S. B. 



Bell on leaving Church (Vol. x., p. 332.). — The 

 inscription " Signis cessandis," &c., if it is on a 

 bell at Weston, in Gordano, is also on the 

 "sancte" bell of the adjoining parish of Clapton, 

 in Gordano, in Lombardic characters. I should 

 suggest a very different interpretation to that of 

 Mk. Ellacombe, and should construe signis, signs, 

 mysteries ; and servis, servants, that is, " of the 

 Lord." C. E. W. 



Colonel Carlos (Vol. x., p. 344.). — Some years 

 ago a family named Prior, descended from Gregory 

 Carlos of Portsmouth, believing the family of 

 Carlos to be extinct, assumed the arms and crest 

 of that family. 



On the 14th of February, 1844, died, in his 

 seventy- second year, the Rev. James Carlos, of 

 Frostenden Grove, Suffolk, formerly of Caius 

 College, Cambridge (B.A. 1794, M.A. 1797), and 

 for forty years Rector of Thorpe by Haddiscoe, 

 Norfolk. He believed himself to be the last de- 

 scendant of Colonel Carlos, and was only son of 

 the Rev. James Carlos, many years Rector of 

 Blofield, Norfolk (probably the same gentleman 

 ■who had been Fellow of Caius College, B.A. 1747, 

 M.A. 1752). 



On January 20, 1851, died at York Place, 

 Walworth, Edward John Carlos, Esq., aged fifty- 

 two. He was only child of William Carlos, and 

 also claimed to be descended from Colonel Carlos, 

 through Edward Carlos of Bromhall, Stafford- 

 shire. Mr. E. J. Carlos left two sons and two 

 daughters, the eldest son being nine years old. 



The statement in the Boscobel Tracts, that 

 Colonel Carlos had no son, is inaccurate, as there 

 is a monument to his son in the chancel of Fulham 

 church. (See Strype's Stowe, ii. App. 73. ; Faulk- 

 ner's History of Fulham, 4to. p. 70. ; Gent. Mag., 

 N. S. xxi. 548. 562., xxxv. 442. 458. ; Graduati 

 Cantabrigienses, edit. 1823.) Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



*' liattlin' Roaring Willie " (Vol. x., p. 325.). — 

 The note appended to the Query of W. is not 

 very clear. It states that " another version is 

 given in Cromek's Select Scottish Songs, vol. ii. 



p. 4., edit. 1810; who states that 'the last stanza 

 of this song is mine,' &c." The reader would 

 naturally 'infer that Cromek is speaking of himself, 

 and that he was the author of the last stanza of 

 the above song. But this sentence Cromek has 

 transcribed from Remarks on Scottish Songs by 

 Burns himself, so that the reader must vmderstand 

 the poet himself to say, " the last stanza of this 

 song is mine." See " Strictures on Scottish Songs 

 and Ballads " in the Relics of Robert Burns, col- 

 lected and published by R. H. Cromek, 1808. 



F. C. H. 



Earthenware Vessels found at Fountains Abbey 

 (Vol. X., p. 386.). — A''essels of a similar character 

 were discovered underneath the choir at St. Peter's 

 Mancroft Church, in Norwich, three years ago. 

 One of these is in my possession. It is a jar of 

 common reddish earthenware, glazed in the inside, 

 nine inches deep, and six across the mouth. A 

 dozen or more of these jars were found at in- 

 tervals, in a line, in the masonry under the stalls 

 of the choir, exactly in the position in which those 

 were at Fountains Abbey, though it did not 

 appear that the mouths of these jars ever pro- 

 truded from the wall. There was no appearance 

 that they had ever contained anything. I could 

 not learn any conjectures of others as to their use 

 or intention, but from having read of similar 

 vessels being found in other churches, I think in 

 France, with evident remains in them of human 

 bones or ashes, I am of opinion that these urns 

 were intended to receive the ashes of the heart, 

 or some other portion of the body, in case any of 

 the canons attached to the church should will that 

 any part of his remains should be so deposited. 



F. C. H. 



St. Peters at Rome (Vol. x., p. 386.). — In a 

 French work by INI. Le Roy, entitled Histoire de 

 la Disposition et des Formes differentes que les 

 Chretiens ont donnees a leurs Temples, Sfc, will be 

 found a ground plan of St. Peter's at Rome, and 

 another of the original design for it by Brnmante. 

 Also a description, such as Wm. Ewart desires,, 

 of the difference between the faqade designed by 

 Michael Angelo, and that actually executed. The 

 author shows at the same time that neither the 

 general plan of this unrivalled temple, nor the 

 idea of erecting the glorious dome on the arches 

 of the naves, can be attributed to him, but to the 

 original architect, forty years before him, Bra- 

 mante D'Urbina. F. C. H. 



Slaughtering Cattle in Towns (Vol. x., p. 287.). 

 — The reason why Berwick and Carlisle were 

 excepted, no doubt, was because they were both 

 border towns, continually exposed to the incur- 

 sions of the Scotch, Had the inhabitants been 

 obliged to slaughter their cattle without the walls, 

 they probably would have had to fight for the 

 carcases with the Scottish reivers. K. 



