July 31. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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' 1775, Jan. 12: 



" Hereford Machine, 

 fn a day and half, twice a week, continues flying 

 from the Swan and Falcon in Hereford, Monday and 

 Thursday mornings, and from the Bolt in Tun, Monday 

 and Thursday evenings. — Fare 19 shillings: outsides. 

 half." 



1775, Jan. 5 : 



" For the convetiiency of sending presents at this 

 season of the year, and for the quick conveyance of 

 Passengers to and from London, 



Pruen's Machine 

 will begin flying as follows : 

 Hereford Machine, 

 In a day and half, twice a week, sets out from the 

 lledstreak-tree Inn in Hereford, Tuesday and Thurs- 

 day mornings at 7 o'clock ; and from the Swan with 

 Two Necks, Lad Lane, London, every Monday and 

 Wednesday evenings. Insides, £\ ; outsides, half 

 price." 



In 1778 a similar vehicle is styled the diligence: 

 " Hereford Diligence 

 3 times a week. 

 Leaves at 7 in the morning ; reaches London next day 

 to dinner time. 



Fares: £\ 12s., with 10 lbs. of luggage." 



W. II. c. 



Minot (IkKxtiiti. 



Rev. Thomas Watson, of St. Stephen's, Walbi'ooh, 

 London. — The advertisement to the edition of the 

 Body of Divinity of this divine (London, printed 

 for Thomas Parkhurst, at the Bible and Tliree 

 Crowns, Cheapside, near Mercers' Ciiapel, 1692), 

 occurs the following passage : 



" There are many single sermons on a variety of 

 occasions, as at fasts, thanksgivings sacrament dis- 

 courses, besides several subjects handled in many ser- 

 mons on each text of Scripture, left under Mr. Thomas 

 Watson's own handwriting : if these find acceptance, 

 in due time (after their being perused by some learned 

 divine) they may be published." 



Can any of the readers of "N. & Q." inform me 

 if these MSS. be still in existence? and, if so, where 

 are they ? or if any of them have been printed ? 

 Also, where can copies be seen, if not purchased, 

 of the treatises by this divine enumerated among 

 the "Books Wanted" of No. 143. Northman. 



Was West the first pre-Raphaelite ? — Can any 

 of your contributors inform me whether there is 

 any truth in the story, that Benjamin West plucked 

 up a pre-Raphaelitish spirit, and determined to 

 paint one of his historical pictures (I have heard, 

 the Death of Wolfe) with the figures in their pro- 

 per costume, and not as ancient Romans, and that 

 he was the first heretic in this direction of the 

 English painters ? C. Gr. Smalt. 



Dictionary of Proper Names. — I should much 

 desire to obtain through your columns some in- 

 formation as to whether or not there are any dic- 

 tionaries exclusively oi proper names. It. C. B. 



Inscription on a Bell. — Will any of your readers ' 

 give me the literal reading of the following inscrip-^; 

 tion, which I copied from an old bell some years ' 

 ago? 

 '<Henrick*TER*Horst'^Me* Fecit* Daveatice*1654." 



D. II. E. 



Benjamin Lincoln of Massachusetts. — Possibly • 

 some of the American correspondents of " N. & Q." 

 can inform me if Benjamin Lincoln, of Massachu- 

 setts, who was appointed a Major-General in the 

 American army in 1777, was descended from a. 

 family named Lincoln, which was resident in North 

 Lincolnshire as early as 1461, and as late as 1651. 

 Edward Peacock, Jun.v 



Bottesford Moors, Kirton in Lindsey. 



Gregorian Chants. — Can any of your correspon- 

 dents give a real satisfactory answer to the ques- 

 tion, What is a Gregorian chant? Now-a-days. 

 we are pepetually hearing them talked oflT, played, 

 chanted, but no one seems to know what they are, 

 or whence they come. The most definite idea 

 any one seems to have is, that they formed portions ' 

 of the liturgy of Gregory the Great : but did he 

 compose them? or did he only arrange them? 

 Is there any ground for thinking they were known 

 to the Jews, and that they are amongst the good 

 things we have inherited from them ? or is " the 

 glorious and heavenly beauty " of their harmonies. 

 " the gift of God" to the Christian Church ? . 



What were the seven tones which are said to be 

 original number? 



If I am asking too many questions, or such as 

 would require too long an answer for your pages, 

 and there exists any book which would satisfy me,' 

 I should be glad to hear of it ; fur what 1 want is 

 to know all there is known about them, their ori- 

 gin, their history, their laws. f . 



Papworth St. Agnes. 



Dress of the Clergy. — Pray, what was the usual- 

 dress of our clergy (before the Reformation), when ■ 

 they preached, and in their ordinary occupations ? 

 From Erasmus we learn that Dr. Colet wore black 

 gowns, though clergy of his rank generally wore 

 purpu7'a, which probably means scarlet ; and in, 

 Rome the preachers always wear black, which 

 evidently did not come from Geneva. 



J. Beateley. 



Arrangement of Shakspeare's Plays, — Is there 

 any reason why the plays of Sh;ikspeare are ar- 

 ranged as they appear to have been, ever since 

 the publication of the first folio ? The division 

 then adopted, into comedies, histories, and tra- 



