Sept. 4. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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ARMS IN CHURCHES. 



I find that in the year 1547, the first of 

 Edward VI.'s reign, the curate and churchwardens 

 of St. Martin's, in Ironmonger Lane, London, 

 took down from their church the crucifix, and the 

 images and pictures of the saints, and in their 

 place painted the walls with texts of Scripture, and 

 where the crucifix had stood they put the Royal 

 arms. (K.night's History oj" E/igland,\o\.u. p. 73L) 



Among the Chiirchwardens' Accounts belonging 

 to the church of St. James, Louth, Lincolnshire, 

 ai'c the following entries : 



"1561. 

 'j' Paid to the Wryghtis for takynge doune the Rood- 

 loft, v' ilij''. 



" Paid for ij books, for Mr. Jewell's Apology and for 

 Salvyn's (Calvin's) Institucyons enjohied for hus 

 by the Byshopp, xvj^ 



" Paid to the Apparitor for citing us (the Church- 

 wardens) to Lincoln for not having the King's 

 armes painted in y^ church, ij*. " 



The " Act for the Uniformity of Common 

 Prayer," and the " Act restoring to the Crown the 

 ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical 

 and Spiritual," had appeared in 1559, and it is 

 probable that some clause in one or other of those 

 Acts provided for the erection of the Royal arms 

 in all churches. Whether in this case the church- 

 wardens had neglected the injunctions of the State, 

 or of the bishops of the diocese, I cannot say, but 

 I should be inclined to think that the Royal arms, 

 like Jewell's Apology and Calvin's Institutions, had 

 been •' enjoined for them by the Byshopp." 



E. A. H. Lechmeee. 



Have not your correspondents misconceived the 

 intention of these Royal arms, by attributing such 

 a variety of causes ? I suppose the arms to have 

 been erected in all churches (and generally on the 

 spot where the rood had been previously placed) 

 simply to denote the change which had taken place 

 from an ecclesiastical to a regal supremacy. 



J. NOAKE. 



Worcester. 



"oh! go fbom the window." 



(Vol. vi., pp. 75. 112. 153.) 



It must be near sixty-five years since I heard 

 the ballad inquired after by your other septua- 

 genarian friend. His rhythm seems smoother than 

 the fragments in Beaumont and Fletcher. My 

 nurse's version, as I distinctly recollect, was — 



" Away from the window, my life and my love, 

 Away from the window, my dear ! 



The wind is in the west. 



And the cuckoo's in his nest, 



And you can have no lodging here." 



■ A prologue, I forget whether spoken or sung, 



told the story how the lady had calculated on her 

 husband's absence, and had appointed her lover to 

 come in at a certain window : 



" But the wind and the rain 

 Have brought him back again ; 



And you can have no lodging here." 



It was further said or sung, that the lady having 

 no other means of apprizing her paramour of the 

 change of circumstance, sang this warning from 

 her open casement. I am sorry to say that my 

 recollection adds a more disagreeable feature to 

 the tale ; for, as it was told to me, the lady had 

 moved her child's cradle to the window, and, the 

 better to deceive the slumbering husband, sang the 

 song as if a lullaby to her baby. 



Is it not very strange that your septuagenarian 

 correspondent f , myself, another, and Mr. Bacon 

 of Norwich (as quoted by De. Rimbatjlt), should 

 all remember only the same half-dozen lines of a 

 ballad that probably contained several stanzas, 

 and that the said lines, and they alone, should also 

 be preserved, with some uncouth variations, in 

 Beaumont and Fletcher. I am driven to suspect, 

 as the only explanation of this partial preservation, 

 that the groundwork was a prose tale recited, into 

 whicli the song of two or three stanzas was intro- 

 duced. This is the only guess I can make to 

 account for the partial preservation of the song. 



Allow me, in my turn, to ask whether any one 

 remembers another song of somewhat the same 

 class which I learned about the same time, in the 

 same nursery. The story is a kind of Romeo and 

 Juliet one. The young lady receives her lover 

 through her window, and means to keep him as 

 long as she safely can ; so she invokes the vigilance 

 of the cock to warn them when it should be time 

 to part : 



" Fly up, fly up, my bonny bonny cock, 

 But crow not until it be day ; 



And your breast shall be made of the burnlsh'd gold, 

 And your wings of the silver grey. 



«' But the cock he proved false, and very very false, 

 For he crow'd full an hour too soon ; 

 The lassie thought it day. 

 And she sent her love away, 

 When 'twas only the glimpse of the moon 1" 



The bonny and the lassie denote a Scotch origin: 

 the air, too, which also I remember, is of a Scottish 

 character. There seems in the plumage promised 

 to the cock, an allusion to the dove in Ps. Ixviii. 13. 



c. 



TWO FClIi MOONS IN JULY. 



(Vol. vi., p. 172.) 

 This newspaper wonder, and its rhyme, the thun- 

 der, seems to have arisen out of an idea that two 

 full moons in July is a very rare occurrence. The 



