Oct. 2. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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that the gloves were red. These red gloves are 

 made the foundation of a very pretty story, which 

 is said to be well known at Cranbrook as a tradi- 

 tion. Perhaps you will scarcely believe rae, when 

 I say that the whole of this is a pure fiction. 

 There are not, nor ever were there, any gauntlet, 

 gloves, or other monumental insignia of any kind, 

 suspended over Baker's monument, nor even 

 •within sight of it. The banners, helmets, gauntlets, 

 shields, swords, SfC, which are the only things of 

 the kind that F. L. could have seen, are in another 

 chancel, and all belong to the ancient family of 

 Roberts of Glassenbury in Cranbrook ; as the 

 crest on the helmets, and the blazon on the shields 

 and tabard, undeniably prove. 



Having restored to their rightful owner these 

 red gloves — • which, by-the-bye, are more brown 

 than red — let us go to the tradition. The story is 

 wholly unknown in Cranbrook, and I do not be- 

 lieve that F. L. could have heard it there. The 

 only traditional story, Avhich I can discover, relat- 

 ing to the Bakers is this : — Sir John Baker, who 

 ■was Chancellor of the Exchequer and Privy Coun- 

 sellor to Henry VIII., Edward VI., and Queen 

 Mary, is said to have rendered himself very ob- 

 noxious in consequence of the very prominent 

 part he took in oppressing the followers of the 

 Reformed religion. He, it is said, had procured 

 ■an order for the burning two culprits, and would 

 have certainly carried the order into execution 

 but that the death of the queen disappointed his 

 intentions. It is said that the news of the queen's 

 death reached him at a spot where three roads 

 met, and which is now known by the name of 

 Bakers Cross. Whether there be any truth in 

 this legend, I cannot say ; but most probably he 

 obtained the name of Bloody Baker as being the 

 known enemy of the Reformers, and in the same 

 way as his royal mistress obtained the name of 

 Bloody Mary. F. B — w. 



"the good olo cattse." 



(Vol.vi., pp.74. 180.) 



After the death of Cromwell, the Rump Par- 

 liament having been restored by 



*' The Colonels of the democratical faction, — presently 

 declare the secret and mystery of the government, 

 which, with no less vanity than impudence, they stiled 

 The Good Old Cause. " — Hist, of the Composing the 

 'Affairs of England, p. 5. by Thos. Skinner, M.D. : 

 London, 1685. 



" Liberty, Conscience, A glorious Nation, Tlie Good 

 Old Cause, and such specious names are made use of — 

 * Nee quisquam alienum servitium et dominationem 

 concupivit, ut non eadem ista vocabula usurparit.' — 

 Tacit. .... I lately set forth a lively pattern of the 

 Spurious Old Cause pretended to be revived and vin- 

 •dicated by the fine epageant or now-sitting ghost of 



the long-since departed Long Parliament." — Mala 

 Asinaria, by Mr. Saml. Butler, printed privately 

 anno 1659, reprinted anno 1715. 



" He lived and died a Colonel, 

 And for The Good Old Cause stood buff, 

 'Gainst many a bitter kick and cuff." 



Hudibras's Epitaph. 



In a book which professes to be The Third and 

 Last Volume of Posthumous Works, wiitten by 

 Mr. Samuel Butler : London, printed for Sam. 

 Briscoe, 1717, 32mo., we find the following : 



" A Coffin for The Good Old Cause ; or, A Sober 

 Word by way of Caution to the Parliament and Army, 

 or such in both as have prayed, fought, and bled for 

 their Preservation. Written by Sir Samuel Luke ; 

 printed in the year 1^60." 



In an admirable series of papers which appeared 

 weekly, Lond., 1717 and 1718, occurs the follow- 

 ing passage, the writer treating of the 29th of May : 



" A day that not only restored our laws and rightful 

 monarch, but rung the knell of a wild democracy, 

 and delivered us from a mechanic ministry of Jere- 

 boam's Calves ; a promiscuous Rout of Coblers, Wea- 

 vers, and Tinkers, the refuse of Shop-boards, Looms, 

 and Woolcombers, that had set up a Church Militant 

 of Booted Apostles ; that had rifled the Ecclesiastical 

 Revenues, and could alternately Preach and Fight, 

 and blasphemously call upon God to sanctify the greatest 

 Rebellion and the grossest Rogueries that ever the 

 Sun beheld. Yet these Priests of Baal had so poisoned 

 the minds of the populace with such delusive Enchant- 

 ments that from Rings, Bodkins, and Thimbles, like 

 the Israelitish Calf of old, would start up a troop of 

 horse to reinforce the Saints ; who would plunder and 

 pray, cut throats and sequester, in the name of God and 

 The Good Old Cause." — P. 201 . 



" The subtil Presbyter . . . covers the hardest vil- 

 lanies with the softest names: Perjury with him is 

 meritorious, if it advances T/ie Old Cause; and mur- 

 der an accomplishment, if the Work of the Covenant be 

 concerned." — The Scourge: London, 1720, p. 268. 



Jarltzberg. 



PHOTOGRAPHY APPLIED TO ARCHJEOLOGT, AND 

 PRACTISED IN THE OPEN AIR. 



(Continued frmn pp. 278. 296.) ' 



The prepared glass having been exposed for the 

 proper period to the action of the light, the next 

 step is to develop the latent picture. The hands 

 being nov/ inserted through the loose sleeves of 

 the camera, the picture is to be held horizontally 

 in the left hand, and the developing fluid before 

 described, consisting either of the pyrogallic acid 

 solution alone, or in combination with the proto- 

 nitrate of iron, should be immediately applied. In 

 the case of the lens being a slow-acting one, the 

 collodion often becomes nearly dry during the 

 period it has been removed from the bath ; and it 



