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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 151. 



more convenient season to perform the religious 

 ceremony ? In a sanitary point of view, such a 

 course would undoubtedly be more beneficial than 

 retaining the corpse in the house for a week or 

 even longer. That our ancestors quickly con- 

 signed their dead to the dust, and so far were 

 wiser than their descendants, who talk so much 

 about sanitary measures, other sources show. The 

 register of Ramsey (Hunts) contains : 



" Ano, Dili. 1655. 

 Oliver Cromwell, Knight of y' Bath, being aged 

 about 93 years, was buried the same night (28 of Au- 

 gust)." 



Sept. 18, 1657, Henry Cromwell died, and was 

 buried in the chancel of Ramsey on the 19th. 



There are other records in the same register to 

 the same effect ; and in the church of St. Mary in 

 this town are two monuments, one to " William 

 Adames," who " departed this life one Satvrdai, 

 being the 18 of Febrvari an"' Domini 1603 . . . . 

 and bvried the 19 of that Febrvari;" the other 

 over a descendant of Rowland Meyrick, Bishop of 

 Bangor, " Mawde Merik, Daghter to John Merik 

 & Luce his wyeffe, was borne & bvried the 21 of 

 Febrvari 1606." Tbe Bee. 



Pembroke. 



Title of James I. — On the fly-leaf of an ancient 

 manuscript survey of the barony of Warrington, 

 in the possession of Lord Lilford, are the following 

 curious entries of the birth of one daugliter and 

 marriage of another, of Thomas Ireland of Bewsey, 

 and Margaret Ireland his wife : 



" Margarett th'r fyft daughter & sixte child born on 

 Wednesday in the easier weeke, beinge the xjth of 

 April! 1604, abcute xj or xij of the clocke in thcseacond 

 yeare of Kinge James on England," &c, 



" Elizabeth Ireland the eldest daughter of Tho. 

 Ireland was maryed the 20 of Aprill in the xjth ycre 

 of Kinge James on England, &c. unto Wm. Bankes, 

 Sonne & heire apparent unto James Bankes, esq., in the 

 presence," &c. 



Will some kind reader of the above extracts 

 refer me to a similar instance of James I. being 

 styled " King on England," and the reason why ? 

 Of the accuracy of my reading there need be no 

 doubt, since it has been continued by many of my 

 friends. K. 



Coins placed in Foundations. — At what period 

 were coins first placed beneath the foundations of 

 buildings ? John H. A. 



Ensbury, Dorset. 



John Eeve's Psalms. — In the course of Disputes 

 betiveen the Felloivs and the Provost of King's Col- 

 lege., Cambridge., m 1565, it was attempted to con- 

 vict the latter (Philip Baker by name) of Roman- 

 ising tendencies, and even of burying books " used 

 in the time of poperie in a corner above ground, 



against another daye." Among the various charges 

 of this nature, it is said that he entertained at his 

 house many disaffected persons, Avhen, " besides 

 taulke of the busshopp of London [Grlndal], the 

 defence of pilgrimage, &c., the Geneva psalmes 

 were termed openlie at the table John Eeve's 

 psalmes." — Ancient' Laws, Sfc. for King's College^ 

 edited by Haywood and Wright, pp. 209, 210. 



Will any one be kind enough to explain this 

 sobriquet ? C. H. 



St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge. 



Marriage Ceremony. — The Manual of Sarum 

 enjoined that If the bride was a maid, she should 

 have her glove off; If a widow, her glove on. 

 " Si pnella sit, discoopertum habeat manum, si vidua 

 tectum'' What was the origin of this custom ? 



Clebicus (D). 



Where was the first Prince of Wales born ? — 

 This is a Query which I should be glad to see 

 answered. For my own part, I must confess to 

 putting a pleasurable fnith In all romantic tradi- 

 tions ; and I like to believe that the future Ed- 

 ward II. was really born the Prince of ^^'^ales, in 

 the little chamber of the Eagle Tower of Caernar- 

 von Castle. Acting from this belief, I have made 

 drawings of the spot, in all elaborate enthusiasm. 

 But gentlemen of a rationalistic turn of mind go 

 there now-a-days, and, when the guide has shown 

 the room, and rapidly achieved his stereotyped 

 description, they cast a slur upon his character for 

 veracity, and seek to undermine his faith by dark 

 insinuations to the following effect: — That, im- 

 primis, it was hardly probable, when the castle 

 contained many better rooms, that the queen would 

 be " cabin' d, cribb'd, confined," in a servitor's 

 waiting-room, where her bed would occupy quite 

 the lion's share of the apartment. That, secondly, 

 it could not have been the scene of the prince's 

 birtb, from the very sufficient reason, that the 

 room was not then built ! And that, thirdly and 

 lastly, the queen's accouchement did not take 

 place In any part of Caernarvon Castle ! Modern 

 research terribly disturbs oral tradition ; and, 

 doubtless, the guide in question would be glad to 

 see a decisive answer to the Query I now put, and 

 would be induced to ask, " If Edward of Caer- 

 narvon was not born at Caernarvon, where was he 

 born?" CuTHBERT Bede, B. a. 



Shakspeare Query. — In what edition was the 

 stage- direction " writing," at the conclusion of the 

 ghost scene In Hamlet, first Inserted ? 



I have made the correctness of that stage direc- 

 tion the subject of challenge in " N. & Q.," Vol. v., 

 p. 241. Since then I have examined the first three 

 quartos and the last folio (1685), but it does not; 

 appear in any of them. A. E. B. 



Leeds. 



