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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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guilty. He was a brewer in Westminster, and 

 was married into the Gough family. What I wish 

 to know is, where was his place of residence in 

 Westminster, where he was born, and if he left 

 any issue. A Reader. 



Bills explained to the Sovereign, Sfc. — At p. 198. 

 (vol. i. part i.) of Clarendon's History of the Re- 

 hellion, edit. 1707, there is an account how — 



" By the Constitution of the kingdom, and the constant 

 practice of former times, all bills, after they had passed 

 both Houses [of Parliament], were delivered by the 

 clerk of the Parliament to the clerk of the Crown, and 

 by him brought to the attorney-general, who presented 

 the same to the king, sitting in council ; and, having 

 read them, declared what alterations were made by 

 those bills to former laws," &c. 



I wish to inquire, — 



1. Whether the same forms are now gone 

 through ? 



2. Whether any bill since the time of Charles I., 

 after passing both Houses of Parliament, has been 

 refused the royal assent ? Akthur H. Bather. 



Admiralty, Somerset House. 



Passage in Burke. — In his Re/lections on the 

 French Revolution, ed. 1852, p. 60., Burke, praising 

 the Queen of France's behaviour in her trying 

 situation, says : 



" I hear, and I rejoice to hear, that she feels with 

 the dignity of a Roman matron ; that in the last ex- 

 tremity (an expression which Jonathan Edwards calls 

 tautological) she will save herself from the last dis- 

 grace ; and that, if she must fall, she will fall by no 

 ignoble hand." 



What is Mr. Burke's meaning here ? 



QuANDo Tandem. 



" 'Twas on the Mom." — 

 " 'Twas on the morn of sweet May. day. 

 When Nature painted all things gay. 

 Taught birds to sing and lambs to play, 

 And gild the meadows fair." 



Who is the author (and where are they to be 

 found) of the song of which the above are the first 

 four lines ? S. Wmson. 



" My mind to me," ^c. — Who Is the author of 

 the song, "My mind to me a kingdom is?" I 

 believe it is mentioned somewhere in Beloe's 

 Anecdotes. M. M. 



J. Brougham's Sermons. — What J. Brougham 

 in 1813 published Sermons, 2 vols. 8vo. ? 



J. R. Relton. 



Did the Carians use Heraldic Devices? — Does 

 the following extract from Herodotus justify the 

 assumption, that to the Carians belongs the credit 

 of first using heraldic devices ? or is the suppo- 

 sition, that the quotation has any heraldic signifi- 



cation, altogether a conceit of my own ? I have 

 never seen It adduced In proof of the acknowledged 

 antiquity of armorial bearings ; but the association 

 of ideas which it suggests tends to the conclusion 

 that such may be its Import. 



" Kol yap fwl ra Kpdvea \6<povi iwiBeecrBai Kapes clai 

 ol KuToSf^avTes, Ka\ eirl ras dcrirlSas ra aTifxri'ia. irotdeffBai 

 Kol uxava damffi ovroi eiffi ol TroiTicrafiivoi irpcSroi." — 

 Clio, clxxi. 



Here we have the \6<poi, or crest; the acr-n-ls, or 

 shield ; and the ^x""''"') or supporter (lit. handle, 

 or that by which anything is supported). 



John Booker. 

 Prestwich. 



Bagford's Collections at Cambridge. — Nichols, 

 In his Anecdotes of Bowyer, p. 505., speaks of "a 

 large part of his \_i.e. Bagford's] collections in the 

 public library .at Cambridge." At p. 612. of the 

 same work is the following note, signed " T. F." : 



" Bagford's collections are locked up in a large 

 cubical deal box, and probably have never been opened 

 since they have been at Cambridge." 



Are these collections to be got at ? Is there 

 any list of their contents ? 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



Minav cauerie;S iott]^ ^niiDcriS. 



St. Distaff's Day. — On what day of the year 

 was it held ? Herrick, In his " Hesperides," men- 

 tions its rude celebration, — the ploughmen burning 

 the flax and tow of the spinners, and being in re- 

 turn well " bewashed" with pails of water by the 

 maidens ; and It Is evident, from the context, that 

 this occurred at the end of the Christmas holidays. 

 But on what day ? Cuthbert Bede, B.A. 



[St. DistafTs, or Rock Day, is a name jocularly 

 given to the day after the Epiphany, or Twelfth Day, 

 because, the Christmas holidays having ended, good 

 housewives resumed the distaff and their other indus- 

 trious employments. See Nares' Glossary, and Hone's 

 Every- Day Book, p. 57.] 



Baptist Meeting at Newcasile-on- Tyne. — In one 

 of the letters of the Rev. John Foster, of whose 

 Life and Correspondence, edited by J. E. Ryland, 

 a new edition has just been published by Mr. Bohn, 

 occurs the following reference to an old house at 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne : 



" But our meeting, for amplitude and elegance I I 

 believe you never saw its equal. It is, to be sure, 

 considerably larger than your lower school ; but then 

 so black and so dark ! It looks just like a conjuring- 

 room ; and, accordingly, the ceiling is all covered with 

 curious antique figures, to aid the magic. That thing 

 which they call the pulpit is as black as a chimney ; 

 and indeed there is .i chimney-piece and very large 

 old fire-case behind it." 



