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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[;2nd s. No 107., Jan, 16. '58. 



^(^liti to ;flfftn0r caucrte^. 



Nell Gwynne at Hereford (2"*^ S. v. 9.)— There 

 is a house in Hereford, at the rear of the Royal 

 Oak Inn, which is popularly designated as the 

 birth-place of Nell. I leave to local correspondents 

 to enlighten us about Nell's father and the lease, 

 and I ■will only add a word touching Nell's elder 

 son and grandson. Her second son James, Lord 

 Beauclerk, died at Paris in 1680 ; but the elder 

 son, Charles, who was created Duke of St. Alban's 

 in January 1683-4, married Diana de Vere, 

 daughter of the twentieth and last Earl of Ox- 

 ford (of the De Vere line), and lived till nearly 

 the end of the reign of George I. Nell's son had 

 nine children, of whom the eighth, named after 

 his uncle, James, was, during forty years, Bishop 

 of Hereford. Nell's episcopal grandson was a 

 bachelor, and his residence throughout the period 

 above-mentioned was very close indeed to the 

 humble residence in which his high-spirited and 

 small-principled mother is said to have been born. 

 Bishop Beauclerk died in 1787, in the eighty-fifth 

 year of his age; and there must be many "ancient 

 persons " in Hereford who may remember having 

 seen in their early youth the grandson of Nell 

 Gwynne. J. Doeak. 



Parody of the "Te Deum'' (S^d S. iii. 145.) — 

 The version of this profane parody communicated 

 by J. B. is incorporated in Thomas Elmham's 

 metrical Life of Henry F., of which several MSS. 

 exist in the Bodleian and British Museum. It is 

 there preceded by the following title : 



"De ympno a gente Anglorum cantando ad laudem 

 Dei genitricis Marie propter graciosam expedicionem 

 regis Henrici Quinti, et pro succursu regni Anglie dotis 

 sue quo cunctas hereses cum heresiarcha Johanne Old- 

 castel suis precibus interemit." 



The variations throughout the greater part of the 

 hymn are too slight to deserve special notice ; 

 those contained in the verses following must, 

 however, be excepted : 



" Te ergo qusesumus, Angligenia subvQUi quos pro dote 

 propria defendisti. 

 Eterna fac cum Sanctis Ejus gloria numerari. 

 Salvura fac populum tuuni, Domina, et benedic, et a 



mortis paste dotem tuam libera, 

 Et rege eos et extolle illos usque in etemum. 

 Per singulos dies benedicimus te, 

 Et laudamus nomen tuum in seculum que cunctas 

 hereses sola interemisti. 



In te, Domina, speramus; non confimd^inur in eter- 



num." 

 The copy from which I quote is contained in 

 Bodl. MS., Eawlinson, B. ccxiv. 



W. D. Macrat. 



Sroadhalfpenny Down. — By reading Mb. 



CuTHBERT Bede's Note iu 2""^ S. iv. 147., I was 



reminded of a down, now, I believe, enclosed 



under the provisions of the new Enclosure Act, 



which bore the name at the head of this Note. It 

 is situated in the parish of Ilambledon, in the 

 county of Hants. I am sufficiently acquainted 

 with the locality to say that no such explanation 

 of the name as is given for that of Halfpenny 

 Green by Cuthbert Bede will apply to this. 

 The similarity of the names induces me rather to 

 doubt the explanation, and to think that we have 

 not yet solved the " puzzling problem of this 

 proper name." W, H. G. 



Winchester. 



Cornish Hurling (2°'^ S. iv. 411.) ^- Ray's ac- 

 count is not quite accurate. The most correct 

 and most amusing account is in Carew's Survey, 

 1602; but it is too long to insert. The game is 

 now very much exploded, but is still kept up in a" 

 manner iq some parts of the county. I can speak 

 more particularly for the western part. But 

 where it is still practised, it is little beyond an 

 annual game. In the parish of Germoe, in or 

 near the Lizard district, it is played on the first 

 Monday in May, being the parish feast. In the 

 borough town of Kelston it is played once a year 

 on the day of renewing the bounds — the 1 2 th of 

 May. The ball is thrown up at the market- 

 house in the middle of the town, and one street 

 contends against another, producing a sharp con- 

 test. The shops in the vicinity are closed, to 

 prevent any of the " squeers being cre-azed ; " in 

 other words, any windows broken. The success- 

 ful party is feasted with beer and cake. Some of 

 the old hurling balls are of silver, Wm. S. S. 



Eood-Loft Staircases (2"'^ S. iv. 481.) — In the 

 ruined church at Gorton, near Lowestoft, in Suf- 

 folk, the chancel of which is only used for the 

 celebration of divine service, the stone stairs re- 

 main, and lead to a modern gallery. 



Thos." William King, York Herald. 



In p. 409., Mackenzie Walcott, M. A., gave 

 a list of churches in which, he says, rood-lofts 

 remain. In p. 481. K. K. K. pointed out four 

 churches in this list in which there is no rood- 

 loft. I beg to point out another in which there 

 is none — Quy, oo. Camb. And I will add a 

 Query, — Did not Mr. Walcott intend to write 

 rood-screen*.* It is to be regretted that corre- 

 spondents do not inform themselves more accu- 

 rately before they venture upon a Note. " N. 

 & Q." thus loses the confidence which we all de- 

 sire to place in it. Gasteos. 



"Dow Juan" (2°'^ S. v- 13.)— Z)on Juan was 

 by J: B. Poquelin de Moliere, and is described as 

 une Comedie en cinq Actes, representee Jeudi, 15 

 Fevrier, 166| : for the first time, perhaps au 

 Louvre, or a Versailles; and subsequently, pro- 

 bably sur le Theatre du Palais-royal, a Paris. 

 Mr. John Ozell translated this (with most of 



