2n'» S. No lis., Feb. 27. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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" There were three ladies" 8fC. — The earliest 

 Query propounded by me in the pages of " N. & 

 Q." was in P' S. vi. 53. It was respecting the 

 words of an old song, of which two stanzas were 

 given, being all that were recollected. In P* S. 

 vi. 138., a reply to it was announced as having been 

 received, in the " Notices to Correspondents," but 

 it was never published ; and, I presume, must have 

 been mislaid. I desire, therefore, to repeat my 

 Query, and ask if any one can supply the conclu- 

 sion of the song, which thus commenced : — 



" There were three ladies playing at ball, 

 Farin- dan-dan and farin- dan-dee; 

 There came a white knight and he wooed them all, 

 With adieu, sweet honey, wherever you be. 



" He courted the eldest with golden rings, 

 Farin, &c. 

 And the others with many fine things, 

 And adieu," &c. 



Uneda. 

 Philadelphia. 



Dr. Dodd's Burial Place. — Can S. D. W., or 

 any of your readers, inform me where Dr. Dodd 

 was buried ? J. B. S. 



Hymnology : " Come, thou fount of every bless' 

 ing" Sfc. — Can any correspondent give the real 

 author of the hymn, commencing — 



" Come, thou fount of every blessing," &c. ? 



It has been generally ascribed to the Rev. R. 

 Robinson of Cambridge (see his Life by Dyer), 

 but it is not his. The earliest version that I can 

 discover is that of 1759, in five eight-line verses ; 

 but it seems verses four and five have never been 

 popular. The first three verses have been altered 

 from the original. D. S. 



Portrait of William Sly. — Cartwright left a 

 painting in oil of this old actor to Dulwich Col- 

 lege. Lysons appears to have seen it in 1792, 

 when he published the first volume of his P!n- 

 virons. (See p. 111.) This painting is unfor- 

 tunately now missing from the College. Is it 

 known to be in any private collection ? 



Edwabd F. Rimbault. 



Thomas Obizzi and the Battle of Neville's 

 Cross. — Can any of your readers or correspon- 

 dents inform me If the hero of the following ex- 

 cerpt, and the chivalrous deed stated therein to 

 have been by him performed at the battle of Dur- 

 ham, are In anywise noticed by any contemporary, 

 English or Scottish, chronicler or historian ? 



The said battle is variously called Neville's 

 Cross, Red Hills, and Durham. It was fought 

 20 Edw. III., Oct. 17, 1346 : — 



" About 7 miles from Padua we spent some time to 

 view the house belonging to the Marquis of Obizzi (a 

 Venetian nobleman) [p. 14G.]. The walls and ceilings in 

 the apartments of the first story are all painted on panels 

 bj' Paul Veronese. They represent the moat remarkable 

 actions of this most illustrious family. Among others we 



see one of Thomas Obizzi, who, having been the chief 

 instrument of taking David the 2nd, son of Robert Bruce, 

 King of Scotland, at the famous battle of Durham, gained 

 by the English 1346, received the Order of the Garter 

 from the hands of Edward III., King of England, who 

 here puts the George about his neck, and calls him his 

 brother." — Blainville's Travels through Holland, Germany^ 

 Switzerland, hut especially Italy, 3 vols. 4to., vol. ii. pp. 

 146, 147. 



If none of our early historians take cognizance 

 of the above relation, a reference to a List of the 

 Knights of the Garter may aid in solving the 

 Query. M. Aislabid Denham. 



Piersebridge, near Darlington. 



Ruperfs Tower at Woolwich. — Can you Inform 

 me when this building was taken down, and whe- 

 ther It was part of a palace built for that prince ? 



Naseby. 



The Punishment of Drowning. — Sir Edw. Coke 

 (3. Instit. 58.) says Fossa is taken away, but 

 Furca remains. Can any of the readers of " N. 

 & Q." tell when the punishment of drowning 

 ceased in England ? A. 



Wax Seal Impressions. — I was aware of the 

 plan of obtaining an Impression by means of a 

 lead bullet, but no person. In the case of deeds or 

 wills, would permit so dangerous an experiment. 

 I have seen It repeatedly tried by a person well 

 accustomed to it ; and though he frequently was 

 successful, yet he very often failed In obtaining 

 an Impression without breaking the wax seal. 

 What I Inquired for (P* S. xi. 243. 313.) was a 

 composition which would take the impression of 

 the seal, and afterwards become so hard as to 

 give other Impressions nearly, If not quite, as good 

 as the original. Y. S. M. 



[Gutta percha is best adapted for taking impressions 

 of seals : it can be carried about the person, and only re- 

 quires to be kneaded in the hand, or exposed a few 

 seconds to a fire, to render it fit for use. Impressed 

 softly upon the seal, it receives and retains the faintest 

 line, becoming hard in a short space, and has this great 

 advantage over sulphur, that it cannot be broken. If the 

 substance used is thin, it is liable to turn at the edges 

 and become distorted as it hardens; it ought therefore 

 to be fixed to some unyielding substance, say a block of 

 wood, or stiff card-board, as soon as possible after the im- 

 pression has been taken.] 



Bishop Alexander of the Anglican Church in 

 Jerusalem. — < Where and when was he born, and 

 where educated ? I believe he was a Polish Jew, 

 and after his conversion to Christianity entered 

 Trinity College, Dublin ; graduated there, and 

 was ordained by Archbishop Trench of Tuam, 

 who gave him some preferment In his diocese; 

 but these are only vague conjectures, derived 

 from uncertain sources, and I wish for correct 



