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NOTES AND QUERIES. - [2«>-i a v. no., April lo. '58. 



Dedication of Flowers to Saints (2"^ S. v. 2340 

 — The Floral Directory alluded to by Hone, in 

 his Every Day Book, is the interesting and highly 

 curious work of Dr, Forster, the real title being 

 Circle of the Seasons, and Perpetual Key to the 

 Calendar and Almanack, &fc., published by Thos. 

 Hookham, Old Bond Street, London, 1828. This 

 work, among a great variety of very curious in- 

 formation, gives a flower for each day in the year ; 

 and these flowers Mr. Hone transferred regularly 

 to his Every Day Book, without acknowledging 

 their source so plainly as in honour he should 

 have done. F. C. H. 



Blue and Buff (2""^ S. i. 269.; ii. 159. ; iii. 329. 

 379. 414. 513.) — The following passage occurs in 

 Lord Macaulay's speech on the State of Ireland, 

 delivered in the House of Commons on February 

 19th, 1844 : — 



"I was much struck by a circumstance which occurred 

 on a day which I have every reason to remember with 

 gratitude and pride — the day on which I had the. high 

 honour of being declared one of the first two members 

 for the great borough of Leeds. My chair was covered 

 with orange ribands. The horses which drew it could 

 hardly be seen for the profusion of orange- coloured finery 

 with which they were adorned. Orange cockades were 

 in all the hats ; orange favours at all the windows. And 

 my supporters, I need not say, were men who had, like 

 myself, been zealous for Catholic emancipation. I could 

 not help remarking that the badge seemed rather incon- 

 gruous. But I was told that the friends of Catholic 

 emancipation in Yorkshire had always rallied under the 

 orange banner, that orange was the colour of Sir George 

 Savile, who brought in that bill which caused the No Po- 

 pery riots of 1780, and that the very chair in which I sate 

 was the chair in which Lord Milton, now Earl Fitzwil- 

 liam, had triumphed after the great victory which he won 

 in 1807 over the No Popery party, then headed by the 

 house of Harewood." (Speeches, corrected by himself, p. 

 295.) 



If the orange was the Whig colour, in memory 

 of William of Orange, it would naturally, through 

 the changes of political parties, have become the 

 badge of the Protestant party in Ireland, and of 

 the Pro-catholic, or toleration party in England. 



In the language of colours, blue seems to have 

 denoted truth, and hence it might be adopted by 

 Tories as well as by Whigs, to mark their firm 

 adherence to their principles. But it was pecu- 

 liarly applied to Presbyterians and Whigs ; so that 

 a " true blue Presbyterian ". and a " true blue 

 Whig" became proverbial. 



The union of blue and orange would have made 

 blue and buff, and It is probable that this combi- 

 nation was recognised as a Whig badge, in this 

 country, before it was adopted by Washington. 



L. 



« Wien Winds breathe Soft" (2"^ S. v. 192. 243.). 

 — Mr. Richard Clark, one of the Gentlemen in 

 Ordinary of His Majesty's Chapels Royal, then 

 Deputy at St, Paul's and Westminster Abbey 

 (since Lay Vicar of both those capitular establish- 



ments, who died about six months ago), published, 

 in 1824, a volume of poetry, containing the most 

 favourite pieces performed at the Noblemen and 

 Gentlemen's Catch Club, Glee Club, &c., and In 

 which he gives the following, at p. 288., as the 

 occasion of the words being written. He says : — 



" The Editor has been informed, that the poetry of the 

 above Glee, is a versification, by Mr. Gosling (one of the 

 Gentlemen of the Chapels Royal) on the words of an 

 Anthem composed by Henry Purcell, at his request, on 

 the miraculous escape of himself. King Charles the Second, 

 the Duke of Y"ork, and many others, as follows : — 



" The King had given orders for building a yacht, 

 which, as soon as it was finished, he named the Fubbs, in 

 honour of the Duchess of Portsmouth, who was, we may 

 suppose, in her person, full and plump. Soon after the 

 vessel was launched, the King made a party to sail in 

 this yacht down the river, and round the Kentish coast, 

 and to keep up the mirth and good humour of the com- 

 pany, Mr. Gosling was requested to be of the party ; they 

 had not got as low as the North Foreland when a violent 

 storm arose, during which the King, the Duke of York, 

 Mr. Gosling, and the rest of the company, were neces- 

 sitated, in order to save the vessel, to hand the sails, and 

 work like common seamen. By good providence, they 

 escaped safe to land ; but the horror of the scene, and 

 the distress they were in, made an impression on the 

 mind of Mr. Gosling which was never eflaced. Struck 

 with a just sense of the deliverance from what they had 

 lately viewed, upon his return to London, he selected 

 from the Psalms those words which declare the wonders 

 and terrors of the deep, (They that go down to the sea 

 in ships ; These men see the works of the Lord and his 

 wonders in the deep ; For at his word the stormy wind 

 ariseth which lifteth up the waves thereof, &c. Psalm evil, 

 verses 23 to 30), and gave them to Purcell, to compose 

 an Anthem, which he did, adapting it peculiarly to Mr. 

 Gosling's voice. The King did not live to h^ar it." 



M. C. 



Egyptian Sculpture (2""* S. v. 88. 223.)— I can- 

 not answer the original question ; but I wish to 

 remark that Mr. Buckton has in my opinion mis- 

 conceived the meaning of Diodorus. What this 

 author says is, that the Egyptians divided the 

 block of stone to be converted into a statue by 

 lines drawn on its surface. He never dreamed of 

 such an absurdity as separating the block of stone 

 Into parts. The small model statue was divided 

 into parts ; each of the workmen took one, and 

 cut the portion of the great block on which he 

 was appointed to operate so as to correspond with 

 It. They worked simultaneously In different parts 

 of the block ; and by means of the model, the 

 portions executed by each perfectly harmonised. 

 There is no difiiculty in reconciling this statement 

 with existing monuments ; and there is no reason 

 whatever for questioning Its accuracy. 



E. H. D. D. 



Irish Yellow Coats (2"^ S. v. 257.)— Abhba is 

 referred to "N. & Q." (2"0 S. i. 48.) for some 

 mention of Irish "Yellow Dragoons;" at that 

 period, and I believe for some time aflterj dragoons 

 fought both on foot and on horseback. Mbwyc. 



Forth yr Aui', Carnarvon. 



