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and pronounced by Master Gascoigne, and that 

 upon a very great sudden." Here are tlire#of the 



verses : 



" Well, Echo, tell me 3'et, 

 How might I come to see 

 This comely Queen of whom we talk ? 

 Oh, were she now by thee ! 



By thee. 

 " By me? oh, were that true, 

 How might I see her face? 

 How might I know her from the rest, 

 Or judge her by her grace? 



Her grace. 

 " Well, then, if so mine eyes 

 Be such as they have been, 

 Methinks I see among them all 

 This same should be the Queen. 



The Queen." 



I should be glad to know of any other echo song 

 besides this one and the effusion of the Carlo- 

 royallst.* Varlov ap Harry. 



George Pack the Actov. — This actor appeared 

 upon the stage when very young, as a .singer, 

 having received his instructions from Richard 

 Leveridge, and left it in the meridian of life, to 

 keep the Globe tavern, Charing Cross. At what 

 period did he die? Edward F. Rimbault. 



ArniT/ under William III. at the Peace of Rys- 

 wick (2"'' S. v. 81.) — Can Mr. Cooper, or any 

 other correspondent of "N. & Q-," inform us 

 whether there exists any List of the Army (with 

 names of officers, &c.), that accompanied William 

 from Holland ? 



There are, no doubt, many families besides the 

 Eentincks and De Ginkells deriving their origin 

 from soldiers in that army ; and to them such a 

 List could not but be very interesting. A. C. M. 



Exeter. 



Cockers Arithmetic. — Much has been written 

 in the pages of "N. & Q." about this celebrated 

 computist and the Jirst edition of hi§ work,' but I 

 am anxious to be furnished with the date of the 

 last or latest edition. I have now before me the 

 fifry-fifth, dated 1758, and the fifty-sixth, dated 

 1 767. Meton. 



The Remains of Wimbledon. — A Jcu d'esprit 

 with this title was published (privately I believe) 

 at Edinburgh in 1826. It is embellished with a 

 few etchings and a frontispiece, which latter bears 

 evidence of the skill of the late Mr. Charles Kirk- 

 patrick Sharp. The preface states that it was 

 undertaken at the earnest request of " the Presi- 

 dent and Council of the Dandyline Club," and 



[* Two pieces of Echo poetry are quoted in Brydges' 

 British Bibliographer. In vol. i. p. 209. is one by Dr. 

 Thomas Fuller, the historian, commencing " Imbre la- 

 chrymarum largo." Another in vol. iv. p. 9 , from Thomas 

 Watson's Passionate Centurie of Love, 1581, See also the 

 General Index to 1»' S. of «K & Q."^ 



contains extracts from the Common-place of a late 

 lamented member of the society — the Superan- 

 nuated Bibllomaniacal Wimbledon Winterton, 

 Esq. 



Will some of your Scottish readers kindly state 

 who is the person thus satirised, and what gave 

 rise to the publication ? Calamos. 



" Moons" ^c. — 



" Midsummer — | Moon : | or | The Livery = Man's | 

 Complaint. | By Tho. Thompson. | London, ] Printed for 

 E. Harris, 1682. | Pott 4to. 20 pp." 



The above-mentioned pamphlet is a satirical 

 poem, called forth by the royal and tyrannical 

 usurpation of power that carried the election of 

 sheriffs of London in 1682. It is especially severe 

 upon the then Chief Justice North (afterwards 

 the Lord Keeper Guildford) ; upon the Lord 

 Mayor, Sir John Moore ; and upon Sir George 

 Jeffreys, then Recorder of London. The latter, 

 more widely known as the "Bloody Lord Jef- 

 freys," is, even to this day, held up to the repro- 

 bation of "^II of English tongue, as the very worst 

 man that ever soiled the judicial ermine. Al- 

 though initials alone are given, there could have 

 been no doubt to whom they belonged ; and the 

 verses are so justly scathing In their denunciation 

 of these wicked, yet powerful men, that I must re- 

 gard the names on the title-page as fictitious. 

 Lord Macaulay says (Hist, of Eng. vol. I. p. 269.), 

 "for the temper of judges and juries was such 

 that no writer whom the government prosecuted 

 for a libel had any chance of escaping." Can 

 any of your correspondents inform me who was 

 the author of the work, and whether its publica- 

 tion gave rise to any judicial proceedings ? 



Robert Townsend. 



Albany, N. Y. 



Custom in the Isle of Thanet. — 



" Observing almost every tall tree to have a weather- 

 cock on the top bough, and some trees half a dozen, I 

 learn'd that on a certaine holj'day the farmers feast their 

 servants, at which solemnity they set up these cocks in a 

 kind of triumph." — Evelyn's Diary, March 25, 1672. 



Does this custom still prevail ? I remember to 

 have heard that In the same locality the carters on 

 S. Catherine's day place a small figure on a wheel 

 on the front of their cart-sheds. Vebna. 



S. Edm\indsbury. 



English Husbandmen in the Fifteenth Century. 

 — Where shall I find the most reliable account of 

 the social state of the " English husbandman " in 

 the fifteenth century? 



I wish to contrast the condition of the labourer 

 of the fifteenth with that of his successor of the 

 nineteenth, and Avould be glad to learn the best 

 authorities for the remuneration of labour, and the 

 price of the various necessaries of life in the 

 " Merrie days of QW England," Ferscher. 



