Jan. 15. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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till they and the rest (for I believe the large circle 

 was once composed of living men) shall return to 

 their proper manhood. 



Other legends respecting this curious relic 

 might, I doubt not, be obtamed on the spot. I 

 obtained the above in answer to inquiries, when 

 making a pilgrimage to the place. B. H. Cowpek. 



LADT NEVELLS MUSIC -BOOK. 



The following contents of the Lady Nevell's 

 music-book (1591) may be interesting to many of 

 your readers : 



"1. My Ladye Nevell's Grownde. 



2. Qui passe, for my Ladye Nevell. 



3. The March before the Battell. 



4. The Battell. 



The March of Footemen. 

 The March of Horsemen. 

 The Trumpetts. 

 The Irishe Marche. 

 The Bagpipe and Drone. 

 The Flute and Dromme. 

 : The Marche to Fight. 

 Tantara. 



The Battells be ioyned. 

 The Retreat. 



5. The Galliarde for the Victorie. 



6. The Barley Breake. 



7. The Galliarde Gygg. 



8. The Hunt's upp. 



9. Ut re mi fa sol la. 



10. The first Pauian. 



11. The Galh'ard to the same. 



12. The seconde Pauian. 



13. The Galliarde to the same. 



14. The third Pauian. 



15. The Galliarde to the same. 



16. The fourth Pauian. 



17. The Galliarde to the same. 



18. The fifte Pauian. 



19. The Galliarde to the same. 



20. The sixte Pauian. 



21. The Galliarde to the same. 



22. The seventh Pauian. 



23. The eighte Pauian. 

 Tlie passinge mesurs is, 



24. The nynthe Pauian. 



25. The Galliarde to the same. 



26. The Voluntarie Lesson. 



27. Will you walk the Woods soe wylde. 



28. The Mayden's Song. 



29. A Lesson of Voluntarie. 



30. The seconde Grownde. 



31. Have w' you to Walsingame. 



32. All in a Garden greene. 



33. The lo. Willobie's welcome home. 

 .34. The Carman's Whistle. 



35. Hughe Ashton's Grownde. 



36. A Fancie, for my Ladye Nevell. 



37. Sellinger's Rownde. 



38. Munser's Almaine. 



39. The tenth Pauian, Mr. W. Peter. 



40. The Galliarde to the same. 



41. A Fancie. 



42. A Voluntarie. 



Finis. 



Ffinlshed and ended the Leventh of September, in 

 the yeare of our Lorde God 1591, and in the 33 yeare 

 of the raigne of our sofFeraine ladie Elizabeth, by the 

 grace of God Queen of England, &c., by me, Jo. Bald- 

 wine of Windsore. 



Laudes Deo." 



The songs have no words to them. Most of the 

 airs are signed " Mr. William Birde." 



A modern MS. note in the book states that the 

 book is " Lady Nevell's Music-book," and that 

 she seems "to have been the scholar of Birde, who 

 professedly composed several of the pieces for her 

 ladyship's use ;" and that sixteen of the forty-two 

 pieces are " in the Virginal Book of Queen Eliza- 

 beth," and that " Jo. Baldwine was a singing-man 

 at W'indsor." The music is written on four-staved 

 paper of six lines, in large bold characters, with 

 great neatness. The notes are lozenge-shape. Can 

 any of your correspondents furnish rules for 

 transposing these six-line staves into the j&ve-line 

 staves of modern notations ? L. B. L. 



BISHOP BURNET. 



Having but recently become acquainted with 

 your useful and learned work (for scire tibi aliquid 

 invenire possis, magna pars eruditionis est), I have 

 been much interested in looking over the earlier 

 volumes. Allow me to add a couple of links to 

 your catena on Bishop Burnet. The first is the 

 opinion of Hampton, the translator of Polybius ; 

 the other is especially valuable, it being nothing 

 less than the portrait of Burnet drawn by himself, 

 but certainly not with any idea of its being sus- 

 pended beside the worthies of his " Own Time," 

 for the edification of posterity. 



Hampton's testimony is as follows : 



" His personal resentments put him upon writing 

 history. He relates the actions of a persecutor and 

 benefactor ; and it is easy to believe that a man in such 

 circumstances must violate the laws of truth. The re- 

 membrance of his injuries is always present, and gives 

 venom to his pen. Let us add to this, that intem- 

 perate and malicious curiosity which penetrates into 

 the most private recesses of vice. The greatest of his 

 triumphs is to draw the veil of secret infamy, and ex- 

 pose to view transactions that were before concealed 

 from the world ; though they serve not in the least 

 either to embellish the style or connect the series of 

 his history, and will never obtain more credit than, 

 perhaps, to suspend the judgment of the reader, since 

 they are supported only by one single, suspected testi- 

 mony." — Reflections on Ancient and Modern History, 

 4to. : Oxford, 1746. 



Let me now refer you to a document, written 

 with his own hand, which sets the question of 



