April 2. 1853.] 



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deprived Bishop of Peterborough, died in London, 

 May 30, 1698 ; and that Robert Frampton, the 

 deprived Bishop of Gloucester, died May 25, 1708 

 (vol. ii. p. 119.). John I. Dredge. 



"Jenny^s Bawbee'" (Vol. vii., p. 207.). — This is a 

 very old song, a fragment of which (all we have) 

 appeared in David Herd's Collection of Ancient 

 and Modern Scottish Songs, 2 vols. 12ino., Edinb. 

 1776. As it is very short, I quote it : 



" An' a' that e'er my Jenny had, 

 My Jenny had, my Jenny had, 

 A' that e'er my Jenny had, 

 Was ae bawbee. 



" There's your plack, and my plack, 

 An' your plack, an' my plack, 

 An' my plack, an' your plack. 

 An' Jenny's bawbee. 



" We'll put it a' in the plnt-stoup, 

 The pint-stoup, the pint-stoup. 

 We'll put it in the pint-stoup, 

 And birle't a' three." 



There is a capital song founded upon this rude 

 fragment, by the late Sir Alexander Boswell. It 

 was published anonymously in 1803, and com- 

 mences thus : 



" I met four chaps yon birks amang, 

 Wi hinging lugs and faces lang ; 

 I spier'd at neebour Bauldy Strang, 

 Wha's they I see ? 

 " Quo' he, Ilk cream-fac'd pawky chiel 

 Thought he was cunning as the diel. 

 And here they cam' awa to steal 

 Jenny's bawbee." 



Copies of this latter song may be seen in John- 

 son's Scottish Musical Museum, edit. 1839, vol. v. 

 p. 435. ; and in Graham's Songs of Scotland, 1848, 

 vol. ii. p. 48. Edward F. Kimbault. 



The old Scotch ballad with the above title, on 

 which Sir Alexander Boswell, Bart., founded his 

 humorous song with the same name, may be found 

 in The Book of Scottish Songs, recently published 

 in The Illustrated London Library, p. 229. 



J. K. R. W. 



Irish Convocation (Vol. vi., p. 317.). — I am 

 unable to answer W. Feaseb's Queries as to when 

 the Irish Convocation last met, and where their 

 deliberations are recorded; but that gentleman 

 will find some account of its nature and consti- 

 tution in a recently published pamphlet, entitled 

 The Jerusalem Chamber, by the Rev. H. Caswall, 

 M.A., pp. 39, 40. J. C. B. 



Spontaneous Combustion (Vol. vii., p. 286.). — 

 Is there such a thing ; meaning, I presume, of the 

 human body ? One of the latest and best authen- 

 ticated cases is given in The Abstainers Journal 

 (Glasgow), No. HI, March, 1853, p. 54. In the 



narrative is included the official medical report 

 from the Journal of Medical Science, Dec. 1852. 



W. C. Treveltan. 



Do the Sun's Bays put out the Fire f (Vol. vii., 

 p. 285.). — 



«' Why does the sun, shining on a fire, make it dull, 

 and often put it out ? 



" 1st. Because the air (being rarefied by the sun- 

 shine) flows more slowly to the fire ; and 



" 2ndly. The chemical action of the sun's rays is 

 detrimental to combustion. 



" The sun's rays are composed of three parts ; light- 

 ing, heating, and actinic or chemical rays. These 

 latter interfere with the process of combustion." 



The above is an extract from Rev. Dr. Brewer's 

 Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Fami- 

 liar, 6th edition, p. 50., which may perhaps prove 

 interesting to G. W. B. At p. 58. of the same 

 book, H. A. B. will find, I think, an answer in the 

 affirmative to his Query (Vol. vii., p. 286.) : " Is 

 there such a thing as spontaneous combustion ?" 



C S. T. P. 



W Rectory. 



Dover Castle (Vol. vii., p. 254.). — The " j ceno- 

 vectorum cum j rota ferro ligata" was a wheel- 

 barrow. In the Promptorum Parvulorum occurs 

 (p. 25.) " barowe cenovectorum." E. G. R. 



Quotations wanted (Vol. vii., p. 40.). — "And if 

 he read little, he had need have much cunning to 

 seem to know that he doth not." From Lord 

 Bacon. — Bacon's Essays: Of Studies, p. 218. 

 12mo., 1819. a. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



If any of the readers of Mr. Hudson Turner's vo- 

 lume on Domestic Architecture have been under the 

 apprehension that the death of that able antiquary 

 would necessarily lead, if not to the abandonment of 

 that work, to its being completed in a more imperfect 

 manner than Mr. Turner would have completed it, we 

 can assure them that such apprehension is entirely 

 groundless. We have now before us the second part, 

 entitled Some Account of Domestic Architecture in Eng- 

 land from Edward I. to Richard II. , with Notices of 

 Foreign Examples, and numerous Illustrations of existing 

 Remains from original Drawings. By the Editor of the 

 Glossary of Architecture. The editing of the work is 

 indeed most creditable to Mr. Parker, who, though he 

 modestly confesses that if he had not known that he 

 could safely calculate upon much valuable assistance 

 from others more competent than himself, he would 

 never have ventured to undertake it at all, had already 

 given proof of his fitness for the task by the Glossary 

 of Architecture with which his name has been so long 

 and so honourably connected. The work, which sup- 

 plies a deficiency which the architectural student has 



