Nov. 12. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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liaveing heard that Margaret, the wife of the before- 

 named Thomas Burgis, liad threatened liim, did sus- 

 pect the s* W"' Beard might be bewitched or ill dealt 

 v,'\ did cut off some of his liaire off from his head, and 

 did wind it up together and put it into the fire, and 

 could not for a good while make it burne, untill he 

 tooke a candle and put under it or into it, and then 

 w"" much adoe it did burne, and after it was burnt y° 

 s"' Beard laie still, and before it was burnt he was in 

 such a distemper that three men could hardlie hold him 

 into his bed. " Richard Spencer. 



" his + mark." 



CONVOCATION IN THE REIGN OF GEORGE II. 



One bears it so often repeated, that Convocation 

 was finally suppressed in 1 717, in consequence of the 

 accusations brought by the Lower House against 

 Bishop Hoadlc}', that it seems worth while noting 

 in correction of this, that though no licence from 

 the Crown to make canons has ever been granted 

 since that time, yet that Convocation met and sat 

 in 1 728, and again for some sessions in the spring 

 of 1742, when several important subjects were 

 brought before it ; among which was the very in- 

 teresting question of curates' stipends, in these 

 words : 



" Vllth. That much reproach is brough.t upon the 

 beneficed, and much oppression upon the unbeneficed, 

 clergy, by curates accepting too scanty salaries from in- 

 cumbents." 



and which was really the last subject that was 

 ever brought before Convocation. On Jan. 27, 

 1742, it was unanimously agreed, that "the mo- 

 tion made by the Archdeacon of Lincoln concern- 

 ing ecclesiastical courts and clandestine marriage?, 

 the qualifications of persons to be admitted into 

 holy orders, and the salaries and titles of curates," 

 should be "reduced into writing, and the parti- 

 culars offered to the House at their next assem- 

 bly." But in the next session, on March 5, 1742, 

 the Prolocutor, Dr. Lisle, was afraid to go on with 

 the business before the House, and after " speak- 

 ing much of a pt-ccmunire" and " echoing and re- 

 verberating the word from one side of good King 

 Henry's Chapel to the other," the whole was let 

 drop ; and Convocation was fully consigned to the 

 silence and the slumber of a century. The whole 

 of these transactions are detailed in a scarce pam- 

 phlet, A Letter to the Rev. Dr. Lisle, Prolocuiur of 

 the Lower House, by the Archdeacon of Lincoln 

 (the Venerable G. Itcynolds). W. Fkasek. 



Tor-Mohun. 



TARALLEL PASSAGES. 



(Vol. iv., p. 435. ; Vol. vi., p. 123. ; Vol. vii., 

 p. 151.) 

 1. " When she had passed it seemed like the ceasing of 

 exquisite music." — Longfellow's £ya?(jeZi'Ke, Parti. 1. 



" When she comes into the room, it is like a beau- 

 tiful air of Mozart breaking upon you." — Thackeray 

 " On a good-looking young Lady." (Quoted in W<.st- 

 ininster Review, April J 853.) 



2. " Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere." 

 Whence ? 



" We arc the twin stars, and cannot shine in one 

 sphere. When he rises I must set." — Congreve, 

 Love fur Love, Act III. Sc. 4. 



3. " Et ce n'est pas toujours par valeur et par 

 chastete que les hommes sont vaillants et que les 

 femmes sont chastes." — De La Rochefoucauld, Max. i. 



" Yes, faith 1 I believe some women are virtuous, 

 too ; but 'tis as I believe some men are valiant, througli 

 fear." — Congreve, Love for Love, Act III. Sc. 14. 



4. " Mais si les vaisseaux sillonnent un moment les. 

 ondes, la vague vient eftacer aussitot cette legere 

 marque de servitude, et la mer reparait telle qu'elle 

 fut au premier jour de la Creation." — Cori/me, b. i. 

 ch.4. 



" Such as Creation's dav/n beheld, thou rollest now !" 

 Byron, Childe Harold, 



5. " II est plus honteux de so mcfier de ses amis que 

 d'en etre trompi." — De La Rochefoucauld, Ma.T. 



I.XXXIV. 



" Better trust all, and be deceived, 



And weep that trust, and that deceiving. 

 Than doubt one heart that, if believed, 

 Had blessed thy life with true believing ! 



" Oh ! in this mocking world, too fast 



The doubting fiend o'ertakes our youth : 

 Better be cheated to the last. 



Than lose the blessed hope of truth ! " 



Mrs. Butler (Fanny Kemble). 



6. Li " ]Sr. & Q.," Vol. iv., p. 435., I cited, as a 

 parallel to Shelley, the following from Southey's 

 Doctor, vol. vi. p. 158. : 



" The sense of flying in our sleep might, he thought, 

 probably be the anticipation or forefecliug of an un- 

 evolved power, like an Aurelia's dream of butterfly 

 motion." 



In Spicer's Sights and Sounds (1853), p. 140., is 

 to be found a poem professing to have been " dic- 

 tated by the spirit of Robert Southey," on 

 March 25, 1851, the fourth stanza of which runs 

 as follows : 



" The soul, like some sweet flowor-biid yet unblown, 

 Lay tranced in beauty in its silent cell : 

 The spirit slept, but dreamed of worlds unknown, 

 As dreams the chrysalis icithin its shell. 

 Ere summer breathes its spell." 



What inference should be drawn from this coin- 

 cidence for or against tlie reality of the " spi- 

 ritual dictation ? " Harry Lerov Temple. 



