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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 212. 



I shall but add a postscript to my former Note. 

 In " N. & Q." (Vol. viii., p. 156.), a munber of 

 pamphlets on High Church and Low Church are 

 referred to. A masterly sketch of the two theories 

 is given at pp. 87, 88. of Mr. Kingsley's Yeast, 

 London, 1851. Jarltzbeeg. 



TESTIMONIALS TO DONKEyS. 



The following extract from an article on " An- 

 gling in North Wales," which appeared in J'he 

 Field newspaper of October 22nd, contains a spe- 

 cimen of an entirely original kind of testimonial, 

 which seems to me worthy of preservation in 

 "N. & Q.'s" museum of curiosities : 



"Beguiled by the treacherous representations of a 

 certain Mr. Williams, and the high character of his 

 donkeys, I undertook the ascent of Dunas Bran, and 

 poked about among the ruins of Crow Castle on its 

 summit, where I found nothing of any consequence, 

 except an appetite for my dinner. The printed paper 

 which Mr. Williams hands about, deploring the loss 

 of his 'character,' and testifying to the wonderful 



Upon this overture the first classis struck out their 

 lines, and drew mostly by the portrait of Geneva. 

 This draught was referred to the consideration of a 

 second classis, who made no less than six hundred ex- 

 ceptions to it. The third classis quarrelled with the 

 corrections of the second, and declared for a new model. 

 The fourth refined no less upon the third. The trea- 

 surer advised all these reviews, and different com- 

 mittees, on purpose to break their measures and silence 

 their clamours against the Church. However, since 

 they could not come to any agreement in a form for 

 divine service, he had a handsome opportunity for a 

 release: for now they could not decently importune 

 him any farther. To part smoothly with them, he 

 assured their agents that, when they came to any 

 unanimous resolve upon the matter before them, they 

 might expect his friendship, and that he should be 

 ready to bring their scheme to a settlement." Col- 

 lier's Hist, vol. viii. p. 16. See Card well's Hist, of the 

 Conference connected with the Revision of the Bonk of 

 Common Prayer, London, 1849, 8vo. See also Quar- 

 terly Review, vol.1, pp. 508— 561., No. C. Jan. 1834. 

 The present American Prayer Book is formed on the 

 Comprehen'iion scheme. Last year Pickering published 

 a Booh of Common Prayer of the Churcli of England, 

 adapted for General Use in other Protestant Churches, 

 which is well worth referring to. 



Those who wished to "comprehend" at the Roman 

 side of tlie via media were very few. Elizabeth and 

 Laud are the most prominent instances. Charles I., 

 and afterwards the Nonjurors, had schemes of com- 

 munion with the Greek Church. A History of Com- 

 prehension would involve a historical notice of the 

 Thirty-nine Articles, and the plan of Comprehension 

 maintained by some to be the intention of their 

 framers. It should include also distinctive sketches 

 of the classes formerly denominated Church Papists and 

 Church Puritans. 



superiority of all his animals, is rather amusing. Mr. 

 Williams evidently never had a donkey 'what wouldn't 

 go.' This paper commences with an affidavit from 

 certain of the householders and literati of Llangollen, 

 that he ' had received numerous testimonials, all of 

 which we are sorry to say has been lost.' Those pre- 

 served, however, and immortalised in print, suffice to 

 establish Mr. Williams' reputation : 



" Mr. W. and his son and daughter bear testi- 

 mony to the civility and attention of Mr. Williams 

 ajid his donkeys. 



" S. P., Esquire, attended at the Hand Hotel, 24th 

 June, 1851, and engaged four of Mr. Williams' don- 

 keys for the use of a party of ladies, who expressed 

 themselves highly gratified. The animals were re- 

 markably tractable, and void of stupidity. 



" Mrs. D. A. B. visited Valle Crucis Abbey on the 

 back of Mr. Williams' ass, and is well satisfied. 



"Sept. 4. 1852. 



This is to certify that 



LADY MAKSHALL 



Is to Donkeys very partial, 



And no postilion in a car, shall 

 Ever more her drive 



O'er all the stones ; 



On ' Jenny Jones ' 

 She'll ride while she's alive ! " 



Those who have visited Malvern will remember 

 the vast quantity of donkeys who rejoice in the 

 cognomen of " The Royal Moses." Their history 

 is as follows : — When the late Queen Dowager 

 was at Malvern, she frequently ascended the hills 

 on donkey-back ; and on all such occasions pa- 

 tronised a poor old woman, whose stud had been 

 reduced, by a succession of misfortunes, to a 

 solitary donkey, who answered to the name of 

 " Moses." At the close of her visit, her majesty, 

 with that kindness of heart which was such a 

 distinguishing trait in her character, not only 

 liberally rewarded the poor old woman, bvit asked 

 her if there was anything that she could do for 

 her which would be likely to bring back her 

 former prosperity. The old woman turned the 

 matter over in her mind, and then said, " Please 

 your majesty to give a name to my donkey." This 

 her Majesty did. "Moses" became " the Royal 

 IVIoses ; " every body wanted to I'ide him ; the 

 old woman's custom increased ; and when the 

 favoured animal died (for he is dead) he left 

 behind him a numerous family, all of whom are 

 called after their father, " the Royal Moses." 



CUTHBEET BeDE, B.A. 



LONGEVITY IN CLEVELAND, YORKSHIRE. 



A cursory conversation with a lady in her 

 eighty-fifth year, now living at Skelton in Cleve- 

 land, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, when she 



