NOTES AND QUEHIES: 



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LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. 



" \inien found, make a note of." — Captaik Cuttlk. 



No. 217.] 



Saturday, December 24. 1853. 



f Price Fourpenco. 

 Stamped Edition, gd. 



CONTENTS. 



KoTES : - 



Page 



Folk Lore in the Reign of King James I. - - fiI3 



Tiie Ballad of Sir Hugh, &c. - - - . 614 



Pennsylvanian Folk Lore: Christmas - - - C15 



County Khymes - - - - - - 615 



Legends of the County Clare: Fuenvicouil (Fingal) 



and the Giant, by Frances Robert Davies • • 616 



Folk Lore Miscellanies: — Yorkshire Tradition — 

 Custom on St. Thomas's Day — Custom on Inno- 

 cents' Day— Marriage Custom at Knutsford, Cheshire 



— Folk Lore in Hampsliire — Propitiating the Fairies 



— Cornish Folk Lore — King Arthur in the Form 

 of a Raven — St. Clement's Apple Feast in Stafford- 

 shire — New Year's Eve and New Year's Day - 617 



Minor Notes : — Carlist Calembourg —Jewish Custom 

 — Lachlan Macleane — German Tree — The late 

 Duke . . . 



Queries : — 



Replies: — 



Children called Imps • . . . . 



The Divining Rod ..... 



Change of Meaning in Proverbial Expressions, &c. 

 Sneezing, by Francis John Scott, &c. ... 

 Books burned by the common Hangman, by W. 

 Fraser, &c. ----.. 



Jews in China, by T. J. Buckton .... 

 Poetical Tavern Signs ..... 

 The Curfew, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A. ... 



Photoghaphic ConRESPONDENCE : — Photographic En- 

 graving — Collodion Negatives - . . . 



Replies to Minor Queries: — " London Lnbour and the 

 London Poor" — Felicia Hemans's inedited Lyric — 

 Sir Arthur Aston — Grammar in relation to Logic — 

 Descendants of Milton — Pronunciation of Bible 

 Names — Henry L's Tomb — Bells at Berwick-upon- 

 Tweed — Return of Gentry, temp. Henry VI Peter 



Allan — Burial in an erect Posture — The Word 

 " Mob" — Gen. Sir C. Napier .- To Come — Passage 

 in Sophocles — Party-Simile< of the Seventeenth Cen- 

 turv — Judges styled Reverend — Veneration for the 

 Oak — Rapping no Novelty . . . . 



Miscellaneous : — 



Books and Odd V^olumes wanted • - • . 



Notices to Correspondents . - - . 



Adveriisenienls ...... 



618 



The Story of Crispii;i and Crispianui, by J. Davies 

 Devlin . . . . . . .619 



Minor Queries: — Barrels Regiment— Okey the Regi- 

 cide—Lady Mason's Third Husband — Creation of 

 Knights — Martyn the Regiride — History of the 

 >fonjurors — Florin and the Royal Anns — A Mis. 

 tietoe Query ...... 620 



M'iNOB Queries with Answers : — Sewell Family — 

 Oreek Epigram — Translations from JEschylus — 

 Prince Memnon's Sister — " Oh ! for a blast," &c. — 

 Robin Hood's Festival — Church in Suffolk . - fi'il 



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Vol. VIIL — No.217. 



FOLK LORE IN THE BEIGM OT KIXG JAMES I. 



In turning over the pages of an old book of 

 controversial divinity, I stumbled upon the fol- 

 lowing illustrations of folk lore ; which, as well 

 from their antiquity as from their intrinsic curio- 

 sity, seem worthy of a place in your columns. 

 They make us acquainted with some of the usages 

 of our ancestors, who lived in the remoter dis- 

 tricts of England early in the reign of James I. 

 The title of the volume in which they occur is the 

 following : 



" The Way to the True Church ; wherein the 

 principall Motives persuading to Romanisme, and 

 Questions touchin;^ the Nature and Authoritie of the 

 Church and Scriptures, are familiarly disputed .... 

 directed to all that seeke for Resolution ; and espe- 

 cially to all his loving Countrymen of Lancashire, by 

 John White, Minister of God's Word at Eccles. Folio. 

 London, 1624." 



This, however, is described as being " the fifth 

 impression ;" the Preface is dated Oct. 29, 1608 ; 

 so that we arrive at the conclusion that the usages 

 and rhymes, to which I now desire to invite the 

 attention of your readers, were current in the 

 north-west districts of England more than two 

 hundred and fifty years since. 



White is insisting upon " the prodigious igno- 

 rance" which he found among his parishioners 

 when he entered upon his ministrations, and he 

 proceeds thus to tell his own tale : 



" I will only mention what I saw and learned, 

 dwelling among them, concerning the saying of their 

 prayers ; for what man is he whose heart trembles not 

 to see simple people so far seduced that they know not 

 how to pronounce or say their daily prayers ; or so 

 to pray that all that hear them shall be filled with 

 laughter ? And while, superstitiously, they refuse to 

 pray in their own lunguage with understanding, they 

 speak that which their leaders may blush to hear. 

 These examples I have observed from the common 

 people." 



THK CREED. 



*' Creezum zuum patrum onltentem creatorum ejus 

 anicum, Dominum nostrum qui sum sops, virgin! 

 Mariee, crixus fixus, Ponchi Pilati audubitiers, mortl 



