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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 272. 



the origin of them, and have not the least notion that 

 there is any lineal descent to be traced of their ancient 

 imperial or noble families, notwithstanding the pretensions 

 often of some of them, who bear their names when they 

 come to Europe." — P. 373. 



William Bates. 

 Birmingham. 



LORD clarendon's RIDING-SCHOOL AT OXFORD. 



(Vol. X., p. 185.) 



In the preface to the orij^inal folio edition of 

 the Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon (Oxford, 

 1759), the following passage occurs : 



" The reason why this history has lain so long con- 

 cealed, will appear from the title of it, which shows that 

 his lordship intended it only for the information of his 

 children. But the late Lord Hyde, judging that so faith- 

 fill and authentic an account of this interesting period of 

 our history, would be aa useful 'and acceptable present to 

 the public, and bearing a grateful remembrance of this 

 place of his education, left by his will this and the other 

 remains of his great-grandfather in the hands of trustees, 

 to be printed at our press, and directed that the profits 

 arising from the sale should be employed towards the es- 

 tablishing a riding-school in the university. But Lord 

 Hyde dying before his father, the then Earl of Clarendon, 

 the property of these papers never became vested in him, 

 and consequently this bequest was void. However, the 

 noble heiresses of the Earl of Clarendon, out of their re- 

 gard to the public, and to this seat of learning, have been 

 pleased to fulfil the kind intentions of Lord Hyde, and 

 adopt a scheme recommended both by him and his great- 

 grandfather.* To this end they have sent to the uni- 

 versit}' this history, to be printed at our press, on con- 

 dition that the profits arising from the sale of this work 

 be applied as a beginning for a fund for supporting a 

 manage, or academy for riding, and other useful exer- 

 cises, in Oxford." 



In Gibbon's Memoirs of his own life, he thus 

 alludes to the subject : 



" According to the will of the donor, the profit of the 

 second part of Lord Clarendon's history has been applied 

 to the establishment of a riding-school, that the polite 

 exercises might be taught, I know not with what success, 

 in the university." 



Upon this passage Dean Milman makes the 

 following remark : 



" See the advertisement to Lord Clarendon's Beligion 

 and Policy, published at the Clarendon Press, 1811. It 

 appears that the property is vested in certain trustees, 

 who have probably found it impracticable to carry the 

 intentions of the testator into effect. If, as I am informed, 

 the riding-school depends in the least on the sale of the 

 Heligion and Policy, the university is not likely soon to 

 obtain instruction in that useful and manly exercise." — 

 Ed. Milman, pp. 83. 86. 



In the advertisement prefixed to the Religion 

 and Policy (Oxford, 1811), it is stated that the 

 Duchess-Dowager of Queensberry gave the MSS. 

 in question by deed to Dr. Robert Drummond, 

 Archbishop of York, William Earl of Mansfield, 

 and Dr. William Markham, Bishop of Chester, 



* See his Dialogue on Edxtcation. 



upon trust for the like purposes as those ex- 

 pressed by Lord Hyde in the codicil to his will. 

 It is added that the then present trustees, Wil- 

 liam Earl of Mansfield ; John, Lord Bishop of 

 London ; the Rt. Hon. Charles Abbot, Speaker of 

 the House of Commons ; and the Rev. Dr. Cyril 

 Jackson, late Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, 

 having found the MS. of Religion and Policy 

 among the Clarendon Papers, have proceeded in 

 the execution of their trust to publish it. This 

 advertisement, however, affords no explanation of 

 the reasons which induced the trustees to abstain 

 from taking any steps for performing the condition 

 with respect to the establishment of a riding- 

 school, upon which the manuscript of the Life of 

 Lord Clarendon, and his other papers, were ac- 

 cepted by the university. 



It is possible that the profits arising from the 

 sale of the Life and the other manuscripts, which 

 were at the same time presented to the university, 

 were not sufficient to defray the cost of a riding- 

 school ; but it does not appear that any statement 

 of the inadequacy of the trust fund for the pre- 

 scribed object, or any other explanation of the 

 course which they pursued, was ever published by 

 the trustees. L* 



WORKS ON BELLS. 



(Vol. ix., p. 240. — Additional List.) 



Miller's Church Bells. "Words to Ringers. 12mo., 1845. 



Beaufoy's (S.) Ringer's true Guide. 12mo., 1804. 



Reeve's Representation of an Irish Ecclesiastical Bell of 

 St. Patrick. Fol., Belfast, 1850. 



Orders of the Company of Ringers in Cheapside, &c., 

 from Feb. 2, 1603, MS. cxix. in All Souls' Library. 



Lampe de Cymbalis Veterum. 



Laurentius, CoUectio de Citharedis, Fistulis, et Tin- 

 tinnabulis. 



Barbosa (D. Aug.), Duo Vota consultiva, unum de Cam- 

 panis, alterum de Cemetariis. 4to., 1640. (" Libellus 

 rarissimus," "N. & Q.," Vol. ix., p. 310.) 



Quinones (De Johan., D.D.), Specialis Tractatus de 

 Campana in Villa dicta Vililla in Diocesi Csesaraugustana 

 in Hispania, 1625. 



Pj'gius (Albert), Hist. Ang. 



August de Herrera, De Pulsatione Campanarum pro 

 Defunctis. 



Laurentius Beyerlink. 



The last four are among those quoted by Bar- 

 bosa in his very rare little book, which I had 

 not met with when I published the list (Vol. ix., 

 p. 240.), for the loan of which I am since indebted 

 to the courtesy and kindness of its possessor. 



R. Hospinianus, in his volume (1672) De Tem- 

 plis, has an interesting section " De Campanis 

 et earum Consecratione." This author quotes 

 largely from Johan. Beleth, Thos. Nageorgus, 

 and Thos. Rorarius, 1570. 



Forster, in his Perennial Calendar, p. 616., re- 

 fers to a memoir of Reaumur, in Memoirs of the 

 Paris Academy, on the shape of bells. 



