May 26. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Oati any of your correspondents point out otlier 

 sources of reference than those named at the com- 

 mencement of the present Query ; and <rive any 

 informat'um as to the period over which Chamber- 

 lain's volumes extend ; and the date when the pre- 

 sent Red Bouks^ Imperial Kalendar, &c. were first 

 commenced ? M. N. S. 



Deadening Glass Windows. — Ts tliere any means 

 of deadening glass, so as to exclude the sun, with- 

 out going to the expense of ground glass ? I am 

 aware that putty, white paint, and some varnishes, 

 have been used, as well as paper pasted on the 

 ^lass ; but wet, and much more frost, is sure to 

 bring off all these. 1 should be thankful to be 

 informed of anything that could be easily applied, 

 would cost but little, and would be water and frost 

 proof. F. C. H. 



Charles Cotton. — Any unpublished particulars, 

 or references to works, &c., respecting the cele- 

 brated poet Charles Cotton, are particularly re- 

 quested. The lists of editions of Cotton's works 

 in Watt, &c., are very im[)erfect and incorrect. 

 I am most desirous of" coni])leting my list, and 

 rendering it as full and ample as possible. For 

 this purpose I shall feel obliged by notes and me- 

 morandums of the various editi(ms of his different 

 productions which may come under the notice of 

 your correspondents. It is much to be regretted 

 that no separate Life of Cotton, and notices of his 

 works, has been published. L. Jewitt, F.S.A. 



Burial in the Chancel. — Having an intention of 

 preparing a place of burial for myself and family 

 in tiie spacious chancel attached to my parish 

 church, I am anxious to ascertain whether (as I 

 have been informed by some of my friends) I have 

 a right, as vicar of the parish, to make a grave in 

 the chancel for myself or my family, without 

 .having obtained permission from the impropriate 

 rector of the church. I have much doubt and 

 hesitation upon this point, and shall feel obliged 

 if any of your correspondents will have the;good- 

 ness to favour me with their opinion on the 

 question. Pkesbyter. 



Rev. George Oldham.— \ have lately met with 

 an old engraving, the portrait of a divine with the 

 name " Georgius Oldham, S. T. B." It is evi- 

 dently the portrait of the Rev. George Oldham, 

 •B.D., who was rector of Brandes Burton, York- 

 shire, from 1723 to 1734. He was presented to 

 this living by St. John's College, Cambridge ; the 

 rectory of Brandes Burton having been a fayr years 

 before (1699) given to that college by Bishop 

 Watson (St. David's). From this engraving, I 

 should imagine this Mr. Oldham was something 



more than rector of Brandes Burton. I am anxious 

 to know who lie was, and when and where lie <lied. 



G.£..P. 



[George Oldham, B D., was Fellow of St. John's Col- 

 lege, Cainbri'ls^e; and was instituted May (i, 1709. to the 

 Vicariige of St. Paul's, VValden, Herts, which he resigned 

 in 1723; when he was presented by his Colege to the 

 rectory of Brandes Barton. We cannot find any reconl of 

 his death; nor does his name appear anionic the digrii- 

 taries of the Church in Le 'Neve's Faxti. He published a 

 Visitdtion Sermon on Acts iv. iO, 8v<)., 1710; Sermon 

 on a Church Feast, 1 Cor. i. 10.. Camb., 1713, 4to. ; attH 

 Sermon preached at the Visitation at St. Alban's, April 2$, 

 1720.] 



Thomas Gray, the Poet. — What is known of 

 the authorship of the following very rare verses ? 

 It is stated in Dibditt's BibUoninnra, p. 716., that 

 only six copies of them were piiiited ; and that 

 they were prefixed to ^ix copies of Gray's Orfes, 

 4to., 1757, Strawberry Hill. I am in possession 

 of a copy of a sonnet to the memory of Gray, from 

 the pen of the late J. T. Mathia-*, editor of Gray's 

 Works, and author of the Pursuits of Literature. 

 If this sonnet be rare, I shall gladly transcribe it: 



" Repine not. Gray, that our weak dazzled eyes 



Thy daring heights and brightness shun; 

 How few can track the eagle to the skies, 



Or, like him. gaze upon the sun ! 

 The gentle reader loves tiie gentle Muse, 



That little dare.s, and little means. 

 Who huniblj'-sips her learning from Reciews, 



Or flutters in the Maaazines. 

 No longer now from Learning's sacred store 



Our minds their health and vigour draw.; 

 'Homer and Pindar are revered no more. 



No more the Stagyrite is law. 

 Though nurst bv tiiese, in vain thy Muse appears, 



To breathe her ardours in our .•^ouls; 

 In vain to sightless eyes and deaden'd ears. 



Thy lightning gleanfts, and tlumder rolls ! 

 Yet droop not, Gray, nor quit thy heav'n-born art, 



Again thy wondrous powers reveal, 

 Wake slunib'ring Virtne in the Iiriton's heart, 



And rouse us to reflect and feel ! 

 With ancient deeds our long-chill'd bosoms fire, 



Those deeds which niark'd KLiz.-\'a reign ! 

 Make Britons Greeks again! Then strike the IjTe, 



And Pindar shall not sing in vain." 



G. L. S. 



[The.se lines first appeared anonymou.sly in The London 

 Chronicle of Oct. 1, 17n7. They were composed by David 

 Garrick, as stated in the following extract from Gray's 

 letter to Dr. Wharton, dated Oct. 7, 1757 : " Mr. Gar- 

 rick's compliment you have -seen ; I am told it was 

 printed in the Chronicle of last Saturday." If Mathias's 

 Sonnet commences, "Lord of the various lyre!" it has 

 alreadv appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine for April, 

 1815, p. 350.] 



" The Horns'''' at Highgate and Homsey. — I 

 observe in " Notices to Correspondents" (Vol.xi., 

 p. 176.), you refer to Vol iv., p. 84., for an illus- 

 tration of " Swearing on the Horns at Highgate." 

 May I refer faither to Hone's Every- Day Booh, 

 vol. ii. pp. 79. 377., and conclude with a Query : 



