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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 291. 



In the book of 1662, the form was fixed by law. 

 As Charles was married, the above names came 

 after that of Katharine : " Mary the Queen 

 Mother, James Duke of York," &c. 



I may remark, that the expression " Barker's 

 Common Prayer" is rather indefinite; since the 

 Barkers printed the book from an early part of 

 Elizabeth's reign, and one of the family was asso- 

 ciated with Bill after the Restoration. T. L. 



PhcBbe Hassel, or Hessel (Vol. xi., p. 320.).— If 

 Mk. Watlen will consult the Naval and Military 

 Gazette for the year 1853, pp. 468. 485. 501. 518. 

 549. and 630., he will find that the history of this 

 woman, whether as given in her epitaph, or re- 

 corded by herself (vide Hone's Every -Day Book 

 for 1832), requires confirmation. G. L. S. 



Unregistered Proverbs (Vol. xi., p. 114.). — The 

 following may prove an addition to the list : 

 ■" As round, as a Pontypool waiter." ( Unde derivatur ?) 



" When the gorse is out of blossom, kissing is out of 

 -foahioa" (i. e. Kissing is nex>er out of fashion). 



•* Trouble ran off him like water off a duck's back." 



■** If you sing before breakfast, you'll cry before night." 



*' Turn your money when you hear the cuckoo, and 

 you'll have money in your purse till the cuckoo comes 

 again." 



" Plenty of lady-birds, plenty of hops." (The Coccinella 

 feeds upon the aphis that proves so destructive to the 

 hop-plaxit.) 



" March, search ; April, try ; 

 .May will prove if you live or die." 



« When your salt is damp, you will soon have rain." 



" It will be a wet month when there are two full moons 

 in it." (This last proverb ought to a^pply to this present 

 month of May.) 



CUTHBEET BeDE, B.A. 



Sir Samuel Garth (Vol. xi., pp. 283. 373.) — 

 With thanks to Me. Francis Mewbuen, of Dar- 

 lington, I have to state that I have just received 

 a copy of the admission of Garth to Peterhowse, 

 dated 1676, then in the seventeenth year of his age, 

 and describing him as having come from Ingleton 

 school, in the county of Durham. The supposition 

 of his having been educated at Harrow is therefore 

 at an end. There are, unfortunately, no early 

 records of Harrow school. ll 



Oxford Jeux d'Esprit (Vol. viii., p. 584, &c.). 

 — I know not why I should hesitate in putting an 

 €nd to conjecture, and refuse to confess myself 

 the author of Johannis Gilpini iter, Latine red- 

 ditum. I trust I may say "nee lusisse pudet" 

 with respect to it. If, however, there be anytiiing 

 to be ashamed of, I can at any rate plead that 1 

 erred in good company : for, curiously enough, 

 the present Master of Balliol published a Latin 

 translation of the same poem in a short-live<l locsl 

 magazine, called I think the Oxford Review, at 



precisely the same period. I remember the cir- 

 cumstances of the case manifestly showed that we 

 were neither of us indebted to the other for the 

 idea ; but that it must have struck us almost 

 simultaneously. 



In looking over a volume of old Oxford pam- 

 phlets, I find a jeu d'esprit not yet alluded to by 

 your correspondents, entitled "Mary Gray;" a 

 clever imitation of Crabbe, written, or rather im- 

 provised, for a wager by White of Pembroke, in 

 1824. C. W. Bingham. 



I may perhaps inform your readers, that the 

 pamphlet entitled Scenes from an unfinished 

 Drama called " Phrontisterion, or Oxford in the 

 Nineteenth Century,''' is well known to have ema- 

 nated from the fertile brain of the Rev. H. L. 

 Mansel, Fellow of ^t. John's College, and author 

 of an elaborate treatise on logic. (See *' N. & Q.," 

 Vol. xi., p. 349.) Abmigek. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



In the course of the last Session of Parhament, the 

 House of Commons printed, for the use of the Members, 

 A Copy of the Alteratio7is in the Book of Common Prayer, 

 prepared by the Royal Commissioners for the Revision of the 

 lAturgy in 1689. This is of course a document of con- 

 siderable historical interest and importane*; but the form 

 in which it was printed by tlie House of Commons was by 

 no means that best calculated to show the extent and 

 nature of the alterations thus proposed. To do this effec- 

 tually, comparison with the Liturgy in its present form 

 was absolutely necessary. In no v/slx, it was obvious, could 

 this be accomplished so satisfactorily as by printing the 

 original text and proposed revision oa opposite pages. 

 This has now been done by Messrs. Bagster & Sons, in a 

 volume edited by Mr. John Taylor, under the title of 7%e 

 Revised Liturgy of 1 689, being the Book of Common Prayer 

 interleaved with the Alterations prepared for Convocation by 

 the Royal Commissioners in tlie First Year of the Reign of 

 William and Mary. Although very far from agreeing 

 with the views entertained by Mr. Ta3-lor with respect to 

 these alterations, we strongly recommend the volume 

 itself to all who take an interest in this important subject. 



Mr. Parker of Oxford has just commenced a new fort- 

 nightly paper, the object of which is pretty tolerablj- de- 

 fined by its title ; it is called The Literary Churchman, a 

 Journal devoted to the Interests and Advancement of Re- 

 ligious Literature. With the resources at Mr. Parkers 

 command, and the assistance which he is sure to receive 

 from his numerous clerical friends, there can be little 

 doubt of his ability to establish the Literary Churchman 

 in that position with reference to religious literature, 

 which in secular is occupied by The Athenwum and the 

 Literary Gazette. 



Acheta, the popular author of Episodes of Insect Life, 

 and of we believe a somewhat similar work, which, how- 

 ever, we h:ive not seen, called March Winds and April 

 Showers, has just put forth a continuation of the latter, 

 under the title of May Flowers, being Notes and Notions on 

 a Few Created Things. It is a work in which every page 

 is redolent of that love of the beautiful in nature — and 

 what in nature is not beautiful ? — for which the writings 

 of this author are so peculiarly distinguished. It is a 

 most seasonable and suggestive little volume. 



