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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 279. 



author of The Race to Hdl; Progress of Madness; Poems, 

 Odes, and Songs; The Term- Day, or the Unjust Steward; 

 a comedy, and various other pieces of considerable merit. 

 He was interred in the burial-ground belonging to the 

 Infirmary." — Sykes' Local Records (first edition, 1824), 

 p. 218. 



RoBEET S. Salmon. 

 Uewcastle-on-Tyne. 



Burial by Torch-light (Vol.xi., p. 27.). — I can 

 say nothing as to the legality or illegality of 

 torch-light burials ; but that they were frequent 

 in Newcastle-on-Tyne during the continuance of 

 the cholera, in September and October, 1853, I 

 can vouch. The necessity during that fearful time 

 may, perhaps, have made its own law. 



Mr. Frasee's Query reminds me also of the 

 funeral of the Duchess of Northumberland in 

 1782, which, says a correspondent of Mr. Urban 

 in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1817, vol.lxxxvii. 

 part ii. p. 33., — 



" Took place by torch-light at four in the morning, to 

 avoid the mischief of too great a number of persons in- 

 terrupting the same ; which, however, was not the case, 

 as the concourse of people was so numerous at the screens 

 to the small chapels surrounding the south aisle of the 

 choir (in the farther end of which is the Percy vault), 

 that many had their arms and legs broken, and were 



otherwise much bruised From this time no burials 



have been performed by torch-light except royal ones, a 

 sufficient guard attending to keep order on the occasion." 



RoBEET S. Salmon. 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



That funerals by night are illegal, must be a 

 vulgar and local error ; for, by the 68th Canon, 

 " No minister can refuse to bury a corpse that is 

 brought," &c. (warning having been given), except 

 in the three instances well known. There is no 

 limit as to time; I have buried hundreds by candle- 

 light in my last parish. Indeed, cases of felo-de-se, 

 by a recent enactment, are to take place between 

 nine and twelve p.m. H. T. Ellacombe. 



Lord Audley's Attendants at Poictiers (Vol. viii., 

 p. 494.). — Under the head of " Mackworth, 

 Bart.," Mr. Burke mentions that the represent- 

 atives of the four esquires of Lord Audley served 

 together during the Peninsular War as aides-de- 

 camp to Lord Hill. Who were these latter four, 

 and which of Lord Audley's esquires was the an- 

 cestor of each ? Y. S. M. 



Schoolboy Formula (Vol. x., p. 124.). — I do 

 not think any of your correspondents have hit 

 upon quite the right version of the above. I have 

 a perfect recollection of the following : 



" Onery, twoery, ziggery, zan, 

 Hollow bone, cracker bone, mulberry pan. 

 Pit, pat, must be done, 

 Twiddledum, twaddledum, twenty -one. 

 OUT spells out — 

 And so you are fairly out." 



RUBT. 



Seals, Books relating to (Vol. x., p. 485.). — 

 I observe that several correspondents have re- 

 plied to Adeian Adninan's Query relative to 

 books on seals, by referring him to various En- 

 glish, Scotch, and French works bearing on that 

 subject. As Adeian Adninan, however, speci- 

 ally wishes to know " whether there is any work 

 which contains engravings of the common seals 

 of the London City Livery Companies?" I beg 

 to refer him, simpliciter, to a copy of Bailey's Dic- 

 tionary of the English Language, folio, London, 

 1736 (with illustrations), where he will find what 

 he is in pursuit of, all "cut and dry" to his hand. 



John Thomas. 



Glasgow. 



Sea Spiders (Vol. xi., p. 11.). — Sea spiders 

 (Nymphon gracile ? ) are found in the Moray 

 Frith, but they are very rare. I have found only 

 two specimens. One or two more only have been 

 observed. They were found in deep water, being 

 brought up amongst the refuse of the fishermen's 

 lines. W. G. 



Macduff; Banff". 



Relics of King Charlesl. (Vol.vi., pp. 173.578. ; 

 Vol. vii., p. 184.; Vol. x., pp. 245. 416. 469.; 

 Vol.xi., p. 73.).— 



" At Broomfield, near Chelmsford, is a Bible which 

 belonged to King Charles the First, the date a.d. 1529, 

 Norton and Bell printers. It is a folio, bound in purple 

 velvet ; the arms of England richly embroidered on both 

 covers ; and on a fly-leaf is written : ' This Bible was 

 King Charles the First's, afterwards it was my grand- 

 father's, Patrick Young's, Esq., who was Library Keeper 

 to his Majesty ; now given to the Church at Broomfield 

 by me, Sarah Attwood, August 4th, 1723.' The Bible is 

 perfect, but there is no signature to sheet 1 : the pages 

 run from 84 to 87, there being no 85 and 86. I do not 

 find the book mentioned in Morant's History of Essex, or 

 any modern publication ; and 1 think it is a relic little 

 known." 



This paragraph I copy from my commonplace- 

 book, to which it was transferred from an old 

 number of The Athenaeum. I cannot give the 

 reference to page or volume. C. F. P. 



Normanton-on-Soar, Notts. 



The worst of Charles I.'s relics is, that the 

 worthy owners always will have it that they were 

 given by the unfortunate king on the scaffold. A 

 list of all the rings, watches, &c., he is reputed to 

 have carried to the scaffold, would be curious ; 

 but, according to the traditions of some families, 

 he even took backgammon-boards and sets of bed- 

 hangings with him there. 



The backgammon-board is a very beautiful 

 article ; and though we may doubt the scaffold 

 part of the story, there seems no reason to doubt 

 that it belonged .to King Charles ; was given by 

 him to Bishop Juxon, and conveyed by marriage 

 by Juxon's heiress to its present owners, the 

 Heskeths of Rufford in Lancashire. It is square, 



