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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Gentlemen of the Privy 

 Chamber - - 



ginated of having his letters countersigned by a 

 minister, and of placing the address within the 

 letter, as is the case in those of James II. to which 

 we have just referred ? William Winthrop. 

 La Valetta, Malta. 



Prince Charles' Attendants in Spain (Vol. ix., 

 p. 272.). — In a small 4to. MS. in my possession, 

 entitled " A Narrative of Count Gondomar's Pro- 

 ceedings in England," is the following list of " The 

 Prince's Servants " who accompanied him in his 

 journey into Spain : 



" Master of the Horse, Lord Andover. 



Master of the Ward, Lord Compton. 



Chamberlain, Lord Carey. 



Comptroller, Lord Vaughan. 



Secretary, Sir Francis Cottington. 



Gentleman of the Bed-chamber, Sir Robert Carr. 

 Sir William Howard, 

 Sir Edmund Verney, 

 Sir William Crofts, 

 Sir Richard Wynne, 

 Mr. Ralph Clare, 

 Mr. John Sandilaus, 

 Mr. Charles Glemham. 

 Mr. Francis Carew. 



Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber, Sir John North. 



{Mr. Newton, 

 Mr. Young, 

 Mr. Tyrwhitt. 

 Grooms of the Bed-chamber, five. 

 Pages, three. 

 Chaplains, two." 



Edward F. Rimbatjlt. 



Churchill's Grave (Vol. ix., p. 122.). — The fact 

 that Churchill's grave is at Dover, is not an ob- 

 scure one. It was visited by Byron, who wrote a 

 poem on the subject, which will be found in his 

 Works. This poem is remarkable, among other 

 things, from the circumstance that it is written 

 in avowed and serious imitation of the style of 

 Wordsworth. M. T. W. 



" Cissle" (Vol. ix., p. 148.). — If A. refers to 

 Forby's Vocabulary of East Anglia, he will find : 



" Sizzle, v. To dry and shrivel up with hissing, 

 by the action of fire or some greasy or juicy substance." 



C. R. M. 



Contributors to Knighfs " Quarterly Magazine" 

 (Vol. ix., p. 103.). — I can answer one of E. H.'s 

 inquiries. Gerard Montgomery was the assumed 

 name of the Rev. J. Moultrie. It was originally 

 adopted by him in that most brilliant of all school 

 periodicals, The Etonian, and the mask was 

 thrown off in the list of contributors given at the 

 end of the third volume. In The Etonian it was 

 attached to " Godiva," the poem which attracted 

 the warm admiration of Gifford of the Quarterly 

 Review, a man not prodigal of praise, and the 

 " Godiva" of Moultrie may still fearlessly unveil 



its charms beside the " Godiva" of Tennyson. His 

 longest poem in Knight's Quarterly was " La Belle 

 Tryamour," which has since been republished in a 

 volume of collected poems with his name to them, 

 many of which are strikingly unlike it in character. 

 The gay Etonian is now the vicar of Rugby ; and 

 the story of his experiences has been told by him- 

 self with a singular charm in his "Dream of a 

 Life." 



Strange it is that the contributions of Macaulay 

 to Knight's Quarterly Magazine should not, ere 

 now, have been reprinted. Some few of them 

 have been so, and are become familiar as house- 

 hold words on both sides of the Atlantic. The 

 others are as obscure as if still in manuscript. 

 What does the public at large know of the " Frag- 

 ments of a Roman Tale," or the " Scenes from 

 Athenian Revels ;" in which the future historian 

 tried his powers as a romancer and a dramatist — 

 in the one case bringing before us Caesar and 

 Catiline, in the other Alcibiades and his com- 

 rades. There are essays too by Macaulay in 

 Knight's Quarterly Magazine of a lighter cha- 

 racter than those in the Edinburgh Review, but 

 not less brilliant than any in that splendid series 

 which now takes rank as one of the most valuable 

 contributions of the present age to the standard 

 literature of England. It would not be one of 

 the least weighty arguments against the extended 

 law of copyright, which Macaulay succeeded in 

 passing, that the public is now deprived of the 

 enjoyment of such treasures as these by the too 

 nice fastidiousness of their author. As on two 

 former occasions, we suppose that they are likely 

 to be first collected in Boston or New York, and 

 that London will afterwards profit by the rebound. 



M. T. W. 



" La Langue Pandras" (Vol. ii., pp. 376.403.).— 

 It is merely a conjecture, but may not the word 

 Pandras be the second person singular in the 

 future tense of a verb derived from the Latin 

 pando, " to open ?" I am not aware of the exist- 

 ence of such a word as pander in old French ; but 

 I believe that it was by no means an unusual 

 practice among the writers of Chaucer's time to 

 adapt Latin words to their own idiom. 



HoNORE DE MAREVILLE. 



Guernsey. 



Cranmer Bibles (Vol. ix., p. 119.). — S. R. M. 

 will be gratified to learn, that the death of Mr. 

 Lea Wilson has not, as he conjectures, led to the 

 dispersion of the curious collection of Cranmer 

 Bibles, which he had been at so much pains in 

 forming, but to its being rendered more accessible. 

 They were all purchased for the British Museum. 

 • l M. T. W. 



Voisonier (Vol. ix., p. 224.). — A corruption of 

 vowsoner, i.e. the owner of the voivson; this last 



