May 13. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Words contained in this Book, and that of Wallace. 

 Glasgow : printed by Mr. A. Carmichael and A. 

 Miller, mdccxxxvii." 



James P. Bryce. 



[This work is by John Barbour (sometimes written 

 Barber, Barbere, and Barbare), an eminent Scottish 

 metrical historian. It has been said that he received 

 his education at the Abbey of Aberbrothock, where he 

 took orders, and obtained a living near Aberdeen. 

 Dr. Henry supposes Barbour to have become Arch- 

 deacon of Aberdeen in 1356. It is probable he died 

 towards the close of 1395. His poem has passed 

 through several editions, and is considered of high 

 historical value. The earlier editions are those of 

 Edinburgh, 1616, 1670, 12mo. In 1790, Pinkerton 

 published " the first genuine edition from a IMS. dated 

 1489, with notes and a Glossary." The best edition, 

 however, is that by Dr. Jamieson, with Notes, and 

 Life of the Author, Edinb. 4to. 1820.] 



Coronation Custom. — At the coronations of 

 Henry IV. and llichard III. a ceremony was per- 

 formed which seems to indicate some idea of the 

 elective sovereignty in England. The archbishop 

 stood at each of the four corners of the dais in 

 succession, and asked from thence the consent of 

 the assembled Commons (Heylin, Reform., 1st 

 edit., p. 32.). Did this ever take place at the 

 coronation of English monarchs whose succession 

 was not disputed ? J. II. B. 



[In after times this ceremony seems to be that called 

 "The Recognition." Sandford, speaking of the co- 

 ronation of James II., says, " The Archbishop of Can- 

 terbury standing near the king, on the east side of the 

 theatre, his majesty, attended as before, rose out of 

 his chair, and stood before it, whilst the archbishop, 

 having his face to the east, said as follows : ' Sirs. I 

 here present unto you King James, the rightful in- 

 heritor of the crown of this realm ; wherefore all ye 

 that are come this day to do your homage, service, and 

 bounden duty, are ye willing to do the same ? ' From 

 thence the said archbishop, accompanied with the lord 

 keeper, the lord great chamberlain, the lord high con- 

 stable, and the earl marshal (garter king of arms going 

 before them), proceeded to the south side of the 

 theatre, and repeated the same words ; and from thence 

 to the west, and lastly to the north side of the theatre, 

 in like manner : the king standing all this while by 

 his chair of state, toward the east side of the theatre, 

 and turning his face to the several sides of the theatre, 

 at such time as the archbishop at every of them spake 

 to the people. At every of which the people signified 

 their willingness and joy by loud acclamations."] 



William Warner. — Where can any account be 

 found of Warner the poet, the author of Albion s 

 England f I. R. R. 



[Some account of William Warner will be found 

 in Wood's Athena Oxonienses, vol. i. pp. 765 — 773. 

 (Bliss); also in Percy's Reliques of Ancient English 

 Poetry, vol. ii. p. 261,, edit. 1812. From the register 

 of Amwell, in Herts, it appears that he died there 



March 9, 1608-9, "soddenly in the night in his bedde, 

 without any former complaynt or sicknesse;" and that 

 he was " a man of good yeares and honest reputation ; 

 by his profession an attorney at the Common Please." 

 — Scott's Amwell, p. 22. note.] 



" It ie of Beauty T — Who was the author of 

 " Isle of Beauty ? " I always thought Thomas 

 Haynes Bayly, but some say Lord Byron. Not 

 knowing Mrs. Bayly's immediate address, I send 

 this Query. I much regret not asking her when 

 I sent my volume of poems, with view of poor 

 Bayly's Grove, Cheltenham. L. M. Thornton. 



14. Philip Street, Bath. 



[The " Isle of Beauty" is by Thomas Haynes Bayly, 

 and is given among his Songs, Ballads, and other Poems, 

 edited by his widow, vol. i. p. 182. edit. 1844.] 



Edmund Lodge. — Can you give me the date of 

 the death of Edmund Lodge, the herald ? I sup- 

 pose there will be some account of him in the 

 Obituary of the Gentleman's Magazine, to which 

 I wish to refer. Was he a descendant of the Rev. 

 Edmund Lodge, the predecessor of Dawes in the 

 Mastership of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School 

 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne ? E. H. A. 



[Edmund Lodge died January 16, 1839. An ac- 

 count of him is given in the Gentleman's Magazine for 

 April, 1839, p. 433.] 



King John. — Baines, in his History of Liver- 

 pool, p. 77., says King John " was at Lancaster on 

 the 26th February, 1206, and at Chester on the 

 28th February following." What route did he 

 take from the first to the second-named town, 

 and what was the object of his visit ? 



Prestoniensis. 



[Upon reference to the Introduction to the Patent 

 Rolls, it appears that John was at Lancaster from 

 Monday the 21st to Sunday 27th, from Monday 28th 

 to Wednesday 1st March at Chester, on Thursday 2nd 

 at Middlewich, Friday the 3rd at Newcastle-under- 

 Lyne, and from the 4th to the 8th at Milburn.] 



EcpItcS. 



HAS EXECUTION BY HANGING BEEN SURVIVED? 



(Vol. ix., pp. 174. 280.) 



The copious Notes of your correspondents on 

 this subject have only left the opportunity for a 

 few stray gleanings in the field of their researches, 

 which may, however, not prove uninteresting. 



The compiler of a curious 12mo. (A Memorial 

 for the Learned, by J. D., Gent., London, 1686) 

 records, among " Notable Events in the Keign of 

 Henry VI.," that, — 



" Soon after the good Duke of Gloucester was 

 secretly murthered, five of his menial servants, yiz. 

 Sir Roger Chamberlain, Knt., Middleton, Herber, 



