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(i. e. Tolthorp), in Rutlandshire, about two miles 

 from Stamford in Lincolnshire, probably passed 

 to his heir and brother Thomas William, the fourth 

 earl. 



At the time of her marriage, her servants (as 

 was believed by orders from their mistress) per- 

 severed in chiming the only two bells of the parish 

 church, to the hazard and annoyance of the vicar's 

 wife, just confined of her first child in a room 

 hardly a stone's throw from it. His pupils were 

 so indignant, that they drove away the offenders 

 and took the clappers out of the bells : and the 

 son of a near neighbour, then a member of St. 

 John's College, Cambridge (Thos. Foster, A.B., 

 1792), made it the subject of a mock-heroic poem 

 of some merit, called the Brunoniad (London, 

 1790, printed by Kearsley). So few copies were 

 printed, that the queen and princesses could not 

 procure one ; and a lady employed at Court re- 

 quested a young friend of hers, resident at Stam- 

 ford, to make a transcript of it for their use. This 

 your present note-writer can aver, as the tran- 

 scriber was a sister of Anat. 



Hero of the " Spanish Lady's Love"" (Vol. ix., 

 p. 305.). — Concerning the origin of this interest- 

 ing old ballad, the following communication ap- 

 peared in The Times of May 1, 1846. It is dated 

 from Coldrey, Hants, and signed Charles Lee : 



" The hero of this beautiful ballad was my ancestor, 

 Sir John Bolle of Thorpe Hall, Lincolnshire, of most 

 ancient and loyal family, and father of that Colonel 

 Bolle who fell in Alton Church, whilst fighting against 

 the rebels in December, 1643. Of the truth of this I 

 am prepared to give the curious in these matters the 

 most abundant evidence, but the space which the sub- 

 ject would occupy would necessarily exclude it from 

 your columns. 



" The writer of the paper in the Edinburgh says : — 

 • Had the necklace been still extant, the preference 

 would have been due to Littlecot.' The necklace is 

 still extant, in the possession of a member of my family, 

 and in the house whence I write. In Illingworth's 

 Topographical Account of Scampton, with Anecdotes of 

 the Family of Bolles, it is stated : « The portrait of 

 Sir John, drawn in 1596, at the age of thirty-six years, 

 having on the gold chain given him by the Spanish 

 Lady, &c, is still in the possession of his descendant, 

 Capt. Birch.' 



** That portrait is now in the possession of Capt. 

 Birch's successor, Thomas Bosvile Bosvile, Esq., of 

 Ravensfield Park, Yorkshire, my brother, and may be 

 seen by any one. I will only add another extract from 

 Illingworth's Scampton: — 'On Sir John Bolle's de- 

 parture from Cadiz, the Spanish Lady sent as presents 

 to his wife, a profusion of jewels and other valuables, 

 amongst which was her portrait drawn in green ; plate, 

 money, and other treasure. Some articles are still in 

 possession of the family ; though her picture was un- 

 fortunately, and by accident, disposed of about half a 

 century since. This portrait being drawn in green, 

 gave occasion to her being called, in the neighbourhood 



of Thorpe Hall, the Green Lady ; where, to this day, 

 there is a traditionary superstition among the vulgar, 

 that Thorpe Hall was haunted by the Green Lady, 

 who used nightly to take her seat in a particular tree 

 near the mansion.' In Illingworth there is a long and 

 full account of the Spanish Lady, and the ballad is 

 given at length." 



Edward F. Rimbauet. 



Niagara (Vol. vii., pp.50. 137.). — Let me add 

 one other authority of comparatively recent date 

 on Goldsmith's side of the vexata qucestio, about 

 the pronunciation of this name : 



" And we'd take verses out to Demerara, 

 To New South Wales, and up to Niagara." 

 Proeme to The Monks and the Giants, by 

 William and Robert Whistlecraft, i. e. 

 John Hookham Frere. 



Balliolensis. 



Hymn attributed to Handel (Vol. ix., p. 303.). — 

 I do not understand whether Mr. Stoker's 

 Query refers to the words or music of this hymn, 

 if to the former, it is most assuredly not Handel's. 

 It is strange that the church does not possess one 

 genuine psalm or hymn tune of this mighty master, 

 although he certainly composed several. The 

 popular melody called Hanover, usually attributed 

 to Handel, was printed in the Supplement to the 

 New Version of Psalms (a collection of tunes) in 

 1703. Handel did not arrive in England till 

 1710. It is improbable, from many circumstances, 

 that he composed this grand melody. It was pro- 

 bably the work of Dr. Croft. 



D'Almaine, the eminent music-seller of Soho 

 Square, published some years back — 



" Three Hymns, the Words by the late Rev. Charles 

 Wesley, A.M., of Christ Church College, Oxon ; and 

 set to music by George Frederick Handel, faithfully 

 transcribed from his autography in the Library of the 

 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, by Samuel Wesley, 

 and now very respectfully presented to the Wesleyan 

 Society at large." 



Among my musical autographs is one which, 

 as it relates to the foregoing publication, I tran- 

 scribe : 



" The late comedian Rich, who was the most cele- 

 brated harlequin of his time, was also the proprietor of 

 Covent Garden Theatre, during the period that Handel 

 conducted his oratorios at that house. He married a 

 person who became a serious character, after having 

 formerly been a very contrary one ; and who requested 

 Handel to set to music the Three Hymns which I 

 transcribed in the Fitzwilliam Library from the auto- 

 graphy, and published them in consequence. 



S. Wesley. 

 Monday, March 30, 1829." 



The first lines of the hymns are as follows : 

 1. Sinners, obey the Gospel Word. 2. O Love 

 divine, how sweet thou art ! 3. Rejoice ! the 

 Lord is King. Edward F. Rimbauet. 



