212 Wilts Notes and Queries. 
Wilts Motes and Queries. 
Wurts. Mac. No. 1. Pacr 89. Doc Wurerers.—In illustration 
of Mr. Carrington’s remarks on this ancient office, the following 
occurs in an old play, “ The return from Parnassus,” acted by the 
students of St. John’s College, Cambridge, in 1606. Sir Raderick 
in the character of patron, examining the qualifications of Signior 
Immerito, says, 
‘These shall suffice for the parts of his learning:—now it remains to try 
whether you be aman of good utterance, that is, whether you can ask for the 
strayed heifer with the white face, as also chide the boys in the belfry, and bid 
the sexton whip out the dogs. Let me hear your voice.” 
STONEHENGE, A Pastorat.—John Speed the historian, constructed 
a pastoral entitled Stonehenge, which, according to Anthony a 
Wood, was performed before the president and fellows of St John’s 
College, Oxford, 1635. Was it ever printed ? or, in what collection 
is it preserved P 
Tue Rev. Watrer Harre.—This nonjuring divine, who re- 
linquished the vicarage of St. Mary Magdalen at Taunton, rather 
than take the oaths to William III. is stated to have retired to 
Kintbury in Berkshire: but does not the fact that his son, of the 
same name (the historian of Gustavus Adolphus), was born and 
educated at Marlborough, afford presumptive evidence that it was 
at this latter place that he spent the evening of his very protracted 
days? He died at the age of 95. 
QureEN ANNE AT WuetrHam.—In the autumn of 1703, Queen 
Anne visited the family residence of John Kyrle Ernle, at Whetham, 
and remained there one or more nights. Was it accident brought 
the Queen to Whetham on this oceasion? And if not, then what 
was the inducement thus to signalize the family of Ernle ? 
