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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 39. 



" I met thp youthful lord at Laurence' cell. 

 And gave him what bccomed love I might, 

 Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty." 



'^liomeo and Juliet, Act iv. Sc. 3. 



" Thus ornament is but the c/ttikd shore 

 To a most dangerous sea." 



Merchant of Venice, Act iii. Sc. 2. 



" Then, in despite o{ brooded watchful day, 

 1 would into tliy bosom pour my thoughts." 

 King John, Act iii. Sc. 3. 



" And careful hours, with time's deformed hand. 

 Have written strange defeatures in my faci'." 



Comedy of Errors, Act v. Sc. 1 . 



In all these passages, as well as in that in Mea- 

 sure for 3Iea.nu-e, the simple remark, that the poet 

 employed a common gramniiitical variation, is ail 

 that is required for a complete explanation. 



J. O. Halliwell. 



ilrpltc^ ta iiltnor CEliinfc^. 



Execution of Charles L — Sir T. Herberts 

 ''Memoir of Charles ir (Vol. ii. pp., 72. 110.). 

 — Is P. S. W. E. awiiro that ilr. Hunter gives 

 a tradition, in his History of HuUumshii-e, that 

 a certain William Walker, who died in 1700, and to 

 whose memory there was an inscribed brass plate 

 in the parish church of Sheffield, was the execu- 

 tioner of Charles I.? The man obtained this re- 

 putation from having retired from political life at 

 the Restoration, to his native village, Darnall, near 

 Sheffield, where he is said to have made death-bed 

 disclosures, avowing that he beheaded the King. 

 The tradition has been supported, perhaps sug- 

 gested, by the name of Walker having occnrreil 

 during the trials of some of the regicides, as that 

 of the real executioner. 



Can any one tell me whether a narrative of the 

 last days of Charles I., and of his conduct on the 

 scaffohl, by Sir Thomas Herbert, has ever been 

 published in full ? It is often quoted and referred 

 to (see "Notes and Queries," V^ol. i., p. 436.), but 

 the owner of the MS., with whom I am well 

 acquainted, informs me that it has never been sub- 

 mitted to ])ublication, but that some extracts have 

 been secretly obtained. In what book are these 

 printed? The same house wliich contains Her- 

 bert's MS. (a former owner of it married Herbert's 

 widow), holds also the stool on which King Charles 

 knelt at his execution, the shirt in which he slept 

 the night before, and other precious relics of the 

 same unfortunate personage. Alfred Gatty. 



Ecclesfield, July 11. 1850. 



Execution of Charles I. (Vol. ii., p 72.). — In 

 Ellis's Lette?'s illusli'ative of English History 

 Second Series, vol iii. p. 340-41., P. S. W. E. will 

 find the answer to his inquiry. Absolute certainty 

 is perhaps unattainable on the subject; but no 



mention occurs of the Earl of Stair, nor is it pro- 

 bable that any one of patrician rank would be re- 

 tained as the operator on such an occasion. We 

 need hardly question that Richard Brandon was 

 the executioner. Will P. S. W. E. give his autho- 

 rity for the " report" to which he refers ? 



Matfelonensis. 



Simon of Ghent (Vol. ii., p. 56.). — " SimonGan- 

 davensis, j)atria Londinensis, sed patre Flandro 

 Gandavensi natiis, a. 1297 Episco])us S.arisburi- 

 ensis." — Fabric. Bihl. Med. et Infiin. Latin., 

 lib. xviii. p. 532. 



Chevalier de Cailly (Vol. ii., p. 101.)— Mr. De St. 

 Croix will find an account of the Chevalier Jacque 

 de Cailly, who died in 1673, in the Biographic 

 Universelle ; or a moi-e complete one in Goujet 

 (Bibliotheque Franqoise., t. xvii. p. 320.) S. W. S. 



Collar of Esses (Vol. ii., pp. 89. 110.). — The 

 question of B. has been already partly answered 

 in an obliging manner by *., who has referred to 

 my papers on the Collar of Esses and other Collars 

 of Livery, published a few years ago in the Gen- 

 tlemnn''s Magazine. Permit me to add tiiat I have 

 such large additional collections on the same subject 

 that the whole will be sufficient to form a small 

 volume, and I intend to arrange them in that 

 shape. As a direct answer to 15. 's question — " Is 

 there any list extant of persons who were honoured 

 with that badge ? " I may re])ly. No. Persons 

 were not, in fact, "honoured with the badge," in 

 the sense that persons are now decorated with 

 stars, crosses, or medals ; but the livery collar was 

 assumed by parties holding a certain position. So 

 far as can be ascertained, these were either knights 

 attached to the royal household or service, who 

 wore gold or gilt collars, or esquires in the like 

 position, who wore silver collars. I have made 

 collections for a list of such pictures, effigies, and 

 sepulchral brasses as exhibit livery collars, and 

 shall be thankful fur further communications. To 

 *.'s question — " Who are the persons noiv privi-. 

 leged to wear these collars ? " I believe the reply 

 must be confined to — the judges, the Lord ISIayor 

 of London, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, the kings, 

 and heralds of arms. If any other officers of the 

 royal household still wear the collar of Esses, I 

 shall be glad to be informed. 



John Gough Nichols. 



[To the list of persons now privileged to wear sucli 

 collars given by Mr. Nichols, must be added the Ser- 

 jeants of Arms, of whose creation by investiture with 

 the Collar of Esses, Pegge has preserved so curious 

 an account in tlie Fifth Part of his Curialia.^ 



Hell paved with good Intentions (Vol. ii., p. 86.). 

 — The history of the phiase which Sir AValter 

 Scott attributed " to a stern old divine,'' and 

 which J. J\L G. moralises upon, and asserts to be a 

 misquotation for "the road to hell," &c., is this: — 



