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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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progresses, and rode in the carts with the pots and 

 kettles, the people in derision gave the name of hlack- 

 guards." 



I fiud also the following in Cutler's Hudibras, 

 paa't 3. ; — 



" Thou art some paltry, blackguard sprite, 

 Conderan'd to drudgery in the night ; 

 Thou hast no work to do in the house. 

 Nor halfpenny to drop in shoes." 



Aredjid Kooez. 



The Three Dukes (Vol. ii., p. 9.). — Perhaps a 

 note which I have just stumbled upon, in a MS. 

 account of the Gritfiu family, may furnish some 

 clue as "to the Dukes wlio killed the Beadell." 



" Edward Griffin was probably the same person, to 

 whom a pardon was granted, April 11. 1671, for the 

 deaih of Peter Werriel ; in the like manner as was granted 

 to the Duke of Albemarle and the Duke of Monmouth." 



At all events, both casualties occurred in the same 

 spring, and a reference to the gazettes of the day 

 would perhaps set the question at rest. 



Bratbbooke. 

 Audiey End. 



Bonny Dundee (^^ol. ii., p. 134.) is the name 

 attached to one of the most IJeautiful of the Scotch 

 melodies. The song is said to be very old. The 

 words, which I recollect to have heard sung to it 

 more than half a century ago, began : 



" ' O, whar gat ye that hauers-meal bannock, 

 Jly bonny young lassie, now tell it to me?' 

 ' I got it frae a sodger laddie, 

 Between Saint Johnstone and bonnie Dundee.'" 



It is clear that it is to the town, not the man 

 (though from the portraits of him he was very 

 handsome), that the epithet ajiplies. My version 

 of the song differs from that given in Cromek's 

 Burns, and also from Allan Cuningliam's ; and I 

 am disposed to think my memory at fault from the 

 so near recurrence of the word " bonnie " in the 

 stanza. 



Neither the date of the birth of Viscount Dun- 

 dee, nor his age at the time of his death, is men- 

 tioned by the Scottish Peerage writers, Crawford, 

 Douglas, or Wood. F. R. S. L. and E. 



Was Quarles pensioned? (Vol. i., p. 201.). — I 

 believe lliat no reply has been made to this Query. 

 The following passage, transcribed Irom tlie 

 "Epistle Dedicatory" to the surreptitious edition 

 of (iuarles's Judgment and Mercy, affords a 

 slight negative proof to the contrary : 



" And being so usefull, 1 dare not doubt your pa- 

 tronage of this cliiUl, wliicli survives a father whose 

 utmost abilities were (till death darkened that great 

 light in his soule) sacrificed to your service." 



Now if Charles had conferred a pension on Quarles, 

 is it not exceedingly ])robable that tiie publisher 

 and dedicator, Ilichardlloyston, would h;ive recalled 



so honourable a cu'cumstance to the memory of 

 his "most gratious sovereign King Charles" in this 

 " Epistle Dedicatory," when he had so excellent an 

 opportunity of doing so ? T. M. B. 



Collar of Esses (Yo\. ii., p. 140.). — Mr. J. G. 

 Nichols, in his reply to the Query of 4>., says, that 

 "the judges" are among those who are ?iozt' pri- 

 vileged to wear these collars. Allow me to sug- 

 gest to him that the privilege among them is 

 limited to the chiefs of the three courts. The 

 other judges certainly now never wear them, and 

 I am unaware that they ever did so. I have a 

 large, though by no means a perfect collection 

 of legal portraits, and there is not one puisne 

 judge or baron so distinguished. The earliest 

 legal worthy who is represented with this collar 

 is in the reign of Henry VIII., and it adorns not 

 a chief justice, but a chancellor, viz. Sir Thomas 

 More ; and he is the only chancellor upon whose 

 shoulders it appears. This collar is formed by 

 continuous Esses, without any ornament between 

 them. It is united in the front by two portcullises, 

 with a rose pendant. The print is from Holbein's 

 picture, and jiresents him as chancellor, with the 

 purse. The iirst chief justice wearing the collar 

 is Sir James Dyer, Ch. C. P. in the reign of Eliza- 

 beth. The only difference between it and Sir 

 Thomas More's is, that the rose is placed between 

 the portcullises. I have another, in a later period 

 of the same reign, of Sir Christopher Wray, Ch. 

 K. B., in which the Esses are alternated with orna- 

 mental knots. I am not aware of any portrait of 

 a chief baron before Sir Thomas Bury, in the 

 first year of George I. ; so that I am uncertain 

 wdiether the collar was previously worn by that 

 functionary. 



It is curious that during the Commonwealth the 

 Collar of Esses was worn by John Glynne, the 

 Chief Justice of the Upper Bench, with a differ- 

 ence ; that difference being a quatrefoil, instead of 

 the knot, between each S ; and a large jewel, sur- 

 rounded by smaller ones, being substituted for the 

 portcullises and rose. 



These facts may, I hope, be of some use to Mn. 

 J. G. Nichols in the volume I am glad to see 

 that he contemplates. I hope he will not i'orget to 

 answer the other Query of *., "Under what cir- 

 cumstances, and at what dates, was the privilege 

 of wearing these collars reduced lo its present 

 limitation ?" Edward Foss. 



The Slory of the three Men and their Bag of 

 Money (Vol. ii,, p. 132.). — In Tales, and quiche 

 Answers, very inery, and pleasant to rede, is the 

 following, with the title " Howe Demosthenes de- 

 fended a !Mayde :" — 



'• There were two men on a time, the wliiche lefte a 

 great somme of money in kepyng with a n)aiden, on 

 this conditiun, that slie shuUle nat delyuer hit agayne, 

 e.teept tliey came bothe to gether for hit. Nat lang 



