May 4. 1850.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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ANECDOTE OF CHARLES I. 
T have great pleasure in forwarding to you an 
anecdote of the captivity of Charles I, which I 
think will be considered interesting to your 
readers. Of its authenticity there can be no 
doubt. I extract it from a small paper book, 
purchased some fifty years since, at Newport, in 
the Isle of Wight, which contains the history of a 
family named Douglas, for some years resident in 
that town, written by the last representative, 
Eliza Douglas, at the sale of whose effects it came 
into my grandfather’s hands. There are many 
curious particulars in it besides the anecdote I 
have sent you; especially an account of the 
writer's great-great-grandfather (the husband of 
the heroine of this tale), who “traded abroad, 
and was took into ‘Turkey as a slave,” and there 
gained the affections of his master’s daughter, 
after the most approved old-ballad fashion; though, 
alas! it was not to her love that he owed his 
liberty, but (dreadful bathos!) to his skill in 
“cooking fowls, &c. &c. in the English taste ;” 
which, on a certain occasion, when some English 
merchants came to dine with his master, “so 
pleased the company, that they offered to redeem 
him, which was accepted; and when freed he 
came home to England, and lived in London to an 
advanced age; so old that they fed him with a 
tea-spoon.” 
After his death his wife married again; and it 
was during this second marriage that the inter- 
view with King Charles took place. 
“My mother’s great-grandmother, when a-breeding | 
| by Mr. John Playford, Stationer in the Temple, 
with her daughter, Mary Craige, which was at y® time 
of King Charles being a prisoner in Carisbrook Castle, 
she longed to kiss the King’s hand; and when he was 
brought to Newport to be carried off, she being ac- 
quainted with the gentleman’s housekeeper, where the 
King was coming to stay, till orders for him to leave 
the island, she went to the housekeeper, told her what 
she wanted, and they contrived for her to come the 
morning he was to go away. So up she got, and dressed 
herself, and set off to call her midwife, and going along, 
the first and second guard stopped her and asked her 
where she was going; she told them ‘to cail her mid- 
wife,’ which she did. ‘Tney went to this lady, and she 
went and acquainted his Majesty with the affair; he 
desired she may come up to him, and she said, when she 
came into the room, his Majesty seemed to appear as 
if he had been at prayers. He rose up and came to 
her, who fell on her knees before him; he tock her up 
by the arm himself, and put his cheek to her, and she 
said she gave him a good hearty smack on his cheek. 
His Majesty then said, ‘ Pray God bless you, and that 
you go withal.’ 
and see the King take coach ; she got so close that she 
saw a gentleman in it; and when the King stept into 
the coach, he said, ¢ Pray, Sir, what is your name?’ 
he replied, ‘I am Col. Pride. * Not miscalled,’ says 
the King. ‘Then Pride says, * Drive on, coachman.’” 
She then went down stairs to wait | 
QUERIES, 
THE MAUDELEYNE GRACE, 
The rector of Slimbridge, in the diocese of 
Gloucester, is bound to pay ten pounds a year to 
Magdalen College, for “choir music on the top of 
the College tower on May-day.” (See Rudder’s 
Gloucestershire.) Some years ago a prospectus 
was issued, announcing as in preparation, ‘“ The 
Maudeleyne Grace, including the Hymnus Eucha- 
risticus, with the music by Dr. Rogers, as sung 
every year on May Morning, on the Tower of 
Magdalene College, Oxford, in Latin and English. 
With an Historical Introduction by William Henry 
Black.” Can any of your readers inform me 
whether this interesting work ever made its ap~ 
pearance? [am inclined to think it did not, and 
have an indistinct recollection that the original 
MS. of the “ Grace” was lost through the careless- 
ness of the lithographer who was entrusted with it 
for the purpose of making a fac-simile. 
Whilst making some researches in the library of 
Christ Church, Oxford, I accidentally met with 
what appears to me to be the jirst draft of the 
““Grace” in question. It commences “ Te Deum 
Patrem colimus,” and has the following note:— 
“This Hymn is sung every day in Magdalen 
College Hall, Oxon, dinner and supper throughout 
the year for the after grace, by the chaplains, 
clarkes, and choristers there. Composed by Ben- 
| jamin Rogers, Doctor of Musique of the Uni- 
versity of Oxon, 1685.” It is entered in a folio 
volume, with this note on the fly-leaf,—“ Ben 
Rogers, his book, Aug. 18. 1673, and presented me 
London.” ‘The Latin Grace, Te Deum Patrem 
colimus, is popularly supposed to be the Hymnus 
Eucharisticus written by Dr. Nathaniel Ingelo, and 
sung at the civic feast at Guildhall on the 5th 
July, 1660, while the king and the other royal 
personages were at dinner; but this is a mistake, 
for the words of Ingelo’s hymn, very different from 
the Magdalen hymn, still exist, and are to be found 
in Wood's collection in the Ashmolean Museum. 
The music, too, of the Te Deum is in a grand re- 
ligious style, and not of a festal character. 
Epwarp F, Rimpavtr. 
“ESQUIRE” AND “ GENTLEMAN,” 
The custom of addressing almost every man 
above the rank of an artizan or a huckster as 
“Esquire,” seems now to be settled as a matter of 
ordinary politeness and courtesy; whilst the de- 
gradation of the gentleman into the “ Gent,” has 
caused this term, as the title of a social class, to 
have fallen into total disuse. Originally, they were 
terms that had their respective meanings as much 
/as Duke, Knight, Yeoman, or Hind; but now 
they simply mean courtesy or contempt towards 
