Jan. 18. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Hisfory of Bohemian Peiseciition (Vol. ii., 

 p. 358.). — See note to Worthington's Diary and 

 Correspondence, vol. i. p. 154., for a notice of this 

 work of Conienius, and his other publications re- 

 lating to the Bohemian church. Jas. Crosslet. 



''Earth has no Rage" (Vol. iii., p. 23.).— 

 " Earth has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, 

 And hell no fury like a woman scorn'd." 



These are the concluding lines of Act III. of 

 Congreve's Mourning Bride. They stand, how- 

 ever, thus, in the edition to which I have referred : 

 " Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, 

 Nor hell a fury like a woman scorn'd." 



Jas. Ckossley. 

 Manchester, 11. Jan. 1851. 



Couplet in De Foe (Vol. ii., p. 310.). 



" Restraint from ill is freedom to the wise, 

 And irood men wicked liberties despise." 



This couplet is altered from the following couplet 

 in De Foe's True Born Englishnan : — 



" Restraint from ill is freedom to the wise. 

 But Englishmen do all restraint despise." 



See collection of his writing:?, vol. i. p. 20., edit. 

 1703. Jas. Crossley. 



Private Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth (Vol. iii., 

 p 23.). — " The Secret History of the most renowned 

 Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex, [n two 

 parts. By a person of Quality. Cologne: printed 

 for Will with the Wisp, at the Sign of the IMoon 

 in the Eeliptick. m.d.clxxxi." — is the title of a 

 small volume in my p(>s.^es.sion, containing some 

 curious hints corroborative of the first p irt of 

 Mr. Ives' MS. note mentioned in " Notes and 

 Queries" (Vol. iii. p. 11.). If this be the book 

 to which your correspomlent, J E. C, refers in 

 your last number, he is perfectly welcome to the 

 peru.sal of my copy. William J. D. Kopee. 



Vane House, Hampstead, Jan. 18. 1851. 



Abbot's House at Buckden ( Vol. ii., p. 494.). — 

 Mr. C. H. Cooper asks, " will M. C. II. explain 

 his allusion to the Abbot's House at Buckden ? " 

 Being only an occasional vi.sitor there, I can give 

 nc-other explanation than it is universally called 

 so by the inhabitants of the place. The house is 

 very low-roomed, and only one story high ; it has 

 been compoed over, so that there is nothing very 

 ancient in the look of the brickwork, excepting 

 the chimneys, wliicli form a cluster in the centre. 

 The door I mentioned, evidently is an ancient one. 

 A good deal of iron about it, and in square com- 

 partments. 



When I was there recently, I was informed of a 

 discovery in a public-house formerly called the 

 Lion — now, the Lamb. A gentleman in the jtlace 

 came into possession of some pamphlets rcsitecling 

 Buckden ; in one of which it is suid, that this 

 hou.se was originally the hostel wher(! tin- visitors 

 and domestics used to go when the bishop had not 



room at the pala<!e for them, and that it would be 

 found theie was an "Agnus Dei" in the ceiling of 

 one of the lower rooms. The consequence was, 

 search was made for it : and what seemed a plain 

 boss, where two beams crossed each other, on 

 being cleansed and scraped, turned out to be as 

 the book said, and which I saw only last week. 

 The clergyman has the pamphlet above alluded 

 to. Whether this, and the abbot's house, belonged 

 to the palace I cannot say. The road now runs 

 between them. 



The " Agnus Dei " is seven or eight inches in 

 diameter ; the lamb, &c., in the centre, and the 

 words "Ecce Agnus Dei" in a circular border 

 round it. 



This is all the information I caif now give. 



M. C. R. 



Bab in the Bow-iter (Vol. ii., p. 518.). — In your 

 valuable periodical your correspondent " Mac." 

 makes an observation regarding "Bab in the 

 Bowster,'' which is not correct so far as regards 

 this part of the country at least. He says " it is 

 now (lance<l with a handkerchief instead of a cush- 

 ion," whereas the fact is I have never seen it 

 danced but with a pillow, as its name " Bab in 

 the Bowster (Anglice bolster)" would seem to 

 denote. The manner of dancing it is, the com- 

 pany having formed its3lf into a circle, one, either 

 male or female, goes into the centre, carrying a 

 pillow, and dances round the circle with a sort of 

 shuffling quick step, while the others sing, — 



" Wha leani'd you to dance, you to dance, you to 

 dance, 

 Wha learn'd you to dance, Bab in the Bowster 

 brawly ? " 



To which the daneer replies : 



" Mother karii'd me to dance, me to dance, me to 

 dance. 

 Mother learn'd me to dance, Bab in the Bowster 

 brawly." 



He or she then lays down the pillow before one 

 of the opposite sex, when they both kneel on it 

 and kiss ; the person to whom the pillow has been 

 presented going over the above again, &c., till the 

 company tires. 



I may add that the above is a favourite dance 

 here, particularly among young people, and at 

 children's parties in particular it is never omitted. 

 If your correspondent wishes the air to which it is 

 danced, I shall be glad to send it to him. 



Glenifpeb. 



Paisley. 



Si Clomlesley Shovel (Vol. iii., p. 23.). — " IT. J." 

 will find a " Note" in Cunningham's Lives of 

 Eminent Englishmen (vol. iv. p. 47.), of the cir- 

 cumstances attendant upon Sir Cloudesley's ileath, 

 as j)reserved in the family of the Earl of Ivomiiey, 

 detailing the fact of his murder, and the mode of 



