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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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kindness to examine it, and say if it gives any in- 

 formation as to a cross or crosses captured with the 

 King; of Scots ? J- D. N. N. 



iHinor ihueiic^. 



The " Tanlhony" ~ When the porteress at the 

 principal entrance to Kimbolton Park opens the 

 gates for the admission of a visitor, she rings a 

 bell to give warning to the servants at the castle 

 of his approach. This bell is popularly called the 

 " Tanthony," in reference, I presume, to some 

 legend of Saint Anthony. \\"\\l one of your 

 readers be good enough to enlighten me ? Akdn. 



"Beauty Retire " — Will the noble editor of 

 Pepys's Diary permit me to ask him whether he 

 has seen, in the Pepysian library, or elsewhere, a 

 copy, either in print or MS., of Pepys's song, 

 " Beauty Retire," words and music ; or is it to be 

 found in any miscellaneous collection of songs ? 



I. H. M. 



The SouVs Dark Cottage. — Being called on to re- 

 ply to matters as plain as those to which I replied 

 last week, I am less reluctant to acknowledge my 

 own ignorance or obliviousness, respecting a 

 couplet of which, I doubt not, hundreds of your 

 readers know the original habitat, but which can- 

 not be recalled to my own memory, nor to that of 

 several friends to whom I have referred. The 

 couplet is — 



" The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, 

 Lets ill new light through chinks that time hath 

 made." 



Effakess. 

 London, Jan. 4. 1851. 



" Small by degrees and beautifully less." — This 

 is a very common (juotation, but, although I have 

 made frequent inquiries, I have never yet been 

 able to find out the author of it. Perhaps some 

 of your readers can inform nie. W. H. B. 



Afvsical Plagiarism. — I think I remember to 

 have heard, two or three years ago, of an action 

 for damages broujjht against an eminent com- 

 poser, on account of plagiarism in a musical 

 composition ; and that the defendant's argument 

 was founded on the fact, that there e.xist very itty^ 

 really " original compositions," if originality ex- 

 cluiles every form of plagiarism. And he adduced 

 as examples the " See the conquering hero," of 

 Handel; and the " Zitti Zitti," of Rossini. Can 

 any of your rea<lers refer me to the minutes of 

 this trial ; and tell me if any book has been pub- 

 lished iu criticism of the originality of composers ? 



" ^ R. M. 



Simon Bache. — In the parish church of Kneb- 

 worth, Herts, is tiie brass of a priest, with the 

 following inscription : — 



" Hie jacet Dominus Simo Bache, Clericus, quon- 



dam Thesaurarius Hospitii illustrissimi Principis 

 Domini Henrici Quinti Regis Angliae, ac Canonic. 

 Ecclesiae Catliedralis Sancti PauUi, London ; qui obiit 

 xix. die Maii. Anno Dom. nostr. 1414." 



Can any of your readers inform me what this 

 office of Thesaurarius Hospitii was ; also, who 

 Simon Bache was that held it; and how it hap- 

 pens that he is buried at Knebworth ? A. W. H. 



Sir Walter Raleigh. — In speaking of the diffi- 

 culty which exists in obtaining a perfect know- 

 ledo'e of any event, reference is often made to Sir 

 Walter Raleigh iiaving witnessed an occurrence, 

 while confined in the Tower, and that two wit- 

 nesses gave such a different account frf)m eac'u 

 other as well as from himself, that he threw his 

 MS. history into the fire. In what contemporary 

 work is this recorded ? 



A similar discrepancy in evidence is mentioned 

 with reference to the celebrated tourney at Tiani, 

 in 15(2, in Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella, 

 vol. iii. p. 45. H. J. 



Harrisons Chronology. — William Harrison, a 

 native of London, chaplain to Sir William Brooke, 

 Baron Cobham, Lord Warden of the Cincjue Ports, 

 composed a Description of Britain and of England; 

 and likewise translated Hector Boethius's i)e«c?v/>- 

 tion of Scotland, from the Scottish version of John 

 Bellenden. Both these pieces are printed in 

 Holinshed's Chronicles, 2 vols. fol. 1587. In the 

 prefaces Harrison speaks of a work on Chronology, 

 " which I have yet in hand." Has that work ever 

 been printed ? I discovered the manuscript of it 

 last year, in the Diocesan Library of Derry, in 

 Ireland; but did not ascertain ivho was its author 

 (though it bears the name of Harrison), until a 

 few days ago. H. Cotton. 



Thurles, Ireland, Dec. 21. 1850 

 Aristojihanes on the Modern Stage. — Can any 

 of your valuable correspondents inform me whe- 

 ther any of the plays of Aristophanes have been 

 produced upon the stage iu a modern version ; and 

 if so, when, and by whom? 



I am inclined to think that some at least of the 

 comedies in the hands of a skilful author might 

 be made entertaining and popular. 



The Acharniavs and Peace, or perhaps even the 

 Birds, might form the groundwork of an amusing 

 piece. Should you be able to spare a corner in 

 your valuable periodical for this Query, you would 

 greatly oblige C. J. R. (2.) 



Burton Crescent. 



Drachnurus. — Can any of your readers kindly 

 inform me, under what name " Jjrachmarus," one 

 of the Schoolmen, is commonly known ? 



J. Sansom. 



Stintfs Queen Hoo Hull. — Some years back I 

 purchased of a son of the late Joseph Strutt, a 

 copy of Queen Hoo Hall, containing manuscript 



