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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Painter, and Mary, his wife), and his Aunt (Elizabeth 

 Recs), desire that all gifts due to them be returned to 

 the Young Man on the above day, and will be thankful 

 for all additional favours. 



" The Young Woman, her Father and Mother (Evan 

 Davies, Pig-drover, and Margaret, his wife), and her 

 Brother and Sisters (John, Hannah, Jane, and Anne 

 Davies), desire that all gifts of the above nature due to 

 them be returned to the Young Woman on tlie above 

 day, and will be thankful for all additional favours 

 conferred. " 



W. SpDKRELi. 



COLERIDGE S " RELIGIOUS MUSINGS. 



Some readers of " Xotes and Queries" may be 

 interested in a reading of a few lines in this poem, 

 which varies from that given in Pickering's edition 

 of the Poems, 1844. In that edition the verses I 

 refer to stand thus (p. 69) : 



" For in his own, and in his Father's might, 



The Saviour comes I AVhile as the Thousand Years 

 Lead up their mystic dance, the Desert shouts ! 

 Old Ocean claps his hands I The mighty Dead 

 Rise to new life, whoe'er from earliest time 

 With conscious zeal had urged Love's wondrous plan. 

 Coadjutors of God.' 



I happen to be in possession of these lines as 

 originally vsrritten, in Coleridge's own hand, on a 

 detached piece of paper. It v!i\\ be seen that they 

 have been much altered in the printed edition 

 above cited. I am now copying from Coleridge's 

 autograph : 



" For in liis own, and in bis Father's Might, 



Heaven blazing in his train, the Saviour comes ! 

 To solemn symphonies of Trutli and Love 

 The Thousand Years lead up their mystic dance. 

 Old Ocean claps his hands, the Desert shouts, 

 And vernal Breezes wafting seraph sounds 

 Melt the prima?val North. The Mighty Dead 

 Rise from their tombs, whoe'e[r] from earliest time 

 With conscious zeal had aided the vast plan 

 Of Love Almighty." 



The variations of the printed poem from this 

 MS. fragment appear to me of suflicient import- 

 ance to warrant my supposition that many readers 

 and admirers of Coleridge may be glad to have the 

 original te.Kt restored. H. G. T. 



Launceston. 



rOLK LORE. 



Lammer Beads. — Lammer, or Lama beads are 

 80 called from an order of priests of that name 

 ainon;^ the western Tartars. The Lamas are ex- 

 tremely superstitious, and pretend to magic. 

 Amber was in liigli icputc as a charm dui-ing the 

 plague of London, and was worn by prelates of 



the Church. John Baptist Van Helmont {Tei-vary 

 of Paradoxes, London, 1650) says, that 



" A translucid piece of amber rubbed on the jugular 

 artery, on the hand wrists, near the instep, and on the 

 throne of the heart, and then hung about the neck," 



was a most certain preventative of (if not a cure 

 for) the plague ; the profound success of which 

 Van Helmont attributes to its magnetic or sym- 

 pathetic virtue. Blowen. 



Engraved Warming -panis. — Allow me to add 

 another illustration to the list furnished by 

 H. G. T., p. 84. One which I purchased a few 

 years ago of a cottager at Shotover, in Oxford- 

 shire, has the royal arms surmounted by C. B., 

 and surrounded by 



" FEARE GOD HONKOR T^ KING, 1662." 



The lid and jian are of brass, the handle of iron. 



E. B. Price. 



Queen Elizabeth's Christening Cloth. — The men- 

 tion (in the first Xo. of your 3rd Vol.) of some 

 damasked linen which belonged to James II. re- 

 minds me of a relic which I possess, and the de- 

 scription of which may interest some of your 

 readers. 



It is the half of Queen Elizabeth's christening 

 cloth, w'nich came into my possession through a 

 Mrs. Goodwin. A scrap of paper which accom- 

 panies it gives the following account of it: 



" It was given by an old lady to Mrs. Goodwin ; 

 she obtained it from one of the Strafford family, who 

 was an attendant upon the Queen. The other half 

 Mrs. Goodwin has seen at High Fernby, in Yorkshire, 

 a place belonging to the family of the Rooks, in high 

 preservation. In its original state, it was lined with a 

 rose-coloured lutestring, with a flounce of the same 

 about a quarter deep. The old lady being very nota- 

 ble, found some use fi)r the silk, and used to cover the 

 china which stood in the best parlour with this remains 

 of antiquity." 



The christening cloth is of a tliread net, worked 

 in with blue and yellow silk, and gold cord. It 

 must have been once very handsome, but is now 

 somewhat the worse for wear and time. It is about 

 21 feet wide and 3^ feet in length, so that the en- 

 tire length must have been about 7 feet. 



Can any one inform me whether the remaining 

 half of this interesting relic still exists; as the 

 notice attached to it, and mentioning its locality, 

 must now jje fifty years old at least ? H. A. B. 



The Breeches Bible. — The able and interesting 

 article on the Breeches Bible which appeared in a 

 late number of " Notes and Queries" (Vol. iii., 

 p. 17.) is calcuhited to remove the deep-rooted po- 

 pular error which afli.xes great pecuniary value to 



