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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 76. 



(which is of no great literary merit) came to be 



reprinted in Enghind, and dedicated to the king ? 



A notice of Seriman's life may be found in tlie 



Biogi'uphie Univei'sellc. L. 



Gloucester Alarm. — In the archives of Lyme 

 Regis is this entry : 



" Town Accompt Booh. 



"1661. For the four soldiers and drummers for 

 service on the Gloucester alarm and candles, 10s Orf." 



What was the " Gloucester alarm ? " G. R. 



Where is Criston, Count// Somerset ? — Mr. 

 Vaughan, a young man who was to have joined 

 the Duke of Monmouth, was of that house or 

 place. G. R. 



" There was a Maid of Wtstmorelnnd." — " Some 

 fifty summers past," I was in the habit of hearing 

 sung a simple ballad, which commenced — 

 " There was a maid of Westmoreland, 

 Who built her house upon the sand : " 

 and (he conclusion of which was, that, however 

 desolate and exposed a situation that might be for 

 her dwelling, it was better than in " the haunts of 

 men." Tiiis was said to have been wiitten by the 

 late Mr. Thomas Sheridan. I never heard by 

 whom the music to it, which was very pretty, was 

 composed ; nor whether or not it was published. 



Can any of your correspondents supply the 

 words of this old ballad, and state the name of 

 the composer of the music to it? Also whether it 

 was jjublished, and, if so, by whom ? E. 11. 



Anthoraj Bridges. — In the Hampshire Visitation of 

 1622, ILu 1. MS. 1544. fo. 23., appears the marriage 

 of Barbara, second daughter of Sir Richard Fex- 

 sall, of Beaurepaire, in co. Southampton, by 

 Ellinor his wife, daughter of AVilliam Pawlett, 

 Marquis of Winchester, to "Anthony Bridges." 

 That Sir Richard Pexsall died in 1571, is the only 

 clue I have to the date of the match. 



Query, Who was this Anthony Bridges, and did 

 he leave issue ? 



Is it possible that this is the identical Anthony, 

 third surviving son of Sir John Bridges, first Baron 

 Chandosof Sudeley, respecting whose fate there is 

 so much uncertainty ? He is presumed to have mar- 

 ried a daughter of Eortescne of Essex, but the col- 

 lateral evidence on which the supposition is founded 

 is too slight to be satisfactory. Little is known but 

 that he was born before 1532 ^ that he v.-as living in 

 1584 (in which year he was presented to the living 

 of Mejsey Hampton in Gloucestershire, the county 

 in which he resided) ; and that he had a s^m 

 Robert, upon a presumed descent fr<>ni whom the 

 late Sir Egerton Brydges founded his well-known 

 claim to the barony of Chandos of Sudeley. 



O.C. 



Barlamn and Josaphat (Vol. iii., p. 135.). — I 

 was much interested in Mr. Stephens' remarks on 



the Rev. W. Adams's beautiful allegory, and would 

 be glad to know from him, or some other of your 

 learned correspondents, ivhat English translations 

 there are oi' this "spiritual romance in Greek;" 

 where I may find an account or notice of the 

 work, or get a copy of it. Jarltzbekg. 



" Stick at Nothing." — The expression "stop at 

 nothing" occurs in the following couplet in Dry- 

 den's Aurengzebe : 



" The world is made for the bold impious man, 

 Who stops at notliing, seizes all he can." 



And Pope, in one of his letters, has the expres- 

 sion " stick at nothing," where he says : 



" The three chief qualifications of party-writers are, 

 to .^ticlt at nothing., to dtlight in flinging dirt, and to 

 slander in the dark by guess." 



Can any of your correspondents explain the 

 origin of the word "stick" in the sense in which it 

 is used by Pope ; and how it came to supplant 

 altogether the more intelligible word " stop," as 

 emjiloyed by Dryden ? Henbv IL Breen. 



St. Lucia, January, 1851. 



" Ejusdem Farince." — Your readers are ac- 

 quainted with the expression "ejusdem farina?," 

 and the derogatdry sense in which it is employed 

 to describe things or characters of the same 

 calibre. It was in common use among clerical 

 disputants after the Relbrmation ; and Leland has 

 it in the following remarks respecting certain 

 fiibulous interpolations in the Black Book at 

 Cambridge : 

 " Centum sunt ibi, prjeterea, ejusdem fariiiae fabulse." 



I have no doubt, however, that the origin of 

 the expression may be traced to the scholastic 

 doi'tors and casuists of the Middle Ages. 



Will any of your correspondents be good 

 enough to explain the circumstances which gave 

 rise to the adoption of" farina" as a term expres- 

 sive of baseness and disparagement ? 



Henry II. Breen. 



St. Lucia, Januarj', 1851. 



Batail. — Favine, in his Theatre of Honour (b. ii. 

 c. 13 ), in speaking of a bell at Menda, says of the 

 clapper of a bell, that " it is a Batuill in Amies." 

 "Was this word ever introduced into English he- 

 raldry ? The only instances of bells in English arms 

 that I can discover in the books to which I have 

 access at present are in the coats of Bell, Porter, 

 Osney, and lliclibelL H. N. E. 



The Knights of Malta. — On the stone corbels 

 which support the roof of one of the aisles of a 

 church in my neighbourhood, there are carved the 

 armorial badges of persons who are supposed to 

 have contributed to the building of the church, 

 which was erected in the thirteenth century. On 

 one of the corbels (the nearest to the altar, and 

 therefore in the most honourable place) there is 

 a lamb bearing a flag. The lamb has a nimbus 



