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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 104. 



•\vlio planted the mulberry trees at Sion House at 

 the commencement of the seventeenth century ? 



2. "What was the name of the first wife of that 

 Sir Nicholas Stallenge who, towards the close of 

 the sixteenth century, married as his second wife 

 Florence Kenn, widow of Sir Christopher Kenn, 

 of Kenn, in the county of Somerset? 



3. AVliat city or castle in England was Sir 

 Thomas Stallenge his son governor of? 



4. What was the n;ime of the wife of the said 

 Sir Thomas Stallenge ? M. C. U. 



240. Ancient MS. History of Scotland.— In the 

 year 1796, thei-e was in the possession of the Kev. 

 Hobert RiMinie, minister of Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, 

 an old MS. which that gentleman (in Sir John 

 Sinclair's Statistical Account) thus describes: — 



" It seems to be a cljronlcle of SeotJand. The most 

 of it is legible. It takes up tlie history of Scotland at 

 the Christian era, and contains a regular series of all 

 the remarkable events in every king's reign, witli the 

 name of the kings, down to the year 1565. I Iiavc 

 compared it with many histories and annals of Scotland, 

 but am of opinion tliat it is an original, and not a 

 copy." 



Can any of your correspondents give any addi- 

 tional information regarding it? Aberdoniensis. 



241. Pharetram de Tuteshit. — Can you tell nie 

 the meaning of Pharetram de Tuteshit and sugittas 

 flectatas in the following? 



" Willi im de Gresely tenet maneriuni de Drakelow 

 in Com. Derby in Capite, et reddit ununi arcuni sine 

 corda, et unum Pharetram de Tutesbit, et duodeeim 

 Sa^ittas flectatas, et unum buzonecn." — Blount's 

 Tenures, 



H. N. E. 

 Bitton Vicarage, Oct. 1S51. 



242. Iniindution at Deptford. — In Lysons' En- 

 virons of London, vol. iv. p. 359., it is stated that 

 in the year 1671 a great inundation happened at 

 and near Deptford, which did much mischief, so 

 that the inhabitants were obliged to retire in 

 boats to the ujijier town, and that an account of 

 it was extant in a small pamphlet published at the 

 time. If any of your correspondents could inform 

 me where a copy of this is to be met with, or give 

 me any further particulars concerning the occur- 

 rence, I should feel vei-y much obliged. 



W. H. Hakt. 



New Cross. 



243. Butler s Sermons. — In the account of 

 Bislioj) Butler, attached to his works, mention is 

 made of MS. sermons, from which those which have 

 been published were selected. Is it known if there 

 are any writings of his in existence, and where 

 they are ? His executor was Dr. Nathaniel 

 Foster. L_ 



244. Coleridge's Ckris/abel. — Can 'any one fa- 

 miliar with the Coleridge Papers iniorni me 

 whether the following is a veritable fragment of 



the poet's own continuation of Ckristahel, or 

 perhaps of one of those conclusions (some serious, 

 some jocose) which we owe to Tupper, Moir, and 

 Maginn ? 



" This was the lovely lady's cry — 

 'Holy One! who earnest to die, 



Camest, yea, to die for me 



Who have despite done to Tliee — 



And didst feel the proud man's scorn, 



And the woe of one forlorn — 



Whose heavenly eyes were lirimmed with tears 



For the sorrows of himian years ; 



Whose holy liands were jjierced through, 



Whose feet longj toil and travel knew. 



Who felt all giief, all wild despair. 



That the race of man may ever bear. 



O look down from tliy placid sky, 

 U|)on a maiden worn with woe, 



W'ho in snowy chastity, 



Has passed the years of life below I 



O let no spirit of aflVight, 



Visit me this ghastly night ! ' 



So she prayed : and listening. 



Stood beside the magic spring. 



But only heard the brookless plash, 



And the berries fall from the mountain ash, 



And the cry of birds in the woods away. 



And the step of the roe over lichens gray." 



Mortimer Collins. 



245. Epigram ascribed to Mary Queen of Scots. 

 — AVlien the Queen visited the library of Trinity 

 College, Dublin, in 1849, she was shown an early 

 edition of Sallust, which hud belonged to Mary 

 Queen of Scots, and has her autograph signature, 

 and many MS. notes and a MS. Latin epigram, 

 supposed to be her Majesty's composition. Tlie 

 volume is :i small rjuarto, title Opera Salhisliana, 

 with the date 1523, and a colophon : 



" Impressns per Antonium Blancliard anno domini 

 IM. quingentessimo xxiij. pridie Kalend. Sextilis." 



But on a page following the title there appears — 

 " Ex ofhcina nostra caleographa Parrhisiis pridie 

 Kalendas Novenibris anni hujus M. CCCCC cjuarti.'' 



The volume v.'as presented to the College library 

 by Mr. Croker, as appears by a dono dedit in his 

 handwriting, and by the Ibllowing note iu that of 

 the learned Dr. Barrett : — 



" This book, which formerly belonged to Mary 

 Queen of Scots, was presented by James I. to Bishop 

 Hall (fid. 90.), and presented to this library, July 26, 

 1800, by John Wilson Croker, F. C A.B." 



The presentation by James to the Bishop is 

 thvis recorded : — 



" Hunk [sic^ librum Jacobus rex dono dedit amico 

 suo reverendo Doctor! Hali." 



Tliese details may interest bibliographers, as I 

 do not find any notice of this edition in Dibdin, or 

 any other work within my reach* b ut the main 



[* See Panzer's Annates Typog., vol. vii. p. 335.] 



