eee _ 
- of Essex.” 
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reason of his advanced age. (See Peele’s Works, 
edit. Dyce, 1829, vol. ii. p.192.) A copy of this 
sonnet, somewhat varied, is given in Evans's Old 
Ballads, vol. iv. p. 48., edit. 1810, where it is de- 
scribed as a “Sonnet sung before Queen Eliza- 
beth, supposed to have been written by the Earl 
It may also be found, set to music, in 
The First Booke of Songes, or Ayres of Foure 
Parts, by John Dowland, the celebrated lutenist 
(the friend of Shakspeare), originally published in 
1597, and printed in score under the editorship of 
Mr. Chappell, by the Musical Antiquarian Society, 
in 1844, W. H. H. 
Earthenware Vessels found in Churches (1* 8. 
x. 386. 434. 516.; xi. 9. 74. 315.) —I shall he 
much obliged to such of your, readers as will 
kindly refer me to any instances recorded of 
the discovery of earthenware vessels, similar to 
those found in the churches of St. Peter’s, Nor- 
wich, St. Mary’s, Youghal, and in Fountains 
Abbey; though not, like them, embedded in the 
masonry of the walls, but simply deposited in an 
upright position beneath the floor of the church, 
indicating the great probability of their sepul- 
chral character. W.S. 
Hastings. 
Female Overseer (1* 8. x. 45.) — To the best 
of my recollection, about thirty years ago, a lady 
was appointed overseer of the parish of Marston 
Meysey, Wilts, and served the office. Re Tee 
The Three Martins (1* S. xii. 428.) — “ Mar- 
tin the Ape” may refer to some one bearing the 
crest used by some branches of that family — an 
ape admiring himself in a looking-glass. I have a 
MS. memorandum in my copy of Burke’s Armory, 
that the crest of the Martins of Dorsetshire was 
an ape, with the curious motto, — 
“WE. WHO. LOOKS. AT. MARTIN’S . APE . MARTIN’S. 
APE. SHALL. LOOK. AT. HIM.” 
BK? 
Fowls upon all Fours (1* S. xii. 509.) — Pro- 
fessor Bush, in his Notes on Leviticus, xi. 20., 
appears to give in a few words the most natural 
solution of the difficulty here propounded : 
“ That insects are here meant is plain from the follow- 
ing verse; and, therefore, the sense is, all those creatures 
which fly and also creep, ‘going upon all four:’ 7. e. 
creeping along upon their feet in the manner of quadru- 
peds, such as flies, wasps, bees, &c., together with all 
leaping insects; these are to be avoided as unclean, with 
the exceptions in the two next verses.” 
C. W. Bryeuam. 
Charade: “TI sit on a rock” (1* S. xii. 365.) — 
The answer [ think is measure. The anemometer, 
to measure the force of the wind, by its sails 
raises the wind, and when the storm ceases its 
noise is reduced to gentleness. A state measure 
brings even kings to its feet, and royal instances 
are on record of submission to their fate upon 
ground on which the foot measure has trod. A 
measure may be seen by the world, but the know- 
ledge of it may be confined to the select few con- 
stituting the government. Both Gentile and Jew 
delight to receive good without measure, and 
detest to be stinted by measure. No measure of 
time or space existed during the flood, except the 
one long night of obscurity, which was the only 
measure Noah had in the ark. As three pounds 
is a measure of weight, so is one mile a measure of 
length. My first and my last are me sure, which 
the egotist may appropriate to himself “with a 
smile, as the best in our isle.” 
“Vive, vale. Si quid novisti rectius istis, 
Candidus imperti; si non, his utere mecum.” 
T. J. Bucxton. 
Lichfield. 
“ Gloria in Excelsis” (1% S. xii. 496.) — The 
list of churches where this is not read, but sung, is 
surely too large to be included in that which you 
have given in reply to the question of Sigma. 
Without knowing much of what is passing in other 
London churches, I might add St. Mark’s, Chel- 
sea; All Saints, Margaret Street ; St. Mary Mag- 
dalene, Munster Square ; St. Mary, Crown Street ; 
St. Matthew, City Road; Christ Church, Hoxton; 
St. Matthias, Stoke Newington; and St. Bartho- 
lomew, Moor Lane, City. At the last-named 
church the music sung is the cadence used at St. 
Mark, Chelsea, and published in the Parish Choir. 
W. Denton. 
P.S. On looking again at Stama’s Query, I ob- 
serve that he asks for the names of “ any churches” 
where the Gloria in Excelsis is sung. I have 
confined myself in my Reply to London churches. 
To give the list of churches throughout England 
would burden your columns to a greater extent 
than you would perhaps deem advisable. To 
instance about a half a dozen which occur at this 
moment, it is, I believe, sung at the parish church, 
Leeds; at St. Saviour’s, in the same town; St. 
Mary Maedalen, Albrighton; St. James, Wednes- 
bury; at Ellesmere; St. Mark’s, Bristol; and St. 
Thomas, Oxford. The music which I have men- 
tioned as used at St. Bartholomew, London, is 
very commonly preferred. 
Dancing and Dancing Tunes (1% §. xii. 159. 
234.) —John McGill was a musician in Dunse, 
county of Berwick. He taught dancing; was 
admitted a member of the Mason Lodge of Dunse, 
on the 9th of March, 1758. In addition to the 
tunes mentioned, he also composed those named 
“ Dunse dings a’,” “ Lads of Dunse,” “ Lasses of 
Dunse,” and several others, the names of which 
I have forgotten. 
His sons, James and John, travelled the country 
