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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
(20d 8. No 8, Pr. 23. 56. 
and, from the expressions ‘fhopp-harlott,” and 
“a long way off out of the shires,” its scene of 
action was probably in Kent or Sussex. 
“ A certain lewd fellow of the basest sort, came from a 
long way off out of the shires, and married a hopp-harlott, 
who had been whipped round our fown more than once. 
The parish officers were her bride’s maids, and her hus- 
band was not afraid of receiving curtain lectures, for their 
sole bed was of dirty straw on the dirty ground; never- 
theless, she was so cursed of condition, that he wearied 
soon of his life, and went to the parish clerk, seeking to 
be rid of his crooked rib. Solomon was sly, and replying 
to his inquiry if the parson could unmarry them, said; 
*Why need ye trouble his reverence? Have not I, man 
and boy, been his clerk forty years come allhallowtide? 
I can do it as well as e’er a parson of them all, and as 
sure as there is now a good tap of ale at the “ Bell.” Letu 
go there—you stand two pots, and I will do all righ? 
for you.’ So, after drinking out his fee, Solomon took 
the fellow into the church by the priest’s door. ‘ Now,’ 
said he, ‘ye were married here; so put off your jacket, 
and kneel at confession, for ’tis a solemn business.’ Then 
they went into the belfry, and, bidding him take off his 
shoes, and stand on a stool, he gave him the longest bell- 
rope. ‘Tie that tightly, my lad, round your throat,’ said 
Solomon, ‘and as soon as I am gone, kick away the 
stool. I will return in about an hour, when yon will be 
unmarried, and out of all your troubles!’ ”? 
> E. D. 
The Schoolmaster abroad.—In addition to the 
original letters already furnished by your corre- 
spondents, the following may be depended upon. 
It was written by the girl’s mother to her mistress, 
on the occasion of her complaints that she was 
bug-bitten at lodgings in Brighton, where the 
family was sojourning ; but as the lodging-house- 
keeper was positive none existed, and none could 
be found, medical inspection was made, and a 
cutaneous complaint ascertained, owing to over- 
feeding of the complainant : — 
 Honrted Maddam, 
* As Thad a good edication myself, Iam greeved for 
to sea in what manor witch our Sarey is bitt by the 
buggs. And itis my witch for she to slepe in the bed 
she always do, and not for to go for to slepe all round the 
beds in the house, for to fede all the buggs in Briton, 
Hontet Maddam; witch is not rite, as you must no, 
nether oft she to be witched soto do. And so no more at 
present from, 
* Honted Maddam, 
“ Your humble servent, 
“S$. GRIBBEL. 
BK. D. 
“ Veni Creator Spiritus.” —The authorship of 
this celebrated hymn belongs to Stephen Langton, 
Archbishop of Canterbury, 0). 1228. This state- 
ment is made on the authority of a contemporary 
writer, in a work entitled Distinctiones Monasticé. 
The passage containing this testimony is but just 
published, for the first time, in the Spicilegium 
Solesmense, tom. iii. p. 130. ‘Phe learned editor 
Dom Pitra has upon it the following observation : 
Nota cotanei viri et conterranei, nec indiligentis, nec 
© Octtober 8.” 
a 
imperiti testimonium, de re a multis agitata, novum et 
gravissimum.” 
It appears, therefore, that this fine composition 
was the work of an Englishman, B. H. Cowren. 
Note from 4 Fly-leaf.— About twenty years 
ago, a friend geve me an autograph note from a 
copy of Mrs. Piozzi’s Retrospections, that appears 
worthy of preservation : te 
ff A little Book written to ridicule this Book, early in 
1801—says Mrs. Piozzi believes Louis 147¢ was the Beast 
of the Apocalypse—and his Number 666—why she 
might as well believe it of Buonaparte!; and now in 
1815—half the Town does believe it of Buonoparte: —I 
never suid I believed it of either of them.” 
Spelling, pointing, and Italics, are carefully 
adhered to. Hueu Owens, 
Archbishops King and Magee. — Archbishop 
King died May 8, 1729, and was buried in the 
churchyard of Donnybrook, near Dublin; but no 
monument nor other memorial of him can now be 
found there. Archbishop Magee died August 19, 
1831, and was buried in the old churehyard of 
Rathfarnham, likewise not far from Dublin. His 
tomb stands exactly in the centre of the ancient 
church ; but as no inscription has been placed on 
it, the spot will ere long be forgotten. This 
treatment appears somewhat strange in connexion 
with two of the ablest and greatest of the arch- 
bishops of Dublin. It ought, one would think, to 
be corrected; but perhaps Sir William Jones's 
plan is the wisest: “The best monument that can 
be erected to a man of literary talents is a good 
edition of his works.” BHBA. 
A Cousin of Queen Anne.— Under this head, in 
my note-book, I have the following from Annual 
Register, 1772: 
“ Died, in Emanuel Hospital, near Tothil Fields, aged 
108, Mrs. Wyndymore; she was second cousin to Queen 
Anne, and had been upwards of fifty years in that 
hospital.” 
Probably the relationship arose throngh the 
Hydes (?). CG. J. Doueras. 
Forensic Jocularity. — Mr. Scarlett, counsel for 
a Mr. Cole, defendant in a breach of promise ease, 
pleaded that some (love) letters, likely to damage 
his client’s case, could not be admitted in evidence, 
not being stamped; the judge overruled this, and 
a young counsel at the table wrote and handed 
round the following : 
“Tis said, o’er his cheek the scarlet blush stole, 
As he asked for a stamp to a deed black as cole ; 
If requests such as these in ‘the Pleas’ are admitted, 
Our fair countrywomen will quite be outwitted: 
Unless in their reticules blank stamps they carry 
And take a receipt for each kiss till they marry.” 
O-P. kt 
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