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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[2nd §, No 22., May 81. °56, 
“Tse gang’d wi’ Jamie fra’ Dundee, 
To cheer the lanesome way : 
His cheeks are ruddy o’er wi’ halth, 
He’s frolick as the May. 
Haud away! &e. 
“ The lavrock mounts to hail the morn, 
The lintwite swells her throat ; 
But neither are sa sweet, sa clear, 
As Jamie’s tunefw’ note. 
Haud away! &c.”] 
Early Reformers. — Who were Pomeranus and 
Cruciger ? Mentioned in connection with Luther 
and Melancthon. ‘A.M. E. I. 
[Joun BucennAcius, or BuGENHAGEN, surnamed 
from his native place PomMERANUS, was born at Wollin, 
in Pomerania, July 24. 1485, studied at the University of 
Grypswald, and was appointed teacher of a school at 
Treptow. »After his introduction to Luther, he was chosen 
pastor of the Reformed Church at Wittemberg. In 1537 
he was solicited »y Christian, King of Denmark, at whose 
coronation he officiated, to assist him in promoting the 
Reformation and erecting schools in his dominions. He 
assisted likewise in 1542 in the advancement of the Re- 
formation in the Dukedom of Brunswick and other 
places. At length, after a life devoted to these objects, 
he died April 20. 1558. He wrote a Commentary on the 
Psalms ; Annotations on St. Paul’s Epistles ; A Harmony 
of the Gospels, &c. He also assisted Luther in translating 
the Bible into German, and used to keep the day on 
which it was finished as a festival, calling it ‘The Feast 
of the Translation.” For a sketch of his conversion and 
history, see Milner’s Church History, vol.iv. p.181., edit. 
1847; also Jécher, Gelehrten- Lexicon, and Rose’s Biogra- 
phical Dictionary. — CAsPAR CrucicER, born at Leipsic 
in 1504, was much esteemed by Luther, and assisted at 
the dispute held at Worms with Eckius. To his profound 
knowledge in the languages and divinity, he added an 
acquaintance with mathematics and botany. He died 
Rector of the College of Wittemberg, in 1584. See a list 
of his works in Watt’s Bibliotheca, and some account of 
his life and works in Jécher, Gelehrten-Lewicon. | 
Gorse.—Can any lover of folk lore tell me 
what is the meaning of a sprig of gorse, when in- 
troduced into a bridal bouquet ? Something more 
is intended (as I am informed) than the “ endur- 
ing affection” of “ the language of flowers ;” but, 
what is that something ? 
- A propos to gorse: the following extract seems 
worthy to be made a note of. It is taken from 
an article by Frederika Bremer, contributed to 
Sharpe's Magazine during the time of its editor- 
ship by Mrs. 8. C. Hall. The Swedish novelist 
is describing her visit to Windsor : 
“There grew upon the height where we stood, and I 
had seen the same in many fields of England, bushes not 
unlike our Swedish juniper, but which bore remarkably 
beautiful yellow flowers, of the pea-blossom form. Mrs. 
-— told me, that Lignus, when he first came to Eng- 
land, and saw a fiel@™0vered with these bushes, then in 
full bloom, threw himself on his knees, and kissed the 
earth for producing flowers so beautiful.’’ — Vol. ii., New 
Series, 1853, p. 41. 
Curnusert Beng, B.A. 
[Is not the ‘something,’ which our correspondent in- 
quires for, an allusion to the old saying, “That when 
the furse is out of bloom, kissing is out of fashion.” ] 
The Poet Gower. —In Rambles round Notting- 
ham, p.3., it is stated that “old Gower” wrote 
only once in English, viz. that part of his great 
poem, Confessio Amantis, which Warton slightly 
modernized, Is this so? And why is Gower set 
down as an English poet? Have we any com- 
plete version of his works in English? If not, 
would it not be desirable for a London publisher 
now re-issuing the old authors, to provide an 
edition even of the Latin poems of this ancient 
author ?P S. M. D. 
[The moral Gower’s claim to be set down as an English 
poet, might have been seen by a reference to Warton’s 
English Poetry, Ellis’s Specimens, &c. His Confessio 
Amantis, in eight books, first printed by Caxton in 
1483, fully establishes his right to be so designated. We 
are glad to be able to announce that a handsome library 
edition of Gower’s writings is in the press. ] 
“ The incomparable Orinda.” — In a MS. genea- 
logical volume in my possession the following 
entry occurs : 
“Lewis Wogan, Esq., married Katherine, daughter and 
heiress of James Philipps, Esq., of the Priory, Cardigan. 
Her mother was the incomparable Orinda.” 
Mrs. Katherine Philipps was a distinguished poet 
of the period of the Restoration, was honoured by 
the praise of Cowley and Dryden, and had a Dis- 
course on Friendship dedicated to her by Jeremy 
Taylor. Under her poetical name of “ Orinda,” 
she was highly popular with her contemporaries, 
and fell a victim to confluent small-pox in 1664, 
at the early age of thirty-three years. Query, 
what was her maiden name ? 
Joun Pavin Purtuirs. 
Haverfordwest. 
[The maiden name of “the matchless Orinda” was 
Catharine Fowler. Her father was a London merchant, 
where she was born in 1631. ] : 
Gentlemen-at-Arms to Henry VIII.— Perhaps 
some one of your correspondents will oblige me 
by stating whether any printed list is inserted in 
any antiquarian work of the gentlemen-at-arms 
to Henry VIII. I imagine, from their being a 
chosen body of men, they were persons of some 
note in their day. JAYTEE. 
[The names of the persons forming the Muster-Roll of 
the fifty gentlemen pensioners to Henry VIII., A.p. 1526, 
will be found in the Statutes of Eltham, Cottonian MS. 
Vespasian, C. XIV. 218, and also in Curling’s Account of 
the Ancient Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, pp. 26, 27. ] 
“ Wonderful Characters.” — There is a pub- 
lication called Wonderful Characters, by H. Wil- 
son; another called Eccentric Biography (query 
by Caulfield). What is the title of a similar work 
in one volume, with plates ? D. 
Leamington. 
[Our correspondent is probably thinking of John 
Thomas Smith’s Vagabondiana; or, Anecdotes of Men- 
dicant Wanderers through the Streets of London. Ato. 
Lond. 1817.] 
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