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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
(20d §, No 23,, Junm 7, 56. 
transept of the church and a room adjoining for 
the reception of the books, under a grant made 
by the Dean and Canons of Windsor. By his will, 
dated Feb. 22, 1631, he directed the books which 
he had already prepared to be placed there, with 
so many more as should amount to the sum of 
twenty pounds. (Lipscomb, iv. 542, 3.) The 
library was for the use of the clergyman and 
churchwardens of Langley, and the clergy of 
neighbouring parishes, but no volumes were to 
be taken out of the room; consequently they 
have been little used. 
about three hundred volumes, principally of the 
Fathers, and theological works of editions of the 
latter part of the sixteenth and early part of the 
seventeenth centuries, and a MS. Pharmacopeia, 
once belonging to the Leighs. Generally the 
books are in good condition, and in the original 
bindings. with the Kederminster arms on the 
sides ; but some are damp and much injured. 
W. Durrant Cooper. 
Bull Song at Stamford (2 S. i. 392.) —The air 
performed nightly at the Stamford Theatre, by 
special desire of “the gods,” is that to which the 
bull-running song was in former years sung. The 
bullards were accustomed to assemble at supper 
after the bull-running was ended, and the song 
was then sung. I enclose the song and air for 
your correspondent Ein Fracer, but I do not 
think the song would be worthy of a plane in 
rie? 
“N.& Q.” Since the suppression of the bull- 
running, the song is never heard; and the only 
t=) oD y 
remnant of the cruel custom, which was annually 
reproduced on Noy. 13, is the air when performed 
at the theatre. I believe the air is adapted from 
some old tune of the time of Charles 1. I have 
seen it under a name which I have forgotten, in 
some book containing airs of that date. Here, 
however, it is known as “ the bull-ringing tune.” 
I have for many years been in search of a copy of 
Peck’s History of the Stumford Bull-running, de- 
scribed by Watt as a folio pamphlet; but 1 have 
never been able to see one. Can any correspon- 
dent tell me where that pamphlet may be seen or 
purchased ? J. Puixiies, Jun. 
Stamford. 
Your correspondent who signs himself in “ your 
immortal pages ” Exy Fracer, is hereby informed | 
| — When Sir Sidney Smith was on an official 
that he will find all he wants, and more than he 
expects, about the “bull custom,” in a clever 
little work entitled the Chronology of Stamford, 
by G. Burton. London: Edwards and Hughes, 
1846. To the “bull” subject no less than twenty 
pages of this work are devoted, and in them he 
will find a full, true, and particular account of 
how the custom began, continued, and ended ; to- 
gether with the words of ghe bull song, and also 
the musical score of the bull tune. 
Henry Kensineton. 
The library consists of | 
Judge Creswell (2° §, i, 270. 321.) —- Richard 
Creswell, member for Evesham in several parlia- 
ments, is thus described in the 3rd vol. of Browne 
Willis’s Notitia Parliamentaria : 
“1623—24. Rich. Gresheild, Esq. [misprint for Cres- 
heild ?] 
1625. Rich. Creswell, Esq, Recorder. 
1628. Rich. Creshield, Esq. 
1640—d3. Rich. Creswell, Serjeant-at-Law. 
pWitlnWeL. 
Somerset House. 
William Noel, of Kirby Mallory, Esq., married 
a daughter of Richard Creswell (by some called 
Creshield) Esq., serjeant-at-law, but died without 
issue, 1645, and was buried at Cheping Barnet. 
See Collins’s Peerage, vol. vi. p. 209. 
W. H. Lamnin. 
Fulham. 
Sir William Herschel (24S. i. 295.) —In ad- 
dition to the portraits of Herschel mentioned by 
the Editor of “ N. & Q,,” there is another in the 
5th vol. of the Gallery of Portraits, published 
under the superintendence of the Society for the 
Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The portrait is 
engraved by E. Scriven, from a crayon picture by 
the late J. Russell, Esq., R.A., in the possession 
of Sir John Herschel. Wi Ee Wis. T. 
Somerset House. 
Robin Hood (1* §. xii. 321.) —In the year 
1828 one of my schoolfellows was so kind as to 
lend me an octavo novel in one volume, published 
in 1826-7, entitled Robin Hood, the perusal of 
which afforded me considerable gratification. It 
contained a ballad called “The Mandarin’s 
Daughter,” which was stated in the novel to be 
sung by the chief of a company of strolling beg- 
gars, and which concluded with these lines, de- 
scriptive of the fate of her father, who was “a 
shaking mandarin :” 
“Grief shook his shaking head so sore, 
It shook it off his shoulders quite.” 
Will Mr. Rirson kindly inform me who was the 
author of this work, which was, I think, published 
in London ? G.L. 8S. 
Conservative Club. 
Order of St.John of Jerusalem (2"° §. i. 197.) 
visit to Cyprus in 1799, the Archbishop of Ni- 
cosia, out of gratitude to him for quelling an in- 
surrection, bestowed upon him the Cross of St. 
John of Jerusalem, which had been worn by 
Richard Coeur de Lion in the days of the Cru- 
saders. This cross Sir Sidney Smith by his last 
will gave and bequeathed “unto the Order of 
the Templars, to be kept in deposit in the treasury 
thereof, from whence it originally came into King 
Richard’s hands, and to be worn by the Grand 
