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dying without issue, the baronetcy expired. (Vide 
Burke’s Extinct Baronets.) 
The said Lady Curson, of happy memory, was 
the sister of Catherine, wife of Henry, tenth Lord 
Teynham. The Cursons were distinguished among 
the old Catholic families of this county. They 
maintained a succession of chaplains, who adminis- 
tered to the spiritual necessities of a scattered 
flock in very difficult times. On the breaking up 
of the catholic establishment at Waterperry, the 
mission was merged into that of Oxford. 
The following extracts from the old registers, 
which are carefully treasured, may interest and 
assist your correspondent : 
“The Waterperry Chapel Register, and likewise Ox- 
ford, being the same congregation or mission: 
“Sir Francis Curson, Bart., obt. 29th May, 1750, just 
after 9 at night. The Dirge by 5 Priests the 31*t night. 
Masses and Sermon the 1*t of June, the Funeral the 7* 
of June. 
“Lady Curson dyed the 274 of April, 1764, about 5 
o’clock in the evening. The Dirge by 5 Priests the 6', 
and the Mass next morning : buried privately at 10 o’clock 
at night the 7*}, 
“Lady Teynham moritur 16 Jan. 1771.” 
C. A. BuckuEr. 
Oxford. 
Italian Manuscript Operas (2™° S. i. 291.) — In 
the British Museum is preserved a collection of 
one hundred and forty-nine volumes of manu- 
script operas in Italian, with the names of the 
composers, &c., formerly belonging to the Signor 
Gaspar Selvaggi, of Naples, and presented to the 
Museum by the late Marquis of Northampton, in 
1843. They are numbered Add. MSS. 14,101— 
14,249. In the same repository is another col- 
lection of one hundred and eighty-two volumes, 
chiefly by Italian composers, bequeathed by Do- 
menico Dragonetti, in 1846, and numbered, Add. 
15,979—16,160. Me 
Major André (2™ S.i. 33.) —In The Night 
Side of Nature, by Mrs. Crowe, vol. i. chap. III. 
occurs the following : 
“Major André, the circumstances of whose lamented 
death are too well known to make it necessary for me to 
detail them here, was a friend of Miss Seward’s, and, 
previously to his embarkation for America, he made a 
journey into Derbyshire to pay her a visit, and it was 
arranged that they should ride over to see the wonders of 
the Peak, and introduce André to Newton, her minstrel, 
as she called him, and to Mr. Cunningham, the curate, 
who was also a poet. 
“Whilst these two gentlemen were awaiting the ar- 
rival of their guests, of whose intentions they had been 
apprised, Mr. Cunningham mentioned to Newton that on 
the preceding night he had had a very extraordinary 
dream, which he could not get out of his head. He had 
fancied himself in a forest: the place was strange to him, 
and whilst looking about he perceived a horseman ap- 
proaching at great speed, who had scarcely reached the 
spot where the dreamer stood, when three men rushed out 
of the thicket, and seizing his bridle hurried him away, 
after closely searching his person. The countenance of 
the stranger being very interesting, the sympathy felt by 
the sleeper for his apparent misfortune awoke him; but 
he presently fell asleep again and dreamt that he was 
standing near a great city amongst thousands of people, 
and that he saw the same person he had seen seized in 
the wood brought out and suspended to a gallows. When 
André and Miss Seward arrived he was horror-struck to 
perceive that his new acquaintance was the antetype of 
the man in the dream.” 
R. W. Hacxwoop. 
Malleable Glass (1 S. passim.) — Evidences of 
the existence of such glass have been asked for. 
Bailey says : 
“ Anno 1610, the ‘Sophy’ Emperor of Persia sent to 
the King of Spain [Philip III.] six glasses that were 
malleable, i. e. would not break by being hammered.” 
There must be some further record of this gift, 
the date of which is so precisely given. 
R. W. Hacxwoop. 
Morning Dreams (2 S. i, 392.) — Perhaps the 
following may be of service to Sartor. I have 
never seen the words in print exactly as expressed 
below, although there are many modifications of 
them : 
“ Dreams at night are the devil’s delight ; 
Dreams in the morning are the angel’s warning.” 
The notion seems to be that night dreams are 
interpreted contrariwise (perhaps nightmare is in- 
cluded among them) ; and morning dreams matter- 
of-fact-wise. Avon Lza. 
In Mr. Timbs’ amusing little book, entitled 
Things not generally known, I find the following 
explanation of the common notion, with regard 
to the truth of morning dreams : 
“The old notion of the ‘somnia vera’ of approaching 
day — ‘morning dreams come true,’ is interpreted by the 
physical state of sleep being then less perfect: trains of 
thought suggested follow more nearly the course of 
waking associations, and the memory retains them: 
while earlier and more confused dreams are wholly lost 
to the mind.” 
F. M. Mrppieron. 
Ellastone, Staffordshire. 
Dante has two passages bearing allusion to the 
popular notion that morning dreams come true, 
viz. : 
“Ma se presso al mattin del ver si sogna.” 
Inferno, ¢, 26. v. 7. 
“ Nell’ ora che comincia i tristi lai 
La rondinella presso alla mattina 
Forse a memoria de’ suoi primi guai, 
E che la mente nostra pellegrina 
Pi dalla carne, e men da’ pensier presa, 
Alle sue vision quasi é divina.” 
Purgatorio, c. 9. 13—18. 
M. (Exeter.) 
Th the elegiac stanzas by M. Bruce occur the 
following lines, the second of which may have 
suggested SarTor’s Query : 
“Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, 
And morning dreams, as poets tell, are true.” 
Tuomas Baxur. 
