2'"i S. VI. 131., July 3. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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as above, by Dr. Rimbault, although the last 

 sentence appears to confuse it with the present 

 national air : — 



" This national hymn has been attributed to various 

 authors and composers. By the indefatigable researches 

 of Mr. Richard Clark, of the Chapel Uoyal, it is traced to 

 the year 1(507, and was written on the escape of James I. 

 from the gunpowder plot on the 5th Nov. 1605. It was 

 introduced at a feast on the 16th July, 1607, given by the 

 Merchant Tailors' Company to King James as a day of re- 

 joiciug on the king's escape, when the gentlemen, boys, 

 and others of the Chapel Koyal attended in their surplices 

 to sing the said God save the King, written at the request 

 of the Merchant Tailors' Company. It was revived in 

 the year 1746, at the time of tlie Scottish rebellion, when 

 the name of George was substituted for James, and it was 

 harmoniseil for one theatre by Dr. Burney, and for the 

 other by Dr. Arne." 



Whilst on the subject, a note from Raikes's 

 Diary may be worth registering. 



" Our National Anthem of ' God save the King,' com- 

 posed in the time of George {., has always been considered 

 of English origin ; but, on reading the amusing Memoirs 

 of Madame de Crequy, it appears to have been almost a 

 literal translation of the cantique which was always sung 

 by the Demoiselles de St. Cyr when Louis XIV. entered 

 the chapel of that establishment to hear the morning 

 prayer. The worils were by M. de Brinon, and the music 

 by the famous Lull)'. 



" ' Grand Dieu sauve le Roi ! 



Grand Dieu venge le Roi ! 



Vive le Roi. 



" ' Que toujours glorieux, 

 Louis victorieuxl 

 Vo3-e ses enneniis 



Toujours sounjis ! 

 Grand Dieu sauve le Roi ! 

 Grand Dieu venge le Roi ! 



Vive le Roi I ' 



" It appears to have been translated and adapted to 

 the house of Hanover by Handel the German composer." 

 —Diary, i. 288. 



R. W. Hackwood. 



Colour of University Hoods (2"'' S. v. 234. 324. 

 402.) — The accounts hitherto given have all been 

 very inaccurate. Surely it would be easy to ob- 

 tain right descriptions from a graduate of each 

 University. Every Cambridge man, for example, 

 knows, what none of your correspondents have as 

 yet hit upon, that an M.A. of that University of 

 less than five years' standing, wears a black silk 

 hood lined with white silk, while one of more than 

 five years has his hood entirely black. C. M. A. 



Mr. John Ribton fxARSxra puts the following 

 question: "What hood is used at St. Aidan's, 

 Birkenhead, for the degree of B.D., which that 

 college is empowered to grant?" I beg leave to 

 inform Mr. Garstin that St. Aidan's, Birken- 

 head, is not empowered to grant the degree of 

 B.D., nor any other degree. Nor has St. Bee's 

 College the power of conferring any degree. But 

 St. David's College, Cardiganshire, has ; and the 

 degree which it is empowered to grant is Bache- 



lor of Divinity. Wales is a distinct Principality, 

 and St. David's College, being the only theological 

 college in Wales connected with the Establi-shed 

 Church, had a perfect right to ask the govern- 

 ment to give it the power of conferring the degree 

 of B.D. E. Jones. 



Lampeter. 



Can a Man le his oian Grandfather ? (2"'' S. v. 

 504.) — Your correspondent W. R. M. thinks the 

 case referred to by W. J. F. unprecedented. If it 

 be so, the case referred to must be the same which 

 came to my own knowledge about thirty years since, 

 when a near relative, with whom I was walking, 

 having exchanged some words of civility with a 

 gentleman and his children, who accidentally 

 crossed our path, afterwards informed me that this 

 gentleman and his father had married a mother 

 and daughter ; and that the gentleman I had seen, 

 in fact, was the husband of his own (step) grand- 

 mother. I think I was told that there were chil- 

 dren by both marriages. For obvious reasons I 

 withhold the name of the parties, as well as my 

 own name. Anon. 



Ghost Stories (2"* S. v. 233. 462.) — I have 

 already supplied a certain amount of information 

 respecting the Wynyard ghost story, which ap- 

 pears to have been overlooked by Candidus. In 

 reply to his more recent queries, I would merely 

 state that Lieut.- Gen. Wm. Wynyard, who died 

 in 1789, was father of all the persons to whom he 

 refers, viz. George West Wynyard of the .33rd 

 regiment, Henry Wynyard of the 1 st Foot guards, 

 and Wm. Wynyard of the Coldstream guards. 

 George West Wynyard, as I have already stated, 

 had no twin-brother; but he had, — besides the 

 above-mentioned, and other brothers, who sur- 

 vived him, — two brothers who died between 1784 

 and 1794, viz. John Otway of the 3rd guards, 

 who died October 15, 1785 ; and Ambrose Lily, 

 lieut. in the 20th regiment, who died Koveniber 

 9, 1792. It was the former of these, as I have 

 always understood, whose spirit is supposed to 

 have appeared to him. Cognatus. 



To Kink (2°'' S. v. 433.) —This is still a familiar 

 word witli anglers. The fishing-tackle shops sell 

 a preparation to rub the lines to prevent their 

 kinking. W. H. Lammin. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



We have received Dr. Curcton's Remains of a very 

 Ancient Itecension of the Four Gospels in Syrinr, hitherto 

 unltnoicn in Europe, lately published bj' Mr. JMurray. 

 This beautifully printed volume contains fragments of 

 the four Gospels, from a MS. procured by the late Arch- 

 deacon Tattam from the 'monastery of St. Mary Deipara, 

 in the valley of the Natron Lakes. They have been dis- 

 engaged from a volume in great part of later date, with 



