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NOTES AND QUERIES. [2na s. vi. 135., jcly 31. '58. 



morous jeux (Vesprit entitled " Epigrammata 

 Bacchanalia." These effusions of genius were 

 occasioned by the Right Hon. Wm. Pitt, when 

 Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Right Hon. 

 Henry Dundas, when Secretary at War, making 

 their appearance in the House of Commons one 

 evening when each — 



" Plenoque Bacchi pectore tnrbiduin 



LKtatur." Hor. Od. ii. 19. 



The writer in the Chronicle quoting Horace — 



" Accessit fervor capiti immerusque lucernis " — 



Satyr, lib. ii. 1. 

 makes Mr. Pitt exclaim, — 



" I can't discern the Speaker, Hal, can yon ? " 

 To which Mr. Dundas replies, — 



" Not see the Speaker ! d me I see two." 



Besides this double vision there is another 

 consequence of too deep vinous potations spoken 

 of, which is, that candles " dance the hays," or 

 perhaps " haze," to the eyes of the intoxicated 

 person ; which is a term I do not comprehend, and 

 could wish to have explained. E. 



My Lady Moon. — In The Christmas Holidays, 

 by Miss Cave, Shrewsbury, 1789, a game is men- 

 tioned which I do not know, and which, as far as 

 I can learn, is not known in Salop now : — 



"To merry hearts our active hands beat time, 

 In Hunt the Slipper, and My Lady Moon." 



What is the latter ? R. M. G. 



Nicolas de Champ.— G. N. says (" N. & Q." 2"'' 

 S. v. 389.) the only child, a daughter, of Nicolas 

 de Champ became Mrs. Hall. Will G. N. kindly 

 give the names of ^er daughters (if she had any), 

 and who they married ? I am interested in the 

 name Hall. Non So. 



Poetical Squib. — In Political and Friendly 

 Poems, London, 1758, is one entitled "To Mr. J. 

 H. going a-fishing" : — 



" A splash, a bubble, and your pulse beats high, 

 As swift beneath the surface sinks your fly ; 

 ' A three-pound trout,' you cry. How blank your look ! 

 A mangey barbel dangles on your hook. 

 So P— for T— baited, and brought on 

 A fit of gout at sight of D — . 

 So the Cadniean, of delusions full, 

 Fished for a deity and caught a bull." 



Can any of your correspondents help me to the 

 meaning of the last four lines ? A. W. 



■' Madrigals. — The popularity of madrigals, I am 

 glad to observe, is not on the decrease ; indeed, 

 the recent performance of so many of them by 

 the Bradford Society at Buckingham Palace by 

 her M.njesty's command is proof that they are 

 favourites with royalty, whose patronage must 

 increase their reputation. Observing in the se- 

 lection some of my old friend Mr. Peargall's, I 



am induced to inquire through the " N. & Q." if 

 any of his relations or friends can inform me of 

 his age when he died abi-oad, and what family he 

 left behind him. These particulars arc omitted 

 in the biographical sketch of him which appeared 

 in the Gentleman's Magazine. Feeling an interest 

 also in the history of madrigals, their name and 

 origin, could any of your readers direct my at- 

 tention to the best authors who have written upon 

 them ? I possess Morley and Playford among the 

 elder writers, and Oliphant and Dr. Rimbault 

 among the moderns. I am anxious to add to the 

 very valuable information which Mr. Pearsall left 

 behind him, of which I possess a copy containing 

 materials for a far more extensive and erudite 

 history than I have before met with, and which 

 I trust will be perpetuated in a volume par- 

 ticularly devoted to the subject. J. M. G. 



Buhens. — Richard Symonds, in one of his note- 

 books upon painters and paintings, makes the fol- 

 lowing entry : — 



" Rubens. Sold King Charles his statues he had in 

 King James (sic) for 10 thousand pound, W^*" he had 

 bought for lOOOZ." 



To what does this refer ? Cl. Hopper. 



Serfdom in England. — I heard it stated a few 

 days ago that serfdom continued in force in the 

 mining districts of the North of England till a late 

 period in the last century, and that it required an 

 Act of Parliament to abolish it. Was this so, or 

 not ? If it was, can any of your readers tell me 

 the tide and date of the Act ? 



Henry Kensington. 



Clinton s " Fasti Hellenici." — In the concluding 

 part of Hora Apocalyptica, by the Rev. E. B. 

 Elliott, late Vicar of Tuxford, and Fellow of Trin. 

 Coll. Cam., a reference is made to an Essay on 

 Hehrew Chronology, by the above-named writer, 

 which I cannot discover, or even ascertain to 

 exist. In his (Elliott's) " Conclusion," he has at 

 page 1423. this passage : — 



" Clinton, in his Essay on Hebrew Chronology, appended 

 to his Fasti Hellenici, has gi'eatly elucidated this sub- 

 ject." 



My edition of the " Horse, &c." is 1844. Now I 

 possess Clinton's " Fasti, &c." (2nd edition, with 

 additions, 1851), and no Essay on Hebrew Chro- 

 nology is appended to it. Can any of your 

 correspondents inform me, first. Is there a later 

 edition, to which this essay is added, or, secondly, 

 can it be met with separately ? * Inquirer. 



Haunted House at Harlsden. — I have heard 

 there is a good house at Harlsden, near Wilsdon, 

 on the Harrow road, which is believed to be 

 haunted, and to be also unlucky to all tenants, on 

 which account it has been for some time unoc- 



[* See''N. &Q."2'>'»S. vi. 13.1 



