2-1 S. VI. 138., Aug. 21. '58.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Lady Ashhurton. — About thirty or thirty-five 

 years ago, Lady Ashburton, a widow said to be 

 possessed of a fortune of 200,000^., made a great 

 figure in the Northern metropolis. It waS sup- 

 posed that her fortune ultimately descended to 

 Lord Cranstoun, to whom she was related. Who 

 was the Lord Ashburton ? Dunning, I think his 

 name was. Of what family was she ? T. 



[The lady above referred to was Anne, widow of 

 I!ithard Barrfe Dunning, tiie second and last Baron Ash- 

 burton of that famil}', who died at Friars' Hall, Kox- 

 burghshire, in February, 1823. She was the daughter of 

 William Cunningham, of Lainshaw, Esq.] 



Tennis. — Our English game of Tennis is iden- 

 tical with the French Jeu de Paume ; but what is 

 the meaning of the English name Tennis? It is 

 old, being mentioned by Shakspeare, who must 

 himself have been a tennis-player from the cor- 

 rectness with which he speaks the language of the 

 game : — 



" We're glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us. 

 His present and your pains we thank you for. 

 When we have match'd our rac/tets to these balls. 

 We will, in France, by God's grace, plat/ a set 

 Shall strike his Father's crown into the hazard. 

 Tell him he 'ath made a match with such a wrangler 

 That all the Courts of France will be disturbed 

 With Chases." 



And the Cronydes of Englonde (Wynkyn de 

 Worde, 1528), speaking of the Dauphin's insult- 

 ing present to Henry V., says, " And somwhat 

 in scorne and despyte he sent to hym a tonne full 

 of tenes balles." A Player. 



[Richardson, in his Dictionary, explains that the name 

 of this game, Tennis, " is from the French Tenez, ac- 

 cipe, lake — a word which the French, who excel in this 

 game, use when they hit the ball." Dr. Richardson 

 adds, " Skinner has two other conjectures not so plausi- 

 ble." See " N. & Q." 1" S. xii. 308.] 



Dr. Bongout. — Who wrote The Journey of Dr. 

 Bongout and his Lady to Bath in 177--. Dodsley, 

 1778 ? T. G. L. 



[On the title-page of a copy of this work we find the 

 following MS. note : " By Dr. Robert Bragg, well known 

 to tlie connoisseurs in painting." This worthy, however, 

 has not found a niche in any biographical dictionary, so 

 tliat we shall be glad to have a few particulars respecting 

 bim.] 



Hrplui. 



CATHEDBAL-SEEVICE TRADITION. 

 (2"'^ S. vi. 109.) 



I sympathise with Jacob, and hope he will 

 condole with me ; since on S. James' Day his 

 cathedral-service .and my parish-cliurch traditioo 

 were identical — with private judgment. Private 

 judgment could alone have guided one petty 

 canon to have inserted the wrong lesson, and the 

 other to have omitted the right collect, and both 



to have mingled in one heterogeneous mass the 

 key-notes of two different offices. It appears to 

 me to be simply absurd to mingle what never 

 could have been intended to be, and what never 

 used to be, mixed. It may be a question with 

 some persons whether the office for the Saint's 

 day, or Sunday, be used : but I cannot under- 

 stand any compromise between the two, proceeding 

 upon principle. On the greater holy days, of 

 course, the lesser saint's day office gives way. But 

 if private judgment — which in some form or 

 another answers most of Jacob's Queries — pre- 

 vail, the custom of the church carries no weight. 



There is only one case which suggests itself to 

 me, as in any degree lawful, in which the lessons 

 for the Sunday and the office of Holy Communion 

 for the saint's day might be used ; and that is 

 where Morning Prayer and Holy Communion are 

 said at diffijrent hours, such as before and after 

 breakfast. This I should not think advisable. 



The two latest authorities I have at hand are 

 !RIr. Procter and Professor Blunt. With all ad- 

 miration for the latter, neither of these writers 

 are, I believe, eminent rubricians. It may not be 

 amiss, however, to hear what they say. On the 

 subject of Proper Lessons, the Professor " ven- 

 tures to say thus much, that in general the weight 

 of argument is on the side of adopting the lessons 

 for the holy day. For, 1st, "on some Holy Days, 

 e.g. the Epiphany, the Athanasian Creed is made 

 to supersede that of the Apostles; and he argues 

 from the Creeds to the Lessons, 2d, " on some, 

 e.g. Conversion of S. Paul, there is no second 

 lesson appointed, and the minister is driven for 

 the second lesson, at least, to the saint's day." 

 3d. It is argued from the analogy of the rubrics 

 of the state services. Still Mr. Blunt says there 

 is a difficulty — of course he means the lessons 

 from the Apocrypha. In the cases these are ap- 

 pointed to be read on a saint's day, he thinks, 

 that from the analogy of the rule on which proper 

 lessons are selected, that hesitation to adopt them 

 may be reasonable. This is clearly opposed to his 

 second great argument. He does not attempt to 

 show that the church ever intended a mixture of 

 services. Whilst upon no fewer than three saints' 

 days, S. Peter, Conversion of S. Paul, and All 

 Saints, which cannot I believe fall on any greater 

 holy day, the church has deliberately selected 

 special lessons from the Apocrypha and the New 

 Testament, and the minister, to use the Profes- 

 sor's words, is driven to use the selected second 

 lesson at the least. Unless then it can be shown 

 — what I do not think can be proved — that the 

 church sanctions an admixture of offices, the onvs 

 prohaudi that the selected saint's day lessons be 

 not used, lies with Jacob's and my own opponents. 

 To my mind this consideration is final. 



Mr. Procter takes the same line of analogy from 

 the Sunday lessons as Mr. Blunt, only with les^ 



