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sword at present in use was purchased ; and to 

 commemorate Sir Charles's liberality the mayor 

 and aldermen caused his name and coat of arms to 

 be engraved thereon." 



Prior to this the charter of Queen Elizabeth 

 (thirty-first of her reign), provides that the ser- 

 geant shall carry a mace " with the royal arms 

 upon it engraved;" and by that of James I. the 

 sergeants-at-mace are " to carry before the mayor 

 two maces of silver, or gilt with gold, engraved 

 and garnished with the king's arms, within the 

 borough and precincts thereof." Whether these 

 tuw maces were ever used I do not learn. 



The Mayor of Hull has two swords carried be- 

 fore him ; one given by Richard III., the other 

 by Henry VIII. 



Amongst the insignia at Colchester is a silver 

 oyster used by the water-bailiff to regulate the 

 size of oysters permitted to be caught, and also a 

 silver oar for the same functionary. 



Manchester has amongst its insignia a collar and 

 jewel for the mayor, of which the following is, I 

 believe, a correct description : — 



"The collar is an inch and a quarter wide, -with the 

 arms of Manchester in enamel, the rose of Lancaster al- 

 ternating with the ' S,' and a fancy knot-device, and in 

 the centre a beautiful scroll, with medallion, in relief, of 

 Commerce. From this is suspended a badge, bearing in 

 the centre the arras of Manchester in high relief and 

 enamelled on a crimson ground, with a ribbon of pur- 

 ple enamel, and the motto. Concilia et labors, formed in 

 diamonds. A rich gold border in the cinque-cento style, 

 with diamond wreaths of the rose, thistle, and shamrock 

 around. The ornament can be worn without the collar, 

 attached by a ribbon, in the same way as a military 

 order." ^ 



How long has this collar been in use ? and of 

 what other towns are the mayors thus decorated ? 



R. W. Hackwood. 



"For he that fights and runs away" (2°'* S. vi. 

 161.) — I have turned to all the ten articles 

 which relate to these words and their context, 

 and are alluded to by Mr. Yeowell at p. 161. of 

 your present volume, but have not found any re- 

 ference to a tract quoted in a note in Dodsley's 

 Collection of Old Plays, vol. xi. p. 236., edition of 

 1827. This note is signed " C," and is, therefore, 

 to be attributed to Mk. Collier. It states that, 



"In a translation from the French, printed in 1595, 

 called A pleasant Satyre or Poesie is to be found the fol- 

 lowing lines, which probably are the original of a passage 

 for which Hudibras is usually cited as the authority: — 

 ' Oft be that doth abide 

 Is cause of his own paine ; 

 ]5ut he that tiieth in good tide. 

 Perhaps may fight againe.' " 



PisHET Thompson. 

 Music at the Universities (2""* S. v. 474.) — In 

 the British Museum are three volumes of MS. 

 musical compositions by the late Mr. Samuel 

 Wesley, many of them being in his own hand- 

 writing, and others copied from his MS. : the 



whole being the gift of his friend, Mr. Vincent 

 Novello, to the Museum Library. One of the 

 volumes contains the copy of a setting by Mr. 

 Wesley of a verse from Anacreon, to ichich Mr. 

 Novello has appended the subjoined note, which I 

 send as apropos to Dr. Gauntlett's article ; and 

 also as showing Mr. Wesley's disposition to bid 

 defiance to the theorists upon the subject of con- 

 secutive fifths : — 



" In the original copy is the following remark in S. 

 Wesley's own handwriting : ♦ Here are two perfect fifths ; 

 and what of that 9'" 



A. R. 

 Winchester : Bicetre (2°* S. vi. 167.) — In an- 

 swer to this Query, the following explanation will 

 be found in Dulaure's Histoire des Environs de 

 Paris, vol. vi. part ii. pp. 302-3. : — 



" King St. Louis, wishing to establish a colony of Car- 

 thusian friars near his capital, granted them, in the parish 

 of Gentilly, a piece of ground, which received the name of 

 La Grange aux Queux from the name of one Lequeux 

 from whom he bought it in 1250. These Carthusian monks 

 having subsequently removed nearer to Paris, the monas- 

 tery was allowed to fall in ruins. 



" In 1290, John, Bishop of Wincester, in England, 

 built a castle on the site of La Grange aux Queux. This 

 castle kept the name of its founder, Wincester or Winces- 

 tre, which was afterwards corrupted into Bicetre. 



" The dukes of Berri and Orleans retired there with the 

 men of their party, where they negotiated a treaty of 

 peace called the peace of Wincester, the violation of which, 

 about a year after, is called in history the treason of Win- 

 cester." 



Gallus. 



" An instance of B and W being interchangeable " may 

 be found " in the Bicestre at Paris, built by the Bishop of 

 Winchester, Vincester, Bincester, Bicestre." — Campbell's 

 Lives of the Chancellors, i. 229. 



Tee-Bee. 



Teetotulism (2"'' S. vi. 145.) — In support of 

 Mr. Dawson Burns's account of the origin of the 

 word " tee-totalism," I may perhaps mention my 

 own recollection of the frequent employment of 

 the words " tee-total," " tee-totally," by my own 

 father, a West-countryman, born 1786, died 1846, 

 in the senses of " absolute," " entire," and " ab- 

 solutely," " entirely." Long before the total ab- 

 stinence movement, I feel sure the word was 

 familiar to him ; but whether he brought it from 

 Devonshire, with many other racy local and pro- 

 vincial expressions, or adopted it from some early 

 friend, I cannot pretend to say. Cantab. 



Rohesia, Sister of Archbishop Becket (2"* S. 

 ii. 386.) — L. B. L. produces from the Pipe Rolls 

 some notices of payments to this lady from a mill 

 at Canterbury, and asks whether her existence 

 had been noticed by any one ? It is but very 

 lately that I have become able to answer this 

 question. 



1. The orAy printed Roll in which the payment 

 occurs is, I believe, that of 1 Rich. I., edited by 

 Mr. Hunter in 1844. The entry in this is quoted 



