2oa S. VI. 142., Sept.- 18. '58.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Popes Nicholas V. and Pius II. (1447 to 1464); 

 these were confirmed and enlarged by Sixtus IV. 

 in 1475. The Bull of Pope Julius II., dated 

 1510, granted to the chapel of this guild the pri- 

 vileges alluded to in the following extract from 

 Blomefield's Norfolk; and these privileges were 

 confirmed in 1526 by Pope Clement VII. through 

 the influence of King Henry VIII. Blomefield says, 



" That which brought most profit to the church of the 

 Au£;ustine Friars at Norwich was the chapel of Our Lady 

 in that church, called Scaia Celt, to which the people 

 were continually coming in pilgrimage, and offering at 

 the altar. Most people desiring to have masses sung for 

 them there, or to be buried in the cloister of Scala Cell, 

 that they might be partakers of the many pardons and 

 indulgeiicies granted by the Pope to this place ; this 

 being the only chapel, — except that of the same name at 

 Westminster, and that of Our Lady in St. Buttolph's 

 church at Boston, — that I find to have the same privi- 

 leges and indulgencies as the Chapel of Scala Celi at 

 Rome. These were so great as to make all the three 

 places aforesaid so much frequented ; it being so much 

 easier for people to pay their devotions here, than to go so 

 long a journey to Rome." — History of Norfolk, vol. iv. p. 

 60., 8vo. ed. 



PiSHEY Thompson. 



Segislers of Windsor Parish Church (2"'* S. 

 vi. 163.) — I send another batch of extracts : — 

 " 1.653. Bur* D"^ John Spencer. 



1654. Bur* Thomas and Peter Addington. 



1655. Mar* M"^ Rich. Barker of Buttales (^sic), Billins- 



gate, London ; and M" Marj' Manwaryng of 

 Windsor. 

 1655. Mar* M' John Topham of S' Martin's in London 

 and M" Jone Stoughton. 

 Bur* M' Abraham Wake. 

 1C56. Bur* M'' Lancelot Folson. 



1658. Mar* JP Andrew Plumton, widower, and M"'' 

 Mary Toulson, widdow. 

 Mar* M"' Thomas Hunt of Graves Inn, esq", and 

 M" Ann Veisej' of this parish, dau. to Rob' 

 Veisey, esq., of Chimney house, Oxon. 

 Bur* M'' Nathaniel Worsop. 

 Jl'' Thomas Silvard. 

 1660. Bur* D"- Peter Read' 



Henry Soraerset-harbert. 

 1002. Bap' James, sou to John Denham, D.M. 

 1663. Mar* M"' Henry Chowne and M" Ellen Plum- 

 ridg. 

 Bur* Elizabeth, dau. of Will"" Scroope." 

 If it is wished, I will continue these extracts, 

 which I regret to say do not include the day of 

 the month. R. C. \V. 



Birch Tree Decorations (2"* S. vi. 148.) — On 

 the Coronation day of our beloved Queen many 

 parts of the ancient borough of Colchester were 

 <l(;cked in the manner your correspondent A. A. 

 bitely witnessed at Tonbridge. The upper part of 

 ii.s noble High Street was so luxuriantly adorned, 

 it resembled a bowery avenue ; large branches, 

 and even young trees, of four and six feet high 

 and upward.s, being planted before each door at 

 tlie outer edge of the pavement, many of them 

 garnished with bright flowers, ribbons, &c. My 

 impression is that many, if not most, were birch, 



as your correspondent notes ; though his surmise 

 for the cause would not here apply : probably this 

 kind of tree is better suited for such purposes 

 than the heavy massed foliage of most other trees ; 

 perhaps also cheaper. In the later part of the 

 day, after a heavy shower, my father revisited the 

 scene, and found all "the greenery" had disap- 

 peared. Inquiring the cause, the reason assigned 

 seemed singular : " they were laid under the Corn 

 Exchange to keep them dry." The wonder ex- 

 cited by such singular care for boughs and trees 

 was, however, soon solved. As the evening drew 

 on, a humorous scuffle ensued between the owners 

 of the boughs and the town boys, &c., for their 

 possession. The latter speedily proving victors, 

 consigned them to a noble bonfire, by which the 

 day's entertainment was ended. Your correspon- 

 dent does not state whether the fate of those 

 which adorned Tonbridge was similar. Is there 

 not some allusion to a practice of the kind in the 

 old lines beginning — 



" Come my Corinna, come"? 

 Though being just now from home, I cannot in- 

 vestigate the point, or supply the passage. 



S. M. S. 



SStStrnaiiroujS. 



MONTHLY FEUILLETON ON FKENCH BOOKS. 



After a short absence, which has prevented me from 

 forwarding mv usual communications to the "N. & Q.," 

 I set down once more to resume these bibliographical 

 comptes rendus. 



M. Techener's publications are the first I shall notice 

 on the present occasion, and did time and space permit, 

 each one of them would be entitled to a distinct minute 

 analysis : — 



" Les Historiettes de Tallemant des Reaux,3"= Edition en 

 sept volumes, revue et considerablement augmentec par 

 MM. de Monmerqu^ et Paulia Paris, in-8, tomes I. h, VI. 



E'dition grand in-8, format et papier des publications 

 de la Societe de I'Histoire de France. 



Grand papier de Hollande, tir^ k trfes-petit nombre. 

 Paris, Techeaer." 



I begin by Tallemant des R^aux, an amusing and right 

 merrie author of memoirs, reminding us somewhat of 

 Samuel Pepys, but with more liveliness and greater va- 

 riety. Tallemant des Re'aux has become almost as po- 

 pular as Saint Simon himself, thanks to the accuracy of 

 his descriptions, and to the picturesque energ}' of his style. 

 MM. de Monmerque, de Chateaugiron and Taschereau, 

 had published together in 1834 an edition of the Histo- 

 riettes; a second one, prepared by M. de Monmerque 

 alone, came out six years later (1840) ; and now we are 

 called upon to say a few words of the third and very 

 much improved reprint revised and annotated by M. 

 de Monmerque and M. Paulin Paris. Three editions 

 within less than twenty j'ears, this is surely a good sort 

 of i)opularity ; we must see what claims the Historiettes 

 have to such extraordinary success. 



Tallemant des Rdaux was a man whom nature had 

 formed on purpose to write the Chronirjue Scandalevse of 

 the seventeenth centurj'. Not being tied by any parti- 

 cular business, and having at his disposal the free use of 

 his time, he spent day after day in running from drawing- 



