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NOTES AND QUERIES. . [2nd s. vi. us., Oct. 



80. '58. 



ber of the woodcuts are considerably worn, and a 

 few of tliein i)(it by any means contemptible in 

 design lor <i cheap popular manual of that period, 

 1720. G. N. 



THE MASS TEKMED A "SONG. 



(2'>'J S. vi. 214. 279.) 



We must all admit that the " Mass " of the 

 early Cliurch was no other than the Holy Eu- 

 charist. My statement, therefore, was not that, 

 in former days, the Mass itself was termed a song, 

 an idea which it would be painful to entertain ; 

 but that " to the service of the Mass the term 

 'song' was particularly applied." Neither, in 

 using the word " particularly," did I mean to 

 signify that our English forefathers applied the 

 term " song " to the services of the Mass exclu- 

 sively. My meaning was, and is, that they applied 

 it not oidy to our mediaeval Church services ge- 

 nerally, but to the service of the Mass in parti- 

 cular; expressly, ex professo, to the service of the 

 Mass, as well as to the other services of the 

 Church. My statement relates to times past; 

 but, in a measure, I find it sustained by a learned 

 and alile writer of more recent date, under the 

 beading " Liturgy of the Mass." Dr. Rock, Ilie- 

 ru>'gta, 1851, pp. 80, 81, : — 



" These words form the conclusion of the Secret. The 

 Priest liere elevates his voice at Low Mass, and at Higli 



Mass employs a chant in their recitation The 



style of music for singinf; the ' Preface' and the ' Pater 

 Noster,'" [parts of the 'Liturgy of the Mass,' as well as] 

 "for chaining the psalms at Vespers, and at other parts of 



divine service is indiscriminately called Plain 



Song, and the Gregorian Chant." 



Old writers also expressly speak of the service 

 of the M iss as a song. 



R. Bnimie, cited by Dr. Richardson, " and thi 

 Masse sonszen " (and thy Mass songs). 



Foxe, Ads and Mon. (1610), p. 1299. col. 2., 

 " They had Masse of the holie Ghost solemnly 

 sung in pricksimg." 



Roderick Mors, in his " Complaint," p. 2. of 



oh. i., " An unholy Masse rolled up with 



discant, priksoiig, and organes." 



The service of the Mass is sometimes called by 

 Foxe " the IHurgie" (" The liturgie, or Masse, as 

 they call it, did first b°gin with Dominus vobis- 

 cum," p. 1275. col. 1.). Now, under this *,itle also 

 Foxe desi-ribes the Mass-service as a sovg, p. 

 1275. col. 2. in the " Ofiertory :" — 



" Thus ye may see what was their oblations and sacri- 

 fice in the ancient time of their liturgie [Mass]. Where- 

 of now remaineth nothing but their name only with the 

 song." 



It nintters not how often in mediaeval times the 

 Mass was sung, how often said. The idea of sing- 

 ing always attached to the Mass. " Siiigijig-hread, 

 the round cakes or wafers intended for the con- 



secrated host in the eucharistic sacrament" (Halli- 

 well). ^'- Chanterie" (Chantry, Chaunterie), "An 

 endowment for the payment of a priest, to sing 

 Mass agreeably to the appointment of the founder" 

 (i'fi.). The Mass might in this case be far oftener 

 said than sung : still the endowment was a Chan- 

 terie. 



When therefore an individual bequeathed a 

 property to secure Masses for his soul, surely it 

 migiit very naturally be said by those who had 

 e.\pected the property to become theirs (as sug- 

 gested 2"'^ S. vi. 214.), that he had "sold it for a 

 song." Thomas Boys. 



FAMILIES OF WAKE AND DE VERB. 



(-2"'^ S. vi. 232. 275.) 



Inquiries having recently been made respecting 

 several members of the Wake family, it may not 

 be out of place to seek for information respecting 

 the earlier part of their pedigree. 



The founder of the family was Hugh Wac, who, 

 in the reign of Hen. I., took to wife Enmia, daugh- 

 ter and ultimately heir of Baldwin Fitz-Gilbert, 

 the son of Gilbert de Gaui, and grandson of Bald- 

 win Count of Flanders. We are told that this 

 Hugh was succeeded by three generations of 

 Baldwins. 



The account given by Dugdale is that Baldwin 

 I. died a. 3 Johan (a.d. 1201) ; that some time after 

 his death Baldwin II. took to wi.'e Agnes, daugh- 

 ter to William du Hommet ; that this Baldwin 

 died 8 Johan, a.d. 1206 ; and that his son by the 

 said Agnes, — Baldwin IH., — after marrying Isa- 

 bel), daughter of William de Briwer, died before 

 the 15th year of King John, a.d. 1213, leaving a 

 son Hugh. 



If this statement were correct, Hugh, the grand- 

 son of Baldwin II., must have been born within 

 twelve years after the marriage of his grandfather. 

 How is this to be accounted for ? 



In memory of their descent from the Counts of 

 Flanders, we find that Baldwin became the fa- 

 vourite name in the family of Wake ; and the 

 traditional association appears to be retained to 

 our own day in the Christian name of Sir Baldwin 

 Wake Walker. 



From the Placiia de Quo Warranto (p. 500.) 

 we learn that one Robert de Veer (whose great- 

 grandson, Ranulphus, was living a. 3 Edw. III., 

 A.D. 1329) was enfeoffed of the manor of Thrnp- 

 ston in the county of Northampton by one Balde- 

 winus de Wake ; and that the son of the Robert 

 de Veer so enfeoffed bore the name of Baldwin. 

 This is probably the Baldwin de Ver whose name 

 occurs in the Rot. de Ohlatis et Finibus in connexion 

 with the manor of Thrapston, a. G Johan, a.d, 1205. 



In addition to my first Query I would ask, Was 

 there any Baldwin de Ver before the reign of 

 King John ? 



