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commoa where the tree was referred to as a 

 testimony^ for the purpose of deciding the im- 

 portant questions at issue, whether the New 

 Style or the Old Style was right, and when 

 Christmas Day ovght to h- kept. The following is 

 an amusing instance : — 



" Malwood Castle and Lodge, in Hampshire, near 

 Beaulieu and tlie New Forest, has on its N. Side an Oak, 

 which is said to bud Dec. 25, 0. S., and to wither before 

 Night. King Charles II. order'd it to be paled in. 



" In December, 1752, when the Neiv Style had taken 

 place, the sagacious Populace of these Parts made this 

 Tree the Criterion to decide which was the right (as they 

 cull'd it) Christmas- Dai/ : And finding it not bud Dec. 25. 

 that Year, but, 'tis said, that it did so Jan. 5, 1753, which 

 would have been the English Christmas Day, had not the 

 Style been alter'd — they yiexz firmly established in Belief, 

 that the former was an absolutely wrong Christmas-Day, 

 and that this was orthodoxly the right one ; and resolved, 

 in spite of all Acts of Parliament, to keep their Christinas 

 yearly on the same : — They, good souls, little dreaming, 

 that, supposing Christ was born 1752 years ago on the 

 then Dec. 25, that the true Anniversarj' of that Nativity 

 would fall on or about the present New Style Dec. 23, or 

 Old Style Dec. 12, or the present Jan. 7. For we are 

 right even now no farther than by conforming to other 

 parts of Cliristendoni, and dating but from the Council of 

 Nice." — From Universal Geographical Dictionary. By 

 Andrew Brice of Exeter, 1754. 



A Margate Worthy. — At the commencement 

 of the present century, some of your aged readers 

 may remember Bennett the Donkey Hackneyman, 

 as he styled himself, at this celebrated watering- 

 place. The following advertisement issued by 

 him contains a very delicate compliment to the 

 fair sex, and no doubt obtained for him consi- 

 derable patronage : — 



" Cows' milk and asses' too, I sell, 

 And keep a stud for hire 

 Of donkej'S fam'd for going well. 

 And mules that never tire. 



" Au angel honour'd Balaam's ass 

 To meet her in the way ; 

 But Bennett's troop through Thanet pass 

 With angels every day." 



Bachelor. 



^m0r «9uertct{. 



Consecration of Bishop William Barlow. — Is 

 anything known about the consecration of Bishop 

 Barlow, the chief consecrator of Archbishop Parker ? 

 It has been brought up again of late, to invalidate 

 this last consecration, that no proof exists of Bar- 

 low having been consecrated himself. A note 

 in Godwin de PrasuL, art. Barlow, St. Asaph, 

 stands thus : " Confirmatus ab archiepiscopo Feb. 

 23, 1535, Regist. Cranm. dies vero quo consecra- 

 tus nondum apparet." 



On the strength of this, Godwin gives the day 

 Feb. 22, but without authority. As Barlow had 

 been Prior of the Canons Regular at Bisham, is it 

 possible that, he may have been previously conse- 



crated as a bishop in partibus ? Information will 

 oblige F. C. Massingberd, 



Ormsby, Alford. 



Mr. Baron Pochlington. — I am anxious to meet 

 with a portrait of Mr. Pocklington, a Baron of 

 Exchequer in Ireland temp. Geo. I. ? 



Constant Reader. 



Colgumelmor. — One of the boundary lines of 

 Beaulieu Abbey,' Hants, starts from a large arti- 

 ficial lake, which formerly drove the wheels of an 

 iron forge of great antiquity. In a charter of 

 John (as referred to in a confirmation grant, temp. 

 Edward III.), this locality is termed " Colgumel- 

 mor, quae Fresshwatur dicitur." Can any deri- 

 vation be assigned to this word? Can it be a 

 corruption of Cog Hammer, or something similar ? 



E. K. 



Thoughts on the Human Soul. — I have a book 

 entitled — 



" Thoughts on the Human Soul, with Considerations on 

 its State after Death: chiefly founded on Experience. 

 Parts 1 and 2, Translated from the German by S. Parker, 

 London, 1778." 



The translator speaks of the original as having 

 given rise to much controversy in Germany, and 

 promises to translate the 3rd and 4th parts when 

 published, if the public approve his present work. 

 The book is learned, and has some bold specula- 

 tions, but the author seems deeply impressed with 

 religious feeling. I have not been able to find 

 the promised continuation or the German original 

 Can any of your correspondents direct me to 

 either ? W. S. P. 



Thomas Chatterton. — This poet communicated 

 much of his early productions to the Town and 

 Country Magazine, and chiefly to the first volume 

 of that miscellany for the year 1769. The whole 

 is dated from Bristol, and signed D. B. At p. 

 713. ai'esome lines entitled "the Advice, addressed 



to Miss Maria R , of Bristol." Can anyone 



supply me with the name in full ? Petens. 



Bell-Ringing. — Can any of your correspondents 

 point out an Italian author on the Art of Bell- 

 Ringing. N. G. C. 



Daniel Langhorne. — Of what family was the 

 author of Chronicon Regum Anglia, published in 

 1671 ? R. W. Dixon. 



Seaton-Carew, co. Durham. 



Arms assumed during Commonwealth. — Many 

 families assumed arms during the Commonwealth 

 and the Protectorate. By what authority did they 

 do so ? Can any instance be given of arms as- 

 sumed at that period being yet in use without the 

 family having at some subsequent period received 

 a grant from the Heralds' College ? 



Glis p. Templ, 



