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History of Bohemian Persecution (Vol. ii., p. 358.). See note to Worthington's Diary and Correspondence, vol. i. p. 154., for a notice of this work of Comenius, and his other publications relating to the Bohemian church. JAS. CROSSLEY.

"Earth has no Rage" (Vol. iii., p. 23.).—
"Earth has no rage like love to hatred turn'd,

And hell no fury like a woman scorn'd." These are the concluding lines of Act III. of Congreve's Mourning Bride. They stand, however, thus, in the edition to which I have referred: "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorn'd." JAS. CROSSLEY.

Manchester, 11. Jan. 1851.
Couplet in De Foe (Vol. ii., p. 310.).

"Restraint from ill is freedom to the wise, And good men wicked liberties despise." This couplet is altered from the following couplet in De Foe's True Born Englishman :

"Restraint from ill is freedom to the wise,

But Englishmen do all restraint despise." See collection of his writings, vol. i. p. 20., edit. 1703. JAS. CROSSLEY. Private Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth (Vol. iii., p. 23.). "The Secret History of the most renowned Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex. In two parts. By a person of Quality. Cologne: printed for Will with the Wisp, at the Sign of the Moon in the Ecliptick. M.D.CLXXXI." is the title of a small volume in my possession, containing some curious hints corroborative of the first part of Mr. Ives' MS. note mentioned in "NOTES AND QUERIES" (Vol. iii. p. 11.). If this be the book to which your correspondent, J E. C., refers in your last number, he is perfectly welcome to the perusal of my copy. WILLIAM J. D. ROPER.

Vane House, Hampstead, Jan. 18, 1851. Abbot's House at Buckden (Vol. ii., p. 494.). — MR. C. H. COOPER asks, "will M. C. R. explain his allusion to the Abbot's House at Buckden ?"

Being only an occasional visitor there, I can give no other explanation than it is universally called so by the inhabitants of the place. The house is very low-roomed, and only one story high; it has been compoed over, so that there is nothing very ancient in the look of the brickwork, excepting the chimneys, which form a cluster in the centre. The door I mentioned, evidently is an ancient one. A good deal of iron about it, and in square compartments.

When I was there recently, I was informed of a discovery in a public-house formerly called the Lion-now, the Lamb. A gentleman in the place came into possession of some pamphlets respecting Buckden; in one of which it is said, that this house was originally the hostel where the visitors and domestics used to go when the bishop had not

room at the palace for them, and that it would be found there was an "Agnus Dei" in the ceiling of one of the lower rooms. The consequence was, search was made for it: and what seemed a plain boss, where two beams crossed each other, on being cleansed and scraped, turned out to be as the book said, and which I saw only last week. The clergyman has the pamphlet above alluded to. Whether this, and the abbot's house, belonged to the palace I cannot say. The road now runs between them.

The "Agnus Dei" is seven or eight inches in diameter; the lamb, &c., in the centre, and the words "Ecce Agnus Dei" in a circular border round it.

This is all the information I can now give.

M. C. R.

Bab in the Bouster (Vol. ii., p. 518.). - In your makes an observation regarding "Bab in the valuable periodical your correspondent "MAC." Bowster," which is not correct so far as regards this part of the country at least. He says "it is now danced with a handkerchief instead of a cushion," whereas the fact is I have never seen it danced but with a pillow, as its name "Bab in the Bowster (Anglice bolster)" would seem to denote. The manner of dancing it is, the company having formed itself into a circle, one, either male or female, goes into the centre, carrying a pillow, and dances round the circle with a sort of shuffling quick step, while the others sing,-.;, "Wha learn'd you to dance, you to dance, you to dance,

Wha learn'd you to dance, Bab in the Bowster brawly?"

To which the dancer replies:

"Mother learn'd me to dance, me to dance, me to dance,

Mother learn'd me to dance, Bab in the Bowster brawly."

He or she then lays down the pillow before one of the opposite sex, when they both kneel on it and kiss; the person to whom the pillow has been presented going over the above again, &c., till the company tires.

here, particularly among young people, and at I may add that the above is a favourite dance children's parties in particular it is never omitted. your correspondent wishes the air to which it is danced, I shall be glad to send it to him.

If

Paisley.

GLENIFFER.

Si Cloudesley Shovel (Vol. iii., p.23.). -"H. J." will find a "Note" in Cunningham's Lives of Eminent Englishmen (vol. iv. p. 47.), of the circumstances attendant upon Sir Cloudesley's death, as preserved in the family of the Earl of Romney, detailing the fact of his murder, and the mode of

its discovery. I shall be happy to supply your correspondent with an extract, if he has not the above work at hand. J. B. COLMAR.

Noli me tangere (Vol. ii., p. 153.).—In addition to the painters already enumerated as having treated this subject, the artist Le Sueur, commonly called the Raphael of France, may be mentioned. In his picture, the figures are somewhat above half nature. W. J. MERCER. Cad (Vol. i., p. 250.).—Jamieson derives this word, or rather its Scotch diminutive, "cadie," from the French, cadet. I have heard it fancifully traced to the Latin "cauda." W. J. MERCER.

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NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. Mr. Disraeli's work, entitled Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles the First, has been pronounced by one of the great critical authorities of our own days, "the most important work on the subject that modern times have produced. Those who differ from Mr. Disraeli's view of the character of the king and the part he played in the great drama of his age may, in some degree, dissent from this eulogy. None will, however, deny that the work, looking to its anecdotical character, and the great use made in it of sources of information hitherto unemployed, is one of the most amusing as well as interesting histories of that eventful period. While those who share with the editor, Mr. B. Disraeli, and many reflecting men, the opinion that in the great questions which are now agitating the public mind, history is only repeating itself; and that the chapters on the Genius of the Papacy; on the Critical Position of our earlier Protestant Sovereigns with regard to their Roman Catholic Subjects, from the consequences of the oaths of Allegiance and Supre

macy; on the Study of Polemical Divinity prevalent at the commencement of the Seventeenth Century, and kindred themes, are, in fact, the history of the events, the thoughts, the passions, and the perplexities of the present agitated epoch," will agree that the republication of the work at this moment is at once opportune and acceptable.

Illustrations of Shakspeare's Plays, which we are glad to see promised from the same competent authority.

We are at length enabled to announce that The columns, is about to be published under the editorship Treatise on Equivocation, so often referred to in our of Mr. Jardine, whose attention has long been directed to it from its connexion with the Gunpowder Conspiracy; and whose intimate acquaintance with that subject, as shown in his Criminal Trials, is a sufficient pledge for his ability to do justice to this curious and important historical document.

We regret to learn, from the Catalogue of the Muwhich has been very carefully drawn up, with a preseum of Medieval Art, collected by the late Mr. Cottingham, face by Mr. Shaw, that, if the Family are disappointed in disposing of the Museum to the Government, or by private contract, it will be submitted to Public Sale in April next, and a Collection of the most ample and varied examples of Medieval Architecture ever brought together, which has been formed at a vast outlay both of labour and cost, will be dispersed, and be thereby rendered inaccessible and valueless to the architectural student.

The Rev. W. H, Kelke has published some Notices of Sepulchral Monuments in English Churches, a work which is not intended for professed antiquaries, but for that large class of persons who, although they have som e taste for the subject of which it treats, have neither time nor inclination to enter deeply into it, and as will, we have no doubt, be very acceptable to those to whom it is immediately addressed.

Davies, of Woolwich.

We regret to announce the death of one of our earliest and most valued contributors, Professor T. S. Probably few men in England," says the Athenæum, "were better versed in the methods of the old geometers, or possessed a more His critical appreciation of their relative merits." death is a great loss to geometrical science, as well as to a large circle of friends.

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Re lies to Minor Queries:- Handbell before a Corpse - Sir George Downing- Hulls, the Inventor of Steamboats "Clarum et venerabile Nomen" Occult Transposition of Letters-Darby and Joan- Did Bunyan know Hobbes ?- Mythology of the StarsDodo Queries - Holland Land Swearing by Swans The Frozen Horn Cockade and True Blue - The Vavasours of Hazlewood-"Breeches" Bible-Histoire des Sévarambes — Verses attributed to Charles Yorke Archb shop Bolton of Cashel -- Erasmus and Farel Early Culture of the Imagination-William Chilcot By and bye-Mocker-Was Colonel Hew. son a Cobbler?-Mole-Pillgarlick-A recent Novel Tablet to Napoleon - North Sides of Churchyards -Wisby-Singing of Swans - Dacre Monument at Herstmonceux - Herstmonceux Castle Suem ; Ferling; Grasson - Portrait of Archbishop WilliamsSaans hatched during Thunder - Etymology of Apricot - Plurima gemina latet cæca tellure sepulta"Time when Herodotus wrote Lucy and Colin Translations of Apuleius, &c.-Ftymology of " Grasson" - Lynch Law"Talk not of Love". -The Butcher Duke - Curfew Robertson Struan

TRADITIONAL ENGLISH BALLADS.

The task of gathering old traditionary song is surely a pleasant and a lightsome one. Albeit the harvest has been plentiful and the gleaners many, still a stray sheaf may occasionally be found worth the having. But we must be careful not to "pick up a straw."

One of your correspondents recommends, as an addition to the value of your pages, the careful getting together of those numerous traditional ballads that are still sometimes to be met with, floating about various parts of the country. This advice is by no means to be disregarded, but I wish to point out the necessity of the contributors to the undertaking knowing something about ballad literature. An acquaintance with the ordinary published collections, at least, cannot be dispensed with. Without this knowledge we should be only multiplying copies of worthless trifles, or reprinting ballads that had already appeared in print.

As a

The traditional copies of old black-letter ballads are, in almost all cases (as may easily be seen by comparison), much the worse for wear. proof of this I refer the curious in these matters to a volume of Traditional Versions of Old Ballads, collected by Mr. Peter Buchan, and edited by Mr. Dixon for the Percy Society. The Rev. Mr. Dyce pronounces this "a volume of forgeries; but, acquitting poor Buchan (of whom more anon) of any intention to deceive, it is, to say the least of it, a volume of rubbish; inasmuch as the ballads are all worthless modern versions of what had

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