place at Christmas in "the small neat country Shakspeare at Paddington. - There is a tradition mentioned in Ollier's romance of Ferrers, and by Mr. Robins in his Paddington, Past and Present, p. 182., that our great poet visited or played at the old Red Lion Inn, in the Edgeware Road, near the Harrow Road, taken down a few years since for the present one to be erected. What is the real tradition, and its history, &c.? And is there any print of the old inn in existence? H. G. D. compiled by a member of the family between 1720 and 1735, I find mention of " Edmond FitzDavid Barry, of Rahaniskey in the county of Corke, foster-father of the late Queen Anne." The person referred to represented a once power-period is early in the present century, being prior ful branch of the Barry family in the county of Cork, possessed of several strong castles, viz. Robertstown, Rahaniskey, Ballymore in the Great Island, Ballydolohery, &c., all of which, with the fertile lands attached, were forfeited to the crown in consequence of his adherence to King James II., and were sold by auction to various purchasers at Chichester House in the year 1703; reserving a jointure to " Susannah," wife of the forfeiting person, in case she survived him, of 150l. per annum. His eldest brother was also an adherent of the Stuart family, being described in King Charles II.'s letter as "Lieutenant Richard Barry of Robertstown, who served in the regiment of our Deare Brother the Duke of York in Flanders, where he acquitted himself with much reputation to himself and country, with constant loyalty and faithfulness to us.' Edmond, the person referred to in the Blennerhassett manuscript, was the third brother, but succeeded to his family estates on the death of his elder brothers Richard and David without issue; he had a younger brother John. Although the public records contain much matter relating to the history of this family for many generations, I have not been able to ascertain who Susannah, the supposed foster-mother of the queen, was, whether English, Irish, or a foreigner. The foregoing shows the connection with the Stuarts, and although the allegations of the queen's fosterage is only supported by Mr. Blennerhassett's statement, which he makes apparently as being within his own personal knowledge (which it might well be, as he was an old man at the time he compiled the pedigree), yet it deserves some credence from the known respectability of the writer. Perhaps the question with which I have headed this paper may be an inducement to some of your numerous readers to search for the truth of a circumstance of historical interest never alluded to, as far as I can ascertain, by any writer Dublin, Minor Queries. Winter Assizes. Can any of your correspondents oblige me by giving the date of a third or winter assize being first appointed in England, and whether there is an instance of the same having been held on the Western Circuit? Mr. James is a clever novelist, and his plots are ably conceived; but I consider him apt to commit mistakes in carrying out details. In his novel of Delaware, for instance, he fixes a trial to take "Alfred, or the Magic of Nature." - Can any of your readers inform me who is the author of Alfred, or the Magic of Nature, a tragedy, published at Edinburgh in 1820? R. J. David Lindsay.-Can you give me any information regarding David Lindsay, who was author of Dramas of the Ancient World, published at Edinburgh about 1822? I think one or two of the dramas had previously appeared in Blackwood's Magazine. R. J. Lightning Conductors to Ships. When were conductors first attached to the masts of vessels to prevent them from being struck by lightning? L. C. Figure of the Horse in Hieroglyphics.- What is the meaning of the figure of the horse in the Egyptian hieroglyphics? Amongst the number of such hieroglyphics which cover, both internally and externally, the sarcophagus of the queen of Amasis II. in the British Museum, it occurs only once; or perhaps I should say, on examination I could only find it once, either thereon or elsewhere engraven. At all events, its rarity causes it to be the subject of this inquiry. R. W. HACKWOOD. Poem about a Mummy. Can any correspondent direct me where to look for some droll lines which I remember to have read, in which a mummy just unrolled gives the conceited nineteenth century an account "how much better they did things" in his day? A. A. D. ""Tis said, that by the death of a Scots nobleman, who died lately a Roman Catholick priest, the title descends to a man cook that lived with a general officer in Eng land, who, in regard to his cook's present dignity, could not think of employing him any longer in that station, but very generously raised a subscription for his support; "Richard, educated at Oxford, Dominican of Warwick, died in 1502, buried in Blackfriars, Worcester. Bishop of [Olevensis?] in Mauritania (Worcester)." I have reason to believe this bishop's surname was Wycherley. I once found in a patent of Henry VIII., which cited an inquisition referring to transactions apparently of the year 1495 or 1496, casual mention of "Ricardus Wycherley tunc Episcopus Elenen'" Either misreading the title, or supposing it a slight clerical error, I took him at the time to be Bishop of Ely; but a reference to Beatson's Political Index corrected my mistake. A friend of mine looked up the inquísition, and told me he found the name there written "Clonensis." This sent me to Ireland, where I hesitated between Cloyne and Clonmacnoise, but could not find a resting-place in either. I therefore again consulted the inquisition, and found the word to be "Olonensis in that document. I presume that "Olevensis" was the proper title. Query, what is the name of the place? JAMES GAIRDNER. Johannes F. Crivellus, I should be very much obliged, if you could inform me, whether anything is known of Johannes Franciscus Crivellus, a painter, about 1480, of considerable merit (something in the style of Perugino), corresponding, in fact, with the account usually given of Carlo Crivelli, Was Carlo this painter's real name, or only, as is sometimes the case, a nickname? J. C. J. Grain Crops.-Can any of your readers supply a copy of the pamphlet, published at York, upwards of fifty years ago, by John Tuke, a land surveyor in extensive practice, and steward to several estates of importance in that locality. Its short title was, On the Advantages of cutting Grain Crops early; and Mr. Tuke's theory was, that corn, after becoming ripe at the root, would ripen in the ear to greater advantage being cut than remaining on its root. This practice is partially observed among farmers, but is not generally adopted. One great benefit was, I remember, that in case of rain the ear would be less liable to sprout, while the process of ripening in the evaporation of sap in the blade would go on to better advantage both to the straw and the berry. A notice of this subject might have its utility at the present season. F. R. MAXON. · In Walpole, and Whittington and his Cat. Walpole's "Letter to Cole," dated Jan. 8, 1773, in which he shows himself very angry with The Society of Antiquaries, clearly for their publication, in the Archeologia, of Masters' Reply to his Historic Doubts, he says: "for the Antiquarian Society, I shall leave them in peace with Whittington and his Cat." In a previous Letter, viz. July 28, 1772, he had stated: learned Society; and, therefore, I have taken leave of "I choose to be at liberty to say what I think of the them, having so good an occasion presented as their council on Whittington and his Cat, and the ridicule that Foote has thrown on them," &c. To what paper or discussion on Whittington and his Cat does Walpole allude? W. W. (2.) Special Service omitted from the Prayer Book of the Church of England. - When was the "Service for the Twenty-third Day of October" omitted from the (Irish) Prayer Book? It was appointed by Act of Parliament in the 14th & 15th year of King Charles II. (1662-63); and was ordered to be retained by King George I., by a warrant issued at St. James's Palace, Nov. 3, 1715. In the list of special-service days for the month of October, in Grierson's folio Prayer Book, Dublin (1750), no mention is made of Oct. 23. being a remarkable day, and yet this service is to be found in that edition of the Prayer-Book. On the accession of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, a royal warrant was issued, dated June 21, 1837, in which no mention is made of this special service; and yet, in the quarto Prayer-Book published by Grierson (state printer), Dublin (1846), a reference is made in the month of October to the "Irish Rebellion" of 1641. No special service appears in this edition. Fifth of November" orders that "After Morning Prayer, or Preaching, upon the said Fifth Day of November, the Minister of every Parish shall read publicly, distinctly, and plainly, the Act of Parliament made in the third year of King James the First, for the observance of it." The rubric preceding the office for the Twentyninth day of May orders that "The Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth, and confirmed in the Thirteenth year of King Charles the Second for the observation of the 29th day of May, yearly, as a day of public thanksgiving is to be read publicly in all Nicene Creed, on the Lord's Day next before every such Churches at Morning Prayer, immediately after the 29th of May." read, although I have attended services on those special days in every part of the United Kingdom. JUVERNA, M.A. I have never heard these Acts of Parliament Samuel Rolle, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. What can be ascertained of the history of Samuel Rolle, or Rolls, D.D., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, a non-conformist divine, who wrote, under the name of Philagathus, A Sober Answer to Bishop Patrick's Friendly Debate? Among other writings he is stated to have taken part with some others in composing a book entitled Physical Contemplations on Fire, dedicated to Dr. George Bate, in 1667. What is this book, and who were the other authors? A. TAYLOR, M.A. Quotation wanted: "Love and Sorrow."-Where can I find two stanzas, commencing with the lines Siege of Lille, A.D. 1708. Where can I find an authentic list of the British officers in this siege, and of those wounded; or can any of your readers refer me to any mention of the Hon. John Spencer, or the Hon. John Duncombe, assisting at that siege, in what capacity, and whether wounded? JAMES KNOWLES. Deans, Canons, and Prebendaries of Cathedrals. -Will some kind reader of "N. & Q." point out where the names of the various stalls, and their emoluments, are to be found? I have some recollection of a parliamentary return stating these facts, but cannot trace it in either of the three Reports of the Cathedral Commissioners. SCRIPSIT. "Adding Sunshine to Daylight." - Whose is the phrase "Adding sunshine to daylight," to express the pleasures as distinguished from the X. H. necessaries of life? Water-Spouts. Camoens in the fifth book of the Lusiad has a graphic description of the formation and descent of a water-spout in the Indian Ocean, which he closes with an exclamation of surprise that the water which he had seen drawn up salt from the ocean should, a few minutes after, fall fresh from the cloud which attracted it: "But say, ye sages, who can weigh the cause Mickle's Transl. Will any of your correspondents who has tested the phenomenon at sea, say whether this be correctly stated by the poet ? J. EMERSON TENNENT. Hieroglyphic Bible.-I possess a small octavo work, the title-page of which is as follows: "A curious Hieroglyphick Bible, or Select Passages in the Old and New Testaments, represented with Emblechiefly to familiarize tender Age, in a pleasing and matical Figures, for the Amusement of Youth; designed diverting Manner, with early Ideas of the Holy Scriptures. To which are subjoined, a short Account of the Lives of the Evangelists, and other Pieces, illustrated with Cuts. The Fourth Edition; with Additions, and Dugdale, No 150, Capel Street. MDCCLXXXIX.” other great Improvements. Dublin: printed by B. This work was published anonymously, and is not mentioned by Horne in his editions of the Bible enumerated in his Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. What is known of its authorship? EIN FRAGER. Minar Queries with Answers. Mrs. Siddons. In Tymm's Family Topographer (vol. iv. p. 292.) is the following paseage: "At Lower Swinford a thatched cottage is shown as the birth-place of the actress Mrs. Siddons, who is said to have made her very first' debut in a barn at Bell Lane, at the coronation of George III." This barn is still remaining; it is situate at the back of the Bell Inn, in the town of Stourbridge, in the parish of Oldswinford, and county of Worcester; and, I believe, portions of the scenery used on this and other occasions are still in existence. I must, however, confess myself ignorant of the whereabouts of the thatched cottage mentioned in the quotation, and rather doubt the truth of it. Can any correspondent tell me the real place of her birth? C. J. DOUGLAS. [Thomas Campbell has furnished the following account of Mrs. Siddons's birth-place in his interesting Life of that lady (vol. i. p. 27.):-"Our great actress's birthplace was Brecon, or Brecknon, in South Wales. A friend has obligingly written to me as follows, respecting the house in which Mrs. Siddons was born: It is a publichouse in the high street of this town, which still retains its appellation, "The Shoulder of Mutton," though now entirely altered from its pristine appearance. I send you a drawing of the house [this is a wood engraving], not as it is at present, but as I perfectly well remember seeing it stand, with its gable front, projecting upper floors, and a rich well-fed shoulder of mutton painted over the door, offering an irresistible temptation to the sharpened appetites of the Welsh farmers, who frequented the adjoining market-place; especially as within doors the same, or some similar object in a more substantial shape, was always, at the accustomed hour, seen roasting at the kitchen fire, on a spit turned by a dog in a wheel, the invariable mode in all the Breconian kitchens. In addition to which noontide entertainment for country guests, there was abundance of Welsh ale of the rarest quality; and, as the "Shoulder of Mutton" was situated in the centre of Brecon, it was much resorted to by the neighbouring inhabitants of the borough. If I am rightly informed, old Kemble [Mrs. Siddons's father] was neither an unwilling nor an unwelcome member of their jolly associations.""] "Book of Knowledge."-I have a small book in three parts, of which the title-page is wanting. The pages of the first part are headed, "The Book of Knowledge;" the second part is the "Husbandman's Practise, or Prognostication for ever;" the third part, "The Shepherd's Prognostication for the Weather." The book is black-letter, and printed for W. Thackeray at "The Angel" in Duck Lane, 1691. A small picture "by which this book may be distinguished from some counterfeit copies,' has the letters 'I. S.'" The contents, as the title signifies, are most miscellaneous, and extend from a notice of "good days for bloodletting," an A. B. C. to know what planet every man is born under, his fortunes and time of death, to "Pithagoras' Wheele,' by which ye may know most things that you can demand," and much other useful information. What is the title of the book, and who was the author? CHARLES WYLIE. [The first edition of this work, without date, was printed by Robert Wyer, about 1540. It is entitled "The Boke of Knowledge of Thynges Vnknowen apperteynynge to Astronomye, with certayne necessarye Rules, and certayne Sphere contaynyng herein. Compyled by Godfridus super Palladium de Agricultura Anglicatum." Colophon, "Imprynted by me Robert Wyer in S. Martyns Parysshe, besyde Charynge Crosse." Prefixed is a cut of an astronomer, half length, with four stars. On the back of the title a cut of Ptholomeus and his wife, and under it: "This is vnknowen to many men, though they be knowen to some men." Another edition appeared in 1585, "Imprinted at London, in Fleete-streete, beneath the Conduite, at the Signe of S. John Euangelist, by M. Iackson." This only extends as far as chap, xv., "The Change of Man twelve times, according to the Months." Another edition enlarged appeared in 1688, with the following title: "The Knowledge of Things Unknown. Shewing the Effects of the Planets, and other Astronomical Constellations. With the strange Events that befal Men, Women, and Children born under them. Compiled by Godfridus super Palladium de Agricultura Anglicatum. Together with the Husband-Man's Practice: or Prognostication for ever: as teacheth Albert, Alkind, Haly, and Ptolomy. With the Shepherd's Prognostication for the Weather, and Pythagoras his Wheel of Fortune. Printed by J. M. for W. Thackeray, at the Angel in Duck Lane." The cuts are the same as in Wyer's edition. Our correspondent's copy of 1691 seems to be a reprint of that of 1688.] Replies. MUSICAL NOTATION. On Music; and suggestions for improvement in its symbols, or nomenclature of sounds: to the end that there may be a clearer demonstration of the ratios of sounds, and, by consequence, a more extended knowledge of the fundus of this art, that is the poetry or measured relation of its forms. (Continued from p. 73.) Mr. Frank Howard, in his Treatise on the Art of Making a Picture, declares "there is no work, elementary or scientific, which teaches the praxis of pictorial effect, or that of making a picture." As with painting, so it is with music indeed, Dr. Marx, the latest writer on the theory, assures his readers there exists "no work on harmony or thorough base that can possibly fulfil the promises held out to the student in musical composition." In this remark, Dr. Marx may include his own work. There is at present no written law for the composition of music, and composers have carefully eschewed talking or writing upon the subject. Haydn, who taught when in this country, after giving a certain number of lessons, was in the habit of dismissing the student in these words:"I have taught you all the known rules: there are others, but these I do not teach." Mozart, when applied to by Weigl, a well-known composer, to teach his mode of composing, replied in the brief and decided sentence: "No: find out, as I had to find out." On a recent occasion, when visiting a musical friend, he produced rather a long and ambitious composition, which, after listening to, I remarked: The first eight bars are right, and the remainder all wrong.' After some pause, he said: "What makes you say the first eight bars are right, and the others wrong? for I am certain there is not an error according to Cherubini." "That may be," was my reply, "but no man can write music from studying Cherubini." After some time, he confessed the first eight bars were borrowed from Beethoven; but he had so mystified the passage as to escape recognition of the plagiary. I am certain no one will ever write music by the aid of any work now before the public. The great theorists of the present day are too wise to publish, and most of them bind their pupils not to divulge their teaching until after their deaths. I have made the remark, that the pupil is taught notes, not sounds. He is afterwards taught scales or gamuts. The modern scales are the standard, the natural, the transposed, the major, the minor, the pathetic, the augmented, the chromatic, and the enharmonic. Should he desire to go back some centuries, he must learn the dorian, hypodorian, phrygian, hypophrygian, lydian, hypolydian, mixolydian, hypomixolydian; and if the origin of these, he must study the tetrachords, the tetrachordon-hypaton, meson, dies-eugmenon, hyperboleon, proslambanomenos, hypate-hypaton, par-hypate-hypaton; together with the paranese, and all other parts and portions of the Greek scales. "The semitone makes music," was the adage of the old composers; and all this barbaric jargon has been retained to mark the place of the semitone in the scale. The knowledge of the varieties and relations of the scale has had a slow, but certain progress. The three principles which govern musical composition, that is to say: 1. Sounds, which are the matter or subject, 2. Rhythms, which make figure or movement, 3. Heart (or spirit), which gives life, feeling, and individuality, are seen as strongly in the earliest music as in the music of the present day. From these principles, we have gained the music called the Gregorian, the Glarean, the Alla Cappella, the Italian, Neapolitan, French, German, Anglican, and all other national schools. These schools represent certain states of knowledge with respect to the analogies of sounds, certain motions or figures governed by the then prevailing state of language and the national dance, and certain states of emotion or feeling belonging to the master-spirits who were enabled to leave such records in their compositions. Every student in music should know every scale in music that has existed, and that does exist; but in place of all this monstrous confusion of terms, why not describe the semitone and its situation in plain and unmistakeable language? We read of intervals as if they were sounds; whereas the interval is the distance or ratio between one sound and another. Again, chords are called harmonies; whereas harmonia is the proportion between one chord and another chord. A chord is not an analogy until it is placed by the side of some other chord. The student is taught the theory of dischords. How few are there who know what takes place in nature, when the so-called resolution of the seventh is made! In olden language, it is the dislocation of the lychanos-meson (or meson-diatonos) when conjoined with the proslambanomenos. In these days it is the art of resolving the seventh. 8. Powys Place, Queen Square. SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS. (2nd S. ii. 1.) I have extracted from The Wiltshire Institutions, privately printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1825, a list of preferments enjoyed in that county by suffragan bishops, as follows: "Robertus, Imelacensis Epus,' was instituted to the vicarage of Littleton Drew in A.D. 1441. 666 'Jacobus, Dei gratiâ Akardensis Episcopus,' was instituted to the Rectory of Stockton in 1447; William Mychell was instituted to the same benefice in 1454. "Simon, Connerensis Episcopus,' was instituted to the Rectory of Paulsholt in 1459. Simon Conneren' exchanged Pawlesholt with Roger Newton, for the Vicarage of Aldeborne in 1462. "Johannes, Tinensis Epus,' was instituted to the Rec tory of St. John's, Devizes, in 1479 'per resig' Johannis, Episcopi Roffen". St. John's was vacated in 1480 'per mort' Ven' Patris Johannis, Tinensis Episcopi,' who was succeeded by Henry Boost, Provost of Eton College. 666 'Augustinus Church, Liden' Epūs,' was instituted to the Rectory of Boscombe in 1498. Boscombe was vacated in 1499 per resig' Augustini, Lidensis Epi.' carage of Coseham in 1504. Johnes, Mayonensis Epūs,' was instituted to the Vi 666 "Ecc' Ebbysborn et Succentoria.' Francis May was instituted in 1509 to these preferments per dim' Gulmi Barton, facti Epi Salon'.' "Johannes, Syenensis Epūs,' was instituted to the Vicarage of Inglesham in 1518. Johannes Pynnock, Syenensis Episcopus' resigned Inglesham in 1520. He seems to have resigned the same benefice again, in the year 1524, and to the same person. The first resignation may not have been completed. "The Rectory of Colern was vacated in 1526 'per mort' Johannis, Calipolens' Episcopi.' "Thomas Morley was instituted to the Rectory of Blounesdon, B. S. Andreæ, in 1487, and John Abendon was instituted to the same benefice in 1489. "Thomas Morley, sedis Merlebergen' Episcopus suffraganeus,' was instituted to the Vicarage of Bradford, co. Wilts, and to the Rectory of Fittleton in 1540, both void per attincturam Willielmi Byrde, de alta proditione;' which William Brydde' had been presented to Bradford in 1491 by the Abbess of Shaston, and to Fittleton in 1511 by Sir Edward Darel. Fittleton was vacated per mortem Thomæ Morley' in 1554.” The last bishop in MR. WALCOTT's list should |