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 I. MARCH 19, 1904.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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SPEAKERS OF IRISH HOUSE OF COMMONS, AND MEMBERS FOR COUNTY AND BOROUGHS OF KING'S COUNTY. Information is desired AS to names and dates of Speakers of the Irish House of Commons from 1660 to 1780 ; also as to names of members for the King's County and the boroughs in it during the same period. FRANCESCA.

LEPER HYMN-WRITER. Is there anything more to be learnt about the leper and his hymns mentioned below 1

" In the fourteenth century, it is said, all Europe was carolling the songs of an unknown singer, and when he was found, he was a leper who had carried a little bell to warn people of his approach, and went muffled, from very loathsomeness, about the public streets." Duffield's ' English Hymns,' p. 466.

C. B.

Providence, R.L

"A FROG HE WOULD A- WOOING GO." I

should be greatly obliged if you could refer me to a book which would tell me the names of the people represented in the old rime

A frog he would a-wooing go, &c. None of the books of reference which I have gives me any clue. J. E. DENISON.

[We do not believe in any allusion to individuals.]

"THERE WAS A MAN." Can any of your readers inform me if they have heard the fol- lowing nursery rime ?

There was a man, a man indeed, Who sowed his garden full of seed, &c.

It used to be repeated to my mother by her nurse, who was, I believe, a North-Country woman. Is there any meaning to be attached to it 1 L. A. LUXMOORE.

[See 7 th S. ii. 507 ; iii. 35 ; v. 53, 91.]

CHELSEA PHYSIC GARDEN. Mr. W. C. flazlitt, in the Antiquary of July, 1885, p. 11, writing on tenures and manorial customs, mentions in regard to Chelsea that

in 1712, granted the freehold of four acres, occupied as a physic garden on the riverside, to the Apothe- caries' Company for ever, on condition that they should pay a quit rent of 51., use the garden for that specific purpose, and present yearly to the Royal Society fifty specimens grown in situ, till the collection amounted to 2,000."
 * 'Sir Hans Sloane, who became lord of the manor

Was this latter condition ever fulfilled ?

S. L. PETTY.

"KicK THE BUCKET." Can any reader tell me the origin and meaning of this phrase 1 I have searched the usual books of reference, but do not find it. I mind me of an old story told of some famous " wit " (was it Theodore Hook or Dean Swift 1 ?) who, walking with another equally famous " wit," en-

countered a bucket on the pavement. "Ah, sir," said the one, "you've kicked the bucket." To which the other promptly re- plied, " No, sir, I only turned a little pale " (pail !). E. P. W.

[Farmer and Henley's ' Slang and its Analogues,' s. v. ' Kick the bucket,' states that bucket is a Nor- folk term for a pulley used when pigs are killed. An alternative theory is offered that the bucket was a pail kicked away by a suicide.]

ROBINA CROMWELL. Are any portraits extant of Oliver Cromwell's youngest sister, who married Bishop Wilkins of Chester 1 (Mrs.) J. HAUTENVILLE COPE.

13c, Hyde Park Mansions, W.

DR. SAMUEL HINDS, FORMERLY BISHOP OF NORWICH. Has any one an account of the funeral of Dr. Hinds, which took place at Kensal Green Cemetery in 1872 1 He was Dean of Carlisle previous to 1849, when he was consecrated Bishop of Norwich, which see he resigned from conscientious scruples in 1857. I should like to know who officiated at his funeral. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

CHARLES V. ON LANGUAGES. I have often tried to ascertain the correct version of the Emperor Charles V.'s saying about languages. He classified five somethinglike this : Spanish, to pray in ; German, to swear at his horse in ; French, to talk to his friends in (?) ; Italian, to make love in (?) j English (?). The Spanish and German I feel pretty sure about, but the rest are all doubtful. HELGA.

[See 9 th S. viii. 523 ; ix. 152, 254, particularly MR. LAWRENCE FORD'S reply at the second reference.]

ROBERT SANDERSON, Bishop of Lincoln 1660-3, is reported to have left behind him several volumes of notes and memoranda relating to Lincolnshire. Have they come down to our time? and if so, where are they]

COM. LINC.

OPROWER. Can any of your readers throw light upon the origin of this uncommon and somewhat curious family name? A family bearing it lived in Glasgow between 1850 and 1870, and I have never heard of it else- where. So far as I know the name was never spelt with an apostrophe after the O, so it is unlikely that it had its origin in Ireland. May it not be a Polish or other continental name, perhaps somewhat cor- rupted? W. SANDFORD.

SAMUEL SHELLEY. Is there any evidence available that Samuel Shelley, the miniature painter (latter half of eighteenth century), was related to the poet ? If so, who was their nearest common ancestor ? A. B. S.