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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io< h s. i. JAN. 9, UM.

'WoRKE FOR CUTLERS.' 'Worke for Cut- lers j or, a Merry Dialogue betweene Sword, Rapier, and Dagger,' first acted "in Shew in the famous Vniuersitie of Cambridge," and reacted on 23 July, 1903, at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, is being given once more at the Hall of Gray's Inn on the 7th inst. Is there any programme of the performance of this or any similar work in Cambridge or else- where? A. FORBES SIEVEKING, F.S.A.

EARLIEST PLAYBILL. Can any one tell me if there is an earlier playbill (or announce- ment of any form of show) in existence than that of 1708 the date of the earliest play- bill at the British Museum ? I want one to serve as a model for the programme of the reproduction of a play of 1(>15.

A. FORBES SIEVEKING, F.S.A.

SIR JOHN VAUGHAN, KNT., P.O., went to Ireland and had lands granted to him A.D. 1600. Was Governor of Londonderry A.D. 1601-43. His only daughter married the Hon. Sir Frederick Hamilton, son of Lord Paisley by the Hon. Margaret Seton. Can anybody tell me his origin and the names of his father, mother, and wife 1

H. S. VADE-WALPOLE.

101, Lexham Gardens, Kensington, W.

OBIIT SUNDAY. I cull the following from the Daily Mail of 5 October, 1903 :

" The quaint and ancient ceremony ordered to be observed upon the occasion of Obiit Sunday by Henry VII., Edward VI., Queen Elizabeth, and Charles II. at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, took place at the morning service yesterday. The clergy, military knights, and choir walked in pro- cession through the nave, and entered the choir by the beautifully carved folding doors underneath the organ gallery. Bishop Barry delivered an interest- ing statement as to the royal founders and other benefactors. The Dean of Windsor also preached a special sermon."

Further information respecting the origin of this ceremony, of which I can find no account in ' N. & Q.,' will be thankfully received.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

CHAUCER'S TOMB IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. On the authority of the inscription on this tomb, and of Stow's 'Survey,' Pits, and Ant. Wood, we have always given the credit of its erection or restoration to Nicholas Brigham ; but a contemporary of his, writing late in Queen Elizabeth's reign, the Rev. Robert Commaunder (died 1613), says that one "Hickeman, auditor," wrote the Latin epi- taph on the tomb, and got the "tumulus" decorated and repainted. See the Egerton MS, 2642, cf, 213. Can any one tell me who

this Hickeman was? None of the Hickmans in the series of Domestic State Papers and Privy Council Records or in Hennessy seems to fit him. In one point Commaunder's text of the epitaph is better than Brigham's, as given by Skeat, 'Chaucer's Works,' i. xlvii, for 1400 is clearly the date mortis of the poet, and not his vitce. Commaunder has also the two Latin lines by Surigonius of Milan :

" Carmina Epitaphica magistri Hickeman, Audi- toris, composita Anno domini 1556, in Laudem Galfridi Chaucer, que denuo super ipsius Tumulum renovari fecit et Inscribi in Monasterio westmo- nasteriensi, et ipsum Tumulum suis Expensis decorari et repingi procuravit. Qui fuit Anglorum Vates ter maximus olirn, Galfridus Chaucer conditiir hoc Tumulo : Annum in queras Domini, Si tempora mortis, Ecce Note subsunt, que tibi cuncta notent.

25 Octobris, Anno 1400. Galfridus Chaucer, Vates et Fama Poesis Maternse, hac sacra sum tumulatus Humo."

N. Brigham was a " teller " of the Ex- chequer, which would be an ''auditor," I suppose. This helps us to believe that he did not wrongfully take the credit of Hick- man's verses and pious act.

F. J. FURNIVALL.

[See the articles in the Athenceum of 9 and 30 August and 25 October, 1902.]

STATUE BY JOHN OP BOLOGNA. I have a pocket-book of 1704 which has notes in it in the handwriting of Dr. Harbin. Among them is the following :

" The' Cain & Abel on y e staircase at Buckingham house was made by John de Bologna, a sculptor of the 2" a class. It formerly belonged to the old Duke of Buckingham <fe was bought by the present Duke some years ago for 500. It is worth 1,0001. as Cavalier David has assured me."

Where is this statue now ? E. M.

" COLLECTIONER." In some of the old parish registers in East Anglia one some- times meets with the foregoing term, and our best dictionaries throw no light on it. It occurs generally in the portion allotted to deaths, after some aged person's name. Am I correct in assuming the deceased derived benefit from the church collection? or does it refer to one we should now term a sidesman one who assists in taking the collection? WM. JAGGARD.

MARY STUART. I should be greatly obliged if any of your readers could give me information about the bust of Mary Stuart which is now in the Louvre. Is it, for instance, supposed to be authentic? and by whom was it executed ?

Another thing which has puzzled a good many is, When was the cap with wired lace