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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. x. SEPT. 12, IMS.

in three volumes, by one of the authors of the 'Rejected Addresses ' (Henry Col burn, New Burlington Street, 1826). Mention of " The Protector's Head " Inn is made in chap. v. vol. i.

F. E. R. POLLABD-UBQUHABT. Castle Pollard, Westmeath.

ROSES AS BADGES : WHEBE BOBNE (10 S. x. 87, 174). Surely MB. MACMICHAEL considerably antedates the first issue of the rose noble. This beautiful coin was first struck by Edward IV. in 1465, and has the rose of York stamped on both sides. The rose does not occur upon the nobles of Edward III. A. R. BAYLEY.

Miss Drane in her ' History of St. Cathe- rine of Siena ' says :

" The white and red roses were the symbols of the Urbanists and Clementists in the kingdom of Naples, and it is supposed that from thence these same symbols were carried into England by some of Hawkwood's followers, and adopted in the civil wars which broke out so soon afterwards in that country." P. 495.

WHITE ROSE.

"SINEWS OF WAB " (10 S. ix. 470; x. 137). Here is another early example, of the same date as that given by PBOF. BENSLY :

" And therefore these Coynes and Treasure be riot without cause called of wyse men, Nerui bellornm (that is to say) the Synowes of Warre." W. Stafford's ' Examination of Complaints,' 1581, Dial. ii. p. 68 (New Shakspere Society's edition, 1876).

G. L. APPEBSON.

ABCHBISHOP OF DOVEB (-10 S. x. 170). Canterbury was the Roman Durovernum, hence in early charters the Latin style of its bishop was Ep. Dovernensis or Doro- bernensis. Dover was Portus Dubris.

SHEBBOBNE.

Does not the word " Dovernensis " stand for Canterbury rather than for Dover ? A silver penny of Archbishop Wulfred (805- 832) has on the reverse the monogram " Dorobernia Civi." Another penny of the " Sede Vacante " series (832-3 ?) gives " Dorobernia Civitas " ; and a penny of Archbishop Ceolnoth (833-70) has " Doro- vernia Civitas." In each case the metro- political city of Canterbury is meant.

A. R. BAYLEY.

AITTHOBS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. x. 168). I think that the poem which MB. F. G. ACKEBLEY is seeking is the one known as ' Bredon Hill ' (pronounced Breedon),

by A. E. Housman. It is found in the little volume (first issued in 1896) entitled ' A Shropshire Lad ' (Grant Richards), p. 31. sixpenny edition. The first two stanzas run :

In summertime on Bredon

The bells they sound so clear ; Round both the shires they ring them

In steeples far and near,

A happy noise to hear.

Here of a Sunday morning

My love and I would lie, And see the coloured counties,

And hear the larks so high

About us in the sky.

A. L. HUMPHBEYS.

187, Piccadilly, W.

[C. C. B. also refers to Mr. Housman.]

" PBAISES LET BBITONS SING" (10 S. ix. 350). To judge from the second stanza, this song might have been written as an appropriate commemoration of the battle of Vittoria, gained by Wellington in 1813 over Marshal Jourdan, when Joseph Bona- parte lost his Spanish crown.

N. W. HILL.

New York.

OLD TUNES (10 S. x. 48, 93, 138). ' Monymusk ' is a strathspey which was composed by Daniel Dow, a violinist and musician who was born in Perthshire in 1732. He was a teacher and concert-giver in Edinburgh from 1763 until his death on 20 Jan., 1783. In one of his collections of Strathspeys ' Monymusk ' appeared as ' Sir Archibald Grant of Monemusk's Reel/ My authority for this statement is ' The Church and Priory of Monymusk,' written in 1895 by the Rev. W. M. Macpherson of Monymusk Manse, by Aberdeen.

Another writer informs us that "when there was a quarrel between the county people and the rich tradesmen at the Bath balls, Beau Nash had some trouble to reconcile them, but he appropriately sealed his success by ordering the band to strike up ' Money Musk.' "

ALFBED JAS. MONDAY.

Taunton.

H. HOPPEB, MODELLEB (10 S. X. 130).

MB. SOUTH AM will find a note of this sculptor in Redgrave's ' Dictionary of Artists.'

HABOLD MALET, Col.

BUXTON (10 S. x. 168). The old writer referred to by PEAKMAN may possibly be Dr. John Jones of King's Mede, Derby, who, in 1572, wrote a treatise on the Buxton waters, entitled ' Buckstone's Bathes Bene- fyte.' S. D. C.