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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER Ik, 1908.

CONTENTS. No. 255.

NOTES : Queen Elizabeth's Day, 381 St. Martin Pomeroy, 382 Burton's ' Anatomy,' 383 The Fifth of November, 384 " Moloker," Yiddish Term Phillis Wheatley and her Poems, 385 "Stonehenjre " Lancasters of Milverton, 386 Lord Melbourne and Thackeray" Butter out of a dog's mouth" Higgs Family Restriction upon Candle- Making, 387.

QUERIES : Statues and Memorials in the British Isles, 387 "A glutted tiger" First Speaker of the House of Commons Ernisius : a Proper Name Milton Relic Rod of Brickwork, 388 Authors of Quotations Wanted Hawkins Family MacDonald : MacQueen Military Bank-Note, 389 Jeffrey Hudson the Dwarf Mr. Reping- ton Bishops and Parliamentary Elections Bandy Leg Walk George IV.'s Early Household TH as a Symbol, 390.

REPLIES : Silas Told, 390 Omar Khayyam Bibliography " Bontire," 391 Clergy in Wigs The Bonassus Midday at Bale Capital Punishment in the Eighteenth Century, 392 Campbell : its Pronunciation Bennett of Baldock, 393 Augvaldsnaes Church, Norway Bridal Stone, 394 Kipling on Shakespeare" O dear no ! " Billy Butler the Hunting Parson, 395 Haldane Emigrants to America Scots Greys The Glamis Mystery Shakespeare's Epitaph, 396 Authors Wanted Ovoca or Avoca E. Morris, M.P. The Bastinado, 397 Manor Rolls " Cotteswold " in Italian "Targe" British Envoy at Warsaw Extra- ordinary Contemporary Animals Donkeys and Measles- Missing Word, 398.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Dictionary of French Quotations ' 'Folk-lore in Lowland Scotland' Hall Caine's 'My Story ' ' The National Review.'

Booksellers' Catalogues.

Notices to Correspondents.

QUEEN ELIZABETH'S DAY, 17 NOVEMBER.

ELIZABETH became Queen on 17 Novem- ber, 1558, exactly 350 years ago. The day was annually observed, partly on politico- religious grounds, but in a popular and spontaneous fashion, far down into the eighteenth century a distinction which has been gained by no other English monarch. When its observation ceased I do not know, but at present the only notice of the day is at Westminster School (or rather the Royal College of St. Peter at Westminster), of which Elizabeth was the foundress, where the annual Commemoration in the Abbey takes place on 17 November.

Nearly all the extracts in the following catena, from 1595 to 1718, relate to the celebration of the " Queen's Day."

Bishop John Kinge, * Lectvres vpon lonas,' 1597, p. 138 :

" An othe of association was taken in many places

of this land (I know not if in the whole) for the

pursuite and extirpation of those persons who by

trecherous machination should violate the life and orowne of our gracious Soveraigne."

On pp. 398-401 is a long passage in praise of her, especially for her resistance to the

Papacy : " wee ring our belles for ioy, and giue eare to the noise of timbrelles and tabrets."

On pp. 685-706 is a separate sermon : :

"A sermon preached in Yorke the seventeenth day of Novenioer in the yeare of our Lorde 1595. being the Queenes day."

'Shirburn Ballads,' ed. A. Clark, 1907, p. 177 :

1600. Ballad on Queen Elizabeth's accession day, 17 Nov., bell-ringing, &c.

Bishop Lewis Bayly, * Practice of Piety,' 1605 (under the seventh of " Ten Reasons demonstrating the commandment of the Sabbath to be moral ") :

[David died] "after he had liv'd ten times seven

years; so did Galen, so did Petrarch so did the

maiden Queen Elizabeth, of blessed and never-dying memory ; who came into the world on the eve of the Nativity of the blessed Virgin Mary ; arid went out of it on the eve of the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary : She was, she is (\v hat can there more oe said), in earth the first, in heaven the second Maid."

Henry Hammond, ' Vindication of the Liturgy,' ed. 3, 1646, p. 45 :

' ' the pattern of Queen Elizabeths tim e the

erection of her very picture in some churches, and solemnization of a day for her annuall remem- brance."

Christopher Cartwright, ' Certamen Reli- giosum,' 1652, ii. 158, thinks it strange that the Marquess of Worcester should inveigh against the title " head of the church " " given to that Queen of happy memory, Q. Elizabeth."

Henry Stubbes, in ' Rosemary & Bayes,' 1672, p. 22 :

" I retain the sentiments of the age of old Elsibeth

let us admire the wisdom, and retain the

religion of those times."

' Calendar of Ormonde MSS.,' N.S., iv. 472:

1678. "On the 5th of November there were several very chargeable and costly Popes that went to wrack, and I hear that there will be great solemnities in the city on the birthday [sic] of Queen Elizabeth, which is about the 18th of this month ; and it is certain that a constable brought one lately before a justice of peace for speaking- treason against Queen Elizabeth."

In the same, p. 561 :

Nov., 1679. " It is incredible what multitudes of people met on the 17th instant to celebrate Queen

Elizabeth's night The celebrating thus the

memory of one Prince is doubtless matter of advertisement to another."

1679. " London's Defiance to Rome, a perfect Narrative of the magnificent Procession and solemn Burning of the Pope at Temple Bar, Nov. 1679, with a description of the Habits, Fireworks, Songs," &c. Two leaves, folio.