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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. m. JUKK 10, MOB.

Prow, of the river Sachem, and the Ganajoh- bore Sachem (Tatler, Nos. 155 and 171, and Spectator, No. 50).

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

LONG BREDY, DORSET. Can any reader refer me to a collection of documents relating to this place, either in private posses- sion or otherwise ? I have made pretty close search at the llecord Office and the British Museum. GEORGE F. TUDOR SHERWOOD.

50, Beecroft Road, Brockley, S.E.

ST. PATRICK. Can any of your readers oblige me with the words, or inform me where I can find them, of a piece of poetry describing a quarrel among Irishmen about the date of St. Patrick's birth ? one party contending he was born on 8 March, and the other on 9 March. They finally ended by adding 8 to 9, and the birthday has been kept on 17 March ever after. H. T. BARKER.

Ludlow.

JACK AND JILL. What are the four remaining lines of the following conundrum, the answer to which is Jack and Jill ?

'Twas not on Alpine snow and ice, But homely English ground ;

" Excelsior ! " was their strange device, But low their fate they found.

W. H. DIXSON. 13, Crick Road, Oxford.

HORSE-RACING IN SCOTLAND. When and where did horse-racing first take place in Scotland ?

The following is a copy of a minute in the records of the Burgh of Dunfermline, dated 19 April, 1610 :

"Apud Dunfermling decitno nono die Aprilis ano dm millemo sexcente mo decimo coram Jone Andersonn et Jacobo Mochrie ballievis de burgi.

"The qlk day in prnce of ye saids baillies comperitpsol ne mr. James dugles the schoolmaster burges of ye said burt and upon his awin propre qfession actit him his airs exe rs and asgns as cau r and souritie ffor David Boeswell broyer german to S r Johne Boeswell of ballmuto knyt. That ye said David or uyers in his name Sail exhibit and pro- duce Befoir ye provest and bailleis of ye said bur* In ye tolbuith yrpf upon the fourt day of apryll In ye yeir of God sixteen c* and eleven yeirs next to cum at ten houris bfor noon The sylver Race bell double overgilt his ma tcsts name and arms gravin

yrupon Weyand perteng to ane noble lord alex r

erle of Duuferlyne lord fyvie and urqhat heich chancelure of Scotland Baillie hera bl prinp le of ye regal''' of Dunfermling delyverit this day to ye said David In custodie and keiping unto the said day Be qmand and ordinate of ye said noble erle Be resson of ye said David's blak hors wyning the custody and keiping yrof be rining frae conscience brig to ye brig of urquhat in companie w* uyer twa hors viz ane dapil gray hors blong to S r W m Monteth of Kers, Knyt, and ye uyer ane broun

hors blongs to Lues Monteth his broyer german and wan frae yame ye race. And that the said David Boeswell sail delyver and produce the said bell in the lyke and also gud state as he now ressaves the sam under ye pains of fyve hundret merks mn? scots to be payit be ye said cau r to ye said noble erle in case of failyer and the said David Boeswell qmpereand prsp lne demittand his awin jurisdiction and duly submitting him in this case to the jurisdic- tion of the provest and bailleis of ye said bur* of his awin confession actit him to freth and relive the said Mr. James Dugles his cau r of this prat cau rie betwin hym and the said bailleis and of uyer penalties. The said bailleis interponit yair autor* yrto and ordains execution of poynding and warding to pass heirupon in case of failyer of production of the said bell at the day and in manneir above specy*."

The earliest notice of horse- racing that I have been able to find is a brief entry in the Treasurer's accounts of 1504, from which, however, it does not appear where the race referred to was run. Perhaps some of your readers could supply the desired information. A horse race for a silver bell also took place in Haddington on 10 May, 1552, and a copy of the minute regarding the same would be interesting. BARON SETON, of Andria.

Seton Cottage, Great Yarmouth.

NORDEN'S ' SPECULUM BRITANNLE.' Lowndes gives 1596 as the date of an edition, and if this is correct all our large libraries are apparently without a copy. I should be glad to hear whether any reader has met with a copy so dated. F. MARCIIAM.

Hornsey, N.

MEDIEVAL SEAL. A friend of mine has in his possession an oval silver seal, measuring about one inch by seven-eighths. In the centre is a lion passant with a bull's head under its forepaw, and round the border, in contracted early fourteenth- century Latin, the riming motto :

Sum leo ;

Quovis eo,

Non nisi

Vera veho.

On the back of it is roughly cut "Georgii Signum," or it might be "Georg ii. Signum."

The original seal, of which this is obviously a copy, is said by lloach Smith (' Collectanea Antiqua,' vol. iv. p. 73, pi. xviii. fig. 3) to have been "discovered" at Luddesdown, in Kent, and to be in the possession of a

Rev. Shepheard. This would be about

1865.

I should much like an opinion as to how his Georgian majesty came to possess this copy, and (of much more interest) to know to whom the original belonged. Some reader well acquainted with English documents of the early fourteenth century might have met