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 12 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. JCLY i, 1903. I contributed to Tlie Berks Archaeological Journal, 1893. NATHANIEL HONE. "THERE SHALL NO TEMPESTS BLOW" (10th S. iii. 449).—When I was a child, sixty years ago, I learnt a "song by Mrs. Heraans, the music by her sister"; and on another page were some words by another hand, to be sung on Sundays, of which the lines quoted by W. B. H. form the third verse. I give what I can recollect; but I may have made mis- takes :— i. Come, 'tis the hour of prayer, And mercy lights the akies ; God bids each heart prepare Its evening sacrifice. it. Let us, then, look on high, And plead each promise given, View mansions in the skies, And a place for us in heav'n. No toil or trouble then Shall make us weary there, Nor the bonds of sin again Withhold our evening prayer. Come, come, come. M. A. HOWELL. The lines quoted are the closing stanza of a poem by Mrs. Hemans, the title of which I forget, but the first two lines of which are :— For the strength of the hills we bless Thee, Our God, our fathers' God. I write from memory, not having the book at hand that contains the poem. C. LAWRENCE FORD. Bath. The words are taken from a well-known hymn which begins thus :— Come to the sunset tree, The day is past and gone : The woodman's axe lies free. And the reaper's work is done. It is, I think, a Tyrolese hymn. I can give W. B. H. the full text, if he wishes. GEORGE KENYON. Llanerch Panna, Flintshire. "TERTIAS OF FOOT" (10th S. iii. 429).—In Markham's 'Life of the Great Lord Fairfax' (chap. xx. p. 213) occurs the following sen- tence :— "The main battle [of the Royalist army at Naseby] consisted of regiments of infantry formed in tertin :, or solid squares of pikemen flanked by musketeers." Turning to the plan of the battle of Naseby as given in Sprigge's ' Anglia Redi- viva," I find that these "tertias" occupied the front line of the Royalist army. The centre of the line is made up by 1. Sir Bernard Astley—His Tertia. 2. The Lord Bard—Tertia. 3. Sir George Lysle—Tertia. The Parliamentarians do not seem to have used the term, and 1 would suggest that it may have emanated from the Dutch engineer De Gomez or Gomez, brought over into Eng- land by Prince Rupert. The line of the Royalist army was formed under the direc- tion of Gomez at the battle of Naseby. JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire. In the ' Life of the Great Lord Fairfax,' by my friend Sir Clements R. Markham, Bart., there is the following description of this term :— " A foot regiment was composed of equal numbers of pikemen and shot-men. They were formed in solid square battalions ten deep, called terliai, the pikea in the centre, and the musketeers on either flank. The files were ten deep, because it was found that when the front rank fired it could reload and be ready by the time nine others had come to the front, fired, and fallen back."—Chap. vii. p. 61. The pike is said to have " been of ash-wood, well headed with steel, about fifteen feet Ion", and armed with plates downward from the head for at least four feet."—P. 61. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. " Tertias" are mentioned in Hakluyt (vol. i. p. 593 of original, and vol. iv. p. 202 of Messrs. MacLehose'a reprint), where, in an account of the Spanish Armada, it is stated that " there were in the said Navie five terzaes of Spaniards (which terzaes the Frenchmen call Regi- ments) under the command of five governeure termed by the Spaniards, Masters of the field," &c. In the margin is the note : " A Spanish torza consisteth of 3,200 souldiers." It would there- fore be the equivalent of our modern infantry " brigade," or the third part of a " division," whence possibly the origin of the term. Halliwell's definition is much the same as that given in Minsheu's ' Spanish Dictionary' (1617), s.v. 'Tercio,' at the end of 'The Guide into the Tongues,' but the -word "Tertia" or "Terza" does not appear in the English portion. C. S. HARRIS. NORDEN'S 'SPECULUM BRITANNIA' (10th S. iii. 450). — I am pleased to inform MR. F. MARCHAM that I have a small book, measur- ing 7 in. wide by 9 in. long, which I pur- chased in June, 1869, as 'London in Elizabeth's Time, 1596.' The title-page of this is " Norden's Preparatiue to his Specu- lum Britannia), intended," &c., "London,