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 332 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» B. iv. OCT. 21. and may well serve as an introductory epitome or summary of Vigfusson's greal work. Besides, there is an ' Icelandic-English Word Collection' (' OrSasafn islenzkt og enskt'), by J6n A. HjaltaHn, comprising 184 pp., printed at Reykjavik in 1883, as wel as a corresponding 'English-Icelandic Vocabu- lary ' by the same author. H. K. FIRST NATIONAL ANTHEM (10th S. iv. 249). —A national hymn of thanksgiving was com- posed after the defeat of the Armada; both words and music are given in Knight's'Old England,' vol. ii. p. 40. R. L. MOKETON. TRUDGEN-STROKE IN SWIMMING (10th S. iv. 205).—This stroke is fully gone into in Mr. Ralph Thomas's 'Swimming,' reviewed 10th S. ii. 19. W. SANDFORD. "SJAMBOK": ITS PRONUNCIATION (10th S, iv. 204). — This word is given in Funk & Wagnalls's ' Standard Dictionary' (1895), which accents it on the first syllable, but in the plural, sjamboke, on the second. C. S. WARD. "VENi, CREATOR" (10th S. iv. 89, 137).— Thanks to the kind help of MR. WATKINSON and MR. PAGE I have been encouraged to help myself, and have found Come, Holy Ghost, eternal God, proceeding from above, in the first Prayer Book of Edward VI., 1549, and in his second Prayer Book, 1553, where it is in very nearly the same words as we have it in like position in the time of Edward VII. It also appeared, as MR. WAT- KINSON says, in the form for the Ordering of Priests prescribed in 1559 ('Liturgies and Occasional Forms of Prayer set forth in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth,' pp. 286-7, Parker Society, 1848), and it was duly used at the Coronation of Charles I., as I find from ' The English Coronation Service,' by F. C. Eeles, pp. 70-2. O Holy Ghost, our souls inspire, is supposed to be a translation by Bishop Cosin of a Latin original. It was included in his ' Devotions ' (' English Hymnology,' by the Rev. Louis Coutier Bigg, p. 36), and it •was probably by his influence that it gained admission to the Prayer Book. There it re- mains—and there may it perpetually abide ! A variant version was used at the Coronation of Queen Victoria (Eeles, p. 106), and, though I have no record of the fact, I dare say the same was heard again at the anointing of our present King. It is difficult to believe that " Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire," and "Come, Holy, Ghost, eternal God," can be renderings of one and the same original. A single verse of what seems to be the model of the former is quoted in Canon Julian's ' Dictionary of Hymnology,' p. 1250. It runs :— Veni Creator Spiritus Mantes tuorum visita Imple superna gratia Quaa tu creasti pectora. Pace MR. WATKINSON, I do not find it easy to understand how the verse, The fountain and the living spring of joy celestial, The fire so bright, the love so sweet, the Unction spiritual, would fit a tune adapted to the measure of the greater part of the rest of the hymn. The compilers of 'Hymns Ancient and Modern' have prudently eliminated this verse, as well as several others which do no credit either to poetry or to prose. ST. SWITHIN. CHESHIRE WORDS (10th S. iv. 203).—Wright (' Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial Eng- lish," 1857) gives :— Kench. The part of a haystack immediately in use or cutting down (Suffolk). Wint (Twinter). Dwindled away. Uuorldes blisae ne last non throwe, Hit ii-ini and went awei anon ; The lengore that hie hit i-enowe, The lasse ioh flnde pris theron. MS. Digby 86, f. 163. JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire. Brizzle. Used to mean toasting a little piece of bacon. Buggan. Sometimes "took buggort," » horse taking fright. Catty-ruff. This means a little fish, the pope or ruff, sometimes called Jack-ruff or daddy ruff, rather like a perch, mentioned by Izaak Walton ('Complete Angler,' oh. xv.) Lommer or Lammer. A heavy, lumbering person. Trapesing. An untidily dressed girl goes " trapesing " in Cheshire and elsewhere. JOHN PicKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. SIR FRANCIS DRAKE AND CHIGWELL Row (10th S. iv. 230).—Possibly the Rev. John Prince's ' Worthies of Devon' would afford some information ; but it is hardly probable it an inland part of Essex like Chigwell [low. Was not Drake one of those who were slaying at bowls on Plymouth Hoe when the appearance of the Spanish fleet was_ not considered of sufficient importance to >nte^
 * hat Drake, a Devonshire man, ever resided
 * ere with the game 1 This, perhaps, would

account for the "tradition" associating