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 366 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» H. iv. NOV. *. ins. verses, headed by a crude woodcut. The original possessor has written at the foot, "I saw this printed at the printing press in Hyde Park on the Day of the Coronation. J. Miller." CORONATION THE CHAMPION'S DEFIANCE. 19'" July, 1821. If any person of what degree soever, Be he high or low, or dull or clever, Shall gainsay, or deny our Sovereign Lord (Offspring of Kings from primary record) To be the rightful heir unto the Crown, To such his Champion throws his gauntlet down: Let him come forth from Scotland or from France, With such 1 "m ready here to try a lance. If any one presumes, in sland'roua words, to say My Lord's not the brightest Sovereign of the day— Or that he's not fit these realms to rule— Or that he ever stoops to play the fool— Or that [he] leaves the business of his state— To interested knaves the public hates- Let him come forth to push, I throw my gauntlet down. And ready wait a Champion for the Crown. If any one shall dare to say, in spite My Lord is not a steady, sober wight— That he is not the kindest husband seen To Caroline, his fair and Royal Queen- That he does not indulge her every hour, In all the comforts of his princely pow'r— Let him come forth to answer such offence, And fight a Champion bold in his defence. No varlet dares to lift his beaver high ; Sound trumpets, sound ! since I in vain defy, Raise me my gauntlet, Heralds from the ground, And let me pay due homage to the guests around ; This golden cup I take the Champion's fee, And drink to my King, as he has drunk to me; Health to my Sov'reign, or by day or night His Champion's ready to defend his right. J. ELIOT HODGKIN. " FAMOUS " CHELSEA.—St. Paul referred to the fact that he was a native of no mean city (OVK <ia-iip.ov iroAtws), and perhaps the undersigned may be allowed to feel a natural pride in the fact that the place where he •was born was famous more than a thousand years ago. A synod of the Church in England, convened by Wulfred, Archbishop of Canterbury, was held at Cealchythe, one of the old names of Chelsea, in 816. A summary of the canons passed is given in Hook's 'Lives of the Archbishops of Can- terbury'; but here I only wish to call atten- tion to the preamble, in which it is said that "hsec synodus congregata fuerat die 6 cal. Augusti, in loco famoso qui dicitur Celicyth." There were various ways of spell- ing the name, but it scarcely admits of doubt that it was the place which is now called Chelsea, a form not older than the fourteenth century. Sir Hans Sloane, who succeeded Newton as President of the Royal Society in 1727, had purchased the manor of Chelsea in 1712, and resided there from 1741 (when he resigned the presidency of the R.S.) until his death in 1753. The manor had previously belonged to William Cheyne, second and last Viscount Newhaven, whose family name is still familiar to all Chelsea people and visitors from Cheyne Walk, where Carlyle died in 1881. W. T. LYXK. [See. 9th S. i. 264; ii. 156, 350.] " PAUNCHES," A KIND OF SILK.—Throughout the eighteenth century the plural paunchet'n found in old travels in a peculiar sense, as the name of a kind of silk. So early as 1711 Lockyer's 'Account of the Trade in India,' p. 121, has " Damasks, sattins, taffetas, paunches"; and so late as 1813 Milburn's ' Oriental Commerce,' vol. ii. p. 518, mentions "Paunches, plain blues, pinks, and whites." I take this to be an old orthography of the trade term now written pongees. I cannot find any trace of paunches in this sense either in ' Hobson - Jobson ' or, so far, in the ' N.E.D.,' though it will, perhaps, appear in the latter s.v. ' Pongee.' It is derived from two Chinese words, of which the first means " own " (pan, pen, or pun—Sinologists have not yet decided how to spell it), and the second may be ki,'' loom," or chih, " weave." JAS. PLATT, Jan. ROBERT GOODWIN OF DERRY.—At the Middle Temple, on 5 August, 1612. Robert, second son of Robert Goodwin, of London, gent, deceased, was admitted specially, " because of the transmigration of the said Robert to Ireland on account of the plantation there by the citizens of London " (' Middle Temple Records,' ii. 552). In a Warwickshire Visi- tation (1682) pedigree Robert Goodwin, sometime of the Middle Temple, is said to have been " Town Clerk of London-Derry, and Secretary to the Councell of the Xorth in Ireland." The first mention of a Goodwin in the Irish State Papers at the Record Office is on 14 July, 1634, when Robert Goodwin, Esq., occurs as one of the members of Parlu- ment for Londonderry (vol. for 1633-47, p. C5). On 22 January, 1647, Mr. Ralph King WM appointed Collector of Customs for Derry " in room of Mr. Goodwin lately deceased ; u he is not yet dead, King shall succeed when he is " (ibid., p. 598). Can any one say when Robert Goodwin, of Derry, died, and whether he had any sons? A Robert Goodwin WM a Parliamentary Commissioner in Ireland, 1647-60 (Irish State Papers, vol. for 1647-60, p. 589 and onward). The Warwickshire Visi- tation pedigree makes Robert Goodwin the