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NOTES AND QUERIES, [n s. xn. JULY 10, 1915.

Royal Exchange. They represent James I. and Charles I., both 'by T. Thornycroft ; Charles II., by H. Weekes ; William and Mary, by T. Woolner and A. Munro ; and George IV. and William IV., by W. Theed. According to The Morning Post of 4 June, 1915, the suggestion was found not to be feasible, and the ultimate decision arrived at has been in favour of the spacious Entrance Hall of the Old Bailey Sessions House. At that date Charles I. had " already been placed in position, in a slightly damaged state, a portion of the sword-hilt and part of the sceptre being absent."

WlLMOT CORFIELD.

" LONDON BRIDGE is BROKEN DOWN " (11 S. xi. 401, 461, 478). I have been given viva voce another version :

London Bridge is broken down; Dance over my Lady Lee, &c.

Old King Lud he built it first,

Built it firm of posts and planks ;

Julius Caesar built it next ;

Csesar marched through London Town,

Then Duke Brutus killed him dead.

Good St. Olave dinged it down ;

So he saved us from the foe ;

So we built his holy shrine.

Norman William built it up,

Built it strong of wood and iron ;

He was crowned in London Town.

London Bridge is broken down ;

Who will build it up again ?

We must build it up again.

How shall we build it up again ? Then it goes on to " silver and gold," &c., as in John o' London's version. The brevity and " cocksureness " of the classical and legendary inexactitudes are mediaeval, and after the manner of the ' Gesta Rom an - orum.' The mechanical repetition of the burden which makes Caesar " march through London Town with a gay Ladye " is worthy of notice. B. C. S.

CHEESES IN IRELAND (11 S. xi. 472). The following note on the manufacture of cheese at Carrickfergus, in. the county of Antrim, is taken from Samuel McSkimin's ' History Carrickfergus,' Belfast, second edition, 1823, p. 242 :

" In the town and suburbs is made a consider- able quantity of excellent cheese, often fully equal to the best imported from England. In making it a number of persons receive the milk of each other's cows a week or so in rotation, during the season for making cheese, from May till November, the milk being regularly measured and an account kept of that delivered.

" The number of persons in each join is commonly from 8 to 12, their cows probably from 12 to 14 ; the joins from 5 to 7. Each join has vats, tubs, pans, and the like implements, which are kept up at the expense of the whole.

" The cheese is commonly made in the morning, soon after the milk of that day is steeped ; of late years it has been coloured with anetta ; last season the price varied from 5d. to Id- per pound. A considerable quantity of this cheese is sold in the owners' houses ; but the greater part is taken to Belfast . A few now continue the making of cheese till about Christmas, but it is very inferior in quality, easily distinguished by a peculiar softness and odd taste, and is called fog cheese."

I have not heard of Carrickfergus cheese for many years, and I suppose the making of it has ceased. Imported cheese Canadian, English, and Dutch is largely used.

W. H/ PATTERSON.

Belfast.

ORIGIN OF ' OMNE BENE ' (11 S. xi. 280, 389, 477). At the first reference MR. CRANE quoted the first stanza of the song, and added that, as sung to-day at Kingswood School, the last line of the song is Domum rediendi.

At the second reference R. M. quoted the second stanza, making the last line to be

Nunc redire domum.

As I recollect it, the last line of the second stanza was

Dulce redire domum.

Between all the stanzas we used to sing twice the refrain,

Domum, domum, Dulce domum, Domum domum felix !

At the last reference MR. CRANE says : " The two stanzas already quoted are the only ones extant." What, then, about the third stanza, ending with the words,

Domum rediendi ?

How does that run ? Should it not read " redeundi " ?

There was a fourth stanza also, which ended with the words,

Hie, hsec, hoc, et ibo.

As a fifth stanza there was a frank relapse into the vernacular language :

Jolly good song, and jolly well sung ! Jolly companions every one ! Holla, boys, holla, boys, this is the day ! Holla, boys, holla, boys, hip, hip, hurray !

The words and tune, as known to me in the eighties, were, no doubt, modernized and vulgarized forms of those known to Hood and to Washington Irving.