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 ii s. xii. DEC. 11, 1915.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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CAROL WANTED. Can any one giv me information concerning a carol whic] begins thus ?

All you that are t[o hear incl]in d ,

Consider well to bear in mind

What [our] great God for us has done

In sending His beloved Son.

I have found a badly spelt copy of it, in a strange hand, among some family papers This copy has the date 1819 on the back, in addition to Robin Hood's epitaph and a not relating to it. More than twenty couplet of the carol are practically perfect, but abou fifteen at the end are very defective. If i is not already known, I propose copying i for ' N. & Q.' M. G. W. P.

FOLK-LORE : THE DANGERS OF CROSSING

It is stated at 1 S. vi. 123 that fieldmice cannot cross a garden path without dying in the attempt ; and again, at 1 S. viii. 382 that, if eggs be brought over running water chicks cannot be hatched out of them Can any one suggest how this idea of the danger of crossing arose ?

ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.

SHORNCLIFFE COMMANDANTS. This camp was formed about 1794-5. In the latter year it appears to have been occupied by militia, as a summer camp. General John Moore assumed command in July, 1803, and was probably succeeded by Rowland Hill (after- wards Viscount) and the Hon. W. Stewart. I am trying to ascertain who were the commanding officers at Shorncliffe from 1794 to 1815-18. I believe at one time General Kenneth Mackenzie (afterwards Sir Kenneth Douglas, Bt. ) held the office.

Col. Willoughby Verner in * The First British Rifle Corps ' states that Col. Coote Manningham in the spring of 1803, prior to Sir John Moore's arrival, delivered " military lectures to the officers of the 95th (Rifles) Regiment at Shorn-cliff Barracks, Kent," afterwards published. Was he in command of the camp, or only of the rifle regiment ? R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

BLAKESLEY. I shall be glad if any one can give me any information concerning the family of Blakesley, who had business connexions in the City in the latter part of the eighteenth and the earlier part of the nineteenth century. One John Blakesley died 26 June, 1807, in his 75th year, and was described in the obituary announcement as of Bishopsgate Street Within ; Eleanor Blakesley of Mark Lane died 13 May, 1810 ; and George Blakesley of the parish of

St. Botolph, Bishopsgate Street, married at Crayford in Kent 19 Dec., 1801, Eliza- beth Walter, daughter of Philip Walter, long time Rector of Crayford. There is a public -house called " The Blakesley Arms " near the Manor Park Station of the Great Eastern Railway, which would seem to indicate that the family were once, if they are not now, landowners in that region.^ 4| {I In an old MS. sketch pedigree of the Walter family in my possession the Rev. Philip Walter, Rector of Crayford (1758-1806), is noted to have had two" granddaughters who became peeresses ; his eldest daughter married one Robert Buchanan of Brooke's Place, Kennington ; his other daughter who married was, as above stated, the wife of George Blakesley. I cannot discover whether the only one of his sons to live to maturity Philip Walter ever married or not. Perhaps some one can trace out these granddaughters for me. F. DE H. L.

ANTONIO DE GUEVARA, BISHOP OF MON- DONEDO. Turning out a drawer, 1 came across an old bookseller's catalogue, from which I have extracted the following :

" The Mount of Calvarie, by the Reverend Father in God Lord Anthonie de Gueuara, Bishop of Mondonnedo, Preacher, Chronicler, and Councillor unto Charles the Sixth, Emperor, wherein are handled all the Mysteries of the Mount of Calvary from the time that Christ was condemned by Pilat, until hee was put into the Sepulcher by Joseph and Nichodemus (published in London, and sold at The Gun, in St. Pauls, 1618) ; together with the second part, treating of the Seven Words which Christ spake hanging upon the Crosse, translated out of Spanish into English, and printed by Adam Islip for Edward White, to be sold at the Little North Dore of St. Pauls, at the Syne of The Gun, 2 vols. in 1, 420-502 pages, original binding (broken), 25/ 1597.

" The author had an extraordinary career. He was a celebrated preacher who got into conflict with the Inquisition, was tried, and acquitted with equivocation.' Disgusted, he came to England and denounced the Roman Church. Aimed at Archbishopric of York, failed to secure t. Returned home, humbly apologised, recanted, jut was put in gaol. He died there aged 114, ind his ashes were scattered in the Tiber.' s there any truth in the above biographical iccount ? If so, where may the details be ead ?

According to Thomas's ' Dictionary of Biography and Mythology,' Anthony de Guevara, the Bishop of Mondoriedo, was )orn about 1490 in the province of Alax r a nd died in 1544. " Charles the Sixth " in he title-page of ' The Mount of Calvarie ' hould thus be " Charles the Fifth." Thomas .oes not mention ' The Mount of Calvarie,' ut says that Guevara's ' History of Marcus