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FAMILIES : DURATION IN MALE LINE ( 1 1 S. v. 27, 92, 132. 174. 213, 314, 355). Upon my drawing his attention to the subject, the Hon. C. Hanbury-Tracy of Billesley Hall infonns me that his great-grandfather married the last Lady Tracy of Toddington.

WM. JAGGARD. Avouthwaite, Stratford-on-Avon.

The reference asked for by F. O. A. is ~to be found in Stanley's ' Memorials of Canterbury," s.i\ ' The Murder of Becket ' (see pp. 106-7 in the is Everyman ; ' edition).

JOHN T. PAGE.

"BURIAL PORCH" (11 S. v. 309). Pro- bably burial-porch means funeral-porch or death-porch, that is, the porch through which by ancient custom coffins should be borne into church. When a church has more than one door, it is not uncommon to have a wedding-door and a funeral-door. Again, each township of a parish which still follows old usages may have its own door through which its brides and its dead both pass.

Now that ' the population moves readily from place to place, and people from a distance oust the families which have lived for generations in one neighbourhood, tra- ditional village customs are disappearing.

M. P.

At a very early period persons of rank or of eminent piety were allowed to bo buried in the porch ; subsequently, interments were permitted within the church ; but, by the canons of King Edgar, it was ordered that this privilege should be granted to none but good and religious men. ' The Glossary of Architecture ' says that porch was some- times used for chapels in the interior of churches, as in the following passages :

" My body to be buried in the churche of Kellowe in my Porch of o* 1 Ladye there betwixt my wife there and the Alter ende.'' Will of John Trollop, 1522, 'Durham Wills,' p. 105. At the back of the Catterick contract is a list of five persons buried in the church, of which three are is within the chappel or porche of our ladyo within the said Kyrke of Catrick," and two " in the sayd Kyrke of Catrik in a chappel or porch dedicat unto Saynt James/'

Some information as to the position of a porch to a church is given at 3 S. x. 16 ; ^id of a chamber over the porch at 5 S. xi. 366, 394, 472; xii. 37, 49, 91, 149, 197, 277, 334; 6 S. i. 437. TOM JONES.

See ' N.E.D.' under porch, 2. J. T. F. Winterton, Lines.

BLACK DOGS : GABRIEL HOUNDS (11 S. v. 185, 296). MR. T. RATCLIFFE'S allusion to the " Seven Whistlers " recalls Words- worth's sonnet,

Though narrow be that old Man's eares, written in 1807 (Macmillan's edition, 1888 p. 363) :

Be the seven birds hath seen, that never part, Seen the Seven Whistlers in their nightly rounds, And counted them : and oftentimes will start, For overhead are sweeping Gabriel's Hounds, Doomed, with their impious Lord, the flying hart To chase for ever, on aerial grounds.

H. K. ST. J. S.

"RULE, BRITANNIA' (11 S. v. 309). The first edition of ' Alfred,' published in 1740, reads :

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves ;

Britons never will be slaves. And these lines were identically set by Dr. Arne. WILLIAM H. CUMMINGS.

In the original version the chorus reads : Rule, Britannia, rule the waves ; Britons never will be slaves.

In Dr. Arne's setting " Britannia " is repeated, but the other words stand as the poet placed them. In some modern ver- sions, as, e.g., that given in Palgrave's ' Golden Treasury,' " rules " appears in the first line, and " shall " in the second. Ritsoii included the lyric with Arne's music in his ' Scottish Songs ' of 1794, and he gives the text in accordance with what has been stated :

Rule, Britannia, Britannia rule the waves ;.

Britons never will be slaves.

THOMAS BAYNE.

It is possible that the version " Hail, Britannia," may have been an early one. I had never heard of it before, and it could naver have baen the accepted version. If it ever existed, it must soon have been super- seded by " Rule." But the second part of the line I have never seen as MR. MACARTHUR gives it. Fifty years ago I heard boys frequently corrected for saying or singing " Britannia rules the waves," which was put down to ignorance or inatten- tion. Surely the whole line is in the impera- tive mood :

Rule, Britannia ; Britannia, rule the waves. This is how I have always seen it and heard it sung. J- FOSTER PALMER.

8, Royal Avenue, 8.W.

The reading " Hail, Britannia," is an error. " Rule, Britannia." is the reading of the printed copy of ' Alfred : a Masque- acted at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane '