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the real * Leader Haughs and Yarrow,' which is sonorously resonant with local names, belongs to the middle of the seven- teenth century. Practically nothing is known of the author, who is believed to have been one of the wandering musicians of the time. " Burne the violer " he is called in a doubtful reference appended to the Roxburghe copy of the song. What seems certain is that in his con- cluding stanza, while lamenting the "pastoral melancholy " that had even then begun to characterize his region, he reveals his personality for a moment, and instantly retires into obscurity : But minstrel Burn cannot assuage His grief, while life endureth, To see the changes of this age That fleeting time procureth ; For many a place stands in hard case, Where blyth fowk kend nae sorrow, With Homes, that dwelt on Leader-side, And Scoits, that dwelt on Yarrow.

THOMAS BAYNE.

THE REV. CHARLES VOYSEY. Although no clang of ecclesiastical or of political strife is allowed to invade the pages of " dear old ' N. & Q.,' " a note should be made of the death on Saturday, the 20th of July, of the Rev. Charles Voysey, as an able man who had a sufficiently remark- able career. He was born in London on the 18th of March, 1828, and was a direct descendant of John Wesley's sister Susanna. At the age of 7 he was reading the Fourth Gospel in Greek. He received his early education at Stockwell Grammar School, and afterwards entered St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. While at St. Mark's, Whitechapel, he preached against the doctrine of eternal punishment, for which he was ejected from the curacy ; and when Vicar of Healaugh he announced his unbelief in many of the doc- trines of the Church of England, and pub- lished a series of pamphlets entitled " The Sling and the Stone " ; these ran into ten volumes. The Archbishop of York took lega proceedings, and by the finding of the Privy Council Voysey was deprived of his living for heresy on the llth of February, 1871 and ordered to pay costs. He thereupon founded the Theistic Church, which for four years held its services at St. George's Hall The present church is in Swallow Street Piccadilly, a building which had been a Huguenot place of worship the first, it h said, built in England.

Voysey was the only surviving founder of the Cremation Society of England, anc on the 24th of July his remains were

remated at Golder's Green, the ashes being afterwards scattered in the crematorium grounds. The service was in accordance with the Revised Prayer Book of the Theistic

hurch, compiled by himself. N. S. S.

QUOTATIONS IN JEREMY TAYLOR. (See 11 S. i. 466; ii. 65; iii. 122; iv. 122 ; vi. 45). Vol. iv. p. 580 : To>v 6rjpoyxTa-

^ftplCTTOTaTOV, K.T.A.

Aristotle, 'Pol.,' I. ii., sub finem:

Aib dvoo-iojTaror Kai dyptcoTa-rov [6 av0pa>7ros]

avev dperrk.

G. C. Billesdon.

" POT-BOILER." It is surprising that no other answer to the question (8 S. viii. 308) as to " Who first coined this culinary term ? JJ jias been given than the very late one from 'The Oxford English Dictionary.' Having been among painters (or artists) all my life,

1 can say that I have known the term for full fifty years. RALPH THOMAS.

[The earliest quotation in the great Dictionary is from The Saturday Review of 27 August, 1864 nearly the " full tifty years " named by our old and valued contributor.]

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

EARLY FRENCH PLAYERS IN ENGLAND. In his ' History of English Dramatic Poetry ' (1831), i. 84, foot-note, J. Payne Collier summarizes some details from the '' MS. of the Expenses of the Priory of Thetford, from 1461 to 1540, lately in the collection of Mr. Craven Orde, and now of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle." Among the players mentioned as having visited Thetford during that period are " the players of the Queen of France." Can any reader having access to the MS. furnish me with the exact, or an approximate, date of this visit ?

W. J. LAWRENCE.

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