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 494 NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii 8. vn. J™E 21,1913. «ine Kcanddlo vttari non possunt. Et encore 1'archidiacre protesta-t-il, objectant que 1'ordon- nance du legal, laquellc remontait a 1207, <Stait antdrieure de cent vingt-sept ans au Livre Noir, et par consequent abrogee dc fait par lui. Et il avait reFus6 dc parattre devant la princesse." A recent commentator on Notre Dame (Edmond Huguet, ' Quelques Sources de N.D.,' R.H.L., 8, 1901, pp. 60-61) quotes the source of this statement as follows :—• " II so trouve au livre noir que 1'an 1331, la •vigile sainrt Barthelemy au chapitre general dc mcssiexirs de nostre Darne de Paris, fut statue1 et ordonne, que mil demeurant au C'loistre cut A retirer avec soy femme quelconque, vieille ou jeune, maistresse ou chambriere, ny parcntc, pour y se jonrner.... Mais 1'ordonnance du Legal Odo (qui est plus anciennc de cent vingt-scpt itns, c'est a scavoir de 1'an 1207, ct qui se trouve au livre 20 du grand Pastoral, Carthe 3), contient plusieurs exceptions, et est telle. DMinctiits

hibemus ne qui* Canonicus mulierem aliquam, ntonialem seu aliam in domo sua in claustro suaUneal pemoctare ; nisi sit maler, vel soror, vtl propinqua, saltern in tertio gradu : vel niai aint ali- quce Magnates mulierea, quat sine scandalo evitari non possvnt. Vel nisi urgente necessitate matronas uliquas vocari contigerit ad custodiam infirmorum. Que si aucuns ont des chambrieres, pour preparer les viandes et disposer le niesnago, ce n eat sans permission du Chapitre lequel maturcmcnt considere la qnalite', preud'hommie et aogc des personnes."—Du Breul, ' Le Theatre des anti- quitez de Paris,' dd. 163!), p. 42. WM. A. MCLAUGHLIN. Ann Arbor, Michigan. . POLICEMEN ON POINT-DUTY (11 S. vii. 150, 257).—About the year 1860 a sema- phore signal-post carrying two arms was erected at the junction of Bridge Street, Westminster, and Parliament Street, for the purpose of regulating the traffic. It was worked by the police, but was much dis- liked by them, and I well remember some extremely unparliamentary remarks by the man on duty in reply to an innocent obser- vation of mino. It was soon taken away, but I think that several years elapsed before the present simple method was adopted of using the constable as a living semaphore. SHAKESPEARE AND THE BIBLE (11 S. vii. 146).—The notion that Shakespeare had something to do with the Bible existed at Stratford-on-Avon during the last century. I remember my father telling me that on the occasion of a visit to Shakespeare's birthplace in 1850 he entered into conver- sation with a small boy. Being desirous of finding out what the lad knew about the great poet, he asked him whether Shake- speare wrote any books, and the reply Was, " He wrote the Word of God, sir. This made a great impression upon nit. P. B P. SMUGGLING POEMS (11 S. vii. 309, 355).— In Holbein's Visitors' List and Folke- stone Journal, 10 Dec., 1890, occurs the following smugglers' song, said to have been composed by Jerry Watson when a prisoner in Newgate, 1823 :— " Tho singer first looked up at the ceiling, then closed his eyes and repeated the title of the song : ' The Smugglers 'ope, gentlemen :— Oh 1 a hos-marine upon the deck was prancin', And he looked as proud as ever man could be. Oh 1 a smuggler bold he came aboard a-dancin', And he chuck'd the hos-marine into the sea 1 Oh 1 he wriggled and he kicked, and kep on Bwimmin', But nobody took the hos-marine in tow. Oh 1 all his merry messmates kept a-grinnin' As he vanish'd where the stormy winds do blow. Chorus:— Oh 1 the Cullens and the Minters and the Ho'mans And all other friends will help us, we shall see ; Oh 1 the tree was never growed And the hemp was never sowed That will hang us at the Old Bai-lee ! Oh 1 a jolly crew in Newgate they was lodgin'. And they sung and thought of every one at 'ome. Oh 1 the lawyers and Jack Ketch, they would be dodgin' One another when the smugglers' trials come. Oil 1 cheer up, for now nobody will forsake us, But will do their very best lor us we know- Oh 1 although the Badger happened for to take us We '11 be merry while the stormy wind do blow. Chorus:— For the Cullens and the Minters and the Ho'mans And all other friends will help us, we shall see ; Oh ! the tree was never growed And the hemp was never sowed That will hang us at the Old Bai-lee ! He didn't think 'e could rec'olect n'more, but he'd try if that wan't enough. Two verses out of twenty-four were considered enough, and the narrative was resumed." B. J. FYNMOBE. Sandgate. "CLOUDSLEY BUSH" (11 S. vii. 388).— The first element in " Cloudsley " may be a personal name Clud (&=ou), by mutation (' Cod. Dip.,' iii. 410). It is probably taken from O.E. dud, a rock, hill; i.e., Cleeve- Cloud (Glos.), Thorpe-Cloud, .fee. Ley= Kage, d. of O.E. ledh, cultivated land (g=y). ST. CLAIB BADDELEY. " Cloudsley Bush " was a tumulus on Fosse Way, two miles south of High Cross, now removed. Dugdale (p. 92), Stukeley ('Itin. Curiosum,' i. Ill), and others took this to be the tomb of one Claudius, and the im- possible idea still lingers in some books. Thus the ' Victoria History of Warwick- shire,' i. 240. A. R. BAYLEY.
 * ' cloud." It occurs as " Cludesleghe"