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REFERENCES AND QUOTATIONS WANTED. The following quotations occur in a manuscript Written in 1844, in which I am interested. As the writing is by no means easily read, I am not sure of their correct- ness : ,1

1. Guide-Books, Rhymes, Sketches, Illustrations, With Gleanings, Libraries, Wanderings, Aber- rations.

2. Bibles with cuts and comments thus go down, Thus physic flies abroad, and thus the low From men of study and from men of show.

3 Every fool describes

His wondrous journey to some foreign coast.

If any of your readers could give me the correct quotations for the above, and more especially tell me whence they are taken, I should be much obliged.

H. s. G;

Capenoch, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire.

CARISBROOKE CASTLE, I.W. : WATER- WHEEL. Can any one say if, and where, measured drawings are to be obtained of the water -raising wheel at the old Well- house within the above castle ? The ma- chinery is said to dat& back to Tudor times ; and, if so, it must constitute one of the earliest examples of such an arrangement now extant. H. W. DICKINSON.

AN EVELYN QUERY. Can any of your readers explain the following entry ?

1641. April 27th. " That evening was celebrated the pompous funerall of the Duke of Richmond, who was carried in effigje in an open chariot thro' London in great solemnity" (Wheatley's edition).

" To Westminster Abbey " is added in the editions of Bray and Dobson.

Now Lodovick, Duke of Richmond, died without legitimate issue in 1623/4, and his English titles became extinct. He was succeeded in the Dukedom of Lennox by his brother Esme, who died the same year. Esme was succeeded by his son James, who was created Duke of Richmond in 1641, and did not die until 1655. What funeral did Evelyn see celebrated ?

H. MAYNARD SMITH.

PORTRAITS BY LAWRENCE. I have just inherited two half-length portraits reputed to be by Sir Thomas Lawrence, and to my eye they have the appearance of being genuine. The subjects are a Mr. and Mrs. Cooke of Bedfordshire (I believe). I find no such names in a list of Lawrence's Works I should be glad to discover who Were Mr and Mrs. Cooke ; also, whether any list of the painter's works includes these names.

G. N. H.

MACAULAY ON HARRISON AINSWORTH. On the last page of vol. i. of ' William rlarrison Ainsworth and his Friends,' by S. M. Ellis (1911), there is this passage of Macaulay's :

"When I devour the pregnant pages of Ains- worth I am lost in amazement that his wonderful listorical novels have not an abiding place in every house. His close adherence to established facts, woven together in such attractive form, renders his

series of romances indispensable He always

charms, but never misleads. "

Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' say when, and to whom, this eulogy was Written ? [ do not think it has ever been referred to in any published ' Life ' of Macaulay. Possibly a collector of Macaulay's letters may be able to furnish the desired in- 'ormation. F. C. WHITE.

Cardiff.

DANCING ON " MIDSUMMER NIGHT." It appears from the Danish ballad ' Proud Elsebeth,' translated into German by Wil- helm Carl Grimm, that dancing on the night before Midsummer Day used to be customary in Denmark. Is it still done, and tias it any connexion with the ancient practice of visiting springs of water on Midsummer morning ?

Are these dances known to people of German descent ? Is their origin Teutonic ?

M. P.

THE ROMAN RITE IN ENGLAND BEFORE THE REFORMATION. Though most of the dioceses in England had their own Rite previous to the separation from Rome in the sixteenth century, I have seen it stated that in one, at least, the Roman Rite was used, and that one Norwich. This, however, is incorrect, for Norwich had its own Use equally with Lincoln, York, &c. Yet I think there were one or two dioceses which followed Rome, as I believe all Ireland always did. Whether Scotland was broken up into different Uses I have no means of knowing. A traveller from Italy to Eng- land in 1520 speaks of the "low Oothical mitres " worn by" the English bishops in contrast to the tall and more majestic ones which the Italian prelates usually wore. In the shape of our vestments, as well, no doubt, as in our various uses, we were always decidedly Gothic. I should be glad, con- sequently, to discover any instances of the Roman Use being in vogue anywhere in England before 1530.

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

23, Unthank Road, Norwich.

[A good deal of information on pre-Reformation Uses will be found at 7 S. ix. 509.]