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NOTES AND QUERIES. [iis.vn. JUNE 21, 1913.

-sine scandalo vitari non possunt. Et encore 1'archidiacre protesta-t-il, objectant que 1'ordon- nance du lgat, laquelle reniontaib a 1207, <$tait .ant^rieure de cent vingt-sept ans au Livre Noir, <et par consequent abrog^e de fait par lui. Et il -avait refus^ de paraltre devant la princesse."

A recent commentator on Notre Dame <Edmond Huguet, ' Quelques Sources de N.D.,' E.H.L., 8, 1901, pp. 60-61) quotes the source of this statement as follows :

" II se trouve au livre noir que Fan 1334, la -vigile sainct Barthelemy au chapitre general de messieurs de nostre Dame de Paris, fut statu6 et ordonne\ que nul denieurant au Cloistre cut a retirer .avec soy feninie quelconque, vieille ou jeune, maistresse ou chambriere, ny parente, pour y se journer . . . . Mais 1'ordonnance du Legat Odo <qui est .plus ancienne de cent vingt-sept ans, c'est a sQavoir de Tan 1207, et qui se trouve au livre 20 du grand Pastoral, Carthe 3), contient plusieurs exceptions, et est telle. Dislinctius inhibemus ne quis Canonicus mulierem aliquam, monialem seu aliam in domo sua in claustro sustineat pernoctare ; nisi sit mater, vel soror, vel propinqua, saltern in tertio gradu : vel nisi sint ali- quce Magnates mulieres, quce sine scandalo evitari won possunt. Vel nisi urgente necessitate matronas aliquas vocari contigerit ad cusiodiam infirmorum. Que si aucuns ont des chambrieres, pour preparer les viandes et disposer le mesnage, ce n'est sans permission du Chapitre lequel maturement considere la qualit, preud'hommie et aage des personnes." Du Breul, ' Le Theatre des anti- quitez de Paris,' e"d. 1639, 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 mine. It was soon taken away, but I think that several years elapsed before the present simple method was adopted of iising 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 Btratford-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 unon mo.

HBP.

SMUGGLING POEMS (US. 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 :

" The singer first looked up at the ceiling, then closed his eyes and repeated the title of the song : ' The Smugglers 'ope,' gentlemen :

Oh ! a hos-marine upon the deck was prancin',

And he looked as proud as ever man could be. Oh ! a smuggler bold he came aboard a-dancin',

And he chuck'd the hos-marine into the sea ! Oh ! he wriggled and he kicked, and kep on swimmin',

But nobody took the hos-marine in tow. Oh ! all his merry messmates kept a-grinnin'

As he vanish'd where the stormy winds do blow.

Chorus : Oh! 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 ! Oh ! 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. Oh ! cheer up, for now nobody will forsake us,

But will do their very best for us we know. Oh ! although the Badger happened for to take us We '11 be merry while the stormy winds 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."

K. J. FYNMOBE.

Sandgate.

" CLOUDSLEY BUSH " (11 S. vii. 388). The first element in " Cloudsley " may be a personal name Clud (u = ou), by mutation " cloud." It occurs as " Cludesleghe "- (' Cod. Dip.,' iii. 410). It is probably taken from O.E. dud, a rock, hill; t.e., Cleeve- Cloud (Glos.), Thorpe-Cloud, &c. Ley = ledge, d. of O.E. leak, cultivated land (g=y). ST. CLAIE 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. 246. A." K. BAYLEY.