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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. vn. JAN. is, 1913.

HANDEL. THE SHAKESPEARE OF Music. The reference made to Chorley in the review of the third volume of the Second Supplement of the ' D.N.B.' on the 28th ult. has caused , me to turn to his ' Handel Studies,' published by Augener in 1859, and dedicated to his friend Costa. In it Chorley describes Handel as " the Shakespeare of music and a poet for all time." He draws a pathetic picture of him when " Time had cast over his eyes the cloud of blindness," and he had to be led to the organ,, where his abundant fertility in improvisation enabled him " to bring all heaven before his eyes." Of the Hallelujah Chorus Chorley writes :

" Among all the ' Hallelujahs ' in music, the Alpha and the Omega, the only one ! The master, who does not appear to have been a sayer of fine things concerning his own works (he did too much to have time or ingenuity for confession !), is reported, with regard to this chorus, to have declared that, while writing it, a vision of the Heaven of Heavens was with him : of a glory to be hymned with a pomp of adoration, little lower (let this not be misread for irrever- ence !) ' than that of the angels.' Human genius in music has nowhere else risen to such a height. No chorus contains anything like the immensity of the phrase in the words

For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth ; nothing like the sublimity of the episode, with its few thrilling chords,

The Kingdom of this world ; nothing like that third idea

And He shall reign for ever and ever."

P. A. C.

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LINGEN FAMILY. Can any of your readers kindly confirm or supplement the following partly conjectural and somewhat frag- mentary particulars of this family, for which I am mainly indebted to the contributions of the Rev. J. H. Bloom to a local paper ?

In the church of Quinton, Gloucestershire, is an effigy of Sir William Clopton, who died in 1419. His wife was Joane, second daugh- ter of Alexander Besford, of Pearsford, or Besford, Worcestershire, and a beautiful brass to her memory is still in Quinton Church. This Sir William Clopton and his wife had at least two children. Their son Thomas seems to have died before he reached the age of 21. Thereupon his sister Joan became heir, and married Sir John de Burgh,

who died in 1471, when the manor of Clop ton - under-Meon passed to four coheirs, one of whom, Isabel, became the wife of Sir John Lingen of Radbrook in the parish of Quinton. It would seem but of this I am not at all sure that Radbrook may thus in some way have passed to the Lingens. It had pre- viously belonged to the Hunckes. The first Lingen entry in Quinton registers is in 1579. In the Great Rebellion Roger Lingen was expelled from Radbrook by the Parliament, but commuted for his estate, and paid a fine of 2831. In 1656 Margaret, daughter of Roger and Anne Lingen, was baptized at Quinton. In 1667 Thomas Lingen, who succeeded Robert, was born. On the other hand, among the Quinton burials a Mr. William Lingen was entered 27 March, 1579. Was he the grandfather of Roger ? and did he purchase Radbrook from the Hunckes ? Thomas Lingen, son of Robert, died, aged 34, on 21 April, 1704, His son Thomas had a long minority, and married Anne, only daughter, and at length sole heir, of Robert Burton of Longnor Hall, Salop. Their eldest son, Robert Lingen, took in 1748, in accordance with the will of his uncle, the name and arms of Burton. The arms of Lingen and Burton are still above the fine entrance gates at Radbrook, now a farmhouse.

The particulars of the Lingen family on pp. 102-4 of ' Abberley Manor, Worcester- shire,' by the Rev. J. L. Moilliet (1905), contain a reference to the marriage of Thomas Lingen of Radbrook and Anne Burton, but do not state how or when the Lingens acquired Radbrook, or how and when they parted with it. A. C. C.

XXXIX. ARTICLES. I have failed at all the likely sources to obtain the XXXIX. Articles printed on card of a size suitable for framing. Any reader of ' N. & Q.' who may happen to know of such a publication will greatly oblige by saying where it can be bought. LEO C.

" THOU ASCENDED." In the poem by A. H. Clough entitled ' The Shadow ' I find the following line :

When Thou ascended to Thy God and ours.

Can anybody inform me whether it is allowable in poetry to omit, for the sake of euphony, the final st in the second person singular of the past tense ?

Milton in ' Paradise Lost ' wrote, " O Prince, that led," &c. Are there any other precedents ? S. K. SEYMOUB.

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