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12 s. i. MAY 20, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

409 —Members of the Norman family of Chappedelaine are believed to have settled in England at the time of the French Revolution. Can any readers of 'N. & Q.' inform me whether there are any of this name now in the British Isles?

—Sir Walter Scott's 'Coronach' from 'The Lady of the Lake,' canto iii., is given in the fourth book of Palgrave's 'Golden Treasury.' Annotating "correi," in the line "Fleet foot on the correi," the editor says it means "covert on a hillside." Is this correct? Jamieson, in the 'Scottish Dictionary,' defines the term as "a hollow between hills; or rather, a hollow in a hill"; while Scott himself descriptively says in one place: "The graves of the slain are still to be seen in that little corri, or bottom on the side of a burn." One does not readily associate graveyards with "coverts."

' THE TALE OF THE RAVEN AND THE BLACKBIRD,' by the author of ' The Black- bird's Song,' second edition, London, R. Barnham, 1715. Who was this author ? G. C. MOORE SMITH.

The University, Sheffield.

" LAUS DEO " : OLD MERCHANTS' CUSTOM. Could one of your readers furnish us with a folio neatly abstracted from a very old ledger with the words " Laus Deo " at the top ? We are told that in olden times it was the custom " reverently to head each folio " with those Latin words.

W. H. BROWN.

Birmingham.

HERALDS AT FUNERALS. Could you tell me if Heralds ever now attend the funerals of those entitled to arms, and make the procla- mation of rank, &c., as was done in other days ? When is the last recorded case ? Is there a known reason for the general abandonment of the practice ? Can those who (lawfully from the point of view of the Heralds' College) are entitled to it, practically exercise the right to the attendance of the Herald ? C. H. M.

.RICHARD WHITFORD (1511). The will of the above, described as clerk of Sion, Middlesex, is indexed as appearing in Register Fetyplace, fol. 5 (P.C.C.). Has this will been printed ? He was doubtless the uncle of the devotional writer of the same name and monastery, the translator of the 4 Imitation,' author of the Jesus Psalter, &c. A. STEPHENS DYER.

207 Kingston Road, Teddington.

" HAVE " : COLLOQUIAL USE. How far back is it possible to trace the present-day use of the verb " to have " as meaning " to take " or "to consume " (food, drink, tobacco, &c.) ? This way of speaking, now so common, is, I fancy, of quite recent growth. How well one knows the sound of the Cockney ordering his lunch at a cheap restaurant, and invariably beginning with the formula " I'll have," or rather " Ah'll hev," this or that. The earliest examples of this usage that I can find in the dictionaries are :

1876. George Eliot, ' Daniel Deronda,' xlviii. : " He was glad to think that it was time to go and lunch at his club, where he meant to have a lobster salad."

1887. Rider Haggard, ' Jess,' xxiii : " Have another egg, Jess ? "

My inquiry has been suggested by certain entries, which puzzled me for a moment, in a kind of war journal (' A Day in the Trenches ' ) published in The Spectator of April 15 under the title of ' Observing : an Average Day ' :

"I have some very strong tea in a thermos, and a marmalade sandwich. Then a cigarette.

Feel rather well We have cigarettes together

Have a pipe Have another pipe."

CHARLES LLEWELYN DAVIES.

10 Lupus Street, Pimlico, S.W.

DIEGO ORTIZ. Froude, in his ' Reign of Elizabeth ' (chap, xxiv.), cites from " MSS. Simancas " the narrative of Don Diego Ortiz, an emissary in Ireland of King Philip II., without giving a date. This narrative is not among those which have been calendared by the late Major Hume.

Perhaps some correspondent of ' N. & Q.' will be kind enough to give a more definite reference for the narrative, and at the same time to identify the narrator.

One of the same name was a musical composer, who was maestro di cappella to the Viceroy of Sicily in 1565.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

HYMN-TUNE ' PRESBURG.' The words of this hymn ('Go to Dark Gethsemane ') are by James Montgomery (1771-1854), and the tune for it in the original edition (No. 103) was adapted by W. H. Monk from the tune set by Chr. Tye to chap. xii. of his ' Actes of the Apostles,' published in 1553 (' Hymns Ancient and Modern,' Historical Edition, 1909). Why was the name ' Pres- burg ' chosen for it in ' The Hymnal Com- panion,' edited by Jos. Thos. Cooper (Revised Edition, 1877) ? The composer's name in this is given as " C. E. Bach." L. L. K,