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 12 s. ii. SEPT. so, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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A MEDIJEVAL HYMN (12 S. ii. 228). The ancient hymn on the ' Temporal Joys of Our Lady,' attributed to St. Thomas of Canter- bury, runs as follows :

Gaude, Virgo, Mater Christi, Queni per aurem concepisti

Gabriele nuntio : Gaude, quia Deo plena Peperisti sine pcena

Cum pudoris lilio. Gaude, quia Magi dona Tuo Nato fenmt bona,

Quern tenes in gremio : Gaude, quia reperisti Tuum Natum quern qusesisti

In doctorum medio : Gaude, quia tui Nati Quern dolebas morte pati

Fulget resurrectio : Gaude, Christo ascendente Et in coslum Te tuente

Cum Sanctorum nubilo : Gaude, quse post Christum scandis, Et est Tibi honor grandis

In coeli palatio.

There is also attributed to St. Thomas a beautiful hymn on the ' Celestial Joys of Our Lady,' which commences thus :

Gaude flore uirginali Quse honore speciali

Transcendis splendiferum Angelorum principatum, Et Sanctorum decoratum

Dignitate munerum.

This may be found in full in an excellent manual, ' Devotions in Honour of St. Thomas of Canterbury,' published in 1895 by W. Knott, Brooke Street, Holborn. The hymns are also given in the ' Life of St. Thomas Becket,' by Fr. John Morris, S.J., a book which may be consulted with profit. MONTAGUE SUMMERS.

The complete hymn is given at the end of a small book containing devotions, office, hymns, &c., in honour of St. Thomas of Canterbury, compiled by Miss Boyd, cer- tainly before 1900. It is there attributed to St. Thomas. I, unfortunately, forget the title of the book, but I think it might be got from St. Thomas's Abbey, Erdington, Birmingham, as the book also contains a hymn by Dom Bede Camm of that Abbey. MARQUIS DE TOURNAY.

The hymn beginning :

Gaude, virgo, mater Christi, Qua; per aurem concepLsti Gabriele nuntio :

is by St. Bonaventura. (See ' Corona Marise ' in the Venice edition of his works, xiii. 347.) This reference is taken from vol. ii. p. 162, of ' Hymni Latini Medii

edited from MS. sources by F. J. Mom-, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1854. In this work three different modifications of Bonaven- t ura's stanzas are printed : Xos. 454, 455, 460, in vol. ii. On p. 162 Mone mentions a version in a fourteenth-century Mainz MS. where it is ascribed to St. Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury. Another hymn beginning :

Gaude virgo, mater Christi, Quia, sola meruisti, O virgo purissima,

is said in a fifteenth-century MS. at Munich to be " composita a beato Thoma archiep. Cantuariensi " (lib. cit. p. 177).

I would gladly send your correspondent a copy of Bonavent ura's lines if he has not access at the moment to collections of mediaeval hymns. EDWARD BENSLY.

University College, Aberystwyth.

ST. GEORGE THE MARTYR, QUEEN'S SQUARE (v. sub ' St. George's, Bloomsbury,' 12 S. ii. 93, 155). The confusion between this church and that of St. George's, Bloomsbury, recalled to my memory that, among the ' Master Papers ' kindly lent to me by Mr. John Henry Master, when I was editing his ancestor's Diaries of 1675-80 (' Diaries of Streynsham Master,' " Indian Records Series"), there is a list of the Trustees as mentioned by Chamberlain (ante, p. 1 55). But whereas the number given in the ' History and Survey of London ' is only fifteen, the list recorded in Sir Streyn- sham Master's memoranda contains twenty names. By the courtesy of Mr. J. H. Master I give the document as it stands :

List of the Trustees of St. George's Chapel, for 1716,

Sir Streynsham Master being one. Francis Annesley, Esq. Mr. Robert Briscoe. Daniel Child, Esq. Wm. Churchej, Esq.

The Bight Honble. the Wm. Ettrick, Esq.

Lord Dunkellin. Mr. Matthew Hall.

Wm. Gore, Esq. John Isham, Esq.

Paul Joddrell, Esq. Charlwood Lawton, Esq.

Charles Long, Esq. Sir Streyn,. M.-ist.-r, Ivt.

James Moody, Esq. Edw.ml Xclthorpe, Esq.

Jno. Offley, Esq. Tho. Trenchaeld, Es,,.

Peter Vandenut, Esq. Sir Manna, \\yvill. The Honble. Thomas Bart.

^ Wentworth, Esq.

Then follows the signature (? of a copyist ) " Tho. King Clarke," and the date " Thurs- day, April 12th, 1716." R. C. TEMPLK.

" BIBLIA DE BUXO" (12 S. ii. 210). Buxo is an obsolete form of boj, the shrub, and " boxwood Bible " would be the obvious translation. On the other hand, bujo (the modern spelling of buxo), according to Mariano Velazquez de la Cadena, is the (modern) name for the wooden frame on