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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. in. OCT., 1917.

and formed a body of ice for more than a mile in length, a circumstance never before known by the oldest inhabitant. The sea where the ice was appeared quite smooth, as if there had been a perfect calm, yet at the same time, beyond the
 * ice, the water was very rough."

B. J. FYNMORE. Sandgate, Kent.

ARMS WANTED : LANCASTER : FITZ- REINFRED (12 S. iii. 332, 430). The exact reference in Camden's ' Remanes,' as cited by MR. GRUNDY-NEWMAN from Newton's "' Display of Heraldry,' runs as follows :

" In Cumberland and thereabouts, where the old Baron of Kendall bare Argent two barres Gueles&nd a Lion passant Or in a Canton of the second ; many Gentlemen thereabout took the same in different colours and charges in the Canton."

The edition in my possession from which the above is taken is the sixth impression, 1657, p. 214, ' Armories.'

A. STANTON WHITFIELD, F.R.Hist.S.

" ACT OF PARLIAMENT CLOCK " (11 S. x. 130). At this reference I asked why an ugly timekeeper hung in Pickering Church was so designated. I never received en- lightenment, so I quote some lines from a booklet published at Stockton-on-Tees in 1890, ' Ye Old Constable Boke of Lyth and Barnby,' by John Crowther, which will probably help others besides myself. It seems that about 1797 clocks and watches were taxed. A clock was amerced at 5s. a year, a gold watch at 10s., a silver one at 2s. 6d. :

" If any persons kept a clock or a watch after

Oct. 10, 1797, without paying duty, they were

to be fined 101. But occupiers of houses not

. having more than ten windows "might have one

clock, but the movements were all to be made of

wood, and to be under the value of twenty

shillings." P. 27.

Presumably, the vitals of the Pickering clock are vegetable. ST. SWITHIN.

THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER'S CLIMBING BOYS (12 S. iii. 347). There is some interesting information in Mayhew's ' London Labour and the London Poor,' vol. ii. pp. 392-400. In 1824 Charles Lamb and George Cruik- shank published ' The Chimney Sweeper's Friend and Climbing Boy Album,' now a rather scarce item. J. ARDAGH.

CHRIST'S " SEVEN EYES " IN WELSH POETRY (11 S. xii. 420, 486 ; 12 S. i. 16). Samuel Rutherford, Principal of the New College in St. Andrews, lived in the years 1600-1661, a contemporary of the Kymric poet who used this expression. On p. 27

of ' Letters of Samuel Rutherford, with a Sketch of his Life and Biographical Notices of his Correspondents,' by the Rev. Andrew A. Bonar, D.D. (fourth edition, Edinburgh and London), we find these words : " Let Christ tutor me as he thinketh good. He has seven eyes : I have but one, and that too dim." On p. 134 he says, in a letter of July 6, 1636, " under His' look who hath seven eyes " ; on p. 647, in a letter of Aug. 14, 1649 : " Sure Christ, who hath seven eyes. ..." EDWARD S. DODGSON.

" Buss "= AEROPLANE (12 S. iii. 415). One feels disposed to question the correct application of " flying into a bunch of busses." Was not " 'buses " intended for the simile ? Unless the aerial Taube (dove) was, ironically, meant ! CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenian! Club.

Surely the word should be " bus," the shortened form of " omnibus."

PENRY LEWIS.

RUSHBROOKE HALL (12 S. iii. 301, 423). Any one interested in the history of this house should consult ' Rushbrook Parish Registers, 1567-1850: Jermyn and D avers Annals ' (Woodbridge, George Booth, Church Street, 1903), the preface to which is signed S. H. A. H. The book contains a plan and views of the Hall, and an account of its former owners, the Jermyn and Davers families. EDWARD BENSLY.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (12 S. iii. 360). 4. The poem beginning " Oh ! where is the sea ? " is to be found in ' Poems of Modern Thought,' by Minot J. Savage (London, Williams & Norgate, 1884). A short notice of the author appears in ' The Ency. Brit.,' vol. xxiv. p. 239.

T. F. H. (12 S. iii. 419.)

4. Yet if his Majesty, our sovereign lord.

This was first printed by Mr. A. H. Bullen in ' More Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Eliza- bethan Age ' (1888), p. 145. The editor found the poem, with music by Thomas Ford, in a manuscript song-book in Christ Church Library, Oxford (Christ Church MS. K. 3, 43-5). The author is unknown, but the editor conjectures that it may be by Henry Vaughan. See his comments upon it, Preface, p. xiii.

M. H. DODDS.

This is the last poem in the appendix of Mr. George Beaumont's ' A Book of English Poetry,' published by Messrs. Jack in 1915. It is there said to be taken from Christ Church MS. K. 3< 43-5, and Mr. Beaumont says in a foot-note : " Apparently part of a longer poem. Mr. Bullen is inclined to ascribe the verses to Henry Vaughan." JOHN B. WAINEWBIOHT.

[J. H. K. also thanked for reply.]