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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED.

1. They shall not pass.

CJan any reader supply the words and author of this poem which appeared in the film of the life of Lord Kitchener ? Please reply direct.

(Miss) GWEX GALBRAITH.

10 Binswood Avenue, Leamington Spa.

2. Can any of your correspondents kindly give me any clue to words and music of some lines which my mother taught me fifty years ago ? 1 give a stanza from memory :

Yes ! I will leave the battle field.

And seek again my native land. I cast aside my spear and shield

And join the merry mountain band. To roam o'er hills and valleys green,

I'd gaily rise at early dawn, And listen to the echo wild

Of the merry mountain horn.

H. HARGRAVE. Glen Hill, Oadby, Leicester.

3. Can any reader kindly tell me the author of these clever lines on 'The Road '?

I am the way the Past has trod,

I wear the dust of ages ; On me the Future, yet unshod,

Must travel through its stages.

I am the means whereby men meet

The parting place of others ; For I, like Death, divide the past Of comrades, sweethearts, brothers.

J. HARRIS STONE. Oxford and Cambridge Club.

YEOMAN OF THE MOUTH.

{12 S. iii. 508; iv. 89)

IT is impossible after this lapse of time to define the duties of this post, and they can only be guessed at from the title. In Chamberlayne's ' Present State of Eng- land,' 1700, among the thirty -four different departments of the " Queen's Household Officers and Servants, attending in the several Offices below Stairs, under the Com- mand of William, Duke of Devonshire, Lord Steward,' such as the Buttery, Ewry, Acatery, Poultery, Almondry, &c., appears the name of " Jo. Centlivre, Yeoman, Mouth, wages 51., and Board Wages 45Z. per Annum," under the heading of " Privy Kitchen," following the first, second, and third clerks, the master cook, second and third ditto, and preceding four yeomen, four grooms, and four children. " In each Office there is a Succession from one to another ; thus one of the Children may come to be a Groom, then Yeoman, then Gentleman, then Serjeant, as he happens to out-live them

above him" (ibid., 716). "The Yeomen are chiefly employ 'd in Soups, Ragousts, &c. The Grooms for boil'd Meats ; and the Chil- dren for all Meats roasted." ('The True State of England, 1734.')

The Historical Register for Jan. 20, 1725, says : " Dy'd Mr. Joseph Centlivre, Master- Cook to his Majesty " ; and, earlier, on Dec. 1, 1723, said of his wife, the poetess : " Dy'd Mrs. Centlivre, Author of The Busy Body, and several other Plays. She was wife of Mr. Joseph Centlivre, one of the Yeomen of the Kitchen to his Majesty."

He was succeeded as Yeoman of the Mouth by Claude Arnold in March, 1724, and he again in Jan., 1725, by Henry Daniel, whose board wages were 551. in 1727, but who in 1734 was Master Cook of the Queen's Privy Kitchen at III. Ss. l$d. and 108Z. 11s. 10M.

In 1734 Henry Lyon was Yeoman of the Mouth of the King's Privy Kitchen, while John Humston held the same post in the Queen Consort's Privy Kitchen, both^ at 6CZ. In 1737 Joseph Lemarey held the office to the King, and William Calboun, sen., to the Queen Consort. " Henry Lyon of the King's Kitchen," died Jan. 18, 1754 (London Magazine), having been made second Master Cook at III. Ss. Hd. wages and 100Z. 11*. W$d board wages, before 1741. In 1748 Joseph Lemarey was still Yeoman of the Mouth, Daniel Durant and Anthony Trolling were two of the four Yeomen at 60Z. each, and Thomas Griffith was a groom at 501., and from other similar lists it appears that one of the children at 40Z. would in years later be found to have been promoted to groom, yeoman, Yeoman of the Mouth, and master- cook successively. Michael Heathcote was one of the two Grooms of the Pantry at 21. 13s. 4d. and 37Z. 6s. 8d. in 1741 and 1748 but by 1755 had been promoted to Gentleman and Yeoman of the Pantry at 60Z., but this was another branch of the Lord Steward's department.

In 1750 the style was altered to the King's Private Kitchen, when Daniel Durant was Yeoman of the Mouth at 60Z. ; Anthony Froling held it in 1755, being succeeded by Thomas Griffith two years later, who held it till 1761, when the style was again altered to the King's Kitchen, and Henry Teget- meyer was appointed at 140/. a year, and held it in 1769. The London Magazine gives his death on Mar. 8, 1779, as : " Teget- meyer, cook to the King " (being then first master-cook at 237Z. 10s.).

Other holders of the post were John Dixon in 1773, W. Weybrow, who succeeded him