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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vn. OCT. 9, 1020.

Many of our friends found this out, and we had very merry little meetings at that hour before our daily ride."

The actual date is not given, but I gather the period must have been in the early years of the late Queen Victoria's reign, between 1837 and 1840. C. P. HALE

SYDNEY SMITH'S " LAST FLICKER OF FUN " (12 S. vii. 270) Years ago I was told that Wimpole Street is the " long unlovely street " of Tennyson's 'In Memoriam,' and that Sydney Smith just before his death remarked, "All things come to an end except Wimpole Street." JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA (12 S. vii. 31, 98, 152, 215, 253). I should like to thank FATHER FLETCHER for his kind reply at the last reference. Fra Niccolo Dal - Gal, to whom he directs my attention, has, I notice, written the account of St. Anthony in the ' Catholic Encyclopedia, ' and says :

" He is especially invoked for the recovery of things lost, as is also expressed in the celebrated responsory of Friar Julian of Spires Si quaeris miracula .... . . . .resque perditas."

Julian of Spires died about 1250, so there is nothing modern about the custom, as ST. SWITHIN seems to suggest at the second reference. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

THE MIRACULOUS HOST OF WILSNACK (12 S. vii. 190, 255). MR. JOHN B. WAINE- WBIGHT'S excerpt from the ' Encyclopaedia Britannica,' though it confirms the fact that there was a pilgrimage at Wilsnack, neither explains its nature nor gives a "Miraculous Host " as its objective, but an esteemed correspondent from Oxford advances the purport of my query a step thus :

" Zedler (' Universal-Lexicon ') says that the

filgrimages to Welesnack or Wilsnack began in 444, when some of the actual blood of Our Lord which issued from His side at the Crucifixion was exhibited. He does not mention any crucifix or Host. Then one Johann Cuno, a Dominican, and one Sebastian Kalbe, a Franciscan, denied that the occurrence was genuine. So it was ultimately remitted to the Universities of Leipzig and Erfurt to decide, and they in 1444, or soon after, decided that the point must not be pressed too far, and that the incident was not far from superstition. The populace believed in it, and no doubt the Pope [Nicolas V. in 1453] who con- firmed it. Zedlar gives several references where farther information could be obtained, but the books he mentions are probably only to' be found (in England) in the British Museum or Bodleian, il^bably ' Thf Life of Cusanus ' or the Bull of IS .chela? V. would settle your point."

It is clear irom all this that the dates of the origin of the pilgrimage are conflicting,, that the very nature of the alleged miracle- is controverted, and that what a Cardinal- denounces in 1451 a Pope upholds in 1453~ What a glaring illustration of the un- certainties of history !

J. B. McGovERN.

MISSING WORDS : RECOVERY DESIRED* (12 S. vii. 232).

1. Come not, when 1 am dead,

To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst

not save.

There let the wind sweep and the plover cry ; But thou, go by.

This is the first verse (there are but two)) of one of Tennyson's best known songs.

C. C. B.

2. Fit nihil exnihilo. Tria jugera vaecaque ! Gratis -

Constat ! Suffragans Hodjmis ipse suhest.

Deficit interea rneroes ; tria jugera post hoc-

Vacca vorat, vaccam rusticus, ecce nihil T

H. L>. ELLIS.

3. I would suggest as possible that these lines may occur in some prologue or epilogue to the Westminster Play. C. L. S.

[Several other correspondents thanked for re- plies to 1.1

FRANCIS GASTRELL, VICAR or STRAT- FORD-ON-AVON (12 S. vii. 269). I do not find he was ever Vicar of Strat- ford ; although so styled by Sir Sidney Lee in his book ' Stratford-on-Avon ' (1904), p. 299. Edward Kenwrick was Vicar of Stratford ana Rector of Atherstone-on-Stour, 1736-62. Francis Gastrell is probably the- son of Peregrine G. of Slapton, co. Northants,. arm., who matriculated at Christ Church, Oxon, on Dec. 14, 1721, aged 14 ; took his B.A., 1725 ; and M.A. degree, 1728. He- was, no doubt, akin to the good Bishop of Chester (1714-25) of the same names and college ; and was himself Vicar of Frodsham, Cheshire. After razing New Place to the ground, in a fit of iconoclastic fury, and disposing of the materials, Gastrell left Stratford, "amidst the rages and curses of the inhabitants. ' ' The site of NewgPlace has thenceforth remained vacant ; and is now enshrined within a charming garden. In

, March,' 17 62, Gastrell, who thenceforth until his death in 1768 lived at Lichfield in a house belonging to his wife, leased the

I desolate site of New Place with its garden to-