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 12 s. viii. JUNE 4, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 455 Goodyear, Esq., who stood by him at his execution for being in the Popish plot in King Charles the Second's reign." Moses Goodyear (1632-1728/9), said to be possessed of " a genius for friendship," was the Aleppo merchant (Plymouth and London), who finally settled at Chelsea, where he lies buried in the chancel of the parish church. John Bowack, that delight- ful writing-master of Westminster School, who planned those ' Antiquities ' which were to stretch all over England, but which, alas ! stopped with the publication of the second number, writes enthusiastically of this neighbour of his : About the middle of Church Lane stands a very good house in which dwells Mr. Moses Goodyear, a Gentleman well known by most of the Ingenious Men in the Kingdom. Hard by lives Sir John Munden, and the Reverend Dr. John King, proctor. Bowack, indeed, would have revelled in our present-day ' Who's Who,' and did his best to supply its forerunner. Probably many of the men he enumerates were known to Lord Stafford as well as to Goodyear, sines Tart Hall was literally on the confines of the town, and strolling along the King's Road in the wake of King Charles a -sweet - hearting, one soon arrived at the village of Chelsea. MR. L. H. CHAMBERS also inquires as to the fate of the Stafford title. According to Debrett, of Stafford's three surviving sons, Henry, John, and Francis, only John had an heir William. In 1762 the earldom expired. T. EDW. GOODYEAR. STATE TRIALS IN WESTMINSTER HALL (12 S. viii. 371). In the illustrated edition of J. R. Green's ' Short History of the English People ' is a reproduction of an engraving by Hollar representing Strafford's trial in Westminster Hall, that trial so graphically described by Robert Baillie the Covenanter. The position in the hall of the principal personages concerned in the pro- ceedings is indicated by means of letters. EDWARD BENSLY. SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY DANCE (12 S. viii. 350, 415). A still higher antiquity has been claimed for this. Mr. G. A. Aitken writes, in his annotated edition of The Spectator, vol. i., p. 8 : The dance is believed to have been named after a knight of the time of Richard I. Ashton (' Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne,' ii. 268-9) quotes from a pamphlet of 1648 a reference to "a tune called Roger of Caulverley." EDWARD BENSLY. THE YEAR 1000 A.D. (12 S. viii. 369, 438). That the year 1000 A.D. would wit- ness the return of Christ and the end of the world was no doubt believed in man^ quar- ters ; the Burgundian historian * Raoul Glaber, who died in 1050, bears witness to it, and the Thuringian hermit Bern- hard, about the year 960, boldly preached it ; but the Church, at any rate in France, combated the idea. Abbou, le celebre abbe de Saint-Benoit-sur- Loire, parcourut la France pour refuter 1'erreur et rendre la confiance aux fideles. Et, joignant 1'exemple a la parole, le clerge continua de batir avec autant de grandeur et de solidite que le permettaient les difficult&s et la barbarie de cette triste epoque. Saint-Paul, from whose ' Histoire Monu- mentale de la France ' I have made the foregoing quotation, gives a long list of buildings either begun or continued during the last twenty years of the tenth century, a list which contains such well-known names as Saint-Front, Perigueux, begun by Frotaire in 984 ; Notre-Dame de la Couture at Le Mans, which dates from 992 or 993 ; and perhaps the best known of all, the Basse-CEuvre at Beauvais, begun in 997. A few days ago, when I was standing in this last, I could not help thinking that its builder, Bishop Herve, whatever others may have believed, certainly had no expectation that his work was required to last for only three or four years, after which it would be doomed to complete destruction in the conflagration which, it was supposed, would accompany the end of the world. Had he had that expectation, his work, plain though it is, would not display that care in construction which is evident in all its parts. As far as England is concerned there is no reason to believe that church building ceased or even slackened at the end of the tenth century. On the contrary, to quote Prof. Baldwin Brown's ' The Arts in Early England,' ii. 34, there was at that tima " a widely diffused revival encouraged by King Edgar and carried out under Dunstan, ^Sthelwold, and Oswald." BENJAMIN WALKER. Langstone, Erdington. OLD SONG WANTED (12 S. viii. 250, 299, 315, 374). The " hymn " quoted at the last reference is certainly not the one I was familiar with as a child more than twenty years before 1874, and has very little resemblance to it except in three or four lines. My sister's memory of what we used