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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[2nd s. NO 18., MAY 3. '56.

English Ballads. Where are the complete words to be found of two English ballads, of which the following are fragments? I heard them sung forty years ago. The tunes of both are pleasing, particularly that of the first : " Down in the valley the sun setting clearly,

Lilly o lille, lilly o lee ; The nightingale carols her sonnet so cheerly, Lily o lillo, lilly o lee."

" Lady Alice was sitting at her bower window,

A-mending her midnight coif;

And there she saw the finest corpse

That ever she saw in her life.

Fal-de-ral.

" < What bear ye, "what bear ye, ye six men tall,

Upon your shoulders strong ? ' < We bear the corpse of Sir Giles Collins, An old and true lover of yours.'^ " Fal-de-ral.

" Lady Alice was buried all in the east,

"Giles Collins all in the west; ' A lily grew out of Giles Collins's grave, And touched Lady Alice's breast.

" Fal-de-ral."

UNEDA. Philadelphia.

Paternity of Anne Boleyn. In the Dublin Weekly Telegraph, April 19, 1856, Dr. Cahill states among the crimes of Henry VIII. :

" Plundering hundreds of convents, robbing hundreds of churches, banishing thousands of men, murdering se- veral wives, debauching scores of the reformed nobility, and marrying Anne Boleyn, his own daughter,"

Hume says of Henry :

" Unlike most monarchs who judge lightly of the crime of gallantry, and who deem the young damsels of their courts rather honoured than disgraced by their passion, he seldom thought of any other attachment than that of marriage, and in order to attain this end he underwent more difficulties, and committed greater crimes, than those which he sought to avoid by forming the legal con- nection." History of England, iv. 174.

Henry was born in 1491, Anne Boleyn in 1507. If he was her father he must have been profligate when young.

As Dr. Cahill is a clergyman of rank and station, and a lecturer on history and philosophy, it must not be supposed that be wrote these as- sertions without authority. I shall be obliged by a reference to any as to the scores of the reformed nobility, and Henry's marriage with his own daughter. H. B. C.

U.U.Club.

Poems by a Literary Society. In Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. viii. pp. 146, 147, 148., there is an account of a volume of poetry under the following title, " Poems by a Literary Society, comprehending Original Pieces in the several

Walks of Poetry." The work was published in or about the year 1784. Amongst the contributors there is W. Van Mildert, afterwards Bishop of Durham. Can you, or any of your readers who may have an opportunity of seeing this volume, give me the names of poems in this collection which are written by the bishop ? X. (1.)

Extraordinary Fact. Can you explain the following " extraordinary fact," as stated in the Dublin Penny Journal (vol. ii. p. 248.) ?

" About the close of the last centu^', a gentleman, who was superintending the digging out of his potatoes in the county of Antrim, was surprised to see some sailors who had entered the field in conversation with his labourers, who only spoke Irish. He went to them, and learned that the sailors were from Tunis ; and that the vessel, to which they belonged, had put into port from stress of weather. The sailors and country people understood each other ; the former speaking the language spoken at Tunis, and the latter speaking Irish. The anecdote was related by a person of credit, and must interest the Irish scholar."

ABUBA.

Jacobins outlawed in 1745. Can any of your correspondents tell me where I can find a list of the Jacobins outlawed in 1745 ? A. B.

Picture in the Cathedral at Hereford. In the Gentleman's Magazine of November, 1816, is the following notice :

" The Dean and Chapter of Hereford have added to their cathedral Mr. Leeming's beautiful picture from the altar-piece of Magdalen College, Oxford. The painting is very much admired, and reflects high credit on the young artist."

Can any of your correspondents at Hereford furnish me with a description of this picture, or give any information regarding the artist, &c. ?

LLWYVEIN.

Water-Eaton, Oxfordshire. What was the date of that attack on the manor-house of Water- Eaton by the soldiers from Banbury, in conse- quence of which Lady Lovelace was carried away in her coach to Middleton Stoney, there turned out, and left to find her way home again ns she best could ? W. B.

Heraldic Colours indicated by Lines. When were lines, &c., first used in England to represent the heraldic colours ? Mr. Planche, in his Pur- suivant of Arms, p. 20., says :

" This useful mode of indicating colour 5s said to have been the invention of an Italian, Father Silvestre de Petra Sancta ; and the earliest instance of its application in England, the engraving of the death-warrant of Charles I., to which the seals of the subscribing parties are represented attached."

I would therefore ask, when did Father Silvestre de Petra Sancta live ? When was this engraved representation of the death-warrant of Charles I. made ? And is it the earliest instance of the ap- plication of the invention in England ? C. R. M.