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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[2nd S. NO 23., JUNE 7. '56.

transept of the church and a room adjoining for the .reception of the books, under a grant made by the Dean and Canons of Windsor. By his will, dated Feb. 22, 1631, he directed the books which he had already prepared to be placed there, with so many more as should amount to the sum of twenty pounds. (Lipscomb, iv. 542, 3.) The library was for the use of the clergyman and churchwardens of Langley, and the clergy of neighbouring parishes, but no volumes were to be taken out of the room ; consequently they have been little used. The library consists of about three hundred volumes, principally of the Fathers, and theological works of editions of the latter part of the sixteenth and early part of the seventeenth centuries, and a MS. Phurmacopceia, once belonging to the Leighs. Generally the books are in good condition, and in the original bindings, with the Kederminster arms on the sides; but some are damp and much injured.

W. DURRANT COOPER.

Bull Song at Stamford^ S. i. 392.) The air performed nightly at the Stamford Theatre, by special desire of "the gods," is that to which the bull-running song was in former years sung. The bullards were accustomed to assemble at supper after the bull-running was ended, and the song was then sung. I enclose the song and air for your correspondent EIN FRAGER, but I do not think the song would be worthy of a place in " N. & Q." Since the suppression of the bull- running, the song is never heard ; and the only remnant of the cruel custom, which was annually reproduced on Nov. 13, is the air when performed at the theatre. I believe the air is adapted from some old tune of the time of Charles I. I have seen it under a name which I have forgotten, in some book containing airs of that date. Here, however, it is known as " the bull-ringing tune." I have for many years been in search of a copy of Peck's History of the Stamford Bull-running, de- scribed by Watt as a folio pamphlet ; but 1 have never been able to see one. Can any correspon- dent tell me where that pamphlet may be seen or purchased ? J. PHILLIPS, Jun.

Stamford.

Your correspondent who signs himself in " your immortal pages " EIN FHAGER, is hereby informed that he will find all he wants, and more than he expects, about the " bull custom," in a clever little work entitled the Chronology of Stamford, by G. Burton. London : Edwards and Hughes, 1846. To the " bull " subject no less than twenty pages of this work are devoted, and in them he will find a full, true, and particular account of how the custom began, continued, and ended ; to- gether with the words of the bull song, and also the musical score of the bull tune.

HENRY KENSINGTON.

Judge CretweU (2 nd S. i. 270. 321.) Richard Creswell, member for Evesham in several parlia- ments, is thus described in the 3rd vol. of Browne Willis's Notitia Parliamentaria :

" 162324. Rich. .Gresheild, Esq. [misprint for Cres-

heild ?]

1625. Rich. Creswell, Esq, Recorder. 1628. Rich. Creshield, Esq. 164053. Rich. Creswell, Serjeant-at-Law.

W. H. W. T.

Somerset House.

William Noel, of Kirby Mallory, Esq., married a daughter of Richard Creswell (by some called Creshield) Esq., serjeant-at-law, but died without issue, 1645, and was buried at Cheping Barnet. See Collins's Peerage, vol. vi. p. 209.

W. H. LAMMIN.

Fulham.

Sir William Herschell (2 nd S. i. 295.) In ad- dition to the portraits of Herschell mentioned by the Editor of " N. & Q.," there is another in the 5th vol. of the Gallery of Portraits, published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The portrait is engraved by E. Scriven, from a crayon picture by the late J. Russell, Esq., R.A., in the possession of Sir John Herschell. W. H. W. T.

Somerset House.

RoUn Hood (1 st S. xii. 321.) In the year 1828 one of my schoolfellows was so kind as to lend me an octavo novel in one volume, published in 1826-7, entitled Robin Hood, the perusal of which afforded me considerable gratification. It- contained a ballad called " The Mandarin's Daughter," which was stated in the novel to be sung by the chief of a company of strolling beg- gars, and which concluded with these lines, de- scriptive of the fate of her father, who was " a shaking mandarin : "

" Grief shook his shaking head so sore, It shook it off his shoulders quite."

Will MR. RITSON kindly inform me who was the author of this work, which was, I think, published in London ? G. L. S.

Conservative Club.

Order of St. John of Jerusalem (2 nd S. i. 197.) . When Sir Sidney Smith was on an official visit to Cyprus in 1799, the Archbishop of Ni- cosia, out of gratitude to him for quelling an in- surrection, bestowed upon him the Cross of St. John of Jerusalem, which had been worn by Richard Cceur de Lion in the days of the Cru- saders. This cross Sir Sidney Smith by his last will gave and bequeathed "unto the Order of the Templars, to be kept in deposit in the treasury thereof, from whence it originally came into King Richard's hands, and to be worn by the Grand