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reason of his advanced age. (See Peele's Works, edit. Dyce, 1829, vol. ii. p. 192.) A copy of this sonnet, somewhat varied, is given in Evans's Old Ballads, vol. iv. p. 48., edit. 1810, where it is de- scribed as a " Sonnet sung before Queen Eliza- beth, supposed to have been written by the Earl of Essex." It may also be found, set to music, in The First Boohe of Songes, or Ayres of Foure Parts, by John Dowland, the celebrated luteriist (the friend of Shakspeare), originally published in 1597, and printed in score under the editorship of Mr. Chappell, by the Musical Antiquarian Society, in 1844. W. II. H.

" Earthenware Vessels found in Churches (1 st S. x. 386. 434. 516. ; xi. 9. 74. 315.) I shall be much obliged to such of your readers as will kindly refer me to any instances recorded of the discovery of earthenware vessels, similar to those found in the churches of St. Peter's, Nor- wich, St. Mary's, Youghal, and in Fountains Abbey ; though not, like them, embedded in the masonry of the walls, but simply deposited in an upright position beneath the floor of the church, indicating the great probability of their sepul- chral character. W. S. Hastings.

Female Overseer (l t S. x. 45.) To the best of my recollection, about thirty years ago, a lady was appointed overseer of the parish of Marston Meysey, Wilts, and served the office. I. R. R.

The^ Three Martins (1* S. xii. 428.) " Mar- tin the Ape" may refer to some one bearing the crest used by some branches of that family an ape admiring himself in a looking-glass. I have a MS. memorandum in my copy of Burke's Armory, that the crest of the Martins of Dorsetshire was an ape, with the curious motto,

" HE . WHO . LOOKS . AT . MARTIN'S . APE . MARTIN'S . APE . SHALL . LOOK . AT . HIM."

E. K.

Foids upon all Fours (1 st S. xii. 509.) Pro- fessor Bush, in his Notes on Leviticus, xi. 20., appears to give in a few words the most natural solution of the difficulty here propounded :

" That insects are here mennt is plain from the follow- ing verse; and, therefore, the sense is, all those creatures which fly and also creep, ' going upon all four : ' i. e. creeping along upon their feet in the manner of quadru- peds, such as flies, wasps, bees, &c., together with all leaping insects ; these are to be avoided as unclean, with the exceptions in the two next verses."

C. W. BlNGHAM.

Charade: "Isit on a rock" (1 st S. xii. 365.) The answer I think is measure. The anemometer, to measure the force of the wind, by its sails raises _ the wind, and when the storm ceases its noise is reduced to gentleness. A state measure

brings even kings to its feet, and royal instances are on record of submission to their fate upon ground on which the foot measure has trod. A measure may be seen by the world, but the know- ledge of it may be confined to the select few con- stituting the government. - Both Gentile and Jew delight to receive good without measure, and detest to be stinted by measure. No measure of time or space existed during the flood, except the one long night of .obscurity, which was the only measure Noah had in the ark. As three pounds is a measure of weight, so is one mile a measure of length. My first and my last are me sure, which the egotist may appropriate to himself " with a smile, as the best in our isle."

"Vive, vale. Si quid novisti rectius istis, Candidus imperti ; si non, his utere rnecum."

T. J. BuCKTON.

Lichfield.

" Gloria in Excelsis" (!* S. xii. 496.) The list of churches where this is not read, but sung, is surely too large to be included in that which you have given in reply to the question of SIGMA. Without knowing much of what is passing in other London churches, I might add St. Mark's, Chel- sea ; All Saints, Margaret Street ; St. Mary Mag- dalene, Munster Square ; St. Mary, Crown Street ; St. Matthew, City Road ; Christ. Church, Hoxton ; St. Matthias, Stoke Newington ; and St. Bartho- lomew, Moor Lane, City. At the last-named church the music sung is the cadence used at St. Mark, Chelsea, and published in the Pariah Choir.

W. DENTON.

P.S. On looking again at SIGMA'S Query, I ob- serve that he asks for the names of " any churches " where the Gloria in Excelsis is sung. I have confined myself in my Reply to London churches. To give the list of churches throughout England would burden your columns to a greater extent than you would perhaps deem advisable. To instance about a half a dozen which occur at this moment, it is, I believe, sung at the parish church, Leeds ; at St. Saviour's, in the same town ; St. Mary Magdalen, Albrighton ; St. James, Wednes- bury; atEllesmere; St. Mark's, Bristol; and St. Thomas, Oxford. The music which I have men- tioned as used at St. Bartholomew, London, is very commonly preferred.

Dancing and Dancing Tunes (1 st S. xii. 159. 234.) John McGill was a musician in Dunse, county of Berwick. He taught dancing; was admitted a member of the Mason Lodge of Dunse, on the 9th of March, 1758. In addition to the tunes mentioned, he also composed those named "Dunse dings a'," " Lads of Dunse," "Lasses of Dunse," and several others, the names of which I have forgotten.

His sons, James and John, travelled the country