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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. I. JUNE 18, '98.

broke, among other extracts from the registers of the church of St. Mary, Coslany, in Norwich, read the following, under the year 1603 :

" Roger Cooper was buried the seventh daye of August for truth."

"Jameson Darsye was buried the tenth daye of August for truth."

These entries are consecutive, and appear to be the only ones in the registers containing the curious addendum. What is the meaning of it 1 JAMES HOOPER.

Norwich.

REV. EDWARD WARTON, 1709-1750. I shall be obliged by any clue to his ancestors and descendants, if any, and relationship to Rev. Anthony Warton, whom he succeeded in 1709 as prebendary at Horningsham, Wilts. His son John was baptized 1713.

A. C. H.

" MODESTEST." Mark Twain in his 'More Tramps Abroad,' on p. 195, makes use of the word " modestest." Can any reader give me a reference to a previous use of this word 1 Is there such a word in the English lan- guage? It does not appear in Webster, Ogilvie, or the ' Encyclopaedic Dictionary.'

J. A. S. [Superlatives are not usually given in dictionaries.]

THE KING'S STONE AT FLODDEN. Will any reader of * K & Q.' tell me whether the stone, known in the neighbourhood of Flodden Field as " the King's Stone," really marks the spot where James IV. fell, or whether it is only an ancient border gathering stone 1

K.

" THERE is A GARDEN IN HER FACE." Who is really the author of this beautiful little song, otherwise known as ' Cherry - Ripe '? Francis Turner Palgrave, in the 'Golden Treasury,' editions 1867 and 1892, gives it as "anonymous." W. Davenport Adams, in ' Lyrics of Love from Shakespeare to Ten- nyson,' 1874, gives it as Richard Allison's, as also do Frederick Locker in his 'Lyra Elegantiarum,' ed. 1891, and Charles Mackay in 'A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry,' ed. 1897. On the other hand, Mr. A. H. Bullen, in his 'Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age,' the small volume, 1889, and Mr. Ernest Rhys in Dent's pretty little edition of 'The Lyric Poems of Thomas Campion,' the preface dated November, 1895, both give it as Campion's. Who is to decide amongst these high but differing authorities 1 Mr. Palgrave has no fewer than ten pieces under Campion's name in the ' Golden Treasury ' of 1892, but " There

is a garden in her face " is, as I have said above, marked "Anon." both in the 1867 and the 1892 editions. Mr. Bullen says, "This song is set to music in Alison's 'Hour's Recreation,' 1606, and Robert Jones's ' Ulti- mum Vale,' J608." The words, however, would seem to belong to Campion. Is not the song worthy of Keats or Tennyson 1

JONATHAN BOUCHIER. Ropley, Hampshire.

FOLK-LORE. There was lately a case of suicide at Tourcoing. A man having wounded, probably to the death, an inoffensive person whom he met and, being trop irnbu, insulted by calling out, "Te v'la he ! 'pot a bure,'" went home in the darkness, shut himself in his own house, and shot a bullet through his head.

" Les voisins declarent avoir entendu trois detona- tions. Us furent effrayes, mais n'oserent p^netrer dans la maison, persuades, ont-ils dit, qu'on ne pouyait viole uii domicile avant cinq heures du matin." Le Grand Echo (29 March).

Does any similar folk-lore rule in England 1 A " pot a bure," it is explained, is used from Roubaix to Tourcoing and all along the frontier to designate Belgian workmen who come to labour in France. " Us arrivent le lundi matin avec une miche et uii pot au beurre sous le bras, et voila des tartines pour toute la semaine." ST. SWITHIN.

CHURCHES OF ST. PAUL. Were any churches dedicated under the title of St. Paul before A.D. 600? Was the church at Mantua so named, and when was it built ? Is it not a fact that for some centuries St. Paul was associated with St. Peter in church dedica- tions 1 RICHARD H. THORNTON.

Portland, Oregon.

HERALDIC. Can the following shield of arms be identified, Vair, a fleur-de-lis or 1 It is painted in a Yorkshire chantry chapel which was decorated by the Estoft family in 1630, but it cannot be found in Papworth's ' Dictionary of Armorials.' J. L. B.

PRECEDENCE OF CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND WHEN NOT A PEER. What is the precedence, outside the House of Lords, of a Chancellor of England who is not "of the rank of a baron or above'"? In the royal procession to Parliament, 1585 (Milles's 'Catalogue of Honour,' p. 66), Sir Thomas Bromley, Chan- cellor, and in a like procession, 1596 (Nichols's ' Progresses of Queen Elizabeth '), Sir Thomas Egerton, Chancellor, walk with the Lord Treasurer of the day, but give place to the Archbishop of York, who follows with the Archbishop of Canterbury, and immediately