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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. x. SEPT. e, 1902.

LORD'S PRAYER IN VERSE. I wish to pro cure a copy of a very beautiful version of the Lord's Prayer, commencing as follows : Thou to the mercy seat our souls dost gather, To do our duty unto Thee, our Father :

To whom all honour and all praise be given, For Thou art the great God who art in heaven.

And so on right through the Lord's Prayer The original was found inscribed on vellum somewhere in Carolina, U.S., during the Civi War. I had a copy of it until only recently which I cut from some church magazine about a dozen years ago. I have, unfor- tunately, lost this, and I can only remember a few verses of it. J. BROWN.

[Many metrical versions are given at 6 th S. xii. 9> 110, 169, 258, but not the one now inquired after. At the penultimate reference John Bright, under the initials J. B., supplied a rendering of the version occurring in canto xi. of the ' Purgatorio.']

ELL FAMILY. (See 'Welsh Manuscript Pedigrees,' 9 th S. v. 109.) -MR. PYM YE ATM AN refers to the following entry : " Ell his hand in E.P. 23 gre Mr. Davies his hand ibm 6269." I should feel much obliged to MR. YEATMAN if he would give me any informa- tion with respect to the Ell referred to in his note. Did he belong to a local family, and what were his arms, if he was entitled to any ?

H. G. ELL.

Christchurch, New Zealand.

BEADS IN THE EAST. I should be glad of information respecting the use of beads in the East. Members of my family have lately received several chaplets, some from Con- stantinople, others from Mount Athos and Jerusalem. One large one has its beads all alike, the others having small beads, with larger ones much like the Roman rosary at intervals. What religious formula is ejaculated upon these beads? They must have some use, which we are anxious to learn, and probably some amongst your learned and travelled contributors may be good enough to throw light on the subject,

J.

i iP^V' 1, 1 - find mu ch valuable information in the

JNew English Dictionary' and the 'Encyclopaedia

Britannica.' In the East as in the West beads are

connected with prayer. The very name was trans

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"JACK-IN-THE-BOX." In Wm Channel Ps 'Old. English Popular Music' I note^n a description of the virginal that the strings were twitched by the leaping up of " jacks " slender bits of wood armed with quills. Have we here a clue to the name of that startling toy a "Jack-in-the-box," or had this the Pority? E L -W

KNIGHTS OF THE GARTER.

(9 th S. x. 109.)

IN the early days of the Order it was usual for commoners to receive the Garter. Of the twenty five original knights, or "founders," as they were commonly called, only twelve were peers of England. To enumerate all the commoners who have been elected into the Order would take up too much space in 'N. & Q.' Since the accession of the Hano- verian dynasty four members of the House of Commons have received the Order. Sir Robert Wai pole was elected in 1726, and was created Earl of Orford in 1742. Frederick, Lord North, was elected in 1772, and succeeded as second Earl of Guilford in 1790. Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, was elected in 1814, and succeeded as second Marquis of Londonderry in the peerage of Ireland in 1821. Whether Henry Temple, Viscount Pal- merston, should be called a commoner is doubtful, as, although a member of the House of Commons, he was an Irish peer at the time of his election.

The Earl of Liverpool and Viscount Castle- reagh were admitted into the Order in 1814 as supernumerary knights, as the ranks were then full, by virtue of a statute which dis- pensed with the statute by which thenumber of knights, other than princes of the blood-royal and foreign potentates, is limited to twenty- five, but at the same time ordained that no further election of such knights should take place until a vacancy should have occurred subsequent to the reduction of the number of knights-subjects to the original number. In 1831, however, the statute was again dis- pensed with, and Charles, Earl Grey, was admitted a knight under the same pro- visions as Lords Liverpool and Castlereagh. On 8 August, 1902, the Dukes of Wellington and Sutherland were invested with the insignia of the Order by his present Majesty, although the number of knights is complete. [t is presumed that the election of the two dukes as supernumerary knights has been iffected under the provisions of a similar statute to those recorded above, but the circumstances, being exceptional, may be bought worthy of record in ' N. & Q.'

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

A detailed reply to the inquiry of E. A. would, I fear, occupy too much space in your pages, if, as I presume, he intends to be taken he dictionary meaning of the word com- moner^ i.e., " one who, even if titled, does not Belong to the peerage." Many such have