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I shall find the hymn or sacred poem from which the following verse is taken. It was quoted in 'The Wages of Sin,' by Lucas Malet.

Oh ! the pilgrims of Zion are a blessed band :

Shout to the Lord of Glory ! Like waving corn in a fruitful land In ranks round the great White Throne they '11 stand :

Shout to the Lord of Ghry !

E. M. SOTHEBY.

CROSSING THE LlNE. (See 1 st S. vi. 245; xi. 503.) Can any of your readers inform me when the custom of Father Neptune boarding a ship on crossing the line, with the attendant circumstances of shaving, ducking, &c., was first introduced, or what is the earliest mention of it ? M. H.

[The question was asked at the above references, and again at 3 rd S. xi. 177, but without definite re- sult. At 9 th S. vii. 404, however, MB. LYNN sup- plied an instance of the custom in 1795; MR. JEAKES at 9 th S. viii. 19 carried it back to 1768 ; and MR. GOUGH at p. 171 of the latter volume quoted Esque- meling's account of similar ceremonies, but off the coast of France, c. 1666.]

' LES PSAUMES DE BEZE.'- Can any of your correspondents give the words of the title- page of this book, which was practically the service-book of the early Calvinists ?

The copy I am interested about is dated 1561, and though complete in other respects, with the Renaissance marginal borders, wants the title-page, and I should be glad to supply it in MS. if possible. This copy begins with the " Privilege du Hoy." W. H. W. P.

" WARTH." What is the meaning of this word ? It occurs in the parcels of a deed dated 14 February, 1767. After the name of a field are the words, " and one warth adjoin- ing thereto."

HELLIER R. H. GOSSELIN-GEIMSHAWE. Errwood Hall, Buxton.

[Qy. local rendering of garth ?]

_ MANOR COURT ROLLS. I am compiling a list of Court Rolls, and should be much obliged for any information as to the exist- ence of any such records with their present place of deposit, especially where, as in so many instances, they have strayed far from their original locality. I hope to print the list eventually in a handy form, so that any of the readers of ' N. & Q.' kindly assisting me will be greatly forwarding the cause of anti- quarian research. NATHANIEL HONE. 1, Fielding Road, Bedford Park, W.

RECTORS OF BISHOP- WE ARMOUTH, co. DUR- HAM. I shall feel greatly obliged if any of your correspondents can identify or supply

any information relative to the under-men- tioned rectors of Bishop- Wearmouth :

Richard de Kirkham, 1252.

John do Eston, 1341 (?).

David de Woolour, 1366.

Simon, Titular Cardinal of St. Sixti, 1370.

Thomas de Newby, 1372.

Roger de Holme, 1390.

John de Denham, 1399.

Richard de Elvet, 1426.

Thomas Leys, 1431.

George Radcliffe, 1483.

Richard Wyatt, 1502.

John Johnson, 1632.

Christian Sherwood, 1643.

William Graves, 1654 (intruder). Direct communication preferred.

H. REGINALD LEIGHTON. East Boldon, R.S.O., Durham.

"BIRMINGHAM'S DRESS." A short time since appeared the following extract from the Times of 1802 :

"The French Consul is said to have taken his aim at the character ^f the Emperor Charlemagne, ust as pur English doubles and Birmingham's dress, after his Royal Highness or his Grace. Alexander Heaven knows what pretty freaks he acted in imitation of his original. Nothing can be more absurd than this straining after a parallel, nor does t follow that the Great Man of one age would even lave been distinguished in another. The Consul will doubtless content himself with being the Hero of the nineteenth century, and put up with his Prefects for want of Paladins."
 * ook Achilles in the same manner for his model, and

I have asked several of my literary friends n Birmingham if they can throw any light upon the meaning of the words in italics, Darticularly the words "Birmingham's dress," )ut they cannot do so. Can any of your jorrespondents ? C. T. SAUNDERS.

Birmingham.

[Is not " Birmingham" used above as a synonym or " dandy "? And is not the last word meant for 'Paladins"?]

IZAAK WALTON. Dean Plumptre in his 'Life of Thomas Ken ' (1890), vol. i. p. 8, says that about 1651 Walton " left London and settled n his cottage near the river Dove." I should )e glad to know if there is any evidence that Walton possessed any property nearer the river Dove than the land close to Stafford which purchased of Mr. Walter Noell, and which s referred to in his will. According to ' An Amateur Angler's Days in Dovedale' (1884), jhere is "a tradition that in this farmhouse now the well-known "Izaak Walton " Hotel] /he great piscator himself used to take up his bode when he had fished down the dales from Beresford Hall with his friend Charles Cotton." The "Amateur Angler's" authority for this ^radition, however, seems to have been a chatty old donkey-woman. G. F. R. B.