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NOTES AND QUERIES, [9" a xn. OCT. 24,

Should he come across any would he oblige me with them and the reference] Whether " Sworn Clerks in Chancery " were the same as the "Six Clerks in Chancery" I am not sure. I think " clerk in Chancery " was a sort of generic term applied to any clerk employed in the many departments of that establishment. No doubt they were all sworn in on entering upon their duties.

E. A. FRY.

LOPE DE VEGA (9 th S. xii. 287). The sonnet quoted at the above reference is found under the heading * Rimas Sacras ' in vol. xiii. p. 100

of the "Coleccion de las Obras Sueltas

de D. Frey Lope Felix de Vega Carpio, 21 vols., Madrid, 1777." The following is a correct copy, with the orthography and punc- tuation, of the original :

LA MISERIA HUMANA. Si culpa el concebir, uaeer tormento, guerra el vivir, la muerte fin humane, si despues de hombre tierra y yil gusano, y despues de gusano polvo y viento : Si viento nada, y nada el fundamento, flor la hermosura, la ambicion tyrano, la fania y gloria pensamiento vano, y vano quanto piensa el pensamiento : Quien anda en este mar para anegarse, (. de que sirve en chimeras sumergirse,

ni pensar otra cosa que salvarse ? oDe quo sirve estimarse y preferirse, buscar memoria, haviendo de olvidarse, y edificar haviendo de partirse ?

A. D. JONES. Oxford.

CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL (9 th S. xii. 148, 197). The festival, the so-called Kirschfest, is stil 1 held at Naumburg in the first days of August and tradition names 1432 as the year of the event. _ But it is as good as certain that there is no historical foundation for it. Two poerm exist celebrating the function : one serious, bj Adolf Hober, the other in doggerel rime anc very comical, which is much sung by students and schoolboys, by Karl Seyfferth. If MR MARCHANT cares, I will send him a copy o each. G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

THE STATUE FROM SOHO SQUARE (9 th S. vii 209). Mr. Philip Norman obligingly refer me to a passage in Mr. Frederick Goodall' 'Reminiscences' (p. 285), in which the dis appearance of the statue of Charles II. f ron the centre of Soho Square is thus accountei for :

"While I was laying out the grounds at Graeme Dyke [Mr. Goodall's house at Harrow Weald] M Ihomas Blackwell sent me down the old statue o Charles II. which was for a long time in Soho Square placed there, I think, in the time of the king, for th square was originally called King Square. Whe

, arrived I was puzzled to know where to place it ; t last I decided its proper position was in the 'idest part of the water of the Dyke. I had a oncrete foundation made with gravel and Portland ement ; upon this the statue was placed not an asy thing, of course, for it was of the size of life, n twilight it looks very mysterious and weird with }s reflection in the water. It is very considerably .ilapidated, but it stands on an artistically carved edestal the original one that was in Soho Square."

Mr. Goodall goes on to say that, after a esidence of nearly twelve years at Harrow Veald, he determined to sell his house, which ^as designed by Mr. R. Norman Shaw, R.A., nd disposed of it to Mr. Heriot, a banker, fho sold it to Mr. W. S. Gilbert, who is now, believe, in occupation of the house.

It would be interesting to know by what ,uthority Mr. Blackwell took upon himself o make a present of this statue to make room or a toolshed, as it was certainly not his >roperty. It is said that the late Fredk. Yalker made use of the statue as a model vhen painting his picture of ' The Harbour of Refuge ' now in the Tate Gallery. It belongs English art, and it is a pity it should have aeen removed from London.
 * o an interesting period in the history of

There is another statue which has dis- ppeared from its original position at the rear of the Banqueting House, Whitehall the statue of James II. by Grinling Gibbons. It is understood that this statue, which was removed from the site of the Privy Garden, is in the custody of the First Commissioner Works, and will be replaced in some suitable position when that position has been decided upon. The quadrangle in front of the Admiralty has been suggested as an appropriate site, looking to James's con- nexion with the Admiralty when Duke of York, but there seems no reason why it should not be restored to the place it originally occupied. JOHN HEBB.

MOHAMMED'S COFFIN IN MiD-AiR (9 th S. xi. 406). A curious parallelism to this (which may not have been noticed) occurs in Mar- tial, 'Lib. Spect.,' i. 5,

Aere nee vacuo pendentia mausolea ; but, of course, in the case of the mausoleum in Caria the slenderness of the pillars up- holding the burial chamber merely gave it the appearance of being suspended without support in the air. REGINALD HAINES.

Uppingham.

LOGANS OF RESTALRIG AND LURGAN, co. ARMAGH (9 th S. xii. 248). In the preface to the fourth volume of the ' Exchequer Rolls of Scotland,' p. clxvi, the editor, Dr. Burnett, mentions a Lady Catherine Logan, wife of