io B. xii. DEO. 25, 1909.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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mentioning the Series.) The letter in ques-
tion contained an explicit statement by
himself that his name was pronounced as
- ' Cooper. 5 '* There is also question of a
verse in which "Cowper " rimed to "trooper.'*
U. J. D.
AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. xii. 469). " But here 's the plague " and the following lines given by E. are from Robert Browning's ' The Ring and the Book,'- xii. 852, sqq.
MR. BREW'S Latin quotation, " quae conveners .... pro suis, Ji is from the Pro- logue to Terence's ' Andria * (13, 14).
EDWARD BENSLY.
The two lines given by CORNVALGIAN are incorrect. They should run thus : Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.
They occur in the third verse of a song entitled ' Widow Machree,* which may be found in chap. xxxv. of Samuel Lover's
- Handy Andy. 1 WALTER W. SKEAT.
[EBLANIAN, MR. CHRISTOPHER HOLFORD, MR. H. SMYTH, MR. L. R. M. STRACHAN, PROF. H. A. STRONG, and H. B. W. also thanked for replies. The communications of MR. R. A. POTTS and T. M. W. Jiave been forwarded to the querists.]
' THE SAILOR'S CONSOLATION ' : ' BARNEY
BUNTLINE AND BlLLY BOWLING l (10 S.
xii. 10, 195). In Catalogue No. 680 of Mr. James Tregaskis, 232, Holborn, which I received a few days ago, is the following, .s.v. Cruikshank :
"Barney Buntline and Billy Bowling; or, the Advantages of being at Sea. Storm scene in the streets, a chimney-pot falling between two alarmed pedestrians. Title-page to a song with coloured etching by Geo. Cruikshank, measuring 6^ by !\ ins. 10s. 6d. (183) This song was written by Colman the younger for Harley."
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
LORD MAYOR'S SHOW : CHANGE IN DATE tlO S. xii. 306, 356, 473). If MR. PIERPOINT had looked on from 9 S. v. 344 to p. 461, he would have seen that I did in the latter correct the error in the former respecting the month of the feast of St. Simon and St. Jude.
MR. MYDDELTON also, if he will kindly consult the same reply, will see that I made the same remark about George III.'s birth- day that he now does about Lord Mayor's Day. His criticism is quite correct. There is no subject, as I said before, that has so many pitfalls as the change of style in the calendar. W. T. LYNN.
BRITISH ARMY IN 1763 (10 S. xii. 449).
See the following works :
' Friendly Cautions and Advices,' by an Old Officer, London, 1760.
' A System, for the Interior Management and Economy of a Battalion,' by Bennett Cuth- bertson, 5th Foot, Dublin, 1768.
' The Military Medley,' by Thomas Simes, 2nd ed., London, 1768.
W. S.
There is an interesting pamphlet (1765) written by Israel Mauduit, entitled ' An Apology, &c., for General Wolfe,'- It -is anonymous, but the authorship is given in the British Museum copy. It has some useful information as to the treatment of general officers.
A certain Wilson wrote a contemporary account of Amherst's expedition. This was published at Albany, N.Y., in 1857. That period is not rich in military memoirs ; the energies of the upper classes seem to have been directed chiefly to politics.
W. A. H.
BELL-RINGING AT WEDDINGS (10 S. xii. 308). Would not the belief in the undesira- bility of ringing the church bells at a wedding be of a somewhat local character, and entirely owing to the fear, through some isolated instance of such an accident having occurred, of a rope breaking, just as, if one walked under a ladder, one might have the ill-luck to receive some whitewash ? Otherwise music has always been usual at a wedding, bell-ringing being by no means barred. In Brand's ' Antiquities * we are told that the ringing of bells at marriages of any consequence is everywhere common.
On the fifth bell at the church of Kendal in Westmorland is the following inscription, alluding to this usage :
In wedlock bands, All ye who join with hands,
Your hearts unite ; So shall our tuneful tongues combine
To laud the nuptial rite.
J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. Wroxton Grange, Folkestone.
" MARRIAGE is JUST LIKE A DEVONSHIRE LANE " (10 S. xii. 469). The author of this poem was the Rev. John Marriott, Rector of Church Lawford, Warwick, from 1807 until his death in 1825. His wife's health giving way, he came to reside at Broad Clyst in Devonshire, where he acted as curate. Those who are familiar with Devon lanes will recognize the apposite com- parison of them with marriage. He was also the author of some hymns. If the lines
