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- re preserved in the museum of the Royal Irish
Academy, but these are all cast in one piece of bronze and are curved in shape."
In the next issue of The Church Times for March, 1898, it was mentioned that another vamphorn existed at the church of Charing, in Kent. See also 8 th S. viii. 365, 477 ; ix. 151.
JOHN T. PAGE.
Long Itch ing ton, Warwickshire.
I do not know why this name is written as one word; but the vamping horn, of which an example still remains in Charing Church, Kent, is simply a big speaking trumpet. The vicar of Charing informs me that it was used in the choir, that some choirs had four of them, and that they were used for support- ing the singing. The vampers, instead of singing the words, kept up an accompani- ment of *' pom-pom," and to some extent took the place now occupied by the organ. In a magazine cutting preserved at Charing the vamping horn is illustrated.
H. SNOWDEN WARD.
Hadlow, Kent.
See J. T. F. under * Singing Trumpet ' in 6 th S. xii. 355 ; Gent. Mag., December, 1866 (woodcut), 776; March, 1867, p. 338; July, 1867, p. 81 ; and January, 1868, p. 80.
J. T. F.
WHEATSTONE (10 th S. iv. 386). On 19 June, 1829, a patent for wind musical instruments was granted to Charles Wheats tone, of 436, Strand, musical instrument maker. This was Wheatstone's first patent, and he was then twenty-seven years of age, but I am not able to fix the date when he commenced business in the Strand. It is evident, how- ever, that the date assigned by the British Museum authorities to the piece of music mentioned by ME. RALPH THOMAS requires correction. R. B. P.
"WAS YOU?" AND "YOU WAS " (10 th S.
i. 509; ii. 72, 157; v. 32,76, 114). Horace Wai pole, in a letter to my great-grandfather, the Hon. Thomas Walpole, now before me, says :
"The letter you teas so good as to take the trouble of sending me, was of no manner of conse- quence as to being opened, being only from old Madame d'Egrnont about some Staffordshire ware."
H. S. VADE-WALPOLE.
101, Lexham Gardens, Kensington, W.
MELCHIOR GUYDICKENS (10 th S. iv. 469, 537 ; v. 37, 93). His sons Frederick William and Gustavus were both educated at West- minster School. They were also both admitted to Lincoln's Inn 10 Feb., 1745/6. Frederick William, the elder, was called to
the bar 27 June, 1753 ; while Gustavus went
into the army and became a major-general.
G. F. R. B.
PEDIGREE DIFFICULTIES : MARY STAPLETON OR STOUGHTON (10 th S. v. 87). I would suggest that MR. ALFRED STAPLETON make a search for Stoughton wills in the Principal Court and in the Archdeaconry and Commis- sary Courts of Surrey, say from 1763 to 1800. G. F. T. SHERWOOD.
50, Beecroft Road, Brockley, S.E.
ALMANAC, c. 1744 (10 th S. iv. 486 ; v. 12). The year nearest to 1744 in which the 22nd Sunday after Trinity fell on Martinmas was 1749. In 1688 and 1760 the same was the case. The identification may therefore be effected by examining the almanacs of 1749, as both the earlier and later years seem ex- cluded by the terms of the query. Q. V.
MAY DAY: Two POETICAL TRACTS (10 th S. Hi. 344). The lines * May Morning at Magdalen College' are by the Rev. Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Bishop of New York, who died in July, 1896. They are included in the later editions of his ' Christian Ballads and Poems.' R- B. P.
JENKYN, LITTLE JOHN, kc. (10 th S. v. 109). In Somersetshire the following lines were formerly sung by the Christmas mummers : Here comes I, liddle man Jan, With my zvvord in my han', If you don't all do
As you be told by I , I '11 zend you all to York, Vor to make apple-pie.
Here in Berkshire we still keep up the mummers, and every Christmas they give us their rendering of the play ' St. George.' We have the Doctor, the King of Egypt, St. George, and some other characters.
Should not " Meriasek ." be Meriadec, the name of a great Cornish hero and of a Brittany saint? Couon Meriadec at the end of the fourth century went over from Corn- wall to that part of Armorica afterwards called Brittany, which he governed as king for twenty-six years, and from him descended the Dukes of Brittany.
CONSTANCE RUSSELL. Swallowfield, Reading.
In the appendix to her * Glossary of North- amptonshire Words and Phrases' (1854) Miss Baker devotes a chapter to * Mumming.' She there gives the words of a mock play of which she witnessed the performance by eight mummers "some years since, at the seat of the late Michael Wodhull, Esq., Thenford." One of the dramatis persons
