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NOTES AND QUERIES.
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HYMN-TUNE 'LYDIA' (12 S. i. 309). See
Houldsworth's edition of Cheetham's ' Tune-
Book,' p. 60, No. 58, where it is arranged in
F, in common time, and attributed to
- ' B. Cole 1 '; also the Appendix of 'Old
Methodist Tunes ' at the end of the new
- Methodist Hymn-Book, with Tunes,' edited
by Sir Frederick Bridge, No. 6, p. 874, where it is given in E flat, in -\ time, and attri- buted to " T. Phillips." It is a fine swinging
- C.M. tune, and I well remember its being
sung in the church here, accompanied by an effective band in the west gallery, before 1840, when the first organ displaced the band. I know nothing about Cole or Phillips. J. T. F.
Winterton, Lines.
This tune was written by Thomas Phillips, 1774-1841, and appears to have been first printed in Book I. of the second volume of Walker's ' Companion to Dr. Rippon's Tune-Book,' 1828. Subsequently, it ap- peared in a volume of tunes edited by William Hawes, 1836, to serve ' The Mitre Hymn- Book,' an Episcopalian hymn-book.
The fine old tune ' Arabia,' anonymous in Walker, was also written by Thomas Phillips. W. Hawes included this in his collection, assigning it to Phillips ; and I possess further evidence of this tune being the composition of the said T. Phillips. A. PAYNE.
71 Downs Park Road, Hackney Downs, N.E.
I have a copy before me (a relic of younger days) of Westrop's * Carmina Sacra ' (100 Sacred Songs). It is at present without a title-page or any other indication of the date of its publication, but family recollec- tion gives the date of its purchase as some- where in the sixties of the nineteenth century.
In this publication the tune ' Lydia ' is on p. 29, and is set to the hymn ' Come let us join our Cheerful Songs.' The com- poser's name is given as " Phillips," to whom also is attributed another tune, ' New Sabbath.'
Whether this composer is identical with either of those persons named Phillips men- tioned in Grove's ' Dictionary of Music ' there appears nothing to indicate.
If E. K. LIMOUZIN is unable to obtain a sight of Westrop's book, I will willingly send you a copy of the tune for your correspon- dent. W. S. B. H.
The tune * Lydia ' is said to have been composed by Henry Phillips. Some say it should be by Wm. Arnold, but this may arise from its having been published first by W. Arnold, about 1800. His tunes were
frequently called by Biblical names, such as
' Job,' ' Nehemiah,' ' Aaron,' ' Sarah,' &c.
The tune came into general use on the compiling of the ' Union Tune-Book ' in 1837 by Clarke and Cobbin. R. H.
This tune was composed by Phillips, and is to be found in ' Melodia Divina,' published by J. Hart, 109 Hatton Garden, London. H. T. BABKEB.
Ludlow.
This can be found in the * Union Tune- Book,' and is evidently of the early part of the nineteenth century and of " Dissenting " origin. I believe the composer's name is given as " Sprowston," but not having the book by me I cannot be sure of this latter.
W. MANN.
31 Wellesley Road, Chiswick, W.
This is a very old tune, I believe. In the ' New Wesleyan Hymn-Book,' published 1904, the tune is given to hymn No. 6 in the Appendix of Supplementary Tunes. The composer's name is T. Phillips, but he does not appear in Grove, Julian, or Light- wood. ARCHIBALD SPABKE. [MB. E. ALLISON PEERS thanked for reply.]
"TBEFIRA SABACIN" (12 S. i. 168, 238). Under the name Tryphera Sarracenica, a description of this drug, its composition and its cures, may be seen in the works of the most illustrious Doctor John Mesua, printed in Venice, MDLXXXL, folio, p. Ill :
"Tryphera gnece est dicta delicata, latine Sarracenica, quia a Sarracems inventa."
Its basis seems to have been Myrobalans originally, but the name probably stood for various compounds at different times and in different places. HUGH SADLEB.
Your correspondent has not yet been told where to look for information about this nostrum. Cf. Nicolas Lemery's ' Pharma- copee Universelle ' (fifth edition, Paris, 1763),- p. 755, under ' Tryphera Sarracenica.'
L. L. K.
WABING (12 S. i. 268). There are pedi- grees of the Waring family in the Visitations of Warwickshire, London, 1633, and Shrop- shire, and in the ' Staffordshire Pedigrees ' published by the Harleian Society. The Warwickshire family are said to be descended from the house of Warren of Pointon in Cheshire. I find no mention of any branch of the family in Yorkshire.
H. J. B. CLEMENTS.
Killadoon, Celbridge.
