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t off, ever since broad pieces were called
in and melted down " (' H. Walpole's Letters/
C inningham edition, vol. ix. p. 307). Is there
ai y history of these purses 1 Was the custom
p< culiar to England ? Was it pre-Reformation?
D >es it exist anywhere now 1 What were
bi wl pieces ? All the facts I can give are :
I enow one of the purses, which was used
early in last century. At the words in the
m, image service " with all my worldly goods
I thee endow " the bridegroom hung it on
the bride's wrist. The purse is crystal inlaid
with jewels, about the size and shape of a
moderate-sized pear. There are gold chains
b\ which it was hung on the wrist. The
bride told a lady that in it was a considerable
sum of money. Unfortunately the name of
the family is lost.
I know of another purse said to be for the same purpose, embroidery in gold and colours, apparently of about Queen Eliza- beth's date by the style of work, but nothing I is known of its history. J. H.
CARICATURES BY LORD MARK KERR. |Where can I find any account of Lord Mark iKerr and a description of his caricatures, date about 1825 to 1830? M. J. L.
" ONE HOUR WITH THEE." In which of Sir Walter Scott's poems do the following lines jappear 1
One hour with thee ! When earliest day Dapples with gold the eastern grey, O, what can frame my mind to bear The toil and tumult, cark and care, New griefs which coming hours unfold, And sad remembrance of the old ? One hour with thee !
MARCIA DALRYMPLE HAMILTON.
| Clydesdale, Windsor.
I PARODIES ON KIPLING'S BALLADS. I have Ihree very clever parodies on 'The Flag of
England,' 'White Horses,' and 'The White
dan's Burden ' respectively. I believe there Ire several others ; references to where any of
hese may be found would be esteemed.
W. B. GERISH.
1 Hoddesdcn, Herts.
THE BAXTER FAMILY. SILURIAN, in ^. & Q.,' 6 May, 1891, answers the query
- R. H. BAXTER. Can he or any one else
.ve the names of the brothers and nephews f the Rev. Richard Baxter 1 J. P. B.
Portland, Maine.
[See 7 th S. xi. 189. At this reference is a query om RUPERT H. BAXTER. There is, however, no iswer from SILURIAN, nor was any number of S". & Q.' published on 6 May, 1891. Misleading formation imposes on us much superfluous and uitless labour.]
GARRICK'S 'JUBILEE.'
(9 th S. iii. 86.)
MR. H. A. EVANS having very kindly lent me his apparently unique copy of an Irish edition of the ' Jubilee/ I have made a few notes regarding it which may be of interest.
That the prose part of the text is sub- stantially that of Garrick's Drury Lane ' Jubilee ' is proved by a comparison with the extended description of the piece in the
- Universal Museum ' for 1769, pp. 493-5. That
it is very poor stuff indeed is no argument against its authenticity; the success of the piece was due to spectacle, not to literary merit. The thing was probably printed from a copy which had been altered at some pro- vincial theatre to suit the company. The corruptness of the text is shown by the occur- rence of the song " When I was young, tho' now am old," in the first scene ; it is from Garrick's 'Cymon.' This is in none of the different publications of the 'Jubilee 'music in Mr. Julian Marshall's collection or my own. On the other hand, there is no mention of the airs "This, sir, is a Jubilee," and "All this for a poet"; nor do I find the chorus " wrote by I. Bickerstaff, Esq.," which, according to the ' Universal Museum,' introduced the Pageant ; some even feebler stuff is substituted. The last scene, in the Rotunda, begins as therein described with the roundelay "Sisters of the tuneful strain " (which was written by either Jerningham or Jago and set by Dibdin), but the following " grand dance " and final chorus are excised to make room for the text of Arne's ode. Some one who has used it as a prompt copy has scored all this out and written "Ring Finis" at the end of the roundelay.
On the title-page of the play is the signature "Myrton Hamilton, 1779," and over it is that of a later owner, " Joseph Smedley." Can any one identify these persons? The former was probably a player, for in the prompter's MS. notes of the cast Ralph, the First Guest, the Spokesman, and the Ballad - Singing Woman are assigned to " Samil " or " Myr Ham." The last part may seem incongruous ; but we must remember it was first played by Dibdin. The other mem- bers of the MS. cast were Day, Best, Pye, Betterton, Parsons, Charlton, Farrel (men), Parsons, Betterton, Dau (? daughter), and Best (women). My interest in Hamilton and Smedley is increased by an oblong octavo volume, also owned by them, for which I am indebted to the Rev. H. M. W. Hinchliff of
