7th 8. XI. JAN. 3, '91.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

contained the illustrious bones of the Empress
she was buried in the
Matilda. Sandford says
Abbey of Bec, in Normandy, with funeral pomp."
He adds that "Gabriel du Moulin tells us that
she had her interment in the church of Notre
Dame du Pré, in the suburbs of Rouen." Père
Anselme, Mrs. Everett Green, and Laurance all
give Bec as the place of her interment.

King Henry I. (father of the Empress Maud) was "honourably interred in the Church of our Lady in the Abbey of Reading, which he had founded and richly endowed," but he was the only one of our monarchs buried there. His

XAVIER DE MAISTRE'S 'VOYAGE AUTOUR DE
"is
MA CHAMBRE' (7th S. x. 488).-"V consonne"
The narrator of the
explained in section xvi.

charming voyage there describes his habit of slip-
ping to the edge of a chair and putting his feet on
His faithful dog
the mantelpiece-a position, he says, admirably
represented by the letter V.
Rosine at such moments would pull at the skirts
of his travelling dress that he might take her up
HENRY ATTWELL.
and let her rest upon the ready-made bed formed
by the angle of his body.

Barnes.

May I venture to controvert our Editor's exgreat-great-great-grandson, Prince John of Corn-planation of "V consonne et séjour" in section xxxiii. of the above work? In section xvi. the author himself explains what he means :—

wall (eldest son of Richard, Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans), was buried there in 1232, as was also his only sister, Isabel, two years later.

H. MURRAY LANE, Chester Herald. Roger de Hoveden, who, as a contemporaneous chronicler, may be relied upon, records :

"In the year of grace 1167, being the thirteenth year of the reign of King Henry, son of the Empress Matilda (Maud), the said Matilda, formerly Empress of the Romans and mother of the above-named king, departed this life and was buried at Rouen, at the Abbey called St. Mary de Pratis."

This Abbey is said by William of Malmesbury to have been founded by Matilda, queen to William I.; but according to Roger de Wendover it owed its origin to Henry I. In any case, it was much enriched by the latter; and on his death those portions of his body removed during the process of embalming (which was rendered necessary for its removal thence to Reading) were WALTER J. ANDREW. buried there.

HERMENTRUde.

"Rosine, ma chienne fidèle, ne manque jamais de venir alors tirailler les basques de mon habit de voyage, pour arrangé et fort commode au sommet de l'angle que que je la prenne sur moi; elle y trouve un lit tout forment les deux parties de mon corps: un V consonne Rosine s'élance représente à merveille ma situation. sur moi, si je ne la prends pas assez tôt à son gré. Je la trouve souvent là sans savoir comment elle y est venue.' When, therefore, the author, in section xxxiii., says, "Viens, ma Rosine; viens.-V consonne et ." At least, this is séjour," his meaning is, "Come, my Rosine; here is your usual bed ready for you. how I understand the passage. Will the Editor kindly say if he agrees with me? I quote from Gustave Masson's edition in the "Clarendon Press Series," 1888, the same that I used for my recent article (7th S. x. 203).

JONATHAN BOUCHIER.

[We agree. There is no doubt as to the general sense, which is the same under either explanation. But we still think that there is a double meaning, as "V. con

sonne" was used as a musical term for "turn over the page," i. e., "let us make a fresh start"; and there is the reconciliation with the servant as well as the bed for the beast involved in the passage.]

The empress was buried in Bec Abbey, where in 1282 her corpse was discovered, wrapped in an ox-hide, and was reinterred, with an epitaph. See Mrs. Everett Green's 'Lives of the Princesses of England.' The only authorities (known to me) JOHN PEEL, THE CUMBERLAND HUNTER (7th S. who name Reading are Stow and Baker, and the former of these adds a note that "Rouse of War-x. 281, 369).—I dare say A. J. M. is correct in wick saith she deceased at Roane, and was buried his surmise that "Sidney Gilpin " is a pseudonym. I have no evidence on the subject either pro or con. in the Monastery of Becco in Normandy." With regard to the dog, with "her sons of peerless faith," which has-I will not say unjustly-offended KILLIGREW, I must confess that this alteration is chargeable to myself. For reasons which I can scarcely account for, I have a strong dislike to the usual monosyllabic term for a female dog. Capt. Hector McIntyre, whom one would not suspect of being over scrupulous in such a matter, seems on a certain occasion to have had a similar objection to the word. (See the Ossian scene in 'The Antiquary,' chap. xxx.) Earlier in the chapter, however, both Hector and his uncle use the (to me) more objectionable term. The case of "a horse and her foal" is not quite analogous. Any lady might, but no and would, say, "My beautiful mare"; lady, I imagine, would, if she could help it, like

The Empress Matilda-married first to Henry V., Emperor of Germany, and secondly to Geoffrey Plantagenet, Earl of Anjou-is said by Stow to have been buried at Reading; but Sandford says she was buried in the Abbey of Bec, in Normandy; and Gabriel de Moulin says in the church of Notre Dame du Pré, in the suburbs of Rouen. M. Paris says, on account of her being the daughter of a king, wife of an emperor, and mother of a king, she had these words engraven on her tomb :

Ortu magna, viro major, sed maxime partu Hic jacet Henrici Filia, sponsa, Parens. CONSTANCE RUSSELL. [Other replies to the same effect, including one which we still hope to publish, are acknowledged.]

It may be worth noting that there is a memoir of Peel, illustrated by a sketch, in a recent number of the Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore and Legend, published at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. At this moment I cannot lay my hand upon it and verify the passage.

to say, "My handsome bitch." Even in a lan-pipers' bagarre, not simply in self-defence, but that guage other than one's own I do not like the word. "il s'est laissé emporter au plaisir de taper comme JONATHAN BOUCHIER. In the delightful scene in the first act of 'Le un sourd." Malade Imaginaire,' where Argan, stick in hand, Ropley, Alresford. pursues Toinette round the chair, he calls her, amongst other complimentary names, "chienne." This sounds unpleasant; whereas, had he called her "jument," or "ânesse," or "chatte," there would, considering his anger at the time, have been nothing specially disagreeable in any of these terms. Still I admit that KILLIGREW is right. In quoting one ought not to alter a single word, and for the future, like the Jackdaw of Rheims, I "won't do so any more," unless it should be something "beyond the beyont," which, of course, the female of dog is not.

I know so little about hunting, except from read-
ing, that I can scarcely speak even to a matter of
fact as to whether the Cumberland hill folk hunt
foxes mostly on foot or on horseback. Mr. Graves's
mention of "neck-break 'scapes" and "the rasper-
fence," as well as of the sound of John Peel's horn,
would lead one to infer that he is speaking of
equestrian hunting. I do not think, but I write
under correction, that a hunter on foot would, like
little boy Bluet, "blow up his horn." See the
'Lady of the Lake,' canto i. stanza x., where the
poet says of the mounted, or, strictly speaking,
dismounted, FitzJames :-

Then through the dell his horn resounds
From vain pursuit to call the hounds.

This is a matter which a Cumbrian dalesman could settle for us directly. I remember, at my Cumberland school, a lad who came from West Cumberland, who used to tell us of his following the hounds, I am nearly certain, on foot; but it may have been that he possessed no nag other than Shanks's. As I have mentioned my old schoolfellow, I may perhaps be allowed, in passing, although it is not connected with hunting, but with another "sport," to recall the account he used to give us of the annual

football match at Easter between the sailors and the colliers of Workington. Possibly, like boys, most things were both to him and to us "pro mirifico"; but, judging from my remembrance of his description of those fearful contests, the battle of Inkerman would seem to have been, in Milton's words, "a civil game to this uproar."

I am glad to hear from KILLIGREW that in Cumberland "the hill foxes are hunted for reasons other than those of sport pure and simple." I conclude that KILLIGREW means that they are hunted as vermin, which, I admit, is defensible. I fear, however-as, indeed, KILLIGREW more than hints -that the Cumberland "fell fox-hunters," as an old shepherd in 'Guy Mannering' says with an unintentional pun, 66 drink delight of battle," like the Carmelite in 'Les Maîtres Sonneurs,' who was obliged to confess to his superior that he fought with the "bourdon d'une musette" in the bag

The song 'Remember the Hunter John Peel' must have had a very wide circulation. Once, some ten years since, when on a visit to Orkney, and accompanying a party to the Standing Stones of Stennis, near Stromness, I heard it, for the first time in my life, sung by a young Scotchman of the party. He told me, on my inquiries as to "the hunter John Peel," that "he went foreign," which means, I suppose, that he went abroad. Let no one imagine, however, that hunting with him,

In his coat of gray,

And his hounds and his horn in the morning,
was like a day with the Pytchley or the Quorn,
as described so graphically in his famous novels
by G. J. Whyte Melville, or more amusingly by
Robert Surtees in 'Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour.
It was done on foot. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.
Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

In what book of songs (if any) can I find the ar
and the words of the song 'John Peel'?
W. G. F. P.
THE PORT OF BANNOCKBURN (7th S. x. 468).—
Let him speak for himself :-

Sum Carmelita, Baston cognomine dictus,
Qui doleo vita in tali strage relictus.
The poem is quoted at length in Bower's 'Scoti-
chronicon,' book xii. chap. xxii. It is also printed
as an appendix to the 1740 edition of John Major's
"Historia.' Bower, in introducing it, commends it
highly as a piece which ought not to be hid under
a bushel, but deserved to be set on a candlestick.
It is a very curious sonorously musical perform-
ance, a marvel of ingenuity in rhymes oddly inter-
laced. Its structure is in the main that of the
common Leonine Latin verse, but it has many
irregularities. The description of the battle, the
gathering of the hosts, the digging of the pits, the
fury and clamour, the blood and terror of the
fight-

Est dolor immensus, augente dolore dolorem
Est furor accensus, stimulante furore furorem
Est clamor crescens, feriente priore priorem

Est valor arescens, frustrante valore valorem-
the slaughter of the English, and, above all, the
lamented fall of Gloucester, Clifford, Marshall,
Maulay, Tiptoft, and De Argentine-all these,
and much besides, are dwelt upon without more
bombast than the forced character of the rhyme
made inevitable. Take it for all in all the Car-

melite's ransom is a very queer piece of poetry. Its lilt is often as rhythmical as the 'Charge of the Light Brigade.'

There is another piece in much the same metre and on the same subject which also has been ascribed to Robert Baston. See 'The Political Songs of England, John to Edward II.,' Camden Society, 1839, p. 262, where the text begins, and p. 388, where the attribution of the authorship appears. The translation only is given on p. 48 of vol. iv. of Goldsmid's privately printed 1884 edition of Wright's fine work; and, as a recent disappointed purchaser, I would like to say that, in my humble opinion, that reprint by Goldsmid, though indeed a pretty book, is nothing short of an editorial villainy. Mr. Goldsmid, who left out so much, might surely have spared us also the repetition of Wright's statement that this poem on Bannockburn was made in 1313! It is much more querulous, much less vivid, and, on the whole, greatly inferior when compared with the poem preserved by Bower. It would be interesting to know what Mr. Wright's authority was for the ascription of it to our friend the Carmelite.

Glasgow.

GEO. NEILSON.

JOHN WESLEY (7th S. x. 467).—It may interest the REV. J. H. OVERTON (if he is not acquainted with the fact) to learn that pasted on the inside cover of the first Chipping register is a slip of paper with the following note, in the handwriting of the Rev. John Milner, Vicar of Chipping, 17391779:

"John Wesley, late Fellow of Lincoln's College, in Oxford, ordain'd both Deacon and afterwards Priest, by Dr. John Potter, late Archbishop of CanterburyJune 7, 1752." Also:

"Benjamin Ingham, late of Queen's College, in Oxford, ordain'd by Dr. John Potter, late Archbishop of Canterbury-Dec. 24 and 25, 1752."

of John Sheehan, barrister-at-law of the Inner JOHN SHEEHAN (7th S. x. 407, 431).—The name Temple, is attached to a new edition of The Bentley Ballads,' 1869, 8vo. From the biographical notes found in the preface it appears that he was educated at Clongowes Wood College, Sallins, co. Kildare, and at Trinity College, Dublin, afterwards entering the University of Cambridge. He was the author of The Irish Whiskey Drinker Papers' in Bentley's Miscellany, The Knight of Innishowen,' &c.

DANIEL HIPWELL.

34, Myddelton Square, Clerkenwell,

John Sheehan, nicknamed "the Irish Whiskey Drinker," and more familiarly known as Jack Sheehan, was a well-known Irish barrister, who, with "Everard Clive of Tipperary Hall," wrote a series of pasquinades in verse, which were published in Bentley's Miscellany in 1846, and attracted considerable attention. He is generally believed to have been the prototype of Captain Shandon in 'Pendennis," "one of the wittiest, most amiable, and most incorrigible of Irishmen." Thackeray, indeed, admitted as much, for in sending a copy of the book to George Moreland Crawford, Paris correspondent of the Daily News, he wrote, "You will find much to remind you of old talks and faces-of William John O'Connell, Jack Sheehan, and Andrew Archdecne." O'Connell, who was a cousin of the "Liberator," stood for Tom Costigan, and Archdecne for the everdelightful Harry Foker, so that it is more than probable that Sheehan was the original of Captain Shandon. He and Archdecne used to frequent the "Deanery," a small, old-fashioned public-house fact that it was presided over by "Ingoldsby" near St. Paul's, which derived its name from the Barham, a canon of the neighbouring cathedral.

Tompkinsville, New York.

The date of these entries corresponds with the
date of Wesley's visit to North Lancashire. On
April 8, 1753, a memorable scene was witnessed in
Chipping parish church, where Wesley had preached
several times previously. A graphic description
of what took place on this, his last recorded visit
to Chipping, is given by Wesley himself ('Journal,'
ii. 271-2).
as
TOM C. SMITH.

Green Nook, Longridge.

CHARLES CHEYNE, VISCOUNT NEWHAVEN (7th S. x. 441, 496).-MR. ROBBINS will find some notices of Lord Newhaven and of his family, extracted from the Cheyne Papers in the possession of the Bridgewater Trustees, in part vii. of the appendix to the Eleventh Report of the Hist. MSS. Commission, issued in 1888, pp. 151-3. His death occurred on June 30, 1698. He had a pension of 1,2001. per annum granted him by

SYDNEY SCROPE.

I notice that MR. BENTLEY says the author of 'Whiskey, drink divine" is John Sheehan, known "the Irish Whiskey Drinker." What authority has he for this? In Mr. Halliday Sparling's 'Irish Minstrelsy' (London, Walter Scott) I find this song ascribed to Joseph O'Leary, who was, the editor informs us, for many years a writer on the London press, and author of several songs. Can any reader clear up the matter satisfactorily R. M. SILLARD.

10, Nelson Street, Dublin.

Joseph O'Leary, to whom also is ascribed the well-known believe, at one time a contributor to Punch, and I song Whiskey, drink divine," was, I