ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.

THE TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTEENTH

ANNIVERSARY will be celebrated under the DOME of ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, on WEDNESDAY, the 10th of May, 1871, with a full Choral Service, in which the Choirs of Her Majesty's Chapel Royal. St. Paul's, Westminster Abbey, and St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and members of the Choirs of Canterbury, Winchester, Eton College, the Temple, Lincoln's Inn, St. Andrew's, Wells Street, and others, will assist. The Sermon will be preached by the Rev. J. C. MILLER, D.D, Vicar of Greenwich and Canon of Worcester, before the Right Hon, the LORD MAYOR, the SIIERIFFS, the ARCHBISHOPS and BISHOPS, the STEWARDS, &c.

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The ANNUAL DINNER will take place the same day, at Six o'clock precisely, in MERCHANT TAYLORS' HALL, Threadneedle Street, the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR presiding, supported by the ARCHBISHOPS, the BISHOPS, STEWARDS, &c.

1st, DONATIONS to POOR CLERGYMEN incapable of duty from mental or bodily infirmity, or burthened with large families.

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Unlike other Societies, established for the benefit of a particular district, or one class of sufferers, whether Clergymen, Widows, or Orphans, the Corporation labours to assist ALL with equal solicitude.

The average number of persons assisted yearly is about 1300, and of these 712 are Widows and Aged Single Daughters, and 98 are Orphan Children.

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4TH S. No. 171.

of the Institute, 16, New Burlington Street, W., MAY 1 to MAY 13, 1871. Admission free to Members, and to Visitors on the introduction of Members, from 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. On Friday May 5, the Exhibition will close at 3 P.M., on which day the usual inonthly meeting will be

held.

LONDON INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION of

1871. An INTERNATIONAL CONCERT will be given in the Royal Albert Hall at the Opening of the International Exhibition on MONDAY NEXT, the 1st May, when New Pieces, composed for the occasion by M. Gounod (France), Chevalier Pinsuti (Italy), Dr. Hiller (Germany), and Mr. A. Sullivan (United Kingdom), will be performed. Each composer will conduct his own piece of music.

EASON TICKETS, admitting to the International Albert Hall, to the Flower Shows and Gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society at South Kensington, from MONDAY NEXT, the 1st MAY, to 30th SEPTEMBER, price £3 3s., may be had at the Royal Albert Hall, and of the usual Agents.

Post Office Orders should be made payable to the undersigned at the Post Office, Charing Cross.

By Order,

HENRY Y. D. SCOTT, Lieut.-Col. R.E.,
Secretary.

AT THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL EXHI

BITION of 1871, will be shown in Permanent Buildings, Selected

Specimens as follows:

1. Pictures; Oil and Water Colour.

15. Worsted Manufactures.

16. Machinery in Motion used in Woollen and Worsted Manufactures.

17. Live Alpacas, remarkable for their hair and wool; and other animals.

18. Educational Works and Appliances. 19. Scientific Inventions and Discoveries. 20. Horticulture.

21. Musical Art will be represented daily in the Royal Albert Hall. B. The Exhibition will be opened by a State Ceremony on MONDAY NEXT, 1st May, and be continued daily until 30th September. C. Season Tickets admitting to the Opening Ceremony, the Royal Horticultural Gardens, and to all the Flower Shows, Three Guineas. By order, HENRY Y. D. SCOTT, Lieut.-Col., R.E., Secretary to H. M.'s Commissioners.

LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1871.

CONTENTS.-N° 174.

NOTES:- A Word for Moore, 357-Two Centenarians of the same Name, 353-Sir Edwin Sandys and the Bishops, 359 Remarkable Altar-slab in Norwich Cathedral, 360Names of Norsemen in Cumberland and WestmorelandJests-Readyhoof or Rediough East Anglian Folk Lore: Sneczing The Souter and his Sow- Extraordinary Marriages Chaucer: "Schoo"-A Forgotten HomeristThe Cry of " Treason," 360.

QUERIES: -"Heart of Heart [s]," 362-The Attic Talent The "Bear" in Drury Lane - General Butler's Order against the Ladies of New Orleans - Canius - The Carmelites-Competitors for the Crown of Scotland - Congreve's "Doris "Danby and Arlington - Dover Castle -John Erskine, Professor of Law, Edinburgh- "But Father Anselmo will never again," &c-Glatton-Sydney Godolphin-Rubens' "Judgment of Paris"-Leavenworth Family Duke of Manchester: Fleet Marriages- Macaroon - Marriage Service not allowed to commence after Twelve o'Clock Sir John Mason- Molière's 64 Comedies" Quotations wanted, &c., 363. REPLIES:- Gainsborough's "Blue Boy," 366 Mural Painting in Starston Church, Norfolk, 368 - Lines on the Human Ear, 369-Henry VIII. and the Golden Fleece, 370-Realm, Ib.-Capricious Wray, 372-Mount Calvary, Ib.-Lord Campbell's "Life of Lyndhurst," &c., 373Mezzotint of Oliver Cromwell, once the Property of Bradshaw the Regicide-"Anima Christi "-" The Schoolmaster abroad in Staffordshire - The Ode of Arthur GreyPhilosophical Nakedness - English Queen buried at Porto Fino-Arabic Numerals in Wells Cathedral - Priory of St. Ethernan-Sir Thomas Sewell - The Rhombus and Scarus, &c., 374.

Notes on Books, &c.

Notes.

A WORD FOR MOORE.

In the note headed "Spenser the Poet of Ireland" ("N. & Q." 4th S. vii. 317), interesting as far as relates to Spenser himself, one cannot help regretting that the writer should have gone out of his way to depreciate Moore, and to offer an opinion on the political condition of Ireland in a manner calculated to raise controversy; unless, indeed, one suffers judgment to go by default, which is not to be thought of in the case of Moore.

MR. KEIGHTLEY'S speculations on the impossibility of an insurrection in Ireland are disposed of by the fact that one occurred there six or seven years ago; but, believing that Moore's Irish Melodies (most of them) rank among the finest poems we possess, I hope to be allowed to say a few words in his behalf. MR. KEIGHTLEY does, to be sure, admit (for which we should be grateful) that "many of the Melodies are pleasing and some really spirited"; but he is dissatisfied because they "do not contain a single description of Irish scenery or a trait of Irish manners."

And pray

why should they? Irish scenery and manners in the Melodies! Who then would have read them? Moore painted the emotions of the soul, which are common to all the civilised world-and the uncivilised, too, for aught I know-and that is the cause of his universal popularity. When

Moore wrote words to Irish tunes, he was under no obligation to describe Irish scenery and manners. He has sometimes described the tone of what-not having time to seek another phrase— I will call national feeling; but that was because the melodies themselves suggested it. Hear what Moore himself said upon this point in his letter to Sir John Stevenson, consenting to undertake his share of the work:

"The task which you propose to me, of adapting words to these airs, is by no means easy. The poet who would follow the various sentiments which they express, must feel and understand that rapid fluctuation of spirits, that unaccountable mixture of gloom and levity which composes the character of my countrymen, and has deeply tinged their music. Even in their liveliest strains we find some melancholy note intrude-some minor third or flat seventh-which throws its shade as it passes, and makes even mirth interesting."

If Moore ought to have written descriptions of Irish scenery and manners, when he wrote songs to Irish tunes, it must have been equally incumbent on him to give descriptions of the scenery and manners of the various countries to whose tunes he wrote songs for the National Melodies. How thankful we ought to be for having got such exquisite songs as "All that's bright must fade," "Those evening bells," "Should those fond hopes," ""Fare thee well, thou lovely one," 9966 Oft in the stilly night," "Take hence the bowl," and twenty others, instead of sketches of landscape and traits of manners peculiar to India, Russia, Sicily, Scotland, and Naples, to whose tunes the immortal verse is wedded.

I venture to think, that though allusions to manners can be introduced with much effect into humorous songs, as we see is done in those of Burns and others written in local dialects, particularly of the northern counties of England, and also in Irish comic songs-of which there are many-they, equally with descriptions of scenery, would be intolerable in songs of another character. The reference to Burns fortunately supplies me with an illustration in support of my argument. There is a fragment consisting of these four lines: "My heart's in the Ilielands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Hielands a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild deer, and hunting the roeMy heart's in the Hielands wherever I go." This is poetry: it touches the feelings, and appeals to the imagination. We behold the banished man turning with fond regret to the scenes and sports of his youth; we see his eye kindle as, for the moment, he fancies himself once more "with his foot upon his native heather," and then, the illusion past, he feels that it is in imagination only he can hope ever to look upon the muchloved land again. Burns took it into his head to make a complete song of this fragment, and this is how he did it. To follow the four lines above given he wrote:

"Farewell to the Hielands, farewell to the North,
The birth-place of valour, the country of worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,

The hills of the Hielands for ever I love.
"Farewell to the mountains high cover'd with snow;
Farewell to the straths and green valleys below;
Farewell to the forests and high hanging woods;
Farewell to the torrents and loud pouring floods."

Now, if Burns was obliged to write a song containing descriptions of scenery, he cannot be blamed for the result; but surely it is not of a nature to incline others to take the same course.

It may not be uninteresting to contrast Burns's lines with Moore's "Vale of Avoca," which contain a certain amount of description of scenery. All that genius could do is here done. The first two verses are charming as a landscape by Claude: but you are not really interested until the chord of human feeling is touched in the third and fourth verses.

C. Ross.

TWO CENTENARIANS OF THE SAME NAME.

The following paragraph appeared in The Comet, & newspaper published in Guernsey, on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 1870 :

"A CENTENARIAN.-In the course of the present week Mrs. Lenfestey, née Beaucamp, a native of the Castel parish, and at present residing near the district church of St. John's, completed the hundredth year of her age. Her mental faculties are good, and her eyesight is so unimpaired that she is able to read and sew without the aid of spectacles. She still moves about the house, and were it not for an injury to a leg sustained some time ago, is still hale and hearty enough to enjoy herself in visiting ker acquaintances. Her crippled state, however, compels her to remain at home. A daughter, seventy years of age, resides with her. Their circumstances may be described as indigent. Judging from appearances, the old lady may live a few years longer. Her lifetime forms a link connecting the present with that period of history when Great Britain struggled, unsuccessfully, to reduce the American colonists to subjection to the mother country. She saw the light before the birth of Sir Walter Scott and Louis Philippe; was well in her teens' before the Reign of Terror had horrified the civilised world, and has lived during some of the most momentous events recorded in modern history.

As the question of longevity is one which has attracted a good deal of attention, and has been very much discussed in "N. & Q.," I thought it would not be uninteresting to the readers of this useful periodical if I were to verify the facts; and in so doing I became more than ever convinced how easy it is, unless great care is used, to fall into error in matters of this nature, which require a cautious sifting of the evidence adduced. I will show that although the fact of the great age attained by these two individuals is substantially correct, the writers of the above notices are wrong in stating that they were natives of the Castel parish; and that this assumption has been the cause of Mrs. le Bair being credited with six months more age than she actually attained.

One of the venerable centenarians being still living, I began by visiting her. I found her wonderfully clear in her memory and intellects, very upright in person, and with eyesight and hearing apparently unimpaired. Our conversation was carried on in the old Norman dialect, still spoken in Guernsey, but the venerable dame speaks and reads both English and French. She told me that what had appeared in the newspaper was incorrect, inasmuch as she was not a native of the Castel parish, but of the parish of St. Peter-Port; that her family had come originally from the Castel, but that her father had inhabited the parish of St. Martin until he had come to reside in the town where she was born. She produced a copy of her baptismal register, which I have since verified by a personal examination of the parish-books of St. Peter-Port. It is as follows:

"Suzanne, fille de Daniel Beaucamp et de Judith Bond, sa femme, née le 29o de Novembre 1770, et bâtisée le 2o de Décembre suivant a eu pour Parrain Hellier de Beaucamp et pour Marraines Suzanne de Beaucamp et Charlotte Mauger."

I looked through the register of baptisms for thirteen years subsequent to this date, and could find no other Suzanne de Beaucamp. I asked her at what age she had married. She told me at the age of twenty-four. I sought for the record

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"A COINCIDENCE.-In The Comet of November 30th it was stated that Mrs. Lenfestey, née Beauchamp, a native of the Castel parish, but residing in the district of St. John's, had that week completed her hundredth year, and we now learn, by a singular coincidence, that another person of the same maiden name, and a native of the same parish (Castel) - namely, Susan de Beauchamp, relict of Samuel le Bair, was baptised in the Castel parish, 16th December, 1733, and buried in St. PeterPort, 12th June, 1835, aged 101 years and fully six months."

The name has never been written thus in Guernsey. In the Norman dialect, still spoken in the island, the French word champ invariably takes the form of camp.

the register of St. Peter-Port :

"James Lenfestey, fils de Pierre Lenfestey et Suzanne de Beaucamp, fille de Daniel de Beaucamp, tous les deux de cette paroisse, ont été mariés ensemble le 8o de Septembre 1794."

I inquired of her whether she had known Mrs. le Bair, whose maiden name was also Susanne de Beaucamp, and who had died about thirty years ago. She answered immediately that she had known her well, as she was her aunt and

It is not unusual for persons in the lower ranks of life, especially in town, to drop the particle de. Daniel's true name was de Beaucamp, but he was evidently better known as plain Beaucamp.