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GENTLEMEN desirous of having their Linens dressed to perfection should supply their Laundresses with the "GLENFIELD STARCH," which imparts a brilliancy and elasticity gratifying alike to the sense of sight and touch. LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1876. CONTENTS. — No 134. NOTES: The Pied Piper of Hamelin-Irish Knights, 61"The Vow of the Clerk of Barnes," 62-Descent of Queen Vietoria, 63 - Piozzi-Proverbs and Sayings-Theatrical Properties, 64-John Milton and the Rev. R S. Hawker Annotations by Beckford on the Margins of the Pages of "Travels in Chaldea"-"Rink," 65-An Unrecorded Incident of Grecian History-Invocation of Archbishop LaudTo Imp-Feast of St Matthias-Parallelism in Tennyson's "In Memoriam "-Local Rhyme -The North Pole, 66. QUERIES:-Nell Gwynn's Avenue: King's Wick, Sunninghul, Berks-Tilden Family of Kent-Four o'Clocks-Swift's Epigram-Carlyle as a Poet, 67-" Amalgamation"-"Realities "--Hugh O'Neile-" Sop "—" Hernia "-A Botanical Curiosity-G B. Johnson-The Battle of Morat (Switzerland-Eufting" and "Miffing"-Dr. Gloucester Ridley, 68-Abbey Pieces-Bishop of Norwich, 1442-Capell Brook s Travels in Spain and Morocco "-Grammars-Authors and Quotations Wanted, 69. REPLIES:-"Champion," 70-Buckingham and Dryden- Notes. THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN. According to tradition, on this day, the 22nd of July, exactly five hundred years have elapsed since the mysterious piper piped the Hamelin rats and the little army of children to destruction. Mr. Browning has given us a version of the legend in his romantic poem, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, but I think the story will lose none of its point and interest if permitted to reappear in "N. & Q." in the quaint old style of Richard Verstegan,* who wrote it more than two hundred and seventy years ago. I give it verb. et lit., and a curious old piece it is : "And now hath one digression drawn on another, for beeing by reason of speaking of these Saxons of Transilvania, put in mynd of a most true & marvelous strange accedent that hapned in Saxonie not many ages past, I cannot omit for the strangenes thereof briefly heer by the way to set it down. There came into the town of Hamel in the countrey of Brunswyc an od kynd of compagnion, who, for the fantastical cote which hee wore beeing wrought with sundry colours, was called the pyed pyper; for a pyper hee was, besydes his other qualities. This fellow forsooth offred the townsmen for a certain somme of mony to rid the town of all the rattes that were in it (for at that tyme the burgers were with that vermin greatly annoyed). The accord in fyne beeing made, the pyed pyper with a shril pype went pyping through the streets, and foorthwith the rattes came all * A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, 1605, pp. 85-7. running out of the howses in great numbers after him; all which hee led unto the river of Weaser and therein drowned them. This donne, and no one rat more perceaved to bee left in the town; he afterward came to demaund his reward according to his bargain, but beeing told that the bargain was not made with him in good earnest, to wit, with an opinion that ever he could bee able to do such a feat; they cared not what they accorded unto, when they imagyned it could never bee deserved, and so never to bee demaunded: but neverthelesse seeing he had donne such an unlykely thing in deed, they were content to give him a good reward; & so offred him far lesse then hee lookt for: but hee therewith discontented, said he would have his ful recompence according to his bargain, but they utterly denying to give it him, hee threatened the with revege; they bad him do his wurst, whereupon he betakes him again to his pype, & going through the streets as before, was followed of a number of boyes out at one of the gates of the citie, and coming to a litel hil, there opened in the syde thereof a wyde hole, into the which himself and all the children, beeing in number one hundreth & thirty, did enter; and beeing entred, the hil closed up again, and became as before. A boy that beeing lame & came somwhat lagging behynd the rest, seeing this that hapned, returned presently back & told what hee had seen; foorthwith begun great lamentation among the parents for their children, and men were sent out with all dilligence, both by land & by water to enquyre yf ought could bee heard of them, but with all the enquyrie they could possibly use, nothing more then is aforesaid could of them bee understood. In memorie whereof it was then ordayned, that from thence-foorth no drum, pype, or other instrument, should be sounded in the street leading to the gate through which they passed; nor no osterie to be there holden. And it was also established, that from that tyme forward in all publyke wrytings that should bee made in that town, after the date therein set down of the yeare of our Lord, the date of the yeare of the going foorth of their children should be added, the which they have accordingly ever since continued. And this great wonder hapned on the 22 day of July, in the yeare of our Lord one thowsand three hundreth seaventie and six., remembrance in speaking of Transilvania was, for that "The occasion now why this matter came unto my some do reporte that there are divers found among the Saxons in Transilvania that have lyke surnames unto divers of the burgers of Hamel, and will seem thereby to inferr, that this iugler or pyed pyper might by negrolittle apparence of truthe; because it would have bin mancie have transported them thether, but this carieth almost as great a wonder unto the Saxons of Transilvania to have had so many strange children brought among them, they knew not how, as it was to those of Hamel to lose them: & they could not but have kept memorie of so strange a thing, yf in deed any such thing had there hapned." F. D. Nottingham. IRISH KNIGHTS. Having had occasion lately to refer to the file of the Times for 1871, my attention was arrested by the heading of a column, "The Royal Visit to Ireland," in the copy for Friday, August 4, in which is given an account of "the investiture of two knights of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick," by "Our Own Correspondent," who is said to have been Dr. W. H. Russell. In the account, the correspondent says:· "THE VOW OF THE CLERK OF BARNES." A certain gentleman, who lived some years ago "Since the passing of the Irish Church Act, which levelled all religious distinctions, it (the Order) has at Barnes, was the bugbear of such of the inhabibeen recast in a mould adapted to the altered circum- tants as, obliged by their avocations to visit stances. The ecclesiastical character which the Order London daily, had the misfortune to be his fellow assumed would now be anomalous and unsuitable. passengers. No matter what the weather, he Since the elimination of the religious element there is no longer any ecclesiastical ceremony connected with the persisted in keeping the window open. Desperate Order. The nature of the change is illustrated by the at last, one of the sufferers penned the following simple fact that the riband of the late Earl of Roden, lines, which were printed as a broadside. A liberal the leader of Ulster Protestants, is now worn by Lord supply of the squib was furnished to the passengers, Southwell, an earnest Roman Catholic nobleman. He and when "the clerk of Barnes" appeared, he is not, however, as has been erroneously supposed, the was greeted with the new effusion. The dose was first of his creed who received the honour. Before Emancipation, indeed, it was confined to Protestants, too strong even for his nerves; he was seen no but since then it has been conferred without religious more.distinction. The first knight selected from the ranks of the once proscribed classes was the late Lord Fingall, the eighth Earl, who died in 1836, whose descendant, bearing the same old Celtic name, is now enrolled in the Chapter of the Illustrious Order." Now, in what I have quoted there are a few historical errors. In the first place, it is not correct to say that "before Emancipation it was confined to Protestants," for it is on record that on the occasion of George IV.'s visit to Ireland in 1821, Arthur James, eighth Earl of Fingall, was invested, the King himself presiding on the occasion. My authority is no less a person than the late Daniel O'Connell, who, in a letter in reply to an anonymous attack made on him in the Courier, a London newspaper, after the visit of George IV. to Ireland, says: "To the Earl of Fingall, as head of the Catholic laity, the ribbon of the Order of St. Patrick was given, at an installation at which the King himself presided." The greater part of O'Connell's letter is republished in Fagan's Life and Times of Daniel O'Connell, vol. i. p. 270. Besides, in Byron's Irish Avatar the following lines occur: "Will thy yard of blue riband, poor Fingall, recall The slaves, who now hail their betrayer with hymns?" "Wear, Fingall, thy trapping, O'Connell proclaim." In the next place, the late Lord Fingall did not die in 1836. The eighth Earl of Fingall died on the 30th of July, 1836, and was succeeded by his son, Arthur James, ninth and late Earl, who died on the 22nd of April, 1869, and was succeeded by Arthur James, the present and tenth Earl, who is not, according to Burke, enrolled a knight of the Illustrious Order of St. Patrick. Perhaps my friend Sir Bernard Burke will kindly afford some information on the subject. WILLIAM O'CONNOR, M.D. Upper Montagu Street, Montagu Square. "At Barnes, in Surrey, I reside, I may be, have been, sorely tried Let beauty plead and wit deride- Though youth sit flaunting in its pride, Come show and splendour, close allied, Let infant cry, or woman chide, Come Disraeli, the Tories' pride, Come flunkey, with his shoulders wide, Policeman, priest, or babe, or bride; Or swell, perfum'd, tight-laced, and tied, Come speculator, side by side Or crafty lawyer lean and dried, Or doctor, by the wise man shied ;- Though lightning sweep the horizon wide, And gusts or gales fright citizen or clown; |