In St. Giles' Church is a similar inscription, but not quite so blasphemous, but all are outdone by the following in the chapel of Windsor, for here we have the blasphemous dogma of the Immaculate Conception with a vengeance. GEORGE COLMAN THE ELDER. The following memorandum, in the autograph of Isaac Reed, is now before me. August 24th, 1794. Dr. Douglas, bishop of Salisbury, told me at his palace, Salisbury, that General Pulteney offered Mr. Colman a seat in Parliament, and to provide amply for him, if he would quit his theatrical connections, had been kept by Mossop; had a child by him, and afterparticularly, I think he said, his mistress, Miss Ford, who Orate pro animabus Regis Henrici VIImi et Christofori Urswyk, quondam ejus Elemosinarii magni et istius Collegii Decani. Ave Maria, etc. Et Benedicta sit sanctissima tua Mater Anna, ex qua sine macula processit tua purissima caro Virginea. Amen. Deus qui per unigenitum tuum, ex utero Virginis incarnatum, ac morte passum, genus hu-wards became his wife. manum redemisti, eripias quesumus animas Henrici VIII. ac Christofori, necnon omnium eorum, quos ipse Christoforus, dum vixit, offendit, ab eterna morte, atq; ad eternam vitam perducas, per Xm. Dominum nostrum. Amen. John Ingledeu, not Thomas Ingledew, a native of Yorkshire, and chaplain to William Patten of Wainflete, Bishop of Winchester, founded in 1461 two Fellowships in Magdalen College, Oxford, for natives of the diocese of York, or Durham; and for their maintenance conveyed to the College for ever, certain lands in Yorkshire. It is possible that these lands may be situate in the locality of his birth; and their situation is doubtless known to the authorities at Oxford. No record is extant to show in what college either he or the bishop received his education. See Wood, Hist. et Antiq. Oxon., tom. II. pp. 187, seqq. It does not appear that any family of this name is at present resident in Yorkshire. Two individuals of the name reside in the county of Durham, Silvester Ingledew at Stockton-upon-Tees, and James Ingledew at Oaktree, Hurworth; and two in Northumberland, Henry and John Ingledew at Newcastle. If Angeltheos* cannot obtain the information he requires, at the Register Office, Wakefield, he may, perhaps, by consulting the Indexes to the Calendars of Inquisitions, Rolls, etc., published by the Record Commissioners; any volume of which may be had for a few shillings. Is this a known fact, or are there further particulars known? J. C. The conversation appears to have been caused by the then recent decease of George Colman the elder, in a lunatic asylum, on the 14th of the above month. Miss Ford, who is frequently noticed in the Garrick Correspondence, was, notwithstanding her position with Mossop, and subsequently with Colman, a woman of intellect, and the child referred to, was Griffinhoof, or George Colman the younger. Colman the elder was the nephew of the Countess of Bath, herself said to have been, before her marriage, Bolingbroke's mistress. On the death of the Earl of Bath in 1764, Colman became independent, and notwithstanding his noncompliance with General Pulteney's expressed desire, was further benefited under his will, on his decease in 1767. Joseph Smith, twenty-five years since assumed the designation of "the prophet," and organised "the Mormon Church," with six members. Smith is since dead, but "the Church" in Utah territory in the United States now embodies three presidents, seven apostles, 2026"seventies," 715 high priests, 994 elders, 514 priests, 471 teachers, 227 deacons, besides the usual ratio of persons not yet ordained, but in training for the ministry. The total number of the Scandinavian mission is said to have been 533, of whom 409 were Danes, 71 Swedes and 54 Norwegians. Mormonism is a direct avowal of the principle of polygamy, and during the six months which ended in April last, 278 persons in the territory of Utah died, while 965 children were born; 479 persons were baptised in the Mormon faith, and 86 were excommunicated from the church. the same period, from November 1854 to April 1855 inclusive, the number of Mormonites who left the port of Liverpool en route for the Salt Lake, in the United States, comprised a total of 3626 persons, of whom 2231 were English, 401 Scottish, and 287 Welsh. In No. LVII.] WILLIS'S CURRENT NOTES. "Takes note of what is done- [SEPTEMBER, 1855. INGLEDEW FELLOWSHIPS AT OXFORD. Wood's History of Oxford cited by D. B. H. in Current Notes, p. 64, seems to be inaccurate. The Statutes of Magdalen College, Oxford, given by the founder William of Waynflete Bishop of Winchester in 1479, and lately printed by desire of Her Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into the state of the University of Oxford, from a manuscript in the Bodleian Library, contain the tenor of an ordinance intituled Compositio Magistri Thomæ Ingeldew-whereby it appears that THOMAS INGLEDEW, not John Ingledew, a Clerk of the Diocese of York gave to Magdalen College, Oxford, a sum of money, not land, to be laid out in the purchase of land for founding two Fellowships, so that the suggestion kindly made by D. B. H., as to obtaining information of Thomas Ingeldew's family or birth place fails to be applicable. The two Fellows were to celebrate for the souls of Thomas Ingeldew, and of John Bowyke and Eleanor Aske; and it was provided that Thomas Ingeldew's cousin, Richard Marshall of University College, should hold one of the Fellowships. Besides the persons of the name of Ingledew referred to by D. B. H., there are others of the same name resident in some of the northern parishes of the North Riding of Yorkshire, SCHOLA SALERNITANA. Those who may wish to come to a well founded conclusion concerning the Royal Personage to whom this kind of dedication— Anglorum Regi scribit Schola tota Salerni; find that he is fully of the opinion expressed by Dr. was addressed, must consult Tiraboschi, and they will Heaton. The well known erudite author of Italian literature devoted an entire chapter of his great work,* nitana; and has therein discussed at length the point as the Penny Cyclopædia styles it, on the Schola Salerin question. Nor did he forget to weigh the opinion hesitate to assert, with all the respect due to this last given by Muratori on this subject, but, he did not named very learned historian, that he gave his opinion of his own accord without any support of historical ground, observing that as the work was addressed to the King of England, this ought to be a real king, and could not be any other than King Edward the Confessor. Upon this, Tiraboschi, besides not seeing any reasonable basis in this opinion expressed by Muratori, observes that, however great might be the name of that School, a King of England would not have written to it, in order to receive from it sanitary counsels and instructions. He then declares himself for Robert Duke of Normandy, his statement entirely coinciding with that of Dr. Heaton; and finally, to corroborate his opinion, refers to the fact that, in a Manuscript Code, the work is found addressed to King Robert-Salernitanæ Scholæ, versus ad Regem Robertum.† Tiraboschi was of opinion that the Prince being at Salerno on his return from Palestine, the desire of the School to To eternise the memory of Captain James Cook, a coat acquire a distinction with the accredited future King of arms was granted to his family, by patent dated Sep-the Professors of it to render him honour in this work, of England, was possibly the chief motive that induced tember 3, 1785. Azure, two polar stars or; a sphere and probably he himself made the request. He at the on the plane of meridian, North pole elevated, circles of latitude for every ten degrees, and of longitude for every fifteen; showing the Pacific Ocean bearing 60° and 2400 west, bounded on one side, by America; and on the other by Asia and New Holland, in honour of the discoveries made by him in that ocean. His track thereon marked by red lines. For his crest, on a wreath of the colours, an arm embowed, vested in the uniform of a Captain of the Royal Navy. In the hand, a Union Jack, on a staff proper; the arm encircled by a wreath of palm and laurel. It is highly probable that Ingledew, Engledue, and Engledow are corruptions of Angeltheow mentioned in the Saxon Chronicle under the years 626 and 755, keeping in view the Saxon character ð, for th. Newcastle upon Tyne, Sept. 1. ANGEL EOW. ARCTIC ARMORIAL DISTINCTION. Some such distinction appears to be deservedly due to Commander now Captain McClure for his discovery of the North West Passage. Sittingbourne, Sept. 3. VOL. V. F. M. most credited men amongst the modern, as Giannone, same time declares that almost all the authors, and the in his History of the Kingdom of Naples, and Friend, Hist. Med., edit. Venet., p. 147, give the same statement, adding another circumstance, that mentioned by Dr. Heaton, concerning the wounds, which, according to these two historians had degenerated into a perilous fistula, and for the cure of which the Duke of Normandy the circumstance of his wife sucking the poison from had applied to the Doctors of the said School: nor is the wound pretermitted, a circumstance which Gian *Edit. Venez. 1795, Vol. III., Lib. IV., Cap. vi. Medicina. † MS. Bibl. Reg. Paris., 6941. Catal., Tom. IV. p. 295. K none adduces as an historical fact, with the only observation in a parenthesis (alcuni stimano favoloso questo racconto del succhiamento del veleno). Tiraboschi refuted this with solid reasons, but those who would refer to what Giannone has himself said upon this subject, will find a lengthened discussion in his history. Lib. X., cap. xi., Edit. Haia, 1753, 4to. Tom. II., pp. 119, et seq. After all, it must not be forgotten, that Dr. Heaton's statement is found identical with that in the Preface to the work in question, not only in the Paris edition as quoted by him, but also, since it must be the same, in that printed at Rotterdam by Arnold Leers, in 1648, with the following title-Zachariæ Sylvii Præfatio in Scholam Salernitanam. In this edition, the title of the work is thus-Schola Salernitana: sive de Conservanda Valetudine Præcepta Metrica. Autore Joanne de Mediolano hactenus ignoto; cum luculenta et succincta Arnoldi Villanovani in singula Capita Exegesi. The chapter De Salvia,' in this edition, is the Sixtieth, not the Thirty-eighth, as in that quoted by Dr. Heaton. The reasons advanced by Tiraboschi in refutation of the circumstance of the sucking of the poison, are two. The first is, that Oderico Vitale, a contemporary writer, Hist. Eccl. ad an. 1100; who while he makes great eulogiums of Duke Robert's wife, is wholly silent in respect of this celebrated action of conjugal love; nor was Tiraboschi able to find it mentioned by any ancient writer. The second reason is, that the School of Salerno, in the prescription for the cure of the fistula, which it is conjectured was added on this occasion, did not in any way allude to the sucking, not even in case of poison; which case they did not mention at all. The prescription, De curatione Fistulæ, Cap. lxxxiii. is as follows Auripigmentum, sulphur miscere memento: His decet apponi calcem conjunge saponi : Quatuor hæc misce; commixtis quatuor istis Fistula curatur, quater ex his si repleatur. Bristol, August 28. F. S. DONATO. NUMISMATA.-Some Remarks induced by the reverse of a Medal recently designed and engraved by LEONARD CHARLES WYON, of Her Majesty's Mint. The Groupe is composed of three figures. In the centre and looking to her right stands NUMISMATA, a dignified commanding Matron, extending her right hand in welcome to an animated lovely Damsel, who is pressing towards the Goddess, and represents TIME PRESENT, Youth in her Spring. With her left hand, Numismata withdraws a Curtain, and discloses an Old Man seated contemplatively on a Cube, (on which is engraved a Coin of Egina, from whence Coinage is considered to have originated.) The Sage is thus the Type of TIME PAST of that World which has passed away, and to whose anxieties, exultations, fears, and hopes, we are the living acting representatives. Coinage, in its fullest extent of development, a Record of Past existence: a Diffusion of the Present. Singular, as it may seem to us, the imaginative Greeks never approached the subject. The Romans have merely given us the justice of their Coinage, and the Moderns the machinery only of Coinage: the Spirit has been left with Hades. Whether our Saxon Wizard has really raised the Goddess from her sleep of ages, it is for the Priests of her Temple to declare, but at all events the Apparition is a very lovely one. To enter more fully into the spirit of Mr. WYON'S personification, let us consider in reference to TIME PRESENT, how few of Queen Victoria's subjects have seen Her Majesty, yet thanks to the Coinage of Money and Medals, Her Majesty's Portrait, is as a Household Deity from London to Lahore! while through the same Power, the multitudinous Past, involving Empires, Sovereigns, and Events, remain an existing World to us; and will remain so, equally to interest and instruct unknown generations whose futurity is beyond the ken of our Divination. These varied conceptions we think have been very happily embodied. The noble figure and graceful attitude of NUMISMATA, her benign and intellectual countenance, and the magnificent flow of her drapery, uniting itself with the massive fall, and superb folds of the curtain, all contribute to indicate the presiding Deity; and then the loveliness of early Girlhood, with the elasticity of the youthful form of TIME PRESENT; constitute an imposing contrast, to the Antient of other days gravely quiescent, seated in the background, and in the now, light cheerful Damsel, there is the prospective promise, of good enduring stamina. All three attitudes are indeed characteristically significant and appropriate the stationary unchanging Genius-NUMISMATA, the immoveable tranquillity of Age, the progressive ardour of Youth, and the Present, with all its rose tinctured animating Future in prospect. The Past, with all its mingled sunshine and shadows in review, -alike-neither enlivening nor depressing; and yet-alike-subjects of thought, comparison, and consideration. Combine all, and they are fully expressive of the Inscription now NUMISMATA IRRADIATING THE PRESENT: RESTORING THE PAST. In this graceful and effective Groupe, Mr. WYON, has idealized and personified the powers and purposes of summer last. EARLY ENGLISH SONGS. Thomas Ravenscroft, a celebrated composer, between the years 1609 and 1614, edited and published the following four musical works Pammelia: Musicks Miscellanie, or Mixed Varietie of Pleasant Roundelayes, etc., Printed for William Barley, 1609, 4to. Deuteromelia: or the Second Part of Musicks Melodie, or Melodious Music of Pleasant Roundelayes; K. H. Mirth, or Freemen's Songs, etc. Printed for Thomas Adams, 1609, 4to. Melismata: Musical Phansies fitting the Court, City, and Country Humours, etc., 1611, 4to. A Briefe Discourse of the True but neglected use of Charactering the Degrees [in Music]. Printed for Edward Allde, 1614, 4to. These four brochures being amongst the most curious and rarest of their class, the readers of Current Notes will doubtless therefore not object to a few extracts from them of quaint old poetry-" choicely good," as Isaac Walton designates them; preceded by some few notices of Thomas Ravenscroft, of whom, in the Biographical Dictionaries of Musicians little is recorded. From the few data observable in his works, it appears that Thomas Ravenscroft was born in 1592; that in due time he became a chorister in St. Paul's cathedral, and speaks of his tutor, Mr. Edmund Pearce, the Master of the Choristers, as a man of singular eminence in his profession.' 6 University degrees were formerly taken at an earlier age than at present, but Ravenscroft graduated at an unusually early age, and took the degree of Bachelor of Music, when not more than fourteen years old. The following laudatory lines, prefixed to his Briefe Discourse, allude more particularly to this precocity of talent. The third line has a punning allusion to his Arte Senex, virtute senex, ætate adolescens I bone, rara avis es, scribe, bonis avibus. Ravenscroft dedicated his Briefe Discourse-To the Right Worshipfull, most worthy Grave Senators, Guardians of Gresham College in London; the reason being, as he says-I must and do acknowledge it as a singular help and benefit, that I have received divers Instructions, Resolutions, and Confirmations of sundry Points and Precepts in our Art, from the Musicke Readers of that most famous Colledge. Prefixed are panegyrical addresses by some of his most eminent musical contemporaries John Dowland, Nathaniel Giles, Martin Peerson, and others, sufficiently confirmatory it was favourably countenanced by them. In 1621, Ravenscroft published his Whole Booke of Psalmes, but from this period nothing is known respecting him, and it is supposed he was dead, when in 1633, the second edition of that book appeared. From the dedication of his Melismata- To the Right Worshipful, the true favourers of Musicke and all Virtue, Mr. Thomas Ravenscroft, and Mr. William Ravenscroft, Esquires, and the subscribing himself Your Worships affectionate Kinsman, T. R.;' it has been concluded this distinguished musician was of good family, and is supposed to have been possessed of independent property. The arms of the Ravenscroft family are Argent, a chevron between three ravens' heads erased, sable. The late George Spencer, fourth Duke of Marlborough, presented in 1822, to the Members of the Roxburgh Club, a thin volume, entitled-Selections from the Works of Thomas Ravenscroft; but the distinguished editor, if so he may be called, seems not to have been aware the poetry of which his volume is mainly composed, was long anterior to the reign of King James the First, the period of Ravenscroft's various publications. Mr. Oliphant is justly severe upon the Duke's contribution. He observes-— I feel bound, as a faithful chronicler, to add, that in spite of exterior show, wide margins, pompous title pages, and expensive printing, his Grace's Presentation betrays on the part of its editor, or his assistants, the grossest ignorance of that which constitutes the chief value of the works in question, viz., the Music. The blunders made by them are truly ludicrous, and in fact, the whole is perfectly unintelligible, and worse than useless, inasmuch as it might lead people to suppose that the music of that period was a species of unknown tongue, an incomprehensible jargon. I am only sorry to think that the name of Bartleman, which I revere, should be handed down in the Preface as one of the assistants, for I do not believe that he could have been in any way accessory to such wilful murder upon a species of music that he admired so much, and with which, I speak from the authority of those who knew him well, few people were better acquainted.* I differ in opinion from this writer, that the Music constitutes the chief value of the works in question; the poetry, I believe to be equally valuable, as I shall proceed to shew. Pammelia, 1609, the first in date, consists of one hundred songs and ballads of various kinds, accompanied with the Music, a truly minstrel-like batch. Now God be with old Simeon, Banbury Ale! where? where? where? Jacke boy, ho boy, Newes:* Let us sing now for her knell Ding dong, ding dong, bell! Come drink to me and I will drink to thee, And then shall we full well agree: I have loved the jolly tankerd, Full seaven Winters and more; I loved it so long Till that I went upon the score. He that loves not the tankerd Tappe the Canikin, Toss the Canikin, Hold good sonne, and fill us a fresh can, That we may quaffe it round about from man to man.† Deuteromelia : or the Second Part of Musick's Melodie, is even more interesting than its predecessor. The terms K. H. Mirth, and Freemen's Songs, have occasioned some discussion. Mr. Oliphant observes— It is supposed, the former stands for King Henry's Mirth, that is, Songs or Catches of a merry nature which were favourites with that jovial prince. I think it likely to be so, but am not aware of any thing either for or against the matter, except conjecture. · All doubt on the subject is however decided by the following extract from the Life of Sir Peter Carew, by John Vowell alias Hoker, of Exeter, printed in the twenty-eighth volume of the Archæologia. From this time he [Sir Peter] continued for the most part in the Court, spending his time in all Courtly exercises to his great praise and commendation, and especially to the good liking of the King [Henry VIII.], who had a great pleasure in him, as well for his sundry noble qualities, as also for his singing, for the King himself being much delighted to sing, and Sir Peter Carew having a pleasant voice, would often use him to sing with him certain songs they call Freemen's Songs, as namely, By the bancke as I lay, and, As I walked the wode so wylde, etc. Ritson had an inconceivably strange notion of Freemen being an error for Three-men, because Shakespeare speaks of Three-men Song-men, that is, men who would sing Songs of three parts; but if he had taken the trouble to examine the book in question, he would have also found there Freemen's Songs to four voices, which sets the matter at rest. Drayton, in his Legend of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, makes that nobleman say Of Freemen's Catches to the Pope I sing, Which wan much license to my countrymen; That were unknown in Italy till then. The work entitled Deuteromelia, contains thirty-two Songs and Catches, from which I have extracted the following. Of all the birds that ever I see, The Owle is the fayrest in her degree; Sir knave to thou. This Song is well sung, I make you a vow, And he is a knave, that drinketh now. Nose, nose, nose, nose! And who gave thee that jolly red nose? Sinamont and ginger, nutmegs and cloves, And that gave me my jolly red nose!* To-morrow the Fox will come to towne, Keepe, keepe, keepe, keepe, keepe; To-morrow the Fox will come to towne, O keepe you all well there. I must desire you neighbours all, To hollo the Fox out of the hall, And cry as loud as you can call, O keepe you all well there. He'll steale the Cock out from his flock, Keepe, keepe, keepe, keepe, keepe; He'll steale the Cock e'en from his flock, O keepe you all well there. I must desire, etc. That this was highly popular is evidenced by the fact, that in Beaumont and Fletcher's Knight of the Burning Pestle, a Comedy first printed in 1613, the last four lines of this song are quoted. Paul Bedford has of late rendered the words and air familiar to thousands. |