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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1867. CONTENTS.-N° 305. NOTES:-The Lord Mayor's Show, 341- Death of the REPLIES:-Palace of Holyrood House, 351- Mr. James Telfer, 352-Salad, Ib.-Portraits of Bellini and Donizetti, 353-Early Quakerism, 354-Homeric Traditions and Language, Ib. The Soldier who pierced Christ, 355 Class, 356- - Hobbes, the Surgeon, 16. - White used for Mourning, 357-Philological Society's Dictionary, 358Thomas Love Peacock- Greek Patriarchs of Constantinople - Inscription in Melrose Churchyard, &c., 358. Notes on Books, &c. Notes. THE LORD MAYOR'S SHOW. Perhaps your readers may like to know what a satirist wrote about the pageant in the reign of William and Mary, or Queen Anne. No date is given in the State Poems, which is to be regretted; and the only mode of progress alluded to is "On Jennets. As tame all as Lambs "whence, "Gowns hung draggling thro' every Puddle." S. H. H. St. John's Wood. "O Raree Show! O Pretty Show! or, The City Feast. “On a day of great Triumph, when Lord of the City Does swear to be honest and just, as he's witty; And rides thro' the Town that the Rabble may shout him, For the wonderful Merits he carries about him; And the Devil to do there was all of a sudden : A Troop of grave Elders O then there came by, Like Snails o'er a Cabbage they all crept along, The Companies follow'd, each Man in his Station, Like Bears they advanc'd with their Bagpipes before 'em ; With Streamers and Drums, and abundance of fooling, And leave 'em to trudg thro the Dirt to their Dinners. } I pass'd to a very fine Room thro a Porch; Then all went to work, with such rending and tearing, Each clap'd in his Pocket to give to his Bride; Of twenty-four Fidlers were all in a Row; DEATH OF THE MAIDEN OF NORWAY. When and where did this royal princess Margaret, Queen of Scots, die; and where was she interred? The Princess Margaret of Norway was only daughter of Eric II., King of Norway (12801299), by his wife Margaret, daughter of Alexander III., King of Scots (1249-1286): the marriage contract was dated July 25, 1281; and the princess, having proceeded to Norway, was fornally united to her youthful husband, then only fourteen years old, and crowned as Queen of Norway in the month of August following. She died in Feb. 1283, shortly after giving birth to the "Maiden of Norway," who was acknowledged as heiress of Scotland and the Hebrides, Man, Tynedale, and Penrith, in an assemblage of the Scottish estates at Scone, February 5, 1283, in default of male issue of her grandfather, King Alexander. The untimely and violent death of that gallant monarch on March 16, 1286, raised "Margaret, the Maiden of Norway," to the Scottish throne; and a parliament, assembled on April 11 of that year, appointed a regency to govern the kingdom during the minority of the infant queen. The troubles which subsequently arose in Scotland occasioned a civil war between the parties of Bruce and Balliol; and for two years a war, almost unnoticed by our historians, continued its ravages in the country. It was finally determined to send for the young queen from Norway; and Edward I., King of England, secretly procured a dispensation, dated October 3, 1289, from Pope Nicolas IV., for the marriage of his son, the Prince of Wales, to the young Queen of Scots, as they were within the forbidden degrees of consanguinity. But while Scotland was preparing to welcome the expected arrival of their youthful sovereign, on whom so many fair hopes depended, Queen Margaret was seized with a mortal illness on her passage from Norway, and died at Kirkwall, in the Orkney Islands, in September, 1290, when only in the eighth year of her age and fifth of her nominal reign: her remains were interred in the cathedral of St. Magnus, at Kirkwall. This is the account of the Maiden's death, according to the generality of our historians; but several other statements of the facts are also found recorded. Annals of England (Parkers, Oxford, 1858, i. 349), states that "She remained in Norway with her father until 1290, when a marriage having been arranged for her with Edward, Prince of Wales, she sailed for Scotland, but died on her way in the Orkneys, Oct. 7, and was buried in the cathedral of St. Magnus at Kirkwall." Here a different date is given, 7th of October, instead of that usually assigned, in September. Wyntoun's Orygynale Cronikil of Scotland (Macpherson's edit., 1795, vol. ii. book viii. p. 13), assigns a violent death to "that madyn swet," and that she 66 was put to dede be martyry"; but this appears a very improbable circumstance, although Winton must have had, when he wrote, some grounds for the allegation: however his editor, David Macpherson, in his Notes on the Eighth Book, on this passage (1. 98), says: — "Wyntoun is mistaken here. The young queen was upon her passage to Britain, and dyed in Orkney (Torfai Hist. Norweg., vol. iv. p. 381; Mat. Westm., p. 414; Knyghton, col. 2468), probably in South Ronaldsay, where there is a safe harbour called St. Margaret's Hope, seemingly from this event. It is pretty certain that St. Margaret never was there, but the superior celebrity of that holy queen has transferred to her the name, which belonged to her descendant and namesake.” From the above it is evident that neither the date, nor exact place, of the Maiden's death is recorded by any competent authority. Surely at the present day, when such light is thrown on many dark points of history, this historical question might be elucidated more satisfactorily. Perhaps some local antiquary in the Orkneys-say Rev. Charles Clouston, minister of Sandwick (already known as an archæologist), or the parish minister of South Ronaldshay-might see this query, and bring his personal knowledge of the locality to bear on the point. The fact of there being a harbour called "St. Margaret's Hope" in the island of South Ronaldshay could, anyway, be cleared up; and whether any tradition still exists there regarding the death of the "Maiden of Norway" in that remote corner of Britain. A. S. A. Allahabad, E. Indies. QUEEN ELIZABETH'S AMYOT, BRITISH I bought, some years ago, at a stall, a copy of Amyot's Vies des Hommes Illustres, etc., par Plutarque de Charonée: a Paris, par Vascoran, 1567. It is a very fine copy, in six volumes, old calf and rich gilt edges, and stamped with a crown and rose with the letters "E. R." It was sold as a duplicate from the British Museum in 1818. Did this belong to Queen Elizabeth? The reason for my asking is this:-In the Catalogue of the Choicer Portion of the Libri Library, sold by Sotheby in 1859, No. 813, is a copy of Demebinding, and formerly in the library of "Henry, trius Phalereus, described as being in very fine Prince of Wales"-son of James I. The notice in the catalogue adds: have been a more than usual ruthless weeding in [For many years no duplicates have been sold from the British Museum Library. Indeed we believe that the authorities have frequently bought back for the library copies of books unfortunately so disposed of in former times. It might be well if our correspondent were to show the copy in question to the Museum Librarian.ED.] RELIGIOUS SECTS. The following list of the various titles by which religious denominations have been certified to the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, contains names which will be new to some of your readers:Apostolics. Armenian New Society. Baptized Believers. Believers in Christ. Bible Christians. Bible Defence Association. Calvinists. Calvinistic Baptists. Christians. PRIDE OF ANCESTRY. Not even excepting the Americans, who in their trips to this hemisphere seldom fail to visit the old homes of their emigrant forefathers for the purpose of collecting genealogical information, the pride of ancestry has in a greater or less degree prevailed in all ages, and among all nations. And, moreover, so anxious have many undoubtedly ancient and illustrious Countess of Huntingdon's English families been to include amongst their Church of Christ. Connexion. Disciples in Christ. Eastern Orthodox Greek Episcopalian Dissenters. Free Grace Gospel Chris tians. Christian Teetotallers. Free Christians. Free Church. Free Church (Episcopal). Free Church of England. Free Union Church. General Baptist. ancestors, either lineal or collateral, those who have chanced to play some part, no matter how unworthy or infamous, in the history of their country, that they have not hesitated to claim those whom others would be only too glad to ignore altogether. So peculiarly illustrative of this is the following unpublished anecdote, which was told me by a veteran Waterloo officer who was present on the occasion referred to, that I ask a corner for it; though in doing so I must disclaim wishing to depreciate a stock that has been for many generations highly and justly esteemed : Sir Walter Scott was dining at a country house Christian Temperance Men. General Baptist New Con- in Hampshire where, amongst the guests invited Christian Unionists. Church of Scotland. nexion. German Lutheran. to meet him, was the then baronet of the Tyrrell family. The conversation turned on the anti |