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NOTES AND QUERIES, [ii s. xn. JULY 17, wis.
no Shirley Woolmers before Benjamin
Woolmer, and none lacking since."
The family dates back to the fifteenth century, and the first entry I know of is that of Richard Wolmer of Swynford, Lincoln, who married the daughter and heiress of Siriki. Their son was John Wollmer of Swynford. A pedigree of Wolmer was in the Lincolnshire Visitation of 1562. The fourth John Woolmer in our pedigree was three times Mayor of Stratford-on-Avon, and the first Mayor of that town in 1 675.
The old Tudor house recently restored at. Stratford-on-Avon by Miss Marie Corelli was for two hundred years the home of the Woolmers, and gifts, from members of the family, of the Communion plate and handsome candelabra can be seen now in the parish church. The fifth John Woolmer, also Mayor of Stratford-on-Avon, was the father of Edward Woolmer, Mayor of Bath, buried in Bath Abbey, 1721.
We are fortunate in possessing an old family Bible as well as some interesting correspondence about the family.
ETHEL A. WOOLMER.
51, Albert Bridge Road, S.W.
STOKE POGIS CHURCH (11 S. xi. 494). A coloured view of the church, with moon, and lights reflected from the inside of the build- ing, appeared some thirty or more years ago in a monthly number of The Sunday at Home, so that publishing office might be able to give information. R. H.
CHESAPEAKE AND SHANNON (11 S. xi. 454, 500). ' The Chesapeake and the Shan- non,' words and rnusic, is song No. 21, p. 49, in ' Gaudeamus : a Selection of Songs for Colleges and Schools,' edited by John Farmer, published by Cassell & Co.
M. H. DODDS.
'UNCLE TOM'S CABIN' (11 S. xii. 9). From the wording of T. P. C.'s inquiry ("the preface") he is presumably unaware of the numerous prefaces to Mrs. Stowe's historical work, of which upwards of thirty different editions have appeared in the English language alone. For the edition pub- lished by T. Bosworth in London in October, 1 852, a preface was written expressly by the author. In the same year Clarke & Co., London, issued another edition " with a new. preface by H. B. Stowe." The same publishers subsequently in the same year issued two editions with a preface signed " G. " In the following year, 1853, an edition with a preface by the Earl of Carlisle was published in London by George Rout- ledge & Co., of which, with the same preface,
they issued a later edition in 1864, and again
in 1880. There was also an edition pub-
lished in 1852 by H. G. Bohn, with " Intro-
ductory Remarks " by J. Sherman ; and a
lengthy but unsigned " Introduction " is
prefixed to Routledge's edition of 1880.
WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.
[MR. A. R. BAYLEY, MR. FRED. BOLT, and MR, ARCHIBALD SPARK E also thanked for replies.]
INSCRIPTION TO BE DECIPHERED (11 S. xii. 10). The inscription under the crucifix would appear when complete as follows :
" Adoramus Te, Christe, et benedieimus Tibi, quia per sanctam Crucem Tuam redimisti mundum." ("We adore Thee, O Christ, and bless Thee, because by Thy holy Cress Thou hast redeemed the world.") The sentence is part of the Roman Catholic dsvotion by St. Alphonsus known, as the ' Stations of the Cross,' which, by the way, only appears in ordinary prayer books in English, and not in Latin. CTJTHBERT -REID.
[MR. WAINEWRIGHT also thanked for reply.]
TWENTIETH-CENTURY KNGLISH (11 S. xi. 450; xii. 15). The expression " a right to " perform a deed or undertake a work, as used to imply that such a course of action is a duty, is still to be found in Essex, and probably survives in all the rural districts of the Eastern counties. For instance, in speaking of paternal control, " He maks 'em mind, and quite right too ; they hev a right so to do."' Or, with reference to an aged person, it may be said, " I doan't know who hev got a better right to look after he than his own folks." E. Y AFGHAN.
BLACKSTONE'S ' COMMENTARIES,' FIRST EDITION (10 S. xii. 385 ; 11 S. iii. 98). At the end of the first volume of the Bodleian copy of the first edition (AA. 81-4, Jur. Seld. subt.) are inserted eight double-columned pages of corresponding format, printed on rather better paper. These are titled :
Supplement | to the | first Edition : | containing | The most material Corrections and Additions in the | Second.
There is a signature " Vol. I.," as if similar supplements for later volumes were being printed simultaneously. If they came into existence, they were not inserted in this particular copy. Q. V.
" LIFE is A ROMANCE " (11 S. xi. 401, 500). Does the following supply any help ? " Every form of human life is romantic " (Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard, U.S., author of ' Atlantic Essays ').
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