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NOTES AND QUERIES.
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'St. Nicholas that he would render and pay it
again as soon as lie might, and gave none other
pledge. And this man held this money so long,
-that the Jew demanded and asked his money, and
he said that he had paid him. Then the Jew made
him to come tofore the law in judgment, and the
oath was given to the debtor. And he brought
with him a hollow staff in which he had put the
money in gold, and he leant upon the staff. And
when he would make his oath and swear, he
delivered his stuff to the Jew to keep and hold,
whilst he would swear, and then sware that he had
delivered to him more than he ought to him. And
when he had made the oath he demanded his staff
again of the Jew, and he, nothing knowing of his
malice delivered it to him. Then this deceiver
went his way, and anon after, him list sore to
.sleep and laid him in the way, and a cart with four
wheels came with great force and slew him, and
lrake the staff with gold which he spread abroad .
And when the Jew heard this, he came thither
- sore moved, and saw the fraud, and many said to
iiim that he should take to him the gold ; and he Tef used it saying : But if he that was dead was not raised again to life by the merits of St. Nicholas, he would not receive it, and if he came again to 3ife, he would receive baptism and become -Christian, Then he that was dead arose, and the Jew was christened." Dent edition, vol. ii. 3>p. 117, 118.
PlERBE TURPTN. Folkestone.
AUTHOR WANTED (12 S. ii. 329). "It is the Mass that matters." This was said by Mr. Augustine Birrell in a paper called ' What, Then, "Did Happen at the Reforma- tion ? ' It was published in The Nineteenth Century of April, 1896, and was answered by me in the same review, July, 1896.
G. W. E. RUSSELL.
SAMUEL WESLEY THE ELDER : HIS POETIC ACTIVITIES 112 S. ii. 226). Wesley's poem ' The Life of Christ' was announced in The 'Gentleman's Journal, May, 1693, p. 166. Verses on his poem appeared in the number for July, 1693, p. 233.
" An Ode on St. Cecilia and Music in Devotion by Mr. Wesley " was printed in The Gentleman's Journal for April, 1694,
T. 67. (See The Musical Antiquary, July, 911, p. 234.) See also Husk's ' Account of the Musical Celebrations on St. Cecilia's Day/ 1857, p. 85 and p. 157, where the poem is printed. Mr. Husk says :
" Nothing has been found to show that this ode was furnished with music anterior to the year 1794,
when the author's grandson, Samuel Wesley, set
at. If set, it was possibly performed at Oxford."
I think, however, that this was the ode set by William Xorris of Lincoln in 1702 (Husk, p. 51), which is preserved in the Bodleian Library (Bod. MS. Mus. c. 28). The first -words are " Begin the noble sonjz."
a. E. p. A.
NAVAL RECORDS WANTED, c 1800 (12 S.
ii. 330). D. B. might find the information he
seeks in the Navy Lists published since 1772,
' Biographia Navalis,' 'Royal Naval Bio-
graphy' (12 vols.), or O'Byrne's 'Naval
Biographical Dictionary.' For other sources
of information he might consult Sims's
' Manual for the Genealogist, &c.,' 2nd ed.,
pp. 440 and 441.
HOWARD H. COTTERELL, F.R.Hist.S.
D. B. should consult at the Public Record Office the following :
1. Officers' Services, 1781-1862, indexed.
2. Lieutenants' Passing Certificates, 1691-1832; from 1789 they have baptismal certificates filed with them.
3. Records of Services, retrospective from 1817.
4. The Naval Board's Records of Lieutenants' Examinations, 1795-1832. indexed ; from these can be obtained date of examination, age, and particu- lars of service.
5. Full Pay Registers, 1795-1858.
6. Bounty Papers.
At the library of the Royal United Service Institution or the British Museum old Navy Lists can be consulted. A. G. KEALY,
Chaplain R.N., retired.
Bedford.
D. B. might find it useful to consult ' The Records of Naval Men,' by Gerald Fothergill, published by Mr. C. A. Bernau, Walton-on- Thames, in 1910. It is a little handbook to the chief sources of information relative to the genealogy of naval men. If D. B. finds any difficulty in obtaining it, and will com- municate with me, I shall be glad to send him my copy. G. L. APPERSON.
97 Buckingham Road, Brighton.
" HAT TRICK " : A CRICKET TERM (12 S. ii. 70, 136, 178). The explanations appearing in your columns of this phrase as applied to cricket have appeared to me somewhat in- complete. Most of us know that a bowler taking three wickets with successive balls used to earn a hat or its equivalent, and we also know that the phrase " the hat trick " originally appertained to conjuring, when by sleight of hand the performer appeared to draw rabbits and other things out of a hat. I think it was in the seventies or eighties that some enterprising newspaper reporter, wearied with repeating the statement that Smith or Jones had earned a hat, first thought of applying to cricket the phrase properly belonging to conjuring, and since that time he has been followed by practically every other reporter of the game, and thus the phrase is now part of the vocabulary of cricket. E. BASIL LUPTON.
37 Langdon Street, Cambridge, Mass.
