of the Mayor of Louth. At a recent Conservative working men's entertainment in that usually obscure and sleepy town his worship delivered himself of the following stanzas:- [Here follow the two verses as given by the Stamford Mercury.] These lines have only to be brought to the notice of the Premier to secure for their author some more permanent honour than that which he now enjoys. Will no eminent composer set them to appropriate music for use at Conservative banquets?"

With regard to the suggestion that the song of The Conservative should be set to appropriate music, I may observe that somewhere about the years 1836 to 1840 I frequently heard it sung to a lively and spirited tune, so that probably the music as well as the words of the song may be obtained. We have not yet learned who was the author. I see that the London Figaro, Oct. 9, has a whole column of remarks on this subject, and also prints the song as a specimen of the Mayor of Louth's "excursion into the realms of poesy." It would seem that the incident is going "the round of the papers," and that the Mayor of Louth is credited with the authorship of the song. The evident moral of all this is-You should not only mind your P's and Q's, but you should also carefully study your "N. & Q." CUTHBERT BEDE.

CONVENTUAL AND COLLEGIATE CHURCHES STILL IN USE (5th S. ix. 484, 514; x. 117.)-I may add to my list for the present :

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Austin Friars.-Atherstone.

Benedictine Nuns.-St. Rhadegund, Camb., nave destroyed; Armathwayt; Uske; Nun Monk ton, nave only; Lyminster, Sussex; Elstow.

Nuns of the Preceptory.-Mynchen Barrow. Collegiate Churches. — Norhill, Bedfordshire; Windsor, Shottesbrooke, Berks; Bunbury, Macclesfield, St. John's, Chester, choir destroyed, Cheshire; St. Burian's, Carentock, Cornwall; Crediton, Ottery, Clovelly, Haccombe, Chumleigh, Tiverton, Devon; Wimborne, Dorset; Graystock, Kirk-Oswald, Cumberland; Darlington, Langchester, Staindrop, Chester-le-Street, Barnard's Castle, Durham; Westbury, Glouc.; Thele, Herts; Maidstone, Wingham, Wye, the nave only, Ashford, Cobham, Kent; Manchester, Lancashire; Nousley, Sapcote, Leicestershire; Tattershall, Lincoln; Attleborough, Norfolk; Higham-Ferrers, Cotherstoke, Brackley, Fotheringhay, the nave only, Irthlingborough, Northants; Southwell, Notts; Oswestry, Tong, Newport,

Battlefield, Bridgnorth, St. Mary and St. Chad,
Shrewsbury, Salop; St. Mary's, Nottingham,
Tutbury, Tamworth, Penkridge, Tattenhall, Notts;
North Cadbury, Stoke-sub-Hampden, Somer-
set; Mettingham, Sudbury, Suffolk; Arundel,
Sussex; Stratford, Warwick, Astley Knoll, War-
wickshire; St. Edmund's, Sarum, Hull, Howden,
Ripon, Beverley, Yorks.
MACKENZIE E. C. WALCOTT.

REV. ROBERT LAMBE (5th S. iv. 308, 392, 418, 492, 520; v. 178.)-The following extracts from Norham parish register, in the handwriting and relating to the family of the Rev. Robert Lambe, will help to complete the notes at the above I have to thank the Rev. Joseph Waite, the present Vicar of Norham, for allowing me to copy them :

references.

Baptisms.

1756. Philadelphia, daughter of Robert Lambe, Clerk, Vicar of Norham, and Philadelphia his wife, was born on Wednesday the 14th of April, 45 minutes past eleven of the clock at night, and baptised upon Easter Sunday, April 18. 1756.

1759. Robert, son of Robert Lambe, Clerk, &c.,...... was born Thursday, March the 15th, 20 minutes past ten of the clock in the morning, and baptised Friday, March 16th, 1759.

1763. Ralph, son of Robert Lambe, Clerk, &c.,......was born Tuesday, Sept. the 13th, 35 minutes past one of the clock in the morning, and baptised Tuesday, September the 13th, 1763.

1775. Robert, son of Alexander Robertson, of Eymouth in Scotland, Esq., and of Philadelphia Lambe, daughter of Robert Lambe, Vicar of Norham, was born at Berwick the clock in the morning, and was baptised on Sunday, on Monday, November the 6th, at half an hour past 6 of November the 26th, 1775, by Mr Rumney, Vicar of Berwick.

1777. William, son of Alexander Robertson and of 28th, at 9 of the clock in the morning, and was baptised Philadelphia Lambe, was born on Wednesday, May the at Eymouth by the said Robert Lambe, Vicar of Norham, Thursday, June the 12th, 1777.

1779. Alexander Home, third son of Alexander Robertson and Philadelphia Lambe, was born on Monday, April the 19th, at a quarter of an hour past seven of the clock in the morning, and was baptised at Eymouth in Scotland by Robert Lambe, Vicar of Norham, Wednesday the 21s of April, 1779.

1781. Philadelphia, daughter of Alexander Robertson and Philadelphia Lambe, was born on Friday the 5th of January, at half an hour past seven of the clock in the wick, the 28th of January, 1781. morning, and was baptised by Mr Rumney, Vicar of Ber

1782. Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Robertson and Philadelphia Lambe, was born at Berwick, Friday the 19th of July, at half an hour past two of the clock in the the 4th, 1782. morning, and was baptised by Mr Rumney August

1785. Catharine, daughter of Alexander Robertson and Philadelphia Lambe, was born at Peelwalls in the parish of Ayton on Monday, August the 8th, at half an hour past four of the clock in the evening, and was baptised by the Revd Robert Lambe Friday, Sept. the 10th, 1785, at Peelwalls.

Marriages.

1755, April 11. Robert Lambe, of this parish in the Diocese of Durham, batchelor, and Philadelphia Nelson,

the Germanic mark, while another chapter is devoted to the "History of Landed Property in England and China," nor do we understand why the mark in Holland should not have been considered next to the Germanic mark, instead of towards the end of the book. Now although these may be considered mere faults of arrangement, we think it is exactly from this cause that M. de Laveleye has not been able to distinguish, in his researches on the question of family communities succeeding to village communities, between primitive family communities which made up the primitive village community and family communities into which some village communities passed by reason of various external influences. Let us, however, once more express our satisfaction with the new historical facts brought to light, and especially with those bearing upon the question of the origin of private property in land, which has lately been discussed, with reference to England, Private property, speaking generally, may be said to have originated (1) from the absolute possession of the homestead; (2) from the enclosure of certain portions of waste or forest land outside the village; (3) from a gradual relaxation of the periodical division of the arable lands, until (4) the lord appears upon the scene, and gradually appropriates to himself lands once belonging to the community, among whom he was originally primus inter pares. We must condemn the absence of an index to the translation of so valuable a writer as M. de Laveleye, as, if the work appeals to a scholarly as well as to a popular class of readers, it should certainly contain this additional attraction to the French edition, which is already well known in England.

in these pages.

Poems and Ballads. Second Series. By Algernon Charles Swinburne. (Chatto & Windus.) THE outcry raised against Poems and Ballads had a certain sound foundation; but Mr. Swinburne, with the hardihood of a true poet, has outlived the odium attaching to that book so far as to become in a sense the fashion. It is not, however, merely because of the change of fashion that only one or two of the least discerning of our contemporaries have revived the Poems and Ballads outcry in treating of the Second Series: there is really nothing in this new volume of the kind we find objectionable in the other. In the present instance we are presented mainly with a gathering of those occasional poems put forth by Mr. Swinburne since the other collection was issued, and not reprinted in Songs before Sunrise or Songs of Two Nations; but there are also several poems which we have not seen before. Now that these poems are thrown together they serve to make evident what is not now very seriously contested, that Mr. Swinburne holds the leading place among English poetic executants, whatever be his place in the higher fields of thought and impulse. The double sestine called "The Complaint of Lisa" is one of the most difficult pieces of execution of modern times, and one in which art and impulse have combined in the highest degree to make an exquisitely pathetic poem, showing no mark of the chisel. The several verses- which are personal to deceased and living poets and others exhibit a very wide range of intellectual sympathy. The political poems show Mr. Swinburne true to his republican proclivities; but those who rejoice to claim him as an Englishman will welcome heartily the evidences of a somewhat new spirit of nationality in his verse, especially in two sonnets called "The White Czar," and in a poem of forty six-line stanzas called "In the Bay," devoted particularly to Kit Marlowe and Shelley. There are some faults of style, such as an over-exuberance of rhythm unduly repeated, and some metrical licence; but those who

read the book will readily forgive these for the overwhelming splendour of imagery, the high pitch of the music, and the fervour with which most of the themes are treated. If we were asked to pick out one poem likeliest of all these to survive as a universal favourite, we should lay our finger on "Inferiæ," twenty-four lines. commemorating the death of the poet's father, Admiral Swinburne, of whom it is here recorded, under date March 5, 1877, that his

"Sail went seaward yesterday from shore

To cross the last of many an unsailed sea."

borough on the 17th inst. Francis Robert Raines was THE REV. CANON RAINES, M.A., F.S.A., died at Scarborn at Whitby, in Yorkshire, February 22, 1805, and was the son of Isaac Raines, M.D., who practised as a physician at Burton Pidsea. In early life the son was intended for the medical profession, but when about twenty years of age he decided to enter the Church, and became a student at St. Bees in 1826. His first curacy was at Saddleworth, in Yorkshire, to which he was appointed in 1828. He from whence he was preferred to the incumbency of was afterwards for a short time curate of Rochdale, Milnrow, which he held up to the time of his decease. November 30, 1843, and became Hon. Canon of ManHe was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries chester and Rural Dean of Rochdale; one of the originators of the Chetham Society, he was for many years Vice-President. He edited for this society no less than nineteen volumes, the principal of which were Notitia Cestriensis of Bishop Gastrell, 3 vols.; The Lancashire Chantries, 2 vols.; The Stanley Papers, 5 vols.; and The Visitations of Lancashire. As an antiquary he had few equals, and his kind and genial manner endeared him to those who had the privilege of his acquaintance. In his parish he was beloved by all, no matter what their religion or what their politics. For many years he was an occasional contributor to "N. & Q.," under the signature of "F. R. R."

WE are glad to see that a Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents relating to Lancashire and Cheshire has been formed. With such members of council as the following, James Crossley, F.S.A., Lieut.Col. Fishwick, F.S.A., Col. J. L. Chester, G. E. Cokayne, M.A., F.S.A., Lancaster Herald, and J. P. Earwaker, M.A., F.S.A. (Hon. Secretary), we may be sure of good and useful work. The council announce as now in the press vol. i. of The Commonwealth Surveys of Church Livings in Lancashire and Cheshire in 1650, edited by Lieut. Col. Fishwick.

THE REV. T. F. Thiselton Dyer has in hand a volume entitled The Folk-Lore of Shakspeare.

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W. G. ("Houses of Parliament.")-Does not MR. SOLLY answer your query, ante, p. 332?

W. F. P.-We shall be glad to have the reply.
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