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Willietti Ragguaglio delle Campane di Viliglia. 4to., Roma, 1601.
Zech . De Campanis et Instrumentis Musicis.
Pirotechnia, del Vannuccio Biringuccio, nobile Senese, 1540, 1550, 1559, 1678. There is a French translation of it by Jasper Vincent, 1556--1572, 1627. The tenth chapter is about bells. Magius refers to it in these words:--"In illa, perscriptum in Italico Sermone, et delineatum quisque reperiet, quicquid ad artem ediscendam conducit, usque adeo, ut et quo pacto, Campanae in turribus constituantur ac moveantur, edoceat, optimeque figuris delineatis commonstret."
Ducange in Glossario, in vocibus AEs, Campana, Codon, Cloca, Crotalum, Glogga, Lebes, Nola, Petasus, Signum, Squilla, Tintinnabulum.
Puffendorff. De Campanarum Usu in obitu Parochiani publice significando, in ejus Observationibus. Jur. Univers., p. iv. No. 104.
Ditto 2nd edition 18mo., 1705.
Ditto 3rd edition 18mo., 1733.
Ditto 4th edition 18mo., 1753.
Ditto 5th edition, by J. Monk. 18mo., 1766.
Clavis Campanalogia, by Jones, Reeves, and Blackmore. 12mo., 1788. Reprinted in 1796 and 1800?
The Ringer's True Guide, by S. Beaufoy. 12mo., 1804.
The Campanalogia, or Universal Instructor in the Art of Ringing, by William Shipway. 12mo., 1816.
Elements of Campanalogia, by H. Hubbard. 12mo., 1845.
The Bell: its Origin, History, and Uses, by Rev. A. Gatty. 12mo., 1847.
Ditto, enlarged. 1848.
Blunt's Use and Abuse of Church Bells. 8vo., 1846.
Ellacombe's Practical Remarks on Belfries and Ringers. 8vo., 1850.
Croome's Few Words on Bells and Bell-ringing. 8vo., 1851.
Woolf's Address on the Science of Campanology. Tract. 1851.
The Art of Change-ringing, by B. Thackrah. 12mo., 1852.
To these may be added, as single poetical productions,
The Bell, by Schiller.
Perhaps some courteous reader of "N. & Q." may be able to correct any error there may be in the list, or to add to it.
H. T. ELLACOMBE.
Rectory, Clyst St. George.
INEDITED LETTER OF LORD NELSON.
I have in my possession a long letter written by Lord Nelson, sixteen days before the battle of Trafalgar, to the Right Hon. Lord Barham, who was at that time First Lord of the Admiralty. As an autograph collector, I prize it much; and I think that the readers of "N. & Q." might be glad to see it. It has not yet, as far as I am aware, been published:
Victory, Oct. 5th, 1805.
My Dear Lord,
On Monday the French and Spanish ships took their troops on board which had been landed on their arrival, and it is said that they mean to sail the first fresh Levant wind. And as the Carthagena ships are ready, and, when seen a few days ago, had their topsail yards hoisted up, this looks like a junction. The position I have taken for this month, is from sixteen to eighteen leagues west of Cadiz; for, although it is most desirable that the fleet should be well up in the easterly winds, yet I must guard against being caught with a westerly wind near Cadiz: for a fleet of ships, with so many three-deckers, would inevitably be forced into the Straits, and then Cadiz would be perfectly free for them to come out with a westerly wind--as they served Lord Keith in the late war. I am most anxious for the arrival of frigates: less than eight, with the brigs, &c., as we settled, I find are absolutely inadequate for this service and to be with the fleet; and Spartel, Cape Cantin, or Blanco, and the Salvages, must be watched by fast-sailing vessels, in case any squadron should escape.
I have been obliged to send six sail of the line to water and get stores, &c. at Tetuan and Gibraltar; for if I did not begin, I should very soon be obliged to take the whole fleet into the Straits. I have twenty-three sail with me, and should they come out, I shall immediately bring them to battle; but although I should not doubt of spoiling any voyage they may attempt, yet I hope for the arrival of the ships from England, that, as an enemy's fleet, they may be annihilated. Your Lordship may rely upon every exertion from
Your very faithful and obedient servant,
NELSON AND BRONTE.
If any valuable autographs come into my possession hereafter, you may expect to receive some account of them.
EUSTACE W. JACOB.
Crawley, Winchester.
FOLK LORE.
"The observation of unlucky days and seasons is by no means unusual. The phases of the moon are regarded with great respect: in one medicine may be taken; in another it is advisable to kill a pig; over the doors of many houses may be found twigs placed crosswise, and never suffered to lose their cruciform position; and the horse-shoe preserves its old station on many a stable-door. Charms are devoutly believed in. A ring made from a shilling offered at the Communion is an undoubted cure for fits; hair plucked from the crop of an ass's shoulder, and woven into a chain, to be put round a child's neck, is powerful for the same purpose; and the hand of a corpse applied to a neck is believed to disperse a wen. Not long since, a boy was met running hastily to a neighbour's for some holy water, as the only hope of preserving a sick pig. The 'evil eye,' so long dreaded in uneducated countries, has its terrors amongst us; and if a person of ill life be suddenly called away, there are generally some who hear his 'tokens,' or see his ghost. There exists, besides, the custom of communicating deaths to hives of bees, in the belief that they invariably abandon their owners if the intelligence be withheld."
May not any one exclaim:
"O miseras hominum mentes! O pectora caeca! Qualibus in tenebris vitae, quantisque periclis Degitur hoc aevi, quodcunque est!"
S. G. C.
C. D. LAMONT.
Greenock.
"May he no pleasure or profit see, Till he comes back again to me."
B. J. S.
"Cut a few hairs from the cross marked on a donkey's shoulders. Enclose these hairs in a small bag, and wear it on your breast, next to the skin. If you keep your purpose secret, a speedy cure will be the result."
The foregoing charm was told to me a short time since by the agent of a large landed proprietor in a fen county. My informant gravely added, that he had known numerous instances of this charm being practised, and that in every case a cure had been effected. From my own knowledge, I can speak of another charm for the ague, in which the fen people put great faith, viz. a spider, covered with dough, and taken as a pill.
CUTHERT BEDE, B.A.
PSALMS FOR THE CHIEF MUSICIAN--HEBREW MUSIC.
Psalm vi. is headed , and Psalm vi. , without the "neginoth;" and the "sheminith" is also mentioned . The Chaldee and Jarchi translate "Harps of eight strings." The Septuagint, Vulgate, Aquila, and Jerome, , appear also to have understood an instrument of eight strings.
T. J. BUCKTON.
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