Notes and Queries, Number 55, November 16, 1850 | Page 4

in the _Recueil de Chants Historiques
Français, depuis le XIIème jusqu'au XVIIIème Siècle_, by Le Roux de
Lincy (2 vols. Paris, 1841, Libraire de Charles Espelin). He is there
described as,
"Ecuyer et huissier d'armes des rois Charles V. et Charles VI., qui resta
toujours fidèle à la maison de France;"
And the editor adds:
"Les oeuvres d'Eustache Deschamps contiennent pour l'histoire du
XIVème siècle des renseignemens précieux; on peut y recueillir des
faits politiques qui ne sont pas sans importance, mais on y trouve en
plus grand nombre des détails précieux sur les moeurs, les usages, et les
coutumes de cette époque."
His poems were published for the first time in one vol. 8vo., in 1832,
by M. Crapelet, with this title: {404}
"Poésies morales et historiques d'Eustache Deschamps, écuyer, huissier
d'armes des rois Charles V. et Charles VI., chatelain de Fismes et bailli
de Senlis."
As regards the "_genuineness_" of the poem cited, I am inclined, with
J.M.B., to think that it admits of question, the orthography savouring
more of the end of the fifteenth than of the close of the fourteenth
century. I am sorry not to be able to explain the meaning of "la langue
Pandras."

D.C.
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NOTES ON THE SECOND EDITION OF MR. CUNNINGHAM'S
HANDBOOK OF LONDON.
21. _New Tunbridge Wells, at Islington._--This fashionable morning
lounge of the nobility and gentry during the early part of the eighteenth
century, is omitted by Mr. Cunningham. There is a capital view of it in
Bickham's _Musical Entertainer_, 1737:
"These once beautiful tea-gardens (we remember them as such) were
formerly in high repute. In 1733 their Royal Highnesses the Princesses
Amelia and Caroline frequented them in the summer time for the
purpose of drinking the waters. They have furnished a subject for
pamphlets, poems, plays, songs, and medical treatises, by Ned Ward,
George Colman the older, Bickham, Dr. Hugh Smith, &c. Nothing now
remains of them but the original chalybeate spring, which is still
preserved in an obscure nook, amidst a poverty-stricken and squalid
rookery of misery and vice."--George Daniel's _Merrie England in the
Olden Time_, vol. i. p. 31.
22. London Spa (from which Spa Fields derives its name) dates as far
back as 1206. In the eighteenth century, it was a celebrated place of
amusement. There is a curious view of "London Spaw" in a rare
pamphlet entitled _May-Day, or, The Original of Garlands_. Printed for
J. Roberts, 1720, 8vo.
23. _Spring Gardens._--Cox's Museum is described in the printed
catalogue of 1774, as being in "Spring Gardens." In the same year a
small volume was published containing _A Collection of various
Extracts in Prose and Verse relative to Cox's Museum_.
24. _The Pantheon in Spa Fields._--This place of amusement was
opened in 1770 for the sale of tea, coffee, wine, punch, &c. It had an
organ, and a spacious promenade and galleries. In 1780 it was
converted into a lay-chapel by the Countess of Huntingdon, and is now

known as Northampton or Spa Fields Chapel. Mr. Cunningham speaks
of the burying-ground (originally the garden), but singularly enough
omits to notice the chapel.
25. _Baldwin's Gardens_, running between Leather Lane and Gray's
Inn Lane, were, according to a stone which till lately was to have been
seen against a corner house, bearing the arms of Queen Elizabeth,
named after _Richard Baldwin_, one of the royal gardeners, who began
building here in 1589.
26. _Rathbone Place._--In an old print (now before me) dated 1722,
this street is called "Rawbone Place." The Percy coffee-house is still in
existence.
27. _Surrey Institution, Blackfriars Road._--This building was
originally erected, and for some years appropriated to the Leverian
Museum. This magnificent museum of natural history was founded by
Sir Ashton Lever, who died in 1788. It was afterwards disposed of by
way of lottery, and won by Mr. James Parkinson, who transferred it
from Leicester Place to the Surrey side of Blackfriars bridge.
28. _Schomberg House, Pall Mall_, (now, I believe, about to be pulled
down), was once the residence of that celebrated "quack" Dr. Graham.
Here, in 1783, he erected his Temple of Health. He afterwards removed
to Panton Street, Haymarket, where he first exhibited his Earth Bath. I
do not find any mention of Graham in Mr. Cunningham's book.
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
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FOLK LORE.
_Laying a Ghost._--Frequent mention is made of the laying of ghosts,
and in many localities the tradition of such an event is extant. At
Cumnor, Lady Dudley (Amy Robsart's) ghost is said to have been laid
by nine Oxford parsons, and the tradition is still preserved by the
villagers; but nowhere have I been able to ascertain what was the

ceremony on such an occasion.
Is anything known on the subject?
A.D.B.
Abingdon, Nov. 1850.
_A Test of Witchcraft._--Among