Chapter L: M. M. R

_Cracked Glass._--Some years ago, being a schoolboy at the time, I spent my Christmas holidays at my grandfather's house in Somersetshire. The members of the family were assembled for evening prayer, when suddenly music, resembling that of an Æolian harp, was heard, produced apparently by some person upon the lawn immediately beneath the window. As soon as the prayers were concluded I opened the hall door, and was greatly surprised to find the musician had departed. On returning to the drawing-room I was informed that the moment I had left the room the music ceased. Believing that some village friend had come to serenade us, we drew our chairs round the fire in expectation of his return. A few minutes only elapsed when the music was again distinctly heard. A second visit was made to the hall door, but with no better success. It was then resolved to open the shutters, which was no sooner done than the mystery was clearly explained. During the day a pane of glass had been cracked, and the music was produced by the two pieces of glass vibrating against each other. We found, from repeated experiments, that it required the atmosphere of the room to be at rather a high temperature to produce the effect, for the moment the door, or one of the other windows, was opened, the vibration ceased. I have only to add that the music was very pleasing to the ear, and consisted of rapid cadences. I have often mentioned the circumstance, but I never found any one who had met with a similar _musical fracture_.

M. A.

_Spanish Verses on the Invasion of England._--I carry in my memory the following verses. Are they to be found in any Spanish canzonero? I certainly have not invented them.

"Mi hermano Bartolo
Va in Inglatierra
A mater et Draque
Y a tomar la reyna.
Y de los Luteranos
De la banda-messa
Tiene a traer mi
A mi de la guerra
Un Luteranico
Con una cadena
Y una Luterana."
. . . .

Here my memory fails me.

L. H. J. T.

Queries.

LEGAL WORTHIES, QUERIES RESPECTING.

I shall be much obliged for any information or hints as to the following Queries:--

1. Is there any list extant of the Prothonotaries of the Supreme Courts of Judicature from the time of Edward III. downwards, or any source from which their names could be obtained? Was John Hayward a prothonotary of one of the courts in Edward III.'s time, or during the reign immediately following? or can any information be furnished about a lawyer of that name about that time?

2. Is anything known of a place called "Schypmen Hall" existing in London or elsewhere in the time of Edward IV.?

3. When did "Mr. Goldsborough, one of the Prothonotaries of the Common Banke," flourish?

4. Is anything known of Traherne, said to have been reader at Lincoln's Inn temp. Hen. VIII., whose _Reading on Forest Laws_ is much referred to by Manwood?

5. Is anything known of Frowick, a lawyer probably of the sixteenth century?