and his subordinates, which has control of various matters of expenditure, and legal and judicial authority within the sovereign's court-royal, with power to correct all offenders, and to maintain the peace of the verge or jurisdiction of the court-royal, which extends every way two hundred yards from the gate of the palace." (Wharton, 'Law Lexicon.') The Board was so-called from the green-covered table at which its business was originally transacted, and was first used in 1536, when Thomas Hatterlyf and Edwarde Weldon were clerks of the green-cloth. ARCHIBALD SPARKE. James Milne, from which the following is an extract: Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! "" You instantly take up the other lines of the of course, wrote it to jingle with the "bluggy quatrain in Stevenson's Treasure Island.' He. deeds of Long John Silver and his merry comrades. But there is a whole pirate ballad, which sprang from Stevenson's text, and who wrote it? The great ballad was written by an American, Mr. Young Ewing Allison, of Kentucky, under the title, The Dead Men's Sorg.' Its verses, as he first gave them form, were set to music in 1891 by Mr. Henry Waller, an adopted son of Mrs. Scott-Siddons. But the original draft did not become the amplified grisly song of Mr. Allison's final touches until 1897. No doubt this accounts for the The Lord Steward of His (or Her) bowdlerised versions which have Majesty's Household has his office in Buck-blown about, sometimes as an old pirate ingham Palace, known as the Board of Green chantey," sometimes as a thing. copied from Cloth. Other officers are Treasurer, Comp- a musty scrap book," always without mention troller, Master of the Household, Clerk of the author. The whole story is told in a Comptroller and assistant Clerks, Porters, privately printed volume by his friend, Mr. C. I. Ingram, also of Louisville. Cooks, etc. All matters relating to the expenses of the establishment, not covered by the Privy Purse, pass through the Clerk's hands. My father was commanded by King Edward VII. to submit certain furniture for one of the Palace Chapels for His Majesty's approval, and the command was issued by the Clerk to the Board of Green Cloth. AN NCHOR CHANTY" (clv. 261, 305).The Morning Post of Oct. 14, 1921, published an article by Mr. E. B. Osborn, which included the whole six verses of the ballad of The Dead Man's Chest.' The author inci dentally explained "that the Dead Man's Chest was one of the Virgin Islands re-named by the buccaneers, a mention of which in Charles Kingsley's volume of travels in the West Indies was one of the seeds of Stevenson's story"; and added that the verses were given in the Book Monthly of November, 1914; they were said to have been copied from a musty scrapbook, in which the author's name was not given.' The ballad, with some slight verbal differences, was also published in The Graphic of 29 Oct., 1921, with a prefatory note by Mr. دو Mr. Milne's statement makes it clear that the ballad is not a genuine example of the type of sea-song which figures in print indifferently as chanty," "chantey and shanty.' With regard to the origin and spelling of this word the well-known musician, Sir Richard Terry (author of The Shanty Book'), wrote as follows in The Times of 5 Oct., 1918: : 66 May I enter a protest against the pedantry which-because of a fancied derivation from (un) chanté-would spell it Chanty or Chantey"? The result of such spelling is that out of every thousand landsmen 999.9 pronounce it Tchahnty rhyming with auntie," instead of shanty" rhyming with " scanty, as every sailor always pronounced Were it worth while I could that the word is derived from a negro shanty or hut. According to the Oxford Dictionary (which, by the way, spells it Shanty) the word did not find its way into literature until 1869. That being so, surely it is more scholarly to spell it as the sailor always pronounced it. it. prove. J. R. H. AUTHORS WANTED, (clv. 315).—(1) Sleep wayward thoughts.' This is the first of three verses set to music by John Dowland and printed in his First Booke of Songs or Ayres,' 1597. The book has been edited by Dr. E. H. Fellowes as part of his English School of Lutenist Song Writers.' (2) Change thy mind.' The first of five printed in Robert Dowland's Musical Banverses written by Robert, Earl of Essex, and quet,' 1610, with music by Richard Martin. The song (words and music) was printed in the The words Musical Antiquary, October, 1909. bethan Song-books,' 1887. are to be found in Bullen's Lyrics from ElizaG. E. P. A. The Library. Mary II., Queen of England, 1689-1694. 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The materials on which these embroideries are mounted, or which have been used without adornment for vestments of some kind, also originate from some of the most celebrated centres of weaving on the continent: Regensburg, Lucca, Florence, WE etc. The memorials from later centuries are also of considerable value, above all those from the Baroque period, an epoch during which, thanks to her successful wars, Sweden attained a position of power and her great men devoted a considerable proportion of the riches they had acquired to the decoration of the churches. The works were executed both within and without the country; for the most part the materials are Italian, Spanish, and French. Of special interest are numerous pieces of work from Eastern Europe, mementoes of the Swedish campaigns in Russia, Poland, and other countries, and of the connections which were established thereby: Turkish brocades, Turkish and Polish embroideries, etc. On the whole-thanks to certain favourable circumstances-Sweden has been fortunate in having preserved from the early Middle Ages and all the succeeding centuries an astonish- The artistic level of ecclesiastical art sank ingly great number of old, precious textiles. in Sweden, as in other countries, during the Those from the Middle Ages-copes, chasubles, nineteenth century. However, the Renaisdalmatics, episcopal shoes, antependia, hang-sance movement in this sphere, which charings, canopies, etc. are divided into, firstly, acterised the last few decades of the century those which were made in the country, and found expression remarkably early in Sweden secondly, those which have been introduced -as early even as about 1880-and with unfrom abroad. Among the former are pic-usual consciousness of its object. During the torial tapestries with figure compositions dat- last twenty-five years Swedish artistic handiing from the eleventh and twelfth centuries; craft has produced a number of notable other woven fabrics from the thirteenth to works, which will be represented at the exthe fifteenth centuries; Gothic hangings with hibition by Handarbetets Vänner, Licium, heraldic motives with an intarsiatura-like Libraria, etc., and by individual artists. technique; and embroidered work of all kinds, often associated with certain studios, such as the magnificent pall of Saint Holmger, associated with the Cistercian nuns at Sko, and a number of altar frontals, trimmings, etc., THE Italian Mail and Tribune for Nov. 17 tells us of the progress of the projected Medici Museum for Florence. The suggestion was mooted last year that this should be |