[Footnote 63:  Mr. Roscoe has printed this very delightful song in the Life of Lorenzo, No. xli.  App.]

[Footnote 64:  The late Rowland Hill constantly sang at the Surrey Chapel a hymn to the tune of “Rule Britannia,” altered to “Rule Emmanuel.”  There was published in Dublin, in 1833, a series of “Hymns written to favourite tunes.”  They were the innocent work of one who wished to do good by a mode sufficiently startling to those who see impropriety in the conjunction of the sacred and the profane.  Thus, one “pious chanson” is written to Gramachree, or “The Harp that once through Tara’s Halls,” of Moore.  Another, describing the death of a believer, is set to “The Groves of Blarney.”]

[Footnote 65:  The festival of St. Blaize is held on the 3rd of February.  Percy notes it as “a custom in many parts of England to light up fires on the hills on St. Blaize’s Night.”  Hone, in his “Every-day Book,” Vol.  I. p. 210, prints a detailed account of the woolcombers’ celebration at Bradford, Yorkshire, in 1825, in which “Bishop Blaize” figured with the “bishop’s chaplain,” surrounded by “shepherds and shepherdesses,” but personated by one John Smith, with “very becoming gravity.”]

[Footnote 66:  The custom was made the subject of an Essay by Gregory, in illustration of the tomb of one of these functionaries at Salisbury.  They were elected on St. Nicholas’ Day, from the boys of the choir, and the chosen one officiated in pontificals, and received large donations, as the custom was exceedingly popular.  Even royalty listened favourably to “the chylde-bishop’s” sermon.]

[Footnote 67:  Alexander Necham, abbot of Cirencester (born 1157, died 1217), has left us his idea of a “noble garden,” which should contain roses, lilies, sunflowers, violets, poppies, and the narcissus.  A large variety of roses were introduced between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.  The Provence rose is thought to have been introduced by Margaret of Anjou, wife to Henry VI.  The periwinkle was common in mediaeval gardens, and so was the gilly-flower or clove-pink.  The late Mr. Hudson Turner contributed an interesting paper on the state of horticulture in England in early times to the fifth volume of the “Archaeological Journal.”  Among other things, he notes the contents of the Earl of Lincoln’s garden, in Holborn, from the bailiff’s account, in the twenty-fourth year of Edward I.—­“We learn from this curious document that apples, pears, nuts, and cherries were produced in sufficient quantities, not only to supply the earl’s table, but also to yield a profit by their sale.  The vegetables cultivated in this garden were beans, onions, garlic, leeks, and others.”  Vines were also grown, and their cuttings sold.]

[Footnote 68:  This is, however, an error.  Mr. Turner, in the paper quoted, p. 154, says, “It may fairly be presumed that the cherry was well known at the period of the Conquest, and at every subsequent time.  It is mentioned by Necham in the twelfth century, and was cultivated in the Earl of Lincoln’s garden in the thirteenth.”]