ited by Queen Elizabeth '_to a nayle of a yeard in depth_.' In
the time of James I., they still continued of a preposterous size: so
that, previous to the visit made by that monarch to Cambridge in 1615,
the Vice-chancellor of the University thought fit to issue an order,
prohibiting 'the fearful enormity and excess of apparel seen in all
degrees, as, namely, _strange piccadilloes_, vast bands, huge cuffs,
shoe roses, tufts, locks, and tops of hair, unbeseeming that modesty
and carriage of students in so renowned a university.'"

It is scarcely to be supposed that the ladies were deficient in the size of
their ruffs, &c.

I must conclude this in the words of the immortal poet:

" . . . . New fashions,
Though they be never so ridiculous,
Nay, let them be unmanly, yet are followed."

H. E.

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Queries.

"DAYS OF MY YOUTH."

The following lines are understood to have been written by the late Mr. St.
George Tucker of Virginia, U. S. Any information in support of this
opinion, or, if it be unfounded, in disproof of it, is requested by

T.

DAYS OF MY YOUTH.

Days of my youth! ye have glided away,
Hairs of my youth! ye are frosted and gray;
Eyes of my youth! your keen sight is no more;
Cheeks of my youth! ye are furrow'd all o'er;
Strength of my youth! all your vigour is gone;
Thoughts of my youth! all your visions are flown!

Days of my youth! I wish not your recall,
Hairs of my youth! I'm content you should fall;
Eyes of my youth! ye much evil have seen;
Cheeks of my youth! bathed in tears have you been;
Thoughts of my youth! ye have led me astray;
Strength of my youth! why lament your decay!

Days of my age! ye will shortly be past;
Pains of my age! yet awhile can ye last;
Joys of my age! in true wisdom delight;
Eyes of my age! be religion your light;
Thoughts of my age! dread not the cold sod,
Hopes of my age! be ye fix'd on your God!--ST. GEORGE TUCKER, Judge.

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Minor Queries.

_Randall Minshull and his Cheshire Collections._--Of what family was
Randall Minshull, who, in the Addenda to Gower's _Sketch for a History of_
{468} _Cheshire_, p. 94., is stated to have professedly made a collection
for the _Antiquities of Cheshire_ by the desire of Lord Malpas? and where
is such collection at the present time to met with?

C