gs and Carols_ (1847), edited by T. Wright for the Percy Society
from Sloane MS. 2593; W. Sandys, _Christmastide, its History,
Festivities and Carols_ (1852); _Christmas with the Poets_ (edited by
V.H., 4th ed., 1872); T. Helmore and J.M. Neale, _Carols for
Christmastide_ (1853-1854), with music; R.R. Chope, _Carols_ (new and
complete edition, 1894), a tune-book for church use, with an
introduction by S. Baring-Gould; H.R. Bramley, _Christmas Carols, New
and Old_, the music by Dr Stainer; A.H. Bullen, _Carols and Poems_
(1885); J.A. Fuller Maitland and W.S. Rockstro, _Thirteen Carols of
the Fifteenth Century_, from a Trinity Coll., Cambridge, MS. (1891).
See also Julian's _Dictionary of Hymnology_, s.v. "Carol"; E. Cortet,
_Essai sur les fetes religieuses_ (1867).

FOOTNOTE:

[1] In architecture, the term "carol" (also wrongly spelled "carrel"
or "carrol") is used, in the sense of an enclosure, of a small chapel
or oratory enclosed by screens, and also sometimes of the rails of
the screens themselves. It is more particularly applied to the
separate seats near the windows of a cloister (q.v.), used by the
monks for the purposes of study, &c. The term "carol" has, by a
mistake, been sometimes used of a scroll bearing an inscription of a
text, &c.

CAROLINE (1683-1737), wife of George II., king of Great Britain and
Ireland, was a daughter of John Frederick, margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
(d. 1686). Born at Ansbach on the 1st of March 1683, the princess passed
her youth mainly at Dresden and Berlin, where she enjoyed the close
friendship of Sophie Charlotte, wife of Frederick I. of Prussia; she
married George Augustus, electoral prince of Hanover, in September 1705.
The early years of her married life were spent in Hanover. She took a
continual interest in the approaching accession of the Hanoverian dynasty
to the British throne, was on very friendly terms with the old electress
Sophia, and corresponded with Leibnitz, whose acquaintance she had made in
Berlin. In October 1714 Caroline followed her husband and her
father-in-law, now King George I., to London. As princess of Wales she was
accessible and popular, and took the first place at court, filling a
difficult position with tact and success. When the quarrel between the
prince of Wales and his father was attaining serious proportions, Caroline
naturally took the part of her husband, and matters reached a cli