g gift), which was usual from a
husband to his wife the day after their marriage. How comes this adjective
to be applied to marriages in which the wife does not take her husband's
rank?

M.

_Lord Bacon's Palace and Gardens._--Will any of your architectural or
landscape gardening readers inform me whether any attempts were ever made
by any of our English sovereigns or nobility, or by any of our rich men of
science and taste, to carry out, in practice, Lord Bacon's plans of _a
princely palace_, or _a prince-like garden_, as so graphically and so
beautifully described in his _Essays_, xlv. and xlvi., "Of Building" and
"Of Gardens"?

I cannot but think that if such an attempt was never made, the failure is
discreditable to us as a nation; and that this work ought yet to be
executed, as well for its own intrinsic beauty and excellence, as in honour
of the name and fame of its great proposer.

EFFARESS.

June 24. 1850.

_"Dies Irae, Dies Illa."_--Will any of your correspondents oblige me by
answering the following Queries. Who was the author of the extremely
beautiful hymn, commencing--

"Dies irae, dies illa,
Solvet soeclum in favilla
Teste David cum Sibylla."

And in what book was it first printed?

A copy of it is contained in a small tract in our library, entitled _Lyrica
Sacra, excerpta ex Hymnis Ecclesiae Antiquis. Privatim excusa Romae_, 1818.
At the end of the preface is subscribed "T. M. Anglus." And on the title
page in MS., "For the Rev. Dr. Milner, Dean of Carlisle, Master of Queen's
College, in the University of Cambridge, from T. J. Mathia--" the rest of
the name has been cut off in binding; it was probably Mathias. As here
given, it has only twenty-seven lines. The original hymn is, I believe,
much longer.

W. SPARROW SIMPSON.

Queen's College, Cambridge.

_Aubrey Family._--In Burke's _Peerage and Baronetage_, under the head
"Aubrey," I find the following passage:--

"Vincent, Windsor Herald in the time of Elizabeth, compiled a pedigree
of the family of Aubrey, which he commences thus:--'Saint Aubrey, of
the blood royal of France, came into England with William the
Conqueror, anno 1066, as the Chronicles of All Souls College testify,
which are there to be seen tied to a chain of iron.'"

Can any of your readers give me any information respecting this "Saint
Aubrey," whose name I have not been able to find in the Roll of Battle {73}
Abbey: or respecting his son, Sir