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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2n<> S. VII^, Mae. 12. '69. 



black-letter edition of the " breeches" Bible, said 

 to have once belonged to the cathedral of Glasgow, 

 •which he had the honour of submitting to Her 

 Majesty when she visited the edifice. 



" But like the palm-tree flourishing 

 shall be the righteous one : 

 He shall like to the Cedar grow 

 that is in Lebanon. 



" Those that within the house of God 

 are planted by his grace ; 

 They shall grow up, and flourish all 

 in our God's holy place. 

 " And in old age when others fade, 

 they fruit still forth shall bring, 

 They shall be fat, and full of sap, 

 and aye be flourishing." 



Psal. XCII. 12, 13, 14. 



There are many old stories current of the hair 

 changing colour through the effects of sudden 

 fear, &c., and of grandmammas cutting new sets 

 of teeth, &c., but we lack very much authenticated 

 instances of such, whioh some of the readers of 

 " N. & Q." may be able to supply from their own 

 knowledge, as additional data in physiology worth 

 recording. G. N. 



Dr. Samuel Johnson. — <K book in my collection 

 contains a copy of Dr. Johnson's London, 5th 

 edition ; his Proposed Plan of a Dictionary ; and 

 The Vanity of Human Wishes, bound together. 

 Inside the- cover is written in a large bold hand, 



" Ex dono Authoris, 

 Anna Williams." 



There is a paper inserted at the end, in very 

 old and tattered condition, with the following 

 note, which I copy verbatim : — 



" Mr. Johnson born the seventh of September, 1709, 

 at Lichfield, near the market-place, about 4 o'clock in 

 the afternoon. 



" Went to the University of Oxford in the j'ear 1727." 

 On the first fly-leaf is this note : " Dr. Samuel Johnson 

 was born the 7th day of September, 1709, at Litchfield, 

 near the market-place, about four o'clock in the after- 

 noon. He received the rudiments of his education at 

 the Grammar School at Litchfield from Mr. Hunter, and 

 in the year 1727 he was sent to the University of Ox- 

 ford. On the publication of his Dictionary the Univer- 

 sity of Oxford complimented him with the Degree of 

 Master of. Arts, and in the year 1765 the University of 

 Dublin conferred on him the Degree of Doctor of Laws." 



O. L. Chambers. 



Eggleston Parochial Library. — I have a copy 

 of works by William Allen, John Kettlewell, and 

 Dr. Bray, bound in one folio volume, lettered on 

 the side, " Liber Eccl. de Eggleston " inscribed 

 on the title-page, — 



" The Gift of y^ HouWe M'. Booth, Archdeacon of Dur- 

 ham, May 4, 1704." 



O. L. Chambebs. 



Thee and Thou. — I perceive the Quakers are 



relaxing their strictness as to the use of pronouns ; 



but how is it such sticklers for grammar have for 



years been " breaking Priscian's head " by con- 

 fusing the nominative and accusative cases, while 

 they have been ready to go to martyrdom for sin- 

 gular and plural. Surely "Wilt <^ee walk in?" 

 " Didst thee go to meeting last first day ?" " Wilt 

 thee speak to Zephaniah about his apparel ? " are 

 as much breaches of grammar as " How do you 

 do ?" LiNDLET Murray, Jun. 



^inor Ukutxitii. 



Gloucestershire Churches. — Would any of your 

 correspondents give me any information respect- 

 ing churches of especial note in the diocese of 

 Gloster, architecturally, historically, or otherwise ? 

 or as possessing particularly interesting monu- 

 ments, brasses, screens, fonts, &c. ? I am induced 

 to seek this information, intending during the 

 summer to visit all in my power in that diocese, 

 and to photograph all those possessing any especial 

 interest. Through the kind assistance of Arch- 

 deacon Thorp, Sir J. Glynne, and other?, I have 

 already been enabled to make out an exceedingly 

 interesting list, aided also by Bigland's work on 

 the Glostershire churches ; but any other memo- 

 randa, including the titles of old manor houses, of 

 which many are scattered through the county, or 

 old and picturesque parsonages, would greatly 

 oblige me. J. W. G. Gutch. 



Communications addressed to 10. Upper Vic- 

 toria Place, Clifton, would greatly oblige me. 



Lorentz Klopf Strasburgh. — Can any of the 

 correspondents of "N. & Q." inform me of the 

 date when flourished " Lorentz Kiopf Fer A Stras- 

 bovrg." This name and designation are engraved 

 on the work-plate of an antique-looking repeating 

 watch, long in my possession. From the opinion 

 of watchmakers to whom I have shown it, they 

 suppose it to be one of the earliest specimens of 

 the repeater. The machinery is extremely beau- 

 tiful, but complicated in construction. It only 

 strikes the hour. In size it is 2^ inches in dia- 

 meter, and very thick, in shape what the Scots 

 people call a turnip watch. The outside case is of 

 tortoiseshell mounted with gold, and pierced round 

 with two sets of sounding holes ; the inside case, 

 of open silver-work (gold gilt), has in the bottom 

 a large bell on which a hammer strikes the hours. 

 Unlike the dead heroes of "N. & Q.," whose ge- 

 nealogy is requested, it still continues to perform 

 its functions, and to mark the "hours of unheeded 

 time " with pristine regularity. G. N. 



Edward Barnard's " History of England." — I 

 have in my possession a copy of, what appears to 

 be, a very obscure History of England (in folio). 



It is profusely illustrated, though many of the 

 plates must have been originally intended for 



