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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»d S. VII. June 4. '59. 



pana vocor Miehaelis." Fourth : " Sum Kosa pulsata 

 mundi, Maria vocata." 



Titsliall. On one of five bells : " Petrus ad Eterne, ducat 

 DOS Pascua Vite." (All in black-letter.) 



Lopham. On one of the bells : " Filius Virginia Marie dat 

 Nobis gaudia Vite." (In black-letter.) 



Norton. Three inscribed : first, " Sancte Johannes, ora pro 

 nobis." Second: "Sancta Caterina, ora pro nobis." 

 Third : " O Martir Barbara, pro me Deum exora." (All 

 in black-letter.) 



West Herling. On the third : " Virgo Coronata due nos 

 ad Regna beata." (Black-letter.) 



Harpham. On the three bells, first : " Sancta Maria Mag- 

 dalena ora pro nobis." Second : " Ave Maria Gratia 

 plena Dominus tecum." Third : " Sancte Edmonde ora* 

 pro nobis." (Black-letter.) 



Rowdham. On the three bells, first : " Sancta Maria, ora 

 pro nobis." Second: " Fac Margareta, nobis hec mu- 

 nera leta." Third: " Coelesta Manna, tua Proles nos 

 cibet, Anna. (Black-letter.) 



Quiddenham. On two of three, first : " Missus de Cells, 

 habeo nomen Gabrielis." Second : " Virgo Coronata, 

 due nos ad Regna beata." (Black-letter.) 



Cringleford. Three bells ; on the second : " Sum Rosa Pul- 

 sata Mundi." First: " Katerina Vocata." (Black-let- 

 ter.) On the Soul bell: "Jesu Christe" (in common 

 capitals), " Fill Dei miserere nobis." (In writing cha- 

 racters.) 



Swardeston. On the tenor of five bells : " Petrus ad Eter- 

 na ducat nos Pascua Vite." (Black-letter.) 



Sfratton. On one of five bells : "Nos Societ Sanctis semper 

 Nicolaus in altis." (Black-letter.) 



Brockdish. On the third of five: "Sancta Maria ora pro 

 nobis." Fourth : " Virgo Coronata due nos ad Regna 

 beata." (Black-letter.) 



Starston. On the fifth : " Per Thome Meritis, mereamur 

 Gaudia Lucis." (Black-letter.) 



Wramplingham. On one of three bells : " Ave COaria Dratia, 

 Plena, Dominus, recuni," (All in capital letters with 

 the exceptions marked). 



Brandon. Three bells. On one : " Hac in Conclave, Ga- 

 briel, nunc pange Suave." On another: "Sum Rosa 

 pulsata Mundi, Maria Vocata." On the third : " In 

 jjonore SancCe OOarie Cr Sancte JjaCeriue Virginis." 

 (The first two of the above inscriptions are in the com- 

 mon black-letter; the last in ordinary capitals except 

 ■where marked.) 



Runhall. On one of three bells : " Fac Margareta nobis hec 

 munera leta." (In ordinary black-letters.) 



Kiihherky. On the largest of four bells : " Fillei Dei Vivi, 

 miserere nobis." (In common capitals.) 



Wymondham. On the fifth bell : " Tuba ad Judicium, 

 Tympanum ad Ecclesiam." (In ordinary lettering ca- 

 pitals.) 



Diss. On the Sanctus bell : " Sancte Gabriel ora pro nobis." 

 (In plain characters.) 



Jtoydon. On the only remaining bell: "Petrus ad iEterna 

 ducat nos Pascua Vite." (In common characters.) 



Brisingham. " Paid to Capt. Gilley 6s. for the viewing 

 of the church, for abolishing superstitious pictures; 

 paid to John Nun for 2 daj's' work, for taking down 

 glass and pictures about the church, and the letters 

 about the bells, iijs. iiijd. Lib. Comp. Gard." (Blom- 

 field's Norfolk, v. i. p. 70.) 



Burston. On one of five bells : " Quaesumus, Andrea, Fa- 

 mulorum suscipe vota." (In ordinary characters.) 



South Acre. On the second bell : " In niultis Annis Reso- 

 net Campana Johannis." (In old English characters.) 

 On the third : "As God will, so be it." 



Dudlington. On the second: "Dulcis: Sisto: Melis: Cam- 

 pana Vocor : Miehaelis." (In old English characters.) 



West Bradenham. On the second: "Virginis egregie Vo- 

 cor Campana Maria." 



Banningham. On one of three bells : " Per me Fideles in- 

 vocantur ad preces." 



H. D'AVENEY. 



THE LEGEND OF " BETHGELERT. 



In F. Johnson's Translation (1848) from the 

 Sanskrit of the Hitopades'a (p. 116.), Fable xiir., 

 occurs the following passage, which I give ver- 

 hatim : — 



" In Ougein lived a Brahman named Madhava. His 

 wife, of the Brahmanical tribe, who had recently brought 

 forth, went to perform her ablutions, leaving him to take 

 charge of her infant offspring. Presently a person from 

 the Raja came for the Brahman to perform for him a 

 Parvana s'raddha (a religious rite to all his ancestors). 

 When the Brahman saw him, being impelled bj' his na- 

 tural poverty, he thought within himself: If I go not 

 directly, then some one else will take the s'raddha. It is 

 said : — 



'In respect of a thing which ought to be 

 taken, or to be given, or of a work which 

 ought to be done, and not being done quickly, 

 time drinks up the spirit thereof.' 



But there is no one here to take care of the child : what can 

 I do then ? Well : I will go, having set to guard the infant 

 this weasel, cherished a long time, and in no respect dis- 

 tinguished from a child of m}' own. This he did and 

 went. Shortly afterwards, a black serpent, whilst silently 

 coming near the child, was killed there, and rent in 

 pieces by the weasel ; who, seeing the Brahman coming 

 home, ran towards him with haste, his niouth and paws 

 all smeared with blood, and rolled himself at his feet. 

 The Brahman seeing him in that state, without reflect- 

 ing, said, ' My son has been eaten by this weasel,' and 

 killed him : but as soon as he drew near and looked, be- 

 hold the child was comfortably sleeping, and the serpent 

 la}' killed ! Thereupon the Brahman was overwhelmed 

 with grief." 



This fable was introduced to give point to the 

 following moral : — " The blockhead who, with- 

 out knowing the true state of the case, becomes 

 subject to anger, will have cause for regret." 



The similarity of this legend to the well-known 

 Welsh one so familiar to tourists in Wales, and 

 to the readers of Spencer's touching ballad, forms, 

 to say the least of it, a curious literary coinci- 

 dence; such as perhaps may interest some of your 

 readers, if you think it worth introducing to their 

 notice. C. Girdlestone. 



Sir Robert Southwell, — By a most unhappy 

 misreading of the original MS., a letter from this 

 statesman to Pepys, which is printed at p. 282., 

 vol. i., of the Life, Journals, and Correspondence 

 of Sam. Pepys (8vo., Lond. 1841), is made to 

 belie his real character in a way which well de- 

 serves correction. The readers of the printed 

 text find Sir R. Southwell describing himself as a 



