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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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" Pitt observed that he had been called up at various 

 hours in his eventful life by the arrival of news of various 

 hue, but that, whether good or bad, he could lay his head 

 on his pillow and sink into sound sleep again. On this 

 occasion, however, the great event announced brought 

 ■with it so much to weep over, as well as to rejoice at, that 

 he could not calm his thoughts; but at length got up, 

 though it was three in the morning : 



" ' Quis desiderio sit pudor, aut modus 

 Tam cari capitis ? * 



" When the Duke of Clarence ascended the steps of St. 

 Paul's, he suddenly stopped, and took hold of the colours 

 that were borne by the Victory's men ; and, after con- 

 versing with one of the gallant tars, he burst into tears. 

 On the entrance of the tattered flags within the Com- 

 munion-rails, the Prince of Wales, after conversing with 

 the Duke of Clarence, sent and requested they might be 

 brought as near the grave as possible ; and on observing 

 them, although at some distance, the tears fell from His 

 Royal Highness." — Annual Register, vol. xlviii. p. 300. 



It is said that the funeral car which conveyed 

 the remains of Lord Nelson twice underwent al- 

 teration. It was at first found to be too high to 

 admit of its passage under the arch of Temple 

 Bar. This mistake being remedied, it was then 

 discovered that its width would not allow of its 

 admission through the gates of the Admiralty ! 

 See Sir H. Wiaoldi&s Despatches and Lettei-s, Ap- 

 pendix, vol. vii. F. Phillott. 



EPITAPHS. 



Headstone in Wyke Chiirchya7'd. — In Wyke 

 {juvta Weymoutli) churchyard, there is a head- 

 stone with the following instiription, which is 

 copied in the same lines as exist upon the stone : 



" Sacred to the memory 



of 



William Lewis, 



who was killed by a shot 



from the Pigmy Schooner, 



21=' April, 1822 : aged 33 years. 



Of Life bereft (by fell design), 



I mingle with my fellow clay, 

 On God's protection I recline. 



To save me on the judgment day. 

 There shall each blood-stain'd soul appear. 



Repent, Ah ! ere it be too late. 

 Or else a dreadful doom j'ou'U hear, 



For God will sure avenge my fate. 



This stone is erected by his Wife, 



As the last mark of respect to an 



affectionate Husband." 



Upon the upper part of the stone, above this 

 inscription, a picture is engraved representing the 

 sea, with two vessels upon it (a schooner with two 

 masts, and a cutter with one mast) ; and also a 

 part of the coast, with a small tower upon it. 

 The clerk informed ma that Lewis was killed on 

 board a vessel engaged in smuggling, which had 

 been chased by a revenue schooner ; and the im- 

 putation intended to be conveyed by the picture 



and inscription was, that the shot, by which Lewis 

 was killed, was fired from the schooner after the 

 cutter had " brought to." 



There are no ancient monuments in Wyke 

 Church ; but there is a stone with the arms of 

 Henry VIL, i. e. 1st and 4th France, 2nd and 3rd 

 England, and a lion and dragon as supporters, 

 extremely well sculptured upon it. This stone is 

 said to have been brought from some abbey, the 

 name of which the clerk could not remember. 



There are two rows of pillars in the church : 

 on a pillar in one row is the crowned head of a 

 king (said to be Henry IV.), projecting towards 

 the centre of the church ; and on the opposite 

 pillar, in the other row, is the head of a queen in 

 a similar position. C. S. Greavks. 



Epitaph. — Quaint epitaphs are not, I know, 

 despised by you or your readeis. I beg there- 

 fore to submit the following, which I lighted upon 

 lately in Surinbridge Church, Devon ; 



« 1658. 

 « lOHN ROSTER, attorney of y« Common Bench. Aun- 



tient of Lj'on's Inn. 



" Loe with a warrant seal'd by God's decree, 

 Death his grim Serjeant hath arrested mee. 

 No bayle was to be giuen, no laue could saue 

 My bodj'e from y" prison of y« graue : 

 Yett by the Gospell, my poore soule had got 

 A Supersedeas ; and Death seiz'd it not : 

 And for my downecast bodye, here it lyes, 

 A Prisoner of hope it shall arise. 

 Fayth doth assure mee, God of His great lone 

 In Christ, shall send a Writ for my remove : 

 And sett my bodye, as my soule is, free 

 With Christ to dwell. Come glorious liberty." • 



F. F. Ravbnshaw, M.A. 



Oxford and Cambridge Club. 



Epitaph in Thorpe Church. — Under the curious 

 brass of William Denman and family occur, in 

 black-letter, the following lines : 



" Man's Lyfe on Earth is, as Job saythe, 



A Warfare and a Toyle, 

 Where nought is won when all is don, 



But an uncertaine Spoile. 

 Of things most vaine for his long paine, 



Nothing to him is left ; 

 Yet Vertue sure doth still endure. 



And cannot bee bereft. 

 Beholde and see a Proofe by me, 



That did enjoye my Breathe 

 Sixtie fouer Yeare, as may appeare, 



And then gave place to Death. 

 Of Company of Goldsmithes free, 



William Denham calde by Name, 

 I was like you, and Earth am nowe, . 



As you shal be the same." 



TURELKELD. 

 Cambridge. 



[* The epitaph in St. Giles' Church, Norwich, appeared 



in our I't S. v. 317.] 



