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Where in he lies so geometrical, 



Art maketh some — but this will Nature all. 



» Ob. Dec. 28, 1621, ^tat 29." 



Whether the letter part of the third line was a 



quotation from some older composition, I know 



not, but until anything older is found, it may 



serve for an original. A. B. B.. 



Belmont. 



In answer to the Query of Minimus, I beg to 

 inform him the words he quotes are a translation 

 of a line of Seneca : 



" Non amittuntur, 

 Sed praemittuntur." 



L. M. M. E. 



Thanks after reading the Gospel (2"^ S. ii. 467.) 

 — The suffrages sung before and after fhs Gospel 

 were adopted from the Scottish Liturgy of 1604, 

 where the rubric occurs : 



" The Gospel shall be read, the Presbyter saying, ' The 



Holy Gospel is written in the — chapter of , at the 



r— verse. And (hen the people standiiig tip shall say, 

 ' Glory be to Thee, 6 Lord.' At the end of the Gospel, 

 the Presbyter shall say, ' So endeth the Holy Gospel.' And 

 the people shall answer, ' Thanks be to Thee, Lord.' " 



The churches of Spain and France anciently 

 sang an AUeluja or Antheip after the Gospel. 

 The form in use in many churches of England at 

 this day js, "Thf^nks be to Thee, Lord, for 

 Thy Holy Gospel," 



In the notes to the Common Prayer, published 

 in Cosin's Works (vol. v. p. 90.), it is assumed that 

 the words, " Glory be to Thee, O Lord," appointed 

 by King Edward's service-hook, were omitted by 

 the negligence of the printer. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



In the church of Wootton, Kent, as soon as the 

 minister has given out t^ie Gospel, the clerk say?, 

 "Glory be to Thee, O God'^ and when he has 

 finished reading the Gospel, the response is, 

 " Thanks be to Thee, O God." 



Arthur B, Mesham. 



In the parish church of Cattistock, Porset, after 

 the Gospel i» ended, the clerk repeats alqud, " We 

 thank Thee, O Lord, for thy Holy Gospel.'' And 

 in other churches in Dorset, I heard the clerk 

 and congregation, at the end of the Gospel, add a 

 loud " Amen." I have also observed reverence 

 made on repeating the words, '*and to the Son," 

 in the Doxology very generally. Simon Ward. 



This custom is retained in the parish church of 

 Usk, Moomputhshire. Tsca. 



Stunt (2"'i S. ii. 279.) — There can be little 

 doubt that stunt is the past participle of the A.-S. 

 verb stiiitan, to stop : by the very conimon change 

 of the characteristic i into u — as in stick, stuck, 

 strike, struck, &c., ^c. See Tooke, vol. ii. p. 304. 

 Stopped : — stubbed, sturdy, Sfc, &c. Q. 



Augustus Henry Third Duke of Grafton (2"^ S. 

 ii. 463.) — I am unwilling that the biographical 

 work entitled The Georgian Era shouhl be lost 

 sight of, as it is really a useful as well as enter- 

 taining compilation, notwithstanding the severe 

 criticism it received in the Quarterly Review. 

 May I therefore remark, that, although Mr. Fitz- 

 Patrick CQuld find no notice qf the premier Duke 

 of Grafton in Gorton's Biographical Dictionary 

 or elsewhere, there is a memoir of him in The 

 Georgian Era, vol. i. pp. 330—332. But this was 

 evidently written without cognisance of the me- 

 raoir quoted by Mr. Fitz -Patrick, to which it 

 contains a remarkable contradiction in this pas- 

 sage : " it does not appear that he ever patronized 

 any author except Bloomfield, who was born near 

 his country residence." In the memoir of Grey, 

 hqwever, in the same work (vql. iii. p. 332.), it is 

 stated that he was appointed to the chair of Modern 

 History at Cambridge, by the Duke of Grafton. 

 On Bloomfield, " his grace settled a gratuity of a 

 shilling a day, and subsequently appointed him 

 under-sealer in the Seal Office." {Ibid. 421.) The 

 duke was elected Chancellor of the University of 

 Cambridge, whilst Prime Minister, in 1768. 



J. G. Nichols. 



Gamage Family ; Inscription on a Brass (2"'' S. 

 ii. 473.) — In the small, but highly interesting, 

 church of Hellesdon, near Norwich, is an early 

 brass in perfect preservation, with two couped 

 figures, and beneath them the following inscription, 

 with Lombardic initial and capital letters, which 

 greatly resembles the imperfect one given by 

 Geo. Ormerod : 



" Richard de Heylesdone x Beatrice sa feme gisont icy 

 dieu de lo almes eit incy ame . qi p' lour almes p'era . x 

 . aans x . xl . jours de pardoun avera." 



In a rather extensive collection of rubbings, 

 chiefly from brasses in Norfolk, I have several 

 curious inscriptions, some of Avhich might interest 

 the readers of " N. & Q." from time to time. 



F. C. H. 



Merchant's Mark (2""^ S. ii. 409.) — I have in 

 my possession, and enclose impression of an an- 

 cient brass seal, which was filed up from a solid 

 piece, and the ring-hole of which is much worn 

 from long use. It was found some years since, 

 suspended from a hook in a window of an old 

 house in Bedfordshire. 1 should be glad if some pf 

 your correspondents would throw some light on 

 its use and history. The seal is surrounded by a 

 legend in nicely cut Hebrew characters (without 

 points). I believe the translation is '*Naphtali 

 is a hind let loose " (Genesis, chap. xlix. ver. 21.). 

 Inside of the legend is a heart, from which the 

 figure 4 issues; in the broad part of the heart ("in 

 chief") are the letters H.N., and at the point of 

 the heart a rose ; above the 4 is an antlered deer 

 lying dp^yn; the animal is supported and the heart 



