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KOTES AND QUEHIES. 



C2»d S. No 65., Mar. 28. '57. 



sion and conviction of the depredators, and recovery of 

 the property." 



The second-named brass represents a priest in 

 chasuble, and supposed by the Rev. C. Boutell to 

 be the earliest example of the brass of an eccle- 

 siastic in England. He assigns it to Adam Bacon ; 

 its date is about 1310. It was a very fine speci- 

 men, but the inscription had been missing before. 

 It is singular that the cross-legored brass effigy of 

 a knight of the same family, at Gorleston, Suffolk, 

 ' probably the brother of this Adam Bacon, was a 

 few years ago reaved from that church, and dis- 

 covered by Dawson Turner, Esq., in London, by 

 ■whom it was purchased, and restored to its place. 



The Fastolf brass represents one of the Suffolk 

 branch of that family. Their arms, a hawk sable 

 with wings extended, were on the corners of the 

 stone [see " Armorial Bearings of Clere Family," 

 (1" S. xii. 84.), where, by the bye, for " Dawson 

 Turner's History of Suffolk,^'' read Caistor Castle']- 

 The Noi'folk family bore, quarterly or and az., on 

 a bend, gu. three crosslets treffle, arg. : a difference 

 very remarkable, and respecting which I should 

 be glad of information. The lady on this brass 

 ■was of the Bedingfeld family. 



It is to be hoped that some reader of " N. & Q." 

 may be instrumental in recovering these interest- 

 ing brasses. Their identification is easy, as both 

 have been engraved : the ecclesiastic in Cotman, 

 and in Boutell's Monumental Brasses ; John Fas- 

 tolf and his lady in Dawson Turner's Caistor 

 Castie, p. 25. It is also mentioned by Boutell. 



E. S. Tatlob. 



The readers of " N. & Q." who are collectors of 

 rubbings of monumental brasses, will learn with 

 regret that the parish church of Oulton, near 

 Lowestoft, in Suffolk, has lately been sacrile- 

 giously entered, and its chancel despoiled of those 

 brass effigies which have for centuries marked 

 the last resting-place of certain of its former 

 patrons and benefactors. One of these, an ec- 

 clesiastic, measuring upwards of six feet, sup- 

 posed to be one of the Bacon family, was a truly 

 noble specimen of the time when the engraving 

 on brass is generally acknowledged to have at- 

 tained perfection. There is an engraving of it 

 in Boutell's Monumental Brasses and Slabs, who 

 assigns the date of its execution to be circa 

 1310. There bad once been a canopy, as the 

 matrices in the pavement show, but when I took a 

 rubbing of the brasses in 1852, the parish clerk 

 informed me that he had no recollection of any 

 canopy being there ; it was in all probability de- 

 stroyed in the time of Cromwell. 



The other is a smaller brass, representing John 

 Fastolf and Katherine his wife, the former of 

 whom died in 1445, and the latter in 1478. 



It can hardly be for the value of the metal that 

 this offence has been committed, for although I 



have known instances where, the church being 

 under repair and the temporary removal of brasses 

 from their positions rendered necessary, they have 

 been sold by the workmen engaged ; yet it seems 

 to me incredible that, for the sake of the value of 

 the metal alone, anyone would forcibly enter the 

 sacred edifice, so aptly styled by Sir Edward Coke 

 " Domus mansionalis Dei" and so lay himself open 

 to an indictment for burglary. W. T. T. 



Crickhowell. 



" There is nothing new tinder the Sun." — I see 

 it quoted in Punch, from some advertisement, that 

 there is a new fashion of powdering the hair with 

 gold dust, to give it a sunny appearance. Who- 

 ever will take the trouble to look in the seventh 

 chapter of the eighth book of Josephus, will find 

 the same fashion was known in the time of Solo- 

 mon ; the riders of his horses being accustomed to 

 powder their hair with gold dust in the same 

 manner. L. M. M. R. 



Overland Route to Australia. — Upon the 24th 

 of February last the screw steamship " Etna," 

 Captain W. P. Millar, sailed from Southampton 

 for Alexandria, with mails and passengers for 

 Australia. From Suez the said mails and pas - 

 sengers are intended to be conveyed to the Aus- 

 tralian continent by the screw steamship "Oneida." 

 The " Oneida " is expected to bring to Suez the 

 mails and passengers from Australia, the heavy 

 portion of which will be carried to Southampton 

 by the " Etna." This being the commencement 

 of the overland route between England and Aus- 

 tralia, it may not be considered unworthy of being 

 recorded in such a valuable repository of out-of- 

 the-way things as " N. & Q." W. B. C. 



Spitting into the Hand. — 



" It is a wonderful tiling, but easy to experience, that 

 Pliny speaks of, ' If any one shall be sorry for anj' blow 

 that he hath given another afar off or nigh at hand, if 

 he shall presently spit into the middle of the hand with 

 which he gave the blow, the party that was smitten shall 

 presently be freed from pain.' This we are told hath been 

 approved of in a four-footed beast that hath been sorely 

 hurt. Some there are that in the same way aggravate a 

 blow before they give it, as to this day do our pugilists 

 and spade-labourers." 



The above is from the first book of the Occult 

 -Philosophy of Cornelius Agrippa, quoted at p. 150. 

 of his newly published Life by Morley. 



William Eraser, B. C. L. 

 Alton, Staflfordshire. 



Stormouth-Darling of Lednathy, Angus. — James 

 Stormouth-Darling, Esq., of Lednathy, Angus, is 

 representative of " James Stormouth, of Over- 

 Ascravie," who acquired Lednathy, a.d. 1684, — 



