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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 116. 



nights by a noise similar to that which would be 

 produced by peas being pelted at the windows. 

 The statement was made with an eai-nestness of 

 manner which betrayed a faith without scruples. 



Shirley Hibbebd. 



Minor ^attg. 



Lines in Whispering Gallery at Gloucester Catlie- 

 dral. — The following verse is inscribed in the Whis- 

 pering Gallery of Gloucester Cathedral ; to pre- 

 serve it, and as a " Note " to the fourth stanza of 

 the "Ditty" I inserted in Vol iv., p. 311., I copied 

 it for " N. & Q." 



•' Doubt not but God who sits on high^ 

 Thy secret prayers can hear ; 

 When a dead wall thus cunningly 

 Conveys soft whispers to the ear." 



H. G. D. 



Definition of Thunder. — The following singular 

 definition of thunder occurs in Bailey's Dictionary, 

 vol. i. 17th edit., 1759: — 



" Thunder [Dander, Sax. &c.l, a noise known by 

 persons not deif." 



In Bailey's 2nd vol. 2nd edition, 1731 (twenty- 

 eialit years previous to the edition of vol. i. above 

 cited), the word is much more scientifically treated. 



Ckanmobe. 



Greek Epigram by an uncertain Author. — 



Ei iJ.f (pt\ovvTa <pt\f7s, Siffffi] x^P'^" f' ^e ^le (xiaeis, 

 TJffffo*' /itTTji&eiTjs, Saffov iyw ae <pi\u. 



Imitated. 

 " Sbouldst thou, O Daphne ! for my sake, 

 An equal pain endure, 

 A sense of gratitude will make 

 The bond of love secure. 



But shouldst thou, reckless of my fate, 



Unkind and cruel prove. 

 Sweet maid, thou'lt never learn to hate 



So truly as I love." 



N.N. 



^utviti. 



BURNraG OF THE JESUITICAL BOOKS AT PARIS. 



The Quarterly Reviewer who endeavours in the 

 number just published to establish the claim of 

 Thomas Lord Lyttelton to the authorship of Ju- 

 nius, instances the following coincidence in sup- 

 port of his theory : — 



" Junius tells us directly, ' I remember seeing 

 Busenbaum, Suarez, Molina, and a score of other Je- 

 suitical books, burnt at Paris, for their sound casuistry, 

 by the hands of the common liangman.' fFe may as- 

 sume that tliis took place in 1764, as it was in that year 

 that Choiseul suppressed the Jesuits. Tiiomas, Lyt- 



telton was on the continent during the whole of 1764, 

 and for part of that time resided at Paris." * 



But the orders of the parliament of Paris against 

 the Jesuits, one of which condemned some thirty 

 of their books to be burnt, were issued three 

 years before the suppression of their order in 

 iFrance, viz., in the early part and summer of 

 1761. That Thomas Lyttelton could then have 

 been iu Paris is highly improbable ; he was only 

 seventeen, and it was a time of war. Will any 

 one take the trouble to ascertain where Francis 

 was? I believe he was appointed secretary to 

 the Portuguese embassy in 1760, and returned to 

 London in 1763. H. Mebivaue. 



GRANTHAM ALTAR CASE. 



An old book now lies before me, intituled 

 England's Reformation from the time of King 

 Henry VIII. to the end of Gates's Plot, a Poem in 

 four Cantos, with large Marginal Notes according 

 to the Original. By Thomas Ward. London : 

 Printed for W. B. and sold by Thomas Biclterton^ 

 in Little Britain. 1716. 



In Canto IV., and beginning at p. 353., there is 

 an account of a brawl in the parish church of 

 Grantham, anno 1627, arising, as appears by a 

 marginal note, out of circumstances connected with 

 the " removal of the Communion table from the 

 upper part of the quire to the altar place." A 

 master alderman Wheatley, assisted by " an inn- 

 keeper fat as brawn," and " a bow-legged tailor 

 that was there," appears to have taken an active 

 part in the scuffle which ensued upon the vicar's 

 persisting in his determination. The alderman 

 and his mob seem to have been triumphant on this 

 occasion, for we read, p. 356. : 



" The alderman, by help of rabble, 

 Brought from the wall communion table ; 

 Below the steps he plac'd it, where 

 It stood before, in midst of quire." 



A pamphlet war followed ; for there was Imme- 

 diately A Letter to the Vicar of Grantham about 

 setting his Table altarwise. In answer to this 

 came A Coal from the Altar; which was in its 

 turn assailed by The Quench Coal out, and The 

 Holy Table, Name and Thing (said to have been 

 written by AVilliams, Bishop of Lincoln.) A Dr. 

 Pocklington (who was he ?) espoused the side of the 

 Altar party, and published his Aliare Christianum. 

 During this literary contest the vicar ap]5ears to 

 have died, and, some twelve months after his death, 

 out comes The Dead Vicar s Plea. 



The affair seems to have created what we should 



* [The burning of the books referred to by Bifrons, 

 not Junius (unless it be proved that Junius and Bi- 

 FKONs are one, which is not yet universally admitted), 

 took place on 7th August, 1761. See a very curious 

 note on the subject in Bohn's recently published 

 edition oi Junius, vol. ii. pp. 175-6. — Ed. " N. & Q."] 



