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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 123. 



6. Where can the fourth and concluding (?) 

 number of Wright's History of Ludlow be ob- 

 tained? . ..; ; 



[Only thret Parts have been published. The last 

 was issued in 1847.] 



7. Can you inform me who was the translator 

 of— 



" TAe Idea of Christian Love ; being a Translation, 

 at the Instance of Mr. Waller, of a Latin Sermon upon 

 John xiii. 34, 35.i preached by Mr. Edward Young, 

 Prebend of Salisbury. With a large Paraphrase on 

 Mr. Waller's Poem of Divine Love. To which are 

 added, some Copies of Verses from that excellent 

 Poetess Mrs. Wharton, with others to her. London, 

 168S, Svo." 



The versification is extremely good, but as I 

 never saw the sermon, I can liave no notion 

 whether the translation b3 faithful, or the reverse. 

 I suspect a Latin " preachment" would have few 

 hearers, es^jcuially now-a-days : but it would be 

 interesting to see a Latin sermon which Waller 

 thought highly of, and which he proposed should 

 be turned into verse. 



I have not been able to procure any information 

 as to the sermon, or its poetical translation, in any 

 bibliogriiplii,-al work ; but perhaps some of your 

 numerous readers may know something either 

 about Mr. Edward Young, the father I presume 

 of the poet, or the translator. 



Mrs. Wharton was the daughter of Sir H. Lee, 

 of Ditchly, and tlie first wife of the future Marquis 

 of Wharton. A manuscript tragedy by her, and 

 in her own handwriting, is in my possession. It 

 is the presentation copy to !Miss Mary Howe, 

 whose autograph is on the fly-leaf. It is beauti- 

 fully bound in old morocco, and formerly belonged 

 to Horace Walpole, whose book-plate is on it. 

 W^ho was Miss Mary Howe ? It was purchased 

 at the dispersion of the curious MSS. of ]\Ir. 

 Charles K. Sharpe, who had a great fancy for the 

 lady's poetry. She is erroneously styled Mar- 

 chioness of Wharton In Park's edition of Wal pole's 

 Royal and Noble Authors. J. Mx. 



[The Rev. Edward Young was father to the poet, 

 and Rector of Upham in Hampshire, Prebendary of 

 Salisbury, and lastly Dean of that church. He died 

 in 170,'). The translation and paraphrase in The Idea 

 of Cbristinn Love is attributed to William Atwood in 

 the Bodleian Catalogue.] 



PLAGUE STONES. 



In a recent and valuable report addressed to 

 the General Board of Health, on the sanitary state 

 of the borough of Dorchester, by a gentleman 

 to whom I, in common with all the readers of 

 " N. & Q.," have often been indebted — I mean 

 Robert liawlinson. Esq, — an allusion is made 

 to the existence of " Plague Stones" in different 



parts of the country. Briefly recording the prin- 

 cipal visitations of plague in Dorchester and its 

 neighbourhood, he describes these " plague stones" 

 as " stones placed on the boundary limits of old 

 towns, having a circular or square dish-like sink- 

 ing in them, which was filled with water, into 

 which the town's people dropped the purchase- 

 money in their dealings with the coimtry people, 

 as was supposed, to prevent Infection. Such 

 stones may he seen in many places throughout 

 England." I'he object of this communication 

 is, to suggest the propriety of a list of these cu- 

 rious relics being made, through the medium of 

 your excellent paper. I am not aware of any 

 such list at present existing. A plague stone 

 is to be seen, I believe, at Penrith ; and another 

 near Manchester, which is, I am told, called the 

 " Giant's Stone." The name of the latter seems, 

 to my mind, to point to a more remote period, 

 unless an existing monument of antiquity bearing 

 that title was during the times of plague con- 

 verted to the temporary use of receiving the 

 suspected money in the hollowed dish, which is 

 made at the top of these "plague stones." By 

 the way, might not our forefathers have suffered 

 less from the fearful visitations and devastating 

 epidemlits to which so many hundreds of thousands 

 of them fell victims, if they had been as careful to 

 wash themselves habitually in aqua pura as they 

 were to wash the money which they received from 

 suspected localities. The custom above .alluded 

 to admitted the powerfully cleansing qualities of 

 water. It would have been good for them, es- 

 pecially in trying times of plague. If they had 

 not been so accustomed to "let" the " well alone," 

 as regards their own personal purification. 



J. J. S. 

 The Cloisters, Temple. 



The Cross on Counsels' Briefs. — Can any pf 

 your correspondents inform me as to the origin 

 and present use of the cross on counsels' briefs ? 



H. Edwards. 



Sir James Hayes, of Bedgehury, Kent. — It is 

 mentioned in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1792, 

 p. 21., that on the foundation stone of Old Bedge- 

 bury House In Kent, was found, many years ago, 

 an inscription recording the building of that house 

 In 1688 by Sir James Hayes, and Rachel Vis- 

 countess Falkland, his wife. Allusion is made in 

 the inscrii)tion to his having attained great wealth 

 from the depths of the ocean ; and there was a tra- 

 dition that he had made his fortune by diving. 

 Can any of your readers supply information upon 

 this subject ? Was he one of the party who under 

 Phipps (the ancestor of the house of Mulgrave) 

 recovered 200,000/. out of a Spanish vessel, sunk 



