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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 133. 



A Proof that a Man can he his own Grandfather! 

 — I lately came across the followinji^ curious piece 

 of genealogical reasoning, which I think originally 

 appeared in Hood's Magazine, and which I have 

 endeavoured to illustrate by the annexed table : 



George^= 

 1 2 I 



William = Anne = Henry 



I I 



I David 



I 1 2 

 Thomas = Jane 



There was a widow (Anne) and her daughter- 

 in-law (Jane), ami a man (George) and his son 

 (Henry). The widow married the son, and the 

 daughter married the father. The widow was 

 therefore mother (in-law) to her husband's father, 

 and consequently grandmother to her own hus- 

 band (Henry). By this husband she had a son 

 (David), to whom she was great-grandmother. 

 Now, as the son of a great-grandmother must be 

 either a grandfather or gi-eat uncle, this boy 

 (David) was one or the other. He was his own 

 grandfather! This was the case with a boy at 

 school at Norwich. E. N. 



Memoria Technica 

 For the Plays of Sliahspeare, omitting the Historical 



English Dramas, " quos versu dicere noil est." 

 Cymbcline, Tempest, Much Ado, Verona, 

 Merry Wives, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Errors, 

 Shrew Taming, Night's Dream, Measure, Andronicus, 

 Timoii of Athens. 



Wintry Tale, Merchant, Troll us, Lear, Hamlet, 

 Love's Labour, All's Well, Pericles, Othello, 

 Romeo, Macbeth, Cleopatra, Ca;sar, 



Coriolanus. 

 From a Common-place Book at Audley End. 



Braybeooke. 



Portrait of George Fox. — A writer in the West- 

 minster Review for the present quarter, on " The 

 Early Quakers and Quakerism," says (p. 610.), 

 respecting George Fox, — 



" Portrait painters having been in his eyes panderers 

 to the fleshly desires of the creature, we have no like- 

 ness of him." 



Whether or not there is in existence an authentic 

 portrait of George Fox, I do not know ; but I saw 

 some time since, at the shop of Smith, the Quaker 

 bookseller in Whitechapel, an engraved portrait 

 of Fox, and another of his eai-ly coadjutor, James 

 Nayler. Llewellyn. 



Lines on Crawfurd ofKilhirnie. — George Craw- 

 furd, who wrote a Peerage 'of Scotland, which was 

 published in folio at Edinburgh in the year 1716, 

 says, under the head of " Crawfurd, Viscount of 

 Garnock," p. 159.,'that Malcolm Crawfurd, Esq., 

 succeeded to the barony of Kilbirny in right of 



Marjory his wife, daughter and sole heir of John 

 Barclay of Kilbirny ; whereupon he assumed the 

 coat of Barclay, and impaled it with his own : 



" Here it may be remarked," he continues, " that all 

 the estate the family ever had, or yet possesses, was 

 acquired to them by marriage : or lands so obtained 

 were exchanged for others lying more contiguous to the 

 rest of their fortune ; which gave occasion to a friend 

 to apply to them the following distich : 



' Aulam alii jactent, at tu Kilbirnie, nube : 

 Nam quae fors aliis, dat Venus alma tibi.' " 



Which may be thus translated : 



" Let others choose the dice to throw, 

 Do you, Kilbirny, wed : 

 On them what Fortune may bestow, 

 On you will Venus shed." 



C— S. T. P. 



W Rectory. 



^ntxiti. 



WHEBE WAS ANNE BOLEYN BURIED? 



It is said in Miss Strickland's Queens of Eng" 

 land (iv. 203.), that there is a tradition at Salle in 

 Norfolk that the remains of Anne Boleyn were 

 removed from the Tower, and interred at midnight, 

 with the rites of Christian burial, in Salle Church, 

 and that a plain black stone without any inscrip- 

 tion is supposed to indicate the place where she was 

 buried. An account of Salle Church, with the 

 inscriptions on the Boleyn monuments, is given in 

 the 4th volume of Blomefield's Norfolk (folio ed.), 

 p. 421., but no allusion is made to any such tra- 

 dition ; and other parts of the same work, where 

 the Boleyns (including the Queen) are referred 

 to, are equally silent on the subject. Lord Herbert 

 of Cherbury, in his History of King Henry VIII., 

 does not state how or where she was buried. Hol- 

 lingshed. Stow, and Speed say, that her body, with 

 the head, was buried in the choir of the chapel in 

 the Tower ; and Sandford, that she was buried in 

 the chapel of St. Peter in the Tower. 



Burnet (vol. i. p. 318.), who is followed by 

 Henry, Hume, and Lingard, says that her body 

 was thrown into a common chest of elm-tree that 

 was made to put arrows in, and was buried in the 

 chapel within the Tower, before twelve o'clock. 

 Sharon Turner, in his History of the Reign of King 

 Henry VIII., vol. ii. p. 464., cites the following 

 passage from Crispin's account of Anne Boleyn's 

 execution, written fourteen days after her death, 

 viz. : 



" Her ladies immediately took up her head and the 

 body. They seemed to be without souls, they were 

 so languid and extremely weak ; but fearing that their 

 mistress might be handled unworthily by inhuman 

 men, they forced themselves to do this duty ; and 

 though almost dead, at last carried off her dead body 

 wrapt in a white covering." 



