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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



['No. 131. 



anything more known of them than what is stated 

 in that work ? Thomas Laweknce. 



Ashby de la Zouch, 



BURIALS IN WOOLLEN. 



On looking over the parish registers of Mautbj, 

 in the county of Norfolk, a few days since, I found 

 thirteen entries of certificates of the enforced ob- 

 servance of this practice, of which the following 

 is a specimen : — 



" November the 8th, 1678. Was brought unto ire 

 an Affidavit for y® Bdryal of William the Soiie of 

 John Turner in Woollen according to y'^ late act of 

 Parliament for that purpose. — Andrew Call, liectur.'' 



The reason is clear — to increase the consump- 

 tion of wool; but I should much wish to know the 

 date of the aforesaid act of parliament, and to how 

 late a period it extended. I find a comparatively 

 recent trace of it in an original affidavit of the 

 kind, in the varied collection of my friend E,. 

 Rising, Esq., of Horsey, which I subjoin in full, as 

 it may be interesting to many readers of "N. &. Q." 



♦' Borough of Harwich in the f „ " ^"^^, ^''« ^^^'^^"^ «f 

 County of Esses to Wit. i ^°^^^^ !^yon of the 

 l^ parish of Dovercourt 

 in the Borough aforesaid, husl>andman, and Deborah 

 the Wife of Stephen Driver, of the same parish, hus- 

 bandman (being two credible persons), do make oath 

 that Deborah, the daugliter of the said Stephen and 

 Deborah, aged 18 weeks, who was on the 7th day 

 of April instant interred in the parish Churchyard of 

 Dovercourt, in the borough aforesaid, was not put in, 

 wrapped, or wound up, or buried in any Shirt, Shift, 

 Sheet, or Shroud, made or mingled with Flax, Hemp, 

 Silk, Hair, Gold, or Silver, or other than what is made 

 of Sheeps' Wool only; or in any Coffin lined or faced 

 with any Cloth StuH', or any other thing whatsoever, 

 made or mingled with Flax, Hemp, Silk, Hair, Gold or 

 Silver, or any other material but Sheeps' Wool only. 



" The mark of 

 *' Taken and sworn the fifteenth day ~| x 



of April 1769, before me, one of I Sarah Lton. 



His Majesty's Justices of the | The mark of 

 Peace. G. Davies.J D 



Deborah Driver. 

 " Witness. B. Didieh.'' 



E. S. Taylor. 



:^tn0r i^aUS. 



Unacknowledged Qnotutions from the Scriptures. 

 -^ As a compensation for the passages which are 

 often held to be in the Bible, but are not there, it 

 sometimes happens that others are taken from 

 thence, and given to profane authors. Among 

 these is " Multi pertransibunt, et augebitur sci- 

 entia," which, Daniel xii. 4. notwithstanding, is 

 the motto of tlie first edition of Montucla's History 

 of Mathematics, followed by " — Bacon." I have 

 also seen it given to Bacon elsewhere. M. 



Latin Hexameters on the Bible. — The doggerel! 

 Latin hexameters subjoined were made by a 

 Christmas party at Billingbear, eighty years at^o. 

 Amongst the contributors I can only point out 

 the names of my father and Sir Thomas Frank- 

 land, the sixth baronet, who printed the verses for 

 distribution amongst his friends. I have often 

 found them useful, and they may be perhaps of 

 service to others. 



Mejioria Technica /or <Ae Books of the Bible, arranged 



in the order in wliicli they occur. 

 " Genesis, Exo, Levi, Num, Deutero, Joshua, Judges, 

 Kuth, Sam, Sam, King, King, Chron, Chron, Ezra, 



Nehemiah, 

 Esther, Job, Psalmte, Prov, Eccles, Song Soloraonis,. 

 Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lament, Ezekiel, Danielque 

 Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum,, 

 Habhakuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zachariah, Malachi. 

 Matthasus, Marcus, Lucas, John, Acts of Apostles, 

 Rom, Cor, Cor, Gal, Ephes, Phi, Co, Thess, Thess, 



Timothy, Tim, Tit, 

 Phil, Heb, James, Pet, Pet, John, John, John, Jude,.. 

 Revelations." 



Apocrypha. 

 " Esdras, Esdra, Tobit, Judith, Esth, Wisd., Ecclc' 

 siastes. 

 Bar, Song, Susan, Idol, Manasses, Maccabe, jVIaccab."' 



Braybrooke, 



Epigram on La Bruytre. — The French Aca- 

 demy has been made the butt of more sarcastic 

 sallies than any other institution of ecpial distinc- 

 tion and respectability. Some of these have been 

 directed against it as a body, such as Piron's epi- 

 taph on himself: 



" Ci-git Piron qui ne fut rien, 

 Pas meme Academicien." 



Others were levelled at the members individually^ 

 Of this sort are the lines on La Bruyere : 



" Quand La Bruyere se pr^sente, 

 I'ourquoi faut-il crier haro ? 

 Pour faire un nomhre de quarante 

 Ne fallait-il pas un zero?" 

 Who was the author of the latter epigram? 

 Since the days of La Bruyere it has been used as 

 a standing gibe against all newly elected Acade- 

 micians, whose names could be substituted for his, 

 with a due regard to rhythmical propriety. 



Henry II. Breen. 

 St. Lucia. 



Cock and Bidl Story. — As the expression of a 

 " cock and bidl story " has sometimes puzzled me,, 

 so it may have puzzled others, and I therefore 

 send the following Note, if worthy of notice : 



" I have used the expressive proverbial phrase Cnck- 

 on-a-Bell, familiarly corrupted into Cock -and-a- Bull, 

 in its true and genuine application to the fabulous nar- 

 ratives of Popery. There is some measure of antiqua- 

 rian curiosity attendant upon it, which may rival the- 



