June 19. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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pended to them : they were intended, as fur as I 

 can learn, to be a sort of commentary on some 

 portion of the Apocalypse. The writer left his 

 work unfinished; but as many as appeared thus 

 periodically were afterwards published in a sepa- 

 rate pamphlet. I should be glad to know where 

 a copy of this pamphlet is to be had ; or in what 

 paper the articles originally appeared. F. N. 



Cleopatra playing at Billiards. — Perhaps one of 

 your readers, more learned in Shakspeare than 

 myself, can tell me what game he refers to in the 

 following extract : 



" Cleo. Let us to billiards. Come, Charmian. 

 Char. My arm is sore : best play with Mardian." 

 Ant, and Cleo.^ Act II. Sc. 5. 



Can the game of billiards, as we now have it, 

 boast of such high antiquity as to have been played 

 by " the serpent of Old Nile ; " or is the mention of 

 it simply one of the great poet's anachronisms ? 



CUTHBERT BeDE, B.A. 



" Then comes the reckoning" &c. — Who is the 

 author of the following well-known couplet ? 

 I " Then comes the reckoning when the feast is o'er. 



The dreadful reckoning, when men smile no more." 



A Constant Reader. 



Giving the Sack. — ^Will any of your numerous 

 readers kindly explain to me the origin of the 

 phrases " to give any one the sack or bag," and 

 " einem einen Korb geben"? We must all be 

 aware of their acceptation. Thomas Lawrence, 



Ashby-de-la-Zouch. 



Scotch Provincial Tokens of the Seventeenth Cen- 

 tury. — Can any of your readers inform me if there 

 were any of these tokens, which were so abundant 

 throughout England, Wales, and Ireland, issued in 

 Scotland ? R. H. B. 



Burial of Sir John Moore. — You have had 

 many very interesting communications respecting 

 the justly admired poem on "The Burial of Sir 

 John Moore." Let me ask whether it was a matter 

 of fact, that they " buried him darkly at dead of 

 night"? I believe the clergyman who read the 

 service is now living near Hereford, and that he 

 will state that the interment took place in the 

 morning after the battle. Balholensis. 



Mexican, Sfc. Grammar. — I hope some of your 

 readers can tell me where I may get a grammar 

 of the language of the Mexicans, Chilians, or any 

 other of the tribes of South America. The Spa- 

 nish missionaries compiled grammars of some of 

 the South American tongues ; but I think they 

 must have become scarce, as I can never find one 

 in any catalogue of old books. W. B. D. 



Foundation Stones. — In the Illustrated News of 

 the 29th of May, is an account of the masonic 

 jewels for the grand lodge of England, including 



three ivory gavels for " laying foundation stones : " 

 hence arise the following Queries. 



When did the laying of foundation stones first 

 become a ceremony ? 



What old foundation stones have been restored 

 to light, showing the date of laying, and the ac- 

 cessories used, whether oil, wine, and corn, or what 

 else ? I have never seen an allusion to such dis- 

 covery in the demolition of old buildings. 



JnO. D. ALIiCROFT. 

 Oxford Square. 



Mary Faun. — Can any of your subscribers give 

 me any account of the ancestry of Mary Faun, 

 said to have married Thomas Charlton, Esq. ? See 

 Burke's Landed Gentry, vol. i. p. 209. B. 



Tonson and the Westminsters. — I have a small 

 duodecimo print, in which are represented three 

 scenes, — 



A man tossed in a blanket. 



A man flogged. 



A man begging. 

 This victim is said to be Jacob Tonson, the printer. 

 The tormentors, who are all in collegiate dresses, 

 are said to be AVestminster Collegians. 



Are these scenes facts or fictions ? 



What was Tonson's offence ? 



Is there any other explanation of the print ? 



I hope some old Westminster to whom the 

 school tradition may have descended will be kind 

 enough to answer these Queries. Griffin. 



Lady FareweWs Funeral Sermon. — Would any 

 of your correspondents help me to unravel the 

 mystery (if there be any) involved in the typo- 

 graphy of the Latin portion of the following title 

 of a book " printed for Edw. Brewster, at the 

 Crane, in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1661 ?" 



" Magna Charta ; or the Christian's Charter Epito- 

 mized. In a Sermon preached at the Funerall of the 

 Right Worshipfull the Lady Mary Farewell at Hill- 

 Bishops near Taunton, by Geo. Newton, Minister of 

 the Gospel there. 



D. FareweLL obi It Maria saLVtIs 



In anno 



Hos annos posltos VIXIt & Ipsa 



VaLe." 



W. A. J. 



[Tlie information required by our correspondent is 

 more quaint and curious than difficult to supply. The 

 four lines with which the title concludes form a chro- 

 nogram, or an inscription comprising a certain date 

 and number, expressed by those letters inserted in 

 larger characters ; which are to be taken separately 

 and added together, according to their value as Roman 

 numerals. When the arithmetical letters occurring in 

 the first two lines are thus taken, they will be found to 

 compose the year 1660, when the Lady Farewell died. 



