May 15. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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bears some resemblance, in the outline of the tree, 

 to my specimen of the Catnach literature. 



Shirley Hibbeed. 



[Our correspondent will also find a woodcut of the 

 Catnach style prefixed to a pamphlet published in 1813, 

 entitled History, Oriyin, and Rise of Fairlop Fair; 

 with a History and Description of the Forests of Essex, 

 and an Account of Mr. Daniel Day, founder of Fairlop 

 Fair. Another tract with a similar title was published 

 in 1795. — Ed.] 



TATLOR FAMILY. 



(Vol. v., p. 370.) 



The first person of the name as Mayor of Wor- 

 cester, occurring in 1648, is James Taylor, Esq. ; 

 in 1666, Henry Taylor, Esq. ; in 1675, Rowland 

 Taylor, Esq. ; in 1731, Samuel Taylor, Esq. In 

 1732, James Saunders, Esq., was elected, but, 

 dying in his mayoralty, Samuel Taylor, Esq., was 

 re-elected, to serve the remainder of the year ; and 

 in 1737, a Samuel Taylor, Esq., was again elected, 

 and this is no doubt the same person, making 

 his third election. 



It is, I think, evident from the following, which 

 may be found in Green's History of that city, 

 vol. ii. p. 106. of Appendix, that their burial-place 

 was in a vault at the west end of the north aisle 

 of St. Helen's Church : — 



" Opposite the pulpit — Richard Taylor, Alderman 

 of this city, died Nov. 11th, 1754, aged sixty-eight. 

 There are several more of the same family interred 

 under this stone." 



In 1718, a Mr. Thomas Taylor, lay clerk, and 

 in 1719, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Thomas Taylor, a 

 lay clerk of this church (Worcester Cathedral), 

 were buried therein. 



I think it very probable, from the orthography 

 of the names being alike, that the above parties 

 •were connected by family ties. 



I do not find, either in my own MS., in Green's 

 History, or any other work, memorials of the same 

 name in any other of the Worcester churches. 



Nash, in his County History, gives the arms of 

 Taylor of Welland, a small village near Upton-on- 

 Severn : " sable, a lion passant, argent." 



On flat stones within the communion-rails of 

 that (Welland) church are the following inscrip- 

 tions : — 

 " Edmund Taylor, Esq., died 10 Jan., 1721, aged 55. 



" ' Hie jacet Radulphus Taylor vir nullo non doc- 

 trinae genere instructissimus uxorem duxit Penelopen 

 filiam natu secundam Nicholai Lechmere de Hanley- 

 castle, armigeri, quarto die Junii, obiit, a. d. 1676, set. 

 39 :' and several of their children are here buried. 



« Penelope Taylor, died 29 May, 1710, aged 62." 

 Arms on the stone. 



I know of no family of the name resident in that 

 city ; but, having lel't it many years, I am almost 



a stranger to its inhabitants. But I recollect a 

 gentleman of that name resident at Strensham, the 

 birth-place of the poet Butler {Hudibras), and 

 who, to his honour, in 1843, erected a monument 

 to the memory of that celebrated man, in the 

 church of his native village. His name was John 

 Taylor, Esq. J. B. Whitbobne. 



SRcjjIicS ta i^inax €i\itxizi. 



Portrait of Mesmer (Vol. v., p. 418.). — Your 

 correspondent Sigma may be informed that there 

 is an engraved portrait of Mesmer in tom. xiii. 

 p. 261. of the Biographie Nouvelle des Contem- 

 porains, Paris, 1824. Tyro. 



Dublin. 



Sleeveless (Vol. i., p. 439.). — Your correspon- 

 dent might have found '■'■sleeveless errand" ex- 

 plained by Tooke ; and from him by Todd and 

 Richardson. It is " an errand without cover or 

 pretext." Skinner, with the word sleeve, A.-S. 

 slife, tegmen, before his eyes, could write, "a 

 liveless or lifeless errand." Earm-slife is " that 

 with which the arm is covered.'' Q. 



Barbarian (Vol. ii., p. 78.). — Gibbon observes 

 that — 



" In the time of Homer, when the Greeks and 

 Asiatics might probably use a common idiom, the 

 imitative sound of Bar- Bar was applied to the ruder 

 tribes, whose pronunciation was most harsh, and whose 

 grammar was most defective." — Ch. 51. n. 162. 



Tooke's suggestion is, that the Gr. fiapvs, strong, 

 with a reduplication of the first syllable )3ap, gave 

 the compound ^ap-gapos ; their great strength 

 being the characteristic for which the barbarians 

 were distinguished by the Greeks. (Div. of Pur- 

 ley, vol. ii. p. 183. 8vo. ed.) Q. 



"O wearisome condition'" (Vol. li'i., -p. 241.). — 

 Q. inquired after the author of some remarkable 

 verses quoted by Tillotson, beginning " O weari- 

 some conditions of humanity." By the kind assist- 

 ance of the Rev. A. Dyce, I am enabled to answer, 

 that they are by Lord Brooke, in his tragedy of 

 Mustapha, and may be found at p. 159. of his 

 Works, in one vol. small folio, 1633. Q. 



The Meaning of " to be a Deacon " (Vol. v., 

 p. 228.). — An allusion to the fact, that to become 

 a deacon (the first step in the priesthood) it was 

 necessary to have the hair cut, which is also done 

 previous to beheading. In Foxe's time the customs 

 of the Roman church were known to all. J. B. C. 



Dr. Richard Morton. — Perhaps the following 

 brief particulars of this celebrated physician may 

 be acceptable to your correspondent M. A. Lower,^ 

 Vol. v., p. 227. He was born in the county of 

 Suffolk, educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, 

 where he became Chaplain of New College. He 



