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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 134. 



cular thing which you greatly desire to have, or 

 to have accomplished, your wishes on that same 

 point will be realised before the close of the year. 



K. VlKCENT. 



Rust. — If, without any neglect on your part, 

 Taut even with care, articles of steel belonging to 

 you, such as keys, knives, &c., continually become 

 rusty, some kindhearted person is laying up 

 money for yoiir benefit. 



This superstitious notion is very prevalent in 

 Wales. R. Vincent. 



Epitaph at Low Moor. — The following curious 

 epitaph is on a tombstone in the Low Moor church- 

 3'ard, near this town : — 



*' In Memory of Christopher Barlow, Blacksmith, of 

 Raw Nook, who died Oct. 9th, 1824, aged 56. 

 *' My stithy and my hammer I reclin'd ; 

 My bellows, too, have lost their wind ; 

 My fire's extinguish'd, and my forge decay'd, 

 * And in the silent dust my vice is laid. 



My coal is spent, my stock of iron 's gone. 

 My last nail driven, and my work is done." 



C. Williams. 



Bradford, Yorkshire. 



Sir Thomas Overbury's Epitaph. — I do not 

 think that the epitaph of the unfortunate Sir 

 Thomas Overbury, poisoned by Carr, Earl of 

 Somerset, in 1613-14, has ever been published. I 

 send it to you, copied from a manuscript on a 

 blank leaf of a black-letter copy of Howe's ^Z»nc/g-e- 

 ment of Stoic's Chronicle in my possession. 

 «*1614. 



SR. THOMAS OVERBURY HIS EPITAPH. 



'^" The Span of my daies measured, heare I rest 

 That is my body, but my Soule his Guest 

 Is hence assended whither neither Tyme 

 Nor Fayth nor Hope : but only Love can Clyme. 

 "Wheare beinge nowe enlightned Shee doeth knowe 

 The trueth of all men argue of belowe. 

 Only this Dust doeth heare in pawne remaine, 

 That when the Worlde dissolves, Sliee com againe. 

 Thomas Overbury, 

 1614." 



Richard F. Littledale. 

 Dublin. 



Bibliotheca Literaria. — I possess a copy of the 

 JBibliotheca Literaria, 1722-4, in which the names 

 of some of the authors are appended in manuscript 

 to various papers, as follows : 



In No. 4., Dr. Brett's name is appended to the 

 first paper. 



In No. 5., the first paper, concerning the pillar 

 of fire and cloud, has the name " Sam. Jebb." 



In No. 6., the third paper has the name of Dr. 

 Brett ; also, the first in 



No. 7., a continuation of it. 



In No. 8., the first and third papers have 

 " Carol. Ashton ;" the second, Dr. Brett. 



In No. 9. the first and second papers have 

 " Thos. WagstafFe." 



Finally, the second in No. 10. has the name of 

 Dr. Brett. 



In the hope that this may be of some utility, I 

 send it, on the chance that these names may not 

 have been published already, which I have not 

 time to ascertain. AV. II. S. 



Edinburgh. 



[All the above contributors to this valuable literary 

 journal were Nonjurors. It may not be generally 

 known that the principal editor was Samuel Jebb, M.D., 

 of Peter House, Cambridge, who subsequently attached 

 himself to the Nonjurors, and accepted the office of 

 librarian to the celebrated Jeremy Collier. Dr. Jebb 

 was also assisted by Mr. Wasse, Dr. Wotton, Dr. 

 Jortin, Dr. Pearce, and others. — Ed.] 



Liiscription at Dundrah Castle. — In the course of 

 a summer spent in Argyleshire, I paid a visit to 

 old Dundrah, or Dundarrovv Castle, which stands 

 between Inverary and Cairndhu, on the south- 

 west. It is now a small farm-house. The tenant 

 refused me admission under half-a-crown, so I 

 contented myself with a survey of the exterior. 

 Over the doorway I found the following inscrip- 

 tion carved in the stone : 



*' I • MAN • BEHALD " THE * END • DE * NOCHT * 

 VISER • NOR • HEIEST ' HOIP * IN ' GOD." 



The meaning is evident, though what connexion 

 it has with the old castle I am not able to say. I 

 send it you, as I have not seen it noted in any 

 book. C. M. I. 



Derivation of Charing. — Mr. Peter Cunning- 

 ham, in his most entertaining work. The Hand- 

 book of London, tells us that the origin of Charing 

 Cross has never been discovered. 



It lies buried in the venerable pages of Somner 

 and Skinner. It was first propounded by the 

 former in his Notes on Lipsius, appended to 

 Meric Causaubon's Commentutio de Quatuor Lin- 

 guis, in V. ScuRGi. The A.-S. cyrrung (from cyrraUy 

 avertere) is, as he tells us, aversio : 



" Atque bine, a viarum (scil.) et platearum diver- 

 ticulis, ut in compitis, pluribus apud nostrates locis- 

 hoc nomen olim inditum, quod postea in Curring inu- 

 tatum, tandem transiit (ut nunc dierum) in Charing ; 

 quomodo quadrivium sive compitum illud nuncupatur 

 in suburbiis Londinensibus, ab occidente, prope West- 

 monasterium, Charing Crosse, vulgo dictum ; Crosse 

 addito, ob crucem ibidem, ut in compitis solitum, olim 

 erectam." 



