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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Is there any account to be found of the founda- 

 tion or existence of this chapel ? The Histories 

 of Sun-et/, and the muniments of the Evelyn fa- 

 mily, and the parish and episcopal records, have 

 been examined, but in vain. 



In 31 Hen. VI. (1453), John Merston had a 

 patent for founding a chantry in the Church of 

 Ebbisham (Epsom). 



Any information as to the old church, especially 

 as to the erection of any chapel or chantry, or 

 other additions, would greatly oblige R. J. K. 



Frances C. Barnard. — I have a little book 

 with the following title, Embroidered Facts, by 

 Mrs. Frances C. Barnard, authoress of Conver- 

 sations at the Work-Table, London, 1836. The 

 volume contains nine short dramas, probably in- 

 tended for private performance. It is dedicated 

 " To Sarah and William Bakewell, for whose use 

 one of the following dramas was written/' Can 

 any of your readers give me any informaPon re- 

 garding the authoress ? R. Inglis. 



Prophecy. ^— Whose is the following prophecy, 

 which Hollingworth quotes in his Mancuniensis ? 



" Wlien all England is aloft, 

 Weel are they that are in Christ's croft, 

 And where shud Christ's croft be, 

 But betv/eene Ribble and Mersee." 



J. D. A. 



Washing the Lions in the Tower. — 



" As we wash our Lions in the Tower, so did the 

 Romans the draj^ons in their Temples, as is described by 

 Cicero, Flaccu-', and other authors of Antiquity." — A 

 Humourous Catalogue of the Sights of London (chap- 

 boolc). No date; but probably about a century old, as it 

 mentions the recent execution of Lord Lovat. 



What is the foundation for these allusions ? 



G. R. 



Diatessaron. — I "picked up" a short time 

 ago a volume, entitled Lectures Explanatory of 

 the Diatessaron, 8vo., Oxford, 1824, prijited for 

 private distribution. Independent of its apparent 

 merits, I wasi induced to purchase it because the 

 title-page bears the autograph, " J. Blanco White, 

 Oriel Coll." — because it was "printed for private 

 distribution" — and because a portion of the Pre- 

 face is cut out, and a MS. correction substituted 

 in its place. Whatever the sentence was, it was 

 evidently offensive to the owner of the book, and 

 he has farther marked his animus by cutting out 

 the author's address at the end of the Preface. 



Can you enable me to fill up the breach be- 

 tween " These Lectures were drawn up for the 

 instruction" — and — " who are beginning to study 

 Divinity," tvc. ? also the locale cut from the date, 

 February 27, 1824? Above all, I wish to know 

 the author's name. 



It is worthy of remark that the volume in the 

 British Musevim (1005. e.) was printed at Oxford 

 by H. Baxter. 1 835. (author's name not given), 



and appears, for the most part, to be rewritten 

 from the title-page to the end. There are pas- 

 sages in the volume of 1835 given verbatim et 

 literatim from the edition of 1824, but they are 

 exceptions to the rule. The extensive foot-notes, 

 extracts, and references of the volumoi of 1824, 

 are embodied in the text of the later edition. 



George Lloyd. 



The Magnetic Declination. — What is the 

 present amount of the magnetic declination ? 

 Some years ago it was 22° to the E. of N. It 

 must be more now. If so, all the vanes in the 

 country are wrong. Ci-AiMMiLD. 



AtheniBum Club. 



Socrates. — About ten years ago, going by a 

 steamer from Avignon to Lyons, a heavy fall of 

 rain drove me into the cabin, where I was sur- 

 prised to find some good editions of French 

 classics for the use of passengers. Among them 

 were Malebranche, Pascal, Boileau, and Monies- . 

 quieu, and an unbound new octavo of from 200 

 to 300 pages, called, I think, Le Demon de So- 

 crate. The author was a physician, and the de- 

 lusion is treated medically. 1 was reading it with 

 much interest when the rain ceased, and I went 

 upon deck forgetting all about it till too late to 

 make a note. I have tried to find the book in 

 Paris, and failed through inability to describe it. 

 Tlie author's name, and the date and place of 

 publication, will oblige me. 



While on this matter I take the opportunity of 

 culling from one of those repertories of old wit 

 and new history, the "Variety" column of a pro- 

 vincial paper, an anecdote which I had not seen 

 elsewhere : — 



"The first symptoms of love in the wisest of the world's 

 philosophers were certainlj' very remarkable. ' Leaning,' 

 sa3-s Socrates, ' mj' shoulder and my head to hers, as we 

 were reading together in a book, 1 felt, it is a fact, a 

 sudden sting in my shoulder, like the bite of a flea, which 

 I still felt about five days after, and a continued itching 

 creeping into my heart.'" — fFbrcestershire Chronicle, Julv 

 18, 1860. 



" Quel giprno piii non vi leggemmo avanti." 



FlTZHOPKINS. 

 Garrick Club. 



Malton Priory. — In which of the many topo- 

 graphical works relating to Yorkshire can I find 

 the fullest description of Malton Priory? and how 

 could it be " held at a nominal rent from Hems- 

 worth Hospital ?" Sigma Thkta. 



Lodge Family, Wills of. — Will you permit 

 me to ask Mr. Laing, through your columns, 

 where I can get a sight of the wills of the Lodge 

 family, quoted in the excellent Life of the poet 

 published by him for the Shakspeare Society ? 



G.H. K. 



Political Poem by Canning. — Where can I 

 find a copy of a poem written by Canning, of 



