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the square, and therefore not parallel with such 

 line, and consequently the altar windows appear 

 to be out of the centre when viewed through the 

 arch. Is any similar instance known ? 



Another curious Query with regard to chancels 

 seems never to have been satisfactorily solved, 

 and that is — Why the north-west window, that 

 is, the window on the left side looking towards 

 the altar, nearest to the nave, is so very frequently 

 more highly decorated by richer tracei'y or other- 

 wise than any other in the chancel ? The churches 

 abroad generally stand in any direction which 

 may best suit the locality, and orientation, as it is 

 called, is quite unknown. The reason given by 

 your correspondent H. A. is most probably the 

 true one as to deflection. A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



TKIGUEROS, WRITINGS OF. 

 (2'"» S. X. 145.) 



The British Museum has several works of Tri- 

 gueros, but not all. I cannot find the plays men- 

 tioned by Ticknor, El Anzuelo de Fenissa, La 

 Estrella dc Sevilla, and Los Tenderos de Madrid : 

 all which I have found are printed at Seville. 

 The principal is : — 



El Poeta Filosofo, part 1, 1773, and part 2, 

 1778. It is a didactic poem of thirteen cantos, 

 or rather thirteen poems under various titles, as. 

 El Homhre, La Tristeza, La Muger, &c., written 

 in Spanish pentameters, with a dissertation on that 

 sort of verse. Though not high poetry, so far as 

 I have gone it is pleasant reading. It begins with 

 the Invocation to Pope : — 

 " Dime, sublime Pope, Tu, refiexivo genio, 

 Que unes con arte tanto el juicio, y el Ingenio: 

 Britano Horacio, dime, Tu que con tal cuidado, 

 Tu, que con tal acierto el Hombre has estudiado: 

 Dime, Pope, las seiias deste soberbio nombre, 

 Cuantame en que se funda la vanidad del Hombre, 

 Deste confuso caos de mil contradieciones, 

 En quien Dios puso unidos sus castigos, y dones : 

 Deste agregado oscuro de vicios, y virtudes, 

 De vanas confianzas, de vanas inquietudes, 

 De ignorancia, y de ciencia, pequeuez y grandezn, 

 De orgullo, y cobardia, fortaleza, y flaqueza : 

 Dime sus variedades, dime sus ignorancias, 

 Cuentame sus locuras, y sus extravagancias." 

 I do not find any mention of " the shade " of 

 Pope, and I have not seen Maillet's book, but 

 from my experience of the care and accuracy of 

 second-rate French writers criticising books in 

 any language but their own, I suspect that he has 

 translated Hombre ^=- " ombre." The lines have a 

 sort of genteel mediocrity, but are not " beautiful." 

 The second part of El Poeta Filosofo has only 

 one canto, La Muger. I do not know whether 

 Trigueros published more. 

 The other works are : — 

 " San Felipe Neri, al Clero, 1784. 

 Poesias de Melchior Diaz de Toledo, 1776^ 



Eelacion de las Fiestas con motivo de la Ratiticacion 

 de la Paz, Jan. 17. 1784. 

 La Riada, 1784. 

 El Precipitado, Comedia, 1785. 

 La Briscona, 1781. 



El Viage al Cielo de Poeta Filosofo, 1777. 

 Sancho Ortiz de las Roelas, 1784." 



The above account is the result of a cursory 

 examination, not of diligent search. It occupies 

 as much room as can be reasonably asked for 

 here ; but if M. Takdy, for any literary pur- 

 pose, desires more information, and cannot get It 

 in Paris, if he will address a letter to me, through 

 the publisher of " N". & Q.," I will do my best to 

 assist him. • 



Trigueros is briefly noticed by Schack, Ges- 

 chichte der Dramatisclien Litei'atur in Spanien, iii. 

 483. ed. 1846, as having laboured to bring Lope 

 de Vega's two plays, the Estrella de Sevilla and 

 the Auzuelo de Fenissa, within the new rules. 



H, B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



THE FELBRIGG BRASS. 

 (2'>'» S. X. 367. 416.) 

 I was exceedingly glad to see the remarks of 

 your correspondents A. J. M. and Mr. W. War- 

 wick King on the shameful state of this brass. I 

 have not long returned from my periodical visit 

 to Cromer, Norfolk, which is only two miles from 

 Felbrigg, and can "fully corroborate the statement 

 of A. J. M. In addition to the dilapidations 

 noticed by him I may add, that of the seven shields 

 there appear to have been originally, two, one 

 above each figure, are wanting. The whole church 

 of Felbrigg is, I regret to say, in a most disgrace- 

 ful and discreditable state ; disgraceful because it 

 is In a condition that pains every beholder .pos- 

 sessed of the slightest feelings of reverence, and 

 discreditable because It stands in Felbrigg Park, 

 within sight of the Hall ; and besides being the 

 house of God, is the resting-place of several of the 

 Felbrigge and many of the Wyndham or Windham 

 family. One would have thought that the owner 

 of Felbrigg Park, who is the representative though 

 not a descendant of this latter family, would have 

 taken care to keep in good order the monuments and 

 brasses of tliose from whom he derived the noble 

 park he calls his own. Such, however, is not the 

 case ; the church is dilapidated, the churchyard 

 used to graze horses in, and the north porch of 

 the church is, or was, used as a stable ! On the 

 south side of the altar is a brass containing four 

 figures to the memory of Sir Symond de Felbrig 

 and his wife, and Roger de Felbrig and his wife : 

 the lower half of the eflSgy of Roger de Felbrig'a 

 wife Is gone ; the inscription, which is Norman 

 French, Is broken ; all the shields but one are 

 wanting ; and, to crown all, the hideous wooden 

 raillnjrs in front of the altar are set right across the 



