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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'"» S. Vlir. Aug. G, 'c9. 



Dates of the Birth and Death of British and American Authors (2""' S. viii. 51.) — 



Name. 

 Caleb Colton - 

 Washington Irving 

 George Long - 

 William H. Prescott 

 William Carleton - 

 Sir Francis Bond Head 

 Leigh Hunt - 

 Bernard Barton 

 Tho. Haynes Bayly 

 Professor John Wilson 

 William Pinnock - 

 Robert Montgomery 



George Croly 



Date of Birth 



- Not known. 



- April 3, 1783. 



- 1800. 



- May 4, 1796. 



- 1798. 



- Jan. 1, 1793. 



- Oct. 19, 1784. 



- Jan. 31, 1784. 



- Oct. 13, 1797. 



- May 19, 1785. 



- 1781. 



- 1807. 

 ri780, 



" i About 1783. 



I believe the above account will be found cor- 

 rect, as far as ascertainable from the best published 

 authorities. 'A\ievs. 



Dublin. 



Ulphilas (2°'^ S. viii. 87.) — Ernesti, writing on 

 the New Testament, refers to Ulphilas only as the 

 translator of the New Testament in Moeso- Gothic 

 or old German. Chev. Bunsen, following Philo- 

 storgius, says Ulphilas translated both the Old 

 and New Testament, excepting the books of 

 Kings. Knittel does not admit of such excep- 

 tion; neither does Michaelis, nor Hug. Never- 

 theless all that has hitherto been discovered of 

 this translation consists of the four Gospels, with 

 a few lacunce, and some fragments of the Epistle 

 to the Romans, first published by Knittel in 1762, 

 and others of all St. Paul's epistles, with the ex- 

 ception of the two to the Thessalonians and that 

 to the Hebrews, discovered by Angelo Mai in 

 1817, and published in 1819.* See Michaelis, 

 translated by Marsh (ii. vii. s. 31 — 36.), and 

 Hug, translated by Wait (i. s. 129—139.). This 

 version therefore is silent as to 1 John v. 7., on 

 which the Greek Testament published by Bohn 

 has this note : — 



" These words are found in no Greek manuscript older 

 than the fifteenth century, in no Latin older than the 

 ninth century ; in none of the ancient versions, in none 

 of the Greek fathers, in none of the Latin fathers." 



A facsimile of this verse in a Greek MS., pre- 

 served in Dublin, is given by Bruns (Eichhorn's 

 Repertorium, iii. 260.). But it is excluded by 

 Tischendorf from his text. Had the MS. re- 

 cently found at Cairo contained this verse, Tis- 

 chendorf would not have omitted to announce a 

 fact of so much interest to Biblical students. To 

 the editions mentioned by Butler must be added 

 that of Zahn, 4to., Weissenfels, 1805. All these 

 contain only the four Gospels. T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



P.S. Many words of this version resemble Eng- 

 lish, e.g. thein namo=thy name, ^^M=thou, airthai 

 :=earth, hriggais (pron. 6nwn'ais)=bring, 7<6j7ih= 



* Including small portions of Esdras and Nehemiah. 



Date of Death. Authority. 



April 28, 1832. Notes and Queries, 2°'i S. v. 238. 



Still living. Allibone, Engl. Cyclop., Men of tho Time. 



Still living. Engl. Cj'clop. 



Jan. 28, 1859. Athenajum, Lit. Gazette. 



Still living. Allibone. 



Still living. Burke's Peerage. 



Still living. Engl. Cyclop., Allibone, Men of the Time. 



Feb. 19, 1849. Memoir" by his daughter. 



April 22, 1839. Memoir by his widow. 



April 3, 1854. Engl. Cvclop. 



Oct. 21, 1843. Gentl. Mag. 



Dec. 3, 1855. Engl. C^'clop. 



Still living. M "''T/k'^"^- • ^'''^°P-' 



^ Men of the Time. 



evil, driggkith (pron. d7-inJdth)=dnnketh, gaggis 

 (pron. g-ang-is)=gangest, or goest, so^jYA=seeketb, 

 twalib 2tJ2nf?'M?j5= twelve winters (Mai. ix. 20.}. 



Grave-diggers (2°"^ S. viii. 39.) — The following 

 is the substance of a letter preserved among Dr. 

 Rawlinson's MSS. in the Bodleian Library, de- 

 tailing an accident which happened in 1739 to the 

 sexton of All Saints' Church, Kingston-upon- 

 Thames, who, with his son and daughter, were 

 employed together in digging a grave, when part 

 of the ancient chapel of St. Mary's adjoining the 

 church fell in upon them, killing the sexton and 

 another man on the spot, and wounding several 

 others. After being buried for more than th^ee 

 hours in the ruins of tlie fallen chapel, the son 

 and daughter of the sexton were both extricated 

 alive. The daughter survived this sad catastrophe 

 fifteen years, and was her father's successor. The 

 memory of the accident is preserved by a mezzo- 

 tinto-print of this female-sexton, engraved by 

 James M'Ardel, from a painting by J. Butler, in 

 which she is represented as of masculine form and 

 stature, in a waistcoat and hat, with the imple- 

 ments of her business upon her shoulder, and her 

 band upon a skull. 



The sexton's name was Hammerton, and in the 

 parish register of All Saints, Kingston, are these 

 entries : — 



" Abram Hammerton and Richard Mills, killed by the 

 fall of the Church; buried. Mar. 5, 1730-1. 

 "Hester Hammerton, buried Feb. 28, 1745-6." 



An original portrait of the female grave-digger 

 is in the possession of Sudlow Roots, Esq., of 

 Kingston. For fuller particulars, vide Manning 

 and Bray's Surrey^ i. 371.; Bray ley's Siirrey, iii. 

 30,31. W.J. Pinks. 



Faher v. S^nith (2"-^ S. viii. 87.) — Faher and 

 Aurifaler occur as surnames in many old docu- 

 ments. (See Cal. Hot. Chart, f. 40. ; Cul. Inq. ad 

 quod Damnum, f. 360. ; Cal. Inq. p. Mortem, i. 

 116.; also Gorham's Hist, of St. Neots (Suppl.), 

 pp. Ixxxil. Ixxxviii.) Can there be any reason- 

 able doubt that these names stood for Smith and 

 Goldsmith respectively ? Christiana Uodierna, of 



