2«d S. VIIL Nov. 5. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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disappearing, that their cannon disconcerted us, they 

 thought proper to embrace the opportunity; wheeling 

 back from the centre, and formed three powerful columns, 

 advanced very regular with their cannon playing on us. 

 By this time we had one field piece on the right, and 

 two howatson the left who began to give fire; the enemy 

 huzza'd, advancing with a short trott (which was eff^ec- 

 tiially shortened to a number of them) they began their 

 fire on the left, the whole of them reclining that way, 

 but. received and sustained such a check that the smell 

 of gunpowder became nautious; they broke their line, 

 running to all parts of the compass. 



" To our great concern and loss General Wolfe was 

 mortally wounded ; but the Brigadiers, who were also 

 wounded, excepting Murraj-, seeing the enemy break, or- 

 dered the Granadiers to charge in among them with their 

 bayonets, as also the Highlanders with their swords, 

 which did some execution, particularly in the pursuit. 



"During the lines being engaged, a body of the enemy 

 attacked a part of the Light Infantrj' on the right, were 

 repulsed, and thought proper to follow the fait of traverse 

 sailing. As I was not in the line of battle I can't say 

 what the latest disposition of the enemy was before en- 

 gaging- 



" How soon this action was over we received a part of 

 our intrenching tools, and began to make redoubts, not 

 knowing but next morning we would have another to cut, 

 as the enemy expected 13 companies of Granadiers to 

 join, and about 2000 men who occupy'd a post near 

 Point au Treamp, but it seemed they were not recovered 

 of the former morning's portion ; not liking English me- 

 dicines. 



"This affair gave great spirit to the whole army, not- 

 withstanding the loss of the much regretted Life of the 

 Army, General Wolfe. The men kept sober, which was 

 a great maxim of their bravery. 



" Towards the evening a part of the enemy, who were 

 of the Regulars, formed, who seemed to make a shew of 

 standing; Colonel Burton, 48th regt., was drawn opposite 

 with a field piece in their front, which disputed them. 

 We took post in our redoubts ; not having the camp 

 equipage on shore, part of the army lay on their arms in 

 the field till next morning. All quiet during the night 

 of the 13th." 



This abruptly finishes the MS. of "Journal of 

 the particular Transactions during the Siege of 

 Quebec." J. Noble. 



Inverness. 



TALBOT MONUMENTS. 



In the old church, at Whitchurch, Shropshire, 

 was erected a stately monument to Sir John 

 Talbot, Knt., 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, of which 

 the effigy alone is preserved in the modern build- 

 ing constructed on the demolition of the ancient 

 structure during the last century. 



Much interest has recently been taken in this an- 

 cient peerage. It may not be out of place at the pre- 

 sent time to quote some extracts from theDineley 

 MSS. in my possession, written about 1670, re- 

 •garding the tomb of the founder of tlie earldom, 

 now removed in so mutilated a state to the modern 

 church. 



" In the church porch (Whitchurch), under a great ra- 

 rity, a large square blewish pebble stone, lyeth interred the 

 famous John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury : upon this there 



are discernible several brass nayles whereto had been 

 affixed a brass plate, supposed to have been stolen away 

 by y" soldiery in the late unnatural wars, who have 

 also crakt, and much abused the same by making fires 

 thereon. This great Captain, who had been Lord Lieut, 

 of Ireland, before whom a Parliament was summoned at 

 Trim, in the 25 of Henrj' VI., was slaj'ne in France at 

 Chastillon, upon y« river Durdon, neer Bourdeaux, with 

 a bullet from a harquebush in his thigh — after various 

 testimonies of courage against the French for 24 years. 

 Some would have him to be buried in Rouen, the" chief 

 city of Normandj'; but most agree it was his choice to 

 be buried in Whitchurch porch, that the Whitchurch 

 men, who had behaved themselves so valiantlj' over him 

 in France, thej' and their posterity should walk over his 

 remains to y« end of j<' world. The inscription is : ' Orate 

 pro anima pra3nobilis Dmi Dmi Johis Talbot, quondam 

 Coniitis Salopiae, dmi Furnival, dmi Verdun, dmi Strange 

 de Blaekmere, et Marescalli Francise, qui obiit in bello 

 apud Burdews, July vii. mccccliii.' Though the body 

 of Earl John be interred in the porch under that plain 

 grave stone, yet going up into the high chancel is seen 

 a cenotaph or honorary monument erected honoris et 

 memorise gratia to him, where he lieth in armour in his 

 garter, robes," &c. 



The brother of Earl John was Archbishop of 

 Dublin. In the body of the quire of St. Patrick's 

 cathedral, Dublin, was his monument inlayed in 

 brass, with this inscription * : — 



" Ricardus Talbot latet [hie sub Marmore pressns,] 

 Archi fuit praesul hujus sedis reverends, 

 Parvos Canonicos [qui] fundavitque Choristas, 

 Anno milleno, C quater, quater X quoque nono. 

 Quindeno Augusti mensis mundo valedixit: 

 Omnipotens Dominus cui propitietur in sevum." 

 He was founder of the canons and choristers of 

 the church, and died Aug. [15] 1449- Dineley 

 gives a drawing of this brass, with the Archbif^hop's 

 effigy, and the petty canons and choristers on 

 each side. It no longer exists in St. Patrick's 

 church. 



There is also in the MS. volume a drawing of 

 the old church of Whitchurch, which appears to 

 have been partly built of timber ; and the monu- 

 ment within it, as it then existed, of Lord Shrews- 

 bury. T. E. WiNNINGTON. 



THE NEW TESTAMENT IN MODERN GREEK. 



It is a fact worthy of notice, that, in the middle 

 of the seventeenth century, whilst England could 

 scarcely boast yet of a new and authorised ver- 

 sion of the Sacred Scriptures, the Dutch govern- 

 ment had already taken measures for spreading 

 the Gospel in foreign parts. For not only had, 

 by order of the States General of the United 

 Provinces, the New Testament been translated 

 into modern Greek, but also, not very long after- 

 wards, a modern Greek version had been pro- 

 cured of our Dutch Reformed Confession of 

 Faith, our Catechism, and our Liturgy. 



" The translation of the New Testament had been in- 



[* The words in brackets are added from Ware's Ire- 

 land, — Ed.] 



