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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"*S.iI<>28.,JuLrl2. '56. 



most valuable, as it is one of the most interesting 

 books in the language), though including It in the 

 Epigrammatum Liber, inclines to the belief that it 

 is the production of Marvell ; in the various edi- 

 tions of whose works it is to be found, preceded 

 by a distich, apparently written before the ulti- 

 mate destination of the portrait was known. 

 "While upon the subject, I may as well transcribe 

 each : — 



" In Effigiem Oltveri Cromwell, 

 " Hxc est qujB toties Inijiicos Umbra fugavit, 

 At sub qua Gives Otia lenta terunt." 



" In eandem, Regince Suecias transmissam. 

 " Bellipotens virgo, Septem Regina Trionum, 

 Christina, Arctoi lucida Stella Poli ! 

 Cernis, quas merui dura sub Casside Rugas, 



Sicque Senex Armis impiger Ora tero : 

 Invia fatorum dum per Vestigia nitor, 

 Exequor et Populi fortia jussa manu. 

 Ast tibi submittit frontem reverentior Umbra : 

 Nee sunt hi Vultus regibus usque truces." 

 I may add to these desultory remarks, that I 

 have in my possession a plaster mask, purporting 

 to be that of Cromwell's face after death. I was 

 informed moreover that the mould from which 

 it was made was taken surreptitiously from a cast 

 preserved in the Tower of London. Is there such 

 a relic ? William Bates. 



(2'«> S. i. 374. 440.) 



There is nothing said in Scripture about any 

 Mount Calvary. " The present church, the keys 

 of which have been the cause, ex concesso, of 

 enormous blood-shedding the last two years," has 

 not the shadow of a foundation for its claim. It 

 could not have been the place of the Crucifixion. 



Paul the apostle says, Heb. xiii. 12., " Where- 

 fore Jesus also suffered without the gate: " but the 

 site at present pointed out is not without the ancient 

 fortifications of Jerusalem ; it could not therefore 

 have been the place of our Lord's death. 



Some writers, retaining the erroneous idea that 

 the place must have been on a hill-top, hav€ fixed 

 on the " Hill of Evil Counsel " as the prdaable 

 scene of the Crucifixion, but no satisfacto^ rea- 

 sons are assigned. The apostle in the verse pre- 

 vious to that I have quoted says, " For the bodies 

 of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the 

 sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned 

 without the camp. Wherefore Jesus also," &c. 

 Reference to the following passages will show the 

 ground for the declaration that the sin offerings 

 were burned outside of the camp, Exod. xxix. 14.; 

 Lev. i. 11., iv. 12. 21., vi. 11., and viii. 17. 



Doubtless when the Temple service was es- 

 tablished at Jerusalem, the sin offerings were 

 burned in some one particular spot outside the 

 city. In that place would be found many uncon- 



sumed remains of the larger bones of the sacrifices, 

 especially of the skulls of the victims. Hence the 

 place would most appropriately be called Golgotha 

 Calvary — The place of a skull. Now it is a fair 

 inference from the apostle's writing, that where 

 the typical sin offerings were consumed, in that 

 identical place the great antitype himself expired. 



It only remains to inquire if Scripture indicates 

 the precise quarter of the compass in which the 

 burnt sacrifice was to be slain. This has hitherto 

 been most unaccountably overlooked : but in Le- 

 viticus, chap. i. V. 11., we read, " And he shall kill 

 it on the side of the altar narthioard before the 

 Lord." Who will doubt but that our Blessed Lord 

 suffered on the north side of Jerusalem ? If he did 

 not, then in this particular, and in this only, did 

 he fail to fulfil to the letter all that was shadowed 

 forth in Jewish rites and ceremonies. It is clear, 

 too, that the place must have been convenient for 

 a large concourse of persons, and that it must 

 have been close to a high road. Matt, xxvii. 39., 

 " And they that passed by reviled him, wagging 

 their heads." 



The scene of the Crucifixion, then, must have 

 been on the north side of Jerusalem, by the side 

 of the road leading to Shechem, or Sychar, now 

 Nablous ; a road, then as now, the one great high- , 

 way leading to the Holy City. 



The sacred spot was probably in a shallow valley 

 on the road to Nablous, a short distance beyond 

 the Tombs of the Kings. 



The Royal Saviour thus in His death lay very 

 near to David, his kingly ancestor. 



I think it will be found that ray argument 

 throws some light on that difficult conclusion of 

 Ezekiel, as in chap. xl. 44., xli. 11., xlii. 1., xlvi. 

 19., &c. &c. 



I will not apologise for a paper of such a nature 

 as the present ; for if unacceptable, you would not 

 have introduced the Query which gave rise to it. 

 I do fear, however, that I have somewhat exceeded 

 the proper limit, and my excuse shall be that I 

 have discussed the most important and interesting 

 subject which topography affords. S. Evershed. 



Brighton, 



THE OLD HUNDREDTH, BY WHOM COMPOSED. 



(2"'> S. i. 494.) 

 Mr. Latrobe, in his Introduction to the last 

 edition of that valuable collection of chorales, the 

 Moravian Tune Book (Mallalieu, Hatton Garden, 

 1854), says : 



"That the so-called 'Old Hundredth' was really com- 

 posed by Claude Goudimel, and was probably unknown 

 to Luther and his immediate contemporaries, seems now 

 to be generally admitted. Fine as it is, and deservedly a 

 favourite, especially in this countrj', it will not be less 

 valued by British Protestants when they are informed 

 that the author was one of the victims of Popish perseca- 



