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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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Here sleeps in peace a Hampshire Grenadier, 

 Wlio caught his death by drinking cold small beer. 

 Soldiers, be wise from his untimely fall, 

 And, when ye 're hot, drink strong, or none at all. 



This Memorial being decayed was restor'd 

 by the Officers of the Garrison, a.d. 1781. 

 An honest soldier never is forgot, 

 Whether he die by musket or by pot. 

 This Stone ivas placed by the North Hants 

 Militia when disembodied at Winchester 

 on 2Qth April, 1802, in consequence of 

 the original Stone being destroyed." 



I also send a transcript of an epitaph in the 

 aisle of the cathedral. It is engraved on a black- 

 ened piece of copper, and is affixed to one of the 

 pillars in the vicinity of Bishop Iloadley's tomb. 

 The lines in this epitaph are divided, and the 

 capital letters allotted exactly as in the original 

 inscription, to the spelling of which I have care- 

 fully adhered. 



"A MEMORIALL 



For the renowned Martialist Richard Boles of y" 

 Right Worshypfull family of the Bollcs, in 

 Linckhorne Sheire : Colonell of a Ridgment of Foot 

 of 1300. who for his Gratious King Charles y" First 

 did Wounders at the Battell of Edge Hill, his last 

 Action ; to omit all Others was att Alton in the 

 County of Southampton, was surprised by five or 

 Six Thousand of the Rebells, who caught him there 

 Quartered to liy to the Church, with neare fourescore 

 of his men who there fought them six or seven 

 Houers, and then the Rebells breaking in upon them 

 he Slew with his Sword six or seven of them and 

 then was Slayne himselfe, with sixty of his men aboute 

 him, 



1641. 

 His Gratious Sovereign hearing of his death, gave 

 him his high Coriiendation in y pationate expression. 

 Bring me a Moorning Scarfie, i have Lost 

 one of the best Commanders in this Kingdome. 

 Alton will tell you of that famous tight 

 which y» man made and bade the World good Night 

 His verteous Life fear'd not mortality 

 His body must ms Vertues cannot Die. 

 Because his Bloud was there so nobly spent, 

 This is his Tomb, that Church his Monument. 



Ricardus Boles in Art. Mag. 



Composuit, Posuitque, Dolens. 

 An. Dm. 1689." 



This Richard Boles is plainly identical with the 

 "Ri. Boles, M' Art, 1689," mentioned in "N. & 

 Q.," 2'"' S. i. 429., who died Rector of Whitnash 

 Church, Warwickshire, subsequently to 1689, in 

 which year he completed his eighty-fourth year. 



G. L. S. 



Conservative Club. 



'■'■ Blaimi-sheres.'^ — This singular specimen of 

 orthography is given by Mr. Froude : — 



" They found the Great Quadrant " (of New College, 

 Oxford) " full of the leaves of Duns (Scotus), the wind 



blowing them into every corner ; and one Mr. Greastfield, 

 a gentleman of Bucks, gathering up part of the same 

 book leaves, as he said, to make him sewers or blawn- 

 sheres, to keep the deer within his wood, thereby to have 

 the better cry of his hounds." — From a Letter to Crom- 

 well contained in "The Suppression of Monasteries" 

 (p. 71.), Froude's History of England, vol. ii. p. 418, 



It should have been written blaunsh-eres ; as the 

 word is no other than the blanchers, or blenchars, 

 of Sidney and Elyot, " to keep off deer, to feare 

 birds," quoted in Richardson's Dictioriary, sub. 

 vv., Blanch and Blench. But what are sewers f 



Q. 



Bloomsbury. 



Haddon Hall, SfC. — In Thornbury's Shak- 

 speare's England occur the following errors. In 

 the first volume, p. 73,, he says : 



"Amongst other noble Tudor erections we may also 

 mention, for the very names call up a thousand associa- 

 tions, Haddon Hall, Derbyshire (in ruins). . . South 

 Wingfield, Derb5''shire, dilapidated." 



And at p, 81, : 



" The following are a few of the palatial houses finished 

 before 1600, . . . Hardwicke, Derby, Countess of 

 Shrewsbury's, in ruins." 



Haddon Hall is nearly unfurnished, but is not in 

 ruins. It was built at different periods, which are 

 traced back to the time of Stephen, if not to that 

 of the Conqueror. Part of it, the long gallery, 

 was added about the time of Elizabeth. South 

 Wingfield Manor is a complete an^ very beautiful 

 ruin. 



Hardwick Hall, which was built by " Bess of 

 Hardwick," is in a perfectly habitable state, and 

 contains a great number of pictures of celebrated 

 members of the family. 



The old hall in which the countess was born is 

 a complete ruin, very near to the present building. 



H.J. 



Shefiield. 



John Till AllingJiam, the dramatic writer, is 

 allowed a niche in Mr. Charles Knight's Cyclo- 

 pcedia of Biography now issuing. But the editor 

 says he is unacquainted with the time and place 

 of his death. Mr. Cromwell, in his Walks through 

 Islington, says he died at his father's house, Cole- 

 brooke Terrace, February 28, 1812; while The 

 Examiner newspaper, and another periodical I 

 have referred to, give the date as March 8, 1812. 

 He was buried at Bunhill Fields. 



Many of these notices are founded on those in 

 the Penny Cyclopcedia, the errors of omission and 

 commission of which I hope will be rectified. 

 Books of fact and reference never can be too 

 exact, and I have found several errors of date and 

 place therein. For instance, the date of Wolfe's 

 birth is wrong ; and Lord Wellesley died at 

 Kingston House, Knightsbridge, not the Kingston 

 House there stated. H. G. D. 



