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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nds. N0 36., Sept. 6.'66. 



admitted as a scholar a.d. 1557, beinj^ then four- 

 teen years old. Are we to understand by the last 

 couplet that he was a "bookworm," and even died 

 in the library ? 



" Epitaphium Thomae Jones in legibus Bachilarii 

 quondam hujus CoUegii Socii. 



"Hie jaceo, juvenis, primum civilia jura 

 Qui didici, qui idem sacra secutus eram ; 

 Qui vitam morbis variis, gravibusque peregi ; 

 Tandem per te (Mors) hoc requiesco loco : 



Jura mihi multum, plus pagina sacra placebat ; 

 Nempe fuit morbis haec medicina meis. 



" Dum vixit sepe in ore habuit, Satis diu vixi, si Dno 

 satis. Obiit 16. die Sep', An" Drii 1585. 



On the east wall : 



" Epitaphium Magistri Thoma Larke 

 nuper Socii istius Collegii. Ob. 16. Mail, 1582, 



" Qui premor hoc tumulo dicor praenomine Thomas, 

 Cognomen fecit dulcis Alauda mihi. 

 Bis septem menses, ter septem presbyter annos, 

 Hie colui, cujus nunc fruor ore, Deum." 



" Epitaphium Ro. Waltoni Socii hujus 

 Collegii. Defunct. 13. Jan. 1596. 

 " Postquam tran^egi centum, vel circiter, annos, 

 Longa mihi sed non curva senecta fuit. 

 Languor ineKhauitos quassans paralyticus artus. 

 Hinc animam coelo tradidit, ossa solo." 



" Gulielmus Turner, 



Hujus Collegii Clericus; obiit 14" 



die Martii, Anno Domini 1644. 



" Olim cantica (musicsB peritus) 

 Dulci voce dedisti, et arte mult&: 

 Et nunc longe, anima polis fruente, 

 Edis dulcius, peritiusque." 



This is on a small slab of marble. 

 On the north wall : 



" Epita. Georgii Flower in artibus Magistri. 

 " Ecce Georgius hoc Florus sub marmore dormit, 

 Floruerat, sed flos ille caducus erat. 

 Bis septem socius vix hie transegerat annos, 

 Mors pede quum pulsat, Florus ut hinc abeat. 

 " Obiit 18° die Novembris, A" 1578." 



" Epita. Jo. Gierke. 



"Clausus Joannes jacet hoc sub marmore Clerkus, 

 Qui fuit hie quondam presbiter et socius. 

 In terra roseos solitus stillare liquores, 

 In coelo vivis nunc quoque gaudet aquis. 

 "Obiit X" die mensis Junii, 1571." 

 It would be useless to attempt to discover for 

 certain the authors of these epitaphs; but some 

 of them appear to be in the style of Christopher 

 Jonson, well known anionoj those acquainted with 

 Wykeharaical lore for his quaint effusions in Latin 

 verse, many of which were first given to the public 

 in a volume called The College of St. Mary Win- 

 ton, near Winchester, edited by the present Bishop 



of St. Andrews, &c., and published by Parker, 

 Oxford, and Nntt, London, 1848. Jonson was 

 Head Master of Wmchester School from 1560 to 

 1571, in which year he retired, and afterwards 

 practised as a physician in the parish of St. Dun- 

 stan's irt the West. There is a curious letter 

 written by him to Sir William Cecil, concerning 

 the misconduct of one Richard Lyllington, a 

 scholar of his, whom Cecil had befriended. It 

 may be seen in Ellis's Original Letters, 2nd Ser. 

 vol. ii. Letter clxxxi. W. H. Gunnee. 



3Se))lfei$ to Minat ^xitxlti. 



Brawn (1»' S. xi. 366.) — A correspondent 

 finding that Brawn in Dr. King's Art of Cookery, 

 is spoken of in the same way as Kifcat and Louket, 

 thinks it probable that Brawn also kept a house 

 of entertainment. There is no doubt about it. 

 Brawn was celebrated as a cook, and kept the 

 " Rummer in Queen Street." King's Analogy 

 between Physicians, Cooks, and Playwrights, thus 

 opens : 



"Though I seldom gat out of my own lodgings, I was 

 prevailed on the other day to dine with some friends at 

 the Rummer in Queen Street. . . . Sam Trusty would 

 nieds have me go with him into the kitchen, and see 

 how matters went there. . . . He assured me tliat 

 Mr. Brawn had an art, &c. I was, inleed, very much 

 pleased and surprised with the extraordinary s|>lendour 

 and economy I observed there; but above all, with the 

 great readiness and dexterity of the man himself. His 

 motions were quick, but not precipitate ; he in an instant 

 applied himself from one stove to another without the 

 least appearance of hurrj', and in the midst of smoak and 

 fire preserved an incredible serenitj' of countenance." 



That vulgar celebrity, Beau Brummel, accord- 

 ing to Mr. Jesse, spoke with a relish worthy a de- 

 scendant of the "Rummer" of the savoury pies 

 of his aunt Brawn, who then resided at Kilburn. 

 Aunt Brawn was the widow, I believe, of a graiid- 

 sim of the celebrity of Queen Street, who had 

 himself kept the public-house at the old Mews 

 Gate at Charing Cross. A. B. C. 



Corn Measures (2"'' S. ii. 131.) — The common 

 Winchester bushels of the sixteenth and seven- 

 teenth centuries were from a gallon of 272^ cubic 

 inches; and were therefore of 2178 cubic inches. 

 The statute 13 William III., intending no doubt 

 to preserve this gallon, defined the bushel as of 

 18^ inches diameter, and 8 inches high. But this 

 was a defective calculation ; for it gives a gallon 

 of 268'8 cubic inches. Subsequent statutes fas 

 45 George III.) paid no attention to this, and de- 

 fined the Winchester gallon as 272^ cubic inches. 



The writer who says that the Winchester bushel 

 was a thirty-second part larger than the imperial 

 bushel is quite wrong. The only bushel, I believe, 

 which is one thirty-second larger than any other 



