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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



m. 



Jas. Ford, on the Gospels and Acts, " Illustrated 

 from Ancient and Modern Athens," come perhaps 

 nearer my meaning than any publication I re- 

 member, and yet they take in by no means a wide 

 or varied range of learning or illustration. Pici- 

 nelli's work too I may mention, though I only 

 know it in the Latin translation, and it is con- 

 fined to ancient authors : 



" Picinelli (D. Philippi) Lumina Reflexa, seu omnium 

 veterum Classicorum ac Ethnicorum Authorum exactis- 

 simus Consensus cum singulis Capitibus ac singulis pene 

 Versibus Sacrorum Bibliorum V. et N. T. deserviens in- 

 star Commentarii ad totam S. Scripturam. Ex Italico 

 Latine reddidit D. Augustinus Erath. Franco/., 1702. 

 Folio." 



Such a commentary as I propose would furnish 

 a noble aim and central point of unity for the 

 discursive reading of a cultivated mind. Were it 

 undertaken by one man, I could name none more 

 suitable than the Rev. Richard Chenevix Trench. 

 It would be best performed, however, by the 

 united efforts of several persons. 



Apropos to this subject, A Patristic Commen- 

 tary on the whole Bible was planned some years 

 ago by Dr. Newman, Dr. Pusey, Rev. J. Williams, 

 Rev. C. Marriott, &c. ; but unfortunately was 

 never carried into execution, and such a work 

 still remains a great desideratum. Eirionnach. 



EPITAPHS. 



Epitaph in Plumstead Churchyard. — 



« s. s. s. • 



Interred lie the mortal remains of 



General Sir William Green, Baronet, 



Chief Royal Engineer, 



Departed this life, Jan. 11, 1811. Aged 86 years. 



Efficient duty reminiscent grave 



Yet mild philantrophy a reign may save 



If but the mind incline rare to deny 



Courteous humane to misery a sigh 



To woe and wretchedness a constant friend 



What's the proud curse — a rind an atom cloud 



Where shines the planet nature's voice is loud 



Soft sweep the l3Te pity her distress 



Compassion's melting moods her numbers bless 



On these perhaps our future joys depend 



Aided by the interference of an honourable friend 



In the honourable corps of Artillery 



We have further consigned to memory 



A tablet in the Sanctuary of the Church." 



M. C. 



Epitaph at Truro. — In the church of St. 

 Mary's, Truro, Cornwall, is a mural tablet bear- 

 ing tlie following quaint record of the character 

 and deeds of a hero of olden time : 



" Adfa ev ixfiCa-Toii ©ew. 



"To the pious and wel deserved memory of Owen 



Fitz-Pex als Phippen, who travelled over many parts 



of the world, and on y" 24"» March, 1620, was taken by 



the Turkes and made a captive in Argier. He projected 



sundry plots for his libertie, and on y" 17t'» June, 1627, 

 with 10 other Christian captives dutch and french (per- 

 suaded by his counsel and courage), he began a cruel 

 fight, with 65 Turkes in their own ship, wc. lasted 3 

 howers, in wc. 5 of his companie were slaine, yet God 

 made him captaine. So he brought the ship into Carta- 

 gene, being of 400 tuns and 22 Ordce. Tiie King sent 

 fbr him to Madrid to see him, he was proffered a capi- 

 taine's place and the K.'s favour if he would turne Papist, 

 wc. he refused. He sold all for GOOOZ., returned to Eng- 

 land, and died at Lamoran, 17 March, 1636. 



" Melcomb in Dorset wos his place of birth. 

 Age 54, and here lies Earth on Earth. 



" Geo. Fitz-Pen als Phippen, 



Ipsius frater et hujus Ecclesiaj Rector, 



H. M. P." 



There are two shields engraved on the tablet ; 

 the one bearing three scallop shells, and the other 

 a lion rampant and crosslets. 



Epitaph at Norwich. — As you occasionally ad- 

 mit epitaphs in your pages possessing singularity 

 from the events recorded, as well as others of un- 

 questioned merit, I enclose one copied from the 

 graveyard of the Old Men's Hospital, in Norwich, 

 which under the former distinction may deserve 

 admission in your columns : 



"In 

 Memory of 

 Mrs. Phebe Crewe, 

 who died May 28, 1817, , 



Aged 77 years. 

 Who, during forty years' 



practise as a midwife 



in this City, brought into 



the world nine thousand 



seven hundred and 



thirty Children." 



Henry Davenbt. 



Epitaph at Kinver, Staffordshire. — The fol- 

 lowing epitaph seems worth preserving in " N. & 

 Q." It is on a tomb in Kinver Church, Stafford- 

 shire : 



" To the Memory 



of Eliza, wife of W. Crawsley. 



She died in childbed, Nov. 13, 1813. 



Aged 28. 



" In this sequester'd fane, this humble stone. 

 Guiltless of art, adorn'd by truth alone, 

 Thy virtues, lov'd Eliza, best may show, 

 And point the sources of a husband's woe. 

 What if no scenes of busier life appear, 

 With dazzling radiance in thy brief career ? 

 Thine was the soul that shunn'd the general gaze. 

 Thine the mild lustre of domestic praise. 

 Five fleeting years in joys unsullied past, 

 Four pledges of delight, too pure to last, 

 Presaged how brightly in more lengthen'd life 

 Had shone the friend, the mother, and the wife. 

 Charm'd by thy tongue, by thy example fired. 

 No more my youth life's giddy course desired. 

 Oh ! how Avithout thee shall the path be trod 

 That leads to Life, to Virtue, and to God ! 



