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terior of a church. How comforting the thought 

 that such epitaphs, and the melancholy renaissance 

 to which they owe their origin, are dying out day 

 by da^'. Ceybep. 



Seliliav iJott^. 



Curious Enti-y of a Baptism at Oghourne St, 

 Andrew, co. Wilts. — 



"When Europe's mirroui" England's royall Queene, Eliz- 

 abeth, was dead. 

 Then Collerne's Elizabeth y" first was seene, in Ogg- 



bourne christened, 

 Both she and wee and all this Land may rue y' wofull 



day, 

 Wherein y« Lord with angry hand, our Queene did 



talte away. 

 Full foure and forty 3'eares and more this Virgin Queene 



did reigne, 

 Wlierein God's holy word in store she kept, and did 



niainteine. 



Elizabeth Collerne y« daughter of Eobert Collerno 



was baptized y" xxvij* of March being Sonday. 



God graunt y' precious pearle may still in England 



preached be, 

 y kept may be his holy will, of all of each degree ; 

 So shall both qu^-etness and peace in England still 



abound, 

 God's love towards us will increase, our foes he will 



confound ; 

 This is my wishe, This humbly I request, God graunt 



it thus may be. 

 If not let Andrewe's Oggbourne Curate rest in heaven 



with Christ, with thee ; 



Amen, Amen. 

 Now noble James, of Scotland, England, Ireland, King, 



God graunt thee long to reigne, 

 With sharpest sword to cut down sinne, good lawes to 



bring, and God's word to meintaine; 

 Then shall the hartes of English wightes be firmly 



knitt to thee. 

 Of gracious Earles, of noble Knightes, of all in each 



degree. 



Amen, Amen, Amen. 

 " The poem of Edward Baro" 

 Curat of Ogborn." 



The above is entered under the year 1603. 

 The Queen died at Richmond on the 24th of 

 March, three days before the date of the baptism. 

 In the burial register at Ogbourne St. Andrew is 

 the following entry : 



" Mr. William Goddard, parson of both Oggbournes, 

 was buried with great solemnity June xv"*, 1G04, being 

 Trinity Monday before the Coronation of James, King of 

 Scotland." 



Patonce. 



Even the Name of America faulty. — Having 

 had occasion to look over some of the most rare 

 Incunabula of the travels of Amerlsio Vespucci, I 

 find that his Cliristian name was Emmericus, the 

 German St. Emmerich, which was only Italianised 

 into Amerigo. Alexander Humboldt has shown 

 in his Examen Critique how it came that the 

 name was given to America from one who was not 

 its discoverer. But as even this name is one of 



Yet shall my soul His high behest obey, 

 Whose bount\- gave, whose justice takes awaj' ; 

 Nor e'er m}' grateful heart forget that he 

 Ow'd thee to Heaven, who ow'd his heaven to thee." 



Stylites. 



Epitaph at Ahinger.— From a wood-rail memo- 

 rial in Abinger Churchyard, Surrey : 



" To the memory of Henry Hubbard, died 1849, aged 

 72 j-ears. 



" My hammer and anvil have lost its ring. 

 My bellows, too, have lost its wind, 

 My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, 

 Jly rasp and vice in the dust are laid ; 

 My coal is spent, mj' iron gone. 

 My last nail's driven, my work is done." 



D. D. H. 



Curious Epitaphs. — In S. Maria del Popolo, 

 Rome : — 



1. Over the son of a professor of geometry : 



" Hie lapis centrum est, 



Cujus peripheria vita fait. 



Giratus est quondam in hoc turbulento vitee circulo 



Nobilis * * 



Parente regni Geometria 



Qui infelicissime quadraturam circuli invenit, 



Dum filius ejus dilectissimus 



Sub hoc quadrato lapide sepulchrali 



Humatus est." 



2. Over an artist of the seventeenth century. 

 At the top of his monument, made by his own 

 hands as a specimen of his skill in painting, sculp- 

 ture, and architecture, is his portrait in a fixed 

 frame ; and underneath it the words, " Neque 

 hie vivus." Beneath the epitaph, within a grated 

 sepulchre, the figure of a human skeleton Is sculp- 

 tured in marble, and so placed as to appear to 

 look through the grating ; above which are the 

 words " Nee illic mortuus : " 



" J. B. GiSLENUS ROMANCS 



Sed orbis civis potius quam viator 



Omnia bona ut mala secum tulit. 



Domum hie quasrens brevem, alibi ieternam, 



Suis edoctus floribus, pomis ac moutibus, 



Vitam non modo caducam esse, sed fluxam, 



Ea sese vivum expressit imagine 



Quam non nisi pulvis et umbra fingeret. 



Memor vero hominem esse plastice natum, 



Hsec artis suae vestigia fixit in lapide, 



Sed pede mox tempoi-is conterenda. 



Ita mortis sua3 obdurescens in victoria 



Ut illam captivam ac saxeam fecerit 



Picturae Sculpturae et Architecture 



Triplici in pugna nulli daturus palmara ; 



Judex non integer scissus in partes. 



Peregit tandem extremum annum, 



A te nee plausus exacturus nee planctus 



Sed in aditu ' Ave,' in exitu ' Salve.' 



A.D. 1672, suum agebat 60." 



These inscriptions I have never met with in 

 print. Of their unsuitable character for a church- 

 yard, there can be no doubt, much less for the in- 



