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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[July 21. ]855. 



genuine, incomparable pieces were published " by his en- 

 trusted friends," who, in the warmth of their admiration, 

 have graced the title-page with the motto, " Non norunt 

 hsec monumenta mori." And Milton's nephew, Edward 

 Phillips, in his Theatrura Poetarum, 1675, has the follow- 

 ing remarks : " So great a man has Cleaveland been in 

 the estimation of the generality, in regard his conceits 

 were out of the common road and wittily far-fetched, 

 that grave men, in outward appearance, have not spared, 

 in vay hearing, to affirm him the best of English poets, and 

 let them think so still, who ever please, provided it be 

 made no article of faith." Gleaveland's Life has been 

 written by Bishop Lake, prefixed to his Poems, 1677, 

 8vo. ; and by Ur. Percy, Bishop of Dromore, in Kippis's 

 Biographia Britannica, vol. iii. p. 628. His petition to the 

 Lord Protector is also given in the latter work.] 



Passage in Byron. — What is the "by-word " 

 to which Lord Byron alludes in the following 

 lines of the " Ode to Napoleon ?" 



" That Corinth's pedagogue hath now 

 ^Transferred his by-word to thy brow." 



J. P. 

 ["Corinth's pedagogue" is Dionysius the younger, who 

 on being banished a second time from Syracuse retired to 

 Corinth, where he was obliged to turn schoolmaster for 

 his subsistence. Posterity has branded him as the " ty- 

 rant," which is probably the by-word to which Lord 

 Byron alludes.] 



jaepItcS. 



PRIESTS HIDING-PI-ACES, ETC. 



(Vol. xi., p. 437.) 



Somewhere about the beginning of the present, 

 or the end of tlie last century, a secret chamber 

 was accidentally discovered in the ancient manor- 

 house of Bourton-on-the- Water, co. Gloucester. 



Though frequently a resident in that house at 

 a later period, I was not there when the discovery 

 took place, and therefore can only offer' my con- 

 tribution as hearsay evidence, if such be admis- 

 sible in the pages of " N, & Q." 



The door appeared on tearing off the paper, 

 which was about to be renewed ; it was on the 

 second (or upper) floor landing-place, and opened 

 into a small chamber, about eight feet square, 

 containing a chair and table ; over the back of 

 the former hung a black robe, and the whole had 

 the appearance as if some one had recently risen 

 from his seat and left the room. What might 

 have been on the table, or whether anything else 

 was found, I have now forgotten. On the same 

 floor there were several other apartments, of 

 which three only were in use, the other (called 

 the " dark room ") having been locked up for 

 many years. Of the three in use, one was called 

 " the Chapel," another " the Priest's-room." The 

 former had a vaulted roof or ceiling. All three, 

 I believe, were supposed by the villagers to be 

 haunted ; and they had been known by the above 

 appellations in the family long anterior to the 



No. 299.] 



discovery of the door — "time out of mind!" 

 The house was one of many gables — Old Entdish 

 style? — very large and rambling, but of what 

 date I know not. According to Rudder {History 

 of Gloucestershire), the Manor of Bourton had 

 been purchased by the Abbey of Evesham temp. 

 Henry III., and the house had been a cell to that 

 Abbey. It became property of the Crown at the 

 dissolution : was granted 4 Eliz. to Lord Chandos ; 

 15 Eliz. to Giles Lord Chandos ; 44 Eliz. to Grey 

 Lord Chandos, who appears to have sold it ia 

 1608 to Sir Thomas Edmonds, Treasurer of the 

 Royal Household, and subsequently Privy Coun- 

 cillor to Charles I. 



It was probably during his occupancy that (ac- 

 cording to existing tradition) Charles passed the 

 first night here on his way from Oxford. 



The daughter of Sir Thomas conveyed the 

 manor to Henry Lord De la Ware, in marriage. 

 His grandson John sold it to Charles Trinder, 

 Esq. It afterwards passed (how not stated) to 

 Mr. Boddington, Mr. Church, Mr. Partridge, and 

 lastly to Samuel Ingram, Esq. 



So far Rudder. 



Subsequently, Mr. Ingram bequeathed it to his 

 niece, Mrs. Jo. Rice, who dying without issue, in 

 1834, the property devolved on the nearest of kin, 

 — Vaux, Esq., surgeon, of Birmingham. 



It has since, I understand, been sold in lots, the 

 hodse (except a small part of the south front) 

 pulled down, the fine old trees in which it was 

 embosomed felled, the shubberies grubbed up, the 

 pleasure-ground converted into pasture, and the 

 remains of the house into a dispensary (" Sic 

 transit," &c.). ;A. C. M. 



Exeter. 



A secret chamber, similar in its object to those 

 named by Ma. Tuck, was found in the old man- 

 sion at Henlip, in Worcestershire, when it was 

 taken <lown about thirty years ago. H. Martiit. 



Halifax. 



EPITAPH ON AN INFANT. 



(Vol. xi., pp. 190. 295.) 

 This epitaph is met with in various places. The 

 last in which I saw it may give some clue. In 

 1839 there was a pulpit contest, shot for shot, 

 between thirteen of the Church of England and 

 three Unitarian Dissenters. Two volumes of 

 Sermons were published : Unitarianism confided 

 . . . by Thirteen Clergymen of the Church of 

 England (Liverpool ; Hamilton, Adams & Co., 

 London, 8vo.) ; and Unitarianism defended . . . by 

 Three Protestant Dissenting Ministers of Liverpool 

 (Liverpool; Green, Newgate Street, London, 

 8vo.). One of the Trinitarian disputants, the 

 Rev. H. M'Grath, quoted this epitaph as " from 



