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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Oct. 20. 1855. 



Henry Best (Vol. xii., p. 227.)- — Mr. Best died 

 in 1836. He lies in the churchyard of Brighton 

 old church (St. Nicholas), where is a raised tomb 

 with the following inscription : 



" In sure and certain hope, Henry Best, Esq., formerly 

 of the Minster Yard, Lincoln, and of St. Mary Magdalen 

 College, Oxford; born 21 Oct., 1768. Died 28 May, 1836. 

 ' Kequiescat in Pace.' " 



Mr. Best graduated at Magdalen ; B. A. 

 Oct. 10, 1783 ; M.A. June 22, 1791. P. B. 



A Lady restored to Life (Vol. xi., p. 146. ; 

 Vol. xii., pp. 154. 215.). — Since I sent you a 

 Note on this subject, I have heard of two other 

 similar legends. The localities are Lubeck and 

 Magdeburgh. Both towns have houses orna- 

 mented twith horses, showing that the legend in 

 these places agree with the one I had heard of in 

 connexion with Cologne. There is one circum- 

 stance connected with the Lubeck legend that 

 may be of interest. The lady on her return to 

 the light of day had lost her lively complexion, 

 and ever afterwards was known by her corpse- 

 like colour. Two children whom she bore were 

 also marked in this ghastly manner. There can 

 be no doubt of the truth of this story, if we may 

 argue in the method of good old Thomas Fuller, 

 as in the church of St. Mary in Lubeck, there is 

 a painting representing the lady in question with 

 her two children, unmistakeably referring to the 

 legend, as the corpse-like hue is faithfully given. 



S. A. S. 

 Bridgwater. 



I have heard this story related of the mother of 

 the late Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, of whom an 

 old servant of my family used to relate that she 

 " had more than one child after she was buried." 

 How far this is true I cannot undertake to say. 



J. F. 



Bell at Funerals (Vol. ii., p. 478. ; Vol. vii., 

 p. 297.). — 



" Perico de Ayala went away to the Court brotherhood, 

 and requested them to bury one who had died at the 

 marquis's, and then away went the funeral procession, 

 with the little death-bell tinkling before them." — Floresta's 

 Espdhola, p. 123. 



This will show that the custom at Oxford, of 

 which Mr. Gattt expressed some doubt, was ob- 

 served also on the Continent. I myself have seen 

 the bellman twice precede the funeral of an 

 under-graduate at Oxford, once to a college 

 chapel, and once to St. Mary's Church. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Pierre Marteau (Vol. x., p. 503.), — H. B. C. 

 inquires for books printed at Cologne by Pierre 

 Marteau ; let him turn up Brunet's Manuel du 

 Libraire, vol. v. p. 813., edit. 1844., and under the 

 head of books, "auxquelles les Elzeviers n'ont pas 



No. 312.] 



mis leurs noms, mais qui sont sorties de leurs 

 presses," he will find plenty of such. 



These celebrated typographers appear to have 

 been in the habit of using fictitious imprints to 

 books of questionable orthodoxy, revolutionary 

 politics, or unsound morality ; and the curious 

 will often meet with these outcasts purporting to 

 be from the Cologne, or other German and Dutcfi 

 presses of P. Marteau, &c. 



I have several of these upon my shelves, and 

 may cite, as examples, three, all bearing the dis- 

 tinguishing mark of the sphere upon the title, 

 from the press of Marteau, Cologne : — 



1. Histoire de V Inquisition, et son Origine, 

 1693. The work, I believe, of the Abbe Mar- 

 soillier, who seems to have been no apologist for 

 this Satanic adjunct of popery, for on its reaching 

 Rome, the book was immediately clapped into the 

 Index, 



2. Histoire Secrete des Rots Charles II. et 

 Jacques II., traduite de V Anglais, 1690. If the first 

 lacked papal orthodoxy, this is as defective in the 

 Jure Divino of kings and popes. 



3. Le Siecle d' Or de Cupidon, no date, A coarse 

 and incorrectly printed little book, with a frontis- 

 piece representing the gamboUings of satyrs and 

 nymphs ; eminently belonging to my third cate- 

 gory. J. O. 



Bankers' Cheques (Vol. xii., p, 9.) : — 



1. A banker can legally refuse to pay a cheque 

 (at the counter), crossed in blank, by the lex mer- 

 catoria. 



2. A banker is allowed twenty-four hours to 

 present a cheque, and the same time to return it 

 if dishonoured. 



3. It is lawful — whether necessary or useful or 

 not depends on circumstances — in payment to 

 cross cheques, X. 



30. Ely Place. 



" Child's Guide to Knowledge " (Vol. xii., 

 p. 205.). — The authoress of the Child's Guide to 

 Knowledge is Mrs. Ward, wife of the late Eev. 

 R. Ward of Thetford, Norfolk. Anon. 



Roman Catholic Bishoprics (Vol. xii., p. 249.). 

 — Your correspondent wishes to know my reason 

 for believing that the titular " Argolicensis " was 

 a suffragan of England. I can assure him that it 

 has been my endeavour to collect the name of 

 every suffragan that I could meet with in my 

 reading, and I have a more complete list than has 

 ever yet been printed. I have in MS. a history 

 of every see, and concise biographical memoirs of 

 every bishop of England and Wales and the Colo- 

 nies, from the foundation of the diocese, and only 

 wait until I can find a publisher enterprising 

 enough to give them to the world. Among the 

 suffragans who have derived their names from 

 Greek towns, I may mention Gilberd and Vivian 



