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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Dec. 1. 1855. 



Remarkable Epitaph. — A MS. Tour of the 

 year 1635 pives the following account of an 

 epitaph at Winchester, that assuredly must be 

 without a parallel, and, as such, deserves a place 

 in"N. &Q.:" 



" On the north side of this church is the monument of 

 two brothers of the surname Clarke, wherewith I was so 

 taken as take them I must ; and as I found them I pray 

 accept them. 



" Thus an union of two brothers from Avington, the 

 Clarkes' family, were grandfather, father, and son, suc- 

 cessivelie clerkes of the Privy Scale in Court. 



The grandfather had but two sons, both Thomas. 



Their wives both Amys. 



Their hej-res both Henry. 



And the'heyres of Henries both Thomas. 



Both their wives were inheritrixes. 



And both had two sons and one daughter. 



And both their daughters issuelesse. 



Both of Oxford ; both of the Temple. 



Both officers to Queen Elizabeth and o«' noble King 

 James. 



And both Justices of the Peace. 



Togeather both agree in armes, one a knight, y« other 

 a captain. 



Si quseras plura ; both ; and so I leave y™." 



Cl. Hopper. 



Curious Epitaphs. — Numerous and curious 

 epitaphs have from time to time appeared in your 

 pages. Here is another. 



Within the church of Areley Kings, near Stour- 

 port, is the following : 



" Here lieth the body of William Walsh, gentleman, 

 who died the third day of November, 1702, aged eighty- 

 six, son of Michael Walsh of Great Shelsley, who left him 

 a fine estate in Shelsley, Hartlebury and Areley ; who 

 was ruinated in his estate by three Quakers, two lawyers, 

 and a fanatic to help them." 



Palque. 



Epitaph from Folkestone. — 

 " To the Memory of Rebecca Rogers, August. 22, 1688. 



" A house she hath, 'tis made of such good fashion, 

 The tenant ne'er shall pay for reparation ; 

 Nor will her landlord ever raise her rent. 

 Or turn her out of doors for non-payment ; 

 From chimney tax this cell is free — 

 To such a house who would not tenant be ? " 



A. S. 



LEPKOSY IN THE CRIMEA. 



The ancient leprosy is not a distinct disease. 

 Found in most parts of the world, from the scrip- 

 tural and classic eras, through the middle ages, 

 down to the present time, it has only within the 

 last two centuries been banished from England 

 and France by the improved modes of living, con- 

 sequent on a high civilization. It is still found, 

 more or less, in almost every other country in the 

 ivorld. i 



No. 318.3 



Persons who have been much abroad, every 

 now and then become subject to this disease, 

 sometimes many years after their return home. I 

 saw an instance of the sort in London within the 

 last fifteen months. 



The Crimea is one of its lurking-places ; and it 

 is not unlikely to show itself after a time, even 

 when the siege of Sebastopol has become a matter 

 of history, in some of the survivors of the cam- 

 paign, who have been more especially exposed to 

 hardships and privations. 



Danielssen and Boeck, the authors of one of the 

 best treatises extant upon this remarkable disease, 

 observe : 



" The disease of the Crimea, Morbus Crimensis seu 

 nigra, is also named Lepra Taurica seu Chersonesa. It is 

 called Krimskaia Bolesin, or Krimskaia Prokasa in Astra- 

 chan, because it was brought there from the Crimea by 

 the Eussian armies. The Cossacks about Juik call it 

 Tschornaia Nemoschtsch, the black disease, because the 

 first symptom of the eruption consists in a darkened 

 colour of the face. The disease of the Crimea is described 

 in Gmelius's Journey through Russia, vol. ii. p. 169., and 

 in Pallas's Journey, vol. i. p. 302." 



Its especial causes are well known to be hard- 

 ship, privation, exposure to cold and wet, bad or 

 insufficient food, and absence of the means of 

 cleanliness, concurring. These induce a peculiar 

 morbid condition of the blood, which is the essence 

 and foundation of the disease, and from which all 

 its formidable and remarkable symptoms directly 

 proceed. William E. C. Noubse. 



West Cowes, Isle of Wight, 



TEMPLE BAR. 



Perhaps, some centuries hence, when the bar- 

 barous nuisance above mentioned has ceased to be 

 a bar to national progress into and out of the 

 city of London, and when " N. & Q." shall have 

 reached its 400th or 500th Volume, some yet un- 

 born " Cunningham " will bless it for preserving 

 the appended petition for the removal of the use- 

 less structure, made in 1853. Surely if it is only 

 kept standing (as hinted in the second paragraph 

 of the petition) in order that my Lord Mayor 

 maj'^, by shutting its at-all-other-times dirty gates, 

 when it pleases majesty to pay him a visit, keep 

 majesty waiting till he opens them again, a much 

 greater sensation might certainly be created, and 

 more authority shown, besides the proceedings 

 being more in accordance with modern notions of 

 power, if two of the city police were allowed to stop 

 the royal cor(ege on such occasions, on its approach- 

 ing the city boundary, and my lord (or his mace- 

 bearer for him) were to evince his loyalty by 

 knocking the officials down, and thus permit an 

 invasion of his territory ; and I would venture to 

 suggest this in lieu of the present absurd custom, 

 as being equally imposing, should the ugly struc- 



