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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Dec. 22. 1855. 



Churchdown (Vol. xii.,p. 341.). — Allow me to 

 correct an inaccuracy in ¥. S.'s interesting notice 

 of Churchdown above referred to : he says that 

 " outlying hill is of the same formation as the Cot- 

 teswold range." This is a geological mistake — 

 the characteristic of Churchdown or Chosen is the 

 maiistone, whilst that of the Cotteswold is (in 

 the N. W. portions of the range) principally the 

 inferior oolite. The other outlying hill, Robin's 

 Wood, or llobinhood's, distant about four and a 

 half miles S., singularly analogous in outline to 

 Chosen, is of similar formation, viz. marlstone, 

 though it is capped with a portion of the lower 



oolite. COTTBSWOLDIENSIS. 



" The lips is parcel of the mouth ;" Me7Ty Wives 

 of Windsor, Act 1. Sc. 1. (Vol. xii., p. 407.).— The 

 first editor, who changed the word mouth to mind, 

 was Pope; in which he was followed, without 

 comment, by Theobald, Hanmer, and Warburton, 

 who are the " modern editors" referred to. Heath, 

 in his Revisal, attacked the alteration with much 

 severity. The original word was restored to the I 

 text by Capell (1769), and does not appear to 

 have been again disturbed ; as I find it in Malone's 

 edition (1790), and that of Steevens (1803). 



L. A. B. W. 



Marcaldis ^'- Life of Mary StuarV (Vol. xii,, 

 p. 371.). — Mr. H. Foss has had the kindness to 

 inform me, that a copy of Marcaldi's Life of Mary 

 Queen of Scotland is in the possession of Mr. 

 Payne, his late partner, deposited at Sotheby's. 

 It was inserted in their Catalogues thus : 



" Marcaldi (Francesco) Vita di Maria Regina di Scotia. 

 Inedited MSS. on Paper, very legibly written ; it is dated 

 from Siena, 1580. 4to. 4/. 4s." 



Another copy is also deposited at Sotheby's, 

 under the following title : 



" Marcaldi (Franc.), Descrizione del Regno di Scozia, 

 dal 1559 a 1573. In Liica, 1580. MSS. upon Paper. 4to." 



I have also to thank Mr. Sneyd for his com- 

 munication (Vol. xii., p. 415.). C. S. Greaves. 



" The Four Alls'' (Vol. xii., pp. 183. 292.).— At 

 Park Hall, near Oswestry, Salop, one of the most 

 perfect specimens of those curious old framed 

 mansions, which still adorn that county, is an 

 equally curious old picture — which may be called 

 "The Nine Alls;" such, if my memory serves 

 me, being the number of figures pourtrayed. In 

 addition to the four already mentioned, are a 

 lawyer, with the motto, "I plead for all;" his 

 Satanic majesty, " I catch all ;" a courtesan, splen- 

 didly apparelled, with a death's head peering 

 from behind a veil or mask, whose words will not 

 bear transferring to your pages ; and two others, 

 whose characters, as well as their sentiments, I 

 have forgotten : though I have some vague idea 

 they were a friar and a country squire. I now 



No. 321.] 



regret that I did not follow " Capt. Cuttle's" ad- 

 vice, and make a Note of it at the time. Should 

 this meet the eye of any of your readers in that 

 part of the country, they would not, perhaps, 

 think it too much trouble to supply the omission. 



T. B. B. H. 



Dolly Pentraeth (Vol. xii., p. 407.).— Upon the 

 possibility that Mr. Fraskr may not have seen 

 a little book, in which the 6l5w^oy of this lady is to 

 be found, I beg to transcribe its title : 



" Recreations in Rhyme, by a Cornubiau, with a Por- 

 trait of Dorothy Pentreath, of Mousehall, in Cornwall ; 

 the last Person who could converse in the Cornish Lan- 

 guage. 8vo. 1834." 



As, however, I know nothing of the original, it 

 is possible, that in this ''portrait," the engraver 

 may have drawn upon his imagination ; instead of 

 having, veritably, as I supposed — 



« . , . . had a strife 

 With Nature to outdo the life." 



William Bates. 



Birmingham. 



In answer to a question in your periodical 

 relative to the burial-place of Dolly Pentreath, 

 the last woman who spoke the Cornish language, 

 I beg to inform you, that she was buried in the 

 churchyard of St. Paul, near Penzance, but that 

 I there is no epitaph whatever to her memory. The 

 j story of the epitaph arose from the following : — 



A gentleman, travelling in Cornwall, made in- 

 quiries about the old woman, and was informed 

 by a wag, that there was an epitaph in Cornish, 

 and also in English, which he would give him 

 next day. Accordingly, the unfortunate traveller 

 received some lines to the memory of Dolly Pen- 

 treath, which had just come from the fertile brain 

 of the wag. The story is now pretty well known. 

 G. Arthur Festing. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



Sensations in Drowning (Vol. xii., p. 236.). — 

 A few years ago, I had the misfortune to suffer 

 shipwreck upon a distant island, and turning up 

 my MS. journal, I find I have thus recorded my 

 experience : 



" How intense and how rapid the thoughts which rush 

 through the mind of the drowning man! Having ex- 

 ceeded the bounds I had set myself for this sketch of a 

 notable passage in my life, I shall not inflict upon you, 



my dear , my sensations in detail while thus hanging 



between the two worlds, and under the firm persuasion 

 that my days in this were numbered. Suffice it to say 

 that, with the dash of the huge wave that engulphed 

 me, came the vivid consciousness that the ocean rolled 

 over my head, perhaps for ever ! 



" Of corporeal suffering during the critical moments I 

 have no recollection, but of mental a very distinct_ one, 

 arising from the sudden presentation to my mental vision, 

 in life-like reality, of dear and almost forgotten faces in 

 mournful attitudes, and past whom I appeared to be 



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