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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 248. 



with modern literature which a country justice of 

 the Hanoverian era might well envy. 



W. Denton. 



Curious Epitaph. — 



"Here lyeth the body of Daniel Jeffery, the son of 

 Michael Jeffery and Joan his wife. He was buried ye 

 2' day of September, 1746, and in ye 18' yeere of his age. 

 This youth. When in his sickness lay, did for the Minis- 

 ter Send » that he would Come and With him Pray • 

 But he would not atend. But When this young man 

 Buried was the Minister did him admit » he Should be 

 Caried into Church » that he might money geet. By 

 this you See what man will dwo » to geet money if he 

 can » Who did Refuse to come and pray ♦ by the Fore- 

 said young man." 



This epitaph was in the churchyard of West 

 AUington, Devon. It alludes to the custom in 

 the county, of a fee paid to the minister when a 

 corpse is carried into church. The minister was 

 the Rev. Mr. Pyle, son of the author of the Para- 

 phrase on St. PauVs Epistles. It is given as above 

 by Polwhele in his County History, who adds, what 

 I have myself heard from an old gentleman who 

 knew him well, and had seen the epitaph, that he 

 would not allow it to be removed, not wishing to 

 destroy such a specimen of village poetry and 

 scandalous falsehood ; for it was well known that 

 the youth died of virulent small-pox, and that so 

 suddenly that there was no time for giving notice 

 of his illness. H. T. Eixacombe. 



Clyst St. George. 



^^ Paunch" or " Pmich" when first known in 

 England. — The following extract has been taken 

 from Fryer's Travels to the East Indies, 1672 : 



" At Nerule (near Goa) is made the best arach, or nepa 

 die Goa, with which the English on this coast make that 

 enervating liquor called paunch (which is Indostan for 

 five), from five ingredients, as the physicians name this 

 composition diapente; or from four things, diatesseron." 



w. w. 



Malta. 



Monumental Inscription. — 



" In memory of Mr. John Ellis of Silkstone, who 

 departed this life the 7th day of April, 1766, in the 

 twenty-seventli year of his age. Also the body of 

 Mary Isabella, daughter of the said Mr. John, who 

 died in her infancy. Item ille corpus Bridget Ellis, 

 Uxor super J. Ellis quis obeo Dec''' 8th, 1812, 

 setatis 88. 



• Life's like an inn where travellers stay. 

 Some only breakfast and away ; 

 Others to dinner stop, and are full fed ; i 



The oldest only sup and go to bed.'" 



E.H. 

 Bishop Sprat. — I know not whether the birth- 

 place of Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, has ever been 

 satisfactorily settled. Wood {Athence), Godwin 



(De Presulibus, by Richardson), and Johnson, in 

 his Lives of the Poets, state that he was born at 

 Tallaton, in Devonshire. In this they are fol- 

 lowed by the Biographie Universelle, and the 

 Cyclopcedia of the Society for Promoting Useful 

 Knowledge, though in the latter the name of the 

 place is misprinted Fallaton. Hutchins, in his 

 History of Dorset, however, claims him as a native 

 of that county ; and declares him, on the evidence 

 of his epitaph, to have been born at Beaminster^ 

 Dorset. 



I have been looking over a Sermon of his^ 

 " preached to the natives of the county of Dorset, 

 residing in and about the cities of London and 

 Westminster, on Dec. 8, 1692, being the day of 

 their Anniversary Feast," which appears to me 

 to afford conclusive proof of the correctness of the 

 latter opinion. He there addresses them as his 

 "dear countrymen," using the word both there 

 and elsewhere apparently in the sense of natives of 

 the same county. Thus, for instance, he says : 



" No man can deny, but as to the country, whence we alt 

 have sprung, our lot has fallen to be bom in a pleasant and 

 fruitful place: and I am confident, many that hear me 

 this day, have there also a goodly inheritance ; and many, 

 if not there, I am sure have elsewhere. And you know 

 the old Gospel rule, 'To whom much is given, of them 

 much is required.' " 



C. W. Bingham. 



A New-England Dialogue. — The following 

 presents the most striking peculiarities in the 

 language and pronunciation of the people of New 

 England : 



R. Samwell, Samwell! 



S. What say f 



R. Where's your brother Danel f 



S. He's to the tavern. 



R. He hadn't ought to be to the tavern. I'll tell 

 your mother of him. 



S. Tell away : she's up garret. 



R. Where's your cousin Jeremiwr ? 



S. He's to uncle Obediwr's. Uncle has gone ta 

 the Legislatwr. 



R. Does Jeremizir behave well now ? 



S. No, he's very ugly. He tried to burn the 

 barn. 



R. Do tell! 



S. Yes, it's the natwr of him to play such tricks. 

 Uncle had thrashed him for something, and next 

 thing the farm was in a blaze. 



R. Let me know. 



S. Yes, Miss (Mrs.) Smith caught him at it. 



R. Where's Euphemiwr ? How old is she now ? 



S. She's two years old, and lives with her 

 father-in-lav) (step-father). 



R. Did her father leave much ? 



S. Not much. His estafe was apprized by the 

 'apprizers at four thousand dollars. 



R. That's a very low apprizement. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



