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collection of her poems (Poems on Subjects chiefly 

 Devotional, in two volumes, a new edition, by 

 Theodosia, Bristol, 1780), vol.ii. p. 71. : 



" ON THE DEATH OF MR. HERVEV. 



" Hervey, honour'd name, forgive the tear, 

 That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; 

 Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, 

 Fond wish ! have kept thee from tlie seats of bliss. 



* No more confin'd to these low schemes of night, 

 Pent in a feeble tenement of clay ; 

 Should we not rather hail thy glorious flight, 

 And trace thy journey to the realms of day." 



The epitaph to the memory of Mrs. Ann Berry, 

 and two others, are stated in Barber's Isle of 

 White, p. 29., to be "from the pen of the late 

 Rev. Mr. Gill, curate of Newchurch." What is 

 the date of the tombstone in Brading church- 

 yard? Henrt Geo. ToMKiNs. 



Weston-super-Mare. 



FitchetCs "-Alfred the Great" (Vol. x., p. 102.). 

 — The author of this poem was an attorney at 

 Warrington. He died about the year 1832, and 

 left a sum of money to be ap|)lied towards the 

 publication of his work. He requested his friend 

 and fdrnier pupil, Mr. Robert Roscoe, to super- 

 intend the publication of the poem. Mr. Roscoe 

 was one of the sons of William Roscoe of Liver- 

 pool, and died a few years ago. W. R. 



Leicester. 



Books burnt by the common hangman (Vol. ix., 

 p. 425. ; Vol. X., p. 12.). — I am surprised that no 

 one has yet mentioned the two famous sermons of 

 Dr. Sa<'heverel, which were ordered to be burnt be- 

 fore the Royal Exchange in London, between the 

 hours of one and two of the clock, on March 27, 

 1710, by the hands of the common hangman, in 

 the presence of the Lord Mayor of the City of 

 London and the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex. 

 At the same time was burnt tlie Oxford Decree of 

 1683, wliich had been reprinted under the title 

 of An Entire Confutation of Mr. Houdley's Book 

 of the Original of Government, taken from the 

 London Gazette, published by authority. 



During the civil war. Sir Edward Dering, of 

 unhappy notoriety, in vindication of himself from 

 censorious attacks, printed a collection of his 

 speeches in matters of religion, for which he was 

 expelled the House, and his book was burnt by 

 the common hangman. — (Vide Southey's Book of 

 the Church, vol. ii. p. 411.) 



The following extract is from Hearne's MS. 

 Diary, Oct. 3, 1713, cited in Letters, Sfc. (from 

 the Bodleian Library), vol. i. p. 261. : 



"There having been no Terra filins speech, tl:is last 

 act, quite contrary to what the statutes direct (occasioned 

 by the contrivance of the Vice-Ciiaiicellor and Proctors), 

 there hath been one since printed in which the Vice- 

 Chancellor and some other Heads of Houses are severely 

 reflected upon, nay, ten times more severely than ever 



happened at the Theatre or elsewhere, when the Terrce 

 fiUus was allowed to speak ; which hath so nettled the 

 Vice-Chanc. and others, that on Thursday, in the after- 

 noon, both he and other Heads of Houses met in the 

 Apodyterium, and resolved that it should be burnt. And, 

 accordingly, yesterday, at two o'clock in the afternoon, 

 there was a Convocation, in which the Vice-Chancellor 

 was continued for another year, and the speech was pro- 

 posed to be burnt. And, accordingly, the said speech 

 was burnt, which act, however, is only generally laughed 

 at, it being a certain sure way to publish it and make it 

 more known." 



I have seen somewhere that the works of Sir 

 David Lindsay, the Scottish poet in the 16th 

 century, were ordered to be burnt in consequence 

 of his tone in regard to religion and the Church. 



E. H. A. 

 In a Catalogue of Puttick and Simpson's, May 

 26, 1851, I find that Coward's Second Thoughts 

 concerning the Human Soul (1702) was burnt. 



P. J. F. Gantillow. 



Holy Loaf Money (Vol. ix., pp. 150., 256., 586., 

 Vol. x., p. 133.). — The correspondent from Bos- 

 ton, Thomas Collis, who expresses a wish that 

 Dr. Rock or myself would give some information 

 of the nature and origin of the custom of distri- 

 buting blessed bread at high mass in France and 

 the Low Countries, must have overlooked a com- 

 munication of mine in " N. & Q." (Vol. x., p. 36.) 

 signed with my initials, F. C. H. There is little 

 that can be added to the information there given. 

 In the first ages of the Church, all who assisted at 

 mass received the Holy Communion ; but when so 

 frequent communion was no longer practised, it 

 became customary to distribute to those who did 

 not actually communicate a small piece of common 

 bread, previously blessed by prayer. The inten- 

 tion of this was to remind the recipients that we 

 are all, as St, Paul expresses it, " one bread, one 

 body all that partake of one bread " (1 Cor. x. 17). 

 Should Thomas Collis desire any further infor- 

 mation on this interesting ceremony, I shall be 

 happy, if able, to give it. F. C. Husenbeth. 



The origin of the custom of distributing blessed 

 bread at mass is correctly explained by F. C. H. 

 (Vol. x., p. 36 ). In this colony, of French origin, 

 the custom is still retained, but its observance is 

 restricted to certain solemn festivals. On these 

 occasions the bread, or gateau, is supplied by the 

 principal public functionaries (each in his turn) 

 who may happen to be Roman Catholics. 



Henbt H. Bbeen. 



St. Lucia. 



Can a man speak after he is dead? (Vol. x., 

 p. 87.) — I follow the heading of your correspon- 

 dent W. W., but should prefer to state the en- 

 quiry thus : Can a man speak without his heart or 

 bowels, or both ? In the Memoirs of Missionary 

 Priests, Sfc, who suffered death in England on 



