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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 146. 



maker;" in Reid's Treatise on Cloclmiaking^ "a 

 clergyman." Other authors describe bun as " Mr. 

 Barlow," or " our Barlow," but in no case have I 

 met with any Christian name. Can you, or any of 

 your correspondents, give any definite information 

 respecting him ? 



I have a spring repeating table-clock, evidently 

 of great age, which I believe to have been coeval 

 with the original inventor ; it has neither name 

 nor date on it ; but, as an act of parliament was 

 passed in 1G9S, forbidding, under heavy penalties, 

 any clock to be made without the makei-'s name 

 being engraved on the dial, the fair presumption 

 is that this clock is of a date prior thereto. 



It has the old vertical escapement, and strikes 

 the hour in full, Avithout any chimes ; but when 

 wanted to repeat, on pulling a sti'ing, say at 25 

 minutes to 8, it will chime twice for the two quar- 

 ters, and then strike seven times. 



This clock was much prized by my father, as a 

 sort of heir-loom, having been the property of his 

 father and graTidfather. He probably could, when 

 living, have given me its history, but, unfortu- 

 nately, he did not " make a note of it." 



INIy great-grandfather (Edward Bai-low) was a 

 clockmaker at Oldham about fifty years, say from 

 1726 to 1776; and I believe him to have been a 

 grandson of the inventor, by whom, if a clock- 

 maker, this clock was most probably made. 



George Baklow. 



Oldham. 



" THE BRITISH APOLLO. 



Can any of your readers inform me of the birth, 

 parentage, and end of a paper called the British 

 Apollo, performed by a Society of Gentlemen, which 

 was published twice a week, and of which I have 

 the second volume ; containing the numbers from 

 March 30, 1709, to March 24, 1710? It seems to 

 be an ancient, but by no means worthy prede- 

 cessor of the " N. & Q.," as the principal part is 

 occupied by questions and replies, to which is 

 added a page of very indifferent poetry ; a short 

 letter concerning foreign news (in one number, 

 commencing: " Feb. 22, 1710. Sir, yesterday we 

 received a male from Holland, by which we have 

 confirmation from Warsaw," &c.) ; and a few ad- 

 vertisements of "good Bohee at 24*. per lb.;" 

 quack doctors ; a reward for a runaway negro in a 

 suit of grey livery, &c. &c. The questions and 

 answers are somewhat of a miscellaneous character, 

 some on deep religious subjects ; as on free will, 

 election, &c. : one begins, " Resplendent sages, 

 pray oblige your adorer with an ex[)Osition of 

 Matt, xxiii. 35." Some on medical topics, and ap- 

 parently from those who have a personal interest 

 in the reply, as, " whether thin people are most 

 liable to consmnption ;" " whether three half-pints 

 of good punch per diem is good for that com- 



plaint;" "on the wholesomeness of cyder;" "on 

 the properties of crabs' eyes;" "respecting the 

 virtues of raisons of the sun." One is : " Gentle- 

 men, I being very willing to keep my carcass in 

 health as much as I can, I would fain know which 

 is the best for me to drink in a morning, tea or 

 chocolate?" Another, "Gentlemen, pray give 

 your opinion of mushrooms." Of the miscella- 

 neous ones, the following may serve as specimens : 

 What sort of a person was Xenophon ? What 

 were the Carpocratians ? Whether music has any 

 virtue to drive away devils ? Is a person who has 

 just eaten his breakfast heavier than before ? 

 How ancient is the use of rattles for children ? 

 Answer, attributing the invention to Archytas of 

 Tarentum, the tutor of Plato. Whence came the 

 proverb, As bold as a Beauchamp ? Answer, from 

 Thos. Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, who in 1346, 

 with one squire and six archers, encountered and 

 repulsed 100 armed men in Normandy. Why 

 several couples of hounds are called a pack ? 

 Answer, derived from -kvkvos, confertus. Why are 

 those who have lost their love said to wear willow 

 garlands ? What is tlie meaning of the words 

 " Fear God and honour the King " being written 

 upon the sign of the Bell always ? Why are 

 thieves more sharp towards Christmas than at other 

 times ? And one probably of personal interest : 

 Whether a house and shop well situated will let 

 sooner by being shut up, or the contrary ? Another 

 is, " What mark can you give me to know a fool 

 by ? " And the appropriate answer, " The sending 

 such a wise question." E. H. Y. 



[The first number of The British Apollo was issued on 

 February 13, 1708, and it was published twice a-week. 

 It completed its career in March, 1711, having attained 

 the bulk of three volumes folio. An abridgment of 

 this curious periodica), " containing 20C0 Answers to 

 Questions in most Arts and Sciences," was published 

 in 1726 and 1740, 3 vols. 12mo.] 



SIR THOMAS PARR S OR SIR WILLIAM PELHAM S 

 TOMB AT KENDAL. 



Some years ago I made the following extract 

 from Nicholson and Burns' History of WestmorC' 

 land, vol. i. p. 75., and which I have had mislaid, 

 or I sliould have sent it you sooner : 



" In the isle called Parr's (alluding to the old 

 churcli at Kendal), which belonged to tiie Parrs of 

 Kendal Castle, Sir Thomas Parr, Knight, is commonly 

 supposed to have been interred under a large tomb- 

 stone without any inscription ; there having been in 

 the glass window over it, until demolished by Crom- 

 well's soldiers, the following distich : 



• Pray for the soul of Sir Thomas Parr, Knight, 

 Who was Squire of the Body to King Henry the 8th.' 



But it hath evidently appeared before that he was not 

 buried here, but in the Blackfriars Church in Loudon ; 



