July 31. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Tliis is doubtless information easily procurable ; but 

 I fear that respecting the Marian Bishops, my 

 Queries will not be all answered fully, if indeed at 

 all. A. S. A. 



Wazzcerabacl. 



William Stafford. — Perhaps some of your ge- 

 nealogical readers may be able to supply inform- 

 ation respecting William Stafford, Esq., who mar- 

 ried Elizabeth, danghter of Sir Richard Guldeford, 

 K. G., of Kent, and widow of Thomas Isley, Esq., 

 of the same county. The third husband of this 

 lady was Sir Richard Shirley, of Sussex. Thomas 

 Isley died 8th February, 1518, but when Stafford 

 and Shirley, I am unable to say. 



There was a William Stafford, Esq., who on the 

 25th September, 1 Henry VII. 1485, was appointed 

 by patent keeper of the exchange within the 

 Tower of London, keeper of the coinage of gold 

 and silver within the said Tower, and elsewhere 

 within the realm of England. (Vide Harl. MS. 

 698. f. 70.) 



Agnes, daughter of the above Thomas and Eliza- 

 beth Isley, married to her second husband Sir 

 Francis Sydney, Lieutenant of the Tower, and a 

 younger son of Nicholas Sydney, Esq., ancestor of 

 the Sydneys of Penshurst. Can any one inform 

 me when he died? G. Steinman Steinman. 



Sinking Fund. — 



" Hence the sinking fund has been a costly, as well 

 as a most delusive, piece of quackery. The loss it 

 «iitailed on the country during tlie war has been esti- 

 tnated, apparently on reasonable grounds, at above 

 600,000/." — M'Culloch, Brit. Empire, ii. 427. 



"In 1813 it was producing more tlian half the in- 

 terest of the debt, and, if it had been let alone, would 

 tiave extinguished the whole debt existing at the end 

 of the war, before the year 1840." — Alison's History 

 ■of Europe, chap, xxxvi. 93. 



I [Will some correspondent inform me which of 

 these siaiQ^ facts is true? A. C^ 



fBiiwtix caucrtoS ^itiSiocrrt. 



" The BoiVd Pig."— Was the poem called " The 

 Boil'dPig" ever printed, and who was the author 

 of it ? It used to be recited as a speech at Harrow 

 School, half a century ago. Jack. 



[This poem, we believe, was privately printed about 

 thirty years ago, by Thomas .Jonathan Wooler, the 

 editor of tlie Black Dicarf, in a small collection of 

 poems for distribution among his friends.] 



Stone Coffins. — Where can I obtain information 

 as to the history of stone coffins ? Is there any 

 work on the subject ? J. Larcombe. 



i i [Consult Cough's Sepulchral Monuments in Great 

 Britain, Part I.; also tiie Indices to the Archceologia, 

 for various papers on this subject.] 



" Conspicit vrbem." — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents Infn'm me who is the author of the fol- 

 lowing quotation ? 



" Conspicit urbem, 



Divitiis, oplbus, et festa pace rcvircns; 



Vixque tenet lacrymas, quia nil lacrymabile videt." 



I give it as it was very happily quoted in a colo- 

 nial legislature, by a well read man *, who was, 

 however, ignorant wliere it came from. It cannot 

 be quite correct, as the prosody is faulty. S. N. 



[The passage occurs in Ovid, Metamorph., lib. ii. 

 V. 794. : 



" Conspicit arcem, 

 Ingeniis, opibusque, et festa pace virentem : 

 Vixque tenet lacrymas : quia nil lacrymabile cernit."] 



Old English Names of Flowers. — Is there any 

 book on natural history from which I could make 

 myself acquainted with the old familiar English 

 names of plants and wild flowers ? C. G. S. 



[Tlie names will be found in any of the old Herbals: 

 but, perhaps, the best to consult is, The Herbal of 

 William Turner, in TItree Parts, lately gathered, and now 

 set oute with the names of the Herbes, in Greek, Latin, 

 English, Dutch, French, and in the Apothecaries and 

 Herbaries Latin, with the Properties, Degrees, and 

 habitual Places of the same. Collen, 1568. fol.] 



Meaning of Slype. — I shall be glad if any of 

 your correspondents can inform me of the meaning 

 of the term sli/pe, applied to a passage pierced 

 through the buttress at the S. W. corner of the 

 south aisle of Winchester Cathedral ; and also of 

 the real purport of an inscription on one of the 

 walls of the " slype " to this effect : 



CESSIT COMMVNI PROrRIVM JAM PERGITE 

 QVA FAS. 1632. 



ACR 

 i J 



EBV 



II.L 



J 

 1ST 



The popular account refers it to a time antecedent 

 to the piercing of the buttress, when the road to 

 the market-place lay through the nave of the ca- 

 thedral. The difficulty consists in its application 

 to such a state of things. Could it be referred to 

 the same date as the cutting of the "slype," it 

 would be more intelligible. G. H. 



[Britton, in lus Archilectural Dictionary, says, "A 

 Slyp is a passage between two walls." Milner states, 

 that "in 1632, when Curie was bishop of Winchester, 

 it being judged indecent that the church should be left 

 open as a common thoroughfare into the close and the 

 southern suburbs of the city, the passage called the 

 Slype was opened, where certain houses had stood, and 



* Sir H. E. F. Young, now Governor of South 

 Australia. 



