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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 147. 



They agree like London clocks. 



Then I'll thatch Groolj'-Pool with pancakes. 



'Tis height that makes Gramham steeple stand 

 awry. 



What have I to do with Bradshaw's windmill ? 



"What ! would he be greater tliaii Sir John? 



When Dover and Calais meet. 



When the devil is dead, there is a widow for Hum- 

 phrey. 



Who robs a Cambridge scholar robs twenty. 



Who so bold as blind Baynard ? 



You are in the highway to Needham. 



You will have as much courtesy at Billingsgate. 



Blessed is the eye \ 



That is between Severn and Wye. J 



By Tre, Pol, and Pen, 1 



You may know the Cornish men. J 



A knight of Cales, 



A gentleman of Wales, 



And a laird of the North country ; 



There's a yeoman of Kent, 



That with one year's rent. 

 Will buy them all three." 



N. 



Glassrow. 



MISPEIJST IN PRAYER-BOOKS. 



Amongst the misprints which occasionally creep 

 into the various editions of our Prayer Book, I 

 have noticed one which obtains very generally. 

 It is found in Psalm xc. 12. In some editions this 

 verse reads : " O teach us to number our days," 

 &c, ; in others, " So teach us," &c. 1 have col- 

 lated a few copies of various editions taken at 

 random from my book-shelves, and the result is as 

 follows : 



" O teach us." — 8vo., Oxford, 1818 ; 8vo., London, 

 1847 ; 8vo., London, 1850. 



The last edition is that with notes by Bishop 

 Mant : in the margin of the verse we read, " So 

 teach us," Bib. Trans. 



" So teach us." — 16mo., London, 1809 ; 8vo., Cam- 

 bridge, 1818 (stereotype edit.) ; 24mo., Oxford, 1849; 

 8vo., London, 1850; 24mo., London, 1852. 



It appears that the word " So" has been substi- 

 tuted for " O," from the Psalms in the authorised 

 version of the Bible. 



I have seen an edition of the Prayer Book (in 

 4to. I think, but unfortunately I have no note of 

 it), in which a rubric, similar to that in the Prayer 

 *' For all Sorts and Conditions of Men," was intro- 

 duced into that sentence of the " Litany :" " That 

 it may please thee to preserve all that travel," &c. 



All such deviations from the authoritative text 

 of the sealed books should I think be noted, in 

 order to be avoided in all future editions. The 

 Book of Common Prayer, with Notes Legal and 

 Historical, published by the Ecclesiastical History 

 Society, contains the results of the laborious col- 

 lation of (I think) eighteen various editions of the 



Prayer Book ; in addition to which, its text, a 

 strict reprint of the sealed books, will render it 

 very valuable to any future editor of the Book of 

 Common Prayer. The work at present extends 

 only to the end of the office for the " Bnptism of 

 such as are of riper years." The third and con- 

 cluding volume is, I believe, in course of prepara- 

 tion. W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. 



iHiitor flatii. 



Eemarkable Epitaph. — The following epitaph 

 may be found on an old gravestone in theburying- 

 ground of the parish church of Brighton : 



" In Memory of 



Phcebe Hessel, 



who was born at Stepney 



in the year 1713. 



She served for many years as a private 



Soldier in the 5th Regiment of foot 



in different parts of JCurope, 



and in the year 1745 fought under 



the command of the 



Duke of Cumberland 



at the battle of Fontenoy, where she received a 



bayonet wound in her arm. Her long life, which 



commenced in the time of Queen Anne, extended 



to the reign of George IV., by whose muniticence 



she received comfort and support in her latter 



years. 



She died at Brighton, where she had 



long resided, Dec. 12th, 1821. 



Aged 108 years. 



I should feel obliged if some of your correspon- 

 dents would furnish me with farther particulars- 

 respecting the history of this remarkable woman. 

 I am anxious to collect, beyond what this epitaph 

 will afford me, a few facts relative to her singular- 

 career. H. M. Bealbt. 



North Brixton. 



Deferred Execution in Spain. — The following, 

 which I extract from The Practical Working of 

 the Church in Spain, by the Rev. Frederick Mey- 

 rick, bears such a remarkable likeness to several 

 anecdotes which have been much discussed in 

 " N. & Q.," that your readers who are unacquainted 

 with the book from which it is copied may like to- 

 see it transferred to your pages : 



" Murder is not thought much more of here 

 (Malaga), than pocket picking in England. A young 

 lad committed a murder, was taken immediately, and 

 sent to gaol, where he was two years, and the affair 

 passed from people's minds. Meantime the lad behaved 

 so very well, that the Governor of the gaol gave him 

 permission to go out every day to his family, and return 

 to the gaol at night. It was supposed that, his youth 

 being considered, he would soon be set at liberty. 

 Meanwhile the friends of the murdered man were 

 making up a purse, which they took to the chief 

 authorities living at Grenada, and an order came down 



