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to the idea which he has appropriated, he would 

 have scratched poor Loudon's name, if not with a 

 diamond on the corner of one of his panes, at least 

 with a pen on the sheet of blotting-paper whereon, 

 we are told, with a few bold strokes, he gave his 

 orjorinal idea to the world. Sudm Cuique. 



JOHN HALES OF ETON. 



The following is a copy of an inscription on the 

 tomb of John Hales, in the churchyard adjoining 

 Eton College Chapel, and a translation by a gen- 

 tleman of this place. In Mr. Creasy's Lives of 

 Eminent Etonians, p. 201., it is stated that — 



" Hales had some fame as a poet, as appears from 

 Sir John Suckling's Session of the Poets, 'Hales, set by 

 himself,' &c." 



Can you inform me what are the names of any of 

 his poems, and where they are to be found? 

 " [ Inscription. ] 

 Mvsarvm . et . Charitvm . Amor 



loHANNES . HaLESIVS 



(Nomen . non . tarn . Hominis . qvam . Scientiae) 



Hie . non . iacet 



At . Lvtvm . qvod . assvmpsit . optlmvm 



Infra . ponitvr 



Nam . certe . svpra . IMortalis . cmicvit 



IMoribvs . svavissimis 



Ingenio . svbtilissimo . pleno . Pectore . sapvit 



3Ivndo , svb . limior 



Adeoq . aptior . Angelorvm . Consortio 



Aetats . svae . 72 



Impensis , pet . Cvrwenii 



Olim . hvivs . coll . Alvmni 



Was . bvried . on . this . Twentieth . Day 



Of. jNIay . 1656 



[ Translation.'\ 



The . Darling . of . the . Muses . and . G races, 



John . Hales, 



"Wbose . Name . is . the . Name . of . Knowledge . 



Itself, 



Rather . than . of . a . Man, 



Is . not . interred . bere ; 



But . only . the . beautiful . Clay 



Wbich . he . put . on, 



Reposes . beneath. 



He . was . conspicuous . for . sweetness . of . Planners, 



Beyond . other . Mortals: 



A . IMan . of . most . subtle . Genius 



And . profound . Learning; 



Who , soared . above . the . World, 



And . so . was . rendered . fitter 



For . the . Companionship . of. Angels. 



He . died . in . the 72nd . Year . of . liis . Age, 



And . was . buried . on . tliis . 20th . Day . of. IMay . 



1656. 



This . Monument . was . erected 



At . the . Expense . of 



Peter . Cur wen. 



Formerly . Fellow . of. this . College." 



H. T. 



[No poetical pieces by the ever-memorable John 

 Hales are to be found in his Golden Remains, or in 

 Lord Ilailes' edition of his collected Works, in three 

 volumes 12mo., nor lias Dr. Stukeley discovered any 

 in his MS. collections for a Life of John Hales (S'/oa«e 

 MSS. No. 4222.), In short, it is doubted by Chalmers- 

 in his Biographical Dictionary, whether Hales is the per- 

 son noticed by Sir John Suckling. He says, " It remains- 

 to be mentioned, that Wood (see Athen. Oxon. by Bliss,, 

 vol. iii. p. 412.) informs us that Mr. Hales not only as- 

 sociated with, and was respected by the wits of his 

 time, Sir John Suckling, Sir Wm. Davenant, Ben 

 Jonson, &c., but would sometimes divert himself with 

 writing verses ; and that he had a talent for poetry lie 

 tliinks appears from Sir John Suckling's mentioning 

 him in his Session of Poets : 



' Hales, set by himself, most gravely did smile. 

 To see them about nothing keep such a coil ; 

 Apollo had spied him ; but, knowing his mind. 

 Past by, and called Falkland that sat just behind.' 



But there is no proof that Mr. Hales of Eton was 

 meant here, and still less proof of a letter in verse by 

 Sir John Suckling having been written to Mr. Hales 

 at Eton. It has more the appearance of one v/ritten 

 to some person at Oxford or Cambridge, than at Eton." 

 The inscription on the tomb of John Hales is given in 

 An Historical and Critical Account of the Life and 

 Writings of Mr. John Hales, by M. des Maizeaux ; also 

 in Le Neve's Monumenta Anglicana, and in Wood's 

 AthencB Oxon.^ 



Sovereigns dining in Public. — In the London 

 Gazette, No. 7G23, of Tuesday, August 2nd, 1737, 

 there is an article from Hampton Court, dated 

 Aug. 1st, 1737 : 



" Yesterday, 31 July, being Sunday, their INIajesties, 

 the Prince and Princess of Wales, and Princesses 

 Amelia and Caroline, went to chapel at Hampton 

 Court, and heard a sermon preached by the Rev. Dr. 

 Blomer. Their Majesties and the rest of the royal 

 familj' dined afterwards in public as usual, before a 

 great number of spectators." 



Perhaps, Sir, some reader of the " N. & Q." will 

 have the goodness to inform me in what country 

 this dining of royalty In public on Sundays ori- 

 ginated, when it commenced in this country, and 

 how long it has been discontinued ? *. 



Richmond, Surrey. 



Executioner of King Charles L. — In vol. xi. 

 p. 104. of the Lords^ Journals will be found an order 

 to the Lieutenant of the Tower to bring into the 

 House the original warrant for the execution of 

 King Charles, which it appears was then in the 

 possession of Col. Hacker, to whom it was ad- 

 dressed. The Lieutenant subsequently delivered 

 in the warrant, and stated, that on asking Col. 

 Hacker if he knew who was the executioner of 

 the king, bo replied he did not know, but he had 



