Aug. 28. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Mr. King procured the extract printed at p. 106. 

 of " N. & Q." Vol. vi. : 



" A PROLIFIC KENTISH WOMAN'. 



"Sir, In your last there was a paragraph under this 

 head referring to a monument in Lincohi Cathedral, to 

 one of the numerous descendants of IMrs. Mary Honey- 

 wood. As it is not quite accurate in point of numbers, 

 allow me to correct it by mentioning another monu- 

 ment to the same family, and nuich nearer home. In 

 Lenham church, north of the chancel, is a very remark- 

 able inscription on the tomb of Robert Thompson, 

 Esq., which states, 'that he was grandchild to Mary 

 Honeywood of Charing, who had at her decease 367 

 children lawfully descended from her : sixteen of her 

 own body, 114 grandchildren, 228 in the tliird genera- 

 tion, and nine in the fourth^ Tiiese nine are omitted 

 in your paragraph. Mrs. Honeywood lies buried in 

 this church, though her monument is at Mark's Hall, 

 near Cogshall in Essex, which at the time of her death 

 was the residence of Lieut. -Gen. Phillip Honeywood." 



NONREGLA. 



Clock Mottoes ("Vol. v., p. 285.). — There was a 

 large turret clock upon the stables at Stanlake in 

 lierkshire, the seat for many generations of the 

 Aldwortli family, my paternal ancestors. The 

 face of the dial showed the date of 1688, encircled 

 with the word Revolution in large characters. It 

 happened that, exactly a century afterwai'ds, my 

 father ordered the clock to be repaired, when the 

 painter spoiled the Whig joke by altering the date 

 from 1688 to 1788, and was much disgusted at 

 being directed to restore the original figures, 

 which, I believe, still remain as an indication of 

 the political sentiments of the former proprietors 

 of the old mansion. Braybrooke. 



Was William the Conqueror buried loitliout a 

 Coffin f (Vol. vi., p. 35.). — Thierry, in his Histoi'y 

 of the Norman Conquest, book vii., says : 



" The king's corpse had been dressed in the royal 

 habit and robe, but was not in a coffin. On its being 

 j)laced in the grave constructed of masonry, wliich was 

 found to be too narrow (vas breoe structum erat), it was 

 then requisite to force the body in, which caused it to 

 burst." 



Incense and perfumes were burned, but without 

 .^vail ; the people hurried away. " Sacerdotes 

 itaque," as Ord. Vit. goes on to state, " festinabant 

 exequias perflcere," and the place was soon de- 

 serted, even by them. It is evident, from this ac- 

 count, that the body was conveyed uncoffined to 

 the grave. Ordericus was twelve years old when 

 the Conqueror died. Cowgill. 



Six Thousand Years (Vol. vi., p. 131.). — At 

 the end of a volume of Sermons, by the Rev. — 

 Coleman, Ventnor, A. A. D. will find it stated 

 that the six-days' creation was a type of the six 

 thousand years ("one day being equal to one 

 thousand years," quoted as proof), and one day's 



rest the type of one thousand years' millennium, or 

 Christ's second advent ; that " of that day no one 

 knoweth," applies simply to our ignorance of true 

 chronology, though the author has faith in Clinton. 

 As the subject has been alluded to in " N. & Q.," 

 I would suggest that it would meet with its master 

 if the learned "Warburton lecturer at Lincoln'tJ 

 Inn could be induced by any friend to forward a 

 few lines. I imagine that he anticipates the 

 Papacy to end about the time that J\Ir. Coleman, 

 and the reverend gentlemen named at page 131., 

 believe that the world will. A. C. 



In reply to A. A. D.'s question as to the world 

 lasting six thousand years, I would remark that as 

 a boy I was taught that the world would most 

 likely be of about six thousand years' duration ; but 

 the reason given was that the Deluge took place 

 about two thousand years after the Creation, and 

 our Saviour's sojourn in the world about two 

 thousand years later, and therefore the end of the 

 world will be at the termination of the next period 

 of two thousand years. Byard. 



Yolante de Dreux (Vol. vi., p. 150.). — Jolanda, 

 or Joleta, widow of Alexander III. King of Scot- 

 land, married in 1284, left a widow, without i:;sue, 

 1285. Married, secondly, Arthur I. Duke of 

 Bretaigne; died 1322; had issue one son and five 

 daughters. J. Y. 



" Sacrum pingue daho " (Vol. vi., p. 36.). — If it 

 may lead to the identifying of the author of this 

 line, I would state that it forms one out of many, 

 which together constitute a poem on Cain and 

 Abel. I well remember reading it, years ago ; 

 and I think I am right in fancying that it v.as 

 described as a monkish performance. 



Whence comes another line, much more curious 

 than the one under consideration, viz. : 



" Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor?" 



This line reads the same backwards as forwards, 

 and, of course, is a pentameter either way. 



BtEOTICUS. 

 Edgmond, Salop. 



Similitude of an Eagle in aBrahen Stalk (Vol. vi., 

 p. 35.). — If Mariconda will cut the stalk of the 

 iern, not straight across, but slantingly, he will 

 find a very fair representation of the spread-eagle, 

 as exhibited on Austrian coins or stamps. C. I. li. 



Muffs worn hy Gentlemen (Vol. v., p. 560.). — In 

 Ko. 39. of the Tatler, Don Salteir is ordered to 

 take down certain objects in his museum, under 

 pain of having his letters patent for making punch 

 superseded, being debarred wearing his muff next 

 winter, &c. &c. J. K. 



Butch Porcelain (Vol. v., p. 343.). — What is 

 the etymology of the word poi'celaine? Douce, 



