Oct. 2. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



313 



Would it not appear by the context that this 

 should be read thus — 



" I wait but for my guidon : to the field," &c. ? 



Mr. Malone, in his note on this passage, comes 

 very near the above reading, but does not quite 

 hit it. Dr. Johnson seems at a loss to know the 

 meaning at all. A guidon is well known to be a 

 small banner : it is so called even now in some of 

 our cavalry regiments. 



C. H. would like to know if this is the first time 

 this reading has been thought of, and, if not, where 

 it was first published ? Also, if any reading can 

 be suggested as more likely to give the author's 

 meaning ? C. H. 



September, 1752. — One hundred years since the 

 month of September was remarkable for consisting 

 of only nineteen days, and for not having a full 

 moon. 



I send you an extract from Parker's Ephemeris 

 for 1752, now before me : — 



" September hath 19 days. 



First quarter. . .15 day at 1 after. 

 Full moon . . .23 day at 1 after. 

 Last quarter , . .30 day at 2 after. 



*' According to act of parliament passed in the four- 

 teenth year of his Majesty's reign, and in the year of 

 our Lord 1751, the Old Style ceases here and the New 

 takes place, and consequently the next day, which in 

 the Old account would have been the 3rd, is now to 

 be called the 14th; so that all the intermediate nomi- 

 nal days from the 2nd to the 14th are omitted, or rather 

 annihilated, this year, and the month contains no more 

 than nineteen days, as the title at the head expresses. 



Hans. 



Tolli, a Sculptor. — In making recently a cur- 

 sory examination of the monuments in Worcester 

 Cathedral, I met with the name of the sculptor of 

 the tomb erected to the memory of a former bishop 

 of the diocese, who died in the year 1591. On the 

 end of the tomb is inscribed — 



« Antoni . Toll! 

 Me X Fecit." 



Can you, Mr. Editor, or any of your learned cor- 

 respondents, give any account of this individual ? 



J. B. Whitbobne. 



<auert>^. 



MONUMENT OF RICHARD STBONGBOW. 



Will you have the kindness to insert, in " N. & 

 Q.," the following extract taken from Thomas 

 Cromwell's Excursions through Ireland, vol. i. : 



" In the nave (Christ's Cathedral, Dublin) are several 

 monuments, one of which, bearinj? figures said to repre- 

 sent Richard Strongbow and his wife Eva, has the 

 following inscription : 



'this ; AVNCYENT . MONVMENT: OF: RYCHARD : STRANG- 

 BOWK : CALLED : COMES : STRANGVLENSIS : LORD : OF : 

 CHEPSTO : AND : OGNY : THE : FIRST : AND : PRYNCIPALL C 



INVADER : OF : IRELAND : 1169 : QUI : OBiiT : 1 177 : the : 



MONVMENT : WAS : BROKEN : BY ; THE : FALL : OF : THE : 

 ROFF ; AND : BODVE : OF : CHRISTES : CHUltCHE : JN : AN° : 



1562 : AND . SET : vr : agavne ; at : the : chargys : of : 

 THE : bight ; honorable : sr : henri : sydney : knyght : 

 OF ; the : noble : order : le : president : or : wailes : 

 LE : deputy: of: IRELAND ; 1570.' 



" But doubts have been entertained whether the illus- 

 trious chieftain was actually buried in this cathedra], 

 and, if he were, whether this has been correctly stated 

 to be his monument. Leland mentions an epitaph, 

 * Hie jacet Ricus Strongbow,' &c., as occurring on the 

 walls of the chapter-house in Gloucester Cathedral : 

 but the testimony of Giraldus Cambrensis, a cotem- 

 porary historian, who expressly states that his obsequies 

 were celebrated ' in ecclesia Sanctae Trinitatis,' we 

 think, should prevent further question as to the place 

 of his interment. As to the identity of the monument. 

 Sir Richard Hoare remarks that ' though the general- 

 ity of authors seem to think that Strongbow was buried 

 in Christ's Church, still some doubt may be entertained 

 if this effigy has been rightly attributed to him. The 

 knight bears on his shield the following arms. : viz. 

 " Argent, on a chief azure, three crosses crosslets fitchee 

 of the field." On referring to Enderbie, and also to an 

 ancient manuscript by George Owen, J find that the 

 arms of this chieftain were, " Or, three chevrons gules, 

 a crescent for difference." How then can this be the 

 effigy of Strongbow ? ' " 



It is well known that he was surnamed Strong- 

 bow on account of his strength and skill in archery; 

 and it is even said that his arms were so long that 

 he could touch his knees, when in an erect posi- 

 tion, with the palms of his hands. He married the 

 daughter of Dermot MacMurchad, King of Lein- 

 ster, and had issue a daughter. His father was 

 Gilbert de Clare, created Earl of Pembroke and 

 Lord of Striguil, in 1139, who was nephew of 

 Walter Fitz-Richard de Clare, Lord of Chepstow, 

 the founder of Tintern Abbey. 



The accounts of Richard Strongbow's burial- 

 place being so conflicting, I was induced to send 

 this Query, hoping that some of your correspon- 

 dents will unravel the mystery. Marque. 



