Oct. 16. 1852.] 



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Compleat History of the Lives and Robberies of the 

 most Notorious Highwaymen, Sec, vol. ii. : London, 

 1719, pp. 109— 119. : "Captain Uratz, Highway- 

 man and Murderer." Geoegb Stephens. 

 Copenhagen. 



Motto (Vol. vi., p. 291.).— In answer toF.M. M., 

 I beg to state that O Hen Fonedd signifies " of 

 ancient family" or "lineage." Why the Dyers 

 of Ovington made use of the Welsh tongue, would 

 doubtless appear from their pedigree. A. N. 



Egyptian Beer (Vol. vi., p. 72.). — I extract the 

 following, bearing upon this subject, from the 

 letter of the special foreign correspondent on the 

 agriculture of Egypt in the Morning Chronicle of 

 August 27th : 



" I should mention also an abominable mixture 

 which my crew had with them on the river : it was a 

 liquor called Boozer, and said to be intoxicating. It is 

 much in vogue among the lower orders in Egypt, and 

 I find that it is made from a fermentation of bread in 

 water. I thought it peculiarly filthy, but it is said to 

 have been used in ancient Egypt, and to be the liquor 

 mentioned by Herodotus." 



Bebosus. 



Title of James I. (Vol. vi., p. 270.). — Allow me 

 to suggest that K. and his friends are mistaken 

 about "Kinge James on England;" and that the 

 word which they have rendered on is " ou" with 

 an inflexion above it thus : " oil, " signifying over, 

 the "u" being, as it were, synonymous with v. 

 This mode of abbreviation (which may be imper- 

 fect in the MS. alluded to) is very common in 

 MSS. prior to and about that period. Another K. 



" Courtier and Learned Writer" (Vol.vi., p. 56.). 

 ■i— I have long ago seen the fine passage com- 

 mencing with " All things are serious round about 

 us," &c., in print, and Sir Francis Walsingham 

 named as the author. This sample of his style 

 and sentiments made me anxious to see more of 

 his works, but I have never been able to find any 

 edition of them ; though I have consulted various 

 catalogues, and searched public libraries. I once 

 bought a little book-catalogue under the name of 

 Walsingham^ s Manual, of which the proper title is 

 Arcana Aulica, published 1655, under the Impres- 

 sion that it might be a work of Sir Francis Wal- 

 singham's : but though a rare and very curious 

 little volume, it is not his. Perhaps some contri- 

 butor would be directed by this notice, and return 

 the kindness by advising where any published 

 work of Sir Francis Walsingham's may be met 

 with. A. B. R. 



£elmont. 



Plague Stones (Vol. -vi., p. 58.). — I am your 

 correspondent K., whose account of a " Plague 

 Stone ' in his possession you were pleased to insert 



at p. 58. of your current volume. As an interest- 

 ing confirmation of the tradition thereto attached, 

 and likewise as an instance of " burial in uncon- 

 secrated ground," I forward the result of an in- 

 vestigation which I made on the 10th of July last, 

 in company with one or two friends, on the precise 

 spot assigned by local tradition as the grave of 

 those who died of the plague in the Wash Lane, 

 Latchford, near Warrington. Here we ascertained 

 by an iron probe the existence of a large stone at 

 a depth of two feet below the surface. On laying 

 it bare, it proved to be a thick slab of red sand- 

 stone, rough from the quarry, five feet one inch in 

 length, and two feet three inches broad, with one 

 extremity rounded, and broken across the middle. 

 Beneath it, we found the bones of the pelvis and 

 lower extremities of a male human being ; and, 

 near the pelvis, the skull and lower jaw. It was 

 clear that in the investigation made by the farm 

 labourers in 1843, the slab had been broken ; and 

 the bones beneath this portion, with the exception 

 of the head, which had probably been thrown in 

 again, removed and lost. The field is known as 

 the Broom Field, and is glebe land, though distant 

 half a mile from the parish church and rectory. 



I may add, that in the parish registers of Bud- 

 worth, Cheshire, under the date of April, 1647, 

 the names of several are recorded as having died 

 in this part of the county from the plague, but 

 who were buried at the village or hamlet of Barn- 

 ton, two miles distant from Budworth, although 

 no consecrated ground existed there. K. 



Bassand's Church Notes (Vol.vi., p. 318.). — The 

 two volumes folio of Church Notes referred to — 

 one for Cheshire, and the other for Derbyshire — 

 are in the library of the College of Arms, having 

 been presented by the Messrs. Lysons. G. 



" Balnea, Vina, Venus" (Vol. vi., p. 74.). — ^What 

 your correspondent asks after, as an " Epigram," 

 he will find as a portion of an Epitaph! Last year 

 in Italy, when I was studying the expressions of 

 peace and hope in the Christian inscriptions taken 

 from the catacombs, and now lining the walls of 

 the " Galleria Lapidaria" at the Vatican, I 

 selected as an heathen contrast to their prevailing 

 sentiment the following from Grater's Monumenta : 



" v. Air. LVIL 

 D. M. 



TI CLAVDI SECVNDI 



HIC SECVM HABET OMNIA. 



BALNEA VINVM VENVS 



CORRVMPVNT CORPORA 



♦ NOSTRA. SED VITAJI FACIVNI 



B. V. V. 



KARO. CONTVBERNALI 



TEC. MEROPK CAES 



■ KT SIBI ET SVIS. P. E." 



It may be superfluous to observe, that in the 

 studied brevity of ancient inscriptions, the letters 



