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Notes : — Page 



Kentish " Legend in Stone," by W. Sparrow Simpson, 

 B.A. 477 



New Crystal Palace : Printing . - - - 478 



Kobesand Fees in the Days of Robin Hood, by J. Lewelyn 



Curtis 479 



East Norfolli Folk Lore, by E. S. Taylor - - 480 



The Duke of Wellington, Marshal Ney, and some per- 

 sonal Anecdotes of the Duke ... - 480 

 Minor Notes : — Pope Joan —The Bacon Family — Map 

 for the Use of the National Schools of Ireland — 

 Churchill's Death — Mistranslations — Junius Inqui- 

 ries — Rufus's Spur . . - . . 483 



Queries : — 



Minor Queries :— Murat — Jack Straw — Coins of Julia 

 Domna — Pierre Cotton _ Titus Oates — Thornton 

 Abbey— Richardson's " Choice of Hercules "—Curious 

 Marriage Entry— Capital Punishment in England — 

 Raising the Wind— Thomas Bajocencis— Richard III. 

 — Watch Oaks — Another Burns' Relic— Charles I. 

 and the Oxford Colleges — Mary Queen of Scots' Gold 

 Cross — " Cujus vita fulgor," &c. — "la Nomine 

 Domini" - - - - - - - 485 



Minor Queries Answered: — Bostal, or Borstal- 

 Churches decorated at Christmas— " Pauper ubique 

 jacet" — Coin or Medal — "Youth at the Prow" — 

 " Selections from Foreign Literary Journals " - 487 



Replies : — 



"• Body of decapitated Man, by W. S. Hesledon - - 488 



Historical Value of South's Sermons . - - 488 



Peter Belon's " Observations," by J. Kitto, &c. - 492 



The Mathematical Society of Wapping: Bishop An- 

 drews and his Schoolfellows - . . . 493 

 Rev. Peter (Henry) Layng: " The Rod," a Poem, by 



J. Crossley - ..... 493 



Photographic Correspondence : — Sandford's Waxed 

 Paper, &c Improvements in the Camera — Improve- 

 ment of Collodion for Negatives — Printing from 

 Negatives - - . - . - .494 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Late Brasses — The Word 

 "capable "in" As YouLikelt"— The Trusty Servant 

 at Winchester— Major-General Benjamin Lincoln of 

 the American Army — John, Lord Barclay — Anglican 

 Baptism — Shakspeare Family — Rhymes on Places — 

 Aber and Inver —Mitigation of Capital Punishment to 

 a Forger — Print of the Head of Christ— Cross-legged 

 Effigies — Exterior Stoups — "Sheets," a Kentish 

 Word— Springs and Wells — Longevity — Dodo Queries 

 —Was Elizabeth fair or dark ? - . - .494 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. _ . _ . - 497 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted ... - 498 



Notices to Correspondents .... 49s 



Advertisements - . - - - - 499 



V0L.VL — No. 160. 



KENTISH "legend IN STONE." 



Many of your readers have, I doubt not, felt 

 much interest in the Worcestershire " Legend in 

 Stone," which has appeared in your columns 

 (Vol. v., p. 30. ; Vol. vi., pp. 216. 288.). Permit 

 me to add a Kentish legend to your already rich 

 store of Folk Lore, During a recent excursion in 

 Kent, I visited the very remarkable little church 

 of Barfreston (pronounced Barson), a few miles 

 distant from Dover: a church, the circular east 

 window (one of its original shafts was of wood, 

 Bloxam's Goth. Arch., 8th edit., p. 99.), the chan- 

 cel arch, and the south door of which are so well 

 known to ecclesiologists ; whilst the beauty of its 

 site commends it so favourably to all lovers of the 

 picturesque. It is of the sculptures of this south 

 door that I have now to speak ; the tympanum 

 bears a representation of the Saviour, " in a sitting 

 attitude, holding in His left hand a book, with His 

 right arm and hand upheld, and thus placed in 

 allusion to His words, ' I am the door.' " (Bloxam, 

 p. 90.) But the arch itself has a series of panels, 

 from which the aged sexton, who was my guide, 

 contrived to extract the history which, in imitation 

 of your previous correspondents, I have styled a 

 Kentish " Legend in Stone." The figures which 

 most frequently recur are those of a knight, a 

 horse, and a hare : a large stone is also repre-^- 

 sented. These are seen several times in different 

 positions. The legend founded hereupon was re- 

 lated with great unction, my informant pointing 

 out with his staff, as he proceeded, the panels in 

 which the various parts of the history were de- 

 picted. It was as follows : 



There was " once upon a time " a noble knight, 

 who was wont to recreate himself, in those inter- 

 vals of his life which were not occupied with the 

 chivalrous pursuits of fighting and feasting, by 

 the "huntynge of the hare." [Why the noble 

 knight should have hunted in armour, deponent 

 did not state.] It " fell on a day," as the Liber 

 Festivalis would phrase it, that as he was engaged 

 in his favourite amusement, his horse, stumbling 

 over a large stone, threw its rider. The stone, as 

 compared with the horse and its rider, was, de- 



