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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 156. 



require an explanation. Can any of the readers 

 of " N. & Q." explain the following : — 



Nichils in nine nooks [i. e. nothing at all. — 



Ray.}. 

 But when, quoth ^^ettle to his mare. 

 He's a velvet true heart. 

 *Maxfield measure, heap, and thrutch [thrust]. 

 Peter of Wood, church and mills are all his. 

 To be bout [i.e. without, as Barrow was. — 



Bay.']. 

 It is time to yoke when the cart comes to the 



caples. 

 *As fair as Lady Done. 

 *To lick it up like Lira hay. 

 Like Goodyer's pig, never well but when doing 



mischief. 

 He stands like Mumphazard. 

 *Stopford law, no stake, no draw. 



w.w. 



Malta. 



[Those with an asterisk prefixed are explained in 

 Grose's Provincial Glossary.] 



Matter-of-fact Epitaph. — Mr. Thos. Hammond, 

 parish clerk of Ashford, in Kent, was a good man, 

 and an excellent backgammon player; and what 

 is singular, was succeeded in office, on his demise, 

 by a man of the name of Trice. 



" By a change of the dye 

 On his back here doth lie, 

 Our most audible clerk Mr. Hammond. 

 Tho' he bore many men, 

 Till three score and ten, 

 Yet, at length, he by Death is backgammon'd. 

 J*"*- But hark, neiglibours, hark ! 



Here again comes the clerk, 

 By a hit very lucky and nice, 

 With Death we're now even, 

 He just stept up to heaven. 

 And is with us again in a Tkice." 



w. 



Queries. 



QUERIES ON Locke's " essat on the undeb- 



STANDING." 



Bk. 2. ch. xiv. — " T leave it to others to judge 

 ■whether it be not probable that our ideas do, while we 

 are awake, succeed one another in our minds at certain 

 distances, not much unlike the images in the inside of 

 a lanthorn turned round by the heat of a candle." 



What is the exact toy alluded to ? 



Bk. 2. ch. xxvil. — " I once met a man who was per- 

 suaded his soul had been the soul of Socrates ; how 

 reasonably, I will not dispute ; this I know, that in the 

 post he filled, which was no inconsiderable one, he 

 passed for a very rational man, and the press hath shown 

 that he wanted not parts or learning." 



Is it known to whom Locke alludes ? 



Bk. 2. ch. xxviil. — " If I believe that Sempronia 

 digged Titus out of the parsley-bed (as they used to 

 tell children) ..." 



Has this bit of folk lore received due consider- 

 ation in your pages ? 



Bk. 3. ch. xi., near end. — " Methinks it not unrea- 

 sonable that [in dictionaries] words standing for things 

 which are known and distinguished by their outward 

 shapes, should be expressed by little draughts and 

 prints of them." 



When was Locke's suggestion first adopted ? 



Bk. 4. ch. XV., end. — Is not this story usually 

 told of the King of Bantam, not Siam ? 



Bk. 4. ch. XX. — " A man may more justifiably throw 

 up cross and pile for his opinions." 



What is the origin of this phrase ? A. A. D, 



Quotations in Locke wanted. — 

 Bk. 2. ch. xiv. — " The answer of a great man to one- 

 who asked what time was, Si non rogas, intelliffo." 



Quaere S. Augustine ? 



Bk. 9> ch. ix. — " Si non vis intelligi, dehes negligi." 

 Bk. 4. ch. XX. — "Non persuadebis, etiam si persiiaseris."^ 

 Bk. 4. ch. xviii "Credo, quia impossibile est." 



QuiEre TertuUian ? A. A. D. 



DISCOVERY OF THE BODY OF A BEHEADED MAN. 



A few weeks ago, in clearing out the ruins of 

 an old chapel at Nuneham Regis in Warwickshire, 

 which had been pulled down (all but the belfry 

 tower) about forty years since, we thought it ne- 

 cessary to trench the whole space, that we might 

 more certainly mark out the boundaries of the 

 building, as we wished to restore it In some mea- 

 sure to its former state ; it had been used as a. 

 stackyard, and a depository of rubbish by the 

 tenants of the farm on whicli it was, ever since its 

 dilapidation. We began to trench at the west 

 end, and came on a great many bones and ske- 

 letons, from which the coffins had crumbled away, 

 till, finding the earth had been moved, we went 

 deeper and discovered a leaden coffin quite per- 

 fect, but without date or inscription of any kind ; 

 there had been an outer wooden coffin which was 

 decayed, but quantities of the black rotted wood 

 were all round it. We cut the lead and folded 

 back the top so as not to destroy it ; beneath was 

 a wooden coffin in good preservation, and also 

 without any inscription. As soon as the leaden 

 top was rolled back, a most overpowering aromatic 

 smell diffused itself all over the place ; we then 

 unfastened the inner coffin, and found the body of 

 a man embalmed with great care, and heaps of 

 rosemary and aromatic leaves piled over him. On 

 examining the body more closely we found it had 

 been beheaded, the head was separately wrapped 

 up in linen, and the linen shirt that covered the 



