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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 158. 



course ; but I think, so far as language, style, and 

 subject go, there is internal evidence of its really 

 being a production of" the great man to whom it is 

 ascribed. It was delivered during the existence 

 of the Long Parliament, when Cromwell was dis- 

 tinguished by "the vehemence of his oratory, 

 which often degenerated into coarseness," and 

 when Hampden said of him, " That cloven has no 

 ornament in his speech." Charles I. was beheaded 

 January 29, 1649 ; the sermon was therefore 

 preached about three months after that event. I 

 do not know what passage Archdeacon N.ares 

 quoted from this publication, which leads your 

 correspondent to say " it seems very unlike a com- 

 position of the great Protector," but I think there 

 are many passages which would tend to a directly 

 opposite conclusion. P. T. 



Stoke Newington. 



Burial in unconsecrated Places (Vol. vi., pp. 84. 

 136.229.). — About five years ago I was shown 

 a spot called the Shepherd's Grave, on the Chil- 

 tern Hills, about a mile from Aslon Clinton, 

 in the county of Buckingham. Tradition states 

 that a shepherd named Faithful, who had passed 

 most of his life in these picturesque hills, ex- 

 acted a promise from his fellow shepherds to 

 bury him amid the scenes of his former occu- 

 pation. Consequently they buried him in this 

 spot, from which is seen a fine extensive view of 

 the surrounding country, and cut in the turf over 

 his grave the following rude lines : 

 " Faithful lived, and Faithful died. 

 Faithful shepherded on the hill side — 

 The hills so wide, the fields so round (surround ?), 

 In the day of judgment he'll be found." 

 The hill being chalk, the epitaph might be read 

 at considerable distance, and the shepherds were 

 accustomed to keep the letters perfect and clean. 

 When I viewed the spot the word " Faithful " 

 alone was legible, and I fear the whole has lately 

 been ploughed over. The rustic who showed me 

 the spot appeared to regard it with awe and ve- 

 neration. W. H. K. 



Mr. Thos. Espin, F. S.A., Master of Louth 

 Free School for thirty years, who died in ] 822, 

 was buried in a small Gothic mausoleum built by 

 himself, in a sequestered spot near to a house he 

 had erected in the same style. {History of Lincoln, 

 ii. 192.) 



" On north side of Pentilly Castle, a small stream 

 falls into the Tamar, near the foot of a hill called 

 Mount Ararat, crowned with a tower. With this so- 

 litary tower is connected a story of Sir James Tillie, 

 one of the owners of Pentilly, who died in 1712. 

 Some said he was an atheist ; others, that he was a bon 

 vivant, who cared nothing at all about religion, and 

 acted up to the sensual maxim, ' Let us eat and drink, 

 for to-morrow we die.' His enjoyments in this world 

 being of such a kind, he desired that when he was dead 



the recollection of them might be kept up among the 

 living by the mode of interment, and that he miglit be 

 placed in a chair before a table, garnished with bottles, 

 glasses, pipes, and tobacco, in his customary dress, and 

 in an apartment under the tower. He was placed ac- 

 cording to his desire as respected the site of bis inter- 

 ment, not in a chair, but in a coffin. The vault was 

 opened some years ago, and the remains discovered 

 tliere ; while in the upper room of the tower his bust 

 was found in white marble." — Itinerary of'Cormvall, 

 p. 76. 



J. Pv. M., M.A. 



Can Bishops vacate their Sees? (Vol. iv., p. 293. ; 

 Vol. v., p. 548.). — A more modern instance than 

 that cited by E. H. B. is mentioned in Hone's 

 Table Booh, part ii. col. 103. It has reference to 

 Dr. Zachary Pearce, who was successively Dean 

 of Winchester, Bishop of Bangor, Dean of West- 

 minster, and Bishop of Rochester. The passage is 

 as follows : 



" Dr. Zachary Pearce is remarkable for having de- 

 sired to resign his deanery and bishopric. In 176.3, 

 being then seventy-three years old, he told his Majesty 

 in his closet that he found the business of his stations 

 too much for him ; that he was afraid it would grow 

 more so as he advanced in years, and desired to retire, 

 that he might spend more time in his devotions and 

 studies. Afterwards, one of the law lords doubted the 

 practicability of resigning a bishopric, but on further 

 consideration the difficulty disappeared. The king 

 then gave his consent, and the bishop kissed hands 

 upon it : but Lord Bath requesting the bishopric and 

 deanery of the king for Dr. Newton, then Bishop of 

 Bristol, the Ministry thought that no church dignities 

 should pass from the crown but through their hands, 

 and opposed the resignation, as the shortest way of 

 keeping the bishopric from being disposed of otherwise 

 than they liked. On this occasion the law lord. Earl 

 Mansfield, who had been doubtful, and who soon after 

 had seen clear, doubted again ; and Dr. Pearce was 

 told by the king he must think no more about resign- 

 ing the bishopric. In 1768 he resigned the deanery of 

 Westminster." 



Henry H. Breen. 



St. Lucia. 



" Thirtij Days hath Septeniber," SfC. (Vol. v., 

 p. 392,). — I sent you a very early English version 

 of these well-known lines, accompanied by the 

 original Latin. I have now much pleasure in for- 

 warding a copy of a much earlier date, together 

 with another old English rendering, both of which 

 I have recently met with. They are as follows : 

 I. In Latin — 



"Junius, Aprilis, September, sive November, 

 Triginta luces: reliquis til una supersit. 

 Octo et viginti Februarius accipit ortus. 

 Si bissextus erit, tunc unus jungitur illis." 



These occur in the Avork De componendis Epi- 

 stolis, by Hieronymus Cingularius, Kector of Gold- 

 berg (Aurimontanus) in Silesia ; printed atLeipsic, 



