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complaint of his wicked conuersation, the Pope would 

 litle or nothing be moued therewith, but would saj'e after 

 a smj'ling maner that, He learned not this of his father." 

 — The Pageant of Popes, by Bale, translated by J. Studley, 

 fol. 187. 



The last example tliat I cite is from an author 

 much talked of, but little known, or, as himself 

 would express it, whose words men "tongue but 

 brain not." Perhaps it will hardly answer the 

 conditions of the inquiry — will hardly be thought 

 secular, as it proceeds from a Rev. Clown, a per- 

 sonated parson. 



" Clown (as Sir Topas). MalvoHo, MalvoHo, thy wits 

 the heavens restore ! endeavour thyself to sleep, and 

 leave thv vain bibble babble." — Shakspeare's Twelfth 

 Night, or What Yoti Will, Act IV. Sc. 2. 



W. R. Arrowsmith. 



In the will of Kin^ Henry VIII. occurs this 

 passage : 



"And cons5'dering further also w* ourself that we be, 

 as all mankind is, mortall and borne in sinne, beleving 

 neverthelcs and hoping that every chren creature lyving 

 here in this transitory and wretched woorld, under God, 

 dying in stedfast and pfaict faith, endevoring and exer- 

 cising himselfe to execute in his lief tj'me, if he have 

 leasf, such good dedes and charitable worke as scripture 

 coiiiiauadeth and as may be to the honour and pleas'r of 

 God, is ordeyned by Christ's passion to be saved and to 

 atteyn eternall lief, of which nombre we verily trust by 

 his grace to be oon. And that every creature, the more 

 high that he is in estate, honour, and authoritie in this 

 woorld, the more he is bounde to love, s'rve, and thank 

 God, and the more diligently to endevo"" himself to do 

 good and charitable works to the lawde, honour, and 

 praise of Almighty God and the profite of his sowle," &c. 



Q. D. 



MARY HONTWOOD AND HER DESCENDANTS. 



(2"i S. iv. 493.) 



The following is a copy of the monument affixed 

 to the north wall of the north chapel of Conington 

 Church, Hunts. : — 



" Sacred to the memory of Dame Elisabeth Cotton, 

 daughter of S"" Thomas Honywood of Mark's Hall, in 

 Essex, K', and second wife of S"" John Cotton, Lord of 

 this Mannor of Connington, Baronet, by whom shee had 

 issue ten children, of which onely three, Kobert, Elisa- 

 beth, the relict of Lionel Walden, Esquire, and Mary 

 Honywood, survive. Shee was a Lady of true and solid 

 piety, of an excellent understanding and sharpness of wit, 

 a most loving and tender wife, an indulgent and carefull 

 Mother, obliging in her deportment towards her neigh- 

 bours and friends, and bountiful! and charitable to the 

 poore. After shee had lived thirty-eight yeares in holy 

 wedlock, shee resigned up her pious soule to God, with 

 all calmness and tranquillity of mind, on the third day of 

 April, M.DCc.ii, at Cotton House, in Westminster, in the 

 Ixv yeare of her age, and lyes here enterred, expecting a 

 joyfull and happy Kesurrection." 



A medallion surmounts the monument, which 

 faces the medallion monument of her husband, 

 •who was the donor of the Cottonian Library. 



A medallion monument to the daughter is on 

 the north wall of Steeple Gidding Church, Hunts., 

 and bears this inscription : — 



" Here resteth Mary, daughter of Sir John Cotton, 

 Bart., and wife of Eoger Kinyon, Gent. She was grace- 

 ful and modest, wise and innocent ; her duty and love in 

 every relation were sincere and eminent. Her religion 

 was pure and undefiled. It was charity to the afflicted ; 

 piety to God ; and obedience for conscience sake to her 

 superiors, spiritual and civil. She was born Sep. 1, a.d., 

 1677, and dyed June 14, a.d. 1714. This mortal shall 

 put on immortality. K. R. Conjugi B. M. F." 



(See " N. & Q.," 2"'^ S. i. 250. 324.) 



CUTHBERT BeDE. 



PLCMSTEAD BELL INSCRIPTION.* 



(2"'J S. iv. 430. ; v. 37.) 



It appeared unnecessary to correct the typo- 

 graphical error in substituting an " a " for " e " in 

 " meritis." A reference to the copy of the rub- 

 bing from the bell, and forwarded with the de- 

 scription, would have removed the difficulty. 



The quotation of your correspondent J. V. was 

 forwarded to the " N. & Q." with a request to 

 insert it after the inscription, but was probably 

 received too late for admission. H. D'Avenbt. 



1^0 doubt the word is intended for meritis. 

 I have met with the word on other bells. I select 

 one such Leonine verse from a destroyed bell in 

 the same county : — 



i^a^ Cljflmc mtritiS mtxtamnv gattKia dfwri^. 

 The last word is, I believe, an abbreviation for 

 Juiuris. 



I have said above, intended, because the word 

 may be indelibly fixed maritis. Mistakes and 

 misplacing of the letters and bad spelling are often 

 met with on such legends, arising either from the 

 ignorance, nervousness, or hurry, perhaps all, of 

 the workman. 



As a proof that all our mediaeval workmen did 

 not know letters, a curious instance may be seen 

 at Braunton, near Barnstaple, — a church remark- 

 able for the richness and variety of many fine old 

 bench ends. On many two shields are worked 

 into the tracery, — some charged with emblems or 

 monograms, others v/ith large single capital let- 

 ters, lirom fl to %, some of which are cut upside 

 down, or turned aside ; proving that the workman 

 was supplied with the letter cut in paper or parch- 

 ment which he was to carve on the shields, but, 

 not -understanding them, he turned them as he 

 thought best, and before the master saw the 

 blunder the deed was done. It is probable that 

 these several devices were to assist the worshipper 

 in resorting to his accustomed place, especially in 

 go large a church, where all were the same, 



