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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. V. 117., Mak. 27. '58. 



be at the head of the scheme, and a fixed plan 

 laid down that all miirht work in concert. 



If any plan of this kind goes on, let it by no 

 means be restricted to this island ; but let those 

 who go abroad be prevailed upon to furnish us 

 •with notes of the Englishmen who have found a 

 resting-place in foreign earth. I have good rea- 

 son to know that the foreign burial-grounds con- 

 tain many memorials of Englishmen. Had we 

 notes of these, it would be the means of clearing 

 up many a difficulty in family history, and adding 

 or confirming many a link in the pedigree of old 

 Catholic families.* 



I am making topographical collections for the 

 district in which I live, and hope eventually to 

 compile notes from all the burial-places in the 

 parts of Lindsey. If any one can refer me to any 

 manuscripts of church notes relating to Lindsey 

 other than what occur in Mr. Sims's lists, I shall 

 be very much obliged. Edward Peacock. 



The Manor, Bottesford, 

 Brigg, Lincolnshire. 



I am heartily glad that your correspondent 

 F. S. A. has taken up this subject, and I know it 

 will receive the attention which it so justly de- 

 serves. I have been long convinced of the great 

 value of monumental inscriptions to the genealo- 

 gist and the topographical historian ; and accord- 

 ingly, in my History of Tethury lately published, I 

 was careful to give copies of all " the inscriptions 

 on the monuments at present (1857) existing in 

 the parish church," together with an index, by 

 which they could be easily referred to, and all the 

 monuments relating to any particular family at 

 once discovered. 



I was laughed at by the Saturday Review for 

 having in an appendix given " even the epitaphs 

 in the parish church ;" but I am too well aware 

 of their value to the topographical writer to be 

 moved by this remark. Indeed I could have 

 made several of the genealogies contained in my 

 book much more perfect had the monumental in- 

 scriptions which existed in the old parish church 

 at Tetbury, which was taken down in 1777, been 

 preserved. Some few are preserved in Atkins 

 and Rudder, and others have been replaced in 

 the present church, but the greater portion have 

 perished, and amongst them, I am grieved to add, 

 the altar monument to the great William De 

 Braose. I trust that many of your readers will be 

 induced to take up this subject, and to work it 

 thoroughly. To many it may seem superfluous, but 

 let them remember, should accident or time de- 

 stroy the existing inscriptions, they will be entitled 

 to the lasting gratitude of future antiquaries and 

 topographers. Alfred T. Lee. 



* See " N. & Q." 1st Series, vol. iii. p. 514. 



MILTONIANA. 



Fully concurring in Mr. Carruthers' opinion 

 that before Professor Masson's Life of Milton (and 

 possibly after, also), it would be desirable and in- 

 teresting to advert to some points in the poet's 

 history, I beg to offer a few "Notes and Queries" 

 for consideration. 



Who is Thomas Jure ? — This is a question 

 asked by the learned erlitor of Pickering's Milton. 



" Why," says Mr. Mitford (p. iii. of the Life prefixed), 

 " is the direction of Milton's letters to Young translated 

 to Thomas Jure? The answer is simply because the 

 printer mistook Jure for June, which the Rev. Robert 

 Feljowes, M. A., Oxon, intended as the English for Junius, 

 Milton's plaj'ful equivalent for Young. So that we have 

 Young=Junius=June=Jure, a somewhat curious equa- 

 tion, and involving a great compliment to the translator, 

 whose intimate acquaintance with his author's life en- 

 abled him to add another tutor to those generally assigned 

 to Milton. Is it not almost incredible that edition after 

 edition of Milton's prose works should have been pub- 

 lished containing letters headed ' To his Tutor Thomas 

 Jure?'" 



Did Milton ever visit Thomas Young at Stow 

 Market ? — This Q,uery is partly suggested by a 

 curious passage from a work reviewed in The 

 Athevaum, Oct. 4, 1856, and entitled " Suffolk in 

 the Nineteenth Century, by John Glyde." The 

 writer in the passage quoted, after referring to 

 Suffolk " as a district justly proud of being the 

 birth-place of Wolsey," &c., thus proceeds : "in 

 which the mighty Milton received his mental and 

 moral training, and first lisped forth the numbers 

 from which evolved his sublime and holy song;" 

 which means, I suppose, for the verbiage is rather 

 cloudy, that Milton wrote some of his early poems 

 in Suffolk. On reading this interesting statement, 

 the present writer appealed to (in The AthentEum, 

 Oct. 11, 1856) Mr. Glyde to prove that Milton 

 was ever in the county at all ; but the oracle was 

 mute, and has remained so. The only ground for 

 such a supposition or fancy would seem to be the 

 possibility that the young poet actually paid a 

 visit to his tutor Thomas Young, then living at 

 Stow Market, which he promises in his letter 

 written from Cambridge, and bearing date July 

 21, 1628. These are the words : — 



" Rus tuum accersitus, simul ac ver adoleverit, libenter 

 adveniam, ad capessendas anni, tuique non minus colloquii, 

 delicias; et ab urbano strepitu subducam me paulisper, 

 Stoam tuam Icenorum, tanquam ad celeberrimam illam 

 Zenonis porticum," &c. 



If Milton ever paid that visit, which there is 

 nothing I believe to show, he might of course 

 have "lisped forth" some of the numbers referred 

 to by Mr. Glyde. Before leaving this subject I 

 would call attention to the singular selfishness of 

 the Rev. Robert Fellowes, A.M., Oxon, who hav- 

 ing "discovered" Milton's tutor Thomas June, 

 alias Jure, determined to keep to himself entirely 



