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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 166. 



1550, the following extracts from the church- 

 wardens' accounts : 



" For makyng of the wall where Saynt 



George stood in the chyrche - vj'' 



It. payd for wythynge y« chyreh - xx' iiij"* 



It. payd for tvryghtynge of y* chyreh 



walls with Scriptures - - - iiij'"' iij« iiij*." 



Shortly after the accession of Queen Mary in 

 1553, the following entry occurs : 



" Payd to Barnes for mendyng over the rode 

 and over the altar in the chapell, and for 

 washing oute the Scriptures - - - 4' 4*." 



They do not appear to have been restored after 

 this, for in the year 1840 some of the plaister 

 between two of the windows of the south aisle 

 peeling off, discovered traces of " wryghtynge " 

 beneath ; and I and another member of the Cam- 

 bridge Camden Society spent some time in laying 

 it bare, and after much difficulty made out that it 

 was the Lord's Prayer in English, headed, " The 

 Lord's Prayer, called the Paternoster," and written 

 in the church text of the period, the whole en- 

 closed in a sort of arabesque border ; it was not 

 merely whited over, but hud evidently been par- 

 tially effaced, or partly " washed oute," before 

 being " concealed under its dreary shroud of 

 whitewash." On examination there were traces 

 of more of this writing between the other windows, 

 but we had not time to make any further inves- 

 tigation, for the church was then being cleaned, 

 and in a few days all that we had laid bare was 

 again concealed under a veil of whitewash. 



Thus, I think, we may assign to the reign of 

 Edward VI., not merely the obliteration of the 

 numerous frescoes of St. Christopher, the great 

 dome, &c., which are now so constantly coming to 

 light, but also the origin of " wryghtynge of y' 

 chyreh walls with scriptures " in their stead, some 

 ten or twelve years earlier than the remarkable 

 colloquy between Queen Elizabeth and the worthy 

 Dean of St. Paul's. Norris Deck. 



. Cambridge. 



Dutensiana (Vol. vi., p. 376.). — Lowndes gives 

 a list of Dutens' works, which does not include 

 "Correspondence interceptee," of which he was 

 the author ; and I have seen a presentation copy 

 of it proving this. W. C. Trevelyan. 



Early Phonography (Vol. vi., p. 424.). — " Have 

 the modern phonographists ever owned their debt 

 of gratitude to their predecessors in the phonetic 

 art ? " 



The subjoined advertisement may perhaps be 

 considered an answer to this Query : 



" Hart's Orthography, 1569 ; or, ' An Orthographie 

 conteyning the due order and reason, howe to write or 

 paint thimage of manne's voice, most like to the life or 

 nature. Composed by J. H. [John Hart], Chester 



Heralt ; ' reprinted from a copy in the British Museum. 

 Cloth, 2s. 



" An unanswerable defence of Phonetic Spelling, and 

 one of the earliest schemes of Phonetic Orthography. 

 A considerable portion of the book being printed in the 

 author's Phonetic Alphabet (given in the present edition 

 in Phonetic Longhand), we have thus exhibited the pro- 

 nunciation of the age of Shakspeare." 



W. C. Trevelyan. 



Kentish Local Names ; Dray (Vol. vi., p. 410.),' 

 — In the low embanked land in the west of 

 Somersetshire, between Bristol and Taunton, the 

 word drove is used in the same acceptation ; and 

 driftway, I think, is also a term for ancient British 

 roads in some parts of the kingdom. 



W. C. Trevelyan. 



Monument at Modstena (Vol. vi., p. 388.). — This 

 monument was first published in Archceologia 

 JEliana. I believe it is an incised slab; but I have, 

 written to a friend in the north to inquire whether 

 I am correct. W. C. Trevelyan. 



Book-plates (Vol. iii., p. 495.). — Mr. Parsons, 

 it appears, limits his inquiries to English book- 

 plates, about which I cannot offer any inform- 

 ation. It is certain, however, that book-plates 

 were used on the Continent at a very early period. 

 I remember to have seen one, from a wood-block, 

 which was cut by Albert Diirer for his friend 

 Pirkhelmer. As it is sixteen years since I saw it 

 at the Imperial Library at Vienna, I cannot be 

 expected to give a precise description; but (as 

 far as I recollect) the wording of it was as follows : 

 "Bilibaldi Pirckheimeri et Amicorum." 



A copy which I possess of Vesalius's great 

 anatomical work (Basil, 1555) has the book-plate 

 of a former Duke of Mecklenburg pasted inside 

 the cover. It is a woodcut, ten inches by six and 

 a half, representing the ducal arms, surrounded by 

 an ornamented border. Beneath are the date and 

 inscription : 



15 E 75 



H. G. V. V. G. 



VLRICH H. Z. ME- 



CKELNBVRG. 



I do not know what the first six letters stand 

 for, nor is it worth inquiring. The latter part of 

 the inscription — " Ulrich Herzog zu Mecklen- 

 burg" — identifies the former possessor of the 

 volume. Jaydeb.. 



" World without end" (Vol. vi., p. 434.). — Be- 

 sides the places named by F. A., this phrase occurs 

 in the authorised version of the Bible, in Is. xlv. 17., 

 Ep. iii. 21. There is no doubt it is idiomatic, and 

 is even now occasionally used in conversation. 

 Our translators render at least three Hebrew 

 words "world," and as many Greek ones. One of 

 the latter, and two of the former, properly refer 

 to fo'me, like the Latin oevum sceculum ; and this alsa 



