Peb. 5. 1853.] 



I^OTES AND QUEKIES. 



135 



vonic column is the most scarce." In 1600, Hutter 

 published a Polyglott of the New Testament, in twelve 

 languages, viz. the Syriac, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, 

 German, Bohemian, Italian, Spanish, French, English, 

 Danish, and Polish ; which, in an edition printed in 

 1 603, were reduced to the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and 

 German. He died at Nuremberg, about 1603,] 



Ethnology of England. — Will any of your 

 readers favour me with a reference to the best 

 work or works which refer to the ethnology of 

 this island, more particularly in reference to the 

 craniology of the different races which have set- 

 tled in it ? 



I beg to ask whether it is yet clearly settled 

 that there are types of the heads of Ancient 

 Britons, Saxons, Danes, and other races, to be 

 referred to as standards or examples of the re- 

 spective crania of those people ? If so, will any 

 of your readers be kind enough to direct me to 

 any work which contains engraved outlines of 

 such crania ? Ethnologicus. 



[Ethnologicus is referred to the works of Dr. 

 Prichard and Dr. Latham ; more especially to The 

 Ethnology of the British Islands, by the last-named 

 writer, noticed in our 170th Number, p. 120. That 

 types of the heads of the Ancient Britons, Saxons, 

 Danes, &c. are to be found, there can be no doubt, 

 though they have never hitherto been brought together 

 for comparison. To do this is the object of the pro- 

 jected Crania Britannica, about to be published by Dr. 

 Thurnam of Devizes, and Mr. J. B. Davis, of which 

 some particulars will be found at p. 497. of our Sixth 

 Volume.] 



Pitt of Pimpeme. — Can any of your readers 



tell me what works of Mr. Pitt, formerly Rector 



of Pimperne, Dorset, and translator of Virgil's 



, ^neid, &c., have been printed ? W. Babnes. 



Dorchester. 



[In addition to the JEneid, Christopher Pitt trans- 

 lated Veda's Art of Poetry, about 1724; and subse- 

 quently published a volume of Poems and Translations, 

 8vo. 1727. His Poems will be found in the twelfth 

 volume of Chalmers's Collection.] 



" The Bottle Department^' of the Beer-trade 

 "was evidently terra incognita in those days : 

 " He that buys land buys many stones ; 

 He that buys flesh buys many bones ; 

 He that buys eggs buys many shells ; 

 But he that buys good ale buys nothing else." 

 ■" A favourite proverbial rhyme among topers," 

 quoth that most amusing of lexicographers, old 

 N- Bailey, <^ix6Xo-yos, who inserts it under the 

 word " Buy," folio edition. 



Query, What was his Christian name? 



Balltolensis. 



[Nathan Bailey. A short account of him will be 

 found in Chalmers's Biog. Dicf.] - 



BISHOP PUBSGLOVE (sUFFBAGAN) OF HULL. 



(VoL vii., p. 65.) 



Some time since, when at Tideswell (which Is In 

 Derbyshire, not Devonshire), I made a rubbing 

 from the brass of Bishop Pursglove, from which I 

 have copied the inscription asked for by A. S. A., 

 on a plate of brass underneath the figure. 



" Under this stone as here doth ly, a corps sumtime of 

 fame. 



In Tiddeswall bred and born truely, Robert Purs- 

 glove by name ; 



And there brought up by parents' care, at schoole and 

 learning trad ; 



Till afterwards, by Uncuc dear, to London he was 

 had. 



Who, William Bradshaw hight by name, in pauls 

 w'"" did him place, 



And y at schoole did him maintain full thrice three 

 ■whole years' space ; 



And then into the Abberye was placed as I wish. 



In Southwarke call'd, where it doth ly. Saint Mary 



OvERIS. 



To Oxford then, who did him send, into that Col- 

 ledge right. 



And there fourteen years did him find wh. Corpus 

 Christi hight ; 



From thence at length away he went, a Clerke of 

 learning great, 



To GisBURN Abbey streight was sent, and plac'd in 

 Prior's seat. 



Bishop of Hull he was also, Archdeacon of Not- 

 tingham, 



Provost of Rotueram Colledge too, of York eak 

 Suffragan. 



Two Gramer Schooles he did ordain with Land for 

 to endure. 



One Hospital for to maintain twelve impotent and 

 poor. 



O GasBURNE, thou, with Tiddeswall Town, lement 

 and mourn for may, 



For this said Clerk of great renoun lyeth here com- 

 pact in clay. 



Though cruell Death hath now down brought this 

 body w<= here doth ly. 



Yet trump of Fame stay can he nought to sound his 

 praise on high." 



" Qui legis hunc versum crebro reliquum memoreris 

 Vile cadaver sum, tuque cadaver eris." 



The Inscription Is In black letter, except the words 

 which are in small capitals. 



On a fillet round the slab, with the evangelistic 

 symbols at the corners, — 



" ^ Christ is to me as life on earth, and death to me is 

 gaine. 

 Because I trust through Him alone saluation to 

 obtaine ; 



