June 11. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



577 



Dugdale, in his Antiquities of Warwickshirn, 

 p. 517., tells us that John de Stratford, who was 

 Archbishop of Canterbury in the reign of Ed- 

 ward III., built a chapel on the south side of the 

 church, " to the honour of God and of St. Thomas 

 the Martyr;" and as at p. 521. he describes it as 

 "in the south ile of the said church," the west wall 

 of this chapel answers very well the description of 

 the position of the painting and inscription. But 

 in The Beauties of England and Wales, vol. xv. 

 p. 238., the chapel of the gild of the Holy Cross, in 

 the centre of the town, is mentioned as the place in 

 which the pictures were discovered, during some 

 repairs which it underwent in the year 1804. 



I have since ascertained that the work to which 

 Longfellow refers is Weaver's Account of Stratford- 

 upon-Avon. Erica. 



As a companion to the unpublished epigram in 

 No. 186. of "N. & Q.," I beg to hand you the 

 following epitaph, copied by myself about thirty 

 years since, and referring, as I believe, to an old 

 brass in the church of St. Helen's, London : 

 " Here lyeth y' bodyes of 

 James Pomley, y'= sonne of ould 

 Dominick Pomley and Jane his 

 Wyfe : y° said James deceased y' 7"" 

 day of Januarie Anno Domini 1592 

 lie beyng of y" age of 88 years, and 

 y sayd Jane deceased y* — day 



of D . 



Earth goeth upo earth as moulde upd moulds ; 

 Earth goeth upo earth all glittering as golde. 

 As though earth to y° earth never turne shoulde ; 

 And yet shall earth to y* earth sooner than he 

 woulde." 



William Williams. 



CHURCH catechism. 



(Vol. vii., pp. 190. 463.) 



In accordance with the request of Z. E. E,., I 

 have pleasure in forwarding the extracts from the 

 Catechismus bi-evis et Catholicus, referred to at 

 pp. 190. 463. of the present volume. It is need- 

 ful to premise, 1. That the pages of the catechism 

 are not numbered. This will account for the ab- 

 sence of precise references. 2. That only so much 

 is quoted as may exhibit the parallelism ; and, 3. 

 That the citations are not consecutive in the ori- 

 ginal, but arranged in the order of the questions 

 and answers of the Church Catechism, beginning 

 with the fourteenth question, " How many sacra- 

 ments hath Christ ordained in His Church ?" 



Q. 14. How many, &c. 



" Quot sunt Ecclesia; Catholics Sacramenta? 

 Septem sunt in universiim," &c. 

 " Quis instituit Baptismum ? 

 Ipse Servator ac Dominus noster Jesus Christus." 

 \_SimilarIy of the Eucharist.~\ 



Q. 15. What meanest thou, &c. 



" Ecquur haec ipsa — et dicantur et sint Sacra- 

 menta? 



Sacramenta sunt et dicuntur quia sacra atque 

 efficacia sunt signa divina? erga nos voluntatis." 



Q. 16. How many parts, &c. 



" Hahetque unumquodque horum (quod sacramen- 

 tis peculiars est verbum) Elementum, et Gratiara 

 invisibilem. Quod verbum nos docet, et promittit 

 nobis, hoc Elementum st-u visibile signum simili- 

 tudins quadam demonstrat, hoc idsm Gratia quoque 

 (nisi tamen obicem objiciat homo) in anima invisi- 

 bilitsr operatur. 



Da paucis singulorura Sacramentorum signa et 

 invisibilem gratiam?" 



Q. 17. What is the outward, &c. 



" In Baptismo signum externum Aqua est." 



Q. 18. What is the inward, &c. 



" Quid efficit seu prodest Baptismus ? 



" Res seu gratia est renovatio et sanctificatio 

 animae, ablutio omnium peccatorum, adoptio bap- 

 tizati in filium Dei. 



' Baptizatus sum in Nomine Patris et Filii et 

 Spiritus Sancti.' 



" Ti notions ilia aquae, operationeque Spiritus 

 Sancti, eripitur baptizatus a regno et tyrannide dia- 

 boli, donatur remissione peccatorum ac innocentia, 

 addicitur perpetuo uni veroque Deo Patri et Filio 

 et Spiritui Sancto, hujus denique filius atque haares 

 instituitur." 



Q. 19. What is required, &c. 



" Requiritur in eo (adulto), et verus 11 del usus, 

 et vita professione Christiana, Baptismique voto 

 digna; hoc est ut corde credat, et ore fidem con- 

 fitealur, utque peccatis mortificatis in vitas ambulet 

 novitate. 



Proba sacrae Scripturas testimoniis, quod Fides 

 in Baptizato requiratur." 



Q. 20. Why then are infants, &c. 



" Sed quoraodo infantes possunt credere, ut qui 

 nondum usum habeant rationis ? 



His fides Ecclesias et susceptorum suffragatur, 

 donee idonei fiant suo illam assensu percipere, adhaec 

 et fidei gratiam in Baptismo ii consequuntur." 



Q. 21. Why was the Sacrament, &c. 



" Quur vero sacram Eucharistiam Christus insti- 

 tuit ? 



.... Ut sua? passionis ac mortis recordemur, 

 eamque annuntiemus perpetuo." 



Q. 22. ■ What is the outward, &c. 

 Q. 23. What is the inward, &c. 



" Da paucis .... signa et invisibilem gratiam. 



In Eucharistia, Elementum est panis ac vini 

 species : res autem, verum corpus, et verus Christi 

 sanguis est, fructusque dignam sumptionem se- 

 quentes." 



