June 25. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



617 



12-14, 1714, appears the following curious adver- 

 tisement : 



" Winchester Antiquities, written by Mr. Trussell, 

 Dr. Bettes, and Mr. Butler of St. Edmund's Bury, in 

 one of which manuscripts is the Original of Cities; 

 which manuscripts were never published. If the per- 

 son who hath either of them, and will communicate, or 

 permit the same to be copied or perused, he is earnestly 

 desired to give notice thereof to Mr. Mathew Imber, 

 one of the aldermen of the city of Winchester, in the 

 county of Southampton, who is compleating the idea 

 or description of the ancient and present state of that 

 ancient city, to be speedily printed ; together with a 

 faithful collection of all the memorable and useful 

 things relating to the same city." 



Gough, in his Topography, vol. i. p. 387., thus 

 notices these MSS. : 



" Wood says (Ath. Ox., vol. i. p. 448.) that Trussell 

 the historian, who was alderman of Winchester, con- 

 tinued to Bishop Curll's time, 1632, an old MS. his- 

 tory of the see and bishops in the Cathedral library. 

 He also wrote A Description of the Citij of Winchester; 

 with an Historical ^Relation of divers memorable Occur- 

 rences tnuchinc; the same, and prefixed to it A Preamble 

 of the Original of Cities in general. In a catalogue of 

 the famous Robert Smith's books, sold by auction, 1682, 

 No. 24. among the MSS. has this identical title, by 

 J. Trussell, fol., and was purchased for twelve shillings 

 by a Mr. Rothwell, a frequent purchaser at this sale. 

 The Description, Sec, written by Trussell about 1620, 

 is now in the hands of John Duthy, Esq. ; and from it 

 large extracts were made in The History and Antiquities 

 of Winchester, 1773. Bishop Nicolson guesses that it 

 was too voluminous, and Bishop Kennett that it was 

 too imperfect to be published. 



" The former mentions something on the same subject 

 i)y Dr. Bettes, whose book is still in MS. 



" Dr. Butler, of St. Edmund's Bury, made observ- 

 ations on the ancient monuments of this city under the 

 Romans." 



E. G. Ballabd. 



[Trussell's MSS. are now in the library of Sir 

 Thomas Phillipps. — Ed.] 



i^tuor §.OttS. 



Last Suicide buried at a Cross Road. — I have 

 reason to believe that the last person subjected to 

 this barbarous ceremony was the wretched parri- 

 cide and suicide Griffiths, wlio was buried at the 

 cross road formed by Eaton Street, Grosvenor 

 Place, and the King's'Road, as late as June, 1823. 

 I subjoin the following account from the Chro- 

 mcle : 



" The extreme privacy which the officers observed, 

 *s to the hour and place of interment, increased in a 

 great degree the anxiety of those that were waiting, 

 and it being suspected that the body would have been 

 privately carried away, through the back part of the 

 workhouse (St. George's) into Farm Street Mews, and 

 ijom thence to its final destination, different parties 



stationed themselves at the several passages through 

 which it must unavoidably pass, in order to prevent 

 disappointment. All anxiety however, on this account, 

 was ultimately removed, by preparations being made 

 for the removal of the body through the principal 

 «ntry of the workhouse leading into Mount Street, and 

 about half-past one o'clock the body was brought out 

 in a shell supported on the shoulders of four men, and 

 followed by a party of constables and watchmen. The 

 solitary procession, which increased in numbers as it 

 went along, proceeded up Mount Street, down South 

 Audley Street into Stanhope Street, from thence into 

 Park Lane through Hyde Park Corner, and along 

 Grosvenor Place, until its final arrival at the cross 

 road formed by Eaton Street, Grosvenor Place, and 

 the King's Road. When the procession arrived at the 

 grave, which had been previously dug, tlse constables 

 arranged themselves around it to keep the crowd off, 

 upon which the shell was laid on the ground, and the 

 body of the unfortunate deceased taken out. It had 

 on a winding-sheet, drawers, and stockings, and a 

 quantity of blood was clotted about the head, and the 

 lining of the shell entirely stained. The body was then 

 wrapped in a piece of Russia matting, tied round with 

 some cord, and then instantly dropped into the hole, 

 which was about five feet in depth ; it was then imme- 

 diately filled up, and it was gratifying to see that that 

 disgusting part of the ceremony of throwing lime over 

 the body, and driving a stake through it, was on this 

 occasion dispensed with. The surrounding spectators, 

 consisting of about two hundred persons, amongst whom 

 were several persons of respectable appearance, were 

 much disgusted at this horrid ceremony." 



Imagine such a scene in the " centre of civilis- 

 ation " only thirty years ago ! 



Vincent T. Steknberg. 



Andrew's Edition of Freund's Latin Lexicon. — 

 A singular plan seems to have been pursued in 

 this valuable lexicon in one point. Wherever the 

 meaning of a word in a certain passage is disputed, 

 all reference to that place is omitted ! Here are 

 a few examples of this " dodge " from one book, 

 Horace : 



Suhjectus. Car. 1. 12. 55. 



Divido. 1. 15. 15. 



Jncola. 1. 16. 5. Vertex. 3. 24. 6. 



Pars. 2. 17. 18. Tormentum. 3. 21. 13. 



Laudo. Ep. 11. 19. 



Offendo. Ep. 15. 15. 



Octonus, S. 1. 6. 75. 



JEra. lb. 



Duplex. S. 2. 4. 63. 



Vulpecula. Epist. 1. 7. 29. 



Proprius. A. P. 128., &c. A. A. D. 



Slang Expressions. — It would be curious to in- 

 vestigate farther how some odd forms of expres- 

 sion of this kind have crept into, if not the English 

 language, at least into every-day parlance ; and 

 by what classes of men they have been introduced. 

 I do not of course mean the vile aigot, or St. Giles' 



