July 2. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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The Rebellious Prayer (Vol. vii., p. 286.)- — 

 J. A. may find the poem, of which he quotes the 

 opening lines, in the Churchmaris Monthly Penny 

 Magazine, October, 1851, with the signature 

 L. E. P. The magazine is published by Wertheim 

 & Macintosh, 24. Paternoster Row. M. E. 



" To the Lords of Convention " (Vol. vii., p. 596.). 

 — L. Evans will find the whole of the ballad of 

 "Bonnie Dundee," the first line of which he 

 quotes, in Sir Walter Scott's Doom of Devorgoil, 

 where it is introduced as a song. Singularly 

 enough, his best ballad is thus found in his worst 

 play. FicuiNus. 



Wooden l^omhs and Effigies (Vol. vii., pp. 528. 

 607.). — In a chapel adjoining the church of He- 

 veningham in Suffolk, are (or rather were in 

 1832) the remains of a good altar tomb, with re- 

 cumbent efiigies carved in chesnut, of a knight and 

 his lady : it appeared to be, from the armour and 

 architecture, of the early part of the fifteenth 

 century ; and from the arms, Quarterly or and gules 

 within a border engrailed sable, charged witli es- 

 callops argent, no doubt belonged to the ancient 

 family of Heveningham of that place; probably 

 Sir John Heveningham, knight of the shire for the 

 county of Suffolk in the 1st of Henry IV. 



When I visited this tomb in 1832, it was in a 

 most dilapidated condition : the slab on which the 

 effigy of the knight once rested was broken in ; 

 within the head of the lady, which was separated 

 from the body, a thrush had built its nest : not- 

 withstanding, however, the neglect and damp to 

 which the chapel was exposed, these chesnut 

 effigies remained wonderfully sound and perfect. 



Spes. 



The monument to Sir Walter Traylli and his 

 lady, in Woodford Church in Northamptonshire, 

 is of wood. 



There is a wooden effigy in Gayton Church, 

 Northamptonshire, of a knight templar, recum- 

 bent, in a cross-legged position, his feet resting 

 on an animal : over the armour is a surcoat ; the 

 helmet is close fitted to the head, his right hand 

 is on the hilt of his sword, a shield is on the left 

 arm. 



There is also a fine wooden effigy of Sir Hugh 

 Bardolph in Burnham Church in Norfolk. J. B. 



In Fersfield Church, in Norfolk, there is a 

 wooden figure to the memory of Sir Robert Du 

 Bois, Kt., ob. 1311. See Bloomfield's Norfolk, 

 vol. i. p. 68. J. B. 



Lord Clarendon and the Tubwoman (Vol. vii., 

 pp. 133. 211. 634.). — Upon reference to the story 

 of the " tubwoman " in p. 133., it will be seen that 

 Mr. Hyde is distinctly stated to have himself mar- 

 ried the brewer's widow, and to have married her 



for her money. It is farther said that Ann Hyde, 

 the mother of Queen Mary and Queen Ann, was 

 the only issue of this marriage; whereas Ann 

 Hyde had four brothers and a sister. No allusion 

 is made in this account to Sir Thomas Ailesbury. 

 Your correspondent Mr. Warden says, that "the 

 story has mually been told of the wife of Sir 

 Thomas Ailesbury," and that it may be true of 

 her. Will he have the kindness to furnish a re- 

 ference to the version of the story in which Sir 

 Thomas Ailesbury is said to have married the tub- 

 woman ? L. 



House-marhs (Vol. vii., p. 594.). — I do not 

 know whether a. recollects the frequent occur- 

 rence of marks upon sheep in this country. Al- 

 though I have often seen them, I cannot just now 

 describe one accurately. Some sheep passed my 

 house yesterday which were marked with a cross 

 within a circle. 



Riding with a friend, a miller, in Essex, about 

 thirteen years ago, he jumped out of the gig and 

 over a gate, to seize a sack which was lying in a 

 field. Seeing no initials upon it, I asked how he 

 knew that it was his ; when he pointed out to me 

 a fish marked upon it, which he told me had been 

 his own and his father's mark for many years. 

 He also said that most of the millers in the neigh- 

 bourhood had a peculiar mark (not their names or 

 initials), each a different one for his own sacks. 



A. J. N. 



Birmingham. . 



'■'■ Amentium hand amantium" (Vol. vii., p. 595.). 

 — Your correspondent's Query sent me at once to 

 a queer old Terence in English, together with the 

 text, " opera ac industria JR. B., in Axholmensi in- 

 sula, LincolnsheriiEpwortheatis. [London, Printed 

 by John Legatt, and are to be sold by Andrew 

 Crooke, at the sign of the Green-Dragon, in Paul's 

 Church Yard. 1641.] 6th Edition." 



Here, as I expected, I found an alliterative 

 translation of the phrase In question : " For they 

 are fare as they were lunaticke, and not love-sicke. ' 



The translation, I may add, is in prose. 



OXONIENSIS. 

 Walthamstow. 



The Megatherium in the British Museum 

 (Vol. vii., p. 590.). — It is much to be regretted 

 that A Foreign Surgeon should not have 

 examined the contents of the room which contains 

 the cast of the skeleton of this animal with a little 

 more attention, before he penned the above article. 

 Had he done so, he would have found many of the 

 original bones, from casts of which the restored 

 skeleton has been constructed, in Wall Cases 9 

 and 10, and would not have fallen Into the error 

 of supposing that it is a facsimile of the original 

 skeleton at Madrid. That specimen was exhumed 

 near Buenos Ayres in 1789; whilst our restoration 



