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KOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 196. 



In 1622 they put forth the following advertise- 

 ment : 



"We, deputed by our College, the principal of the 

 brethren of the Rosicrucians, to make our visible and 

 invisible abode in this city, through the grace of the 

 Most High ; towards whom are turned the hearts of 

 the just : we teach without books or notes, and speak 

 the languages of the countries wherever we are, to draw 

 men like ourselves from the error of death." 



The lUuminati of Spain were a branch of this 

 sect. In 1615 one John Bringeret printed a work 

 in Germany containing two treatises, entitled The 

 Manifesto and Confession of Faith of the Fraternity 

 of the Rosicrucians in Germany. H. C. K. 



Rectory, Hereford. 



INSCRIPTIONS ON BELLS. 



(Vol. vi., p. 554. ; Vol. vii., p. 633.) 



My note-book contains a considerable number 

 of inscriptions on bells ; some extracted from 

 books, but others transcribed from the bells them- 

 selves. I send you a few of the most remarkable 

 inscriptions, with one or two notes on the subject. 



Chesterton, Cambridgeshire : 



1. " God save the Church." 



2. " Non sono animabus raortuorum, sed viventium." 



S. Benet's, Cambridge (see Le-Keux' Memo- 

 rials^ : 



1. " Of all the bels in Bennet, I am the best, 



And yet for my casting the parish paid lest. 



1607." 



2. " Non nomen fero ficti, 



Sed nomen Benedicti. 1610." 



S. " This bell was broke, and cast againe, 



by John Draper, in 1618, 



as plainly doth appeare : 



Churchwardens were, 



Edward Dixon, 



for one, 



who stood close to his tacklyn, 



and he that was his partner then, 



was Alexander Jacklyn." 



Girton, Cambridgeshire : 



" Non clamor sed amor cantat in aure Dei." 



Stoneleigh, Warwickshire : 



1. " Michaele te pulsante Winchelcombe a petente 



daemone te libera. 



2. " O Kenelme nos defende ne maligni sentiamus 



focula." 



Eastry, Kent : 



" One bell inscribed with the names of the church- 

 wardens and the maker ; a shilling of William III., 

 and other coins are let into the rim." 



Erith, Kent : 



" A tablet in the belfry commemorates the ringing 

 of a peal of 726 changes in twenty-six minutes." 



S. Clement, Sandwich, Kent : 



" In the ringing chamber of this noble tower is a 

 windlass for lowering the bells in case of repairs be- 

 coming necessary, with a trap-door in the floor open- 

 ing into the church." 



S. Mary, Sandwich, Kent : 



" This bel was bought and steeple built, A.n. 1718. 

 J. Bradley, R. Harvey, Ch. wardens. R. P. F." 



S. Andrew, Histon, Camb. : 



" Coins of Queen Anne in the rim of one bell ; but 

 dated 1723." 



S. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster (Weever, 

 Fun. Mon., p. 491., edit. fol. 1631) : 



" King Edward the Third built in the little sanc- 

 tuarie a clochard of stone and timber, and placed therein 

 three bells, for the vse of Saint Ste})hen's Chappel. 

 About the biggest bell was engrauen, or cast in the 

 metall, these words : 



' King Edward made mee thirtie thousand weight 

 and three : 

 Take mee downe and wey mee, and more you shall 

 fynd mee.' 

 But these bells being to be taken downe, in the raigne 

 of King Henry the Eight, one writes vnderneath with 

 a coal : 

 ' But Henry the Eight will bait me of my weight.' " 



If any farther extracts may Interest you, they 

 are very much at your service. 



W. Sparrow Simpson, B. A. 



WAS COOK THE DISCOVERER OF THE SANDWICH 

 ISLANDS ? 



(Vol. vIU., p. 6.) 



Mr. Warden will find this question discussed 

 by La Perouse (English 8vo. edit., vol. il. ch. 6.), 

 who concludes unhesitatingly that the Sandwich 

 group is identical with a cluster of islands dis- 

 covered by the Spanish navigator Gaetan in 1542, 

 and by him named " The King's Islands." These 

 the Spaniard placed in the tenth, although the 

 Sandwich Islands are near the twentieth, degree 

 of north latitude, which La Perouse believed was 

 a mere clerical error. The difference in longi- 

 tude, sixteen or seventeen degrees, he ascribed 

 to the imperfect means of determination possessed 

 by the early navigators, and to their ignorance of 

 the currents of the Pacific. 



Allowing for the mistake In latitude, the King's 

 Islands are evidently the same as those found on 

 some old charts, about the nineteenth and twen- 

 tieth degrees of north latitude, under the names 

 of La Mesa, Los Mayos, and La Disgraciada ; 

 which Capt. Dixon, as well as La Perouse, sought 

 for in vain in the longitude assigned to them. 

 They appear to have been introduced into the 



