Sept. 3. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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matter hath increased upon me to such a degree, in the 

 genial climate of Languedoc, as to have enabled me to 

 compose several more books on this interesting subject, 

 all which I purpose presenting my subscribers with at 

 the original price of half a guinea. . . . Many months 

 ago this Second Book was printed off; but on my 

 arrival in town from Montauban (whither I purpose 

 to return), I found there were so many faults and 

 blunders in it throughout, that I was under the neces- 

 sity of condemning five hundred copies to the inglorious 

 purpose of defending pye bottoms from the dust of an 

 oven. . . . Profit, my Lord, has not been my motive 

 for publishing : if it had, I should be egregiously dis- 

 appointed, for instead of gaining I shall be a consider- 

 able loser by the publication ; and yet many of my 

 subscribers have given me four, Jive, and six times over 

 and above the subscription-price for my Poem. How even 

 the remaining books will see the light must depend entirely 

 upon my pecuniary, not my poetical abilities. The work 

 is well nigh completed; but not one solitary brother 

 have I throughout the airy regions of Grub Street 

 who is poorer than I. It is not impossible, however, 

 but when some of my partial friends shall know this, they 

 may enable me by their bounty to publish out of hand." 



This leads me to doubt whether the third book 

 was ever published, for I think the most " partial " 

 of his friends — those who had given " four, five, 

 and six times over and above the subscription 

 price " — must have had enough in two books. If 

 it were not published, it is a curious fact that, in a 

 poem called The Battle of Minden, the battle of 

 Minden is not mentioned ; though not more extra- 

 ordinary perhaps than the omissions of the " Ex- 

 planation of the Apocalypse " in his previous work. 



I come now to the question. Why did Junius 

 speak so passionately and disrespectfully of Swin- 

 ney, and what are the probabilities that Swinney 

 had never before (July) 1769 spoken to Lord G. 

 Sackville ? These I must defer till next week. 



T. S. J. 



MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION IN PETERBOROtJH 

 CATHEDRAL. 



.The following Notes occur on a fly-leaf at the 

 end of a copy of Gnnton's History of Peterborough 

 Cathedral, and appear to have been written soon 

 after that book was printed : 



" Among other things omitted in this history, I can- 

 not but take notice of one ancient inscription upon a 

 tomb in y« body of the church, written in old Saxon 

 letters, as followeth : 



^ 'ws : Ki : PAR : ci : passez : pvr : le : alme : 



ESTRAVNGE : DE : WATERVILtE : PRIEZ.' 



" This inscription may seem to challenge some rela- 

 tion to William de Waterville, one of the abbots of 

 this church. (See p. 23.)" 



_ " On Sennour Gascelin de Marrham's tomb, men- 

 tioned p. 94., these letters seem to be still legible : 

 * CI : GIST : EDOVN : gascelin -. sennovr : de 



MARRHAM : lADIS : DE : RI : ALM . . "' EV 

 EST MERCIS : PATER : NOSTER.'" 



" In St. Oswald's Chapel, on y« ground round the 

 verge of a stone : 



' HIC lACET COR .... ROBERTI DE SVTTOK 

 ABBATIS ISTIVS MOVASTERII CVIVS ANIMA 

 REQVIESCAT IN PACE. AMEN."* 



" In y« churchyard is this inscription : 



— '^— ~r\- _ , 



^ ' ANA lOANNIS DE SCO IVONE QVOA PORIS 



PMA A M Dim PACE REQVIESCAT. AMEN.' 



" This may probably relate to Ivo, sub-prior of this 

 monastery, whose anniversary was observed in y* Ka- 

 lends of March. (See page 324. of this book,)" 



" In y' churchyard : 



'Joannes Pocklington, S. S. Theologiae doctor, obiit 

 Nov. 14, A. D' 1642.' 



'Anne Pocklington, 1655.' 



' Mary, y« wife of John Towers, late Lord Bp. of 

 Peterborough, dyed Nov. 14, a. v. 1672.' 



' Quod mori potuit pr^stantissimae foeminae 



Compton Emery 



Filia9 Joannis Towers S. T, P. 



Hujus EcclesisB quondam Episcopi 



Viduae Robert! Rowell LL. D. 



Nee non charissimae conjugis 



Richardi Emery Gen: 



In hoc tumulo depositum : Feb. 4. 



A" ^tatis 54, 



A<> Domini 1683.'" 



A marginal note states that " The Chapter-house 

 and Cloyster sold in 1650 for 800Z., to John Baker, 

 Gent., of London." H. Thos. Wake. 



FOLK LORE. 



Superstition of the Cornish Miners (Yol. viil., 

 p. 7.). — I cannot find the information desired by 

 your correspondent in the Cornish antiquaries, and 

 have in vain consulted other works likely to ex- 

 plain this tradition ; but the remarks now offered 

 will perhaps be interesting in reference to the 

 nation alluded to. The Carthaginians being of 

 the same race, manners, and religion as the Phoe- 

 nicians, there are no particular data by which we 

 can ascertain the time of their first trading to the 

 British coast for the commodity in such request 

 among the traders of the East. The genius of 

 Carthage being more martial than that of Tyre, 

 whose object was more commerce than conquest, 

 it is not improbable that the former might by 

 force of arms have established a settlement in the 

 Cassiterides, and by this means have secured that 

 monopoly olF tin which the Phoenicians and their 

 colonies indubitably enjoyed for several centuries. 

 Norden, in his Antiquities of Cornwall, mentions 

 it as a tradition universally received by the inha- 

 bitants, that their tin mines were formerly wrought 

 by the Jews. He adds that these old works are 

 there at this day called Attal Sarasin, the ancient 



