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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 210. 



are to be sold in Ivie Lane, 1646," and which I 

 have always supposed to be of the first edition, has 

 " Tenents," very distinctly, on the title-page. On 

 the fly-leaf, opposite to the title-page, is the ap- 

 probation of John Downame, dated March 14, 

 1645, and commencing thus : 



" I have perused these learned animadversions upon 

 the common tenets and opinions of men," &c. 



H. T. G. 



Hull. 



Door-head Inscriptions (Vol. vii., pp.23. 190. 

 588.; Vol. viii., pp.38. 162.). — Over a house in 

 Hexham, in the street called GilHgate, is the fol- 

 lowing inscription : 



"C. D. 1683. J. D. 

 Reason doth wonder, but Faith he tell can, 

 That a maid was a mother, and God was a man. 

 Let Reason look down, and Faith see the wonder ; 

 For Faith sees above, and Reason sees under. 

 Reason doth wonder what by Scripture is meant. 

 Which says that Christ's body is our Sacrament : 

 That our bread is His body, and our drink is His 



blood, 

 Which cannot by Reason be well understood ; 

 For Faith sees above, and Reason below, 

 For Faith can see more than Reason doth know." 



Ceykep. 



The following is reported to have been inscribed 

 by the Pope (1725) over the gate of the Aposto- 

 lical Chancery : 



" Fide Deo — die saepe preces — peccare caveto — 

 Sit humilis — pacem delige — magna fuge — 

 Multa audi — die pauca — tace secreta — rainori 



Parcito — majori cedito — ferto parem. 

 Propria fac — non differ opus — sis sequus egeno — 

 Parta tuere — pati disce — memento mori." 



H. T. Ellacombe. 



Hour-glass Stand (Vol. vii., p. 489. ; Vol. viii., 

 pp. 82. 209. 328.).— There is an hour-glass stand 

 attached to the right-hand side of the pulpit of 

 Edingthorpe Church, Norfolk. The date of the 

 pulpit is 1632. I. L. S. 



Bulstrode Whitlock and Whiteloche Bulstrode 

 (Vol. viii., p. 293.). — Bulstrode Whitlock was 

 the son of Sir James Whitlock, Kt., by Elizabeth, 

 daughter of Edward Bulstrode, of Hedgley-Bul- 

 strode, in the county of Buckingham ; and White- 

 locke Bulstrode was the son of Sir Richard, eldest 

 son of the above-mentioned Edward Bulstrode. 

 (See Lives of the Lords Chancellors, ^c, by an 

 Impartial Hand, vol. ii. p. 1. ; and Chalmers's 

 Siographical Dictionary.') 'AKuvs. 



Dublin. 



Movable Metal Types anno 1435 (Vol. vii., 

 p. 405.). — Although I am not able to give any 

 information concerning Sister Margarite, or the 



convent at Mur, I yet may observe, 1st, that the 

 last three letters of the legend - - k can hardly 

 refer to Laurens Janzroon Coster, for his name 

 in 1435 was never spelt with k, but always with c ; 

 and, besides, if a proper name be here intended, 

 it will certainly be that of the binder. 2ndly, that 

 in the catalogue of the Haarlem City Library, 

 from p. 77. to 112., mention is made of six works, 

 which, though bearing no date, were, it is more 

 than probable, printed with movable metal types 

 before 1435. One of these, Aelii Donati Gram- 

 matics Latince Fragmenta duo, was printed before 

 1425, and the writer of the catalogue adds in his 

 notes : 



" Ipsos typos, quibus hae lamellae sunt excusae, fuisse 

 mobiles, cuxn nonnullae literae inveisee evidenter testantur, 

 tum. omnium expertissimorum typographorum reique 

 typographicas peritissimorum arbitrum, qui has laci- 

 nias contemplati sunt, unanima et constans affirmavit 

 sententia. Quin etfusos eos esse perhibuerunt plurimi, 

 et in his Koningius, magno quamvis studio negaverat 

 typorum ligneorum mobilium acerrimus propugnator 

 Meermannus." 



From the Navorscher. 



CONSTANTEK. 



Oaken Tombs (Vol. vii., p. 528.; Vol. viii., 

 p. 179.). — In the chancel of Brancepeth Church, 

 CO. Durham, are oaken efiigies of a Lord and Lady 

 Neville, of which the following is a description. 

 The figure of the man is in a coat of mail, the 

 hands elevated with gauntlets, wearing his casque, 

 which rests on a bull's or buffalo's head, a collar 

 round his neck studded with gems, and on the 

 breast a shield with the arms of Neville. The 

 female figure has a high crowned bonnet, and the 

 mantle is drawn close over the feet, which rest on 

 two dogs couchant. The tomb is ornamented with 

 small figures of ecclesiastics at prayer, but is with- 

 out inscription. Leland (Itin., i. 80.) says : 



" In the paroche chirch of Saint Brandon, at Brans- 

 peth, be dyvers tumbes of the Nevilles. In the quire 

 is a high tumbe, of one of them porturid with his wife. 

 This Neville lakkid heires male, wherapoan great con- 

 certation rose betwixt the next heire male, and one of 

 the Gascoynes." 



CUTHBERT BeDE, B.A. 



Stafford Knot (Vol. viii., p. 220.). — It was the 

 badge or cognisance of the house of Stafford, 

 Earls of Stafford. Henry Gough. 



Emberton, Bucks. 



Hand in Bishop's Cannings Church (Vol. viii., 

 p. 269.). — See an article on this " Manus Medi- 

 tationis," with a copy of the inscription, in the 

 Ecclesiologist, vol. v. p. 150. Henry Gough. 



Emberton, Bucks. 



Arms of Richard, King of the Romans (Vol. viii., 

 p. 265.). — I think it might be proved that the 

 border refers not to Poitou (which is represented 



