Oct. 1. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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in the account of the church at Whitchurch (alias 

 Little Stanmore), that — 



" Many of the prayer books, given by the duke [of 

 Chandos], still remain chained to the pues for the use 

 of the poorer parishioners." — P. 104. 



At p. 138. a curious ornament of some of the 

 London churches is referred to : 



" We find several altar-pieces in which seven wooden 

 candlesticks, with wooden candles, are introduced, viz. 

 St. Mary-at-Hill; St. Ethelburga, Bishopsgate; Ham- 

 mersmith, &c. : these are merely typical of the seven 

 golden candlesticks of the Apocalypse." — Rev. i. 20. 



This portion of ecclesiastical furnitui-e appears 

 to me sufficiently unusual to be worth noting in 

 your pages : is it to be found elsewhere than in 

 churches in and near London ? If not, a list of 

 those churches in which it is now to be seen would 

 be acceptable to ecclesiologists. 



W. Spabuow Simpson. 



Oxford. 



D.Ferravd; Trench Patois (Vol.viii., p. 243.). — 

 The full title of Ferrand's work, referred to by 

 your correspondent Mb. B. Snow of Birmingham, 

 is as follows : 



" Inventaire General de la Muse Normande, divisee 

 en xxviii parties ou sont descrites plusieurs batailles, 

 assauts, prises de villes, guerres etrangeres, victoires 

 de la France, histoires comlques, Esmotions popu- 

 laires, grabuges et choses remarquables arrivees a 

 Rouen depuis quarante annees, in 8o., et se vendent 

 a Rouen, chez I'avthevr, rue du Bac, a I'Enseigne de 

 I'imprimerie, m.dc. lv., pages 484." 



There is also another publication by Ferrand 

 with the title of — 



" Les Adieux de la Muse Normande aux Palinots, 

 et quelques autres pieces, pages 28." 



The author was a printer at Rouen, and the 

 patois in which his productions are written is the 

 Norman. The Biographic Universelle says they 

 are the best known of all that are composed in 

 that dialect. J. Mackay. 



Wood of the Cross (Vol. vii., pp. 177. 334. 437. 

 488.). — Is it an old belief that the cross was com- 

 posed of four different kinds of wood ? Boys, in a 

 note on Ephesians iii. 18. (Worhs, p. 495.), says, 

 " Other have discoursed of the foure woods, and 

 dimensions in the materiall crosse of Christ, more 

 subtilly than soundly," and refers in the margin to 

 Anselra and Aquinas, but without giving the re- 

 ference to the exact passages. Can any of your 

 readers supply this deficiency ? R. J. Allen. 



Ladies' Arms in a Lozenge (Vol. vili., pp. 37.83.). 

 —Broctuna has a theory that ladies bear their arms 

 in a lozenge, because hatchments are of that shape; 

 and it is probable that widows in old time " would 

 vie with each other in these displays of the in- 



signia of mourning." It has, however, escaped his 

 memory, that maids with living fathers also use 

 the lozenge, and that in a man's hatchment it is 

 the frame only, and not the shield at all, which 

 has the lozenge shape. The man's arms in the 

 hatchment not being on a lozenge, it is scarcely 

 possible his widow could thence have adopted it. 

 He suggests that the shape was adopted for hatch- 

 ments as being most convenient for admitting the 

 arms of the sixteen ancestors. 



I wish to insert a Query, as to whether the six- 

 teen quarters ever were made use of this way in 

 English heraldry ? Perhaps your readers will be 

 willing to allow that the lozenge is surely a fitting 

 emblem for the sweeter sex ; but is not the routine 

 reason the true one after all ? The lozenge has a 

 supposed resemblance to the distaflT, the emblem of 

 the woman. "We have spinster from the same idea; 

 and, though I cannot now turn to the passage, I 

 am sure I have seen the Salic law described as 

 forbidding " the holder of the distaff to grasp the 

 sceptre." P. P. 



Burial in unconsecrated Ground (Vol. vi., p. 448. ; 

 Vol. viii., p. 43.). — The late elegant and accom- 

 plished Sir W. Temple, though he laid not his 

 whole body in his garden, deposited the better 

 part of it (his heart) there ; " and if my executors 

 will gratify me in what I have desired, I wish my 

 corpse may be interred as I have bespoke them ; 

 not at all out of singularity, or for want of a dor- 

 mitory (of which there is an ample one annexed 

 to the parish church), but for other reasons not 

 necessary here to trouble the reader with, what I 

 have said in general being sufficient. However, 

 let them order as they think fit, so it be not in the 

 church or chancel''' (Evelyn's Sylva, book iv.) 



" In the north aisle of the chancel [of Wotton 

 Church] is the burying-place of the Evelyns (within 

 which is lately made, under a decent arched chapel, a 

 vault). In the chancel on the north side is a tomb, 

 about three feet Iiigh, of freestone, shaped like a coffin; 

 on the top, on white marble, is this inscription : 



' Here lies the Body 

 of John Evelyn, Esq.'"* 



This Inscription commemorates the author of 

 Sylva, and evinces how unobsequiously obsequies 

 are sometimes solemnised. 



Evelyn mentions Sumner On Garden Burial, 

 probably " not circulated." 



BlBLIOTHECAE. ChETHAM. 



Table-turning (Vol. viii., p. 57.). — Without 

 going the length of asserting, with La Bruyere, 

 Ihat "tout est dit," or believing, with Dutens, that 

 there is no modern discovery that was not known, 

 in some shape or other, to the ancients, it seems 



* Aubrey's Natural History and Antiquities of Surrey, 

 vol. iv. 



