Nov. 12. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



475 



and from the cases of Rex v. Stubbs (2 T. R. 395. ; 



1 Bott. 10.), i>i which it was held that a woman is not 

 exempt from serving the office of overseer of the poor, 

 and Oliver. Ingram (2 Str. 1114.), in which it was 

 held that she may be a parish sexton, there may, 

 perhaps, be some ground for contending a woman is 

 not exempt from this duty." 



EUSSELL GOLB. 



A fevr years ago (slie may still be so) there was 

 a gentlewoman the parish clerk of some church in 

 London ; perhaps some of your readers may be 

 able to say where : a deputy officiated, excepting 

 occasionally. But many such instances have oc- 

 curred- 



In a note in Prideaux's Directions to Church- 

 wardens (late edition), the following references 

 are given as to the power of women to fill paro- 

 chial and other sucli offices : Rex v. Stubbs, 



2 T. R. 359. ; Olive v. Ingram, 2 Strange, 1114. 



H. T. Ellacombb. 

 Rectory, Clyst St. George. 



I beg to inform Y. S. M. that when I went to 

 reside near Lincoln in 1828, a woman was clerk to 

 the parish of Sudbrooke, and died in that capacity 

 a very few years after. I do not remember her 

 name at this moment, but I could get all par- 

 ticulars if required on my return to Sudbrooke 

 Holme. Rich. Ellison. 



Balmoral Hotel, Broadstairs, Kent. 



I am able to mention another instance of a 

 woman acting as parish clerk at Ickburgh, in the 

 county of Norfolk. It is the parish to Buckenham 

 Hall, the seat of the Honourable Francis Baring, 

 near Thetford. A woman there has long officiated 

 as parish clerk, and still continues acting in that 

 capacity. , F. R. 



I beg to refer Y. S. M. to the following passage 

 in Madame d' Arblay's Diary, vol. v. p. 246. : 



" There was at Collumpton only a poor wretched 

 ragged woman, a female clerk, to show us this church: 

 she pays a man for doing the duty, while she receives 

 the salary in right of her deceased husband ! " 



M. L. G. 



At Mister ton, near Crewkerne, in Somersetshire, 

 Mary Mounford was clerk for more than thirty 

 years. She gave up the office about the year 

 1832, and is now in Beaminster Union, just eighty- 

 nine years old. Herbert L. Allen. 



POETICAL EPITHETS OF THE NIGHTINGALE. 



(Vol. vii., p. 397. ; Vol. viii., p. 112.) 



iTo the one hundred and ten epithets poeti- 

 cally applied to the nightingale and its song, col- 



lected by Mr. Bede, permit me to add sixty-five 

 more. 



Azure-crested. Cowper. 



Bewailing. Drummond. 



Chaunting. Skelton. 



Chaste poet. Grainger. 



Dappled. Anon.* 



Darling. Carey. 



Daulian minstrel. Herrick. 



Delightful. Shelley. 



Dusky-brown. Trench. 



Earlg. C. Smith. 



Elegiac. Dibdin. 



Enamoured. Shelley. 



Fabled. Byron. 



Fair. Smart. 



Greeful.^ Lodge. 



Gurgling. Lloyd. 



Hallow d. Moore. 



Hundred-throated. Tenny- 

 son. 



Invisible. Hurdis. 



Lesbian. Bromley. 



Love-learned. Tliomson. 



Love-sick, Warton. 



Loud-complaining. Gib- 

 bons. 



Lulling. Anon. I 



Lute-tongued. Anon.§ 



Mellmv. Strangford. 



Midnight minstrel. Logan, 



Moody. Hurdis. 



Nightly. Bidlake. 



Pandionian. Drummond. 



Panged. Hood. 



Pitiful. Herrick. 



Plaintful. Drummond. 



Quavering. Poole. 



Querulous. Kennedy. 



Rapturous. Southey. 



Rural. Dryden. 



Sable.\\ Drummond. 



Sadly-pleasing.^ Anon. 



Secret. Shelley. 



Sely. Chaucer. 



Sequestered. J. Montgo- 

 mery. 



Shy. Dallas. 



Silver-tuned. Carey. 



Simple. Derrick. 



Sobbing. Planche. 



Soft-tuned. Whaley. 



Solitary. Bowring. 



Sorrow-soothing. Shaw. 



Sprightly. Elton. 



Sweet-breasted. .Beaumont 

 and Fletcher, 



Sweet-tongved. Anon.** 



Sylvan syren. Pattison. 



Tearful. Potter. 



Tenderest. WifFen. 



Thracian. Lewis. 



Transporting. Hurdis. 



Unadorned. Hurdis. 



Unhappy. Croxall. 



Watchful. Pliilips. 



Witching, Proctor. 



Woodland. Smith. 



Wretched. Shirley. 



Wronged. P. Fletcher, 



Yearly, Drayton. 



Young. Lewis. 



The character of the mere song alone has been 

 described in the following terms : 



Melodious lay. Potter. 

 Lofty song. Yalden. 

 A storm of soimd. Shelley. 

 Impressive lay. Merry. 

 Swelling slow. Kirk White. 

 Tremzilously slow. C. Smith. 

 Wild melody. Shelley. 

 T'hick melodious note. Lloyd. 

 Hymn of love, Logan. 

 Melting lay. Henley. 

 Harmonious woe. Pomfret. 

 Well- tuned warble. Shakspeare. 



* Blackwood's Mag., Jan. 1 838. 



•j- " I regard the prettie, greeful bard 



With tearfull, yet delightfull, notes complalne." 



Heliconia. 



I Lays of the Minnesingers. 



§ Weekly Visitor, July, 1835. 



II " Night's sable birds, which plain when others 



sleep." — Thaumantia. 

 ^ Evening Elegy. — Poetical Calendar. 

 ** Harleian Miscellany, vol. viii. 



