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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 215. 



Turkish and Russian grammars published in this 

 country appeared at Oxford ; the Turkish, bj 

 Leaman, in 1670, and the Russian, by Ludolf, in 

 1696. Both are written in Latin. J. M. 



Oxford. 



Chronograms in Sicily. — After the opening of 

 the gold mines at Fiume-di-Nisi, which are now 

 being reworked, the Messinese struck coins bear- 

 ing the motto — 



«eX VIsCerlbVs Mels haeC fVnDItVr." 

 Giving xvicivMicvDiv. 1734? 



On a fountain near the church of St. Francesco 

 di Paola ; 



« D. O. M. 



Itnperante Carlo VI., Vicrcgente Comite de Palma, 



Gubernante Civitatem Comite de Wallis. 



P. P. P. 



Vt aCtlonlbVs nostrls IVste proCeDaMVs." 



Which gives vchviivcdmv. 1724. 



The death of Charles, Infanta of Spain, is thus 

 indicated : 



« FILIVs ante DIeM patrlos InqVIrIt In annos." 



1568. G. E. T. S. R. N. 



Stone Pulpits. — A complete list of ancient stone 

 pulpits in England and Wales would be desirable. 

 Their positions should be specified ; and whether 

 in use or not, should be stated. I have seen the 

 following : 



Nantwich, Cheshire; at the junction of north 

 transept and chancel (not used). 



Bristol Cathedral ; adjoining one of the north 

 pillars of nave (not used). 



Wolverhampton Collegiate Church ; adjoining 

 one of south pillars of nave (in use ?) 



T. H. Keeslet, B.A. 



Audlem, Nantwich, 



^ Advertisements and Prospectuses. — It is, I be- 

 lieve, the custom for the most part to make waste- 

 paper of the advertisements and prospectuses tliat 

 are usually stitched up, in considerable numbers, 

 with the popular reviews and magazines. Now, 

 as these alventitious sheets often contain scraps 

 and fragments of contemporaneous intelligence, 

 literary and bibliographical, with occasional artis- 

 tic illustrations, would it not be well to preserve 

 them, and to bind them up in a separate form at 

 the end of the year ; connecting them with the 

 particular review or magazine to which they be- 

 longed, but describing also the contents of the 

 volume by a distinct lettering-piece ? 



If the work of destruction of such frail, but 

 fifequently interesting records, should go on at 

 the present rate, posterity will be in danger of 

 losing many valuable data respecting the state of 

 British literature at different periods, as depicted 



by a humbler class of documents, employed by It 

 for the diffusion of its copious productions. 



John Maceat. 



^VLtviti* 



ENGLISH REFUGEES AT TPENSTBIK. 



When I was at Alkmaar about thirty years ago, I 

 strolled to the neijrhbouring village of Hello, on the 

 road to Liinmen, where I saw, surrounded by a moat, 

 tlie foundations of the castle of Ypenstein. A view 

 of tliis once noble pile is to be found in the well- 

 known work f)f Rademaker, Kabinet van Neder- 

 landsche en Kleefsche Oudheden. This place, as 

 tradition tells, once witnessed the perpetration of 

 a violent deed. When the son of the unfortunate 

 Charles I. was an exile in our country, this house 

 Ypenstein was occupied by a family of English 

 emigrants, hi<»h in rank, who lived here for a while 

 in quiet. How far these exiles were even here 

 secure from the spies of Cromwell appeared on a 

 certain dark night, after a suspicious vessel had 

 been seen from the village of Esmond, when an 

 armed band of the Protector's JPuritans, led by 

 a guide, marched over the heath to the house 

 Ypenstein, seized all the inhabitants, and carried 

 them off, by the way they had come, to the coast, 

 put tiiem on board, and transported them most 

 probably to England. In such secresy and silence 

 was this violation of territory and the rights of 

 hospitality perpetrated, that no one in the neigh- 

 bourhood perceived anything of the occurrence, 

 except a miller who saw the troop crossing the 

 pathless heath in the direction of the coast, but 

 could not conceive what had brought so many 

 persons together in such a place at midnight. 



I would gladly learn whether anything is known 

 of this transaction ; and if so, where I may find 

 farther particulars of this English family, their 

 probable political importance, &c. To investigate 

 tlie truth of this tradition, that we may acquit or 

 convict the far-famed Cromwell of so foul a crime, 

 cannot certainly be untimely, now that two cele- 

 brated learned men have undertaken to vindicate 

 his memory. — From the Navorscher. 



lN(tUA£BITOS. 



Minav catteries. 



Petrarch's Laura. — Mr. Mathews, in his Diary 

 of an Invalid in Italy, Sfc, p. 380., in speaking 

 of the outrages and indignities which, during the 

 Revolution, were committed throughout France 

 on the remains of the dead, and were amongst the 

 most revolting of its horrors, mentions, on the 

 authority of a fellow-passenger, an eye-witnes^, 

 that the body of Petrarch's Laura had been seen 

 exposed to the most brutal indignities in the 

 streets of Avignon. He told Mr. Mathews that 



