Nov. 26. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



515 



Monumsntal Brass at WanUp, Co. Leicester, and 

 Sepulch?'al Inscriptions in English. — In the church 

 of Wanlip, near this town, is a fine brass of a 

 knight and his lady, and round the margin the 

 following inscription, divided at the corners of the 

 slab by tlie Evangelistic symbols : 



" Here lyes Thomas Walssh, Knyght, lorde of Anlep, 

 and dame Kat'ine his AVyfe, whiche in yer tyme made 

 the Kirke of Anlep, and halud the Kirkyc-rd first, in 

 Wirchip of God, and of oure lady, and seynt Nicholas, 

 that God haue yer soules and mercy, Anno Dni 

 milliho CCC™" nonagesimo tercio." 



Mr. Bloxam states, in his Mon. Arch, of Great 

 Britain, p. 210., that — 



" There are, perhaps, no sepulchral inscriptions in that 

 tongue (English) prior to the fifteenth century ; yet at 

 almost the beginning of it, some are to he met with, 

 p.nd tliey became more common as the century drew to 

 a close." 



Is there any monumental inscription in English, 

 earlier than the above curious one, known to any 

 of your correspondents ? William Kelly. 



Leicester. 



Influence of Politics on Fashion. — Can any one 

 of the numerous readers of " N. & Q." explain 

 the meaning of the following passage of the note 

 of p. 305. of Alison's History of Europe, 7th 

 edition ? — 



" A very curious work might be written on the in- 

 fluence of political events and ideas on the prevailing 

 fashions both for men and women ; there is always a 

 certain analogy between them. Witness the shepherd- 

 plaid trousers for gentlemen, and coarse shawls and 

 muslins worn by ladies in Great Britain during the 

 Reform fervour of 1832-4." 



Henri van Laun. 



King William's College, Isle of Man. 



Mev. W. liondall. — Can any of your cor- 

 respondents give information respecting the Rev. 

 William Rondall, Vicar of Blackhampton, Devon- 

 shire (1548), who translated into English a portion 

 of the writings of the learned Erasmus ? 



HiSTORlCDS. 



Henry, third Earl of Northumberland. — The 

 above nobleman fell on the battle field of Towton 

 (Yorkshire), 29th March, 1461, and w^s interred 

 in the church of St. Denys, or Dionisius, in York, 

 where his tomb, denuded of its brass, is still 

 pointed out. Pray does an account exist, in any 

 of our old historians, as to the removal of the body 

 of the above nobleman from that dread field of 

 slaughter to his mansion in Walmgate in the above 

 city, and of his interment, which doubtless was a 

 strictly private one ? Again, does any record 

 exist of the latter event in any book of early re- 



gisters belonging to the above church ? Doubt- 

 less many readers of " N. & Q." will be able to 

 answer these three Queries. 



M. AlSLABlE DeNHAM. 

 Piersebridge, Darlington. 



" When ive survey" Sfc. — Where are the follow- 

 ing lines to be found ? 



" When we survey yon circling orbs on high, 

 Say, do they only grace the spangled sky ? 

 Have they no influence, no function given 

 To execute the awful will of Heaven ? 

 Is there no sympathy pervading all 

 Between the planets and this earthly ball ? 

 No tactile intercourse from pole to pole, 

 Between the ambient and the human soul ? 

 No link extended through the vast profound, 

 Combining all above, below, around?" 



AxLEDirS. 



TumhulVs Continuation of Robertson. — Some 

 years ago, a continuation of Robertson's work on 

 Scottish Peerages was announced by Mr. TurnbuU, 

 Advocate of Edinburgh. — I shall be glad to be 

 informed whether it was published ; and by whom 

 or where. Feciaus. 



A71 Heraldic Quej-y. — Will any one of your 

 contributors from Lancashire or Cheshire, who 

 may have access to ancient ordinaries of arms, 

 whether in pi-Int or In manuscript, favour me by 

 saying whether he has ever met with the follow-- 

 ing coat : Per pale, argent and sable, a fess em- 

 battled, between three falcons counterchanged, 

 belled or ? It has been attributed to the family 

 of Thompson of Lancashire, by Captain Booth of 

 Stockport, and an heraldic writer named Saun- 

 ders ; but what authority attaches +0 either I am 

 not aware. Is it mentioned in Con-y's Lancashire ? 



Heraldicus. 



Osborn filius Herfasti. — Were Osborn, son of 

 Herfast, abbot of S. Evroult, and Osborn de 

 Crepon (filius Herfasti patrls Gunnoris coraitlssae), 

 brothers ? or were there two Herfasts ? 



J. Sansom. 



Jews in China. — A colony of Jews is known to 

 exist in the centre of China, who worship God ac- 

 cording to the belief of their forefathers ; and the 

 aborigines of the northern portion of Australia 

 exercise the rite of circumcision. Can these 

 colonists and aborigines be traced to any of the 

 nations of the lost tribes ? Historicus. 



Dei-ivation of '■'■ Mammet." — The Rev. R. Che- 

 nevix Trench, In his book on the Study of Woi'ds, 

 4th edition, p. 79., gives the derivation of the old 

 English word mammet from " Mammetry or Maho- 

 metry," and cites, in proof of this, Capulet calling 

 his daughter " a whining mammet." Now Johnson, 



