April 14. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Burial Custom at Maple Durham, — 



" There is by the way the very unusual custom allowed 

 of performing the Roman Catholic burial service in the 

 church over the corpses of persons who have died in that 

 communion. The custom has arisen from the family of 

 the Blounts, who are the owners of the manor, having 

 always remained in the Romish faith, to which the 

 greater part of the parishioners also adhere." — Ramhlex 

 by Rivers, " The Thames," i. 134. 

 This statement seems hardly credible ; has not the 

 ■writer been misinformed ? E. H. A. 



General Braddock. — In a late history of this 

 officer's American campaign, a few facts and con- 

 jectures relative to his history have been brought 

 together. It would be a matter of some interest 

 to°a portion of the readers of " N. & Q.," if any 

 ftirther information could be afforded. Is there 

 any reason to believe a portrait of Braddock ever 

 existed P Serviens. 



The Black Sea (Vol. xi., p. 102.).— As this 

 modern name has nothing whatever to do with 

 either " Axenus," or " Euxinum," whence comes 

 it, and by whom bestowed ? Some of the readers 

 of " N. & Q." can probably tell us when and 

 where this name first occurs. 



The reason for calling the sea " black " may 

 have been the frequent recurrence of storms and 

 fogs ; but it also might have been the abounding 

 black rocks in the extensive coal-fields between 

 the Bosphorus and Heraclea ? A. C. M. 



Exeter. 



French Poet quoted. — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents inform me in what French poet are to 

 be found the lines (copied below) which are 

 quoted by Moore as a note to his Irish melody : 

 " And doth not a meeting like this," &c. ? 



"Jours charmants, quand je songe a vos heureux instans, 

 Je pense remonter le fleuve de mes ans ; 

 Et mon coeur, enchante sur la rive fleurie, 

 Respire encor I'air pur du matin de la yie." 



w. 



Dublin. 



Nottingham Date-hook. — Was there not pub- 

 lished, a few years ago, under some such title as 

 the above, a collection of scraps from the Notting- 

 ham newspapers ? Where, and at what price, can 

 a copy be obtained ? E. H. A. 



St. Simon the Apostle. — In a beautiful small 

 edition of the Book of Common Prayer, printed at 

 London by Barker, in 1675, and illustrated with a 

 portrait of the pious monarch Charles II., and 

 numerous engravings of the saints and incidents 

 in Holy Writ, there is a singular one of St. Simon 

 the Apostle. He is represented holding a saw (as 

 in some other engravings, although it is believed 

 that the instrument of his martyrdom was the 

 same as that of his Divine Master, the cross), and 



reading, holding a pair of spectacles to his eyes. 

 Does this allude to anything, or is it a mere whim 

 of the painter ? M. L. 



Lincoln's Inn. 



Godschall. — Godschall, of East Shene, mer- 

 chant (a. d. 1680). What relationship to Sir 

 Robert Godschall, Lord Mayor of London ? T. F. 



Guy of WanvicKs Cow's Rib. — Is it known to 

 what animal the huge rib belongs, which is shown 

 to the visitor at Warwick Castle as that of the 

 apocryphal dun cow, the slaughter of which forms 

 one of the feats recorded of the renowned Guy ? 



F. L. S. 

 Oxford. 



Jupiter and Diogenes. — What was the name of 

 that person who, in the early ages of Christianity, 

 on seeing a statue of Jupiter lying on the ground, 

 took off his hat, saying he did so to propitiate his 

 favour, in case he should ever be placed on his 

 pedestal again ? 



What was the name of that philosopher who 

 said, he saw the vanity of Diogenes through the 

 holes in his coat ? M. E,. J. 



Dublin. 



T. D. Bees. — Can any of your readers give me 

 any account of T. D. Bees, author of Iver and 

 Hengo, or the Rival Brothers, a dramatic ro- 

 mance, 4to., 1795. This drama is said, in the 

 Biographia Dramatica, to have been never acted. 



R. J. 



Glasgow. 



Petrified Wheat. — Mr. Park, of The Luminary, 

 having found some curious specimens of petrified 

 wheat on the banks of the Blue River, in Kansas 

 territory, thus remarks : 



" The resemblance is distinct, perfect. An inquiry 

 comes up who raised that wheat? Who cultivated the 

 teeming earth in that region in ages long gone by? Can 

 geologists tell us? Perhaps this was the region of the 

 globe referred to by Calanius, who once in conversation 

 with Onesectius, remarked that anciently the earth was 

 covered with barley and wheat, as it then was with 

 dust." 



Can these several questions be answered in the 

 pages of " N. & Q. ? " ' W. W. 



Malta. 



Harrow School. — 



1. Was Sir Samuel Garth, the celebrated phy- 

 sician, educated at Harrow ? If so, what is the 

 authority ? 



2. Are there any traditions of men of note, 

 other than those mentioned in Carlisle's Grammar 

 Schools, who received their education there an- 

 terior to 1770, the earliest date of Dr. Butler's 

 printed lists ? E. L. 



