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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 292. 



oath. It was at that time in the library of a 

 gantleiriau of Norfolk. It is a MS. of the four 

 Evanffelists^ written on vellum; the form and 

 beauty of the letters nearly approaching to Roman 

 capitals. It appears to have been written and 

 bound for the coronation of Henry I. In An 

 Inquinj into the Nature and Form of the Books of 

 ths Ancients, by J. A. Arnett, published in 1837, 

 the writer states that the book alluded to was 

 then in the library of the Duke of Buckingham at 

 Stowe. Query, Did this book pass into other hands 

 at the late sale at Stowe ; and is it known in 

 whose possession it now is ? T. E. D. 



Exeter. 



[This MS. is Lot 251. in the Stowe Catalogue, and is 

 there described as " Passionale : a Portion of the Holy 

 Gospels, used for the Goroaation Oath of English Sove- 

 reigas before the Reformation, 4to., vellum. The written 

 pages of this most interesting MS. are 174. The cover is 

 of oak, cased with leather, on one side of which is a cru- 

 cifix of gilt bronze. A memorandum, in the autograph 

 of John Ives, dated ' Yarmouth, Norfolk, St. Luke's Day, 

 1772,' gives the following account of it: * This very an- 

 cient, curious, and valuable MS; appears to be the original 

 book on which our kings and queens took their coronation 

 oaths before the Reformation. In Powell's Repertory of Re- 

 cords, 4to., 1631, p. 123., he mentions, 'in the Exchequer, 

 item, a little booke with a crucifixe.' Thomas Madox, 

 Esq., late historiographer, to whom Mr. Martin lent this 

 book, told him that he believed it was the book formerly 

 belonging to the Exchequer, mentioned by Powell, and 

 which was used to take the coronation oath upon, by all 

 our kings and queens till Henry VIII.' It contains a 

 portion of each of the Gospels, and the Passion of our 

 Saviour. The writing appears to be of the twelfth or thir- 

 teenth century." The whole of the Stowe MSS. were 

 purchased by Lord Ashburnham.] 



Moore of Abingdon. — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents inform me the Christian name of 



Moore of Abingdon, in Berks, a dissenting mi- 

 nister, who appears to have lived there before the 

 year 1712 ; as the birth of his son Edward oc- 

 curred in that year, who was the author of Fables, 

 and several other works ? He married Jane Ha- 

 milton, whose father had a place in the palace at 

 St. James's (vide Gortons Biographical Dictionary 

 and the Encyelopcedia Britannica). Edward Moore 

 died March 5, 1757, at South Lambeth ; his wife 

 in the year 1780 [?]. There was one son Edward, 

 who died young. If any one could give me their 

 pedigree, I should feel much obliged ; and like- 

 wise inform me whether they bore for their arms, 

 Argent, a moorcock proper. 



The Moores are connected with the Hnthwaites 

 of Nottingham and the Travers of London ; and 

 their burial-place, the Dissenters' Ground, Dept- 

 ford. Julia R. Bockett. 



Southcote Lodge. 



[The following notices of the Moores were furnished by 

 the Rev. Joshua Toalmin, the historian of Taunton, to 

 the editor of the collected editiou of the Poetical Works 

 of Edward Moore, Edinb., 1794 : " Edward Moore was 

 born at Abingdon, Mar. 22, 1711-12. He was the third 



son of the Rev. Thomas Moore, M.A., pastor of a Society 

 of Protestant Dissenters in that town, by Mary, daughter 

 of Thomas Alder, gentleman, of Drayton, a neighbouring 

 village. His grandfather, the Rev. John Moore, of Brase- 

 Nose College, Oxford, had the curacy of Holnest in Dor- 

 setshire, from which he was ejected by the Act of Uni- 

 formitj'. Thomas Moore left seven children: John, born 

 July 3, 1708, dissenting minister at Abingdon, who died 

 Sept. 22, 1774 ; Thomas, born 1709 ; Edward, the poet ; 

 Samuel, born Ap. 8, 1714; Mary, born Sept. 8, 1716, and 

 died at Taunton, Dec. 6, 1761 ;" Elizabeth, born Ap. 30, 

 1719, still living [1794], on whose information this ac- 

 count is drawn up; Jane, born Oct. 14, 1721, and died at 

 Bridgewater, Nov. 1790. Thomas Moore, the father, 

 died when Edward was about ten years old ; and his 

 mother died in London about 1771. Edward, the poet, died 

 at South Lambeth, Feb. 28, 1757, aged forty-five, and was 

 interred in the burial-ground in High Street. Mrs. Moore, 

 after his death, obtained a place in the Queen's private 

 apartment, and still survives [1794]. Their son Edward 

 died at sea in 1773."] 



A Play.ei's Epitaph. — A variety of epitaphs 

 have been copied into the pages of " N. & Q. ;" 

 but no one of them is so concise as the following, 

 which is perhaps the briefest on record. It is 

 said to have been written on Burbage the actor, 

 and reminds one of what his friend and cotem- 

 porary said about all having " their exits." This 

 is it : " EXIT BUKBAGE." Query, Is there any 

 authority for this epitaph ? Ctjthbebt Bede, B.A. 



[For brevity this epitaph beats that of " O rare Ben 

 Jonson ! " Burbage the actor was buried at St. Leonard's, 

 Shoreditch ; but no inscription on his tomb has been re- 

 corded in the History of that parish. It first appeared in 

 the Additions to Camden's Remains, 1674, p. 541., by John 

 Philipot, Somerset Herald, where it reads, " Exit Bur- 

 bulge." The epitaph on Dr. Caius, the founder of Gon- 

 ville and Caius College, cannot be blamed for its prolixity : 

 " Fui Caius;" although, as Dr. Fuller remarks, "few 

 men might have had a longer, none ever had a shorter 

 epitaph."] 



^^ Philomorus." — In Lord Campbell's very in- 

 teresting Life of Sir Thomas More {Lives of the 

 Chancellors, vol. i. pp. 592. &c., 2nd edit.), he 

 speaks in eulogistic terms of a woi'k entitled 

 Philomorus, and the English translation which 

 he inserts of one of Sir Thomas More's Latin 

 epigrams from that work has made me rather 

 desirous to procure a sight of it. Lord Camp- 

 bell, however, gives no date to the book, nor 

 author's name. Perhaps some of your readers 

 may be able to enlighten me on the subject. 



Investigator. 



[It was published by William Pickering in 1842, and 

 entitled Philomorus : A Brief Examination of the Latin 

 Poems of Sir Thomas More. At p. 77. the anonymous 

 author remarks, " Accustomed to feel a warm interest in 

 everything Avhich bears the name of Sir Thomas More, 

 and finding, as he thought, among the Epigrammata 

 some gleanings not unworthy of preservation, he was in- 

 duced to commit to paper the result of his examination 

 as he went along. Such was the origin of the present 

 volume : such its simple history."] 



