Feb. 11. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Bible. From the numerous errors we may sup- 

 pose they were copied from dictation by a person 

 unacquainted with Latin. 

 " Quanto doctiores tanto te gesas submiseias." 



• Forasmuch as y u art y e better learned, 



By so much y u must carry thy self more lowly." 



** Si deus est animus nobis ut carmina dicunt, 

 Sic tibi pricipus (bus?) sit pura mente colendus." 



* Seing y 4 God is, as y e poets say, 



A liveing soul, lets worship him alway." 



" Tempora (e?) felici multa (i?) numerantur amici, 

 Cum fortuna perit nulus amicus erit." 



" In time of prosperity friends will be plenty, 

 In time of adversity not one among twenty." 



On the title-page, " John Threlkeld's Book : " 



" Hujus in dominum cupius (as?) cognescere libri, 

 Supra prospiscias, noinen habebis ibi." 



" Whose booke I am if you would know, 

 I will to you in letters show." 



On the other side : 



" Thomas Threlkeld is my name, and for to write . . 

 . . ing ashame, 

 And if my pen had bene any better, I would have 

 mended it every letter." 



This last example closely resembles some others 

 given in a late Number of " N. & Q." J. R. G. 

 Dublin. 



ChurchilTs Grave. — It is not perhaps generally 

 known, that the author of The Rosciad was buried 

 in the churchyard of St. Mary, Dover. On a 

 small moss-covered head-stone is the following 

 inscription ; 



" 1 764. 



Here lie the remains of the celebrated 



C. Churchill." 



" Life to the last enjoy'd, 

 Here Churchill lies. 



Candidate." 



The notice is sufficiently brief ; no date, except 

 the year, nor age being recorded. The biogra- 

 phers inform us, that he died at Boulogne of a 

 fever, while on a visit to Wilkes. 



The cemetery where his remains are deposited 

 is in the centre almost of Dover ; and has recently 

 been closed for the purposes of sepulture, with 

 the exception of family vaults. Adjoining it is a 

 small retired burial-place, containing at the most 

 but two or three graves, and originally belonging 

 to the Tavenors. Here is the tomb of Captain 

 Samuel Tavenor, an officer of Cromwell, and, 

 during his ascendancy, one of the governors of 

 Deal Castle. Tavenor was a man distinguished 

 for his courage, integrity, and piety. J. Brent. 



OUter terf« 



CORONATION STONE. 



A few years ago the following tradition was re- 

 lated to me by a friend, and I should be glad if 

 any of your correspondents can inform me whether 

 it is current in any part of Great Britain or Ire- 

 land, and whether there are any grounds for it. 

 As it is connected with one of our most interest- 

 ing national relics, the coronation stone, it may 

 not prove beneath notice ; and I here give it in 

 full, shielding myself with the Last Minstrel's 

 excuse : 



" I know not how the truth may be, 

 But I tell the tale as 'twas told to me." 



I must allow that its extreme vagueness, if not 

 improbability, hardly warrants an inquiry ; but 

 having failed in obtaining any satisfactory proofs 

 among my own friends, as a last resource I apply 

 myself to the columns of your well-known and 

 useful journal. 



When Jacob awoke after his wonderful dream, 

 as related in Genesis (chap, xxviii.), he said, 

 " Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it 

 not;" and he was afraid, and said, "How dreadful 

 is this place. This is none other but the house 

 of God ; and this is the gate of heaven." He 

 "took the stone that he had put for his pillow 

 and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the 

 top of it. And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If 

 God will be with me, and will keep me in this 

 way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and 

 raiment to put on, so that I come again to my 

 father's house in peace, then shall the Lord be my 

 God : and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, 

 shall be God's house ; and of all that Thou shalt 

 give me I will surely give the tenth unto Thee." 



That stone (so runs the legend) is supposed to 

 have been taken away from Bethel by the House 

 of Joseph, when they destroyed the city and its 

 inhabitants (Judges i.) ; and a tradition, that who- 

 soever possessed that stone would be especially 

 blessed, and be king or chief, was current among 

 the Jews ; the stone itself being guarded by them 

 with jealous care. 



On the first destruction of Jerusalem, some of 

 the royal family of Judah are supposed to have 

 escaped, and to have gone in search of an asylum 

 beyond the sea, taking this precious stone with 

 them. Their resting-place was Ireland, where 

 they founded a kingdom. Many centuries after- 

 wards, a brother of the king descended from these 

 exiles, named Fergus, went, with his brother's 

 permission, to found a kingdom in Scotland. He 

 said, however, he would not go without the sacred 

 stone. This his brother refused to give him ; but 

 Fergus stole it, and established a kingdom in 

 Scotland. His descendants became kings of all 

 Scotland, and were crowned sitting on that stone, 



