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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No 230. 



usual, in Roman Catholic countries, to contract mar- 

 riage. 



" Fevrier emplit les fosses ; 

 Mars les seche." 



" Mars martelle, 

 Avril coutelle." 



An allusion to the boisterous winds of March, and 

 the sharp, cutting, easterly winds which frequently 

 prevail in April. 



" Nul Avril 

 Sans epi." 



" Avril le doux, 

 Quand il se fache, le pis de tout." 



" Bonne ou mauvaise poirette, 

 II faut que Mars la trouve faite." 



Poirette, in the dialect of Bayeux, means a leek. 



" Froid Mai et chaud Juin 

 Donnent pain et vin." 



" En Juignet [Juillet], 

 La faucille au poignet." 



" A la Saint- Vincent [Jan. 22], 

 Tout degele, ou tout fend." 



" Saint-Julien brise glace [Jan. 27], 

 S'il ne la brise, il Pembrasse." 



" A la Chandeleur [Feb. 2], 

 La grande douleur." 



Meaning the greatest cold. 



■ A la Chandeleur, 

 Ou toutes betes sont en horreur." 



Probably alluding to the rough state of their coats 

 at this season. 



"A la Saint-George [April 23], 

 Seme ton orge." 



" Quand il pleut le jour Saint- Marc [April 25], 

 II ne faut ni pouque ni sac." 

 \ 

 " A la Saint- Catherine [April 29], 

 Tout bois prend racine." 



" A la Saint-Urbain [May 25], 

 Le froment porte grain." 



"A la Saint- Loup [May 28?], 

 La lampe au clou." 



" S'il pleut le jour Saint-Medard [June 8], 

 II pleuvra quarante jours plus tard." 



"A la Saint- Barnabe [June 11] 

 La faux au pre." 



"Ala Saint- Sacrement [this year, June 15] 

 L'epi est au froment." 



" Quand il pleut a la Saint- Gervais [June 19], 

 II pleut quarante jours apres." 



" A la Madeleine [July 22]. 

 Les noix sont pleines." 



" A la Saint- Laurent [Aug. 10], 

 La faucille au froment." 



" Passe la Saint-Clement [Nov. 23?], 

 Ne seme plus le froment." 



" Si le soleil rit le jour Sainte-Eulalie [Dec. 10], 

 II y aura pommes et cidre a folie." 



"A la Sainte-Luce [Dec. 13?], 

 Les jours croissent du saut d'une puce.". 



"A la Saint- Thomas [Dec. 21], 

 Les jours sont au plus bas." 



Edgar MacCdlloch. 

 Guernsey. 



VAULT INTERMENTS (Vol. ii., p. 21.) I BURIAL, IN 



an erect posture (Vol. viii., pp. 329. 630.) : 



INTERMENT OF THE TROGLODITJE (Vol. ii., 



p. 187.). 



In the 4th book of Evelyn's Sylva there is much 

 interesting matter on this subject, besides what has 

 been quoted above ; and, to those herein interested, 

 the following extract from Burn's History of Parish 

 Registers in England will doubtless be acceptable: 



" Many great and good men have entertained scru- 

 ples on the practice of interment in churches. The 

 example of the virtuous and primitive confessor, Arch- 

 bishop Sancroft, who ordered himself to be buried in 

 the churchyard of Fresingfield in Suffolk, thinking it 

 improper that the house of God should be made the 

 repository of sinful man, ought to command the imi- 

 tation of less deserving persons : perhaps it had an in- 

 fluence over the mind of his successor, Archbishop 

 Seeker, who ordered himself to be buried in the church- 

 yard of Lambeth. The Bishops of London in succes- 

 sion, from Bishop Compton to Bishop Hayter, who 

 died in 1762, inclusive, have been buried in Fulham 

 Churchyard."* 



Of the same opinion were Dr. Edward Rainbow, 

 Bishop of Carlisle ; Sir Matthew Hale, who used 

 to say that churches were for the living and the 

 churchyards for the dead f ; Joseph Hall, Bishop 

 of Norwich, who " did not hold God's house a 

 meet repository for the greatest saint ;" and Wil- 

 liam Bedell, Bishop of Kilmore, who made a canon 

 in his synod to the following effect : 



" IX. Ut corpora defunctorum deinceps in Ecclesiis 

 non humentur, sed nee intra quintum pedem a pariete 

 extrorsum." 



Sir Thomas Latymer, of Braibroke in North- 

 amptonshire, by his will directed thus : 



" I, Thomas Latymer of Braybroke, a fals knyghte to 

 God, &c, my wrecchyd body to be buried where that 

 ever I die in the next chirche yerde, God vouchsafe, 

 and naut in the chirche, but in the utterist corner, as 

 he that is unworthy to lyn therein, save the merci of 

 God." 



* Cole's MSS., vol. iv. p. 100. 



f The Assembly at Edinburgh, in 1588, prohibited 

 the burying in kirks. 



