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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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et literatim, by the said reverend gentleman, and 

 is as follows : 



" This is the Guift of the Right Honourable the 

 Lord Cheif Justice Heale to the Parish Church of 

 Alderly. John Mason, Bristol, Fecit, Novem. 1" 

 1673." 



It appears, by this inscription, to have been 

 presented on his birth- day ; which, from his tomb, 

 was found to be November 1. Alderley is the 

 family place of the Hale family to this day. 



Julia R. Bockett. 

 Southcote Lodge. 



The Olympic Plain, Src. — The success which 

 has attended the excavations of Dr. Layard at 

 Nineveh, has rekindled the curiosity of the anti- 

 quary and the classical scholar with regard to the 

 buried remains of ancient Greece and Rome : 



" The Tiber at Rome," Dodwell says, " is supposed 

 to contain a vast assemblage of ancient sculpture ; and 

 thoughts are entertained of turning its course, in order 

 to explore its hidden treasures." 



The same distinguished traveller remarks (Clas- 

 sical and Topog. Tour through Greece") that — 



u It was a favourite plan of the learned Winkelmann to 

 raise a subscription for the excavation of the Olympic 

 plain. If such a project should ever be consummated, 

 we may confidently hope that the finest specimens of 

 sculpture, as well as the most curious and valuable 

 remains, will be brought to light. No place abounded 

 with such numerous offerings to the gods, and with 

 such splendid and beautiful representations in marble 

 and in bronze." 



Alpha. 

 Oxford. 



Electric Telegraph. — Might not the telegraph 

 be made serviceable in remote country districts, 

 by connecting detached residences with the near- 

 est police station ; to which an alarm might be 

 conveyed in cases of danger from thieves or fire ? 

 There are many who would willingly incur the 

 expense for the sake of the security, and no doubt 

 all details could be easily arranged. 



Thinks I to Myself. 



Irish Law in the Eighteenth Century . — I send, 

 for the information of the readers of " N". & Q.," 

 the following extract from Reilly's Dublin News 

 Letter, Aug. 9, 1740 : 



" Last week, at the assizes of Kilkenny, a fellow who 

 was to be tried for robbery not pleading, a jury was 

 appointed to try whether he was wilfully mute, or by 

 the hands of God ; and they giving a verdict that he 

 was wilfully mute, he was condemned to be pressed to 

 death. He accordingly suffered on Wednesday, pur- 

 suant to his sentence, which was as follows : that the 

 criminal shall be confined in some low dark room, 

 where he shall be laid on his back, with no covering 

 except round his loins, and shall have as much weight 



laid upon him as he can bear, and more ; that he shall 

 have nothing to live upon but the worst bread and 

 water; and the day that he eats, he shall not drink; 

 and the day that he drinks, he shall not eat ; and so- 

 shall continue till he dies." 



Is it to be believed that, so late as the year 

 1740, such barbarity (to call it nothing worse) 

 was practised according to law within the limits 

 of Great Britain and Ireland ? I would be glad 

 to hear from some correspondent upon the subject. 



Abhba. 



Gravestone Inscriptions. — In the churchyard of 

 Homersfield (St. Mary, Southelmham), Suffolk, 

 was the gravestone of Robert Crytoft, who died 

 Nov. 17, 1810, aged ninety, bearing the following 

 epitaph : 



" Myself. 



As I walk'd by myself I talk'd to myself, 



And thus myself said to me, 

 Look to thyself and take care of thyself, 



For nobody cares for thee. 

 So I turn'd to myself, and I answer'd myself 



In the self-same reverie, 

 Look to myself or look not to myself, 



The self-same thing will it be." 



This stone was some years since taken up, and 

 has remained standing in the church tower. I 

 know not whether the lines be original, but I have 

 never seen them elsewhere. 



The following were and may be now in St. 

 Stephen's churchyard, Ipswich, on the stone of 

 one Stephen Manister, clerk to Mr. Baron Thomp- 

 son, who died in 1731, and by his will desired the 

 following words to be there inscribed : 



■ What I gave I have, w' I spent I had, 

 What I left I lost for want of giving it." 



g. a. a 



jIHmar titatrfaf. 



Paintings of Our Saviour. — In Mrs. Jameson's- 

 Legends of the Monastic Orders, it is stated that 

 " The painter, Andrea Vanni, was among the 

 devout admirers of St. Catherine;" and that 

 " among his works was a head of Christ, said to 

 have been painted under the immediate instruc- 

 tion of St. Catherine ; representing the Saviour as 

 she had, in her visions, beheld him. Unhappily 

 this has perished." Also, on the authority of Mr. 

 Sterling, that St. Juan de la Cruz, the friend of 

 St. Theresa, " on one occasion when the Saviour 

 appeared to him, made an uncouth sketch of the 

 divine apparition ; which was long preserved as 

 a relique in the Convent of the Incarnation at 

 Avila." 



Can any of your readers supply particulars of, 

 or references to, other similar portraitures, espe- 

 cially of any still in existence ? J. B. 



