April 22. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



369 



Et nunc Pisa, dole, tristeris Thuscia tota, 

 Nullus sub sole est cui sic sunt omnia nota. 

 Rursus ab Angelico ccetu super aera vectum 

 Nuper et Angelico, ca-lo gaude te receptum. 

 Ann. Dom. mclxxxxiiii. hi Calend. Novembr." 

 Nearer home, in Shoreditch churchyard : 



" Sacred to the memory of Sarah Micci, who de- 

 parted this life April 7th, 1819, aged 50 years. 

 Memento judicii mei, sic enim erit mihi heri, tibi 

 hodie." 



Not far from this is the following laconic one : 



" Dr. John Gardner's last and best bed-room, who 

 departed this life the 8th of April, 1835, in his 84th 

 year." 



Which reminds me of one at Finedon : 



" Here lyeth Richard Dent, 

 In his last tenement. 

 1709." 



B. H. C. 



Curious Inscription (Vol. iv., p. 88.). — In the 

 first edition of Imperatorum Ro/nanorum Numis- 

 mata Aurea, by De Bie, Antwerp, 1615, at the 

 foot of a page addressed M Ad Lectorem," and 

 marked c. ii., are the following verses, which may 

 be noted as forming a pendant to those referred 

 to: 



ri R S D D 



* Sc ptorum erum ummorum espice icta 



ul V N R P 



st Qu R I NIT 



I a idem isu aciemus am nde acebunt." 



11 F V F I V PI 



Signed " C. Hjettuok." 



W. H. Scott. 



Edinburgh. 



Epitaph in Lavenham Church, Norfolk. — 



" Continuall prayse these lynes in brass 

 Of Allaine Dister here, 

 Clothier vertuous whyle he was 

 In Lavenham many a yeare ; 

 For as in lyfe he loved best 

 The poore to clothe and feede, 

 Soe with the riche and alle the reste, 

 He neighbourlie agreed ; 

 And did appoint before he died, 

 A smalle yearlie rent, 

 "Which would be every Whitsuntide 

 Among the poorest spent." 



I send you this copy from a nibbing of a quaint 

 epitaph, made in the beautiful old church of 

 Lavenham many years since, with a view to put- 

 ting a Query as to its construction. The first 

 two lines, as I read them, want a verb, unless we 

 read the conclusion of the first line as a verb, to 

 in-brasse (i. e. to record in brass). Can any of 

 your readers give me an authority, from an old 

 author, for the use of this or any similar verb ? 



To in-grain seems somewhat like it, but is modern. 

 If no authority for such a verb can be given, I 

 should be glad to have the construction of the 

 lines explained. A. B. K. 



Belmont. 



THE RIGBT CORRESPONDENCE. 



[In "N. & Q.," Vol. vii., pp. 203. 264. 349., 

 mention is made of this correspondence. The letters, 

 of which the following are copies, were sold as waste 

 paper, and are in my possession. They appear to have 

 been written by the Rt. Hon. Richard Rigby, Master 

 of the Rolls in Ireland, and relate to the appointment 

 of an Examiner in the Chancery in the year 1783. 



James F. Ferguson. J 



Dublin. 



St. James's Place, 

 24th May, 1783. 

 My dear Lord, 



I return you many thanks for your two letters 

 of y e 10th and 11th inst., and for the trouble you 

 are so obliging as to take on y° business of the 

 Examiner's Office. I have found a copy of an 

 appointment of an Examiner transmitted to me by 

 Lodge in the year 1762, and I send you Mr. Me- 

 redith's appointment upon the stamp'd paper you 

 inclosed to me. If that appointment will not 

 answer, or if the stamp is not a proper one, as you 

 seem to hint may be the case, I must desire you to 

 tell Mr. Perry to make out a proper appointment 

 and send it over ready for my signature. I shou'd 

 hope the one I send herewith will answer, that you 

 may have no further trouble. I perceive five 

 hundred pounds English was y e sum I receiv'd in 

 1762 ; and I imagine that is the sum Mr. Mere- 

 dith proposes to give now, and to which I give 

 my consent. 



I thank you for inquiring after my health ; my 

 fits of the gout are not very violent, but I am 

 very glad you never have any of them. Pray 

 make my best comp ts to Scott, and tell him that I 

 din'd yesterday at Streatham with Macnamara, 

 who is getting better, notwithstanding the weather 

 here is as cold as at Christmas. 



I am, my dear Lord, with all possible regard, 

 your most sincere friend and oblig'd humble 

 servant, 



BlCHARD BlGBY. 



Your stamp'd paper was not large enough, but 

 my servant found a stamp'd paper at Lincoln's 

 Inn. 



St. James's Place, 

 9th June, 1783. 

 My dear Lord, 

 Ten thousand thanks for all the trouble you are 

 so kind (as) to take in my affairs ; this day I re- 

 ceiv'd yours of the 31st May, with the bill in- 



