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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 36. 



[The noble passage from Taylor's Holy Dying, 

 which Coleridge repeated, is subjoined.] 



" As when the sun approaches towards the gates of the 

 morning, he first opens a little eye of heaven, and sends 

 away the spirits of darkness, and gives light to a cock, 

 and calls up the lark to matins, and by and bye gilds tlie 

 fringes of a cloud, and peeps over the eastern hills, 

 thrusting out his golden horns like those which decked 

 the brows of Moses, when he was forced to wear a veil, 

 because himself had seen the face of God; and still, 

 while a man tells the story, the sun gets up higher, till 

 he shows a fair face and a full light, and then he shines 

 one whole day, under a cloud often, and sometimes 

 weeping great and little showers, and sets quickly ; so 

 is a man's reason and his life," — Jeremy Taylor's Holy 

 Dying. 



C. K. 



Leicester and the repiited Poisoneis of his Time 

 (Vol. ii., p. 9.). — " The lady who had lost her hair 

 and her nails," an account of whom is recpiested 

 by your correspondent II. C, was Liidy Douglas, 

 daughter of William Lord Howard ot' Eliingliam, 

 and widow of John Lord Shcilield. Leicester was 

 married to her after the death of his first wife 

 Anne, daughter and heir of Sir John Robsarf, and 

 had by her a son, the celebrated Sir Robert Dud- 

 ley, whose legitimacy, owing to his father's disown- 

 ing the marriage with Lady Siieffield, in order to 

 wed Lady Essex, was afterwards the subject of so 

 much contention. On the |)ublication of this latter 

 marriage, Laily Douglas, in order, it is said, to 

 secure herself from any future practices, had, 

 from a dread of being made away with by Leicester, 

 united herself to Sir Edward Stafford, then ambas- 

 sador in France. Full particulars of this double 

 marriage will be found in Dugdale's Antiquities of 

 Warivickshire. 



The extract from D'Israeli's Amenities of Litera- 

 ture relates to charges against Leicester, which will 

 be found at large in Leicester's Commonwealth, 

 written by Parsons the Jesuit, — a work, however, 

 which must be received with great catition, from 

 the author's well-known enmity to the Earl of 

 Leicester, and his hatred to the Puritans, who were 

 protected by that nobleman's powerful influence. 



\V. J. 



Havre. 



New Edition of Milton (Vol. ii., p. 21.). — The 

 Rev. J. ]\Iitford, as 1 have understood, is employed 

 upon a new edition of Milton's works, both prose 

 and verse, to be published by Mv. Pickering. I 

 may mention, by the way, that the sentence from 

 Strada, " Cupido gloria;, qii£e etiam sapientibus 

 novissima e.xuitur," which is quoted by Mr. Mit- 

 ford on Lycidas, Aldine edition, v. 7L ("Fame, 

 tiiat last infirmity of noble minds"), is borrowed 

 from Tacitus Hist. iv. 6. Compare Athenaus, xi. 

 15. § 116. p. 507. d., where Plato is represented as 

 saying : — 



a.iroSv6iX(da." 



Will you allow me to add, that the quotation 

 from Seneca in Vol. i., p. 427. of "Notes and 

 QuEKiEs" is from the Nat. Qucest. Prof. 



J. E. B. Mayor. 



Marlborough College, June 8. 



Christian Captives (Vol. i., p. 441.). — There is 

 an nnlbrtunate hiatus in the accounts of this j)arish 

 from 1642 to 1679, which prevents my stating posi- 

 tively the amount of the collection here made; but 

 in 1670, Jan 1., there occurs the following: — 



" Item. To Mr. Day for Copying ouer the fower 

 parts that was gathered in the parish for the Reliefe of 

 Slaues in Algiears - - - -020" 



]\Ir. Dav was curate fif Ecclesfield at that time; 

 and in another part of the book there is, in his 

 handwriting, a subscription list, which, though only 

 headed "Colecled by hous Row lor the . . ." 

 is more than probably the copy referred to. 

 From it the totals collected a[)pear to have been, — 



«. d. 



" Ecclesfield . - - 



Greno Firth - - - 



.Sou they Sjke - - - 



Wadsley - - - - 



TJie above are the four byerlaws, or divisions of 

 the parish, and the four churchwardens used sepa- 

 rately to collect in their respective byerlaws ; and 

 then a fair copy of the whole was made out by the 

 curate or sclioolui.aster. An ordinary collection in 

 church, upon a brief, averaged Is. 6d. at this 

 period. J. Eastwood. 



Ecclesfield. 



Borrowed Thoughts (Vol. i., p. 482.).— The 

 number of " Notes and Queries" here alluded to 

 has unluckily not reached me ; but in Vol. ii., 

 p. 30., I observe that your correspondent C, in 

 correcting one eir(n-, has inadvertently committed 

 another. Monsieur de la Palisse is the hero al- 

 luded to in the popular song which was written at 

 the connnencement of the eighteenth century by 

 Bernard de la Monnoye, upon the old ballad, com- 

 posed after the battleof Pavia, and commencing, — 

 " Helas ! La Palice est mort, 

 11 est mort devant Pavie; 

 Helas! s'il n'estait pas mort, 

 11 scrait encore en vie ! " 



W.J. 

 Havre. 



North Sides of Churchyards (Vol. ii., p. 55.). — 

 A portion of many churchyards is said to have 

 been left nnconsecrated, though not to be used as 

 ])laygroiuid for the youth of the parish, but for 

 the burial of excommunicated persons. This was 



