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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 57. 



" Tickhill, God help me ! " (Vol. i., p. 247.)- — 

 Chagford, on the borders of Darlnioor, in Devon, 

 is in winter a very desolate and almost unap- 

 proachable place. If an inhabitant be asked at 

 this season concerning iiis locality, he calls it, in 

 sad tones, " Cliagford, good Lord!" In summer 

 the place is picturesque and much souglit, and 

 then tlie exulting designation is " Chaggitbrd, and 

 what d'ye think?" 



Wichlicombe-in-the-Moor, in the same neigh- 

 bourliood, is a most out-of-the-way pLace, and is 

 commonly spoken of as " Widdicombe in the cold 

 country, good Lord!" J. W. H. 



"Noli me tmigere" (Vol. ii., p. 253.).— To the 

 list given of the painters of this subject may be 

 added Frederico Buroccio. A siuguhirly beautiful 

 engraving by Rapliael Morgheu of this picture, 

 then in the possession of the Marquis Bonvisi of 

 Lucca, was publislied at Florence, 1816. 



C. I. R. 



Judas Bell, Judas Candle, ^t. (Vol.ii., p. 298.). 



— In the parish accounts of Lambeth, the two 



following entries occur : — 

 "1516. To James Cak-ot for payntyng of Judas, 6d." 

 « 1523. Paid for a start' for Judas crosse - -4^." 



I venture to add these to the instances cited by 

 Mr. Walcott, hoping that the slightly varied form 

 may furnish a clue, by wliich some of your readers 

 may be able to unravel the meaning of such allu- 

 sions more satisfactorily than any yet attempted. 



J. C. B. 



Burial towards the West (Vol. ii., p. 408.). — 

 Mr. Hawker has stated very confidently that 



" It was the ancient usage of the Church that the 

 martyr, the bishop, the saint, and even the priest, should 

 occupy in their sepulture a position the reverse of tlie 

 secular dead, and lie down with their feet westward, 

 and their heads to the rising sun." 



It is true that a custom h:is existed in many 

 places for nearly two centuries and a half to 

 assign to the clergy a method of interment distinct 

 from that adopted for the laity ; and the observ- 

 ance of this usage is not linsited to Romanists, for 

 its continuance may be noted among members of 

 the Church of Ireland also, at least in remote dis- 

 tricts of that country. ^Vith respect to this mat- 

 ter, however, your correspondent has entirely 

 misapplied the term "ancient;" for until the 

 seventeenth century there was not any diilerence 

 in the mode of sepulture prescribed lor priests and 

 laymen; but, most connuonly, all persons entitled 

 to Christian burial were placed with their feet 

 toward the east, in consequence of a tradition re- 

 lative to the position of our Saviour's body in the 

 tomb. (Haimo, Horn, pro Die Saiicto Punch. ; 

 J. Gregory, Oriens nomen Ejus, 85. ; Martene, 

 De Antiq. Eccles. Bitihus, toni. ii. p. 374. Vtnet. 

 1783.) It is believed that there is no earlier 

 authority for the sacerdotal privilege in question 



than a rule contained in the Rituale Romanum 

 sanctioned by Pope Paul V. in June, 1614 ; viz. : 

 " Corpora defunctorum in ecclesia ponenda sunt 



pedihus versus altare majus Presbyteri vero 



habeant caput versus altare." — Cap. De Exstquiis, 

 p. 163., Antwerp, 1635. 



A rubric afterwards directs (p. 168 ) that the 

 bier should be so set down in the middle of the 

 church that in every case the injunction previously 

 given should be complied with, even from the com- 

 mencement of the funeral service : and, in fiict, 

 the manner of adhering to the established practice 

 of exhibiting in the church to the people the 

 bodies of the deceased clergy, clad in vestments, 

 prior to their interment (on which occasions an 

 altar-ward posture was naturally selected for the 

 head, in order that the remains might be more 

 easily seen), appears to have originated the idea of 

 the fitness of retaining an unjustifiable priestly 

 prerogative at the time of burial. 



Mr. Hawker may peruse with much advantage 

 the fiist Ap[)endix in the second edition of Eusehii 

 Boinani Epistola de Cultu Sandorimi ignotui'um. 

 Mabillon has herein very usefully enlarged what 

 he had said, " De Sepultura Sacerdotum," in the 

 preceding impression, of which a French transla- 

 tion was speedily published at Paris, 12mo in 

 eights, 1698. The text of both editions may be 

 found together in tome i. of the Ouvrages post- 

 hiiines de Mabillon et Ruinart, :i Paris, 1724. 



R. G. 



Totnes Church (Vol. ii., p. 376). — As the 

 priojy of St. JMary stood on the N.E. side of the 

 parish church, it is not inqirobablc that the arched 

 passage to which your querist H. G. T. refers may 

 have been formed between the two buildings, and 

 found needful to allow room for the extension of 

 the chancel on the re-erection of the church in 

 1432. Perhaps if H. G. T. could refer to the 

 ancient documents brought to light by the fall of 

 one of the pinnacles into the room over the porch 

 in 1799, he would gain some information in con- 

 nexion with his inquiry. The following note may 

 have reference to the^•ery " gangway " in question : 



" William Ryder of Totnes, by his will dated 18th 

 Nov. H32, desires to be buried in the cemetery of the 

 parish church, in itinere processlonali juxta ecclesiam 

 priorit, et eonventns Totton. ex opposito magni altaris 

 ejusdem ecclesife." — See Dr. Oliver's Monasticum Dioc. 

 Exon. p. 239. 



It ajipears that the present churchyard is the 

 site of the priory; but on this point the labours 

 of the sexton would probably give some intimation. 



S. S. S. 



Irish Brigade (Vol. ii., p. 407.). — Your cor- 

 respondent J. 13. will find some interesting jiarti- 

 ciilars concerning the Ii-ish Brigade in the jMilitary 

 History of the Irish Nation, by Matthew O'Couor, 

 extending to the peace of Utrecht in 1711. It 



