Fes. 2. 1850.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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spondent (in No.1. p.12.) on this subject, I 
saw at once its importance; for, if my Lord 
Brougham’s statements were correct, our historians 
must forthwith re-write a somewhat important 
chapter in our history. I felt assured, however, 
that it was not correct ; and the result of a some- 
what tedious search is as I had anticipated. His 
lordship had made an error in a date, and 1764 
should be 1766. The authority, not acknow- 
| ledged by his lordship, was, no doubt, the Parlia- | 
mentary History of 1766 (vol. xvi. p. 96.), where 
your correspondent will find the statement, which 
of course, the date being correctly given, con- | 
tains nothing that is not consistent with known | 
facts. Cr 
Bone-houses. —'The number of skulls at Roth- 
| well (No. 11., p. 171.) is greatly exaggerated, nor 
is the tradition of their being gathered from 
Naseby battle-field more than a modern invention, 
the discovery of the bones being within the me- 
mory of living persons. 
most puzzling. The vault, which is very small, is 
probably coeval with the church, and seems to | 
have been made for the very purpose to which it 
is applied. When this vast building was erected 
_ in the 12th century, may not this vault have been 
made for the bones disturbed in the old church- 
yard by so extensive a foundation ? Ale 
Queen's Messengers. — In answer to the query 
of your correspondent “J.U.G.G.,” in No. 12. 
p- 186., I beg to call his attention to the authority 
quoted in the passage respecting the “ Knightes 
caligate of Armes,” to which he alludes, in Mr. 
C. Knight’s London. He will find that he is re- 
ferred to Legh’s Accedens of Armory, and Upton, 
De Studio Militari. The latter wrote in the early 
pe of the fifteenth century. We are at present, 
believe, without earlier information. on such | 
subjects. 
Whilst I am writing to you, may I ask you to 
correct a printer’s error in my query in the same 
number, where “trepon ” appears instead of “ ju- 
pon” ? 
mean by the former. 
May-day.—In reply to Metanton (No. 12. | 
. 187.), I would observe that in a collection of 
ues des Villes de Londres, &c., published by Pierre | 
Vander at Leyden (without date, but about the 
time of William III., or early in Anne’s reign), 
there is a representation of “ La Laitiére de May a 
Londres,’ with an enormous head-dress of silver 
dishes, tankards, and cups, intermixed with flowers. 
There is no letter-press explanation; but it is 
evident that the practice of the milk-maids, in 
carrying their ith oceild balanced on their heads, 
suggested the idea of carrying this more precious 
burthen in gala on May-day. C. 
Their existence there is | 
It may save a query as to what I could | 
J. R. PLAncae. | 
| 
MISCELLANIES, 
Gray's Elegy. — Your correspondent, “ A. 
| Grayan” (No. 10. p. 150.), in writing on the 
Elegy in a Country Church-yard, suggests the 
existence of error or obscurity in the last stanza 
of the epitaph ; and that, if the reading, as it now 
stands, be faulty, “some amendment” should be 
suggested. 
At the sale of Mason’s collection of Gray’s 
books and MSS., in December, 1845, I purchased 
Gray’s copy of Dodsley’s collection (2nd edition, 
1758), with corrections, names of authors, &c., in 
| his own hand. The Elegy is the first poem in 
vol.iv. In the 2nd stanza, the beetle’s “ drony 
flight” is printed and corrected in the margin into 
| “droning.” In the 25th stanza, an obvious mis- 
print of “the upland land” is corrected into ‘ up- 
land lawn ;” and, in the 27th stanza, “ he wou’d 
rove” is altered into “would he rove.” These 
are the only emendations in the Elegy. The care 
displayed in marking them seems to me to indicate 
| that the author had no others to insert, and that 
| the common reading is as he finally left it. 
To say that a man’s merits and frailties repose 
| in trembling hope before God, is surely not irreve- 
| rend; and this is, I think, all that Gray intended 
to convey in the words to which your correspond- 
ent objects. W. L.M. 
[ The latter emendation, “ would he rove,” which is 
neither in the Aldine edition of the Rev. J. Mitford, 
nor in Mr. Van Voorst’s beautifully illustrated Polyglot 
edition, should clearly be introduced, in future, 
as harmonising more perfectly with the “would he 
stretch ” of the preceding stanza. | 
Gray's Elegy.—'To the list of German trans- 
lations of Gray’s Elegy should be added the version 
by Kosegarten, which is said by Mr. Thimm, in 
his View of German Literature, to be “very spi- 
rited.” The edition of Kosegarten I have now 
before me was printed at Greifswald, in 12 vols. 
in 1824, and contains numerous translations from 
English poets. 
Oxford, Jan. 16. 
Gregori’s Italian Version of “ Gray's Elegy.” — 
| In answer to the query of “J. F. M.,” respecting 
| the translations of Gray’s Elegy, I beg to mention 
that, besides those already possessed by your cor- 
_ respondent, and those in Torri’s polyglot edition, 
there is one in Italian by Domenico Gregori, pub- 
| lished in the first volume of his Scelta di Poesie di 
| piu celebri Autori Inglesi, recati in Versi Italiani, 
/and printed at Rome in 1821, in 2 vols. small 
| Bvo. M. 
Oxford, Jan. 17. 1850. 
Name of Shylock. —When Mr. Knight says that 
| Scialac was “ the name of a Marionite (Maronite ?) 
of Mount Libanus,” he appears to consider the 
