Jan. 18. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the profligate and persecuting reigns of Charles II. 

 and James II. lor his zeal and piety. 



J. M. G. 

 Hallamshire. 



Authors of Anonymotis Worhs. — On the title- 

 page of the first Tolunie of my copy of The 

 Monthly Intelligencer for 1728 and 1729, which 

 was publisheil anonymously, is written in MS., 

 " By the Rev. Mr. Kimber." 



This book belonged to, and is marked with the 

 autograph of D. Hughes, 1730; but the MS. note 

 was written by another hand. P. H. F. 



Umbrellas (Vol. ii., pp. 491. 52f?., &c.). — I 

 have talked with an old lady who remembered the 

 first umbrella used in Oxford, and with another 

 who described the surprise elicited by the first in 

 Birmingham. An aunt of mine, born 1754, could 

 not remember when the house was without one, 

 thougli in her youth they were little used. May 

 not the word umbrella hiive been ap])lied to 

 various sorts ofimpluviu f Swift, in his "Descrip- 

 tion of a Cit}' Shower," says : — 

 " Now in contifiuous drops the flood comes down, 

 Threatening with deli;ge this devoted town. 

 To shops in cro«'ds the daggled females fly, 

 Pretend to cheapen goods, but iiothing buy. 

 The Templar spruce, while every spout's abroach, 

 Stays till 'tis Fair, yet seems to call a coach. 

 The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasly strides, 

 While streams run down tier oil'd nnibrella's sides." 



Taller, No. 238. Oct. 17. 1710. 



This might be applied to an oiled cape, but I 

 think the passage quoted by Mr. Cornet (Vol. ii., 

 p. 523.) signifies something carried over the head. 



By the way, the " Description of a City Shower" 

 contains one of the latest examples of ache as a 

 dissyllable : — 

 " A coming shower your sliooting corns presage. 



Old aclies tlirob, your hollow tooth will rage." 



H. B. C. 



U. U. Club, Jan. 



SONNET (query, BY MILTOn) ON THE LIBRARY 

 AT CAMBRIDGE. 



In a Collection of Bccente and Witty Pieces hy 

 several eminente hands., London, printed by W. S. 

 for Simon Waterfou, 1C28, p. 109., is the following 

 sonnet, far the best thing in the book : — 



"on the librarie at Cambridge. 



" In that great maze of books I sighed and said, — 

 It is a grave-yard, and each tome a tombe ; 

 Shrouded in hempen rags, behold tlie dead, 

 Codined and ranged in crypts of dismal gloom, 

 Food for the worm and redolent of mold. 

 Traced with brief e])itaph in tarnl.'^ln'd gold — 

 Ah, golden lettered hope ! — ah, ilolorous doom ! 



Yet mid the common death, where all is cold, 



And mildewed ])ride in de.';olation dwells, 



A few great immortalities of old 



Stand brightly forth — not tombes but living 



shrines. 

 Where from high sainte or martyr virtue wells, 

 A^'hich on the living yet work miracles. 

 Spreading a relic wealth richer than golden mines. 



"J. M. 1627." 



Attached to it, it will be seen, are the initials 

 J. M. and the date 1627. Is it possible that this 

 may be an early and neglected sonnet of Milton ? 

 and yet, could Milton have seriously perpetrated 

 the puu in the second line ? C. Howard Kenton. 



BURYING IN CliURCH WALLS. 



(Vol. ii., p. 513.) 



Mr. W. Durrant Cooper has mentioned some 

 instances of burials in the walls of churches ; it is 

 not however clear whether in these the monument, 

 or coffin lid, is in the inside or the outside of the 

 wall. 



Stone cofEn lids, with and without effigies, are 

 very frequently found placed under low arches 

 hollowed in the wall in the interior of the church : 

 tombs placed in the exterior of the wall are much 

 less common ; and the singularity of their position, 

 leads one to look for some peculiar reason for it. 

 Tradition often accounts for it by such stories as 

 those mentioned by Me. Cooper. Such is the 

 case with a handsome canopied tomb (I think 

 with an effigy) on the south side of the choir of 

 the cathedral of Lichfield, where we are told that 

 the person interred died under censure of the 

 church. Other instances which I have noticed, 

 are, at — 



Little Casterton, Rutland. — Tomb, with an effigy, 

 apparently of an ecclesiastic, but much decayed, 

 of the 13th century, in the south wall of the nave. 



Warbleton, Sussex. — Circular arch over a sort 

 of altar tomb ; no effigy renuiins. Probably of the 

 earlier half of the 13th century. In the south 

 wall of chancel. 



Basildon, Berks. — A very elegant canopy. There 

 was once an effigy, now destroyed, with the tomb, 

 and a door made under the canopy ! About 1300. 

 In the south wall of the chancel. 



Bridgewuter, Somerset. — Two arches, with folia- 

 tions, over effigies; between them, a door leading 

 down to a crypt. The effigies are too much de- 

 cayed to enable a decided opinion to be formed as 

 to se.K or station. In the norlh wall of north 

 transept. Date probalily between 1270 and 1300. 



St. Stephen's, Vienna. — A fine tomb, wilii 

 canopy and effigy, by the side of the south door of 

 the nave. Probably of the 14lli century. 



I have been disposed to think that the most 



