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Your readers may, perhaps, forpjet that this 

 palace was the scene of the fatal disgrace of young 

 Essex. George W. Thornbury. 



Ferrar and Beiilouvs. — The preface to that 

 very singular poem, Theophila: Loves Sacrifice. 

 Lond. 16o2, by Edw. Benlowes, contains a pas- 

 sage so closely resembling the inscription "in tlie 

 great parlour" at Little Gidding (Peckard's Life 

 of Nic. Ferrar., p. 234.), that the coinciiience can- 

 not have been accidental, and, if it has not been 

 elsewhere pointed out, may be worth record. As 

 the inscription, tliough not dated, was set up during 

 the life of Ferrar, who died in 1637, the imitation 

 was evidently not his. Only so much of the in- 

 scription is here given as is requisite to show the 

 parallel. 



" He who (by reproof of our errors, and remon- 

 strance of that which is more perfect) seeks to m ike us 

 better, is welcome as an An .;el of God : and he who 

 (by a cheerful participation of that which is good) 

 confirms us in the same, is welcome as a Christian 

 friend. But he who faults us in absence, for that 

 which in presence he made show to apjjrove of, doth 

 by a double guilt of flattery and slander violate the 

 bands both of friendship and charity." 



Thus writes Benlowes : 



" He who shall contribute to the improvement of 

 the uuth >r, either by a prudent detection of an errour, 

 or a sober commtmicaiion of an irrefragable truth, de- 

 serves the venerable esteem and welcome of a good 

 Angel. And he who by a candid adherence unto, and 

 a fruitful participation of, what is j^ood and pious, con- 

 firms him therein, merits the honourable entertainment 

 of a faithful friend : but he who shall traduce him in 

 absence for what in presence he would seem to applaud, 

 incurres the double guilt of flattery and slander : and 

 he who wounds him with ill reading and misprision, 

 does execution on him before judgement." 



G. A. S. 



Traili/inrix from remote Periods through few 

 Links (Vol. iii., p. 206.). — The communication of 

 H. J. B., sI;owiug how a subject of our beloved 

 Queen Victoria can, with the intervention, as a 

 lawyer would say, of" three lives," connect herself 

 with one who was a liegeman of that very dissimilar 

 inonarch,*llichard TIL, reminds raeof a fiict which 

 I have long deterniined in some way to commit to 

 record. It is this : My fatlier, who is only sixty- 

 eight years old, is connected in a similar mode 

 with a person who had the plague during the 

 prevalence of that awlul scoiirijre in the metropolis 

 in the year HjfJ.'i, with tlie intervention of one 

 life only. My grandfather, Jolin Lower of Alfri- 

 8ton, CO. Sussex, distinctly remembered an aged 

 woman, who died at the adjacent village of Ber- 

 wick at about ninety, and vviio had, in her fourth 

 year, recovered I'rom that frightful disease. 

 Slioid<l it [)lease Providence to spare my father's 

 lifii to .see his eighty-third birthday, the recol- 



lections of three persons will thus connect events 

 separated by a period of two centuries. 



I may take this opportunity of mentioning a 

 fact which may interest such of the readers of 

 " Notes and Queries" as are students of natural 

 history. My grandfather, who was born in the 

 year 1735 (being the son of Henry Lower, born 

 on the night of the memorable storm of November, 

 1703), was among the very last of those who en- 

 gaged in the sport of busturd-hunting in the South 

 Downs. This bird has been extinct, on at least 

 the eastern portion of that range, for u[)wards of a 

 century. The sport was carried on by means of 

 dogs which hunted down the poor birds, and the 

 sticks of the human (or ndiuman ?) pursuers did 

 the rest. My ancestor was "in at the death" of 

 the last of the bustards, somewhere about 1747, 

 being then twelve years old. 



Mark Antony Lower. 



Lewes. 



Longevity. — Some few years since I had oc- 

 casion to search the parish registers of Evercreech 

 in Somersetshire, in one of which I met with 

 the following astounding entry : — 



" 1588. 20th Dec, Jane Brltton of Evercrichc, a 

 Maidden, as she afirmed of the age of 200 years, was 

 buried." 



I can scarcely believe my own note, made, 

 however, with the register before me. C. W. B. 



The Thirty-nine Articles. — Ti)e following MS. 

 note is in a copy which I have (4to. 1683) : 

 " Sept. 13. 1702. 

 " Memor. That .Mr. Thomas King did then Read 

 publickly and distinctly, in a full Congregation during 

 the Time of Divine Service, the nine and thirty Ar- 

 ticles of Religion, and Declare his Assent and Consent, 

 &c., according as is Required in the Act of Uni- j 

 formity, In the Parish Church of Ellesmere, In the 

 Presence of Us, who had the said Articles printed 

 before Us. E. Kynaston. 



Tho. Evton. 

 Aa. Langford. 

 Will. Swanwick." 



J. O. M. 



Emendation of a Passage in Virgil. — Allow me 

 to send you an emendation of the usual readings 

 of the 513th line of the lirst Georgic, which oc- 

 curred to me many years ago, and which still 

 appears to me more satisfactory than any which 

 have hitherto been suggested. 

 " Ut, cum carcerlbus sese eft'udere quadriga-, 



Ac sunt in spdtin, — en frustra retinacula tendens, 

 Pertur e(|uls aiiriga, neijue audit currus liabcnas." 

 " When the chariots have passed the barriers. 

 And are now in the open course, — 

 Ln, the charioteer vainly pulling the 

 Reins, is carried along by the steeds." 

 The usual readings are " addtint in spatio," or 

 " addunt in spatia," which are dillicult to be ex- 



