April 26. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIP^S. 



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lation, " Andrew Turncoate." The epitaph occurs 

 in p. 132. of the Latin edition of 1643, and is 

 evidently, as indicated by the marginal note, an 

 imitation or parody of the famous one on iElia 

 Lailia Crispis, which has exercised the ingenuity 

 of so many writers, and of whicli onr own country- 

 man, llichiu'd A^hite, of Basingstolce, the historian, 

 has given three different interpretations. See his 

 JElia Lalia Crispis, Epitaphhim Antiquum quod in 

 Agro Boiioniensi adhuc videtur, a divei'sis inter' 

 pretatuni varie, novissime autem a Richaixlo Vito 

 explicatum, J^adua, 1568, 4to. An article on tins 

 epitaph and its various interpreters, of whom I 

 have collected about forty, might be made a very 

 interesting one. James Ceossley. 



[We wish Mr. Crosslev — than whom no one is 

 more competent — would favour us with such an 

 article. The following communication from Mii. 

 Forbes is only one of several we have received, sliowing 

 that the interest in this enigma is not abated.] 



Epitaph in Hall's Discovery (Vol. iii., p. 2-42.). 

 — When this epitaph is assigned to its right owner, 

 it may perhaps throw some light on its twin-bro- 

 ther — the epitaph on " /Elia L93lia Crispis" — 

 " about ichich many of the learned have puzzled 

 their heads." (See JEncyc. Brit., article " yEnigma.") 

 I enclose a copy of this epitaph, which you can use 

 or not, as you please. If you think that it might 

 help to " unearth" J\Iister Andrew Turnecoate, you 

 may perhaps like to lay it before your readers; if, 

 on the other hand, that it would but increase the 

 difficulty of the operation by distracting attention 

 needlessly, you can hand it over to " the Editor's 

 best friend" — the fire. 



« D. M, 



iE 1 i a L ffl 1 i a Crispis, 



Nee vir, noc mulier, 



Nee androgyna ; 



Ncc puella, nee juvenis, 



Nee anus ; 



Nee casta, nee incrctrix. 



Nee pudica ; 



Sed omnia ; 



Sublata 



Neque fame, neque ferro, 



Neque veneno ; 



Sed omnibus : 



Nee coelo, nee terris. 



Nee arpiis, 



Sed ubique jacet. 



I>ucius A^.itho Prisciiis, 



Nee maritns, nee amator, 



Nee neecssarius ; 



Neque moerens, neque gaudens, 



Ne(|ue flens ; 



(lane, 



Nee niolem, ncc pyramidem, 



Nee sei)ukliriim, 



Sed onmia, 



Scit et nescit, cui i)osnerit." 



C. FoKnES, 



Saint Thomas of Lancaster. — The following 

 passage in Fuller's Worthies (of Yorkshire) doi^ 

 not seem to have been noticed by either of your 

 correspondents who replied to Mr. K. M. Milnes' 

 Query in Vol. i., p. 181.: 



" Thomas Plantagcnet. Before I proceed, I must 

 confess myself formerly at a great loss to understand 

 a passage in an honourable author, speaking of tlie 

 counterfeit reliques detected and destroyed at the Ke- 

 forraation : 'The Bell of Saint Guthlac, and the Ft It 

 of Saint Tliomas of Lancaster, both remedies for I be 

 headache.' (Vide Lord Herbert's Life of Henri/ VIII., 

 p. 431.) But I could recover no Saint Thomas (saving 

 him of Canterbury) in any English INIartyrology, till 

 since, on enquiry, 1 find him to be tliis T/iomas Plan- 

 tat/enet. Me was Earl of Derby, Lancaster, Leicester, 

 and (in the right of Alice his wife) of Lincoln. A 

 popular person, and great enemy to the two Spencers, 

 minions to King Edward 11 , who being hated as devils 

 for their pride, no wonder if this Thomas was honored 

 as a Saint and Martyr by the common sort.* Indeed 

 he must be a very good chymist who can extract tnar- 

 tyr out of maJefuctor : and our chronicles generally 

 behold him put to death for treason against King Ed- 

 ward II. But let him pass for a saint in tliis shire, 

 though never solemnly canonized, it being true of such 

 local saints, what Servius Honoratus ohserveth of 

 topical gods, ' ad alias regtones mmquam transibant,' 

 they travelled not so far as to be honored in other 

 countries. Ilis beheading, alias his martyrdom, hap- 

 pened at Pomfret a.u. L'SSS." 



It would appear from the foregoing extract that 

 Thomas of Lancaster was never admitted into the 

 Romish calendar of saints ; though his menifiry 

 was locally revered, especially for his opposition 

 to the two Spencers, or Despensers, as they are 

 called by Hume. This historian had no respect 

 for "the turbulent Lancaster;" but the quaint 

 old Fuller seems to have thouglit well of him. 



As a hell-man I am more interested in the vir- 

 tues of the bell of Saint Guthlac, than in the hat 

 of Saint Thomas; and I take this opportunity of 

 asking assistance from the readers of ''Notes and 

 Queries" towards a collection of curious anecdotes 

 and information about bells, which I am endea- 

 vouring to make. Any contributions will be 

 thankfully received by me. Alfred Gatty. 



Ecclesfield. 



Francis Moore (Vol. iii., p. 263.). — That such 

 a personage really did exist there can be little 

 doubt. J3romley (in Engraved Portraits, ^-c.) 

 gives 1657 as the date of his birth, and says that 

 there Avas a portrait of him by Drapentier ud 

 vivum. Lysons mentions him as one of the rc- 



* " In sanctorum numcrum retnlit rufyns. — Camden's 

 Brit, in Yorkshire, Amongst other prolits received by 

 tlie abbey of Leicester, in 1.348, from oblations at the 

 cluirch of St. Jlartiri in that tov.'n, occurs, ;;c.v T/iimtce 

 Lnncastria: rvsjumildint, Gl. lO.v." — IJistory of Leicester- 

 shire, vol, i. p. 5'Jl. 



