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No. 83.] 



Saturday, May 31. 1851. 



C Price, ThrpppencP. 

 t Stamped Edition, 4<'- 



CONTENTS. 



On the Proposed Record of Existing Monuments 



Notes : — 



Illustrations of Chaucer, No. VII. : The Star Min .\I 

 Auwa ,.__.. 



Traditions from remote Periods through few Links, by 

 Rev. Thos. Cor.^er . . . - - 



Dr. Yonnjr's Narcissa . . - - - 



Minor Notes : —Curious Epitaph — The Curse of Scot- 

 land — Tlie Female Captive — Pictorial Antiquities - 



QcEniEs : — 



English Poems by Constantine Huyghens, by S. W. 

 Siiijipr ....... 



Tlie R.v. Mr. Gay. by Edward Tagart - 

 Minor Queries: — Carved Ceiling in Dorsetshire — P>ib- 

 litans' Sians _ To a T Skeletons at Egyptian Ban- 

 quet - Gloves — Knapp Family in Norfidk and Suffolk 



— To learn by " Heart" — Kni'jhts — Supposed In- 

 scription in St. Peter's at Rome — Rail Sunday in 

 Sussox — NorthF'gp Family — A Kenible Pipe of To- 

 bacco — Durham Sivord that killed the Drajon 



Minor Qukbies Answered: — " At -Sixes and Sevens " 



— Swobbers — Handel's Occasional Oratorio — Areh- 

 bisli'ip Waldeby's Epitaph — Verstegan — Royal Li- 

 brary .....-- 



Replies : — 



Hugh Hollmd and his Works, by Bolton Corney 



The Milesians ...... 



The Tanthony ...... 



Pilgrims' Road to Canterbury - - - . 



Keplies to Minor Queries : — Sliakspeare's Use of" Cap- 

 tiou. " — In-cription on a Clock — Authors of the Anti- 

 Jacobin Poetry — '* Felix, quern faciunt."&c Church 



Bells — Chiming. Tolling, and Pealing — Extraordinary 

 North Bri'.on — Fitzpatrick's LiU'-s on Fox — Ejusdem 

 Farins — The Scmpecta — "NnUi fraus tnta latcbris" 



— Voltaire, where situated — By the Bye — Bigod de 

 I.oges — Knebseu'l — Mrs. Catherine Barton — Peter 

 .Stprry — Wife of James Torre — Ramasse — Four 

 Want Way — Dr. Owen's Works — Bactriaii Coins — 

 H.aUlrocks — Tu Autem — Commoner marrying a 

 Peeress — .Ancient Wood Engra\ing — Vegetating 

 Insects — Prayer at the Healing — M or N., &c. 



Miscei-laneoiis : — 



Notes on Books. Sales, Catalogues, &c. - 

 ll(,oks and Odd Volnnies wanted 

 Nftticcs to CorrespondL-nts - - . 



Advertisements - . - • . 



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ON THE rUOPOSED RECORD OF EXISTING MONUMENTS. 



Although disappointed in the hope we had enter- 

 tained of being, hy this time, in a position to announce 

 that some decided steps had been tal^en to c.irry out, in 

 a practical manner, the great scheme of preserving a 

 record of our existing Monuments, we are gratified at 

 being enabled to bring under the notice of our readers 

 several communications which show the still increasing 

 interest wiiich is felt upon the subject. 



The first, by Sir Thomas Phillipps, besides some 

 valuable information upon the matter immediately 

 under consideration, contains several very useful sug- 

 gestions upon other, though kindred points. 



In approving of the design mentioned in your 

 " Notes " by Mr. Dunkin, it has surprised ine 

 that in no one of the communications which you 

 have there printe<l is any allusion to the mul- 

 titude of inscriptions already collected, and now 

 preserved in the British Museum and other 

 libraries A list of what are already copied 

 should Jir.it be made, which would considei'ably 

 abridge the labour of collecting. For instance, 

 the wliole of Gloucestershire has been preserved 

 by Bigland, and nearly two-thirds of tliese have 

 been printed. I should recommend his plan to be 

 adopted, being rnvltum in parvo, as to the Lead- 

 stones in the churchyards, and the clearest for 

 reference by its alphabetical order of parishes. He 

 copied them about 1780; so th;it no\y seventy 

 years remain to be obtained. His collection would 

 make two, or at most three, volumes ft)lio, by which 

 we can form an approximate idea as to the extent 

 for the kingdom, which I estimate at one hundred 

 volumes for the forty counties, because some of 

 these are very small, and many numuments have 

 been destroyed by the barbarous Gothlike conduct 

 of church renovators and builders. {A prnpos of 

 which conduct, I believe they are liable to an 

 action at Imv from the next of kin : at all events, 

 it is sacrilege.) lu many county histories, all the 

 monuments inside the churches, up tonearly the 

 date of the publication, have been printed, as in 

 'Nichols's Leicestershire. I have myself printed the 

 greati-'r part of those for Wiltshire ; but some are 

 fiicorrectly printed, not having been collated ; for 

 I merely printed a few as handbooks to accompany 

 me in my personal correcting survey of each 

 church at another time. I have also printed as far 

 as letter " E " of Antony a Wood's and Hinton's 

 Oxfordshire Mimuinents, of which, I believe, Mtt. 

 Dun KIN has a MS. copy. Now, it would be use- 

 less to reprint tiiose which have been printed ; con- 

 scipieiitly I should imagine twenty-five or thirty 

 volumes, on Eighmd's jilan, woiihl comprise all the 

 villages; and 1 should imagine five or ten volumes 



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