NOTES AND QUERIES: 



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LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. 



u VTben found, make a note of." — Captain CuTTr.E. 



Vol. III.— No. 87.] Saturday, June 28. 1851. 



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CONTENTS. 



On the proposed Scheme for preserving a Record of Ex- 

 isting Monuments . . . - - 



Notes : — 



Illustration; of Chaucer, No. IX. : Astronomical Evi- 

 dence nf True Date of Canterbury Piif;rim;ige 

 Cu ions Epigrams on Oliver Cromwell, by J. Friswell - 

 Folk Lore : — Popular Superstitions in Lancashire — 

 Folk- Lore in Lancusliire — Lancashire Cuatoais — Od 



— Pi^eoi'is - _._--- 

 Minor Notes : — Lord Nelson's Dress and Sword at 



Trafalgar — Crucilix of Mary Queen of Scots — Jonah 

 and the Whale — Anachronisms of Painters - 



QrEBiEs : — 



Minor Queries : — F.ifles — Stnnbridge Earls — Mont- 

 chesai or iVIuncey Family — Epitaph on Voltaire — 

 P.iss.ige in Col>;ri'd^'e s Table T.ilk— " Men may live 

 Fools, but Fools they cannot die" — Etymology of 

 BiL-etre — Tht'ouaid .■Vnguilbert and Michai-1 Scott — 

 '* SuLun cuique tr'bneri'." Ac. - - - - 



Minor Queries .\nswered : — Org.ms first put up in 

 Churches — Ignoaraiis, ComceJia, Jtc. — Drake's His- 

 toria Anglo-Scutica . . - - . 519 



Replies : — 



Corpse p issing m kes a Right of Way, by C. H. Cooper 



Dozen of Bre.id ; Baker's Dozen, by J. B. Cohnan 



Mosaic . - _ - - - 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Prenzie — Lady Flora 



Hastings' Bequest — Arches of Pelaga — Engraved 



Warming-pans— St. Pancras— Pallavicuio and Count 



d'Olivarez — Muid your P's and Q's — B uiks Fanily 



— National Hebts — Monte di Pieta — Registry of Dis- 

 senting Bapiisins — Ei^ell— English Sapphics — Mints 

 at Norwich — Josepii JCobbs — Voltaire, where sittiated 



— Meaning of Hilclier — Catalo>;ues of Coins of Ca- 

 nute — PontoppiLhui's Natural History of Norway — 

 The First Panorama — Written S.Tmons — Bo- 

 gat^ky ..---. 



MlscELUNEoiia : — 



Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, kc. - 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 



Notices to Correspondents 



Advertisements . - . . . 



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ON THE PROPO-SEn SCilEMF FOa PKESERVING A RECORD 

 OF EXISTING JIONUMENTS. 



The following letters, wliich we h ive received since 

 we last broiiglit tlie proposed scheme for preserving a 

 record of existing inonuini;nts under the notice of our 

 readers, afF.)rd a striking proof how widely the interest 

 in the suhject is extending. 



We print tliein now, partly because the Number of 

 " Notes and Queries " now in the re.ider's hands 

 completes tlie present volume, and it is desirable that 

 the various communications upon this point should, as 



far as possible, be found together ; and partly because 

 the time is at hand when many of our readers may 

 have the opportunity, during their summer excursions, 

 of following out the plan described by our valued cor- 

 respondent York Herald in the following letter: — 



References to this subject having appenred in 

 your valuable miscellany, I am unwillhig to hjse 

 an opportunity it affords me of throwing in my 

 mite of contribution towards the means of pre- 

 serving monumental inscriptions. It may be bet- 

 ter, perhaps, to state the bumble method I adopt 

 in attempting to rescue from oblivion those me- 

 morials of the dead, than to suggest any. I avail 

 myself of occasions, whenever I visit the country, to 

 take notes of mnnumental inscriptions in churches 

 and other places of sepulture ; generally of all 

 within the walls of the sacred edilioe, and those of 

 the principal tombs in the surrounding graveyard. 

 Time very often will not allow me to take ver'batun 

 copies of inscriptions ; so I merely transcribe 

 faithfully every date, genealogical note, and pro- 

 minent event recorded upon monuments ; ouiittin"' 

 all circumlocution and mere eulogistical epitaphs. 

 By this means much time and labour are saved, 

 and much useful and valuable information is se- 

 cured. I should prefer taking exact copies, or 

 even drawings of the most remarkable monuments; 

 but this would occupy much time, and narrow the 

 means of collecting; and by which I should have 

 lost much that is valuable and interesting: copies, 

 howsoever much they would have been desirable, 

 would not possess the character of legal eviiienee. 

 Thus, upon mere incidental occasions, I have col- 

 lecteil se|)ulcliral memorials from many churches 

 in various parts of the country; and, in some in- 

 stance^, all contained in the vilhige church, and 

 the adjacent burying-ground. I have fre(piently 

 found also that ])reserviiig an account of the rela- 

 tive positions of gravestones is important ; espe- 

 cially when groups of family memorials occur in 

 the same locality. I need scarcely add that I 

 preserve memoranda of all armorial insignia found 

 upon tombs and hatchments, forming a collection 

 of arms borne by various families ; and whether 

 they stand the test of authority or not, at all 

 events such information is useful. 



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