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they arise ? A solution strikes me, which accounts 
for the phenomenon. 
Suppose my notes to have been read aloud to 
the Doctor, he meanwhile paraphrasing such 
parts as suited his purpose. In this process, ‘‘ the 
treachery of Judas” ‘naturally becomes “ Judas's 
treachery :” “ his,” used before of Judas, is, from 
sheer stupidity, made into “our Lord’s:” and 
“the supper-room,’ sounding like “this upper 
room,” becomes * that upper room.” 
, Henry ALrorp. 
Death among the Chinese. —The Abbé Hue, in 
his book on The Chinese Empire, observes : 
“The astonishing calmness with which the Chinese 
see the approach of death, does not fail when the last 
moment arrives. They expire with the most incom- 
parable tranquillity, without any of the emotions, the 
agitations, the agonies, that usually render the moment 
of death so terrific. Their life goes out gently, like a 
lamp that has no more oil. .. . It appears to us that this 
is to be attributed, first, to their soft and lymphatic tem- 
perament; and, secondly, to their entire want of religious 
feeling.” — Vol. ii. p. 38. 
In a physiological aspect, this seems a subject 
worthy of being better elucidated, as indeed is 
the subject of euthanasia in individual cases ; such, 
for instance, as that of Sir Walter Scott’s hench- 
man, Thomas Purdie, as recorded in Lockhart’s 
Life of Scott (vol. vii. p. 200., 1st edit.). The 
case of Cornaro, who died “as a lamp which goes 
out for want of oil,” would fitly stand at the head 
of such a collection, as indicating the probable 
rationale of all similar ones. As regards the 
Chinese, it may be observed, that M. Hue says, 
that they are small eaters, drink at all hours of 
the day of warm liquids, consume much salt, and 
take little exercise, or none for exercise’ sake 
(vol. i. pp. 335. 339. 103 ; vol. ii. p. 394., Se-)5 4 
The Reverend Mr. Mattinson.—The following 
particulars, which I quote from a rather rare 
book, Edwards's Cork Remembrancer (12mo., Cork, 
1792), are worthy, I think, of a corner in “N. 
& QF : 
“1766. Died, the Rev. Mr. Mattinson, curate of Patter- 
dale, in Westmorland, sixty years. The first infant he 
christened after he got holy orders, when she was nine- 
teen years old, agreed to marry him, and he asked her 
and himself in the church. By this wife he had one son, 
and three daughters; and married them all in his own 
church himself. His stipend, till within these twenty 
years, was only 122. per annum, and never reached to 202. ; 
yet, out of this, by the help of a good wife, he brought 
up his children very well, died at the gge of eighty-three, 
grandfather to seventeen children, and worth 10007. 
sterling.” 
T do not know on what authority the compiler 
relied for his information. ABHBA. 
Anagram Extraordinary. — Looking the other 
day over a curious and most rare volume of Ante 
Reformation pasquinades and anagrams, suppressed 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[204 §, No 5,, Fue. 2, 56. 
by the Papacy, wherever its influence could reach, 
I found more than one anagram most wickedly 
witty, but quite unproducible, running the changes 
upon the words Roma and Amor, and giving a 
dreadful idea of the state of morals of the city at 
the time: this led me to take up the idea, which 
after some thought has resulted in an anagram of 
greater length, and at least not more nonsensical 
than many I have seen mentioned with approval : 
let it be supposed to be addressed to a young man 
detained at Rome by a love affair; and I hope you 
will think four consecutive lines, reading back- 
wards and forwards the same, and neither violating 
grammar nor doing much violence to sense, a 
curiosity worth preserving in your columns: 
“Roma, ibi tibi sedes — ibi tibi Amor; 
Roma etsi te terret et iste Amor, 
Ibi etsi vis te non esse — sed es ibi, 
Roma te tenet et Amor.” . 
Thus translated : 
“ At Rome you live — at Rome you love; 
From Rome that love may you affright, 
Although you’d leave — you never move, 
For love and Rome both bar your flight.” 
A.B. R, 
Belmont. 
€uerfes. 
D'ENGAINE’S CHAPEL, UPMINSTER. 
’ . 
The windows, walls, and floor of D’Engaine’s 
Chapel, in the church of Upminster, Essex, for- 
merly bore many memorials of the noble families 
of D’Engaine, Deyncourt, D’Ewes, Stanley, La- 
tham, &e., lords of the manor of Gaines, &e. The 
arms of D’Eneaine still sparkle in the north 
windows and D’Ewes reposes upon the floor; but 
iconoclasts, collectors, tinkers, and time, have 
sadly despoiled the chapel. The structure was 
taken down two centuries ago; and the floor, 
which was forty years since covered with brasses, 
pewed over, with the exception of an aisle. 
Some time since, two brasses were discovered — 
beneath a pew, during the repair of the floor; hid 
there probably as the nearest spot to the stone to 
which they had formerly been fixed. One bore 
the figure of Elizabeth, wife of Sir John Deyn- 
court, who died 1455; a very fine brass, 254 
inches tall, closely resembling the figure of Joyce 
Tiptopt in Enfield Church, 1446, but without the 
canopy, &c. It is perfect, except the mantle ; 
which appears, by the sharpness of the edge of the 
| plate, to have been inlaid, and has either corroded 
away, or been removed. Was precious metal ever 
used to represent a part of the dress? Another 
well-cut brass represents, I believe, Ralph Latham, 
common serjeant of the city of London about 1636. 
There are neither names nor dates left below any 
of the figures, but occasionally arms, This La- 
