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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[204 §, No 11, Man. 15. 56, 
but beneath the window, is thus inscribed in capital 
letters : — 
«“¢ Seale not to soone lest thou repent to late, 
Yet helpe thy frend, but hinder not thy state. 
Tf ought thou lende or borrow, truly pay; 
Ne give, ne take advantage, though thou may. 
Let conscience be thy guide, so helpe thy frend, 
With loving menehian’ concord make thy end. 
601, 
“ The front panel has on it a crest, a griffin’s head 
erased, on a wreath, and beneath it is— 
“6 WENRICVS CVTLER STABILEM 
DEDIT HANCCE TRAPEZAM, 
STAT, TVMVLVS CVIVS 
PATRIS IN CANCELIE SACRA. 
1601.’ ” 
[Note on the word dole table.] “ Dole tables were fre- 
quently appointed places at which debts were paid, as 
appears by old wills; and also for the payment of tithes 
and church dues to the incumbent, which accounts for 
their being erected in the porches of churches.” — Lbid., 
vol. ii. p. 129. 
Inscriptions on Bells, Eye Church. — 
1, & 2. “Miles Gray made me. 1640.” 
3. “ Rogo . Magdalena . Maria. 
Dona . Repende . Dia.” 
4, “Ex dono Gulielmi Brampton, Generosi, Anno 
Domini 1721.” 
5. “ Oppidi Preefecto. 
numeral, between 2 fleur de lys, 1721. 
[sic. ] 
J. Stephens made us, 3, the 
Thomas Rust.” 
6. ‘Pack and Chapman of London, fecerunt. Simon 
Cook, Churchwarden, 1779.” 
7. “O God, continue thy mercies to the King. Dan! 
Sewel, Sam! Gowing, Ch.wardens. Osborne, Fecit, 1789.” 
8. “ Let us rejoice, our King’s restor’d. Sam! Gowing, 
Dan! Sewel, Ch.wardens. Osborne, Fecit, 1789,” 
Having two bells cast at the same time, the 
loyal churchwardens were able to give each other 
precedence in turn. 
Cutting Teeth in Old Age. — 
“ Dying in 1669, she [the widow of Sir John Croftes ] 
bequeathed it [the Hall] to the Hon. Edward Progers, of 
London. ‘The gay Progers,’ who, according to Le Neve, 
died on ‘the 31st of December, or 1st of January, 1713, 
aged ninety-six, of the anguish of cutting teeth ; he having 
cut four new teeth, and had several ready to cut, which 
so inflamed his gums, that he died thereof.’ ”’—Jbid., vol. 
ii, p. 149., art. West Stow Hatt. 
W. Srarrow SIMpson. 
THE OLDEST DUTCH NEWSPAPER. 
The oldest of the Dutch journals has just com- 
pleted its 200th anniversary, and the publisher 
has issued to his subscribers copies of the first 
number of that journal as it appeared on Jan. 8, 
1656. The earlier copies of this paper were care- 
fully consulted by Mr. Macaulay, in preparing 
his History. The Haarlem Courant of this time 
was then ealled De Weeckelycke Courante van 
Europa. The first number contains two pages 
small folio of news. It declares its mission to be 
to supply the public with a digest of the most 
important news, conveyed to the publisher by 
private or by special communications. The fol- 
lowing paragraph bears date, London, Dec. 31, 
| 1655 : — 
“On the fifteenth of this month was taken prisoner 
Colonel Day, who, last Monday fortnight, ascended the pul- 
pit in the church of Alhallows, and preached very severely 
against the present government. Coming into the pulpit, 
he, in place of taking a text from Scripture, pulled from 
his pocket a paper which he read, saying that he had 
received it from Wales; and then gave an explanation 
thereof, tending to make the present government con- 
temptible (/eelyck), calling it a company of thieves and 
robbers. After this, came in the pulpit a Mr. John Simp- 
son, who, it is true, took a text from Scripture; but alto- 
gether lost sight of it in his sermon, and preached against 
the government, as the preceding. Him they haye also 
tried to arrest, but he remains in a hiding place.” 
C. H. Gunn. 
The first Russian Newspaper. — From the 
Stockholm Aftonblad of Noy. 15, 1855: 
“The first Russian newspaper was published in 1703. 
Peter the Great not only took part personally in its edi- 
torial composition, but in correcting proofs, as appears 
from sheets still in existence, in which are marks and 
alterations in his own hand. There are two complete 
copies of the first year’s edition of this newspaper in the 
imperial library of St. Petersburgh. They are the only 
two which have been preserved; and on occasion of the 
centennial celebration of the University of Moscow on the 
24th of January last, the director of the library, Baron 
Modest von Korff, produced a faithful reprint of the 
journal thus edited and corrected. It forms an octavo 
volume, and contains also a history of Russian newspaper . 
literature.” 
WW, 
Malta. 
Official Gazette of Sweden. — One of the oldest 
newspapers in northern Europe is the official ga- 
zette of Sweden, the Postoch Inrikes Tidning. It 
was founded in 1644, during the reign of Queen 
Christina, the daughter of Gustavus Adolphus 
the Great; and the present year is, without in- 
terruption, its two hundred and eleventh anni- 
versary. (Washington Intelligencer.) Wo We 
Malta. 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF MACAULAY. 
Death of Charles IT. (27 8. i. 49. 110.) —The 
question raised by E. W., as to who was intended 
by the initials P.M. a. C. F., as the. party who 
apprised the Duke of York of the serious illness 
of the king, has been variously answered. It has 
been suggested the two last letters show that he 
was a Carmelite friar, while F. C. H. asserts that 
the entire stand for Pere Mansuate, a Capuchin 
friar, who was confessor to the duke, Might I 
| suggest, that it was Patrick Maginn, who was 
