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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[224 8, No12,, Mar, 22, °66, 
1828), it is observed, with reference to a former 
one, Dr. Elliotson’s second edition, 1817, that “ it 
is a curiosity in typography, being the first book 
printed by steam, The printers were Bensley & 
Son.” Perhaps this statement may be thought 
worthy to record. Wii1aM Barss, 
Birmingham. 
Epitaph.—I know not whether the following 
epitaph, which I lately observed for the first time 
in my own little churchyard, is original or not; 
but it seems to me to be far superior to the ordi- 
nary samples, and worthy of preservation : 
“ Rest, liberated brother, 
From this world’s fetters free, 
Thou findest in the other 
Ease, joy, and liberty. 
“ What though thou wast afflicted, 
Thy faithfulness to prove? 
Those, whom the Lord corrected, 
The Lord did ever love.” 
Cc. W. Bryenam. 
Sun-dial Mottoes. — On the sun-dial in Leaden- 
hall Street, on the south side of St. Katherine 
Cree Church : 
“ Non sine lumine.” 
Furr. 
On the sun-dial in front of the Roman Catholic 
Church at Langen Schwalbach : 
“ Dies mei sicut umbra declinaverunt.” 
The building is of the date of the middle of the 
sixteenth century® 
Add the two following to your dial inscrip- 
tions : 
“ Mane piger Stertis fugit Hora.” 
and, — 
“Pulvis et Umbra sumus.” 
The latter is from the dial in Leyland churchyard, 
Lancashire, the date 1744. ANON. 
. Battle of Varna: — 
“ The Pope, out of his luciferian pride, by the power, or 
rather poyson of that Antichristian cut-throat position, 
of keeping no oath, nor faith, with Infidels and Heretickes, 
unhappily undertook to absolve Uladislaus the King, and 
the rest whom it did concerne, from that solemne oath 
for confirmation of a concluded peace, taken of him upon 
the Holy Evangelists; and of Amurath, by his Embas- 
sadours, upon their Turkish Alcoran. Whereupon they 
resolutely breake the league, raise a great army presently, 
and against their oath and promise set upon the Turke 
with perjury and perfidiousnesse, accompanyed with 
God’s curse, exposed the Christian party to a most hor- 
rible overthrow in that bloudy battell of Varna, and cast 
upon the profession of Christ such an aspersion and shame 
that not all the bloud of that rope of Popes, which con- 
stitute Antichrist, could ever be able to expiate. 
“Look upon the story, and consider what a reproach 
and inexpiable staine doth rest upon the face of Christian 
religion by this wicked stratageme of Popish treachery, and 
that even upon record to all posterity; for Amurath, the 
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Turkish Emperour, in the heat of the fight, pluckt the 
writing out of his bosome, wherein the late league was 
compris’d, and holding it up in his hand, with his eyes cast 
up to Heaven, said thus: Behold, thou crucified Christ, 
this is the league thy Christians in thy name made with 
mee, which they have without cause violated. Now if 
Thou be a God as they say Thou art, and as we dreame, 
revenge the wrong now done unto thy name and me, and 
shew thy power upon thy perjurious people, who in their 
deeds deny Thee their God.” — Bolton’s Jnstructions for a 
right conforming Afflicted Consciences. 
“This bloudy battell was fought neer unto Varna (in 
antient time called Dionisiopolis, a place fatall unto many 
great warriours, and therefore of them even yet abhorred), 
the tenth day of November, in the yeare of our Lord 
Christ 1444.” — Knolles’s General History of the Turks. 
See also Callimachus de Rebus a Uladislao 
Gestis in Rerum Hungaricarum Scriptores, lib. iii. 
BrsLioTHEcAR. CHETHAM. 
Wearing of Copes exploded by Bishop Warbur- 
ton. — 
“We are tempted to preserve a trait which, as belong- 
ing to an extraordinary man, we think should not be 
lost.» A friend of ours, many years ago, on being shown, 
among the curiosities of Durham cathedral, the splendid 
vestments formerly worn by the prebendaries, asked how 
they had come to be disused; when the verger said, ‘ It 
happened in my time. Did you ever hear of one Dr. 
Warburton, sir? A very hot man he was, sir; we never 
could please him in putting on his robe. This stiff high 
collar used to ruffle his great full-bottomed wig; till, one 
day, he threw the robe off in a great passion, and said he 
would never wear it again; and he never did, and the 
other gentlemen soon left theirs off too.’”» — Note on an 
article on “ Pope’s Works and Character,” Quarterly Re- 
view, October, 1825, vol. xxxii. p. 273. 
These copes were probably worn only on the 
greater festivals; as in Oxford the Heads of 
Houses, on such days, appear at St. Mary’s in their 
dress gowns; or as, before the refitting of ‘the 
nave of that church, some thirty years ago, the 
dingy quondam-scarlet velvet frontal of the pulpit 
gave place to one flowered with green leaves and 
blossoms on a sort of pale ground. BINT: 
Queries. 
MINSTER LOVEL. 
I find the following strange tale relating to 
Minster Lovel, the old seat of the Viscounts 
Lovel, in Oxfordshire, in the Monthly Magazine 
¢ 
“ Francis, the last lord of this family, and Chamberlain 
| to King Richard the Third, was one of the noblemen who 
raised an army in the beginning of the reign of Henry 
the Seventh, under the command of the Earl of Lincoln, 
to support the pretensions of the impostor Lambert 
Simnel against that monarch, The decisive battle which 
gave security to Henry’s usurpation, was fought near the 
village of Stoke, on the banks of the river Trent, in Not- 
tinghamshire. The slaughter of the insurgent army was 
immense, especially among the officers, an_ uncommon 
proportion of whom were slain, The Lord Loyel, how- 
