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On a small brass plate, beneath the above, is 
the following : 
“This Greenhill Periwigd with Snow 
Was leavild in the Spring: 
This Hill ye Nine and Three did know 
Was Sacred to his King. 
But he must Downe, although so much Divine 
Before he Rise never to Set but Shine. 
Ri. Boles, Mt Art, 1689.” 
On another small brass plate, near the fore- 
going: 
“ This Mirrour makes me Slight a Life Halfe Dead, 
Because a Better comes when this is Fled. 
The Time and Place, where I doe Live are knowne: 
My Death and Grave, none knowes but God alone. 
My Death is Certaine and Uncertaine, Then 
Mortalls Beware, Death comes you know not when, 
I value not a Tombe. Obscure to lie 
With Virtue is an Immortalitie: 
My Life runns on Five yeares beyond Four Score, 
Once I must Die, and then shall Die no more. 
R. L. Boles, Ano. Dni. 1689, tat. Mez 85.” 
Mr. Boles, the “ M* of Arts,” as he records it, 
appears to have had an extraordinary poetic fit 
come over him in his extreme old age: not satis- 
fied with recording the talents of his predecessor 
in the rectory, and however much he seems to 
have “valued not a tomb,” he was nevertheless 
determined to leave some record behind him, as it 
is evident that the foregoing elegant effusion of 
his muse was placed there during his life: as I 
find no other memorial of him, he probably anti- 
cipated that such would be the case, unless he 
erected one to hisown memory. I think you will 
allow that the orthography is not much to the 
credit of the Master of Arts. 
The chancel of the church has just been rebuilt, 
and will be re-opened to-morrow ; and greatly to 
the credit of the present respected rector of the 
parish, the Rey. J. R. Young, the brasses and 
monuments have been restored to their proper 
places. J. B. Wuirporne. 
April 28. 
— 
Minor Notes, 
Heraldic Visitations in Ireland. — Please to place 
on record in “ N. & Q.” the following : 
“Record Tower, Dublin Castle, 
May 12, 1856, 
My dear Sir, 
“ There is in my office a ‘ Visitation of Wexford,’ made 
in 1618, as well as a ‘ Visitation of the County of Dublin.’ 
These are the only two Visitations existing for Ireland. 
“ Yours ever truly, 
“J. BexnarpD Burke (Ulster). 
“ Rey. J. Graves.” 
There can be little doubt that there were visita- 
tions of other counties made by the heralds at that 
riod, the records of which have not remained in 
Ister’s oflice. Kilkenny, Meath, Louth, Kildare, 
and Tipperary, would hardly be omitted, however 
chary the heralds might be to commit their safety 
to the keeping of the “ wild Irish” in other dis- 
tricts. Query, does the British Museum, Lam- 
beth Library, or any ‘private collection, contain 
the visitations of any of these counties ? 
JAMES GRAVES. 
Kilkenny. 
{Our correspondent will find the following MSS. in the 
British Museum: “ Liber Regalis Visitationis in tribus 
provinciis Hibernia, viz. Lagenia, Momoina et Conatia,” 
A° 1615, Add. MS. 19,836 ; “ Extracts from Narbon’s Visi- 
tation of Ireland,” Add. MS. 4789, f. 40. b.] 
Proverbial Sayings. — Early in the third week 
of April I said to a Worcestershire labourer, “ I 
have not yet heard the cuckoo.” His answer was, 
“ No, sir! it won’t be Tenbury fair for four days 
to come. Younever hear the cuckoo before Ten- 
bury fair, or after Pershore fair.” Tenbury fair 
is on April 20, and Pershore fair is on June 26, 
which two dates pretty correctly mark the dura- 
tion of the cuckoo’s note. 
Here is another Worcestershire saying, apropos 
to the present season ; 
“ When elm leaves are as big as a shilling, 
Plant kidney-beans, if to plant ’em you’re willing. 
When elm leaves are as big as a penny, 
You must plant kidney-beans, if you mean to have 
any. 
; Curueert Beng, B.A. 
Inscriptions in Books. — In a work entitled Ec- 
clesiastical Costume ; a brief Discourse against the 
outwarde Apparrell and Ministring Garmentes of 
the Popish Church. Small 8vo, B.iy. 1578. 
“The Pope’s attyre, whereof I talcke, 
I know to be but vaine; 
Wherefore some men that wittie are, 
To read me will disdaine.” 
The Booke to the Reader. 
Written on a fly-leaf at the end of a copy of 
Aristotelis Ethicorum Explicatio accuratissimum. 
J. Camerarii. 4to. Francofurti. 1578: 
“ This boke it is one thing — the halter is another, 
And he that stealeth the one —he must be sure of the 
other. 
“ JoHN HuNTBATE.” 
C. Mansrietp InGLEBY. 
Birmingham. 
Matthew Buchinger (or Buchinger) was rather 
a remarkable character, who travelled England 
and Scotland to exhibit his performances. In a 
well-engraved broadside (by Elias Beck) he ap- 
pears in the centre in a richly-laced coat and 
cocked hat, surrounded by representations of his 
feats : 
“Draws pictures wt a pen—Playing at Dyce—A 
writeing—Makes a pen—Plays on y® Hautboy—Threds 
a Nedle—Plays at Cards—Cups and Balls—Plays on y° 
Dulcimore—Charges a Gun— Blows ye Trumpet— Live 
Birds from under y* Cups —- Plays at Skittles.” 
