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tried to climb over the stone wall enclosure with 
his spoil. I do not know that any particular stone 
is marked as the one on which the sheep was 
rested for the convenience of the thief in trying 
to make his escape ; but the Jehu of the now ex- 
tinct Barnsley mail always told this story to any 
inquiring passenger who happened to be one of 
“five at top— as quaint a four-in-hand as you 
shall see.” ALFRED GATTY. 
Quotation wanted (24 §. i. 455.) — 
“ The rush of years 
Beats down their strength: their numberless escapes 
In ruin end. And, now, their proud success 
But plants new terrors on the victors’ brow: 
What pain to quit the world, just made their own, 
Their nest so deeply down’d, and built so high! 
Too low they build, who build beneath the stars!” 
Dr. Edward Young, The Complaint, night 8, 1. 215. 
Jo J.B: WW. 
The Ten Commandments (2™° §. i. 440.) — 
Merely for the sake of information, and not con- 
troversy, I wish to state that Professor Browne, 
as quoted by A. A. D., is not correct, when he 
says that the Catholic Church “ teaches the com- 
mandments popularly only in epitome” in her 
eatechisms. In the catechisms used by authority 
in this country, the commandments are taught at 
length, and the first, as in the verses 2, 3, 4, 5, 
and 6 of Exodus, ch. xx. F.C. H. 
“ Sic transit gloria mundi” (1% S. vi. 100. 183. ; 
vii. 164.; xi. 495.) —— This seems to be taken 
from the De Imitatione, lib. 1. cap. iii. 6.: 
“O quam citd transit gloria mundi!” 
Hueo. 
Umbrella or Parasol? (1° S. xii. 233. 313.) — 
On one of the Layard bas-reliefs in the British 
Museum, is a slave holding over the head of the 
king as he rides in his chariot to the hunt*a 
(what ?) parasol or umbrella? Is it not “a little 
shade” (cx:ddiov) ? If it be an umbrella, it cer- 
tainly is a somewhat ancient discovery. 
Query, however, the distinction between the 
two articles ? Jos. G. 
Inner Temple. 
Origin of Fashions (2™4 §. i. p. 332.)—The 
following items relating to fashion have fallen 
under my notice while looking over a volume of 
the Hull Advertiser : 
“ Hair Powder, — London, aud the cirenmjacent coun- 
ties of Middlesex, Surrey, and Kent have already pro- 
duced for hair-powder licences, no less than 100,0002, one 
half the sum at which the aggregate of the tax through- 
out Great Britain was estimated. 
“The number of hair-powder certificates granted in 
this town (Hull) is nearly one thousand. — July 11, 1795.” 
“ Straw Bonnets. —The prologue of Reynold’s new 
comedy of Speculation, which has been very favourably 
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received in London, contains some very humourous allu- 
sions to the straw ornaments at present worn by the ladies ; 
“ © Of threatn’d famine who shall now complain, 
When every female fore-head teems with grain? 
2 j : . When men of active lives 
To fill their granaries need but thresh their wives.’ ” 
Nor are the matrons alone prolific : 
«¢ Old maids and young, all, all are in the straw.’ 
“ Nov. 21, 1795.” 
“ Feathers: the Height of Fashion.—Lady Caroline 
Campbell displayed in Hyde Park, the other day, a feather 
Sour feet higher than her bonnet. — January 2, 1796.” 
K. P. D. E, 
Mr. Hacxwoop asks to whom we are indebted 
for the curious and sometimes absurd change 
which takes place from time to time in our man- 
ners, customs, and personal adornments. If a 
short and general answer will satisfy him, I would 
say, to the French. From France, at least since 
the time of Louis XIV., most of our fashions have 
been derived. A paper by Gay, in The Guardian, 
No. 149, written before the death of the grand 
monurque, notices this : 
“The most fruitful in genius is the French nation. 
We owe most of our gaudy fashions now in yogue to 
some adept beau among them.” 
The chimney-pot (or rather flower-pot) which 
we wear on our heads is of French invention. 
“The cocked-hat in general survived till nearly the 
present century. It was superseded by the round one 
during the French Revolution.” — Autobiography of 
Leigh Hunt, vol. i. p. 84. . 
All that our countrymen can be fairly charged 
with is, that in borrowing fashions in dress from 
their neighbours, they have sometimes “ bettered 
the instruction,’— have made ugliness more ugly. 
So that the French are in the habit of deriding 
our costume, though copied from theirown. Thus 
Beranger sings: 
~ “ Quoique leurs chapeaux sont bien laids, 
Goddam ! j’aime les Anglais.” 
F. 
Burying without a Coffin (2"4 §. i. 455.) —The 
note of E. H. on this subject has reminded me of 
the following passage, which I met with some 
time ago in the first volume of Testamenta Ebora- 
censia, published by the Surtees Society : 
di Fest. S. Marg. Virginis, mccccvu. Ego Jo- 
hannes de Burton, Rector medietatis Ecclesiw §. Elenz 
infra muros in vico de Aldwerk Ebor —— corpus meum 
sepulturz tradendum in loco per me nuper proviso, et pro 
sepultura corporis mei ordinato, ex parte australi chori 
dictee Ecclesiz, preecipiens et inhibens executoribus meis, 
ne corpori meo cistam ligneam vel alia indumenta pra- 
parent, nisi tantummodo unum lintheamen pro corpore 
meo involvendo,” 
No doubt his executors strictly observed his 
directions, and committed his body to the grave 
with no other covering than a linen sheet. §. D. 
