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mediajval-looking stones, with fresh and abbre- 

 viated epitaphs, might stand as the representatives 

 of each original. This seems very much like de- 

 struction of identify, and perhaps of legal value, 

 for the sake of pleasing individual taste. At one 

 church it was told me by the sexton, that when a 

 family had left the neighbourhood, and its memo- 

 rial sunk or was in the way, the custom was to 

 bury it. 



Parish registers frequently give valuable local 

 and historical information, marginal, interlined, 

 on the covers, or in the body of the text. Thus a 

 storm, pestilence, famine, skirmish, prodigy, dates 

 of buildings, plantations and public works, those 

 of political and religious events, the appointment 

 of public officers, rental and value of land, mate- 

 rials and labour, particulars of clergymen's and 

 squires' families, are often directly stated ; while 

 we can glean the existence of hamlets, trades and 

 their introduction, inns, churches, gaols, bridges, 

 rivers and locks, pits, the influx of a foreign popu- 

 lation or band of refugees, the rise of a person by 

 the Mr. attached to his name, the increase of a 

 parish, &c., and even the antecedents and bias 

 of the incumbent, or his deputy. 



The progress of surnames can here be studied ; 

 and the manner in which the clerk would, where 

 allowed, distort the spelling to suit the common 

 method of pronunciation in the district : as, very 

 naturally, Hambleton for Hamilton, where b is in- 

 serted between the labial and dental ; Huthwit 

 and Breffit for Huthwaite and Braithwaite ; 

 potticary, apoticary, jeale, Hennery, marcer, 

 scoolmaister ; were for singular was, now also 

 pronounced 7Vor ; though such as these are not 

 conclusive as to pronunciation at a time when bad 

 spelling was general. S. F. Ckeswell. 



St. John's Coll., Cambridge. 



SSiinat Hotc^. 



Unchronicled Pedigrees. — After reading the 

 article by F. S. A. (2°'" S. v. 201.) on the Preser- 

 vation of Monumental Inscriptions, it occurred to 

 me that much might also be done for the future 

 topographer and genealogist by devoting a num- 

 ber of "N. & Q." occasionally to unchronicled 

 pedigrees, properly authenticated by reference to 

 parish registers, wills, &c. 



In your title-page you state that " N. & Q." is 

 intended to be " a medium of intercommunication 

 for literary men, artists, antiquaries, genealo- 

 gists," &c. ; and I for one became a subscriber 

 solely on account of the genealogical information 

 that might be gathered from its pages. 



Should this hint meet your approval, it will not 

 only fulfil one of the intentions for which " N. & 

 Q." was originally designed, but, by the infusion 

 of a little new blood, add conitiderably to its in- 

 terest. 



You will greatly oblige a " subscriber from tbe 

 commencement " by giving this a place in an early 

 number. Genealogicus. 



The late Dr. Shvttleworth, Bishop of Chichester. 

 — The son of the late eminent Bishop Shuttle- 

 worth gave me a copy of the following verses by 

 his episcopal father. They are so beautiful tliat 

 tliey deserve recording. The son thought he re- 

 membered his father saying, at the time, that the 

 idea of them occurred in S. Chrysostom, or some 

 of the early Fathers. They are as follow : — 



" RIGHT AND WRONG. 



" Do right; though pain and anguish be thy lot, 

 Thy heart will chec-r thee, when the pain's forgot; 

 Do wrong for pleasure's sake, — then count thy gains, — 

 The pleasure soon departs, the sin remains ! " 



But on turning over the pages of George Her- 

 bert the other day, I found (accidentally) the fol- 

 lowing couplet : — 



." If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains : 

 If well ; the pain doth fade, the joy remains." 



Geo. Herbert's Church-porch. 



These verses seem to be identical in substance 

 with the former : but perhaps you. Sir (or some of 

 your learned readers), can inform me as to the 

 original ? John Peat, M.A. 



Weald Parsonage, Sevenoaks. 



Epigram on Milton. — These famous lines have 

 been translated by T. P. in an early number of 

 the Gent. Mag. : — 



" Tres magnos vario florentes tempore vates 

 Graecia cum Latio et terra Britanna tulit. 



Grandis Majonidera, distinguit leuta Maroiiem 

 Majestas, noster laude ab utraque nitet. 



Tendere non ultra vahiit Natura; priores 

 Tertius ut fieret, junxerat ergb duos." 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Macaxdaij s History : Steinkirk. — I observe that 

 throughout the sixth volume of Lord Macaulay's 

 History of England (18-58), the name of the town 

 in Flanders where Luxembourg gained his great 

 victory is printed Steinkirk. AVhy is this ? If the 

 Flemish spelling be adopted, it should be Steen- 

 herk ; if the French, Steenkerque, or Steenqnerque. 

 Steinkirch would be the German way of spelling ; 

 but Steinkirk is half German and half Scotch. * 



While quoting from the -new edition of Lord 

 Macaulay's work, I would gladly offer to the pub- 

 lishers my tribute of thanks for the elegant yet 

 unpretending style in which it has been got up. 

 To me it seems quite the model of a " handy 

 book;" portable and compact, yet boldly and 

 clearly printed ; with a hack margin such as Eng- 

 lish books (I know not why) hardly ever display. 

 All the essentials of good printing are given, at a 

 moderate price, without any affectation of typo- 

 graphical showiness. Jaypee. 



