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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'"» S. yi. 145., Opt. 9. '68. 



but the accumulation of rubbish rendered any 

 certainty on that point almost impossible. 



The burying-places of the two sexes are sepa- 

 rate, about which there are various traditions ; 

 round and about which, too, guides and guide- 

 books have accumulated almost as much rubbish 

 as time has gathered round the very walls them- 

 selves. 



The object of this note is to stir up inquiry 

 about, and disentangle from traditional meshes 

 the history of the chapel, well worthy a search in 

 the archives of parchment, as well as the " ser- 

 mons in stone." T. Hakwood Pattison. 



SPURIOUS SEALS : A CAUTION. 



Some considerable sales have been made lately 

 of seals (mounted in an old style, and appearing 

 to be genuine), under the following curious cir- 

 cumstances. A., we will thus call one of the 

 vendors, waits on Mr. B., a gentleman lately 

 retired from trade with a large fortune, and the 

 following dialogue takes place : — 



A. Good morning, Mr. B. I have a very cu- 

 rious seal to dispose of, bearing your arms ; but I 

 really did not know your family was connected 

 with the noble house of C.,'the Earls of D. 



B. (pleasingly surprised.) Neither did I. 



A. Well, this old seal has come into my posses- 

 sion, and there you see the arms of C. are quar- 

 tered (or impaled as the case may be) with yours. 



B. (much gratified.') Well, I see it is so. I 

 never knew of it ; but, now I think of it, I re- 

 member I once heard our family came from the 

 county of E., where the Earls of D. had property, 

 and we may have been connected. 



A. Well, Sir, I think this is a proof of it, and 

 therefore have given you the first offer of the seal 



at guineas, besides the setting, which is very 



curious. You see these things now fetch high 

 prices among genealogists, and to you. Sir ! 



B. Oh ! don't mention it ; I am much obliged, 



and here is a cheque for twenty times as 



much as the seal is worth. 



Now the parties we have called A. are evidently 

 so respectable that no blame can possibly attach 

 to them ; but a very careful examination has been 

 made of a number of seals bought under these 

 circumstances, and both the A.s and the B.s should 

 be informed many are not genuine. They are 

 badly executed, and full of heraldic as well as 

 artistic faults. In fact they are supposed by com- 

 petent judges to have been cut by some seal en- 

 graver's apprentices or pupils for practice. The 

 stones have then been set in a very bad manner, 

 probably by other " 'prentice hands." They have 

 thus got out into the world, and both vendor and 

 purchaser have been deceived. Should any more 

 " turn up," A. and B. are both advised to get the 



opinion of some good genealogist before any trans- 

 action takes place between them ; and all respec- 

 table seal engravers are cautioned not to suffer 

 the attempts of their pupils to be sold, as great 

 mistakes and vexation are likely to occur thereby. 



Hebaldus. 



SSinor ^otc^. 



Brass missing from St. MichaeV s, Norwich. — 

 The nave of the church of St. Michael Coslany, 

 in Norwich, is being "restored" (I would men- 

 tion in a parenthesis that all the mural paintings 

 that have been brought to light were most scru- 

 pulously obliterated), and, as too often happens in 

 such cases, one of the monumental brasses has 

 been stolen. It is a plate measuring 14 in. by 

 5^ in., upon which is incised the inscription of 

 Richard Wallour, first priest of Thorp's Chantry. 

 It was most probably composed by himself, as it 

 is given in his will, with instructions that it should 

 be placed on a marble over the place of his inter- 

 ment. I am induced to transcribe it by the hope 

 that if the memorial in question escape the melt- 

 ing-pot, this Note may one day lead to its restora- 

 tion to the despoiled slab, which I may observe 

 has been removed from its original position — 

 chosen by the deceased himself — and placed on 

 the opposite side of the church : — 



" Ossa magistii cuncta Rici Wallour ista 

 Urna tenet piimi terrea p'sbiteri 

 Ex cantaria veniam sibi poste maria 

 Nunc ale Cuius ppiciare deus 

 M . d . qe quinquies I Anno Christique sepult>." 



It is but a few years since that the effigy and 

 inscription of Johanna Clark quietly disappeared 

 from the same church ; but, in that case, the brass 

 was loose, and had been handed down from church- 

 warden to churchwarden, until it was consigned 

 to the custody of the parish clerk, who has been 

 for the last two years in a lunatic asylum, and, of 

 course, nothing can now be ascertained as to its 



fate. J. L'ESTRANGE. 



Norwich. 



" Some" peculiar Norfolk Sense of. — A very 

 singular use of this word obtains in this district. 

 In order to express " It is exceedingly hot," our 

 rustics say, " That is some hotness " (that being 

 universally used for it). The adjective, whatever 

 it may be, is manufactured into a substantive to 

 suit this idiom by adding the termination -ness ; 

 and many peculiar words are the result. Does 

 any corresponding idiom exist in other dialects, 

 languages, or patois ? If so, I should be glad of 

 examples. E. S. Tatlok. 



Sir Thomas Brown! s English Vndefiled. — Eng- 

 lish Latinisms have seldom been more severely 

 censured than by the greatest employer of such a 

 Romanised style in our language, the distinguished 



