S"* S. VI. 153., Dec. 4 58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



451 



On the Rectory at Swinburn, in Northumber- 

 land : — 



" !Xon tarn sibi quam successoribus suis 



Hoc redificium extruxit Major 



Allgood anno mirabili 1666. 



Nunc mea, mox hiijus, sed postea nescio cujus." 



On old Buckingham House. (^Vid, Atterbury's 

 Epist. Corresp. iii. 82.) 

 On the front of it : — 



" Sic siti laetantur Lares." 

 At the back : — 



" Rus in urbe." 



On the side next the road : — 



" Spectator fastidiosus sibi raolestus." 

 On the north side : — 



"Lente incepit, cito perfecit." 



Over the chimney-piece in the dining-room at 

 Hardwick Hall, in Derbyshire, with the date 

 1597: — 



" Fear God and keep His commandments." 



E. H.A. 



» Inscription in Sutton Church. — On a mural tab- 



let in Sutton church, Bedfordshire, is an inscrip- 

 tion, noteworthy alike for its Latinity and its 

 theological teaching : — 



" 111 Blemoriam 



SusannoB Kayment (aliter Eaj'mond), 



Foeminje 



Pro pietate morum ^uavitate, 



r et erga Egenos Cbaritate, 



' Spectabilis. 



Obiit IDmo die Decembri?, 



^Etatis 48, 



Et Abitur 



Ubi Premium Virtutibus Debitum 



Recipiebit." 



Joseph Eix. 

 St. Neot's. 



Inscription. — Hornsey church stands on an 

 eminence at the eastern end between the mere 

 and the village. Its low square tower once bore 

 a tall spire, on which, as it is said, the builder had 

 cut an inscription : — 



" Hornsea steeple, when I built thee, 

 Thou was 10 miles off Burlington, 

 10 miles otF Beverley, and 10 miles off sea." 



A Month in Yurksliire, by Waller White. 



K. P. D. E. 



Inscriptions on Rings. — 

 Beau Fielding's, in Queen Anne's reign : — 

 " Tibi soli." 



The Earl of Hertford's wedding ring consisted 

 of five links, the four inner ones containing the 

 following posies of the Earl's making : — 



" As circles five by art compact shews but one ring in 

 sight. 

 So trust nniteth faithful mindes with knott of secret 

 might; 



Whose force to breake no right but greedie Death pos- 



sesseth power, 

 As time and sequels well shall prove. My ringe can 



say no more." 



Fide Ellis's Or!g. Lett., S""! S, ii. 290. 



E. H. A. 



INEDITED LETTER DESCRIBING THE SIEGE OF 

 PONDICHERRY. 



The enclosed letter, describing the siege of Pon- 

 dicherry, is I think interesting from its mention- 

 ing the names of several officers killed, wounded, 

 and taken prisoners, besides describing the siege 

 very sufficiently, and being a good specimen of 

 the solemn and yet affectionate style in which 

 sons wrote home to their fathers in those days. 

 I may add that the letter is genuine. It came 

 into my hands as connected with the family the 

 writer belonged to ; and I enclose you my name 

 and address. F. J. J. 



" Cuddalore, Oct. 20"', 1748. 

 " Hon* Sir, 

 " I take this favourable Opportunity of Ac- 

 quaint^ you of our success at Pondi Cherry. AV'e 

 attacked first Areacupong, a small but compact 

 fort, where we lost some men, and the following 

 Officers were Killed and Wounded, viz. Capt" L. 

 Brooks, who was shot through the body before he 

 got up to Areacupong, but lived long enough to 

 be brought to Camp, where he Dy'd of his wound. 

 I forgot he was Capt" of Granadiers. Lieu' Phil- 

 lips was Kill'd before the AValls ; and Lieu' Rose 

 was wounded in his right shoulder, which It is 

 thought will be a bad Wound to him as long as 

 he lives; some few Days after we took the place; 

 but before we took it the Enemys Horse and Foot 

 made a Sortie from the Garrison, and came to 

 Attack our Trenches, but the most part was 

 taken and Cutt off, with only this lost to us, that 

 Major Lawrence of the East India Battalion, and 

 Peter Bruce (whom I am sure you know), were 

 both taken prisoners and Carried to Pondi Cherry, 

 and Major Goodyer of the Train had his leg broke 

 by a Recoushee Shot as he was a Recconnoitring. 

 After taking this place, and leaving a Sufficient 

 Number of Hands with Guns, &c., we made our 

 Approaches towards Pondi Cherrj', where we 

 erected our Batteries, which were as following, 

 one of Eight 24 Pounders, One of four 24 

 Pounders, besides a three Guns and two Gun 

 Batterie and a Mortar Battary, which when we 

 opened the Shipping began along with us to ring 

 them such a peal tiiat towards the Sea they cou'd 

 not Stand to their Guns, and unfortunately for us 

 our Battaries was four Hundred Yards too Short 

 of the Walls, so that and the Monsoons together 

 oblig'd us to raise the Siege and brake up the 

 Camp and go to winter (Quarters. During the 

 Siege wc lost a good many private men, Serj' and 



