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[2"« S. IX. Feh. 4. '60. 



observe that another coach ornamented in even 

 more than the gorgeous embellishments of that 

 splendid period, and drawn by black horses, was 

 approaching the door in great solemnity. When 

 it arrived, the -door of the vehicle opened in some 

 unseen manner ; and, clad in his shroud, the shade 

 of the lord of the manor glided into the carriage, 

 and the door instantly closing upon him, the coach 

 rapidly withdrew from the house ; not, however, 

 with such speed, but there was time to perceive 

 that the driver was a beheaded man, that he was 

 arrayed in the royal vestments, with the garter 

 moreover on his leg, and the star of that illus- 

 trious order upon his breast. JSTo sooner had the 

 coach arrived at the gateway of the manor court, 

 than the whole appearance vanished in flames of 

 fire. The story farther maintains that, to this day, 

 every Lord of Chavenage dying in the manor- 

 house takes his departure in this awful manner. 



Provincialis. 



Ambiguous Proper Names in Prophecies (2 r,a 

 S. vii. 395.) — In previous articles examples have 

 been collected of ambiguities in predictions re- 

 specting the death of celebrated persons. The 

 following may be added to the number. iEschy- 

 lus had been warned by a prophecy that lie would 

 be killed by a " bolt from heaven." Being in 

 Sicily on a visit to Hiero, an eagle, which had 

 carried away a tortoise, dropped it from aloft in 

 order to crack its shell ; but the animal fell upon 

 iEschylus, and caused his death, although the 

 clearness of the sky had removed from his mind 

 all idea of danger. It is said that this verse was 

 engraved on his tomb : — 



" AictoO ef bvvxo"' Ppeyna Turrets efw'Oi'." 



See Biograph. Grcec, ed. Westermann, p. 120. 

 122. ; Tiin. N. II. x. 3. L. 



Translations (or Imitations) of Meleager 

 (2 nd S. ix. 12.)— If Senex will refer to :t N. & Q." 

 2° a S. iv. 251., he will find an account of the Rev. 

 Edward William Barnard, of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, incumbent of Brantinghamthorp, 

 Yorkshire. He is there stated by yourself, Mr. 

 Editor, to have published Trifles, imitative of the 

 Chaster Style of Meleager. (Carpenter, 1818, 

 8vo.) 'AAitus. 



Dublin. 



Herbert Knowles (2 nd S. viii. 28. 55. 79. 116. 

 1 53.) — I have consulted the various works quoted 

 by your correspondents as containing notices and 

 poems of Herbert Knowles, except the Literary 

 Gazette, which I have not been able to procure. 

 With the exception of a fragment of eight lines, 

 entitled " Love," none of them contain any other 

 verses, except those given by D. (" N. & Q.," p. 

 153.), and the "Three Tabernacles." Is there 

 lenlly nothing more of his in print? 



Knowles is spoken of in Southey's Life as an 



orphan, whose education was principally paid for 

 by strangers. How is this statement to be recon- 

 ciled with that of your corre:pondent J. S. (" N. 

 & Q," p. 79.), who says he was the brother of J. 

 C. Knowles, an eminent barrister and Q. C. ? 



H. E. Wilkinson. 



Bayswater. 



The Mohocks (2 nd S. viii. 288.) — See Swift's 

 Letters, 5th ed. Lond. 1767, 8vo. vol. i. pp. 141. 

 143. 149. Joseph Pax. 



Burial in a Sitting Posture (2" a S. ix. 44.) 

 — I can give Exul two instances of nations bury- 

 ing their dead sitting, — the Nasamones, a Libyan 

 tribe, who were said by Herodotus (Bk. iv. 190.) 

 to bury their dead sitting, and to be careful to 

 prevent anyone "lying in a reclining position ; — 

 and the Japanese, who bury their. dead sitting, 

 and carry them to the grave in a kind of sedan- 

 chair. See a picture and notice of their mode of 

 burial in vol. ii. of the Narrative of Lord Elgin's 

 Mission to China and Japan, in 1857, '58, '59. 

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