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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"<> S. IX. May 12. 'GO. 



positions to warrant the belief that it will be 

 found deserving a column in " N. & Q." 



The difficulties, evidently designed to perplex, 

 are not easily surmounted, from the tabular form 

 being adopted ; and the solution required is not 

 to be obtained without more application than 

 readers in general are willing to bestow upon such 

 productions. It has long been known in print *, 

 but the circulation being confined chiefly to this 

 locality, a more general diffusion may cause a 

 farther and more satisfactory explanation than 

 has been obtained within this immediate vicinity. 



To whatever merit the composer may aspire, 

 his claim must in part rest upon the abbreviated 

 construction, and of which he tenders to the 

 reader, who is tacitly challenged to fathom the 

 studied difficulties, a fair share, for making that 

 intelligible which he has wrapped in the mazes of 

 obscurity : — 



" Here lyeth William Tyler, of Geyton, Esq. ; who 

 died the 13. of Sept. 1657, in the 53 vear of his age. 

 " Est 

 Hie Tumulus 

 TCliari Ciueiis f Animi 



Index 1 Mortis Non < Vitre Historic 



(.Yiri (Yirtutis. 



Ilia Htec 



) Saxum et 

 VPagina Mar- 

 ) morea 



Ostendunt 



I 



Coelum et 

 Liber Vita?. 



Cretera Piget non Dici 



Nam 

 Vixit Bene 



Lit 



i;}» 



Major. 

 Posuit ejus Uxor Maria." 



Henry Daveney. 



Brass Plate Inscription. — About three years 

 ago I sent you a copy of the following inscription 

 which I took from a brass plate fixed on one of 

 the pillars in "ye Laye chapell " of St. Saviour's 

 church, Southwark, but I fear it is mislaid : — 

 Svsanna Barford departed this life the 20 lh of 

 Avgvst, 1652, Aged 10 Yeares 13 Weekes, the Non- 

 svch of the World for piety and Vertve 

 in soe tender yeares. 

 " And death and envye both must say twas fitt 

 Her memory should thus in Brasse Bee Writt 

 Here lyes interr'd within this bed of dvst 

 A Virgin pure not stain'd by carnall lvst 

 Such grace the King of Kings bestowed vpon her 

 That now she lives with him a Maid of hoxovu 

 Her Stage was short, her thread was quickly spuDi 

 Dranke out, and cutt, gott Heaven, her worke was 



done 

 Thi3 worlde to her was but a traged play 

 Shee came, and saw't, dislik't, and pass'd away." 



I give it verbatim et literatim as well as I can. 

 * Blomefield's Hist, of Norfolk : Geyton. 



Between the inscription and the verses is "cutt" 

 in the left side a death's head and cross-bones, 

 and on the right a cross within square lines, with 

 wings extended. It is very likely placed there 

 for preservation. This Barford family must have 

 been of some note in the parish in those days. • 



George Lloyd. 



Dr. Brookbank's Epitaph. — Whether the 

 epitaph, a copy of which I here send, be still in 

 existence, I know not ; but it once had its place 

 in the churchyard of St. Edward in Cambridge. 

 Cole, among his manuscripts in the British Mu- 

 seum, has preserved a copy of it, and says it was 

 written by Dr. Bentley. 



" Hie sepeliri voluit 



Johannes Brookbank, LL.D r . 



Aula? S.S. Trinitatis Socius, 



Archidiaconi Eliensis OfiBeialis, 



Dioceseos Dunelmensis Cancellarius. 



Humanitate, Integiitate, Generositate conspicuus. 



Natus oppido Liverpool, deuatus Cantab. 



A.D. mdcc.xxiv. iEtatis lxxiii. 



Per totam vitam YAPonoTHC" 



H.E. 



Molynetjx. — Over the door of the boiling 



house of the sugar estate of " Molyneux " in the 



Island of St. Christopher is a marble slab, on which 



is the inscription — 



" Quid censes munera Terra?," 

 which I suppose intended to mean " At what do 

 you reckon the crop ?" Eta B. 



A STORY OF A MERMAID. 



The following curious story is related in a 

 lively and agreeable work entitled A Tour to 

 Milford Haven in the Year 1791, written in a 

 series of letters by a lady of the name of Morgan, 

 and published in London by John Stockdale in 

 the year 1795. Mrs. Morgan appears to have 

 been a lady of an elegant and cultivated mind, and 

 to have mingled with the best society of Pem- 

 brokeshire during her sojourn in what was then 

 almost a terra incognita to an Englishwoman. In 

 her forty-third letter, addressed to a lady, and dated 

 Haverfordwest, Sept. 22, Mrs. Morgan says : — 



" If you delight in the marvellous, I shall now present 

 you with a tale that is truly so ; and yet, from the sim- 

 ple aud circumstantial manner in which it was told by 

 the person who believed he saw what is here related, 

 one would almost be tempted to think there was some- 

 thing more than imagination in it. However, I will 

 make no comments upon the matter, but give it you 

 exactly as I copied it from a paper lent me by a young 

 lady wbo was educated under the celebrated Mrs. Moore*, 

 •and who has acquired a taste for productions of the pen, 

 and likewise for whatever may be deemed curious. Mrs. 



M inquired of the gentleman who took down the 



relation from the man's own mouth, a physician of the 

 first respectability, what credit might be given to it. 



* Hannah More? — J. P. P. 



