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THE LATE REV. W. W. NEWBOULD 
The lower plate, 2ft. 9iu. by lOin., is inscribed :— 
Hac iacet svb vrna corpvs Iacobi Wright generosi 
QVI OBIIT DVODECIMO DIE SEPTEMBRIS ANO CHRISTI 
MILLIMO SEXOENTESIMO & OCTOGESIMO QVINTO 
jETATIS SV^l 61, CVIVS ANIMA RE Q VIE SCAT IN PACE 
Hac bene qui meruit tumulatur Regis in urna 
Et patriae uiuens uerus amator erat 
Optima prima fere manibus Rapiuntur auaris 
Implenuur muneris deteriora suis. 
Translation : — 
Under this tomb lietli the body of James Wright, gentle¬ 
man, who died on the 12th of September, 1685. May his 
soul rest in peace. 
Beneath this tomb is buried one who deserved well of the 
king, and who in life was a true lover of his country. The 
best things are generally the first to be snatched from our 
greedy hands, the worse things are filled with their full 
numbers, i.e., are undiminished. 
In order to make any sense of the last line, “ muneris ” 
has been conjectured for “ muneris,” which will neither 
scan nor give sense. There seems to have been an attempt 
to change “ tumulatur,” in line 1, into tumulator, which 
means nothing. Regis is curious Latin. The seventeenth 
century prayer for the dead is remarkable. 
(To be continued.) 
THE LATE REV. W. W. NEWBOULD, M.A., F.L.S. 
A FEW PERSONAL REMINISCENCES 
BY J. E. BAGNALL, A.L.S., AND W. HILLHOUSE, M.A., F.L.S., 
COMMUNICATED BY THE LATTER. 
The breadth and depth of the feeling which the news of 
the death of Mr. Newbould will have called forth, especially 
in the Midland Counties, appears to demand, in the pages of 
the “ Midland Naturalist,” something more than the brief 
reference to it in the last number (p. 142). To those who 
had come across him—and who in the ranks of active local 
botanists had not ?—his loss will seem rather that of a dear 
personal friend than of a mere working colleague ; of a com¬ 
panion in arms, rather than of a fellow-soldier. And, indeed, 
Mr. Newbould was no mere working colleague. The very 
