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NOTES AND QUERIES. po s. x. JULY 25, iocs.

ANNE WALTON'S EPITAPH IN WORCESTER CATHEDRAL. The epitaph to the first wife of Izaak Walton is set out in various edition of ' The Complete Angler ' thus : Ex terris

D.

M. S. Here lyeth, &c.

In the edition by Nicolas it is set out thus :

Ex Terris M. S.

In Mr. Marston's edition the words " Ex terris " are above a Maltese cross, while below it are the letters M. and S.

In Dean Plumptre's ' Life of Thomas Ken ' it is set out as in the first example I have given. His note suggests that the letters signify " Diis Manibus " or " Divse Memoriae Sacrum."

The inscription to be seen to-day in the Cathedral is the same as the one set out in Mr. Marston's book, though no stops are to be found after the letters M and S.

Can any of your readers inform me when the cross was substituted for the letter D, and give any new suggestion as to the meaning of the three letters ?

STAPLETON MARTIN. The Firs, Norton, Worcester.

" CHAUTAUQUA." The Times of 13 July says :

"We have received from the Fabian Society the prospectus of a 'summer school,' or educational and recreative gathering on the analogy of the American Chatauqua ' system, to be held this year at Llanbedr.

Why is an American summer gathering for educational and recreative purposes called a " Chatauqua " ?

A. L. MAYHEW. Oxford.

[The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle was an association founded for home reading and study by Bishop J.H. Vincent, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, m 1878. It was an outgrowth ot summer assemblies in Chautauqua Lake, and so successful that it gave a name to similar meetings.]

MELAMPUS AND THE SAINT. Will some one tell me who " Melampus and the Saint " are, referred to on p. 6 of ' The Roadmender,' by Michael Fairless ?

F. E. WILKINSON.

.GLADSTONE'S LAST MOMENTS. I recently met with the following passage as a quota- tion, without its source being mentioned :

" the faith of such a one as Gladstone, who in

the very face of death could raise his right hand and declare (so an eyewitness relates) in solemn tones, as of one giving testimony which might not

again be repeated, * My faith is strong ! my faith is strong " ; who in the last farewells could speak, as the same witness testifies, ever with unfaltering confidence not merely of the reality of life after death, but of the certainty that those who are parted in tears would meet hereafter in another and better world."

I shall be glad to learn from what book the extract comes, and also the name of the eye-witness indicated. H. H. T. C.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Can any one tell me where the following lines by Browning are to be found ?

" Here and here did England help me : how can I

help England ? "say, Whoso turns as I, this evening, turn to God to

praise and pray.

ZEPHYR.

[' Home-Thoughts, from the Sea,' vol. i. p. 273, Smith & Elder, 1896.]

In that new world which is the old.

AGNES CUMMINS. [Tennyson, ' The Day Dream,' 1. 168.]

Who when she died, like Flora fair, Did make the Commonwealth her heir.

EMERITUS.

We shall see them,

We shall know them, In the fullness of the time, In the glorious new creation, In the everlasting clime.

H. H. T. C.

MEDAL OF CHARLES I. I have a very

beautiful gold (or gilt) medal that has come

to me by the death of a relative. I know

nothing about it, but I should think it must

e of some historical value. It represents

! harles I. in armour and with a crown on his

lead, as any one can see, apart from the inscription of his royal titles which sur- rounds the figure. It has a little ring attached to it, and was hung from a ribbon,

] presume. On the back are ' ' Honi soit,' ' &c. , a crown, and arms. If you could give me any

nformation concerning it in your valuable and interesting paper, I should be greatly obliged. ART.

MILL AT GOSPORT, HANTS. I have for some time been trying to locate the spot where this mill once stood, but without uccess. Old maps of the district give other mills, but not this particular one. From notes in a local paper, about a twelvemonth igo, on Gosport, I learn that during the iege of Gosport in 1642 a shot from the parliamentarian army passed through the