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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. xi, FEB. 6, 1909

This epitaph is not original, as the first part is imitated from that on Duns Scotus at Cologne, while the latter part is adapted from James Shirley's well-known lines. " In Africa travelled " is poetic licence, as Yale is not known to have been in Africa.

Thirdly, Miss Boyes is in error in stating that " Elihu Yale's paternal ancestor was one of the Pilgrim Fathers " though the error is excusable in an English writer. Elihu Yale, born at Boston, Mass., about 1649, was the son of David Yale, The latter came to Boston about 1637, was one of the early settlers at New Haven, Con- necticut, then returned to Boston, and finally went back to England. Probably all the Yales in New England in the eigh- teenth century lived either in Massachusetts or in Connecticut. The following passage, based on material furnished by the present writer, is copied from the ' N.E.D.' :

" Governor Bradford [of Plymouth Colony] wrote of his company as 'pilgrims' in the spiritual sense referring to Heb. xi. 13. The same phraseology was repeated by Cotton Mather and others, and became familiar in New England. In 1798 a Feast of the 'Sons' or 'Heirs of the Pilgrims' was held at Boston on 22 Dec., at which the memory of ' the Fathers ' was celebrated. With the frequent juxta- position of the names Pilgrims, Fathers, Heirs or Sons of the Pilgrims, and the like, at these anniversary feasts, ' Pilgrim Fathers ' naturally arose as a rhetorical phrase, and gradually grew to be a historical designation."

The Plymouth Colony was settled in 1620. The Massachusetts Colony was organized in 1630. The two were entirely distinct until 1691, when, by royal charter, they were joined together to form the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, now the State or Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We in New England make a distinction between the early settlers of the Plymouth Colony, calling them " Pilgrim Fathers," and the early settlers of the Massachusetts Colony, calling them " Puritans." As David Yale was an early Massachusetts settler, and was never (so far as is known) in the Plymouth Colony at all, he was not a Pilgrim Father, as that term is now used in New England. ALBERT MATTHEWS.

Boston, U.S.

THE DUFF, EARLY MISSION SHIP TO SOUTH SEAS (10 S. x. 503). Being a native of Portsmouth, I was much interested in -MR. CLAYTON'S note on this ship.

In a book that I have not by me now (published 1798 ?) was a detailed account of this missionary enterprise. The only portion of the account that I can call to mind at the moment is that (1) the Duff sailed from

Spithead 24 Sept., 1796, and arrived at Tahiti, South Sea Islands, 5 March, 1797 ;

(2) that the Rev. James Griffin was pastor of the old Orange Street Chapel, Portsea ;

(3) that the name of one of the Duff's crew

was Orange, and, if I remember rightly,

he was a member of the chapel. The Orange family lived in Portsea for many years after the above date. Is it known if the street or chapel was named after any member of that family ?

It may also be interesting to note that not very far from Horndean (where Capt. Wilson lived) is Bunker's Hill. Perhaps some reader can state if there is any historic connexion between this Hampshire country-side and the seat of the first battle of the American War of Independence. F. K. P.

[The inscription mentions that Wilson was present at the battle of Bunker's Hill. Is not this likely to account for the name ?]

The reference for the text quoted in the inscription concerning Capt. Wilson should have been Ps. Ixxvii. 14.

HERBERT B. CLAYTON.

ADVERTISING EPITAPH (10 S. x. 503). With reference to this ^ note it may be of interest to mention that in the old church- yard of Exeter (now closed) a large number of the epitaphs give the trade of the deceased.

G. H. C.

WORKSOP EPITAPHS (10 S. x. 503). The first of these epitaphs is also in the church- yard of the parish of Fleet in Lincolnshire, on a gravestone in memory of Joseph Barrow, who died 8 Oct, 1844. There it runs thus :

sudden death, 1 in a moment tell, And had not time to bid my friends farewell. Think nothing strange ; chance happens unto all ; My lot to-day, to-morrow thine may fall.

C. S. JERRAM.

LEGENDS ABOUT THE MOON (10 S. x. 347, 456). I am enabled to furnish another to those already given, from ' Old- World Japan : Legends of the Land of the Gods,' retold by Frank Kinder. On pp. 17-24 is a poetic tale describing how Susa-no-o, the Moon-God, was jealous of the extra power, influence, and splendour of his sister Ama-Terasu, the Sun-Goddess. To spite her he flayed her horse, the " Beloved of the Gods." Indignant at her brother's cruelty, she withdrew into a cave and closed behind her the door of the Heavenly Rock Dwelling, leaving the earth in darkness. The rest of the tale, too long to summarize, describes