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lived, but it is probable that he resided at Broadfield Hall, in the adjoining parish.

W. B. GEBISH. Bishop's Stortford.

BELTON EPITAPHS. The following epi- taphs, all of which appear in the churchyard of Belton, near Doncaster, are perhaps worthy of a place in ' N. & Q.' I have seen them all frequently, but am indebted to the Rev. R. Walker, the vicar of the parish, for copies.

The first is to the memory of a young bricklayer who was killed by falling from a scaffold :

Utifort'nate youth who wrought in brick and lime, And call'd away in life's meridian Prime ; By sudden fall, from Wife & Friends was toni Now left behind thy harder Fate to mourn : Reader be warn'd, thy souls concerns attend Regard the call, thy life as soon may end.

The other two are on women :

All her days she labour'd hard

While by death she was cut down in the yard

So with toil her days are past we say

But in one moment she was eall'd away

And left us all to fret behind

We hope with Jesus rest to find

Mourn not for me the change was sudden

But strive to meet your Lord in heaven

So Husband prepare children and Readers to

For the same sad awfull fate may happen you

Repept [sic] in time make Christ your friend

And glory will crown your latter end.

She who took up her rest within this tomb Had Rachel's face, and Leah's fruitful womb Abigail's wisdom, Lydia's faithful heart, With Martha's care and Mary's better part.

C. C. B.

SWINBURNE AND MAUPASSANT. In his article ' Swinburne : Personal Recollections ' (Fortnightly Review for the present month) Mr. Gosse writes thus of the poet's narrow escape, from drowning while bathing at Etretat in 1870 :

" He was pursued, floating like a medusa with shining hair outspread, and was caught a long way out to sea, behind the Petite Porte, by a yachtsman who, oddly enough, happened to be Guy de Maupassant."

In the account, however, which Mau- passant himself gives of the part he played in the adventure (p. vi of ' Notes sur Algernon Charles Swinburne,' printed at the beginning of Gabriel Mourey's French prose translation of the first series of ' Poems and Ballads ' ; see 10 S. ix. 375) he says that, though he was in a boat which put off on hearing that a swimmer was in danger, the rescue was effected by others.

" Wragford " near South wold in Suffolk,

the scene of the composition of ' Erechtheus T (p. 1030 in the Fortnightly article), should presumably be Wangford.

EDWARD BENSLY. University College, Aberystwyth.

BKOADSIDE : GUILDHALL DONATION. Some years ago a friend gave Mr. W. H. Whitear a seventeenth-century broadside entitled " The Glory of the West, or the Virgins of Taunton Dean, who ript open their Silk-Petticoats, to make Colours for the late D. of M.'s Army, when he came before the Town. 1685."*

In February of this year, when reading Mr. Allan Fea's ' King Monmouth ' Mr. Whitear became aware, by a foot-note, tha v ; a broadside bearing that title was missing from the Guildhall Library. He went to the Library, and ascertained that the copy in his possession was the missing broadside, and accordingly restored it to the Library. He has received a letter of thanks from the Library Committee; but I think some further recognition is due to such public- spirited action. Mr. Whitear has the true spirit of the scholar, which one is glad to find still existing and taking such a practical form in the present commercial age.

HISTOBICUS.

ORCADIAN SURNAMES. The following selection of names from Peace's ' Almanac and County Directory ' may be of interest to students of the subject. It is not likely that they are all in the standard dictionaries. Baikie, Bews, Byas, Corrigall, Corsie, Costie, Corston, Crear, Creelman, Cursiter, Dass, Delday, Drever, Durno, Flett, Folsetter, Fonbister, Gorn, Halcro, Harcus, Horrie,. Hourston, Kelday, Knarston, Linklater, Matches, Measson, Meil, Moar, Norquoy, Oag, Paplay, Pottinger, Sabiston, Scarth, Scollay, Stockan, Stove, Twatt, Velzian, Voy, Walls, Wooldrage.

ALEX. RUSSELL.

Stromness.

NAME-CORRUPTION : MOUNTAIN BOWER. Monkton has been corrupted into Moun- tain. In a MS. copy of a list of freeholders of Wilts drawn up in 1637 three times the word Mounten has been written in place of Monkton. Francus King of Mounten Farley must be Francis King of Monkton Farley. John Sloper of Winter bourn Monkton is entered as John Sloper of Mounten. Thomas Long of Monkton, a well-known man, is entered as of Mounten.

This fact suggests the origin of a name in North Wilts. Mountain Bower is a smali