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 io.s. ii. OCT. 22, 1904.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Her grief and sad affliction prove

How tenderly she did him love.

In childish play he teas'd a mule

Which rag a its owner's angry soul,

And through whose angry blows and spleen

This child so soon a corpse was seen.

His Mother now is left to mourn

The loss of her beloved Son.

Though sighs and tears will prove in vain,

She hopes in Heaven to meet again.

At Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, date 1881 :

Thou wert a sweet winning child,

And wise beyond thy years Thy Father's pride, thy Mother's joy,

For thee fast falls [*/<] our tears.

W. B. H.

The following rather curious epitaph I copied from a stone attached to the north side of the tower of Colerne Church, Wilts :

In Memory of Jonathan Southward, Butcher, who died Feb. 29, 1727, aged 37.

In Memory of Jonathan Southward, youngest son of Doctor Jonathan Southward, Born July 31, 1778, died Mar. 12, 1847.

By these Inscriptions be it understood, My occupation was in shedding blood, And many a beast by me was weekly slain, Hunger to ease and Mortals to maintain. Now here I rest from sin and sorrow free, By means of Him who shed His blood for me.

R. B R.

On a monument to the Luther family in Kelvedon Hatch Church, Essex, dated 1638, is inscribed :

" Fratres in unum " Heere lies Richard and Anthonie Luther esquires, so truly loving brothers that they lived neerefortie years joint housekeepers at Miles, without anie accompt between them.

Miles, or rather Myless, was the ancient mansion of the Luther family in this parish, and was pulled down in 1843. The estate descended to the Fanes of Wormsley, in Oxfordshire, one of whom had married the heiress of the family. Whether they were in any way descended from the solitary monk that shook the world I cannot say, though certainly the name points to a German origin.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

The following epitaph is from Idle Church- yard, Yorks :

In Memory of Jeremiah Brooke of Idle.

As a mariner on the troubled ocean of human life he had many severe tossings and many fierce strug- gles with its tempestuous billows until at length he welcomed Christ as the great Captain of his Salva- tion and on the 29 th day of December 1851 he was enabled to cast Anchor 'in the Article of Death and enter the Haven of Eternal repose after a voyage of f>7 years. His voice of warning to those he has

left behind is Welcome the same Captain for there- are storms on life's dark waters.

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D. Baltimore House, Bradford.

ISAAC WATTS AND COWPER. In the- Student's English Literature' (Murray, 1901) this is part of what is said of Isaac Watts :

1 His hymns are well known to all Englishmen few hymns can surpass * God moves in a mysterious- way ' for a certain majesty of simple sound."

This ascription to Watts of Cowper's stately and sonorous 'Light shining out of Dark- ness' suggests a reference to the earlier writer's hymn 'Heavenly Joy on Earth,* which constitutes No. xxx. in 'Hymns and Spiritual Songs,' book ii. (ed. 1758). The- fourth stanza of this hymn :

The God that rules on high, And thunders when he please ; That rides upon the stormy sky, And manages the seas

is not an unworthy predecessor of Cowper's* stronger and more resonant delineation : God moves in a mysterious way

His wonders to perform ; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.

THOMAS BAYNE.

BLYSSE OF DAVENTRY AND OTHER PARTS- OF NORTHAMPTON. I shall have pleasure in supplying entries to correspondents interested in this family. (Rev.) B. W. BLIN-STOYLE.

Daventry.

WITCHCRAFT BIBLIOGRAPHY. (See ante, p. 265.) The following references may be- round useful by some of the readers of 1 N. & Q.' :

Archceologia, Index.

Blakeborough, ' Wit of the North Riding,' 169.

Butler, 'Book of the Roman Catholic Church,' 48.

Cotton, ' Exeter Gleanings,' 149.

Ferguson, 'Carlisle,' 127.

Foxe, 'Acts and Monuments,' ed. 1855, iii. 179.

Gentleman's Mag., i. 29, 38 ; xxi. 269.

Gentleman's Mag. Library: ' Eng. Topog.,' iv. 88; viii. 113.

Gentleman's Mag. Library: 'Popular Supersti tions,' Index.

Giraldus Camb., v. 106.

Hamilton, ' Quarter Sessions,' 87.

Historical MSS. Com. Reports, i. 122 ; vi. 104 ; vii. Ill, 445.

Jackson, ' Shropshire Folk-lore,' 145.

Jeayes, ' Berkeley Charters,' 335.

Johnson, 'Leicester,' 183.

Le Brun, ' Superstitions Anciennes et Modernes ' i. 158 ; ii. 33.

Lecky, * Hist, of England in the Eighteenth Cent.,"" third ed., i. 266-7 ; iii. 504.

Lees, * Paisley,' 3J7.

Macgeorge, ' Glasgow,' 194.

Middlesex County Records,' i. Index.