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 24  NOTES AND QUERIES. [10th S. III. JAN. 14, 1905.

Penalt Churchyard, Monmouthshire, I have seen the inscription :−

Remember we as you pass by !

As you are now, so once was we ;

As we are now, so you must be ;

Therefore prepare to follow we ;

Dry up your Tears our Parents dear,

Weep not for we that Sleepeth here.

Other examples might be interesting.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. [See first query, p. 28.]

The following inscription is to be seen on a granite headstone in Streatham Cemetery, Garratt Lane, Tooting, S.W :− In Memory of David Stolz of Balham, By Race of Jonah i. 9.

But God will redeem my soul from the power Of the grave, for He shall receive me. To Him my spirit I consign : Asleep, awake, I do not fear. My body too I do resign : I dread no evil, God is near.

Reference to Jonah i. 9 gives us the key : "And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew ; and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land." The quatrain is the last part of a Hebrew hymn entitled ' Adoun Olam.'

M. L. R. BRESLAR.

The following epitaph is quoted in a paragraph published in The Daily Chronicle of 2 December, 1904, and is stated by the writer to have been found by him in a volume of the 'Annual Register' issued close upon a century ago :−

"Epitaph in Kilkeel churchyard: Here lie the remains of Thomas Nichols, who died in Phila- delphia, March, 1753. Had he lived, he would have been buried here."

I have not been able to verify the quota- tion, time not permitting of an exhaustive search ; but it seems to me to be so tho- roughly characteristic as to deserve a place in the collection published in 'N. & Q.'

ALAN STEWART.

I send an epitaph from an old stone in the cemetery at Dacca, Bengal, which, although written from memory, is, I believe, correct:

Oh ye of Scotia's sons

For whom music hath a charm

Your souls to cheer, your hearts to warm,

Pause and do homage to the shade

Of one who in the fiddling trade

Had few compeers, and, what is better,

He was the essence of good nater.

ALEX. THOMS.

I send the following epitaph, copied from the churchyard of St. Peter's, near Broad- stairs, believing it has not appeared in 'N. & Q.' before. The monument is an upright slab, and at the top are depicted two angels and two trumpets.

In Memory of Mr Richard Joy (Call'd the Kentish Samson) who Died May 18th 1742 Aged 67.

Herculean Hero! Fam'd for Strength At last Lies here his Breadth & Length. See How the Mighty Man is Fall'n ! To Death ye Strong & Weak are all one. And the Same Judgment doth Befall, Goliath Great, as David Small.

It is said that he could lift a weight of 2,200lb. CHR. WATSON. 264, Worple Road, Wimbledon.

[For references to Jay or Joy see 8th S. iv. 506 ; v. 134.]

'YANKEE DOODLE.' (See 10th S. ii. 480.) −The original version of 'Yankee Doodle' consists of fifteen verses of four lines each, which may be found in ' Young Folk's His- tory of America,' edited by Hezekiah Butter- worth, pp. 266-8 (Boston, 1881). Of the other amusing songs belonging to the same epoch (1775-83), one, entitled 'The Battle of the Kegs,' is printed in the appendix to (Surgeon) James Thacher's ' Military Journal,' Hartford, 1854. Both these books are in my library. EUGENE F. McPiKE.

Chicago, U.S.

CLERGYMAN AS CITY COUNCILLOR. The following is from The Times of 22 December, 1904 :−

"In Castle-Baynard Ward, at which Alderman Sir David Evans was the returning officer, Mr. G. T. Thornes retired, and the Rev. Percival Clementi-Smith, Master of the Mercers' Company and rector of St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe, was unanimously elected in his place. Mr. Clementi- Smith is the first clergyman who has been elected to the Corporation since the Reformation."

H. W. UNDERDOWN.

CRANMER'S LIBRARY. (See 6th S. xi. 309, 412 ; 7th S. xii. 345.) − At the first and last of the above references a request is made for information concerning any books bearing the autograph "Thomas Cantuarien.," with the statement at the first reference that the greater portion of Archbishop Cranmer's books are in the British Museum, but that many were sold and scattered. I may say that there is a book bearing this signature on the top margin of the title-page in the library of the Royal College of Physicians. Its title is : " Digesto- | rum seu Pandectaru' Iuris Cæsa- | rei Tomus Secundus, quod | vulgo Infortiatum | appellant. [Woodcut, printer's device.] Parisijs | Ex officina Claudij Cheuallonij, sub | Sole aureo in via ad diuum Iacobum. | 1527." 8vo. It is significant that