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 526 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. iv. DEC. 30, IMS. P. 24, n. 8 ; 9, n. c, " Non dubito multos tectores hie fore ttitltos." The first of 36 leonine hexameters headed 'S.A.I, ad Emptorem,' p. 8 of ' Sententise Proverbiales de Moribus' (Basel, ».a.). F. 24, 30; 9, 24,tl Laudare se vani; vitupe- rare, stulti" (reference given 10th S. ii. 442). Burton appears again to be indebted to King, op. cit., sign. *f 4 recto, 1. 30, " I have taken the counsaile of the wise, neyther to prayse nor dispraise mine owne dooings : The one, hee sayth, is vanitie, the other follie," with marginal note, "Laudare se vani, vitwperare stulti. Ariitot. apud Valer. Max. lib. 7, cap. 2." P. 24, 32 ; 9, 25, " Primus vestrum nan sum, nee imus.'' This is 1. 4of ' Solon ' in Ausonius's 'Ludus Septem Sapientum," as emended by J. J. Scaliger. See his Auson., Lect. Lib. ii. cap. 1. The note at 9th S. xii. 443 was in- complete. EDWARD BENSLY. (To be continued.) discover any stone or inscription to the widow if the last named. W. B. H. Perhaps the following verse, which is to be seen in the old parish churchyard of Brighton St. Nicholas's) on the tombstone of one Thomas Law, who died 19 April, 1800, is sufficiently quaint to be worthy of record in N. &Q.':- Stop! Reader, and reflect with awe. For Sin and Death have conquered Law, Who in full hope resign'd his breath. That Grace had conquered Sin and Death. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. EPITAPHIANA. THE four following epitaphs have been recently copied from stones in the church- yard of Bredon-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire :— C. R., " who was unfortunately killed by a fall from his horse, August 11, 1781." Upon the Road I met pale Death, Which soon deprived me of my breath; All in a moment, awful thought. My Soul eternal Mansions sought. From Accidents no man is free, The next, 0 Reader, may be thee ; Then when you view my grave, my dust, Prepare, be ready, die you must. Mary, wife of W. M. (and relict of the above C. R.), died 22 Feb., 1793. Stop, gentle Stranger, and with plaintive Eyes View the sad spot where Worth and Virtue lies ; Summond by Death to meet her mortal End, And to the Chambers of the Grave descend. Oh ! mayst thou still in yonder bright abode In Bliss eternal meet thy Saviour God. The wife of J. B., died 2 March, 1790. Calm was her Death, well order'd was her Life, A quiet Neighbour and a loving Wife ; Of Children tender, to her Husband kind. All certain Symptoms of a Virtuous Mind. John K., died 26 May, 1823, aged thirty three. My friend most dear ! forbear your tear, And cease for me to mourn. What love from you to me was due, To my dear Wife return. To God most just, and you, I trust My Wife while here she be. God be her friend, her pathway tend, Till she shall follow me. I may add that a careful search failed to DR. EDMOND HALLEY. (See 9th S. x. 361; xi. 85. 205, 366, 463, 496; xii. 125, 185, 266, 464 ; 10'" S. ii. 224.)— I. LIFE AND WORK. McPike. Eugene Fairfield. Remarks on Dr. Edmond Halley.—Popular Astronomy, xii. 433-5, Northfield, Minnesota, August-September, 1904. A Bibliography of Halley's Comet: 1910 Return.—Ibid., 455. See last paragraph below. Halley's Comet.—±bid., 685. A not« per- taining to Dr. Halley's discovery of the identity of the comet of 1682, which bears his name. Halley's Comet: its Past History and 1910 Return: a Short Bibliography with Notes. 6 pp.— Smithsonian Miscl. Coll., vol. xlviii. pt. i., No. 1580, Washington, 1905. Same ; also issued separately. Noticed in Library Journal, xxx. 439, July, 1905. • Halley's Comet and its Discoverer. — The Observatory, xxviii. 256-7, June, 1905. Rigaud, Stephen Peter (1774-1839). Some Account of Halley's Astronomite Cometicae Synopsis. 1833. —Mentioned in 'D.N.B.,' xlviii. '299. Probably published separately. Not examined. Greenwich Observatory Instruments in Halley's Time.—In Memoirs Royal Astronomical Society, 1836. On Newton, Whiston, Halley, and Flam- steed.—In Philos May., 1836. Rudolph. Alexander J. Material for a Biblio- graphy of Dr. Edmond Halley with some Notei and Addenda by Eugene Fairfield McPike.— Bul- letin of Bibliography, Boston, iv. 53-7, July, 1905. Same; also issued separately. Column » page form. III. GENEALOGV. Scottish Notes and Queries, Second Series, vi. 93, 112, Aberdeen. The '-Old Northwest" Genealogical Quarterly, vii. 267-70, Columbus, Ohio, October, 1904. IV. MISCELLANEOUS. Bronte, Rev. Patrick. On Halley's Comet, in 1835. [A poem.J-7'Ae Bradfordian. No. 11 (1 August, 1861), 176, Bradford. Reprinted in Popular Astronomy, xii. 571-2. Eugenio (pseud.). An Elogy on Sir late Newton; translated from the Latin of Dr. Halley. — The General Magazine of Arts and Sciewtt, i. 4 (January, 1755), London. Reprinted in Popn/or Axtronomy, xii.504, 571r 631; and in Historic ifaaa- zine and Notes and Queries, xxiii. No. 3 (March, 1905), 76-8, Manchester, New Hampshire.