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 s. v. JUNE 2, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1906.

CONTENTS.-No. 127.

NOTES : A Dowsing-Jessop Forgery, 421 "Bung" and "Tun," -122 Greene's Prose Works, 424 "Roan": its Etymology, 425 " Duma " "Swerve" Edward IV. in the National Portrait Gallery Kipling's 'With Scindia to Delhi ' " Pannier Market," 426 " Revenue " : its Pronunciation Shakespeare : a Remarkable Folio Funeral Garlands Peat Parish Constables, 427.

QUERIES : Snakes in South Africa Napoleon and the Grand Duchess Catherine of Russia -Gray's ' Elegy' : its Translations Defoe on the Vicar of Baddow G. Rossetti's 1 Tre Ragionamenti,' 428 "A thimbleful of sense" Tuileries Garden in 1796 'Aryan Sun-Myths 'Italian Songs Japanese and Chinese Lyrics Sir William Noye's Wife May Light and Young Men's Light Olvarius's History Cateaton Street Seventeenth-Century Libraries Shakespeare's Creations, 429 Anne Gliddon Notting- ham Psalter Spain and England Twyford Abbey, 430.

REPLIES : "Rose of Jericho," 430 Epitaph at Bowes, Yorkshire, 431 "Brock": "Badger " Henry An gelo Mr. Thompson of the 6th Dragoons Americans in Eng- lish Records, 432 Delmer Ladies' Head-dresses in the Theatre " Cast not a clout till May be out" Travelling in England, 433 " Saturday " in Spanish " Place " "Pour "Coleridge and Newman on Gibbon, 435 Earth- quakes in Fiction Escutcheon of Pretence' Leicester's Ghost ' The Gunnings of Castle Coote Leighton's 'British Crests,' 43S Authors of Quotations Wanted Dr. Richard Garnett Lord Camelford's Duel Bury Family, 437.

NOTES ON BOOKS:-' Lands and their Owners in Gal- loway' 'The Assemble of Goddes' 'The Magazine of Fine Arts.'

Booksellers' Catalogues.

Notices to Correspondents.

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A DOWSING-JESSOP FORGERY.

IN the last edition of 'The Journal of William Dowsing,' by the Rev. C. H. Evelyn White, (Ipswich, 1885), there appears at p. 11 a document which has often been quoted by previous writers. It is an account of the doings of Francis Jessop, one of Dowsing's deputies, in the church of Gorleston. The editor introduces it with the following words :

"The doings of this man at Gorleston surpass everything of the kind on record, and the account given here is an example of the thoroughness which, alas ! characterized so much of the work done by these sacrilegious invaders of the churches of East Anglia."

This remark would be quite in place were it not for the fact that the account itself is an obvious forgery. It is made up out of phrases taken from the * Journal ' of William Dow- sing. I will demonstrate this by dissecting the paragraph into its component parts, and .giving references to the sections of the 4 Journal ' from which each is taken.

Gorleston. In the chancel, as it is called [58, Capell: The Church (as it is called) : also 61. Stowmarket]

we took up twenty brazen superstitious inscrip- tions, ora pro nobis, &c. [p. 15, Sudbury : took up 30 brazen superstitious inscriptions, ora pro nobis]

broke twelve apostles carved in wood and cheru- bims [2, Clare : the 12 apostles were carved in wood and 20 cherubims]

and a lamb with a cross : and took up four super- stitious inscriptions in brass in the north chancel, Jem Jttii dei miserere mei, c. [10,

Barham : one a lamb with a cross and took

up 4 superstitious inscriptions of brass, one of them Je.su Jili dei miserere mei]

broke in pieces the rails [14, Dunstall : broke in pieces the rails]

and broke down twenty-two popish pictures of angels and saints [24, Wickham : broke down 15 popish pictures of angels and s ts ].

We did deface the font and a cross on the font: and took up a brass inscription there with Cujus animae propitic.tnr dens [32, Copdock :

did deface a cross on the font took up a,

brass inscription with Cujus animae propi-

tietur deus]

and Pray for y e soul, &c., in English [40, Ipswich, Mary's at the Tower : cujas animae, c., and pray for the soul in English].

We took up thirteen superstitious brasses [no exact equivalent : see later]

ordered Moses with his rod and Aaron with his mitre to be taken down [78. Otley : Moses with a rod and Aaron with his mitre taken down.]

ordered eighteen angels off the roof and cherubims to be taken down and nineteen pictures in the windows. The organ I brake [92, Stradbrook : 8 angels off the roof and cherubims in wood to

be taken down : and 17 pictures in the

upper window and organs which I brake]

and we brake seven popish pictures in the chancel window, one of Christ, another of St. Andrew, another of St. James, &c. [95, Chediston : 7 popish pictures, one of Christ, and another of St. George].

We ordered the steps to be levelled by the parson of the town [96, Halesworth : and the steps to be levelled by the Parson of the townl

and brake the popish inscription, My flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink ' indeed [99. Beccles : by the altar. My meat is flesh indeed [sic] and my blood is drink indeed].

I gave orders to break in pieces the carved work, which I have seen done [101, Sotterley: I

gave order to break in pieces the rails,

which I have seen done].

There were six superstitious pictures, one crucifix, and the Virgin Mary* with the infant Jesus hi her arms, arid Christ lying in a manger, and the three kings coming to Christ with* presents,* and three bishops with their mitres* and crosier staffs, and eighteen Jesuses written in capital letters,* which we give orders to do out [102, Benacre: identical, but words have been omitted at the places marked with asterisks ; and the phrase "and crosier staffs" seems to come from. No. 126, Nettlestead] a picture of St. George [95, Chediston]