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 10 s. viii. SEPT. 14, 1907.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1U, 1907.

CONTENTS.-No. 194.

JfOTES : Tombstones and Inscriptions St. Ives Book- sellers and Printers, 201 Chauceriana, 202 Edward Harley : Earls of Oxford : Mortimer's Cross, 203" Fit" ' Cartularium Saxonicum,' 204 Morays of Bothwell lied Rag and Antelope Signs of Affirmation and Dissent S, Long and Short Servius Sulpicius and Bret Harte, 205 Action Game "Pulle" or "Maste" Bream's Buildings Nicol, Earl of Errol "Retrospective" in French, 206 A Caustic Sermon Election Sunday, West- minster School " Place "Col. Lilburne Racehorses in the Seventeenth Century" Restaurateur," 207.

QUERIED :" Hospi talus" in Domesday Miraculous Birth " Weke-acre "Peacock on Church Bells, 208 Bramp- ton Bridge Robert Burrowes,. Dean of Cork Nash of Portugal Wareham Beth Reynolds Gosling Family, 209 Horseshoe Superstition Abp. of Dublin in 1349 Lord Treasurer Godolphin Plant-Names Mary Mag- dalene's Hair Laplace's Dying Saying Laws of Gravity Hancock" Dieu done tout "Dickens Quotation, 210

REPLIES : Elder - Bush Folk -Lore, 211 Matthew Dia- mondbuld Demont, 213" Gowdike" Medicinal Waters Clergy in Wigs Sir George Monoux Lincolnshire Family,' 214 Dr. Good Coffins and Shrouds Exeter Hall Two Proverbs " Twopenny Tube," 215 St. Devereux " Birch's " " Keelhaul " The " Golden Angel," 216 Gutteridge Family Napoleon's Carriage " The Pedlars' Rest." 217" Dowb " Chilteru Hundreds Racial Problem of Europe Camp at Sandgate, 218.

NOTES ON BOOKS :' The Poems of William Dunbar' ' Short Studies on Great Subjects ' ' The National Review" 'The International Genealogical Directory, 1907' Pedigree Work ' " York Library."

OBITUARY: Mr. J. R. Boyle.

TOMBSTONES AND INSCRIPTIONS: THEIR PRESERVATION.

IN the review of the Journal of the Associa- tion for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland (ante, p. 118) you state that tombstones and inscriptions do not receive so much attention in Ireland as in England.

I understand that a society is being formed in England for recording inscriptions on tombstones and tablets. It would appear from extracts printed in the first volume of the Journal of the Irish Association, and "taken from the Journal of the National 'Society for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in England (a society no longer in existence), that the need for such a society is greater than would be supposed, AS the following extracts will show :

"Two tons of brasses from Hereford Cathedral sold to a brazier."

" Ancient tombstones at Much Dewchurch found forming the floor of the rectory stable." 'The same thing at Farnham.

"At Purton Church the scullery floor of the vicarage laid with memorial slabs removed from the church."

At Nantwich, Cheshire, the particulars

of " the shameful destruction " of monu- mental inscriptions fill ten pages quarto.

At Bowden, Cheshire, tombstones were found in the old vicarage (now a private residence).

At Chew Magna, Somerset, " a late vicar had tombstones taken from the churchyard to pave his coach-house."

At Peterborough a font was broken up to " mend the roads," and another was found in a stableyard.

At Bishop Canning Church ancient monu- mental slabs have been " buried under modern tiles."

At Horsham, Sussex, fifteenth-century brasses and other church things were found in the possession of a late vicar.

In Herefordshire " a beautiful incised slab was recovered from a stonemason's yard, who was just about to break it up."

The two following cases in England came under my own notice :

1. A church font which had been presented by the congregation was removed without a faculty, and a new font erected. The old font was given away to a builder.

2. An ancient font was removed from a church, and replaced by a modern one. The old font was put in the churchyard.

In the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries (Second Series, vol. xx. p. 4) Mr. 3. Challenor Smith, F.S.A., gives an interest- ing account of the monumental brass of John Moore, dated 1597, in York Minster, that had been turned into a weathercock, and was found by him in a corner of the vestry. P. G. MAHONY, Cork Herald.

Office of Arms, Dublin.

ST. IVES, HUNTINGDONSHIRE, BOOK- SELLERS AND PRINTERS.

SEVERAL interesting notes on provincial booksellers and printers have appeared in ' N. & Q.'

I submit herewith a list of those for St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, and hope sub- sequently to give further lists for other parishes in the county ; so that a complete account of them may be on record as at present known.

The dates given are those transcribed from the title-pages, &c., of books in my possession or which I have seen, and include all the past booksellers and printers of St. Ives whom I know about. Any additions will be thankfully received by me. Fisher .(John), printer, Tedd's Lane, 1716 - 18.

Printed the first Huntingdonshire newspaper,

The St. Ives Post.