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was son of Joseph of Coventry. He matri- culated at University College, Oxon, on ) May, 1711, aged twenty; took his B.A. degree in 1715 ; his M.A. from King's College, Cambridge, in 1718 ; and was ap- pointed vicar of Weston-on-Avon in 1722. A. R. BAYLEY.

CORNISH EPITAPHS.

ROUND the margin of a slab lying just outside the southern wall of the chancel of St. Thomas's Church at Launceston there is this epitaph in Gothic letters :

" Here lies Darytie stone [sic] the deafter [sic] of Mr. John stone of Sniynva the which Dorathie [sic] dyed the 2 daye of Januari in the year of 1576."

In the middle of the same stone there is this record :

"1586 22 th [sic] of February Thomas hecks the sonne of Degary hecks was buryed."

The orthography here employed is inte- resting. Was " daughter " pronounced " dafter " by Cornishmen of that time ? What is the etymology of Smynva ?

At the end of the epitaph of Jane Flamank, fixed to the outside of the parish church of St. Austell, and dated 1789, there is this record : " Her funeral Text Rev Chap y e 11 Verse y e x." How far in time and space did, or does, the custom prevail of recording on tombstones the text which was used for a funeral sermon ?

The use of " ye " for " the " in Cornish epitaphs survived far into the nineteenth century.

On p. 48 of Sir J. Maclean's ' Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor,' in note 3, mentioning the epitaph at Tintagel which begins " Here Lie y e Bodys of 3 Childern of ye Rev d . Will m Clarke," the latest of whose burials occurred in 1765, the following verses, which there commemorate them, are omitted :

Those Infants that are Buried here unto thare Parents Ware most Dear but God Was pleas.d to Call them hence to DWell With him a mourisr his Sents.

In the same churchyard the epitaph of J. H. Earle, who died 1817, ends: "Also lieth by them four of their Children."

In the church at Lanteglos, on a slab of slate suspended in the south aisle of the nave, there is the following :

Of earth Gods wisdome made me on [sic] earth Gods loue did please me To earth Gods Justice domed me From earth Gods power shall raise me

And earth if any will He not complaine one [sic] thee

that shalt, art, wilt be such a freind to me

Death is to me aduantage

Thomas Beale of

Church-towne yeoman

was buried the 4 th

day of February

Anno Domini 1645

Being about the age of

85 yeares.

The first six lines are in Gothic letter ; the last eight in italic. Over each bar of the y in February there is a dot, as in the monu- ment of the Earl of Warwick in the collegiate church at Warwick.

Other quaintnesses of the same style are to be found in Cornish epitaphs not a hundred years old. E. S. DODGSON.

THE LUSITANIA AND THE Smrcrs. The subjoined paragraph from The Newcastle Daily Journal of 14 October seems to be of sufficient importance to find a place in N. & Q.' :

" Apropos of the Lusitania's records, there is one survivor the Rev. V. E. Ransome, of Compton. Bassett Rectory, Wilts of the six saloon pas- sengers on the once famous Sirius. In April, 1838, on her voyage from Cork to New York, this pioneer steamship broke the record in effecting the journey from the Old World to the New, which was accom- plished in 17 days. The Sirius was subsequently employed in the Irish coasting trade, and wrecked in the Shannon, near Ballybunion, in the county Kerry. Relics are, however, still extant, and some of her fittings and furniture are still preserved by curio collectors."

JOHNSON BALLY.

The Rectory, Ryton-on-Tyne.

LYSONS : SIGHTS IN THE MOON, 1794. A few years ago there fell to me at Sotheby's four volumes of the Rev. Daniel Lysons's collections, the title-pages of which run thus :

" Collectanea, or a Collection of Advertisements and Paragraphs from the Newspapers relating to Various Subjects. Printed at Strawberry Hill, by Thomas Kirgate. For the Collector, Daniel Lysons."

This imprint applies only to the four title- pages, the volumes themselves being com- posed of blank paper extending in all to more than two thousand pages, on which the various newspaper cuttings and engrav- ings are neatly pasted. Each volume is accompanied by a carefully compiled manu- script index. It will be readily understood that the result of the labours of so intelligent and capable a man as Lysons is full of interest, and that the contents are of the most curious and entertaining description. I shall be forgiven, I hope, for offering an occasional excerpt from these pages, and