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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vra. NOV. 2, 1907.

" Applebee's," however, furnished the following far more characteristic story :

"Yesterday Morning, between five and six of the Clock, ninety one Malefactors were convey'd from Newgate to Black-Fryers Stairs, in order to be sent down to Woolwich, and from thence to be transported to one of his Majesty's Plantations ; Among them were John [sic\ Marvel, formerly Hangman, who beheaded the late Earl of Derwent- water and the Lord Kenmure, on Tower Hill : He iis'd many Arguments to avoid going beyond Sea ; and instead of which, heartily desir'd. that any Corporal Punishment might be inflicted upon him, tho he was to be Whipt a Mile together, he would willingly and thankfully submit to it. However, tho' his Request was not fully answer'd, as to his earnest Desire of being whip'd at home yet in some Measure, it was granted, at his going abroad, for they whipt him away on board among the rest of his Brethren in Iniquity."

Marvel's subsequent reinstatement in his .gruesome office has yet to be traced.

ALFBED F. ROBBINS.

LYCH GATES (10 S. viii. 268). The following notes may be of service to ULSTEB :

Barking, Essex. Chamber over the gate serves the purpose of a lich gate. This used to be called the Chapel of the Holy Rood.

Beckenham, Kent.

Beckingham in Lincolnshire (very fine specimen of ancient English woodwork).

Bromsgrove in Worcestershire.

Buckingham, W. Lincolnshire.

Berry Narbor, N. Devon. An ancient lich gate.

Birstall, Yorkshire (W. Riding). The lich gate here is not used by ordinary churchgoers, but there is a proper gate by the side of it.

Bray, Berkshire.

Burnsall, Yorkshire.

Burnside, Westmoreland.

Canterbury, St. Martin's Church.

Chiselhurst, Kent.

Clifton Hampden (modern), Oxfordshire.

Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire, erected about 1882.

Compton, Berkshire.

Garsington, Oxfordshire. See illustration in J. H. Parker's ' Concise Glossary of Terms Gothic Architecture,' 1866, p. 140.

Painswick, Gloucestershire. This bears the inscription " Built of the old Belfry Timbers, MDCCCCI-II." ; and it is recorded on one of the panels that the structure was Built at the charges of Mrs. Frances Sarah Williams, 1901. Set to music over the entrance are the words, " Rejoice in the Lord .alwav, and again I say, Rejoice."

Pulborough, Sussex.

Rostherne, N. Cheshire.

Stanley St. Leonard's, Gloucestershire.

Tayistock, Devonshire. On each side of this lich gate is a small room with seats and table, apparently provided as refreshment places for the funeral .attendants.

Troutbeck, Westmoreland.

Whippenham, I. of Wight. An open timber lich .gate, of E. Indian teak, stands at the entrance to the churchyard ; see illustration in The Church Builder, p. 6 (1863).

Wickham (West), Kent.

Worth, Sussex.

Wymeswold (? in Leicestershire). Modern, but some of the material was taken from the church when the latter was restored in the last century.

Yealmpton, South Devon. Modern.

There are two articles on Lich-gates in Ihe,

'hurch Builder for 1862.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

29, Tooting Bee Gardens, Streatham. There is no volume devoted to this subject. A lych gate, reputed to be the oldest in England, may be seen at the approach to the Saxon church at Worth (Surrey). Another is at Hartfield, Sussex. HABBY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

GEOBGE I. : THE NIGHTINGALE AND DEATH (10 S. vii. 409 ; viii. 57, 192). The following passage from Euripides may serve as a pendant to the REV. J. PICKFOBD'S quotation from Sophocles :

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Hovcrfia KOU daKovs fviovarav ava^oacrw, o- rdv doiSoTarav opvida. [ieX8ov aTjSova SO.K pvoearcrav , eA^' w Sid ovOav yevvwv IAiAi{o/ieva,

'EAcvas weAeas TTOVOVS.

' Helena,' 1107.

This has been thus Englished by Joseph Anstice :

Sad bird, whose tuneful haunts are made Beneath the deepest covert's shade, Where shrubs their tresses weaves above The sweetest minstrel of the grove : Sad, tearful nightingale, whose note, Thick- warbled, swells thy dusky throat ; Come, thy melodious dirges pour, And Helen's griefs with me deplore ; The captive maids, the woes of Troy, May well thy plaintive song employ. Milton, who had the temperament of a Greek, naturally adopted the Greek view :

Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

' Comus, 234.

And Shakespeare, who was certainly not a Greek, felt himself forced to swim with the tide :

Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,

And to the nightingale's complaining notes

Tune my distresses, and record my woes.

' Two Gent, of Verona,' V. iv. It would be interesting to know if any traditions bearing on the melancholy of the nightingale existed in Warwickshire or other parts of England. Chaucer considered the nightingale a blithe singer.

W. F. PBIDEAUX.

AMEBICAN MAGAZINE CONDUCTED BY FACTOBY WOBKEBS (10 S. vii. 469). The Lowell Offering was reprinted by Charles Knight about 1844 under the title 'Mind