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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. xn. OCT. w, IQIS.

ADDENDA TO STATUES AND MEMOBIALS OF MARTYRS. (See ante, p. 178, and references.) T am certainly in error in speaking (p. 179) of Sir T. More's statue as " not recorded " in rthe L.C.C. ' Return of Outdoor Memorials.' May I be allowed to answer my own question 'by saying that it is mentioned in the pre- amble in the second list of memorials " omitted intentionally "? There is a foot- mote recording that it was erected by Mr. J G. M. Arnold in 1886, and that the sculptor >was Robert Smith.

Unfortunately, another error relating to More has crept into my account. I cannot make out why I said his head is deposited in Canterbury Cathedral. I should have said 'Canterbury only. As a matter of fact, it
 * is deposited in the Roper Vault at St. Dun-

Stan's Church, Canterbury.

RICHARD WOODMAN.

Warbleton, Sussex. In the churchyard wall near the site of the house in which he resided, and of which the foundations were discovered some years ago, a memorial was placed in 1888. It is constructed of brick -and cement, and is thus inscribed :

1888. Close by

in

the Meadow stood the abode of

Bichard Woodman,

Farmer and

Iron Master,

burnt at

Lewes

22 June 1557. St. John xvi. 2. See also US. xi. 26.

COVENANTERS.

Dunnottar, Stonehaven. In Dunnottar Churchyard stands a square substantial stone erected to the memory of the Coven- anters who were imprisoned in Dunnottar Castle in 1685, and are buried in the church- yard. The inscription, which was restored some few years ago, is as follows :

HERE. LYES. IOHN. STOT. IAMES. ATCHI

SON. IAMES. RUSSELL. & WILLIAM. BRO

UN. AND. ONE. WHOSE. NAME. WEE. HAVE

NOT. GOTTEN. AND. TWO. WOMEN. WHOSE

NAMES. ALSO. WEE. KNOW. NOT. AND. TWO

WHO. PERISHED. COMBING. DOUNE. THE. ROCK

ONE. WHOSE. NAME. WAS. IAMES. WATSON

THE. OTHER. NOT. KNOWN. WHO. ALL. DIED

PRISONERS. IN. DUNNOTTAR. CASTLE

ANNO. 1685 . FOR. THEIR. ADHERENCE

TO. THE. WORD. OP. GOD. AND. SCOTLANDS

COVENANTED. WORK. OF. REFORMA

TION. REV. JJ CH. 12 VERSE

In the above the letters are all separately formed, but in the original many of them are conjoined like a diphthong. It will be re- called that Sir Walter Scott first met " Old Mortality " (Robert Paterson) when he was engaged in his self-imposed task of cleaning and repairing this tombstone. The episode will be found fully described in the author's Introduction to * Old Mortality,' dated 1830.

ROBT. LENNOX.

Girthon, Kircudbrightshire. In the churchyard is a plain, substantial, and well-preserved stone bearing the following inscription :

WITHIN THIS TOMB LYES THE CORPS OF ROBERT LENNOX SOME TIME IN IRELAND TOtJN WHO WAS SHOT TO DEATH BY GRIER OF LAGG IN THE PAROCH OF TOUNGLAND FOR HIS ADHERENCE TO SCOTLANDS REFORMATION COVENANTS NATIONAL AND SOLEMN LEAGUE 1685.

This was another of the stones on which " Old Mortality " plied his loving task. An excellent story relating to Girthon Church- yard is told by Scott in the Introduction mentioned above.

I am indebted for valued help to Mr. Robert Anderson, Mr. Wilmot Corfield, Mr. R. A. Potts, and Mr. Alan Stewart.

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

STINGING NETTLES, BEE-STINGS, AND RHEUMATISM. It was a common belief in one part of Derbyshire many years ago that stinging nettles applied to the affected parts would ease, and possibly cure, rheumatic pains, and I know of several afflicted persons who had their shoulders and legs well whipped by handfuls of ripe stinging nettles. Others had faith in the stings of bees for the same purpose, and would put a bare limb at a hive entrance, and then disturb the bees with a stick in order to get well stung, or, as it was termed, " tanged " or "buckt." Only a few weeks ago I heard a lady propose bee-stings as a remedy for rheumatism, and state that the belief in their efficacy was still common in parts of the South- West Midlands.

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

[For the virtues of bee-stinps as a cure see 10 S. xii. 248, 295.J