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The epitaph quoted by MB. PRICE is an inaccurate version of the inscription on a tablet at the Church of the Ascension, Bayswater Road, W., in memory .of Mrs. Jane Molony, wife of Edmond Molony of Clonony Castle, King's County. I copied it years ago. and got it published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, Ireland, for 1902, p. 410. See also ' N. & Q.,' 10 S. vii. 135 and 187, for references to it.

The inscription is too long to publish in full jn ' N. & Q.' I shall be happy to send a copy of it to MR. PRICE if he wishes for it. The original is, if anything, more ridiculous than the versions that appear from time to time in different papers.

ALFRED MOLONY.

48, Dartmouth Park Hill, N.W.

My memory is not infallible, but I think the famous epitaph bore the nameMaloney, and read "bland [not "mild"], passionate, and religious, also painted in water colours," &c. I certainly saw the inscription in the September of 1889, on the wall, rather high on the right as one went in, inside the old Chapel of St. George on the Bayswater Road, now replaced by the frescoed Shrine of Rest familiar to Londoners. Inquiries made on the spot some eight years ago failed to extract any information about the present whereabouts of what is, perhaps, the best-known and the most delightful sepul- chral memorial of the late eighteenth century. L. I. GUINEY.

Oxford.

[LiEFT.-CoL. PARRY also thanked for reply.]

ANTHONY TWICHENER (11 S. xii. 340, 388)- The query of MR. J. B. WAINEWRIGHT regarding Anthony Twichener, a W mcnester scholar of 1562, sets me wondering if he were connected with a curious entry in the (marriage) parish registers of the village church of Hursley, near Winchester. It is badly written, and I transcribed the name as " Twichin," with a query Twicheneer ? and I am afraid I did not note the day and month, for I only copied it for the sake of the bridegroom's name, wondering how he came there. It reads : " William Stanley and Averne Twichin, 1632." Stanley was a well-known merchant of Southampton, owning ships trading between that town and Newfoundland, notably the Amitie, which brought dried fish* and oil. He was buried

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 * ' Maritime Trade of Southampton,' Hampshire

on 3 Aug., 1678, at Holy Rood in that town,, at the age of 71. His wife appears to have- died in 1667. His son,* William Stanley,, purchased the estate of Paultons (between. Eling and Romsey) of the Paulet family, of whom William Paulet (a great grandson of the first Marquis of Winchester) buried his wife, Frances St. Barbe, at Hursley in 1621. It is very surprising what took all these people to Hursley, a tiny rural village at that time. Later, on 27 May, 1666, George Stanley, son of William, was married at Holy Rood to Jane Wolfreys, daughter of Thomas Wolfreys, " Customer of Southamp- ton," by Catherine Major, sister of the notorious Richard Major, the Parliamen- tarian, whose daughter and heiress married Richard Cromwell, " sometime Protector of England." Richard Major purchased the Hursley estate about 1638, which descended to his daughter, Dorothy Cromwell. The name Twichener is so peculiar that possibly the Hursley entry may be useful as a clue* I never met with it but once before, and that was in a Wiltshire marriage licence oi the seventeenth century. F. H. S.

Highwood.

FAMOUS TRIAL : JEPHSON (US. xii. 442). I imagine that the trial referred to is that of John Blomfield Rush, tenant-farmer, for the murder of Isaac Jermy, Recorder of Norwich, and his son Isaac Jermy Jermy, both of Stanfield Hall, near Wymondham, Norfolk. The murder took place on 28 Nov. r 1848, and after a six days' trial, which caused the greatest excitement, Rush was- hanged on 14 April, 1849. The Recorder's only daughter married the Rev. J. M. Jephson, and he himself had as his second wife Fanny, daughter of Rev. Prebendary Jephson of Armagh. See ' Diet. Nat. Biography,' s.v. Isaac Jermy.

G. C. MOORE SMITH. [R. J. B. also thanked for reply.]

THE OBSERVANT BABE (US. xii. 439). Though the amusing story quoted by ST. S WITHIN is admirably invented, I suppose no one takes it seriously. A wordless infant distinguishes between pleasure and pain r but what does it know of right and wrong concepts based on long experience or careful training ? Moreover, a child can use many words before it learns to refer to itself as " I." The personal pronoun does not occur earlv. It is obviously natural that an infant should regard itself as " Baby,'*

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 * See Sloane Stanley of Paultons, ' Landed