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That we may go to our dear Lord

Where we hope pur Son is gone before to Live in Heavenly joys for evermore, Amen.

He lived with his Grace the Duke of Chandos one year and 11 weeks and

Had ye Praise of ye whole family of a Faithfull servant and a sober young

Man. He departed this Life July 18th 1727 in the 23rd Yeare of his Age.

W. B. GERISH.

DOROTHY CALTHORPE. On the monu- ment to Mistress Dorothy Calthorpe (who quitted this life in 1693), in the church at Ampton in Suffolk : A virgin votary is oft in snares ; this safely vowed and made ye poor her heirs ;

and also on the tomb :

I troubled no man's dust Let others be to me as just.

B. B. Upton.

BET.TON CHTJRCHYARD. The following, in Belton Churchyard, Leicestershire, was stated in 1893 to be then " becoming illegible" :

Near to this place interred there lies,

One whom the Quakers did despise.

His poverty earned him' disgrace,

They denied him a burial place :

Though by his friends, it hath been said,

Towards a burying place large sums were paid.

Poor Robert might not there be laid.

Oh Friends how could you be so hard,

To let him lie in this churchyard ;

A place you all dislike, we know,

How could you displace a brother so.

In memory here this stone doth stand,

Of Robert, the son of John and Sarah Swann.

In One Thousand seven hundred and forty nine

He did his soul to God resign.

W. B. H.

BROMLEY, KENT. Near the south door in the churchyard of Bromley Parish Church, Kent :

Here lies the remains of

Mr. Rodger Penny

late of Northumberland Street

in the Parish of St. Martin's in the Fields

he Departed this Life April the 27th, 1767. Aged 54 years. Hark, from the tombs a doleful sound O come attend the cry Ye living men come view the ground Where you must shortly lie. But what saith the great everlasting Life. Behold the Lamb of God Which taketh away the sin of the World. John 1st Chapter 29th Verse.

Also in the old parish churchyard of Bromley :

Here rests in hope The Mortal Remains of

Frederick Pascall who departed this life

18th April 1839 in the 23rd year of his age.

Here I lay my body down,

And yield it to the Grave ;

Here I rise and take the Crown,

And sing thy Power to save.

Ah, happy spirit upwards caught,

When shall I hither clime [sic}.

May I submissively be taught,

To wait my Father's time. On an old tombstone of the seventeenth century, the name being illegible, is the following :

Within this tombe interr'd doth lye A Relique of mortality. The Holy Soul that did inherit This house of clay, is now a spirit, To heaven gone, and there it is Possessed of Eternall Bliss.

Sacred

to the memory of

Mrs. Ann Owen

wife of Mr. Richard Owen

of this Parish who departed this life 18th December 1836 in her 52nd year. O may I stand before the Lamb, When earth and seas are fled And hear the Judge pronounce my namo. With blessings on my head.

F. M. R. HOLWORTHY.

BLACK DOGS : GABRIEL HOUNDS. Jn a case of witchcraft at Bunny Hall, near Wake- field, in 1656, " severall aparitions like black doggs and catts was seene in the hou^e " (' Depositions from York Castle,' Surt. Soc. p. 75).

The " ugly black thing " that struck and scared the sacrilegious soldier in the church at Trim in 1689 ''may have been a dog (US. ii. 502).

The devil appears " in the horrid shape of some black shaggy dog, or over-grown horrible cat, or other hairy frightful fray- buggs " (Ness, ' History and Mystery,' 1690, i. 42).

Sir Walter Scott has quoted the apparition of the " large black spaniel, with curled shaggy hair," at Peel Castle, from Waldron, 1731, in 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' canto vi. stanza 26, note, and in ' Peveril of the Peak,' note K. See further ' N. & Q.,' 4 S. ix. 360, 415, 490 ; x. 91, 217 ; 8 S. ix. 125.

Other instances are mentioned in ' The Book of Days,' ii. 433-6 ; in an article on ' Northumbrian Ghost Stories,' in The Treasury, January, 1911 ; and in Brand, ed. Ellis and Bohn, 1849, i. 319, iii. 83. > ,

About 1665 Oliver Hey wood entered in his ' Diaries ' (1881-5, iii. 91), "a strange noise in the air heard of many in these parts this winter, called Gabriel-Ratches by this