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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. vi. NOV. 23, 1912.

signed is that of the preacher Mr. Adair ; the second is that of Mr. Charles Hall, probably the parochial minister. In Patrick Adair's ' True Narrative ' will be found a minutely told account of the Covenanting tour in Ulster, when many Covenant books were signed, of which the Belfast copy seems to be the only one preserved. In Scotland, I understand, there are several still preserved. In 1847 Dr. David Laing read a paper before the Society of Anti- quaries (Scotland) giving a list of those who had original copies of the Solemn League and Covenant in Scotland. It would be interesting to know if there are any in England.

In view of the recent Covenant -signing in Ulster, a special article, illustrated with fac : similes of the pages of the original copy of 1643, appeared in The Belfast Evening Telegraph.

It may be added that there is an organiza- tion in Belfast the Presbyterian Historical Society that devotes special attention to the collecting and safe-keeping of documents and relics of Irish Presbyterian interest. J. W. KEBNOHAN.

Church House, Belfast.

" NUI/LA NON DONANDA LAURU " (11 S.

vi. 370).

Where is the old man laid ? look down, And construe on the slab before you

" Hie jacel GVIJELMVS BROWN, Vir nulld -non donandns lauru."

W. M. Praed, ' The Vicar,' ad fin.

It seems as though the phrase owed its origin to Horace's

Laurea donandus Apollinari,

Seu Odes, IV. ii. 9.

EDWARD BENSLY.

[MR. W. H.B. BIRD, MR. W.ERNST BROWNING, A. K. E., H. W. G., PROF. G. C. MOORE SMITH, and MR. GEORGE WHERRY also thanked for replies.]

CAWTHORNE (11 S. vi. 327). In the Galle Face Cemetery, Colombo, is a tombstone with the following inscription :

" In memory of Maria, the beloved wife of William Cawthorne, Esq. She died at Colombo, Jlth September, 1857, aged 31 years. Also of William Cawthorne, Esq., who was accidentally killed at Kandy on 20th February, 1858. aged 50 years."

The register at Kandy gives his age as 46. He died from a arriage accident. He went out to Ceylon about 1846, and was a mer- chant, cocoa-nut and coffee planter, there. There have not been any persons of the name in Ceylon since the death of W. Cawthorne.

PENRY LEWIS.

"SARAFT" (11 S. vi. 349). There is no inner " or esoteric meaning about this word. It is in popular or colloquial use all over Catholic Ireland as an abbreviation of Shrovetide, the season immediately pre- ceding the penitential seven weeks of Lent. Marriages are forbidden during Lent ; hence there is always a little rush of amorous couples to the altar during " Saraft," or Shrovetide. J. F. HOGAN.

Royal Colonial Institute.

This word, which is generally pronounced "Shraff" or " Shraft," means Shrovetide: on or about Shrove Tuesday. See Joyce. ' English as We Speak It in Ireland ' (1910), p. 322; and ' E.D.D.' (s.v. ' Shraft '). A. L. MAYHEW.

"Saraft," "Shraft," " Sraft " = Shrove- tide. Cf. ' Further Experiences of an Irish R.M.,' Somerville and Ross :

The last day of Shraft,

Other examples, cf. ' English Dialect Dic- tionary,' v. 411.

ST. S WITHIN is not quite right. " Saraft " is, to use his words, " the ecclesiastically proper time for wedlock " only in this sense, that, when it ends, there begins one of the two seasons during which it is not allowed to " solemnize marriages," i.e., from Ash Wednesday to Low Sunday, inclusive.

S.T.P.

FOURIER SOCIETY (11 S. vi. 250). Horace Greeley established, in 1843, a. community on the Fourier basis in Pike County, Pennsylvania, on the Lackawaxen River. He named it " Sylvania," and it lasted until 1845. There is a settlement named Greeley not far from the site of' " Sylvania." No Socialistic elements are in this. JOHN L. STEWART.

Lehigh University, Pennsylvania.

FRENCH SONNET : FELIX ARVERS (11 S, vi. 246, 334). I omitted to state in my reply that, according to Arvers, ' Mes Heures Perdues,' 1833, p. 71, the famous sonnet was " imite de 1'italien." I have failed to find the Italian poem that suggested the idea to Arvers. Perhaps some reader of ' N. & Q.' may be more successful.

W. F. PRIDEATJX.

CHURCHYARD INSCRIPTIONS : LIST OF TRANSCRIPTIONS (11 S. vi. 206, 255, 278, 354). I have a copy of all the inscriptic .ns in the church and churchyard of Leigh, co. Kent. Some of the inscriptions relate to persons buried at a period for which the registers are missing.