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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. ix. MAY je, WH.

Gratulate, v. = rejoice at. He is a loving kinsman of my Bonvile's That kindly caftie to gratulate our wedding. II. iv. (Hazlitt, iv. 39).

Used in exactly the same way by Hey- wood :

The Embassadours that come from foreign lands To gratulate our famous victories.

' The Royall King and the Loyall Subject ' (' Wks.,' 1874, vi. 7).

Mediate to beg, intercede for.

.... Nothing now

Was talk'd of but to yield up ship and goods And mediate for our peace.

III. iii. (Hazlitt, iv. 57).

Again in ' Appius and Virginia,' II. i. :

You mediate excuse for courtesies. The verb occurs repeatedly in Heywood in a similar sense ; the closest parallel to its use in the text is in ' The English Traveller,' Act IV. :

And will you leave me to the whip and stocks, Not mediate my peace ?

' Works,' 1874, iv. 84.

Outside Heywood's works it is very rare.

Ecstasied = enraptured, transported with delight.

I '11 give thee reason

I have to be thus ecstasied with joy.

IV. ii. (Hazlitt, iv. 70).

Webster has it again in ' The Devil's Law Case,' IV. i. :

I am .... almost ecstasied With this most goodly suit. It is a word of Heywood's. Cf. ' The Cap- tives ; or, The Lost Recovered,' V. i. :

Thou with these words hast ecstasied my soul. Bullen's ' Old Plays,' iv.

and ' The Fair Maid of the West,' I. ii. :

I cannot but wonder why any fortune should make a man ecstasied. ' Works,' 1874, ii. 281. No other example in this sense is to be found in ' N.E.D.' earlier than 1660. Asperse, v. Apology, v.

I presume

No jealousy can be aspersed on him For which he cannot well apology.

V. i. (Hazlitt, iv. 82).

Asperse was at this time very rarely used in other than a literal sense. It is not in Shakespeare. Heywood uses it in ' The English Traveller,' III. i. :

You may. . . . asperse the honour of a noble friend.* ' Works,' 1874, iv. 48.


 * So far as I am aware, the only instance

of the form " apology " for apologize, apart

"neither sterility and (sic.) barrennesse could be aspersed upon her " [Queen Katharine].
 * Cf. also ' England's Elizabeth ' (ed. 1632, p. 6) :

from ' A Cure for a Cuckold,' is in the same act and scene of the same play :

Thus much let me for him apology.

' Works,' 1874, iv. 55.

At any rate the 'N.E.D.' has no other example of its use as a verb.

H. DUGDALE SYKES.

( To be continued.)

STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH ISLES.

(See 10 S. xi. 441 ; xii. 51, 114, 181, 401 ; 11 S. i. 282 ; ii. 42, 381 ; iii. 22, 222, 421 ; iv. 181, 361 ; v. 62, 143, 481 ; vi. 4, 284, 343 ; vii. 64, 144, 175, 263, 343, 442 ; viii. 4, 82, 183, 285, 382, 444 ; ix. 65, 164.)

RELIGIOUS LEADERS, &c. (continued).

JOHN KNOX.

Glasgow. On a mound in the Necropolis was erected by public subscription in 1825 a fluted column surmounted by a statue of Knox. Mr. Thos. Hamilton of Edinburgh designed the structure, and the statue was the work of R. Forrest, a Lanarkshire artist.

Edinburgh. John Knox was buried in the graveyard of St. Giles's Church. The site is now ccupied by Parliament Square. His supposed grave is marked by a stone in the pavement, inscribed :

J. K. 1572.

HUGH STOWELL BROWN. Liverpool. In front of Myrtle Street Baptist Chapel, in which he preached for so many years, is placed a marble statue of the Rev. H. Stowell Brown. It cost 850/., towards which the members of his chapel contributed 250Z. The statue stands on a granite pedestal, and is the work of Messrs. Richardson of London. The inscrip- tion states that Mr. Brown was born in 1823, and died in 1886, and that

" he laboured for thirty-nine years to improve the social and spiritual condition of his fellow men."

ARCHDEACON BONNEY. King's Cliff, Northamptonshire. The socket of the old market cross was removed from the village street to the rectory garden by the Archdeacon in 1820. In it he placed a cross, on the front of which are carved his initials, " H. K. B.," and above it a shield bearing his arms : on a bend, three fleurs-de-lis. On the left side is another shield, bearing a chevron between three spearheads. Archdeacon Henry Kaye