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 254 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S.X.APRIL 1,1 922. withal, had any legal right to make the carefully limited and conditional concession to Swain also made another good haul for the lawyers. However, at the long last the Stepney Municipal Council in August, 1903, paid 5,500 and considerable legal charges to be done with the matter of absolute ownership ; and Mile End Green's last remnant, with the site of the old Vine, is now a rag market surrounding a strip of flower garden only half completed, whose railings serve for the exhibition of goods. Me. BARREL ORGANS IN CHURCHES (12 S. x. 209). There is a three-barrelled organ in the church at Steeple, in the Isle of Pur- beck. It is not used nowadays. It bears an inscription, " J. W. Walker, London, 1858." At Bushey chapel, which was built in 1836, about a mile from Corfe Castle, there is a barrel organ which is still in regular use. It has three barrels, each of which gives twelve tunes. It has no date, but bears a plate inscribed " T. C. Rate and Son, Organ Builders, 6, Ludgate Hill, London. No. 3302." Some 25 years ago one of the barrels was sent to London to be re-pegged, the firm to which it was entrusted being supplied with a musical hymn-book so as to enable them to provide the desired tunes. So closely did they follow their instructions to adhere strictly to the hymn-book version of the music that they were careful not to omit the " Amen " which appeared at the end of the printed verse. The result, of course, was that the organ piously played " Amen " at the end of each verse of every hymn on that particular barrel ! The " Amen " pegs were successfully extracted by a local carpenter, and the organ gives out its hymns to this day, but without an " Amen " at the end, which, has to be sung unaccompanied. G. M. MARSTON. I take the following from an article entitled ' Sussex Church Music in the Past,' by the Rev. K. H. MacDermott, L.Th., A.R.C.M., in vol. Ix. of the ' Sussex Archaeological Collections ' : The following advertisement appeared in The West Sussex Gazette on June 25th, 1857 quaint reading in the present days : Church Organ. For sale, an excellent barrel- organ in wainscote case with gilt pipes in front. It has 3 barrels each playing 10 Psalm tunes. The above instrument was made by Bryceson, has 4 stops and will be sold for the very moderate price of 8 guineas. Apply Mr. Bennett, North St., . Ohichester. The firm of Bryceson were famous manu- facturers of barrel organs for many years. The ' P.O. London Directory* gives the firm of Bryceson Brothers as established 1796. A. H. W. FYNMORE. " Shirley," Rustington. THE MONTFORT FAMILIES (12 S. x. 204). No mention is made of the interesting and ancient mural monuments to the Montfort family at Beaconsfield. The late Mrs. Grosvenor Jennings of Beamhurst Hall, Uttoxeter, was, I believe, a member of the Montfort family. ARTHUR F. G. LEVESON GOWER. EPITAPH IN TETBURY CHURCH, GLOS. (12 S. x. 170). The correct inscription, quoted by The Observer of April 21, 1918, from a photograph, runs as follows : In a Vault underneath lie several of the Saunderses, late of this Parish : particulars the last day will disclose. Amen. J. R. H. LAZENKE PALACE, WARSAW : LATIN IN- SCRIPTIONS (12 S. x. 151). MR. O'HARA asks if there are any parallels to the lines Haec domus odit, amat, fundit, commendat, et optat, Tristitias, pacem, balnea, rura, probos. At 11 S. iii. 66, 131, MR. PIERPOINT quoted several variants of the couplet Hie locus odit, amat, punit, conservat, honorat, Nequitiem, pacem, crimina, iura, probos. This has been inscribed on court-houses at home and abroad. The lines belong to a well-known type, being versus correlativi. Julius Caesar Scaliger, in his * Poetice,' II., cap. xxx., gives as an example of the class, Pastor, arator, eques, pavi, colui, superavi, Capras, rus, hostes, fronde, ligone, manu. These are Pentadius's lines in which Virgil is supposed to sum up his poetical works. Several specimens in Latin and one in Greek will be found in the second part of Reusner's ' Aenigmatographia.' No refer- ence is given for the Greek. It is one of the anonymous epigrams in the Palatine Anthology (Bk. IX. 48). There is a curious imitation of this trick in one of James Howell's ' Familiar Letters,' Book I., section 4, No. iv. It is addressed to his cousin, Rowland Gwin, and runs : Cousin, I was lately sorry, and I was lately glad, that I heard you were ill, that I heard you are well. Your affectionate Cousin, J. H. EDWARD BENSLY.