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 12 8. Ill- MARCH 24, 1917.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

in St. Martin's Burial-Ground. The writer quotes the following lines from ' The Can- didate ' :

May one poor sprig of bay around my head Bloom whilst I live, and point me out when dead, Let it may Heaven indulgent giant this

prayer

Be planted on my grave, nor wither there ; And, when on travel bound, some rhyming guest Roams through the churchyard while his dinner's

drest,

Let it uphold this comment to his eyes, Life to the last enjoyed here Churchill lies.

He then proceeds :

" Some pious friend saw that part of Churchill's wish was gratified, and the last line is still to be read on the stone. It remained for a gentleman passing through Dover this week to fulfil the other part of the poet's prayer, and, with the assistance of the sexton of the cemetery, he planted a bay tree on the grave ; and so, nearly a century and a half after it was uttered, the poet's simple wish was carried out."

Will some kind reader resident at or passing through Dover say if the inscrip- tion is still readable, and if the bay tree still flourishes ? JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

HEART IN HAND (12 S. iii. 31). Is not this one of the few traces left in the popular imagination of pre-Reformation symbols ? It stands for Divine Love. St. Theresa is one of the saints so depicted, a cross and lily in one hand and a heart in the other.

SUSANNA CORNER.

Wellington School, Somerset.

POWDERED GLASS (12 S. i. 169, 297, 335). A poisoner testified in New York City, in the spring of 1916, that he first tried ground glass ; finely powdered glass, how- ever, is harmless (see ' The Traumatic Causation of Appendicitis,' by S. G. Shat- tock, in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, London, 1915-16, ix., Patho- logical Section, at pp. 26-7, July, 1916), confirming the experiments of about a century ago, cited at 12 S. i. 335. This conclusion has a present and popular interest, in that it shows the needlessness of the fear of enamelled ware for the kitchen, and of stone-ground flour. These last have been held to be causes of appendicitis, a disease of which the folk-lore should be written. The especial advantage of such a research is that its terminus a quo can be accurately placed and dated, the vogue of appendicitis starting with a publication by a Boston man in 1886. Since then there has grown up a mass of popular " know- ledge " which contrasts sharply with that of the surgeons most experienced therein ;

for instance, see preface to ' Appendicitis,'' by T. W. Harmer, in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Feb. 1, 1917, clxxvi. 165-70 : " the greater the experience, the" larger the perplexities and mistakes."

ROCKINGHAM. Boston, Mass.

CLINTON MAUND OF MERTON COLLEGE (12 S. iii. 149). Pleb. Pembroke College, matric. Sept. 22, 1647, aged 17 (sometime of Trinity College, Dublin) ; B.A. April 28, 1649 ; fellow Merton College, 1649, by the Parliamentary visitors; M.A. Nov. 18, 1652 ; incorporated at Cambridge, 1655; Vicar of St. Peter's-in-the-East, Oxford, 1659; born in co. Fermanagh of Oxfordshire parents ;. died in college of fever, Dec. 4, 1660, buried in the quire against his stall, Dec. 6 ; will, at Oxford proved Dec. 10.

See ' Athen.,' i. p. xvii ; Gutch, i. app. 209 ; Brodrick's ' Merton College,' 291 ; and Burrows's ' Register of the Visitors of the University, 1647-58,' p. 524.

Arms Az., on a bend arg., between two eagles displayed or, three mascles of the- field. A. R. BAYLEY.

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