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Plate of Hampshire,' by P. N. P. Braith- waite (1909), it is described as

" Diameter 10 inches. Marks : none of assay. T.C. in a heart-shaped shield, and with V with art uncertain object placed alternately for the maker."

Perhaps some reader learned in such matters can clear up the mystery as to the tradition that the paten in Farley Church was once a dinner-plate of the lords of its manor.

One may perhaps be permitted to add here a translation of a recently discovered inscription on a stone beneath the drip from the roof on the south side of the church of King Somborne :

" Here lies Francis Rivet of King Somborne, in the county of Southampton, Esq. ; also Elizabeth his wife. He died the 13th day of December, 1668, in the seventy-fourth year of .his age. The lady died on the 16th of April, 1669, in the sixty -fourth year of her age. They left two daughters, co-heiresses : Elizabeth, by birth the elder, wedded far away* to William Strode of Barington in the county of Somerset, Esq. ; and Margaret, married to Oliver St. John of Farley, by whose sense of duty, and indeed of love, for parents deserving in the highest degree, this monument for what it is worth stands forth."

F. H. S.

VAUVENARGUES : " LA CLARTE EST LA BONNE FOI DES PHILOSOPHES " (12 S. V. 39, 105). The reference to Vauvenargues, ' CEuvres Choisies,' Pensees Diverges 372, kindly supplied by MB. GEORGE MABSHALL, has enabled me to locate this ma^im in the complete edition of the ' CKuvres ' by Gilbert (1857). Though not mentioned in the index, it is printed on p. 475 of vol. i., as no. 729 in the Supplement to the ' Re- flections et Maximes,' which begins with no. 7C1. These " Supplementary " R. et M. were among the others in the first edition (1746), but were arbitrarily omitted in the posthumous editions from 1747 onwards.

W. M. T.

Oxford.

INSCRIPTIONS IN ST. JOHN THE EVANGE- LIST'S, WATERLOO ROAD (12 S. v. 63).- The Latin epitaph (no. 16 in COL. PABBY'S list) on the famous actor Elliston enjoys the honour of being mentioned by Charles Lamb :

" Great wert thou in thy life, Robert William Elliston ! and not lessened in thy death, if report speak truly, which says that thou didst direct that thy mortal remains should repose under no

" wedded far away ") is unusual, and means a woman married out of her tribe.
 * The word ENVPTAM (translated above

inscription but one of pure Latinity." ' The Last Essays of Elia,' ' Ellistoniana.'

Lamb, however, was in error when he wrote "... .thou wert a scholar, and an early ripe one, under the roofs builded by the munificent and pious Colet." Mr. E. V. Lucas points out that the St. Paul's School to which R. W. Elliston was sent by his uncle, the Master of Sidney Sussex College,- Cambridge, was not that founded by Colet, but St. Paul's School, Covent Garden. Joseph Knight in his ' D.N.B.' life of Elliston says that the author of the epitaph was the actor's son-in-law Nicholas Torre. EDWABD BENSLY.

LINES UNDER A CRUCIFIX (12 S. iv. 297 ; v. 19).- I have fun across another English reference to, or rather translation of, the- old rood -beam inscriptions cited by PROF.. BENSLY. This is to be found in a manu- script written by Sir Thomas Percy, seventh Earl of Northumberland, 'declared Blessed by Pope Leo XIII. in 1895. His Book of Prayers* was owned by Mr. George Browne of Troutbeck, Kendal, who most generously lent it to the Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle for Ushaw College, Durham ; and the late Rev. George E. Phillips, always keenly interested in antiquities, described it at some length in The Ushaw Magazine of March, 1898, pp. 35-48. f The verses to be quoted (they bear no title) come from p. 48 of his paper. It is obvious that they are- based on the " Effigiem Christi dum transis- honora." Whether the rendering is the Earl's own work is unknown ; probably it is- not his :

Christs pictur^ humblye worshipe

thow, which by the same doste passe, yet picture worshippe not, but him

for whome it pictured was. nor god nor man this Image is, whiche

thow doste present see, yet whome this blessed Image shewes

bothe god and man is hee : ffor god is that which Image shewes,

but yet no god it is : behold this forme ; but worshippe y e thy mynd beholds in this.

There is another stanza of the same- length, beginning " O passinge worke of pietie ! " and a closing couplet.

The original manuscript of Northumber- land's Book of Prayers is still preserved at Troutbeck by the ladies of Mr. Browne's

by Sander, ' Martyrium ' : " Thomae Perci," in Bridgewater's ' Concertatio,' 1589, f. 46.
 * The authorship is certain. It is established

+ And again in ' Lives of the English Martyrs,' ed. Camm, 1905, vol. ii. pp. 183- 5, signed G. E. P.