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White Lion

Wytch Street, near Drury 1726 Lane's ' Handy Book,' p. 170.

Lane

New Street, Covent Garden Lane's * Handy Book,' p. 188.

Langley Street. Long. . 1755 Lane's ' Handy Book,' p. 190.

Acre

White Lyon Tavern Cornhill 1760 Clockmakers' Company, p. 196.

Beer Lane, Thames Street 1736 ' Freemason's Companion,' p. 95.

J. PATH; DB CASTRO.

White Swan Wool Pack

Yorkshire Grey

SPOONERISMS IN FRENCH. (For " Spoon- erisms, " see ante, pp. 6, 35, 52, 79, 117.) Great Britain has, fortunately, no monopoly of the absurdities committed by speakers to whom "la langue a tourne." The three illustrations, here offered, are authentic, and come, singularly enough, from Swiss pulpits. In the first, the preacher meant to say, ibut prayed instead " Que Dieu vous en- graisse a tous la face." An old-fashioned pasteur, wishing his congregation to sing the eighty-fourth hymn, attempted a newer mode of diction, giving it out as " le can- tique vatre-quingt-vatre ; je vieux dire le ^antique vatre-quingt-quatre . . . .Nous chan- terons, mes freres, le cantique huitante- quatre." The most remarkable instance, however, was that of a celebrated pulp it - orator of Geneva who concluded a solemn peroration with the statement that on the judgment-day, "Dieu separera les bis d'avec les breboucs ! " PAUL T. LAFLEUR.
 * ' Que Dieu vous en fasse a tous la grace,"

Me Gill University, Montreal.

EPITAPHS MENTIONING DAY OF THE WEEK (See 12 S. vii. 447). The following are other examples of M.I. which contain a state- ment of the day of the week on which the death took place : SUNDAY.

J. Cornwallis, d. Sunday, Aug. 8, 1721, Little- ton, co. Middlesex.

A, M. Broun, b. Easter Sunday, Apr. 22, 1810 : d. Sunday, Jan. 19, 1902, Bishopsteignton, eo. Devon. J. Ellison, d. Sunday, Feb. 7, 1847, Hampton

co. Middlesex. J. Morrish, d. Sunday, Dec. 21. 1851, Frithel-

stock, co. Devon. J. E. Maddocks, d. Sunday, Apr. 24, 1853,

Battersea, co. Surrey. E. H. Leakey, d. Sunday morning, July 8, 1855,

Topsham, co, Devon. J. A. Tuckerman, d. Sunday, Oct. 26, 1884,

Blackawton, co. Devon. Rev. J. G. Wodsworth, d. Sunday, Feb. 9, 1890,

Warlingham, co. f>urrey. Two mural tablets (modern) in St. Jude's

Church, South Kensington. MONDAY.

E. Gibbons, d. Monday. Dec. 21, 1789, Bickleigh,

(near Tiverton) co. Devon. E. Barton, d. morning of Monday, May 1, 1882, Stoke Fleming, co. Devon.

TUESDAY.

J. Sabine, d- Tuesday, May 3, 1870, Hampton, co. Middlesex.

WEDNESDAY.

J. H. Morgan, d. Wednesday, Oct. 15, 1847,

Clapham (S. Paul) co. Surrey. W. M. A. Tuckerman, d. Wednesday, Apr. 16,

1884, Blackawton, co. Devon. THURSDAY.

J. Singer, d. Thursday, Dec. 17, 1807, Luppitt,

G. C Earle, 7 d. Thursday, Dec. 7, 1893. Stoke Fleming, co. Devon.

FRIDAY.

Rev. W. H, Bleaden, d, Friday. July 16. 1909,

Hayes, co. Middlesex. SATURDAY.

John Bach, d. Saturday, Oct. 20, 1750 ? Tedding-

ton, co. Middlesex. E. A. Richey, d. Saturday, Apr. 21, 1838,

Torquay (St. Saviour) co. Devon. J. Chamberlain, d. Saturday, Nov. 11, 1878, Broadclysb, co. Devon.

Still more scarce are M. I. which mention the hour of death :

MIDNIGHT.

W. and James Moorman, brothers d. at the same moment, together, at midnight Oct. 28, 1819, Swimbridge, co. Devon.

ELEVEN O'CLOCK in the morning : ? Dunchidcock co. Devon.

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GILBERT BOURNFORD, BTJRNFORD, OR BURFORD, took the degree of B.A. at Oxford from Christ Church in 1540/1, that of M.A. in 1545, and that of B.D. in 1554. He was ordained acolyte at Oxford in March, 1553 /4, and obtained the prebend of Haselbeare in the Cathedral of Wells, and the rectory of Hazlebury Pluncknet in 1555. and the rectory of Clatworthy, Somerset, in 1556. He was deprived of these three preferments Jan. 13, 1560. He was also nominated as Chancellor of the diocese of Wells, but was unable to obtain this preferment owing to the accession of Queen Elizabeth, when he withdrew to Louvain. On July 17, 1572, Aug. 23, 1572, and March, 1573, he was asking for alms from the Pope, and he was still living in great poverty at Louvain in