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 178 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2s.ix.Aua.27.i92i. DE BBUS TOMB AT HABTLEPOOL (12 S. ix. 30, 78). It may be of assistance to the inquirer to know that there is an Arch- 1 bishop de Brus buried in the Church of Notre I Dame in Paris. Facing the altar, the tomb | is on one's right hand. J. WILDINS. EPIGRAMMATISTS (12 S. viii. 371, 414). i Raphael Macentinus. The latter word is a misprint in Wright's book for Placentinus : see Grater, * Delitiae Italorum Poet arum,' ' 1608, ii., p. 247; also Bottari. The dates of this writer I have been unable to find. : Wright's errors, " Macentinus " and " Roe- grius," are both reproduced in Dodd's ' Epigrammatists ' (Bohn's Library). F. P. BABNABD. EDWABD COBBOULD (12 S. ix. 72). Edward Corbould, R.I., born 1815, died 1905. He exhibited at various exhibitions from 1835 to 1880. He was the son of Henry Corbould the artist, and grandson of Richard Corbould. E. E. LEGGATT. For an account of the family, by Henry j Ottlej', see the supplement to Bryan's j published by George Bell and Sons. LEONABD C. PBICE. Essex Lodge, Ewell. BAPTISM OF INFANT ON ITS MOTHEB'S | COFFIN (12 S. vii. 490; ix. 134). A news- 1 paper cutting in my possession, taken from ! a Sussex journal of 1864, records the funeral at Udimore of a married daughter of the village schoolmaster, simultaneously with the baptism of her newly -born infant. The funeral took place on Sunday afternoon , last after divine service. The Vicar having read j the 39th Psalm, and that magnificent portion : of Scripture, which no heathen pen ever wrote ! or could write, and which in such sublimity un- folds to us, and which is the golden key which unlocks, the mysteries of the immortality of the soul, he passed from the desk amidst a crowded congregation to admit the sleeping infant near to the coffin of its mother, into communion with the Church, " a member of Christ, a child of God, ' and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven." The little Christian then accompanied, the mourners to the grave, borne in the arms of the mother of the departed one. FB^D R. GALE. Selbv. Gerrards Cross. ABMS ON SEAL (12 S. ix. 111). The first and fourth quarters of this shield are probably the arms of Blackwell of Sprous- ton Hall, Norfolk, extinct baronets, which are : Paly of six argent and azure, on a chief gules a lion passant guardant or, all within a bordure ermine. The attitude of the lion in the second and third quarters is not stated, but they may be the arms of Johns : Azure a lion rampant or, on a chief of the last three crosses pa tee of the first. I have not been able to trace a connexion between these two families. H. J. B. CLEMENTS. HANDSHAKING (12 S. viii. 451, 495; ix. 19). In Charlotte Bronte's ' Professor,' chap, i., near the end, where William Crims- worth first meets his sister-in-law, we read : Perceiving me, she begged my pardon for not noticing me before, and then shook hands with me as ladies do when a flow of good-humour disposes them to be cheerful to all, even the most indifferent of their acquaintance. ' The Professor ' was written c. 1847. The passage seems to describe an action not un- common, yet not quite to be taken for granted. PEBEGBINUS. AUTHORS WANTED (12 S. ix. 130). 1. " By the clock of my belly 'tis the dinner hour." The earliest extant passage where this thought is expressed is in a fragment of the fc Boeotia ' of Aquilius, a play which Varro, we are told, be- lieved to be one of Plautus's. See the ' Noctes Atticae' of Aulus Gellius, iii. 3, 4. A hungry parasite curses the inventor of sundials, and says that when he was a boy one's belly was the only sundial. "Namunum me puero venter erat solarium." The text is given thus in Ribbeck's ' Comicorum Romanorum Fragmenta' (18.08), where the editor quotes what Ammianus Marcellinus says of the Persians, xxiii. 6, 77, "venter unicuique velut solarium est." The 'Boeotia' was probably an adaptation of a Greek original. There is a similar thought in Matthew Prior's ' Alma,' canto iii. 272 sqq. : " So, if unprejudic'd you scan The goings of this clock-work, man, You find a hundred movements made By fine devices in his head ; But 'tis the stomach's solid stroke That tells his being, what's o'clock. EDWARD BENSLT. 3 (d). The line is, if my memory does not play me false : " TCach seemed than each more soft, and each than other smoother." 'Britain's Ida,' by Edm. Spenser. N. POWLETT, Colonel. AUTHOR WANTED ( 12 S. ix. 92). The book con- taining the lines "At last she raised her hands appalled," &c., is ' The Infant Moralist,' by Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs. Arthur Jacob. Publishers, R, Grant and Son, Princes Street, Edinburgh. The book, which came out in 1903, has been long out of print. H. M. C.
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