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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[2* S. N 11., MAK. 15. '56.

but beneath the window, is thus inscribed in capital letters :

" ' Seale not to soone lest thou repent to late, Yet helpe thy frend, but hinder not thy state. If ought thou lende or borrow, truly pay ; Ne give, ne take advantage, though thou may. Let conscience be thy guide, so helpe thy frend, With loving peace and concord make thy end.

1601.'

" The front panel has on it a crest, a griffin's head erased, on a wreath, and beneath it is

" ' IIENRICVS CVTLER STABILEM DEIHT HANCCE TRAPKZAM,

STAT, TVMVLVS CVIVS PATKIS IN CANCKLIE SACRA. 1601.' "

[Note on the word dole tible.~\ " Dole tables were fre- quently appointed places at which debts were paid, as appears by old wills ; and also for the payment of tithes and church dues to the incumbent, which accounts for their being erected in the porches of churches." Ibid., vol. ii. p. 129.

Inscriptions on Bells, Eye Church.

1. & 2. " Miles Gray made me. 1640."

3. " Kogo . Magdalena . Maria.

Dona. Kepende. Dia."

4. " Ex dono Gulielmi Brampton, Generosi, Anno Domini 1721."

5. " Oppidi Prsefecto. J. Stephens made us, 3, the numeral, between 2 fleur de lys, 1721. Thomas Rust." [sic.]

6. " Pack and Chapman of London, fecerunt. Simon Cook, Churchwarden, 1779."

7. " O God, continue thy mercies to the King. Dan 1 Sewel, Sam 1 Gowing, Ch.wardens. Osborne, Fecit, 1789."

8. " Let us rejoice, our King's restor'd. Sam 1 Gowing, Dan 1 Sewel, Ch.wardens. Osborne, Fecit, 1789."

Having two bells cast at the same time, the loyal churchwardens were able to give each other precedence in turn.

Cutting Teeth in Old Age.

" Dying in 1069, she [the widow of Sir John Croftes] bequeathed it [the Hall] to the Hon. Edward Progers, of London. ' The gay Progers,' who, according to Le Neve, died on 'the 31 st of December, or 1 st of January, 1713, aged ninety-six, of the anguish of cutting teeth ; he having cut four new teeth, and had several ready to cut, which so inflamed his gums, that he died thereof.' " Ibid., vol. ii. p. 149., art. WEST STOW HALT,.

W. SPAKKOW SIMPSON.

THE OLDEST DUTCH NEWSPAPER.

The oldest of the Dutch journals has just com- pleted its 200th anniversary, and the publisher has issued to his subscribers copies of the first number of that journal as it appeared on Jan. 8, 1656. The earlier copies of this paper were care- fully consulted by Mr. Macaulay, in preparing his History. The Haarlem Courant of this time was then called De Weeckelycke Couran'e van Europa. The first number contains two pages small folio of news. It declares its mission to be

to supply the public with a digest of the most important news, conveyed to the publisher by private or by special communications. The fol- lowing paragraph bears date, London, Dec. 31, 1655 :

" On the fifteenth of this month was taken prisoner Colonel Day, who, last Monday fortnight, ascended the pul- pit in the church of Alhallows, and preached very severely against the present government. Coming into the pulpit, he, in place of taking a text from Scripture, pulled from his pocket a paper which he read, saying that he had received it from Wales ; and then gave an explanation thereof, tending to make the present government con- temptible (Jeelyck}, calling it a company of thieves and robbers. After this, came in the pulpit a" Mr. John Simp- son, who, it is true, took a text from Scripture ; but alto- gether lost sight of it in his .sermon, and preached against the government, as the preceding. Him they have also tried to arrest, but he remains in a hiding place."

C. H. GUN*.

the

The first Russian Newspaper. From Stockholm Aftonblad of Nov. 15, 1855 :

" The first Russian newspaper was published in 1703. Peter the Great not only took part personally in its edi- torial composition, but in correcting proofs, as appears from sheets still in existence, in which are marks and alterations in his own hand. There are two complete copies of the first year's edition of this newspaper in the imperial library of St. Petersburgh. They are the only two which have been preserved ; and on occasion of the centennial celebration of the University of Moscow on the 24th of January last, the director of the library, Baron Modest von Korff, produced a faithful reprint of the journal thus edited and corrected. It forms an octavo volume, and contains also a history of Russian newspaper literature."

W. W.

Malta.

Official Gazette of Sweden. One of the oldest newspapers in northern Europe is the official ga- zette of Sweden, the Poatoch Inrihes Tidning. It was founded in 1644, during the reign of Queen Christina, the daughter of Gustavus Adolphus the Great; and the present year is, without in- terruption, its two hundred and eleventh anni- versary. ( Washington Intelligencer.) W. W. Malta.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF MACAULAT.

Death of Charles II. (2 nd S. i. 49. 110.) The question raised by E. W., as to who was intended by the initials P. M. a. C. F., as the party who apprised the Duke of York of the serious illness of the king, has been variously answered. It has been suggested the two last letters show that he was a Carmelite friar, while F. C. H. asserts that the entire stand for Pere Mansuate, a Capuchin friar, who was confessor to the duke. Might I suggest, that it was Patrick Maginn, who was