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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[2"<i S. NO 12., MAR. 22. '56.

1828), it is observed, with reference to a former one, Dr. Elliotson's second edition, 1817, that " it is a curiosity in typography, being the first book printed by steam. The printers were Bensley & Son." Perhaps thip statement may be thought worthy to record. WILLIAM BATES.

Birmingham.

Epitaph-, I know not whether the following epitaph, which I lately observed for the first time in my own little churchyard, is original or not ; but it seems to me to be far superior to the ordi- nary samples, and worthy of preservation :

" Rest, liberated brother,

From this world's fetters free, Thou fiudest in the other Ease, joy, and liberty.

" What though thou wast afflicted,

Thy faithfulness to prove ? Those, whom the Lord corrected, The Lord did ever love."

C. W. BlNGHAM.

Sun-dial Mottoes. On the sun dial in Leaden- hall Street, on the south side of St. Katherine Cree Church :

" Non sine lumine."

FUIT.

On the sun-dial in front of the Roman Catholic Church at Langen Schwalbach :

" Dies mei sicut umbra declinaverunt."

The building is of the date of the middle of the sixteenth century. F. R. D.

Add the two following to your dial inscrip- tions :

and,

" Mane piger Stertis fugit Hora."

" Pulvis et Umbra sumus." The latter is from the dial in Leyland churchyard, Lancashire, the date 1744. ANON.

Battle of Varna :

" The Pope, out of his luciferian pride, by the power, or rather poyson of that Antichristian cut-throat position, of keeping no oath, nor faith, with Infidels and Heretickes, unhappily undertook to absolve Uladislaus the King, and the rest whom it did concerne, from that solemne oath for confirmation of a concluded peace, taken of him upon the Holy Evangelists ; and of Amurath, by his Embas- sadours, upon their Turkish Alcoran. Whereupon they resolutely breake the league, raise a great army presently, and against their oath and promise set upon the Turke with perjury and perfidiousnesse, accompanyed with God's curse, exposed the Christian party to a most hor- rible overthrow in that bloudy battell of" Varna, and cast upon the profession of Christ such an aspersion and shame that not all the bloud of that rope of Popes, which con- stitute Antichrist, could ever be able to expiate.

" Look upon the story, and consider what a reproach and inexpiable staine doth rest upon the face of Christian religion by this wicked stratageme of Popish treachery, and that even upon record to all posterity ; for Amurath, the

Turkish Emperour, in the heat of the fight, pluckt the writing out of his bosome, wherein the late league was compris'd, and holding it up in his hand, with his eyes cast up to Heaven, said thus : Behold, thou crucified Christ, this is the league thy Christians in thy name made with mee, which they have without cause violated. Now if Thou be a God as they say Thou art, and as we dreame, revenge the wrong now done unto thy name and me, and shew thy power upon thy perjurious people, who in their deeds deny Thee their God." Bolton's Instructions for a right conforming Afflicted Consciences.

" This bloudy battell was fought neer unto Varna (in antient time called Dionisiopolis, a place fatall unto many great warriours, and therefore of them even yet abhorred), the tentli day of November, in the yeare of our Lord Christ 1444." Knolles's General History of the Turks.

See also Callimachus de Rebus a Uladislao Gestis in Rerum Hungaricarum Scriptores, lib. iii.

BlBLIOTHECAE. CHETHAM.

Wearing of Copes exploded by Bishop Warbur- ton.

" We are tempted to preserve a trait which, as belong- ing to an extraordinary man, we think should not be lost. A friend of ours, many years ago, on being shown, among the curiosities of Durham cathedral, the splendid vestments formerly worn by the prebendaries, asked how they had come to be disused ; when the verger said, ' It happened in my time. Did you ever hear of one Dr. Warburton, sir ? A very hot man he was, sir ; we never ' could please him in putting on his robe. This stiff high collar used to ruffle his great full-bottomed wig; till, one day, he threw the robe off in a great passion, and said he would never wear it again ; and he never did, and the other gentlemen soon left theirs off too.' " Note on an article on " Pope's Works and Character," Quarterly Re- view, October, 1825, vol. xxxii. p. 273.

These copes were probably worn only on the greater festivals ; as in Oxford the Heads of Houses, on such days, appear at St. Mary's in their dress gowns ; or as, before the refitting of the nave of that church, some thirty years ago, the dingy quondam-scarlet velvet frontal of the pulpit gave place to one flowered with green leaves and blossoms on a sort of pale ground. Y. B. N. J.

MINSTER LOVEL.

I find the following strange tale relating to Minster Lovel, the old seat of the Viscounts Lovel, in Oxfordshire, in the Monthly Magazine for April, 1812, p. 220. :

" Francis, the last lord of this family, and Chamberlain to King Richard the Third, was one of the noblemen who raised an army in the beginning of the reign of Henry the Seventh, under the command of the Earl of Lincoln, to support the pretensions of the impostor Lambert Simnel against that monarch. The decisive battle which gave security to Henry's usurpation, was fought near the village of Stoke, on the banks of the river Trent, in Not- tinghamshire. The slaughter of the insurgent army was immense, especially among the officers, an uncommon proportion of whom were slain. The Lord Lovel, how-