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On a small brass plate, beneath the above, is the following :

" This Greenhill Periwigd with Snow

Was leavild in the Spring : This Hill y e Nine and Three did know

Was Sacred to his King.

But he must Downe, although so much Divine Before he Rise never to Set but Shine. PJ. Boles, M r Art, 1G89."

On another small brass plate, near the fore- going :

" This Mirrour makes me Slight a Life Halfe Dead, Because a Better comes when this is Fled. The Time and Place, where I doe Live are knowne : My Death and Grave, none knowes but God alone. My Death is Certaine and Uncertaine, Then Mortalls Beware, Death comes you know not when. I value not a Tombe. Obscure to lie With Virtue is an Immortalitie : My Life runns on Five yeares beyond Four Score, Once I must Die, and then shall Die no more.

E. L. Boles, Ano. Dm. 1689, ^Etat Meaj 85."

Mr. Boles, the " M r of Arts," as he records it, appears to liave had an extraordinary poetic fit come over him in his extreme old age : not satis- fied with recording the talents of his predecessor in the rectory, and however much he seems to have " valued not a tomb," he was nevertheless determined to leave some record behind him, as it is evident that the foregoing elegant effusion of his muse was placed there during his life : as I find no other memorial of him, he probably anti- cipated that such would be the case, unless he erected one to his own memory. I think you will allow that the orthography is not much to the credit of the Master of Arts.

The chancel of the church has just been rebuilt, and will be re-opened to-morrow ; and greatly to the credit of the present respected rector of the parish, the Rev. J. R. Young, the brasses and monuments have been restored to their proper places. J. B. WHITBORNE.

April 28.

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Heraldic Visitations in Ireland. Please to place i record in " N. & Q." the following :

" Record Tower, Dublin Castle,

May 12, 1856. " My dear Sir,

" There is in my office a ' Visitation of Wexford,' made in 1618, as well as a ' Visitation of the County of Dublin.' These are the only two Visitations existing for Ireland. " Yours ever truly,

"J. BEUNARD BUUKE (Ulster"). " Rev. J. Graves."

There can be little doubt that there were visita- tions of other counties made by the heralds at that period, the records of which have not remained in Ulster's office. Kilkenny, Meath, Louth, Kildare,

and Tipperary, would hardly be omitted, however chary the heralds might be to commit their safety to the keeping of the " wild Irish " in other dis- tricts. Query, does the British Museum, Lam- beth Library, or any private collection, contain the visitations of any of these counties ?

JAMES GRAVES. Kilkenny.

[Our correspondent will find the following MSS. in the British Museum : " Liber Regalis Visitationis in tribus provinciis Hiberniaj, viz. Lagenia, Momoina et Conatia," A 1615, Add. MS. 19,836 ; " Extracts from Narbon's Visi- tation of Ireland," Add. MS. 4789. f. 40. b.]

Proverbial Sayings. Early in the third week of April I said to a Worcestershire labourer, " I have not yet heard the cuckoo." His answer was, " No, sir ! it won't be Tenbury fair for four days to come. You never hear the cuckoo before Ten- bury fair, or after Pershore fair." Tenbury fair is on April 20, and Pershore fair is on June 26, which two dates pretty correctly mark the dura- tion of the cuckoo's note.

Here is another Worcestershire saying, apropos to the present season :

" When elm leaves are as big as a shilling, Plant kidney-beans, if to plant 'em you're willing. When elm leaves are as big as a penny, You must plant kidney -beans, if you mean to have any."

CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.

Inscriptions in Books. In a work entitled Ec- clesiastical Costume ; a brief Discourse against the outwarde Apparrell and Ministring Garmcntes of the Popish Church. Small 8vo. B. iv. 1578.

" The Pope's attyre, whereof I talcke,

I know to be but vaine ; Wherefore some men that wittie are, To read me will disdaine."

The Boohe to the Reader.

Written on a fly-leaf at the end of a copy of Aristotelis Elhicorum Explicatio accnratissimum. J. Camerarii. 4to. Francofurti. 1578 : " This boke it is one thing the halter is another, And he that stealeth the one he must be sure of the other.

" JOHN HUNTBATE."

C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY. Birmingham.

Matthew Buchinger (or Bucltinger) was rather a remarkable character, who travelled England and Scotland to exhibit his performances. In a well-engraved broadaide (by Elias Beck) he ap- pears in the centre in a richly-laced coat and cocked hat, surrounded by representations of his feats :

"Draws pictures w th a pen Playing at Dyce A writeing Makes a pen Plays on y e Hautboy Threds a Neclle Plays at Cards Cups and Balls Plays on y Dulcimore Charges a Gun Blows y Trumpet Live Birds from under y e Cups Plays at Skittles."