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oc :urs as " guledhiz, the corn-feast." N< d( abt in Borlase's time the dh was sounde< as th, as it was, in some cases, in Celtic Cornish an i although in many instances the word i Jt in modern books as gooldize or guledize th ! th sound is still preserved in the goolthis pe \sonal knowledge of the Cornish dialect a spoken in the Land's End district some thirt} or forty years ago. W. No YE.
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72, Doddington Grove, S.E.

JOHNSON'S HOUSE AT FROGNAL (9 th S. iii J22H, 334). Alas for one's faith in even well grounded reports ! It now transpires thai I those who rejoiced in the prospect of pre jseivation for Priory Lodge are doomed to [disappointment. " Scheduled for flats " is 3iice more the dismal outlook. Is it too late o save the old cottage 1 ? Here is a fine chance for the National Trust for Places of Historic [Interest to step in and secure the house by [purchase. Or, failing the timely intervention,

!ght not some syndicate of enthusiasts balk 5 speculative builder who plays such sac 1 voc with the old-world treasures of Hamp- ad 1 As an immediate example, witness w, hard by the spot now threatened. CECIL CLARKE. Authors' Club, S.W. IEBREWS ix. 27 (9 th S. iii. 287). In Bagster's iglish Hexapla' we find the superfluous all" before "men" in Cranmer's version lone of all the six. The date of this version s 1539, and that of the Geneva Version, next order, where "all" is omitted, is 1557. erhaps these dates may be a clue to ascer- ining the dates of insertion and omission in e Prayer Book.
 * raid upon glorious and unique Church

C. LAWRENCE FORD, B.A. Bath.

The word "all" before "men" seems to aye been introduced into the Great Bible ; either Tyndale nor the Genevan Version has The first Prayer Book in which it appears have been omitted is that commonly called rchbishop Laud's, published in 1637. "All" implied in the original, rots being, as Alford marks, generic ; but it is also sufficiently iplied in English without the definite article, hich, therefore, the Revisers have not trans- ted. W. T. LYNN. lackhcath.

NEWTON (9 th S. iii. 209). The William 5\vton mentioned by J. R. N. was Sir Isaac's st cousin, and married Sarah Staiiiforth, a nker's daughter. MATILDA POLLARD. Belle Vue, Bengeo.

EPITAPHS (9 th S. ii. 306, 536 iii. 53, 191). For verses of the Chinese puzzle order it would be hard to beat the lines inscribed on the brass to the memory of Thomas Mathew, of Norwich, 1630, in St. Peter Mancroft's Church in tbat city : Whose dust lieth here my own remain Though now is parted yet once shall meet again.

How this parses it is difficult to say. I suppose it means, "Though my own remains are now parted from him whose dust lieth here, yet the remains of both of us shall one day meet again." In any case the ideas seem confused.

This epitaph is given in full in Blomefield's 1881, and found one-half of the brass in situ on the floor of the north aisle, and the other half in a chest in the vestry. The church was then undergoing renovation. I should greatly like to know whether the loose por- tion has been replaced.
 * History of Norfolk.' I visited the church in

JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

Town Hall, Cardiff.

The following is on a stone in the church- yard, Chard, Somerset, to William Hitchcock, 1793 :

The world is full of crooked streets, Death is the market-place where all men meet ; If life was merchandise, as men could buy, The rich would always live none but the poor would die.*

On another stone to a man who was slandered during his life:

Button Bonifas, 1849. They have said. Let them say ! What say they ?

A. J. P. SKINNER.

Colyton.

I am much obliged to PROF. SKEAT for his eference to the ' Two Noble Kinsmen.' I was sure I had seen the lines somewhere, but I ould not place them.

The epitaph " composed by a gentleman for limself " is partly borrowed from Pope. The )riginal lines

How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not,

To whom related, or by whom begot ;

A heap of dust alone remains of thee,

'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be !

rom the ' Elegy to the Memory of an Unfor- unate Lady,' occur as an epitaph in Epworth Churchyard, "valu'd" being, however, sub- tituted for "honour'd." The " unlettered Muse " is usually wordy, ut we have at Epworth several epitaphs

[* This epitaph, probably by Quarles, is not ncommon.]