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 358 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. vi. NOV. 3, i Espaftol in the ' Noticias,' both of which pro- bably proceed from the same hand. In the in- dice, " Sagrada Ataranza," &c., p. 32 should be p. 65, ana "Extracto del Breve de Inocencio XL," p. 65, should be p. 32. At the end, p. 89, is an account, which was sent to him by a friend when the relation was almost ready for the press—i.e., in 1722—of the imprisonment of a French Protestant, M. Louis Kame, for eight years, 1G79-87, by the Spanish Inquisition in Mexico and Spain, and of five English sailors, prisoners from the galeons. A. I). JONES. Oxford. THE LATE H. S. ASHBEE (9th S. vi. 121, 176).—MB. THOMAS states at the first reference that "Mr. Ashbee has left his books (in- cluding those which will never appear in the catalogue) and prints to the British Museum." Supplementing this, the following may be interesting (Daily Telegraph, 26 September) : • " Mr. Ashbee bequeathed to the Bibliographical Society of London all copies in his or thei r possession of his ' Iconography of Don Quixote," or of any book written by him for the Society, and the plates for the same, and he bequeathed to James Fitz- Maurice Kelly, of 14, Palace Gardens, I,(KM/., partly to remunerate him for the trouble of examining the testator's manuscripts, and if he considers them, or any of them, worth publishing, the executors are to pay the cost of publication. The testator be- queathed to Alexander Graham one hundred of his books, and he bequeathed the remainder of his books at Fowler's Park and at his chambers in Gray's Inn to the British Museum, to be held as the ' Ashbee Collection.' He bequeathed his paintings and water-colour drawings to the trustees, to select some London gallery (the National Gallery to be preferred, or the gallery at South Kensington i, to be held in trust for the use and enjoyment of the English nation; and he bequeathed all of his antiquities and curiosities in glass, or earthenware, or metal, or other material, from Cyprus, Egypt, Peru, or other countries, to the British Museum, to be kept in the Department for Antiquities or other suitable department, and any rejected articles are to be presented to the South Kensington Museum. He bequeathed to the British Museum, to be kept in the Print Room or other suitable department, all of the engravings in his posses- sion, framed or in portfolios." This is an example of public spirit too little followed. F. MARCHAM. THE LOCOMOTIVE AND GAS (9th S. vi. 227). —In the Daily Graphic of 25 March. 1893, there appeared an illustration of William Murdoch's house at Redruth, "The First House lighted by Coal Gas." In the letter- press which accompanied the picture the story of the clergyman's fright on beholding Murdoch's locomotive engine is alluded to. It is also recorded that he created astonish- ment and terror " by taking with him to and from the mine a lantern lit with gas supplied from a bag concealed under his coat." When applying to Boulton for a job at the Soho works, he went in " a top hat made from a block of wood by his own hands." Messrs. Tangye Brothers, of Birmingham have placed a granite tablet on Murdoch's cottage at lledruth, containing the following inscription:— "William Murdoch lived in this house 1782-1798- made the first locomotive here, and tested it in h rro'" gas-lighting and used it in this Murdock* is buried in the parish church (St. Mary's), Handsworth, near Birmingham. A tablet to his memory is on the south chancel wall, exactly opposite a memorial to Boulton. Murdock's bust, by Chantrey occupies a place immediately above the tablet! which is thus inscribed :— Sacred to the memory of William Murdock who died November the 15"1 1839 in the 8Gll> year of his age also of his son William Murdock who died June the 11th 1831 in the 44th year of his age and of his second son John Murdock who died January the 30th 1862 in the 12°* year of his age. West Haddon, Northamptonshire' THE PASSION PLAY AT OBER AMMEEOAU (9* S.vi 241).—MR EDGCUMBE'sadmirableaccount vividly recalls to mind the August of ten years a?Vvh£n T. witne8»ed several performances of the Passion Play. On one occasion the impression made on the mind by the sacred drama was accidentally emphasized by a thunderstorm which broke above our heads at the very moment when darkness falls on the scene of the Crucifixion. I remember thinking the Judas the weak spot in the piece; he alone discovered traces of melo- drama. Nevertheless, one realized, as perhans never before, the pathetic kinship of the character to ordinary humanity. One mav forget for the time the red-haired monster of mediicval legend: Dante's Judas manide,! eternally by the iaws of Lucifer; or the melancholy shape the saint espied crouchinc on an icetKjrg, if haply he might thus assua«e for one brief hour each Christmas night, in return for his one act of charity, the un- quenchable pains of hell. Of the sons of men twelve were chosen, and one of them was f traitor- A. B, BAYLEY. .
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