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 8*8. VII. APRIL 27, 1901.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Shakespeare "comes in" here, their places I of its then recent restoration. My copy has being occupied by^ Phsedrus and Bulwer- not yet been printed, but is very interesting.

will be remembered that the church

Lytton, as we used to call him, for whose versatile genius I have always had a great admiration. JOHN T. CURRY.

GNOMON will find that the source of his. first quotation, " The speech of peace that I bei PS bears such grace," is the second utterance of Westmoreland in '2 Henry IV,' IV. i.

W. H. HELM.

was

It will be remembered escaped the Great Fire of 1666.

W. I. R. V.

The mention of these old City churches _ ruthlessly swept away in the march improvement induces me to ask whether the churchyard mentioned in 'Martin Chuzzle- wit,' where Anthony Chuzzlewit is said to be ., buried, has been identified. Dickens has given

Sh S ^L 10 ^ er ^ y & E?^ I a graphk description of the expensive funeral

provided for the father by his son, who imagines himself to have been his father's murderer. The horses in the hearse, with their nodding plumes, the undertaker, Mr.

, ! i, c, i Mould, and his assistant, Tacker, are all

This bears some resemblance to what Spenser described. The place of business of Chuzzle- has written. Spenser s lady bears a bottle wifc & Son Manchester warehousemen, is said before her and a wallet behind her. In the to have been near the General Post Office, bottle she puts the tears of her contrition ; and it was their dwelling also before people m the wallet she puts repentance for things quitted London. Nearly every place described past and gone ('Faerie Queene book vi by Dickens has been either identified or canto vin. stanzas 23, 24). The thought of | attempted to be identified, and no doubt this

to the "wallet at the back, but remembering Spenser, not ^Esop : Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion.

' Troilus and Cressida,' III. iii.

Spenser is different from that of ^Esop ; but he may have had in his mind ^Esop's fable, which can be found in Phsedrus and in Babrius. It has been told also by La Fontaine. E. YARDLEY.

LONDON CHURCHES (9 th S. vii. 169, 278). MRS. COPE may be referred to Payne Fisher's

has been run to earth.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

" As RIGHT AS A TRIVET " (9 th S. vii. 227). Is not this proverbial phrase evidently in allusion, not to the necessity of a good trivet being right-angled, but to the firmness and

'Catalogue of the Tombs m the Churches of security with which a three-legged or three- the City of London, 1666, privately reprinted footed i mp i eraent o f any kind stands upon m 1887; 'London City Churches Destroyed an uneven 8Urface ? Hence to be correct, .880 or now Threatened, by William | re li a ble, or quite right in any matter. "As

to the letter, Mr. Kokesmith," said Mr. Boffin, "you 're as right as a trivet " (Dickens, ' Our Mutual Friend '). Two other phrases strike one as very similar, " As right as rain " and "As right as ninepence." These, however, while they mean "quite right," imply a sense of comfort rather than of security.

J. H. MACMlCHAEL.

I have always supposed that this phrase had reference to the fact that a trivet or three-legged stool will stand steadily on an . uneven floor, and so is always right wherever In 1882 I copied the whole of the inscrip- tions then extant on the monuments and brasses within the church, and on the grave- stones in the churchyard, of St. Andrew Undershaft, in the City of London amount-

since

Niven, F.S.A.(1887) ; Mill Stephenson's 'Notes on the Monumental Brasses of Middlesex (St. Paul's Ecclesiol. Soc.), iv. 221-33 ; An- drew Oliver's ' Brasses in London Museums (Arch. Journ., xlviii. 286-9) ; Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society and St. Paul's Ecclesiological generally ; T. L. Smartt, * His- tory of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate' (1824); John Diprose, ' Some Account of the Parish of St. Clement Danes, Past and Present' (1868). T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A. Lancaster.

it is put down. Winterton, Doncaster.

J. T. F.

HEALING STONE (9 th S. vi. 370, 477 ; vii.

ing in the aggregate to seventy-nine. This was done with some difficulty, on a ladder, in the case of several of the mural tablets which are fixed at a considerable height from the floor. Of the thirty-one inscriptions in the

12, 135). In various parts of the world mys- terious properties are credited to stones, menhirs, and rocks bearing cup-marks and concentric rings. It has been suggested by me in a former article that the cup-marks may be a very early form of inscription, and

churchyard, some are on stones which were that the concentric rings, resembling the removed thither from the church at the time Hindu Sivite marks, may be the remains of