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His Leighlin diocesan will was made 1701 and proved 1706, in which he mentions his wife Julian Dunn or Dunne and his son William and daughter Elizabeth. These seem to have been his only children ; and the son married in 1705 Catherine Crathorn, possibly daughter of either Ralph or a Geffrey Crathorn, of Baltinglass, and the daughter married in 1704 William Harbourn. William Pagett, the son, had issue John Pagett, "only son and heir," who was living in 1754, and still owner of some property in the town of Carlow, which he then leased to John and James Hamilton.

WILLIAM JACKSON PIGOTT. Dundrum, co. Down.

LATIN LINES : AUTHOR WANTED. Can any reader of * N. & Q.' throw light on the source of the following lines from some mediaeval poet ? Vita animas Deus est, haec corporis : hac fugiente

Solvitur hoc, perit hsec destituente Deo.

They are quoted by John of Salisbury (' Poli- craticus,' III. i.) from " quidam modernorum.'

C. C. J. W.

" YOUR FRIENDS WILL BURY YOU." Can any one tell me who is the author of a poem wind- ing up with

Your friends will bury you ; That 's all that they will do ?

T.

ARMS WANTED. Can any one give me the arms of Lucy Cannon ; daughter of Simon Cannon and mother of Bishop Fuller 1

Stubbs. Also those of Ellen Stubbs, who married Tobias Parnell (temp. Charles I.), ancestor of the Lords Congleton.

Woodcock. Also of Mary Woodcock, who married Edward Hoare, of Dunkettle, co. Cork, temp. Charles I.

Stanyhurst I greatly want the arms of this family. James Stanyhurst (or Stani- hurst), born 1522, died 1573, was a Master of Chancery and Recorder of Dublin, and three times Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.

KATHLEEN WARD. Castle Ward, Downpatrick.

THE WIDOW OF MALABAR. In a story which I have recently read allusion was made to the " tears of the widow of Malabar." I under- stand that there was a kind of wine so called which was said to have the quality of bring- ing good fortune to the one who drank it. Can you explain to me the origin of the expression ? ADA WRIGHT.

Central Library, Syracuse, N.Y.

[We are familiar with the phrase "Veuve de Malabar," but researches in authorities, French and

English, fail to trace it. In the later editions of Brewer's ' Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ' we are referred under ' Malabar ' to ' Veuve.' On turning to that word, however, nothing is to be found. Instances of this kind are too common in works of reference.]

SABBATH DAY. Is there any evidence of a Sabbath day having -been observed by any nation before the time of Moses ? H.

[Will you first tell us what was the time of Moses ? It seems unlikely that any form of pagan festival corresponded to a Hebrew festival.]

THURLOW AND THE DUKE OF GRAFTON. I shall esteem it a favour to be informed of the year in which the famous speech of Lord Thurlow in the House of Lords was made in reply to the most insulting remarks by the Duke of Graf ton, having reference to Lord Thurlow's plebeian extraction.

A. BURTON.

[It would appear to be about the close of 1778, the year he was raised to the peerage. See ' D.N.B.']

WAKERELL BELL. In the year 1602 the churchwardens of Ickham, in Kent, presented at a visitation of the Archdeacon of Canter- bury

" that our church wanteth reparations ; that we want one bell and a wackerell, which were sold away by Christopher Wessenden and Richard Denn, being late churchwardens there. On the 12 October the then churchwardens appeared in the Arch- deacon's Court, and alleged that their church is repaired, and a bell is hung in the church accord- ingly, but as yet they have no wackerell."

On the following 15 February (1603) they again appeared in court and alleged "that they have three bells hung up in their parish church of Ickham, but they have no wackerell, because the parishioners have not satisfied them the full sum of &51. 10*. which they agreed to pay them."

F.

In the

neighbourhood of Canterbury the Sanctus bell was popularly known as the Wakerell or Wagerell bell in inventories of 1552."

The ' Dictionary of Kentish Dialect,' how- ever, gives the explanation : " The waking bell, or bell for calling people in the early morning, still rung at Sandwich at 5 A.M." The vicar of St. Mary's, Sandwich, informs me this bell is rung at the present time, but he never remembers hearing it called the Wakerell, the usual name being the early morning bell.

If the Wakerell was the Sanctus bell, is not 1602 a late date for requiring the use of such a bell 1 ARTHUR HUSSEY.

[See 5 th IS. v. 267.]

OBELISK AT ST. PETER'S. Many readers of N. & Q.' will recall reading an inscription

In * Church - Lore Gleanings,' by T. Thiselton Dyer (1892), it is said- " T "