Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Dionisius Carthusian vpon the New Testament, in two volumes.
Origen vpon St. Paules Epistle to the Romanes.
Origen against Celsus.
Lira vpon Pentathucke of Moses.
Lira vpon the Kings, &c.
Theophilact vpon the New Testam^t.
Beda vpon Luke and other P^{ts} of the Testam^t.
Opuscula Augustini, thome x.
Augustini Questiones in Nou[=u] Testament[=u].
The Paraphrase of Erasmus.
The Defence of the Apologye.
Prierius Postill vpon the Dominicall Gospells."
From Ecclesfield Church accounts.
J. EASTWOOD.
In Malvern Abbey Church is a copy of Dean Comber's _Companion to the
Temple_, chained to a desk, and bearing a written inscription to the effect
that it should never be removed out of the church; but should remain
chained to its desk for ever, for the use of any parishioner who might
choose to come in and read it there.
N. B. I have mislaid my copy of this inscription: and should feel greatly
obliged to any of your correspondents who may be residing in or near Great
Malvern, for a transcript of it. As it may be thought somewhat long for
your pages, perhaps some correspondent would kindly copy it out for me, and
inclose it to Rev. H. T. GRIFFITH, Hull.
University Club.
* * * * *
EPITAPHS.
(Vol. vii. _passim._)
A goodly collection of singular epitaphs has appeared in "N. & Q."; but I
believe it yet lacks {274} a specimen of the following tomfoolery--an
initial epitaph. Green, in his _History of Worcester_, gives the following
inscription from a monument under the north-west window of St. Andrew's
Church in that city:
"Short of Weight.
H L T B O
R W
I H O A J R
A D 1780 A 63."
Green adds the following explanation of this riddle:
"In _full measure_ it would have stood thus: 'Here Lieth The Body Of
Richard Weston, In Hopes Of A Joyful Resurrection. Anno Domini 1780.
Aged 63.'"
Richard Weston was a baker, and the "Short of weight" gives the clue to the
nature of his dealings, and also to the right reading of the epitaph.
The following is from Ombersley Churchyard, Worcestershire:
"Sharp was her wit,
Mild was her nature;
A tender wife,
A good humoured creature."
From the churchyard of St. John, Worcester:
"Honest John's
Dead and gone."
From the churchyard of Cofton Hackett, Worcestershire, are the two
following:
"Here lieth the body of John Galey, sen., in expectation of the Last
Day. What sort of man he was that day will discover. He was clerk of
this parish fifty-five years. He died in 1756, aged 75."
The next is also to a Galey. Your correspondent PICTOR (Vol. viii., p. 98.)
gives the same epitaph, slightly altered, as being at Wingfield, Suffolk:
"Pope boldly asserts (some think the maxim odd),
An honest man's the noblest work of GOD.
If this assertion is from error clear,
One of the noblest works of GOD lies here."
From Alvechurch, Worcestershire; to a man and wife:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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