Notes and Queries, Number 234, April 22, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 234, April 22, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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_Lady Jane Grey._--Neither Nichols in his _History of Leicestershire_, nor
his equally eminent grandson in his interesting _Chronicle of Queen Jane_,
nor, so far as I am aware, any other author, mentions the place where the
Lady Jane was buried. The general belief is, I think, that her body was
interred with that of her husband in the Tower. But a tradition has just
been communicated to me by the Rev. Andrew Bloxam, that the body was
privately brought from London by a servant of the family, and deposited in
the chapel at Bradgate. What is the fact?
THOMAS RUSSELL POTTER.
_Addison and Watts._--Can any of your numerous readers inform me whether
the hymn "When rising from the bed of death," so generally ascribed to
Addison, and taken from the chapter on death and judgment in his _Evidences
of the Christian Religion_, is his own composition, or that of the
"excellent man in holy orders;" and whether this is Dr. Isaac Watts?
S. M.
_Lord Boteloust's Statue by Richard Hayware._--The statue erected to Lord
Boteloust by the "Colony and Dominion of Virginia" was "made in London,
1773, by Richard Hayware." I should be obliged for information as to Mr.
Hayware.
T. BALCH.
Philadelphia.
_Celtic in Devon._--When was the Celtic language obsolete in the South Hams
of Devon?
G. R. L.
_Knobstick._--In these days of strikes, turn-outs, and lock-outs, we hear
so much of "knobsticks," that I should like to know why this term has come
to be applied to those who work for less than the wages recognised, or
under other conditions deemed objectionable by trades unions.
PRESTONIENSIS.
_Aristotle._--Where does Aristotle say that a judge is a living law, as the
Law itself is a dumb judge?
H. P.
_The Passion of our Lord dramatised._--Busby, in his _History of Music_,
vol. i. p. 249., says:
"It has been very generally supposed, that the manner of reciting and
singing in the theatres formed the original model of the church
service; an idea sanctioned by the fact, that the Passion of our
Saviour was dramatised by the _early_ priests."
What authority is there for this statement?
H. P.
_Ludwell: Lunsford: Kemp._--Inscription on a tombstone in the graveyard of
the old church at Williamsburgh:
"Under this marble lyeth the body of Thomas Ludwell, Esq., Secretary of
Virginia, who was born at Burton, in the county of Somerset, in the
kingdom of England, and departed this life in the year 1698: and near
this place lie the bodies of Richard Kemp, Esq., {374} his predecessor
in the secretary's office, and Sir Thomas Lunsford, Knt., in memory of
whom this marble is here placed by Philip Ludwell, Esq., son of the
said Thomas Ludwell, Esq., in the year 1727."
Information is respectfully asked as to the persons and families mentioned
in the foregoing inscription. Sir Thomas Lunsford is said to have come from
Surrey, and to have served during the civil wars.
THOMAS BALCH.
Philadelphia.
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