Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
I observe that amongst the many "Notes" and quotations on the subject of
the supposed power of prophecy before death, no one has cited those most
beautiful lines of Campbell in "Lochiel's Warning:"
"'Tis the _sunset_ of life gives me mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before."
W. J. BERNHARD SMITH.
Temple.
_Hugh Peachell--Sir John Marsham._--Can any of your correspondents give me
information respecting one Hugh Peachell, of whom I find the following
curious notice in a bundle of MSS. in the State Paper Office, marked
"_America and West Indies, No._ 481A."
"St. Michael's Toune in ye Barbados, Sept. 30. [1670]. Jo Neuington,
Addrese w. Mr. James Drawater, Merch^t at Mr. Jo. Lindapp's, at ye
Bunch of Grapes in Ship yard by Temple barre.--All ye news I can write
from here is, y^t one Hugh Peachell, who hath been in this Island
allmost twenty years and lived w^{th} many persons of good esteem, and
was last with Coll. Barwick. It was observed that he gained much
monyes, yet none thrived lesse than hee; and falling sicke about 3
weeks since, was much troubled in his conscience, but would not utter
himself to any but a minister, who being sent for He did acknowledge
himself ye person y^t cut of ye head of King Charles, for w^{ch} he had
100^{lbs} and w^{th} much seeming penitence and receiving such comforts
as the Devine, one parson Leshely, an emminent man here, could afford
him, he dyed in a quarter of an hour afterwards. This you may report
for truth, allthough you should not have it from any other hand. He had
100^{lbs} for ye doing of itt. There is one Wm. Hewit condemned for ye
same, I think now in Newgate; he will be glad you acquaint him of this
if he have it not allready."
Oldmixon, in his _British Empire in America_, mentions a Sir John Marsham
of Barbados; was he a knight or baronet, and when did he die?
W. DOWNING BRUCE, F.S.A.
Middle Temple.
_Legend represented in Frettenham Church._--Perhaps some one of your
numerous readers may {408} be able to give an explanation of the following
legend, for such I suppose it to be:--
In the parish church of Frettenham, co. Norfolk, several alabaster carvings
were discovered some years ago, near the chancel arch, having traces of
colour. The most perfect, and the one which had most claims to merit as a
piece of sculpture, represented a very curious scene. A horse was standing
fixed in a kind of stocks, a machine for holding animals fast while they
were being shod. But it (the horse) had only three legs: close by stood a
Bishop, or mitred Abbot, holding the horse's missing fore quarter, on the
hoof of which a smith was nailing a shoe. Of course the power which had so
easily removed a leg would as easily replace it.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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