Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 122, February 28, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 122, February 28, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
I should be obliged if any correspondent can tell me whether Paxo is
mentioned by any classical author. It has a plural termination:
Οι Παξοι εις τοὺς Παξους.
L. H. J. T.
_Baskerville the Printer_ (Vol. iv., pp. 40. 123. 211.).--For several
years past I have had by me a little memorandum in the handwriting of a
friend. It states that Baskerville was once foreman to a stonemason,
during which time he had cut some lines upon the tombstone of a poor
idiot, who was buried in Edgbaston churchyard. The lines are these:
"If th' Innocent are favourites of Heaven,
And little is required where little's given,
My great Creator has for me in store
Eternal Bliss; what wise man would have more?"
A few days since (Jan. 26), being at Birmingham, I visited Edgbaston
churchyard, and on making inquiry for the above-mentioned tombstone, was
grieved to learn (from one who resembled the sexton) that nothing had
been heard of it since the year 1816. It seems that, with many other
tombstones, it had been maliciously broken and destroyed in the said
year, and that though a reward had been offered for the detection of the
criminals, they had never been discovered. Is all this true? or have I
given the epitaph correctly? If not, it is more my misfortune than my
fault, for I am as accurate on the matter as I have the power of being
at present.
RT.
Warmington.
_Story of Ginevra_ (Vol. v., p. 129.).--Your correspondent --> F. is
informed that Marwell Old Hall, formerly the residence of the Seymour,
and afterwards of the Dacre family, situate between Winchester and
Bishops Waltham, is connected by tradition with the story of Ginevra;
and the compiler of the _Post Office Directory of Hampshire_ (1848)
states, that "_the chest, said to be the identical one, is now the
property of the Rev. J. Haygarth, Rector of Upham_," a village in the
immediate locality, "_and may be seen in his entrance hall_."
H. EDWARDS.
_Gospel Oaks_ (Vol. ii., p. 407.; Vol. v., p. 157.).--BURIENSIS
complains that "the inquiry of STEPHEN has not elicited one answer, nor
one additional note of other trees designated as _Gospel Oaks_." I
conjecture that the cause of this silence is, that the oaks so called
have long since perished. In this neighbourhood there are two iron-works
situated near the boundary of the parishes of Tipton and Wednesbury,
which are called respectively _Gospel Oak_ Works and Wednesbury _Oak_
Works. The tradition respecting the name of _Gospel Oak_ is, that it was
so called in consequence of it having been the practice in ancient times
to read under a tree which grew there, a portion of the Gospels on the
annual perambulation of the bounds of the parish on Ascension Day. That
_Gospel Oak_ and Wednesbury _Oak_ marked the boundary line of the
parishes of Tipton and Wednesbury is highly probable.
FABER.
West Bromwich.
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