MONUMENTAL BRASSES.
St. Margaret, Rochester,
Feb. 11th, 1852.
SIR,--Allow me to correct a slight error in the communication of your
correspondent G. E. S. contained in your "Current Notes" for December
last, p. 92. The name of the gentleman who was mainly instrumental in
restoring the _Brass_ with the Effigy of a former Vicar of this Parish,
Thomas Codd, was the late _Mr. W. F. Harrison_, not _Hanson_, as
printed.
I am, Sir, yours obediently,
A SUBSCRIBER AND CONSTANT READER.
Mr. Willis.
CAVENDISH'S LIFE OF WOLSEY.
SIR,--In an anonymous treatise, entitled, "Who wrote Cavendish's Life of
Wolsey?" London, 1814; (usually attributed to the Rev. Joseph Hunter),
the writer considers the author to be a George Cavendish, a branch of
the Devonshire family. But in the valuable collection of my friend Mr.
W. S. Fitch, of this town, there is a well-preserved MS. copy of "The
Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey," by Th. Gainsford. This interesting
MS. is a folio volume of 166 pages. It embraces all that is contained in
Cavendish's "Life of Wolsey," with a considerable deal of extra matter.
I refer to Lowndes and find that this Gainsford was the author of a Life
of Perkin Warbeck, and other works. He printed nothing, it seems, after
1619.
I am, Sir, yours truly,
A SUBSCRIBER.
Ipswich, Feb. 6, 1852.
"ROBBED BETWEEN SUN AND SUN."
Jan. 28, 1852.
SIR,--Perhaps the query of "Y. S. N." concerning the expression of
"ROBBED BETWEEN SUN AND SUN,"
(p. 6, of your "Current Notes,") may be derived from the definition of
Burglary, in Blackstone's Commentaries, book 4, Public Wrongs, section
2. "The _Time_ must be by Night, and not by Day, for in the Day-time
there is no Burglary.... Anciently the Day was accounted to begin only
at Sun-rising, and to end immediately upon Sunset."
Therefore, if I was robbed last night, the Burglary was committed
between the _Sun_-set of yesterday, and the _Sun_-rise of to-day.
Yours,
MERVINENSIS.
Mr. Willis.
"CROMWELL BETWEEN THE PILLARS."
SIR,--I extract the following out of the copy I got from you of
"Smeeton's Reprints," which answer one of the queries put by your
correspondent in last month's "Current Notes," p. 7, concerning the
print of Cromwell.
"The following is a History of this celebrated Print:--
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