Notes and Queries, Number 58, December 7, 1850 | Page 5

need surely only to be made known to insure ample funds for
rebuilding the little church, and "beautifying" it in all things as Herbert
would desire (he once did it "at his own cost"), retaining, if I may be
allowed to suggest, the decorated windows, with the font and bell,
which, from my Notes and Recollections, seem to be all that remains of
what he must have so often looked upon and cherished.
From the register I was permitted to extract this entry:
"Mr. George Herbert, Esq., Parson, of Ffoughlston and Bemerton, was
buried 3 day of March, 1632."
The locus in quo is by this still left doubtful. May I, in conclusion, add
a quotation from Isaac Walton:
"He lived and died like a saint, unspotted from the world, full of alms
deeds, full of humility, and all the examples of a virtuous life. 'I wish
(if God shall be so pleased) that I may be so happy as to die like him.'"
H. T. ELLACOMBE.
Clyst St. George, Nov. 25. 1850.
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MINOR NOTES.
Lord Mayor's Show in 1701.--Among the varieties which at different
times have graced the procession of the City on Lord Mayor's day, be
pleased to take the following from the Post-boy, Oct. 30. to Nov. 1.
1701:
"The Maiden Queen who rid on the Lord Mayor's day in the pageant, in
imitation of the Patroness of the Mercer's Company, had a fine suit of
cloaths given her, valued at ninety guineas, a present of fifty guineas,

four guineas for a smock, and a guinea for a pair of gloves."
Y. S.
Sir Thomas Phillipps's Manuscripts.--Many inquiries are made in your
useful publication after books and authors, which may easily be
answered by the querist referring to the Catalogue of Sir Thomas
Phillipps's Manuscripts in the British Museum, the Society of
Antiquaries, the Athenæum, or the Bodleian Library.
T.
Translation from Owen, &c.--I do not remember seeing in a subsequent
number of "NOTES AND QUERIES" any version of Owen's epigram,
quoted by DR. MAITLAND in No. 17. I had hoped RUFUS would
have tried his hand upon it; but as he has not, I send you a translation
by an old friend of the Doctor's, which has at least the merit of being a
close one, and catching, perhaps, not a little of the spirit of the original.
"Owen de Libro suo.
"Oxoniæ salsus (juvenis tum) more vetusto Wintoniæque (puer tum)
piperatus eram. Si quid inest nostro piperisve salisve libello, Oxoniense
sal est, Wintoniense piper."
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"Owen on his Book.
"When fresh at Oxon I a salting got; At Winton I'd been pepper'd
piping hot; If aught herein you find that's sharp and nice, 'Tis Oxon's
seasoning, and Winton's spice."
I subjoin also an epitaph[1] from the chapel of Our Ladye in Gloucester
Cathedral, translated by the same hand.
"Elizabetha loquitur.
"Conjugis effigiem sculpsisti in marmore conjux Sic me immortalem te

statuisse putas; Sed Christus fuerat viventi spesque fidesque Sic me
mortalem non sinit esse Deus."
"Say, didst thou think within this sculptured stone Thy faithful partner
should immortal be? Fix'd was her faith and hope on Christ alone, And
thus God gave her immortality."
F. T. J. B.
Deanery of Gloucester.
Epigram on the late Bull.--Pray preserve the following admirable
epigram, written, it is said, by one of the most accomplished scholars of
the university of Oxford:--
"Cum Sapiente Pius nostras juravit in aras: Impius heu Sapiens,
desipiensque Pius."
Thus translated:
"The wise man and the Pius have laid us under bann; Oh Pious man
unwise! oh impious Wise-man!"
S. M. H.
Bailie Nicol Jarvie (Vol. ii., p. 421.).--When we spoke recently of
Charles Mackay, the inimitable Bailie Nicol Jarvie of one of the
Terryfications (though not by Terry) of Scott's Rob Roy having made a
formal affidavit that he was a real "Edinburgh Gutter Bluid," we
suspect some of our readers themselves suspected a joke. The affidavit
itself has, however, been printed in the Athenæum, accompanied by an
amusing commentary, in which the document is justly pronounced "a
very curious one." Here it is:
"At Edinburgh, the Fourteenth day of November, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty years.
"In presence of John Stoddart, Esq., one of Her Majesty's Justices of
the Peace for the City of Edinburgh, appeared Charles Mackay, lately

Theatre Royal, residing at number eleven Drummond Street, Edinburgh;
who being solemnly sworn and examined depones, that he is a native of
Edinburgh, having been born in one of the houses on the north side of
the High Street of said city, in the month of October one thousand
seven hundred and eighty-seven. That the deponent left Edinburgh for
Glasgow when only about nine years of age, where he sojourned for
five years; thence he became a wanderer in many lands,