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NOTES:-- Page The Agapemone of the Sixteenth Century, by E. F. Rimbault, LL.D. 49 Punishment of Death by Burning, by C. Ross and Rev. A. Gatty 50 Folk Lore:--Death-bed Mystery--Easter Eggs--May Marriages--"Trash" or "Skriker" 51 Notes on Milton 53 Colvil's Whigg's Supplication 53
QUERIES:-- Hubert le Soeur's Six Brass Statues by E. F. Rimbault, LL.D. 54 Bishop Jewell's Library 54 The Low Window 55 Minor Queries:--North Sides of Churchyards--Hatfield--Ulrich von Hutten--Simon of Ghent--Boetius--Gloucestershire Gospel Tree--Churchyards--Epitaphs--Anthony Warton--Cardinal's Hat--Maps of London--Griffith of Penrhyn--Mariner's Compass--Pontefract on the Thames 55
REPLIES:-- Study of Geometry in Lancashire by T. T. Wilkinson 57 Queries Answered, No. 8., by Bolton Corney 60 Meaning of Bawn 60 Replies to Minor Queries:--Births, Marriages, &c.--M. or N.--Arabic Numerals--Comment in Apocalypsin--Robert Deverell--Hippopotamus--Ashes to Ashes--Dr. Maginn's Miscellanies--Living Dog better than a Dead Lion--Gaol Chaplains--Rome, Ancient and Modern--Trianon 60
MISCELLANIES:-- Aboriginal Chambers near Tilbury--Mistake in Conybeare and Howson's Life of St. Paul 62
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 63 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 63 Notices to Correspondents 63 Advertisements 64
Notes.
On the 12th of June, 1575, according to the historian Hollinshed,
"Stood at Paule's Crosse five persons, Englishmen, of the sect termed the Familie of Love, who there confessed themselves utterlie to detest as well the author of that sect, H. N., as all his damnable errors and heresies."
After the death of Queen Elizabeth--
"The Family of Love ," according to Fuller, "presented a tedious petition to King James, so that it is questionable whether his Majesty ever graced it with his perusall, wherein they endeavoured to cleare themselves from some misrepresentations, and by fawning expression to insinuate themselves into his Majesty's good opinion."
After printing the petition Fuller proceeds--
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
PUNISHMENT OF DEATH BY BURNING.
C. ROSS.
I presume that the sentence which the woman underwent was not executed. The barbarous fulfilment of such a law was, it may be hoped, already obsolete. The motives, however, upon which this law was grounded is worth noting:--
The law, therefore, under which a woman could be put to death by burning, was repealed in 1790.
Blackstone elsewhere says:--
"The humanity of the English nation has authorized, by a tacit consent, an almost general mitigation of such part of those judgments as savours of torture and cruelty: a sledge or hurdle being usually allowed to such traitors as are condemned to be drawn; and there being very few instances of any persons being embowelled or burned, till previously deprived of sensation by strangling."
This corroborates the conclusion of E. S. S. W., that the woman he describes was strangled at the stake to which her neck was bound.
ALFRED GATTY.
Ecclesfield.
T. S. N.
FOLK LORE.
About five minutes after the time when death, to all outward appearance, has taken place, "the last breath," as she describes, may be seen to issue with a vapour, or "steam," out of the mouth of the departed.
J. SANSOM.
This custom is mentioned by Brande as existing among the modern Greeks; but I believe it will be found more or less in almost all parts of Christendom.
I observed when in Syria during Easter quantities of eggs similarly dyed; but it did not occur to me at the time to inquire whether the practice was connected with the season, and whether it was not confined to the native Christians.
Information upon this point, and also upon the general origin of this ancient custom, would be interesting.
A SUBSCRIBER.
Carlisle, June 3. 1850.
"The girls are all stark naught that wed in May."
S. W. SINGER.
Mickleham, June 12.
T. T. W.
Burnley.
NOTES ON MILTON.
On l. 6. :--
and afterwards,--
"Leave that accursed cell; There let black Night and Melancholy dwell."
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On l. 67. See note already inserted in "NOTES AND QUERIES," p. 316.
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"Such sights as youthful poets dream."
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and in Spanish Tragedy:--
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