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"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.

"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.

"At Edinburgh, the Fourteenth day of November, One thousand eight hundred and fifty years.

"CHAS. MACKAY, B. N. Jarvie. "JOHN STODDART, J. P. "JOHN MIDDLETON, M.D.E., Witness. "WALTER HENDERSON, Witness."

G. M.

Guernsey.

"The Baptized Turk; or, A Narrative of the happy conversion of Signior Rigep Dandulo, the onely son of a silk merchant in the isle of Tsio, from the delusions of that great Impostor Mahomet, unto the Christian Religion; and of his admission unto Baptism, by Mr. Gunning at Excester-house Chappel, the 8th of November, 1657. Drawn up by Tho. Warmstry, D.D., Lond. 1658."

There appears to have been "a picture of the said Dandulo in a Turkish habit put before it;" but this has been abstracted from the only copy I have seen.

This conversion appears to have been effected by the instrumentality of a dream; and the Narrative contains an interesting essay of some length on the subject of visions, and gives an interpretation of the dream in question.

J. SANSOM.

Queries.

GRAY.--DRYDEN.--PLAYING CARDS.

"Now the reformer of the court and stage, The common beadle of this wilful age, Has with impartial hand whipp'd sovereign sin, In me it is but manners to begin."

All the contemporary evidence, with which I am acquainted, tends to establish that Lord Mulgrave, instead of being the author of a satire which Dryden improved and polished, had nothing in the world to do with it. Is there any evidence, not contemporary, which shows the contrary? Surely this, and the two other matters to which I have above adverted, are interesting literary Queries.

Now to a subject that I care less about, and upon which I am entitled, from his published works, to appeal to your correspondent, MR. S. W. SINGER. It is a mere trifle, but upon a curious point--the history of playing cards, which may, however, attract more attention than topics that relate only to such insignificant men as Thomas Gray and John Dryden.

I have before me only four, out of what I presume originally consisted of fifty-two playing cards, unlike any I have hitherto heard of. Each of them illustrates a proverb, which is engraved at the bottom of a pictorial representation of figures and objects, and the cards consist of the ten of diamonds, the ace of hearts, the seven of hearts, and the eight of spades: the number is in Roman figures at the left-hand corner, and the subject, a diamond, heart, and spade, at the right-hand corner. I will briefly describe them separately.

The proverb illustrated by the ten of diamonds is "Hee's in an ill case y^t can finde no hole to creepe out at;" and the engraving represents two men, with grey heads and in black gowns, in the pillory, surrounded by soldiers armed with halberds, partisans, spears, &c., of various shapes, and by a crowd of men in dresses of the seventeenth century. The ace of hearts illustrates the proverb "Look before you leap;" a man in a hat turned up at the sides is about to leap from a high bank into the waters, wherein two others are already swimming: in the background is a fifth man looking over the fence of a cottage. The seven of hearts has engraved at the bottom of it, "Patience on force is a medicine for a mad horse;" and it represents the female keeper of a brothel receiving whip-castigation at a cart's tail, a punishment frequently inflicted of old upon women of that description, as many authors testify: soldiers with halberds, &c., as before, march on either side of the cart, which at the moment is passing a house with the sign of the Half-moon hanging out from the wall by ornamented iron-work. The eight of spades is upon the proverb, "Two of a trade can never agree;" and in the engraving, a couple of fish-wives, who have thrown down their baskets of plaise, flounders, &c., are fighting furiously, while a man, behind, is obviously running away with something he has stolen from them: the background consists of gable-ended houses, part of a street.

THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT.

Minor Queries.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

Can any of your readers, acquainted with the neighbourhood of London, afford me information regarding this place, which was probably one of amusement and promenade much used by the Jews, many of the wealthier of whom, at that time and long afterwards, resided in Goodman's Fields?

Y. S.

I shall be obliged to any of your correspondents who can inform me where one is to be found. There is not one either in the Bodleian or the British Museum.

JAMES BLISS.

"Clarum et venerabile nomen Gentibus, et multum nostrae quod proderat urbi?"

W. L.

"Paid to two men for watching Ellen Shaw, she beinge accused for felonie 0 3 0 "Paid to a woman for whippinge y^e said Ellen Shaw 0 0 4 "Paid for beare for her after she was whipped 0 0 3."

Was it the usual custom for women sentenced to whipping to be consigned to the tender mercies of one of their own sex?

J. EASTWOOD.

Ecclesfield.

J. W. H.

Can any of your readers tell me where this invaluable MS. may be found? and also what became of the late Rev. Peter Hall's collections in manuscript?

MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.

PETER CORONA.

LAICUS.

CEPHAS.

ALPHA.

A. A.

Abridge.

Now I should be glad if any one could offer a conjecture as to the Bishop's meaning in this last sentence? I have shown it to several people, but no one has been able to think of this "peculiar term."

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

I do not possess any means of criticising this explanation of the difficulty, and having searched in various modern commentaries for a notice of it without success, I venture to submit it in your columns to the attention of others.

TYRO-ETYMOLOGICUS.

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