12 s. ix. NOV. 12, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 391
Death painted on the old wooden bridge at Lucerne, thus alluded to in Longfellow's 'Golden Legend':—
Elsie: What are those paintings on the walls around us?
Prince Henry: The Dance Macaber!
The Dance of Death!
All that go to and fro must look upon it,
Mindful of what they shall be.
The grim musician
Leads all men through the mazes of that dance
To different sounds in different measures moving;
Sometimes he plays a lute, sometimes a drum,
To tempt or terrify.
Elsie: What is this picture?
Prince Henry: It is a young man singing to a nun,
Who kneels at her devotions, but in kneeling
Turns round to look at him, and Death, meanwhile
Is putting out the candles on the altar!
Here he has stolen a jester's cap and bells,
And dances with the Queen,
And here the heart of the new-wedded wife
Coming from church with her beloved lord,
He startles with the rattle of his drum.
Under it is written
Nothing but death shall separate thee and me.
Elsie: And what is this, that follows close upon it?
Prince Henry: Death, playing on a dulcimer. Behind him,
A poor old woman, with a rosary,
Follows the sound, and seems to wish her feet
Were swift to overtake him. Underneath
The inscription reads, "Better is Death than Life.
Let us go forward, and no longer stay
In this great picture-gallery of Death!
I hate it! ay, the very thought of it!
Westwood, Clitheroe.
DEVONSHIRE HOUSE GATES (12 S. ix. 231).
What is the authentic history of Devon-
shire House Gates ? MB. J. LANDFEAB
LUCAS writes : " Mr. Gardener states that
these gates were made for Lord Heath
field's house at Turnham Green." On
Oct. 17, The Daily Telegraph, in a paragraph
headed " Devonshire House Gates," says
that
at one time they bore the Perceval arms and
belonged to a house of the 2nd Lord Egmont,
at Turnham Green, which was sold to Lord
Heathfleld. Mr. Augustus J. C. Hare tells us
that after Lord Heathfield's death in 1790 the
house fell into such neglect that it was pulled
down in 1838. The gates were then bought by
the Duke of Devonshire.
In ' Old and New London ' we read that the
gates originally w TO made for More House
(afterwards Beaufort House), Chelsea
that Sir Hans Sloane, who later owned
the property, allowed them to fall into
neglect, and that Lord Burlington begged
them of him and removed them to Chiswick
House. It is stated that Pope refers to the
gates in these lines:
Passenger : Oh Gate, how com'st thou here ?
Gate : I was brought from Chelsea last year,
Batter'd with wind and weather.
Inigo Jones put me together,
Sir Hans Sloane let me alone,
Burlington brought me hither.
' Familiar London ' (Black, 1904) has the
same story with the addition that the gates
were made by Inigo Jones for Lord Middlesex
(temp. Charles I.), who then owned More
House. Lionel Crauford, Earl of Middlesex,
is given as one of the many owners of
More House by Besant.
Surely some one must know whether the
gates arrived at Chiswick in 1740 or 1838.
W. COUBTHOPE FOBMAN.
INSCBIPTIONS AT ST. OMEB (12 S. vi.
145). The following may be added to those
already given :
1. Hospice St. Jean. On a panel on the
facade of this building, No. 11, Rue de
Wissocq, is inscribed :
HOSPICE ST. JEAN.
Fonde par Jean de Wissocq
1408.
Recoustruit par M. de Trazegnies
1778.
Agrandi
par Fadjonction de 1'ancien Couvent
de Repenties
Arrete" du 24 Nivoise An II.,
par le legs de Mr et Mtne. Huguet-Broucq
1855,
par le dotation de Sr Marie Dusautois
1869,
par 1'acquisition de deux maisons
1874.
Restaure, 1881-1882.
2. Basilique Notre-Dame. In the former
i cathedral, now the Church of Notre-Dame,
I is preserved a thirteenth-century group
I of sculpture representing our Lord, with
I attendant figures of the Blessed Virgin and
i St. John, formerly belonging to the Cathedral
[ of Therouanne. The history of these figures
i is set out in the inscription on the wall
i behind (west end of south aisle) :
I Ce groupe du 13me Siecle appele le grand Dieu
de Therouanne
faisait partie de la decoration du Portail
de la Cath^drale de la Morinie.
! II etait place" a 1'exterieur a 20 metres de hauteur.
A 1'epoque de la destruction il a ete donn6
par CHARLES QUINT a 1'eglise de St. Omer
en 1553. DELETI MOBINT.
Charles V. presented the " grand portail "
of the Cathedral of Therouanne to the
