10 s. vii. JUNE i, loo:.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
423
1573. George Frend and his fellows agreed to pay
20*. for fine of a stage play this year : not paid.
20-5. received of Richard Wells and others for a fine on them assessed for licence granted to play a stage playe within this burrowe this year.
2s. at the Blewe-bore for the dinner of Mr. Arch- deacon Walker, and for wine, at that time -when he preached against our playe this yeare.
1574. 15-s. of Robert Smythe, Edmonde Hunt, and Thomas Keler for their lycence to publish and sett forth a stage playe this yeare.
5s. to William Peter for lycence to sett forth and his gamyngs within the liberties of this rough. 13 June, to the earl of Leicester's players, 5.s.
13 July, to my lord of Sussex players, 6s. &d.
1575. To th' erle of Sussex servaunts, playing before Mr. Bailiffs and ther bretheren, 20s.
1576. Of certayne mynstrells for ly cense to them graunted to be the musicions for the towne in the fayer holden 25 March, 1576, 2*. Qd.
14 April, to certeiue players, 2s. 6d.
1578. 15 July, to th' erle of Sussex players, 10-s\ 1 Sept., to th' erle of Leicester his players, 10s.
A. CLARK.
Great Leighs Rectory, Chelmsford. (To be continued.)
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playe borou
EPITAPHS AT STRATFORD-UPON-
AVON.
(See 9 S. viii. 463.)
THIS inscription has, since it was pub- lished as above, been included (p. 176) in the volume on ' Shakespeare's Church ' by the Rev. J. H. Bloom (London, 190)2) ; but, like others in that collection, from a very incorrect copy. The first part of it before the verses, is as follows :
"Here is interr'd y e body of M r William Hunt Mercer Who died y e 18 day of August 1700 Aetatis suse 38."
It is almost as useless to publish the text of an inscription without taking pains to ensure that it be accurately reproduced as it is to place one on the floor of a church.
On the other side of the aisle there is the following epitaph : Here Lieth the body of Samuel Tyler Of Shottery In the Parish of Old Stratford Gentleman Who Departed This Life the Fowerteenth Day of may Anno Domini 1693 Aged 69 Years Also here Lieth the body of Ann the Wife of Samuell Tyler Gentleman Who Departed this Life y e 13 th day of march 16... Terra Credidit quocl non Cernitur Coelo Cernit quod non Creditur Blest sole farewell from sorrowes now Repreiud And Crownd by him In Whome thou hast beleiu Deare dust a dowe [?] Whilst i doe What i May With loy to meet att Resurreccon day Speranti Grandia Mediocria sunt Ingrata. Also at their Feet lieth the body of Samuel Tyler their Youngest Son Who
>epiirted this Life may the 2S tl IMS
Serins aut Citius debeinus Morti Nos Nost iMquo
)eath oft doth cut y thread that Is New Spun
As Wei as that which waring hath undon
x>oke but in linu> pits and youl Find tlu-ivin
As oft the young Calues as tlu> <>\t>s skin
Ah world of woe what thing ranst thou r;il<> tlmu-
?ore man but death can quickly say its iniiic V
Mr. W. F. Tompkins, verger of the church, pointed out to me the following in the ad- joining churchyard :
1. In the Gloucester dialect : Heare Lieth the Hoare Lieth t In-
Body of Mary Hands Body of Abigaill Widow Who Depar tl1 the Wife of George bhis Life Aprill y" Hands Soner Who
11 th Anno Domony Departed this Life
1699 Aged May y" 30 th Aim.. Di.m'
87 years. 1099 Aged 37 years.
Death creeps Abought on hard And Steals Abroad on Seen Hur darts are Suding and hur arous keen Hur Stroks are deadly com they soon or lad- When being Strock Repentance is to Late Death is A minute ful of Suden Sorrow Then liue to day as thou mayst dye to mornm . 2. Here Lieth y body of Robert Bideel Shargent ot y* 'Masse Who Departed this life Agust The 25 th Anno 1686 Aiged 74 Also Here Lieth y body of Ann His Wife Shoe Died Inly y 14" 1 Anno Dom' 1708 Aige d 84 Y
Above this is carved the mace, symbol of his office. EDWARD S. DODQSON.
MARVELL'S POEMS, 1681. Everybody
interested in the bibliography of Marvel!
knows that the collation of the * Miscellaneous
Poems ' of 1681 presents certain irregular! in
not hitherto accounted for. Besides tin
portrait, there are two leaves of signatures-
A (unmarked), B, and c, and four of signa-
tures D to Q inclusive. There is only one
leaf of H, ; the next leaf, which has but six
lines of text upon it, is marked s (pp. 115
and 116 up to this point the pagination is
correct), and the next is T2 (p. 131). After
T3 and T4 comes one leaf of u, and the book
ends on the recto of x (p. 139). The
catchwords and figures (with the exception
of a palpable misprint, p. 82) correspond
to the text throughout.
I have just had the great good fortune- to obtain from Mr. Dobell, whose faculty for making discoveries seems to descend upon his friends, a copy of this hook which, though unhappily imperfect at tlin end, explains the irregularities noted above.
The signatures (A, B, and c, 2 leaves only V and pagination of my copy up to the point where it ends on u4 (p. 144) are regular.
After the six lines on p. 115 com^s 'An
