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NOTES AND QUERIES.
Nevertheless, a ball which is calculated
deceive a batsman may well be called a
'"'yorker," for, as I need scarcely repeat, to
'"come Yorkshire" over anybody is to
" bite " him. ST. SWITHIN.
DRAWING OF FORT JEROME AND H.M.S. ARGO AND SPARROW (12 S. i. 328). Unless I mistake, MR. A. J. FISHER'S query has not yet been answered.
In 1793 the British Government dispatched an expedition from Jamaica to San Domingo under General Maitland, for the purpose of protecting British interests when the blacks rose in revolt against their French masters.
This may give MR. FISHER a clue ; to whom also I would recommend ' Splendid Failures,' by Harry Graham (published by Edward Arnold, 1913).
F. GORDON BROWN.
WATCH HOUSE (12 S. ii. 9, 113, 157, 233, 315). At Bradfield, Yorkshire, there is a building close to the churchyard gates, now used as a dwelling-house, and known locally as the Watch House.
In a short guide to the church, written by the rector and printed in 1912, it is said :
" The multangular cottage at the Church Gates was built as a Watch House, to prevent body- snatching. Within the memory of people still living men sat up at nights with loaded guns for some time after an interment."
It is quite probable that the building was used for the purpose stated, but would it be e -ected specially for this ? Is it not more likely that its original purpose was that of the " lock-up " ? CHARLES DRURY.
12 Ranmcor Cliffe Road, Sheffield.
" SEPTEM SINE BORIS" (12 S. ii. 310). Even at Midsummer there are seven hours between sunset and sunrise (approximately 8.30 P.M. to 3.30 A.M.) when a sundial is of no use to tell the time. I have an old Dutch sundial on which these hours of darkness are entirely omitted y and it is doubtless the case on others too. I would suggest that it is to these missing hours that the motto refers. H. J. B. CLEMENTS.
Killadoon, Celbridge.
These Latin words mean " except, without, minus seven hours." They would express the dumbness of a dial, during the shortest night of the year, at a particular latitude M'hich an astronomer could at once indicate. They record, therefore, either the place where the instrument was made, or thet where it was intended to obey the sunshine. E. S. DODGSON.
I venture to suggest that the meaning of
this elliptical .sentence is : " Leave the
seven (days of the week) to the hours."
Cf. Verg., ' ^Eneid,' ix. 620 : " Sinite arma
viris." The sense conveyed is identical
with that of the common aphorism : " Take
care of the pence, and the pounds will take
care of themselves."
N. POWLETT, Col.
The meaning of this bald inscription pro- bably is that there are in the longest days seven hours (and a trifle over) in wnich the dial is useless. The inrtt-o is to be found on a dial declining west, en cted on a gable at Packwood House, Warwickshire.
ARCH in AID SPARKE.
HEADSTONES WITH PORTRAITS OF THE DECEASED (12 S. ii. 210, 277). In the cemetery at Folkestone there is a handsome monument, on the front face of which is inserted a medallion portrait, in the finest statuary marble, of the late Mr. Challis, surmounted by his coat of arms, crest, and ribbon bearing the motto of his family. On the left hand of the portrait medallion is the following inscription :
In affectionate remembrance of
John Henry Chajlis Son of the late John Henry Challis of the 9th Regt.
Born at Shorncliffo
Died at Mentone, February 18th, 1880, In the 74th Year of his Age.
Sandgate. B - J " FvNMORE.
In Blackburn Cemetery there is a tomb- stone the inscription on which is as follows : Erected by public subscription to the memory of
William Billington,
Author of ' Sheen and Shade '
(Lancashire Songs, Poems, Sketches, &c.),
who was born April 3rd, 1827, and departed this
life Jan'. 3rd, 1884.
On the end of this tombstone is a medallion portrait of Billington. JOHN DUXBURY. 2 Shear Brow, Blackburn.
EPITAPHS IN OLD LONDON AND SUBURBAN GRAVEYARDS (12 S. ii. 308). During the last five years some amateurs, members of the Society of Genealogists of London, of 5 Bloomsbury Square, have between them copied many thousands of monumental inscriptions in London, in various parts of England, particularly in Bedfordshire, "Devon, Kent, and Middlesex, and also abroad. They have, in addition, compiled a bibliography of about 1,500 slips (MS.), showing what lias been done by themselves and others \\ith reference to this subject in all parts of the world. M.
