9"- s. V.APRIL 14, i9oo.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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betha Joannis j Episcopi Oxoniensis Filia nat....
maxima, et Thomae Tenison | Archidiaconi Mar
dune | Thomae qu... Archiepiscopi... j Cantuan
ensis abnepotis ...xor - Quae Puerperio Obii Mart 13 | 1729 octodecini annorum | adoles
centu | Eximiis Animi Corporis q... | dotibu
om | et utraq... Famil... | tu...ca | qu
ortue f?] turn altera | in quam nuper A...siera
| dignissima."
"Beneath this stone lies the body | of M Sara. Yonge | who died July 20, 1740 aged | 46 was wif to W m Yonge | of Caynton in the County | of Salo] Esq r and one of the | daughters of S r Joseph | Herne, Citizen. She went through | all the office of life with most | exemplary prudence, humanity, | & virtue. The loss of her is | lamented by all wh< kne\y her, | to her husband and children | irre parable. As also the body | of her daughter Pene lope | Lycett who died Aug 21 8fc | 1740. Aged 25 years | who was indued withall her mothers | virtues."
"Here lyes the body of Cap* j Humphry Saun ders | who was for many years | Commander o_ several Ships | of war in the reign of | King Willian and Queen Anne | he died June 3 rd 1735 [33?] | in the [80 th ?] year of his age. | Here also lies the body of | M Mary Saunders | His wife. She died June the [2 nd ?] | 1736 [?] aged 72."
" Here lyeth the body of Matthias | Skelton Esq r of this parish | w ho departed this life Jan* ye 1 st | 1725 in the 57 year of his age | also M r8 Susanna Skelton wife of | the above said Matthias Skel- ton | Esq re who departed this life | the 24 th day of April 1735 in the | 58 year of her age."
"Here lyeth interred the body | of S r Henry Pomeroy, K e , who | departed this life the 23 rd
day | of 1683 and [ Jane his wife daughter of
the ! ancient family the Predeand [?] of Fen- borough in the county | of Devon who so de- parted this | life the 2 nd day of February | 1682/3 | ...hopes of a glorious resurrection."
" M r John Bristow | of this parish Vintner I dyed 29 th of June 1734 | aged 37 years."
"Here lyeth ye body of'| B...hard Taylor of this parish | Gen* who dyed the 14 th of Aprill | ...76 aged 70 [?] years also | lyeth here bodyes of 3 sons | & 6 daughters by Euseb... his | wife, viz., Thomas
John | Valentine Emery , Elizabeth, | Mary
...., , also Thomas "
" Alexander Haselar | of this parish gentleman j departed this life the 17 of | december 1747 in the
5... | year of his age. | also wife of Alex | Haselar
who departed this | life the 27 [?] of March | 1748." ' Here lyeth Robert | Stewart Esq who dyed | the 7 th of June 1714 | Aged years."
These inscriptions are manifestly imperfect, being much footworn, while on many stones the lettering is entirely obliterated. With the monuments on the walls behind the organ I will deal at some future opportunity.
W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY.
14, Artillery Buildings, Victoria Street, S.W.
THE EVIL EYE. I take the following cut- ting from the Child's Guardian of last month :
" Not many days ago, reports the Church Weekly, the Uxbridge -nagistrates had to deal with a painful charge, brought by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, against a married couple, for having caused the deaths of two of their
children by wilful and heartless neglect and for keep-
ing their three other children in a starving condition.
The wee unfortunates had died amid the filthiest and
most heartrending surroundings imaginable. The
defence set up by the unnatural parents was that
they had, unfortunately, incurred the malice of a
gipsy, who had, therefore, ' overlooked ' them and
their five children, so that nothing would prosper
with them. They believed, or pretended to believe,
that their hapless offspring had died, not from the
want of proper nourishment and care, but because
of the operation of the ' curse.' The magistrates,
however, refused to consider this as an extenuating
circumstance, and dealt the parents the severe
punishment they deserved."
ST. SWITHIN.
DANIEL DEFOE. In Mr. Thomas Wright's ' Life of Defoe ' it is noted that "in 1692 came bankruptcy, with a deficit of > 17,OOOZ.," and that, entering again into politics, Defoe, two years later, was "concerned with some eminent persons in proposing ways and means to the Government for raising money to supply the occasions of the war just begun" that with France. In Prof. Minto's mono- graph in the "English Men of Letters" series it is observed of this episode that Defoe " is said to have temporarily absconded, and to have parleyed with his creditors from a dis- tance till they agreed to accept a composi- tion." One illustration of Defoe's difficulties during that period is furnished in the latest volume, just issued, of the House of Lords' MSS., in which (pp. 358-60) is given in full the copy of a Merchants Insurers (War with France) Bill, which had passed the Commons early in 1693/4, " to enable divers Merchants [nsurers (who have sustained many losses by the present war with France) to satisfy their several Creditors," and " Daniel Foe " is the eighteenth on a list of nineteen thus to be dealt with. The measure was brought from the Commons on 28 Feb., 1693/4, but on 9 March, after being read a second time by the Lords, the motion to go into committee was egatived and the Bill was rejected (' Lords' Journals,' vol. xv. pp. 381, 390).
ALFRED F. BOBBINS.
ENGLISH SOLDIERS AT THE BATTLE OF JOLENSO. Towards the end of the nineteenth jentury the unmeaning and undignified, to ny mind, appellation of "Tommies" has been accepted generally as a pet name for the oldiers of our Queen. But as many military men and civilians alike, it is only right to nention, have taken exception to valiant roops being so designated , I venture to re- quest the insertion in ' N. & Q.' of the fol- owing very brilliant account, from the Daily ^elegraph 'of 18 Dec., 1899, of the sublime >ravery of four gunners of the Royal Horse
rtillery at the battle of Colenso ;
