NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. n. JULY ie. MM.
A few are in shorthand. Near the end I wa
fortunate enough to find his own draft o
his epitaph, both in Latin and English
The epitaph as printed at the first referenc
correctly gives the version engraved on th
tablet. The Latin copy in the book is prac
tically the same ; the ninth line reads :
Quam Lincoln's Inn plus ultra datur, by which, as the English version clearl shows, he intended to convey that he hac been more successful in his university caree than he was at Lincoln's Inn; and it con eludes with the lines :
Nulla Sacerdoti Marco datur ansa Loquendi. Eat mini Mors Lucrum. Deus est meus Ipse
Sepulchrum Ante obitum infelix. Felix post Funera Vivo.
The English version is as follows :
"Ye Relicts of M. H., Esq., late a fellow of ye Eoyall Society of Lyncoln's Inn.
Here lyes in this place interred
M. H. his corps with life tyred.
An Alderman (Mark) was, 'tis said,
His Father : Mother, Doll : (both dead)
& brother (Stephen) buryed.
Thro' Cambridge and Oxford he fled
Than Lyncoln's Inn farr better sped
& tho he was twioe marryed
One wife with 4 boyes brought to bed
Yet but in 2 of y m Blessed.
Born Sixteen hundred and thirty
Unborn again when he does Dye
Death to hym a Gayn
Who is Happy freed from Payn."
^e entire contents of the book are in similar doggerel rime. Two or three papers relate to Lincoln's Inn : one is descriptive of the gardens, and another is of a curious tes- tamentary character. It appears from it that a nre occurred in his chambers in February, 1692, and he had been ordered to pull them down and, presumably, to rebuild them. In this document he good-humouredlv relates his troubles, and purports to bequeath his chambers to the Inn, including
Woodhouse, coalhouse and Golgotha Wherein my corps with theyrs to lay All which may last till y'Last Day. From which it may be reasonably* inferred that he himself had the tablet with the
The same paper concludes as follows :
Am J fco Adorn their Library
And tell y how to live and die
Jurisprudent Counsells give I
Jocosely yet Relligiously
- or which consult their Archivi
-tor y e printed works of
MARK HILSLY.
R e n- ed T> a sma11 vol Relhgio Jurisprudents ; or, A
Lawyer's Advice to his Son, by Philanthropus.
London, 1684," and is still in the library.
I have failed to discover his burial-place. There is no mention of his name in the registers at Kingston-on-Thames, nor have I been able to find his will at Somerset House. His father's will is recorded there ; and the registers at Hackney show that the Alderman was buried in that churchyard on 5 January, 1660, and his wife " Dorithi " on 8 December, 1659, less than a month earlier.
ALAN STEWAET. 7, New Square, Lincoln's Inn.
LATE INTELLECTUAL HARVEST (10 th S. i. 469). Robert Louis Stevenson is one of the most remarkable exemplars of slow development of genius. He appears to have been an entire disappointment to his tutors, only to blossom out later into one of the most polished essayists of his time. WILLIAM JAGGAED.
139, Canning Street, Liverpool.
Several instances of distinguished men who were by no means notable at school are given in 'The Curse of Education,' by Harold E. Gorst. Darwin is, perhaps, the most striking instance. HIPPOCLIDES.
Moses Maimonides (so the story runs) showed no promise whatever till about his fifteenth year. At twelve he was a very dull boy and the despair of his father, a lamdan mupklag, or distinguished scholar. What he ultimately became for his race and his own age is summed up in contemporary eulogy thus : ' From the death of Moses (the lawgiver) until the birth of Moses (the expounder) }here never was such a Moses." He blended the encyclopaedic learning of Rabbeynu Tarn with the dialectical brilliancy of Ibn Ezra, and was a great physician as well. This year s the seven hundredth anniversary of the death of our greatest Spanish scholar, who was born in Cordova, whence your corre- spondent takes his name.
M. L. R. BEESLAE. South Hackney.
FLESH AND SHAMBLE MEATS (10 th S. i. 68, 293, 394). This may settle the question. In Wright's ' English Dialect Dictionary,' under he word * Shamble,' is added : " Shamble-meat /meaning butcher's meat ; fresh meat, as distinct from salted. " Dev. 1 mind the time when old people said, It 's more 'n a month since we had any shammel- iate.' * Reports Province,' 1891."
S.
ME. JANES, OF ABEEDEENSHIEE (9 th S. xi. 48). With reference to a " Mr. Janes of ^berdeenshire, a naturalist," whom Johnson
