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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. m. MAY 13, woe.
Kent.
Mon. Inscr. of Holy Cross and Westgate, Can- terbury. J. M. Cowper.
Mon. Inscr., &c., of Chislet. Haslewood ( ).
Mon. Inscr. of Benenden, Kent. Haslewood ( ).
Mon. Inscr. of St. Mary, Lewisham. Bound with Registers. Lewisham Antiq. Soc.
Mon. Inscr. of St. Giles's, Kingston, Kent, Church and Yard. Bound with Registers.
Lincolnshire.
Exact Copy of Ancient Mon. Inscr. of Lincoln Cathedral. Robt. Sanderson, London, 1851.
London and District.
A Catalogue of most of the Memorable Tombs
in the Demolisht or yet Extant Churches of London, from St. Katherine beyond the Tower to Temple Barre, &c. P. Fisher, 1668.
Bunhill Fields. Inscriptions on Tombs. 1717.
Inscriptions on Tombstones of St. Michael, Crooked Lane. 1831.
Collection of Epitaphs. F. T. Cansick, 1869-72.
Mon. Inscr. of Charterhouse Chapel. Bound with Registers. Harl. Soc., vol. xviii.
Norfolk. Sepulchral Reminiscences of Great Yarmouth. J.
Browne, 1877. Mon. Inscr. for the Hundred of Holt. Walter Rye,
1883. Mon. Inscr. of Cromer. A full copy in ' Cromer
Past and Present.' Walter Rye. Rough Materials for a History of North Erpingham.
Walter Rye, 1883.
Northumberland.
Richardson { ). Collection of Armorial Bearings and Mon. Inscr. in Parochial Chapel of St. Andrew, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Nottinghamshire.
Mon. Inscr. of Edwinstow, Church and Yard. Bound with Registers.
Suffolk.
Mon. Inscr. of St. Matthew, Ipswich. F. Hasle- wood.
Surrey.
In Memoriam Crpydensium, containing Mon. Inscr. from Churches, Yards, and Cemetery of Parish, and 'also from Beddington, Shirley, and Ad- dington. 1883.
Warwickshire.
Description of St. Michael's Church, Coventry. W. Reader. Gives all monumental inscrip- tions.
Mon. Inscr. of St. Michael's, Coventry. J. Astley, 1885.
Wiltshire.
Copies of the Epitaphs in Salisbury Cathedral. Jas. Harris, 1825.
Mon. Inscr. of Co. Wilton. Sir Thos. Phillipps, 1822. These are from the churches only. Mr. Schomberg, of Seend, took in hand the com- pletion of the work. His notes were published in Misc. Genealog. et Heraldica. I do not know if they were completed.
Yorkshire.
Topcliffe and Morley Mon. Inscr. Bound with Registers. Wm. Smith, London, 1888, illus- trated.
I have no notes on works dealing with other parts of the United Kingdom. For
the colonies there is the well-known work
of J. H. L. Archer, ' Monumental Inscrip-
tions of the British West Indies,' 1875.
F. S. SNELL. Boys' High School, Worcester, Cape Colony.
BLOOD USED IN BUILDING : SUGAR IN MORTAR (10 th S. ii. 389, 455; iii. 34, 76, 114, 173). I find the following in 'Notes on Building, &c., compiled for use in the Depart- ment of Public Works,' Madras, 1862 :
" Mixing of Mortars. The use of jaghery. When the mortar is brought on the work, it is again mixed with water, and the native bricklayers use a considerable quantity, and so temper the mortar
very thin It has always been the custom in this
country to mix a certain quantity of jaghery (coarse sugar) in the water used in tempering mortar, and experiments have shown that it exercises a beneficial influence, at all events, on the first hardening of the mortar. From a quarter to half a pound per gallon has been found to be a good proportion, the former for ordinary purposes, the latter for those parts of a work which demand particular attention. This would correspond to from 2i to 5 Ib. per parah of chunam.* The Madras data formerly allowed 5 Ib. of jaghery to 1,000 bricks, or to 7 parahs of chunam, for walls, and 1 Ib.
per parah for arches Jaghery will be found more
useful with pure limes than with those having hydraulic properties
"Cement Chunam. Plastering. For one coat the plaster is composed of one part lime and one and a half river sand Ihoroughly mixed and well beaten up with water. The plaster is mixed up with jaghery water and brought to the required con- sistency
" For two coats. The plaster used for the second coat consists of three parts lime and one of white sand, mixed as before, and afterwards ground by women on a flat stone with a small stone roller. The plaster thus prepared is applied with care about the eighth of an inch thick. It is then rubbed down perfectly smooth, and afterwards polished with a crystal or smooth stone rubber, and as soon as it has acquired a polish a very little fine balla- pum (spapstone) powder is sprinkled on it, and the polishing continued, &c.
"For three coats. The plaster for the second
coat to consist of one part lime and one of fine river sand, freed from coarser particles and from clay by sifting. The third coat consists of four parts of lime and one of fine white sand. These, after being well mixed and reduced by grinding to a very fine paste, are put into a large earthen jar, size about half a hogshead, and mixed with the whites of eggs and tyre, or milk curds, in the pro- portion of 12 eggs and 1^ measures of tyre to every parah of plaster. (Note." Sometimes half a pound of ghee is mixed with the above quantities of white of egg and tyre) These are all thoroughly mixed and the ingredients incorporated. The plaster is put on about one-tenth of an inch thick. Imme- diately after this another coat of still finer plaster is applied, consisting of pure lime ground to a fine paste and mixed with water in a clean tub. This is put on about a sixteenth of an inch thick with a brush, and rubbed gently with a small trowel
The parah is 20 in. by 20 in. by 10 in.
