NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vii. JAN. 12, 1907.
pieces. When T the^ underside had been
cleaned, it was found that several brasses
had been utilized to make up the size re-
quired. The two upper pieces contain a
transverse section of an ecclesiastic taken
across the breast, the uplifted hands being
hold together as in prayer. The figure must
have been of gigantic size. This section is
not large enough to show clearly the cha-
racter of the attire ; it is traversed by several
narrow fillets enclosing a pellet between a
quatrefoil and a rosette alternately. The
third piece contains a perpendicular section
of tabernacle work enclosing a pair of small
figures, either Apostles or prophets. On
the outer margin are the words QVE FINO
VIERNES in letters exactly resembling those
on the brass of Abbot Thos. Delamere of
St. Albans (v. illustration in H. Druitt's
' Costume in Brasses,' p. 46).
The small section engraved with the lady's toes bears on the reverse : "... .Gilbertus Thornbern nuper rector .... qui obiit un- decimo Maii. . . . MCCCCXXVIII . ..."
1. What is the meaning of the first in- scription ? ^2. Of what parish was Gilbert TliornlxTn rector ? ' E. H. BATES.
I'uckinglon Rectory, Ilminster.
GOULTON BRASS. At 6 S. ii. 168 (28 Aug., 1880) the following query appeared :
"In the 'History of Cleveland,' by the Rev. J.
Craves, written in I SOS, mention is made of a brass once in Kaeel.y ( Ihurch to the memory of Sir Lewis <ioullnii, uliieh brass, he says, was, at tin- 1 hue I hat lie \\ role, in tlu- possession of ( 'hristonher < Joidton, of Hlghthorn, near Easingwold. With Hie death of this Christopher Coulton, in |SI.">, that branch of I lie ( I on I ton family became e\t inet. He died with- out a will, and up to the present time I have been unalile to uct any informal ion concerning the brass spoken nf l.y M r. ( travel, ( 'an you assist me ill any
way? .1. ( I oulton Constable."
This query was apparently never answered, and I should like to repeat it, in the hope that some information may now be forth- coming, as since 1880 much has been written upon the subject of brasses, and there is hardly a county in England where brasses have not received more or less attention. In what county is Faceby ?
STEWART FISKE.
Mobile, Ala., I'.S.A.
| Kaeel.y j s in the North Riding of Yorkshire.]
WORDSWORTH'S PRIMROSE. I shall be glad if you will bo good enough to explain to me the meaning of Wordsworth's lines :
A primrose by the fixer's I. rim A yellow primrose was to him. And it was nothing more.
I have had an argument as to what was
meant by the lines, and shall be grateful if
you will give their meaning. R. ELLIS.
[The meaning is surely that the sight of a prim- rose to Peter suggested no thought did not affect him in any way. He simply saw that it was "yellow" (you misquoted your second line). Wordsworth has himself expressed his own feelings in such a case, as follows :
To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts t hat do often lie too deep for tears.
Ode, ' Intimations of Immortality.' He says also in 'The Tables Turned' : One impulse from a, vernal wood May teadi you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. |
MRS. MOORE'S ' MODERN PILGRIM'S PRO- GRESS.' In 1882 Mrs. Bloomfield Moore, of Philadelphia, privately printed a 12mo volume of 105 pages, which contains, with other things, ' A Chapter from the Modern Pilgrim's Progress.' This chapter is thus prefaced :
"The proof -sheets of the following pages, in the year 1879, fell into the hands of one of the most brilliantly talented young authors in Kngland. The author of them had never heard anything of the young writer's family, but he had a widowed mother with six children, and after reading this chapter in the proof sheets, and finding much that was sugges- t i\ e of experiences in his own family, he tancied it. had Keen \\ritten to lay these experiences bare to
the public lie went to John Morley, editor of
Tin' /'nrtiiii/lif/// Review, and accused him of having
written this chapter to expose him. His mind be- came more and more unsettled, and learning that/ the (real) author of ' The Modern Pilgrim's Pro- gress ' was to sail from Liverpool, Nov. 27, 1879, he told his family that this was an intimation he was In die on that day. At the hour on which the ocean steamer left the wharf he shot himself." Can any reader give me the name of this young man ? The intimate relation between Mrs. Moore and Browning will be recalled. The dedicatory poem of this volume is " To> my Friend Robert Browning."
DEWITT MILLER.
Philadelphia.
GODFERY. I shall be pleased if any of your readers can supply me with information respecting the ancestors, descendants, and birthplace of Michael Godfery, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England in 1695.
F. GODFERY. 2, Morton Crescent, Kx mouth.
VINING FAMILY. Is it known whether Henry Vining, the father of Mrs. John Wood, was related to Frederick Vining and to James Vining ? What relation was William Vining (if any), the actor, to these Vinings ? The ' D.N.B.' notes that Frederick's daughter Fanny was Mrs. Gill ; but Davenport
