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th office of mass. On such occasions the
en peror discharged the functions of sub
de xxm or deacon, and chanted the Epistle
an 1 Gospel. Our own Richard Cceur-de-Lion,
wh o was buried in the robes which he had
worn on his last crowning day in England
(11)4), is represented on his effigy at Font-
evi aud as clad in a cope-like mantle, a dal-
matic, and a white sub-tunic, answering to
the distinctive costumes of bishop or priest,
dee con, and sub-deacon respectively. In 1774
bhe body of Edward I., when exhumed at
Westminster, was found wearing, among other
garments, a dalmatic and a stole crossed on
- he breast in the priestly manner. The body
3f John, in Worcester, was discovered in 1 797 to be habited in costume similar to that re- presented on his effigy, with the addition of a nonk's cowl. Queen Victoria wore the pre- scribed ecclesiastical vestments at her corona- lion in 1838. A. R. BAYLEY.
Charles II., James II., and Anne were the bnly English sovereigns who were crowned m St. George's Day. G. F. R. B.
AUTHOR OF VERSES (9 th S. iii. 288). The kuthor was John Dryden. These are the Ivords :
'Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.
t may possibly be found in vol. xv. p. 103 of he 1821 edition of Dryden's 'Works,' though
am not certain, as I have not this vol. xv. to efer to. The work is in eighteen volumes, nd the index at the end has " Fates, Jupiter annot alter the decrees of the, xv. 103."
ALFRED J. KING.
101, Sandmere Road, Clapham, S.W.
[This reference in the reprint, Edinburgh, Pater-
in, also in eighteen volumes, is to vol. xv. p. 178, ut these lines are not included under it.]
PLACE-NAMES (9 th S. iii. 105, 177, 332). .. H., R T B., and I refer to one and the -me place, though we indicate its where- bouts in diverse ways. Of its name, Mr. horaas Holderness tells us it was originally 7 etwangham,
but has now lost the final syllable, [and] is un- mbtedly from the Anglo-Saxon wast wet, moist ; ang a plain, field, land ; and ham a, house, he present village is on high land, but the Dooms- vy name shows that the original ham from which takes its name was either in the valley up which e Malton Railway runs, or on the low-lying land uthward. The name of the place has erroneously en supposed to be identified with the old elandic law term vwf-vanyr, which is impossible, that term could not be confined to any particular ace, but applied to any and every place where a
crime, such as murder or manslaughter, had been
committed ; the inhabitants ' within a bow-shot of
the place all around ' being summoned as jurors or
witnesses in the prosecution." 'Some Place-names
of the East Riding of Yorkshire,' a Paper read
before the Hull Literary Club, 28 March, 1881.
ST. SWITHIN.
PORTRAIT OF TOM PAINE (9 th S. iii. 285). MR. E. TRUELOVE contributed to 'N. & Q.' (5 th S. ii. 188) the following extract from the preface to 'The Life of Thomas Paine,' 1819, written by his friend Thomas Clio Rick man :
"The engraving of Mr. Paine by Sharp prefixt to this work is the only true likeness of him; it is from his portrait by Romney, and is perhaps the greatest likeness ever taken by any painter : to that eminent artist I introduced him in 1792, and it was by my earnest persuasion that he sat to him."
Mr. Moncure D. Conway wrote a ' Life of Thomas Paine,' published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1892, in which there is a portrait of Paine. This was reproduced in the Literary News of July, 1892, issued by the same firm.
EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.
INSCRIPTION ON THE TOMB OF RICHARD II. (9 th S. iii. 309). MR. BOSTOCK will find this inscription set out in full in the second volume of Neale's ' History and Antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster. Mr. Brayley observes on p. 109 of that volume :
"Dart characterizes the above inscription on King Richard as 'an extravagant proof of the generosity of Henry the Fifth, by whose order,' he continues, ' it was placed there,' yet the pro- bability is, that it was engraven during the life- time of Richard himself."
G. F. R. B.
Dean Stanley quotes part of the inscription as follows :
Corpore procerus, animo prudens ut Homerus, Obruit hsereticos, et eorum stravit amicos.
According to the indentures, the monument was to be completed in 1397 at the cost of S70., Nicholas Broker and Godfrey Prest, coppersmiths of London, being responsible
- or the portrait-effigies, and John Hardy for
- he painting of the wooden canopy. As his
- om b was made in his lifetime, the king must
lave approved of the inscription, and he would scarcely boast, whatever his private opinion, of friendship with the heterodox. A. R. BAYLEY.
FRISBIE (9 th S. iii. 309). Bowditch ('Suffolk Surnames ') humorously classes this with ' names from insects," making -lie equivalent
- o bee. I do not know how he would account
'or the first syllable. I venture to think the
