10 s. x. DEC. 26, 1908.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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EBENEZEB GERARD (10 S. x.446). In 1813
Gerard lived at 10, Villiers Street, London,
and exhibited a picture entitled * Shavings *
at the Royal Academy. A small painting
by him is in the Manchester Free Reference
Library ; it is an admirable work, and repre-
sents his friends Archibald Prentice of Man-
chester and J. Childs of Bungay engaged
in a game of draughts. Mr. George Esdaile
of Rusholme, Manchester, has a portrait
of his grandfather, painted by Gerard.
Your correspondent does not give the date
of his death. It seems to have taken place
In February or March, 1826 (see a letter in
The Kaleidoscope, vi. 305). C. W. STJTTON.
Manchester.
DICKENS'S SURNAMES : GUPPY (10 S. x. 327, 477). To those holding this name I should like to add Mr. Henry Guppy, the learned librarian of the Rylands Library, of whose courtesy I have frequent ex- perience. JOHN C. FRANCIS.
" HIS END WAS PEACE " (10 S. X. 450).
"See Psalm xxxvii. 37, A.V., "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright : for the end of that man is peace." The R.V. has "latter end," and in the margin " There is a reward (or, future ; or, posterity) for the man of peace." The Prayer Book ver- sion (from the " Great Bible ") is (verse 38) "" Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right : for that shall bring a man peace at the last." The Vulgate has " Custodi innocentiam, et vide sequitatem : quoniam sunt reliquiae homini pacifico."
To the variety between the English Bible and Prayer Book is here due the existence of two familiar texts which represent the same original. EDWARD BENSLY.
Aberystwyth.
Like HARMATOPEGOS, I have been for a long time puzzled as to the original source of this quotation, but have been unable to find it. It has lately occurred to me that it may be an incorrect rendering of a verse in the third chapter of the Apocryphal book of Wisdom, where it is said of the righteous that " they are in peace." It is in the first Lesson appointed to be read on All Saints' Day. C. S. JERRAM.
I think the source is Psalm xxxvii. 37. Somehow the Hebrew " Veachreesou sholoum " (which is the direct rendering of the phrase) has been running in my head as a Biblical phrase, but I cannot trace it, so conclude it is part of our Liturgy.
M. L. R. BRESLAR.
Is not this phrase most probably a survival
of the pre-Reformation formula " Requiescat
in pace " ? W. B. GERISH.
I think this is merely a hopeful appropria- tion of Psalm xxxvii. 37.
" Peace, perfect peace ! " which is becom- ing a popular line on tombstones, not seldom sets me wondering whether it be the departed husband or wife, or the resultant widow or widower, who is supposed to enjoy the inestimable blessing. ST. SWITHIN.
I cannot give the author of this phrase, but your correspondent may like to have a variant which appears on the tombstone of a married couple in Epworth Churchyard. It runs :
Their ends were'peace.
C. C. B.
[Other correspondents also refer o Psalm xxxvii. 37.]
BOOTH OF RAME, CORNWALL (10 S. x. 448). I know nothing of any Cornish Booths, but I can now notify another nest of Nathaniels, wherein your correspondent may perhaps find his own bird.
Nathaniel, I think, was a Christian name in the family of Booth, Lord Delamere.
The ' Register of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate,' ed. Hallen, 1893, ii. 120, 164, has these entries :
1656, Oct. 23. Nathaniel Booth, buried.
1665/6, Jan. 6. Nathaniel Booth, aged 40, buried.
Oliver Heywood knew a Nathaniel Booth in November, 1699, and baptized his son John in January, 1701/2. (O. Hey wood's 'Diaries,' 1885, iv. 188, 292).
'Felkirk Register,' 1894, p. 128, has :
1714, Aug. 24. Nathaniel Booth and Elizabeth Pearson married.
Nathaniel Booth, an Anabaptist minister and cloth manufacturer at Gildersome, died 3 Nov., 1734, aged 50, and was buried at Morley (Smith's ' Morley,' 1876, pp. 164, 251 ; Misc. Gen. et Her., N.S., 1880, iii. 331).
1867, Jan. 19. Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Mr. Nathaniel Booth of Bradford, died at 7, Clarendon Square, Bradford.
Nathan Booth of Warrington, yeoman, had a son Nathan, born 1743, died 1778 (Misc. Gen. et Her., Third Series, iii. 7).
I take the opportunity of adding to my article at 9 S. ix. 65 that Nathaniel Booth matriculated at Brasenose, 20 Feb., 1679/80, aged 18 ; and that Nathaniel Booth, of Merton, son of Francis, of Burstall (prob. Birstall), co. York, pleb., matriculated there 27 Oct., 1757, aged 17, B.A. 1761 (Foster, ' Alumni Oxon.'). W. C. B.
