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" A Funeral | Sarmon | on the I Djath | of |
Dame Mary Abney, | Relict of I Sir Thomas
Abnev, Knt. | and Alderman ol London ; I
who | DC]) irlcil this Life the 12 th of January ]
1710. | By Samuel Price. [London: (Printed for
J. Buckland, in Paternoster-Row ; and | E.
Gar Iner, in Lombard-street. MDCCL." (pp. 48).
JOHN T. PAGE.
I can furnish MB. WETLFORD with an earlier example of a funeral sermon printed with black border. In my local collection I have a copy of a pamphlet of iv+22 pp., entitled :
" A | Sermon | Preach'd at | St. Maries in | Nottingham, j January the 30 th , 1722, | Being the Anniversary Fast, on occasion of | the Martyrdom of King Charles I. | By John Disney, Vicar of the said | Church, j The Second Edi- tion. | Nottingham | Printed by John Collyer ; and sold by Tho. | Payne, near Stationers Hall, London 1722. | [Price Four-Pence.]"
There is a black border round the title- page, and two lines of black head the text. JOHN HARBISON. Nottingham.
The earliest black-bordered pamphlet I have is of 1699 :
" The Blessedness of Good Men after De.ath. || A | Sermon | Preached at the | Funeral | of the | Rev 1 M r Henry Cornish, B.D. | Who died on Sunday, Decemb. 18th, in the Eighty Ninth | yoa i- of his Age, [ and was Interred on Thursday, Decemb. | 22d, 1698, in the Church of Bister, in the County of Oxford. j| With a Preface to Rectifie sonio Misrepresentations, &c. | in a late Pamphlet, entitled, Soine Remarks on the Life, \ Death and Bui-ial of the said M r Cornish. || By John Ollyfe, Rector of Dunton, in the \ County of Bucks. || London : | Printed for Jonathan Robinson, at the Golden-Lion in St. Paul's \ Church-yard, 1699."
The black border (on the title-page only) is a quarter of an inch in width, the cross lines (as represented by the sign || above) being of the same width, except the first two, which are slightly narrower.
Another specimen I have is the title-page of a sermon
" preached in the Parish Church at Spulderne in Oxfordshire, December 8th, 1706, in memory of tin; Reverend Mr. Jeffery Shaw, B.D., late Rector of that parish. . . .Who Died whilst he was in the Church at Evening-Prayer, Nov. 17.1706." London, 1707.
The black border round this title-page is also a quarter of an inch thick.
GEORGE J. DEW. Lower Heyford, Oxon.
HI:LMI:I' WORN AT FLODDEN FIELD (11 S. x. 270, 392). -In the chancel of Framlingham Church, Suffolk, are several tombs and monu- ments of the Howard family, including the mausoleum of Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey and third Duke of Norfolk, who died
in 1 554. Lord Thomas Howard served under
his father, then Earl of Surrey, and in
command of the English army at Flodden
Field. Green, the historian of Framlingham,
writing about fifty years ago, says :
" Directly over the keystone of the arch parallel with this tomb is a helmet with the crest of Howard, a lion statant, tail extended, and crowned or, which beyond all shadow of doubt was worn by one of the noble warriors at the battle of Bosworth, and possibly even at that of Flodden Field."
I am not aware if this helmet is still pre- served at Framlingham, but if so it may be the one referred to by your correspondent as having been worn by the Earl of Suffolk (Surrey). K. FREEMAN BULLEN.
Bow Library, E.
THE PBONUNCIATION OF " ow " (11 S. x. 411, sub ' Sparrowgrass '). W. S. B. H. refers to " the pronunciation at one time of the Cow in Cowper as coo." But the " one time " was surely always, and the last Lord Cowper (by whose death in 1905 the family became extinct) would indeed have shud- dered if he had heard the first syllable of his name pronounced so as to rime with now.
G. W. E. B.
Perhaps W. S. B. H. would like to have the following references for the pronuncia- tion of " ow " :
But a more powerful saint enjoys ye now, Fraught with sweet sins and absolutions too.
Otway's ' The Soldier's Fortune,'
Prologue, 1. 13.
A wit to no man will his dues allow : Wits will not part with a good word that 's due. Epilogue to the same, 1. 25. H. K. ST. J. S.
At p. 411 the mispronunciation of " aspara- gus" as " sparrowgrass " is compared with that of " cucumber." Walker makes the same comparison, but he considers that the latter word should be pronounced, not as it is spelt, but as we should pronounce it if spelt (as it once was) " cowcumber." That this was at one time the usual pronunciation is certain, but it does not follow that when the spelling which led to it was first used it was so pronounced ; indeed, we may assume that it was not. "Cowper," as we know, both as a family name and as a common noun, was, in Tudor times and earlier, pronounced " Cooper," and as a family name this pro- nunciation still survives. So, too, the place- name " Crowle " is still pronounced " C'rool," except by primary-school teachers and their victims. Cf. " cuckoo," formerly often spelt "cuckow." Walker tells us, too, that in his
