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is an angler with his rod and basket. On
the tomb itself is " Izaak Walton, Born 1593,
Died 1683." At the foot is " T. Gosden "
and also " Avern F." Around the design is
" Piscatoribus Sacrum."
CHARLES DBUBY.
I suggest that the great interest in ' The Complete Angler,' as shown by (at least) seven editions between 1808 and 1824, accounts for the production of the medal, of which I have a bronze specimen. The Walton and Cotton Club is further evidence of interest.
W. B. H. does not mention Gosden' s edition of 'The Complete Angler,' 1822, which I see recorded in G. C. Davies's cheap issue. S. S. BAGSTEB.
Higher Turnpike, Marazion, Cornwall.
COBPSE BLEEDING IN PBESENCE OF THE
MUBDEBEB (US. ii. 328, 390, 498 ; iii. 35, 92). One of the popular beliefs most widely current and very deeply rooted among the Japanese is that after death and before burial blood issues from the nostrils of a man when his body is approached by some of his relatives whom he particularly loved in his life. Many are the examples of this preserved in every aged person's memory, but, curiously enough, it is very scantily mentioned in Japanese literature.
A few days ago I met an old friend other- wise very trustworthy, and we had a con- versation on this subject. He proved a staunch adherent of this belief, adducing in proof of it the fact that some thirty years since he witnessed the headless corpse of a fisherman stranded on the shore, from whose neck blood began to flow when it was ap- proached by the man's only aunt, who had been especially kind to him all his life.
KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA. Tanabe, Kii, Japan.
The fear of " a meere dull phisitian," says Earle, " is, least the carcasse should bleed."
The jest involved here about doctors killing their patients is not new. Hey- wood's 'pothecary asks :
Whom have ye known die honestly Without help of the 'pothecary ?
The pardoner magnifies his office :
If ye killed a thousand in an hour's space. When come they to heaven, dying out of grace ?
But the 'pothecary's answer is convincing : If a thousand pardons about your necks were tied, When come they to heaven if they never died ?
'The Four PP.'
P, A. McELWAINE.
Dublin.
GBATIOTJS OB GBACINES STBEET (11 S.
iii. 149, 175, 212). It has not, I think, been
noted that White in his ' Antiquities of
Selborne ' says that the lower part of the
village next the Grange, in which are a
pond and a stream, is well known by the
name of Gracious Street, an appellation not
at all understood :
" There is a lake in Surrey, near Chobham, called also Gracious-pond ; and another, if we mistake not, near Hedleigh in the county of Hants. This strange denomination we do not at all comprehend, and conclude that it may be a corruption from some Saxon word, itself perhaps forgotten." Ed. 19(Xh p. 350.
There is also a Gracious Ford five miles west of Bampton in North Devon.
J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.
' HAMLET ' IN 1585 (11 S. iii. 267, 311). I am much obliged for the answers to my query. What I particularly wish to know, however, is where to find evidence that a Hamlet play was acted at Cambridge in 1585. Mr. Crouch Batchelor, the Baconian, in his pamphlet ' Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare,' states (p. 18) that there is evidence to this effect ; but though I have spent days in the B. M. Reading-Room in search thereof, I have found no trace of it.
I should be also much obliged if any Shakesperian would tell me the title of a book published within the last five years in which reference is made to the arrival at Leith by boat of a party of players and musicians.
IONIA.
"C" AND "T" INTEBCHANGED (11 S. iii. 229, 351). The seventh line in col. 2 of my reply should read " appears as ti in the verb qa-tal-ti" J. T. F.
LAWBENCE STBEET, ST. GILES' S-IN-THE- FIELDS (11 S. iii. 309). Lawrence Street is probably named after Sir Thomas Lawrence, President of the Royal Academy, who lived for twenty-five years at 65, Russell Square, W.C., and died there 7 January, 1830.
T. SHEPHEBD.
A CUBIOUS Box (US. iii. 308). I have known a box that answers in some respects to the one referred to by E. V. L. The size was about the same ; of there being a drawer I am not certain. The top had not holes in it, but had a pincushion ; the bottom had a heavy piece of lead let into it and covered with green baize. It was called a " heavy cushion," and was used to pin a piece of work to, such as a seam to be sewn. This must be, if still in exist-
