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NOTES AND QUERIES. t n s. vi. OCT. 5, 1912.
EPITAPHS. Will some correspondent
kindly give me the full inscriptions on the
tombs where the following lines occur ?
J. On a Bellringer, 1600, at All Saints', Maidstone :
Stop, Ringers all, and cast an eye ; You 're in your glory, so once was I ; What I have been as you may see ; Wish now I was in the Belforee.
2. To a Parish Clerk, 1706, Selby : Here lyes ye body of poor Frank Raw, Parish Clerk and gravestone cutter ; And ys is writt to let yu know
Wht Frank for others us'd to do, Is now for Frank done by another.
3. To a Carpenter, 1829, Kelston : My tools and mallet lie reclined;
My glass is dim, I 'm almost spent ; My bench is rotten, old, and weak, The legs so feeble make it shake. My object 's finished, my work is done ; My timepiece stops; the spring, I fear, Will lay me soon upon the bier.
4. To a Bellringer, 1641, Pett, Sussex: Here lies George Theobald, a lover of bells, And of this house, as this epitaph tells ;
He gave a bell freely to grace the new steeple ; Ring out his prayse, therefore, ye good people.
L. H. CHAMBERS. Amersham.
JOHN HARDY AND SAMUEL, GAUNTLETT, VICARS OF HURSLEY, HANTS. The most helpful replies in ' N. & Q.' to my former queries regarding Hampshire clerics en- courage me to ask for information about John Hardy, instituted to Hursley in 1638, and ejected in 1644. He was not reinstated, and I do not find him in the ' Sufferings of the Clergy,' nor in his college or university.
I also wish to discover the parents of Dr. Samuel Gauntlett, vicar of the same parish from 1786 to 1794, when he went to Oxford. I think he must have been a native of Win- chester, and I should be greatly obliged for information. He supplied many notes for Noble's ' House of Cromwell.'
F. H. SUCKLING. Highwood, Romsey.
MRS. MARY TREGONWELL. Mary Duke- son (1642-1717) married (1) Alexander Davies, scrivener, who died of the plague in 1665 ; (2) John Tregonwell of Tregonwell Cornwall, and of Winterbourne Anderson, Dorset. By her first husband she had a daughter Mary Davies, who eventually carried her great London property (the Grosvenor, Berkeley, and Maddoks estates) into the house of Grosvenor. By her second husband she had several children, as shown
in her will. When and where did she marry
John Tregonwell ? Her father, Dr. Richard
Dukeson, was Rector of St. Clement Danes.
There is, I believe, a Tregonwell tombstone
till extant in the churchyard of St. Mar-
garet's, Westminster. Whose is it ? and
was the subject of this query also buried
there ? I shall be very much obliged to any
correspondent of ' N. & Q.' who can and
will answer these questions.
A. R. BAYLEY. St. Margaret's, Malvern.
DEVONSHIRE SCHOOLS. Information is sought as to any particulars, published or in manuscript, of pupils at any of the follow- ing since their foundation :
1. Ashburton Grammar School.
2. Barnstaple Grammar School.
3. Bideford Grammar School.
4. Braunton (Chaloner's) Endowed School.
5. Chudleigh (Pynsent's) Grammar School.
6. Colyton Grammar School.
7. Oediton (Queen Elizabeth's Grammar
School).
8. Exeter Grammar School.
9. Hpniton (Allhallows) Grammar School.
10. Kingsbridge Grammar School.
11. Ottery St. Mary (King's School).
12. Plymouth Grammar School.
13. Tavistock Grammar School.
14. Totnes Grammar School.
15. Uflculme Grammar School.
T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.
78, Church Street, Lancaster.
HANNIBAL HAMLIN, A " BLACK REPUB- LICAN." The term " Black Republican," meaning a thorough, uncompromising member of the Republican party, came to be used, at first as an expression of reproach, a few years before the Civil War in the U.S. In 1860 Mr. Hannibal Hamlin of Maine was elected Vice-President, and he was described as a " Black Republican." Misled by the phrase, some English paper (possibly more than one) announced that a black man had been so elected. Can any one give a refer- ence to the place where this statement occurred ? RICHARD H, THORNTON.
" ANCIENT BRITONS " : PROJECTED NA- TURAL HISTORY. In ' The Annual Register ' for 1763 appears the following paragraph under 1 March :
"An handsome Collection was made at St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, and Merchant Taylors' Hall, at the anniversary sermon and feast of the Society of Ancient Britons for the support of their Charity School in Clerkenwell ; for the benefit of which they have undertaken a natural history of animals, vegetables, and fossils of Great Britain,
