Again, this: The entire epigram said to have been made by Porson on a Fellow of his college, who habitually pronounced Euphrătes (short) instead of Euphrātes. The only words I remember—it is now near thirty years since I heard it—are
"Et corripuit fluxeum;"
and Jekyll, the celebrated wit, rendered the epigram into English, and part of it thus:
"He abridged the river."
H. M.
Sons of the Conqueror—William Rufus and Walter Tyrell.—Sir N. W. Wraxall (Posthumous Memoirs, vol. i., p. 425.) says of the Duke of Dorset:
"His only son perished at twenty-one in an Irish foxchase: a mode of dying not the most glorious or distinguished, though two sons of William the Conqueror, one of whom was a King of England, terminated their lives in a similar occupation."
Who are these two sons? William Rufus would be one of them; but who is the other? And whilst I am on this subject, I would inquire, on what authority does the commonly received story of William II.'s death by the hand of Sir Walter Tyrrell rest?
Tewars.
Brass of Lady Gore.—Moody, in his Sketches of Hampshire, states that there is a brass of an Abbess, 1434, Lady Gore by name, in the church of Nether Wallop. But in the Oxford Manual it is stated (Introduction, p. xxxix.) that only two brasses of Abbesses are known, one at Elstow, Beds, to Elizabeth Hervey, and the other at Denham, Bucks, to Agnes Jordan, Abbess of Syon, both c. 1530. Which is correct of these two authorities?