"There died in the city of Paris in the year of our Lord 1514, a woman named Yoland Baillie, at the age of eighty-eight years, and in the eighth year of her widowhood, who there lieth buried in the churchyard of St. Innocents; by whose epitaph it appeareth, that there were two hundred, fourscore and fifteen children issued from herself, while herself yet lived!"
J. Y.
Frebord (Vol. v., p. 440.).—Your correspondent P. M. M. desires information on this matter. He may be glad to know that, in the adjoining manor from whence I write, the claim is sixteen feet and a half from the set of the hedge; and this claim has been ever allowed, and is still enforced. It is supposed to depend on a right of free-warren which the manor in question possesses under a grant of Henry III. Is there any reason to believe that there is any connexion between frebord and free-warren? I have heard it explained as reserved for the use of the lord for the purpose of preserving the game.
Spes.
Milton's (?) Epitaph (Vol. v., p. 361.).—Your correspondent is possibly not acquainted with the Rev. Charles Wordsworth's very beautiful epitaph on his first wife. It is in the College Chapel at Winchester, and is remarkably similar in idea to the one he gives. The words are:
I nimiùm dilecta! vocat Deus: i bona nostræ
Pars animæ: mœrens altera disce sequi."
Both authors are doubtless indebted to Horace's—
"Ah! te meæ si partem animæ rapit
Maturior vis," &c.