I wish to know if this note is worth anything, and if the statement contained in it is true?
R. H.
Inscription on Penny of George III.—On an old penny of George III., on the reverse, I find the following inscription:
"STABIT QVOCVNQVE IECERIS."
What does this precisely mean; or why and when was it adopted?
J. M. A.
"Shob," or "Shub," a Kentish Word.—Your correspondent on the Kentish word sheets (Vol. vi., p. 338.) may possibly be able to give some account of another Kentish word, which I have met with in the country about Horton-Kirby, Dartford, Crayford, &c., and the which I cannot find in Halliwell, or any other dictionary in my possession,—viz. to shob or shub. It is applied to the trimming up elm-trees in the hedge-rows, by cutting away all the branches except at the head: "to shob the trees" is the expression. Now, in German we have schaben, v. r. to shave; but in the Anglo-Saxon I find nothing nearer than scaf, part. scof, to shave.
A. C. M.
Exeter.
Bishop Pursglove (Suffragan) of Hull.—This prelate is buried in Tideswell Church, Devonshire, and a copy of his monumental brass is given in Illustrations of Monumental Brasses, published in 1842 by the Cambridge Camden Society. Perhaps some reader of "N. & Q." who has access to that work will send the inscription for insertion in your columns. Any information also as