Minor Notes.
"Hierosolyma est perdita."—Whilst studying in Germany, I remember seeing one day some Jews in a great passion because a few little boys had been shouting "Hep! hep!" On information I heard, that whenever the German knights headed a Jew-hunt in the Middle Ages, they always raised the cry "Hep! hep!" This is remembered even to the present day.
Henri van Laun.
King William's College, Isle of Man.
Quaint Inscription in a Belfry.—I think the following unique piece of authorship deserves, for its quaint originality, a corner in "N. & Q." It is copied from an inscription dated Jan. 31, 1757, in the belfry of the parish church of Fenstanton, Hunts:
| "January ye 31, 1757. Hear was ten defrant Peals Rung in 50 min- utes which is 1200, Changes by thouse, names who are Under. | |
| 1. Jno Allin 2. Jms Brown | 3. Jno. Cade 4. Robt Cole |
| 5. Willm How." | |
| "All you young Men yt larn ye Ringen Art, Besure you see & will perform your part no Musick with it Can Excell. nor be compared to ye Melodeus bells." | |
Perhaps I may as well add that this is a faithful copy of the original inscription, both in orthography and punctuation.
W. T. Watts.
St. Ives, Hunts.
The Chronicles of the Kings of Israel and Judah.—After the many conjectures which have been formed respecting the