[The monument was commenced by the second Sir Thomas Eden in 1615, and contained, some years since, an inscription upon brass, a limbed picture, and upon the wall, beneath the canopy, a pedigree of the marriages of the family with those of Waldegrave, Peyton, Steward, Workington, Harrys, and St. Clere. The whole having fallen into ruin, it became necessary in 1851 to remove it. The brass being gone, the following inscription upon the verge of the canopy alone was visible: "This tombe was finished at ye coste of Sir Thomas Eden, Knight, Maie 16, 1617." A large mural monument to the memory of several of the Eden family is about to be erected by its side. See the Rev. Charles Badham's History and Antiquities of All Saints' Church, Sudbury, pp. 44-46. and 162., London, 1852; who says that the pedigree upon the wall has been preserved, but does not state where it may be seen: it will, however, be found among the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum.]
The Gentleman's Calling.—Can any one tell me who was the author of this book? It was printed in London for T. Garthwait, at the little north doore of St. Pauls, 1660.
John Scribe.
[This work is attributed to the uncertain author of The Whole Duty of Man, and is included among the collected works of that writer in the folio edition of
1729. Compare "N. & Q.," Vol. vi., p. 537., with Vol. viii., p. 564.]
Obs and Sols.—Burton, in his Anatomy of Melancholy ("Democritus to the Reader"), 6th edition, has the following passage:
"Bale, Erasmus, Hospinian, Vives, Kemnisius, explode, as a vast ocean of obs and sols, school divinity."
What is the meaning of the terms obs and sols?
Henry H. Breen.
St. Lucia.