S. R. Pattison.
Acrostic.—I send you a very curious acrostic, copied from a monument in the Church of St. Germans, Cornwall. You will perceive that it is in memory of "Johannes Glanvill, Minister;" and it is surmounted with the arms of that ancient family:
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A. D. 1599. 24to Novembr natus est. | ARMS. |
A. D. 1631. 20mo Octobr denatus. |
| I | nditur in gelidum | G | regis hujus opilio bustu | M, |
| O | mnibus irriguus | L | achrymis simul urbis et agr | I. |
| H | ujus erit vivax | A | tque indelebile nome | N, |
| A | rtibus et linguis | N | ecnon virtute probat | I. |
| N | obis ille novæ | V | atem (pro munere) legi | S |
| N | aviter et graviter | I | ucunde et suaviter egi | T. |
| E | rgo relanguenti | L | icet eluctetur ab or | E |
| S | piritus; æternum | L | ucebit totus ut aste | R. |
W. D. F.
Walton.
Simmels.—The Vienna correspondent of The Times, whose letter from "Vienna, March 5th," appeared in that paper on Friday the 10th, mentions a Viennese loaf, the name of which so strongly resembles the simmel of our ancestors as to deserve a Note:
"The Viennese witlings, who are much inclined to abuse the hyperbole, affirm that a magnifying glass will soon be requisite in order to discover the whereabouts of the semmeln, the little wheaten loaves for which Austria is famous."
W. J. T.
Ogborne's History of Essex.—I lately fell in with (at a marine store-shop in Somers Town) some scattered materials in Mrs. Ogborne's handwriting for the above highly interesting but unfinished work. I have not yet sorted them, but I perceive that the MSS. contain some information that was never published, relating to Rochford Hundred, &c. The shopkeeper stated that she had used the greater part of Mrs. Ogborne's papers as waste-paper, but I am not without hopes that she will find more. There is a letter from Mr. Leman of Bath, which is published in the work. I am aware that Mr. Fossett has Mrs. Ogborne's MSS.; but those now in my possession are certainly interesting, and might be, to some future historian of Essex, even valuable. Should I discover anything worth inserting in "N. & Q." on examining the MSS. I will send it.