Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850 by Various
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Beatoun, who was assassinated in 1546. The original is in Holyrood
Palace, and an engraving in Mr. Lodge's _Portraits_. The artist is unknown, but from the age of the face one may infer that it was painted about 1540. C.H. _Jewish Music_ (Vol. ii., p. 88.).--See a host of authorities on the subject of Hebrew music and musical instruments in Winer's _Realwörterbuch_ vol. ii., pp. 120. _seq._, 3d edit. There is a good abstract respecting them in Jahn's _Hebrew Antiquities_, sect. 92-96. C.H. _North Sides of Churchyards unconsecrated_ (Vol. ii., p. 55.).--In illustration of, not in answer to, Mr. Sansom's inquiry, I beg to offer the following statement. During a long series of years an average of about 150 corpses has been annually deposited in Ecclesfield churchyard, which has rendered it an extremely crowded cemetery. But, notwithstanding these frequent interments, my late sexton told me that he remembered when there was scarcely one grave to the north of the church, it being popularly considered that only suicides, unbaptised persons, and still-born children ought to be buried there. However, when a vicar died about twenty-seven years ago, unlike his predecessors, who had generally been buried in the chancel, he was laid in a tomb on the north side of the churchyard, adjoining the vicarage. From this time forward the situation lost all its evil reputation amongst the richer inhabitants of the parish, who have almost entirely occupied it with family vaults. |
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