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LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
VOL. V.--No. 129. SATURDAY, APRIL 17. 1852.
An Epitaph in St. Giles's, Cripplegate, possibly by Milton, by Thomas H. Gill 361
Baxter's Pulpit, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A. 363
Popular Stories of the English Peasantry, No. I. By T. Sternberg 363
Folk Lore:--Body and Soul--Giving Cheese at a Birth--Sneezing--Marlborough 5th November Custom--Spectral Coach and Horses 364
Antiquaries of the Time of Queen Elizabeth 365
The Tredescants and Elias Ashmole, by S. W. Singer 367
Minor Notes:--Bothwell's Burial-place--Handel's Organ at the Foundling Hospital--Correction to the "Oxford Manual of Monumental Brasses"--Milton's Rib-bone 368
The Danes in England, by J. J. A. Worsaae 369
Minor Queries:--Taylor Family--Analysis--Old Playing Cards--Canongate Marriages--Devil, Proper Name--Hendurucus du Booys; Helena Leonora de Sieveri--Can a Clergyman marry himself? &c. 370
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Jacobite Toast--Rev. Barnabas Oley--Sweet-singers--"Philip Quarll"--Dedication of Middleton Church--Lunatic Asylum benefited by Dean Swift 372
"Rehetour" and "Moke," two obscure Words used by Wycklyffe, A.D. 1384, by N. L. Benmohel, A.M. 373
On a Passage in Hamlet, Act 1. Sc. 4. 377
"The Man in the Almanack," by S. W. Singer 378
Replies to Minor Queries:--Verses in Prose--Stops, when first introduced--Rev. Nathaniel Spinckes, &c. 379
AN EPITAPH IN ST. GILES'S, CRIPPLEGATE, POSSIBLY BY MILTON.
The chief glory of the church of St. Giles, Cripplegate, is the possession of Milton's dust. But this does not constitute its only distinction. It boasts a magnificent organ, and the most beautiful epitaph with which I am acquainted. As this last may be as much of a stranger to many of your readers as it was to me, and may bestow upon the curious in such matters some portion of the pleasure which its discovery gave me, I venture to crave for it a nook in your columns. Considerably to the right of the pulpit, at no great distance, if I recollect aright, to the left of the main entrance, is a monument to William Staples, a citizen of London, who died in 1650, whereon is inscribed the following elegiac couplet: