I think the word _heronsewes_ (cf. Vol. iii., pp. 450. 207.; Vol. iv., p. 76.) is another example, which are called _harnseys_ at this day in Norfolk; as it is difficult, on any other supposition, to account for an East-Anglian giving a French appellation to so common a bird as the heron.
_Locke's Writings._--In an unpublished manuscript of Paley's _Lectures on Locke's Essay_, it is stated that so great was the antipathy against the writings of this eminent philosopher, at the time they were first issued, that they were "burnt at Oxford by the hands of the common hangman." Is this fact recorded in any Life of Locke; or how may it be ascertained? There is no notice of it, I believe, in either Law's _Life_, or in that of Lord King.
_Passage in Göthe's "Faust."_--Has the following passage from the second part of _Faust_ ever been noticed in connexion with the fact that the clock in Göthe's chamber stopped at the moment that he himself expired? If it has not, I shall congratulate myself on having been the first to point out this very curious coincidence
"_Mephistopheles._ Die Zeit wird Herr, der Gries hier liegt im Sand, _Die Uhr steht still_---- _Chorus._ Steht still! Sie schweigt wie Mitternacht _Der Zeiger fällt._ _Mephistopheles._ Er fällt, es ist vollbracht." _Faust_, der Tragödie Zweiter Theil, Fünfter Act.
_Schomberg's Epitaph by Swift._--A correspondent asks whether the epitaph alluded to in the following extract from the _Daily Courant_ of July 17, 1731, is given in any edition of Swift's _Works_.
"The Latin Inscription, composed by the Rev. Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, and ordered by the Dean and Chapter to be fixed up in the Cathedral of the said Church, over the place where the body of the great Duke of Schomberg lies, has been with all possible care and elegance engraved on a beautiful table of black Kilkenny marble, about eight feet long and four or five broad; the letters are gilded, and the whole is now finished with the utmost neatness. People of all ranks are continually crowding to see it, and the Inscription is universally admired."
The _Daily Gazetteer_ of Saturday, July 12, 1740, gives a detailed account of the rejoicings in Dublin on the Tuesday preceding, being the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne, and a particular account of the bonfire made by Dean Swift in St. Kevin's Street, near the watch-house.