Notes and Queries, Number 230, March 25, 1854

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The public need to be told, that no animal can live in the alimentary canal but the parasites which belong to that part of the animal econom

weather of the summer before last, I was asked by a respectable farmer, if I had seen the "serpent" which was lately killed in an adjoining parish. "Serpent!" I replied; "I suppose you mean some overgrown commo

s of horses, they are known to be the larv? of a fly which deposits its eggs on the skin; from whence they are lic

and is extremely difficult of extraction, and often productive of great inconvenience. But whether the egg of this worm be taken into the stomach, an

usted the skill of many medical men (as she asserted) to rid her of "a snake or some such living creature, which she felt confident was and had been for a long time gnawing in her stomach." I suggested the expediency of working on the imagination of

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21.): BURIAL IN AN ERECT POST

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esides what has been quoted above; and, to those herein interested, the following ext

ngfield in Suffolk, thinking it improper that the house of God should be made the repository of sinful man, ought to command the imitation of less deserving persons: perhaps it had an influence over the mind of his successor,

the living and to churchyards for the dead[2]; Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich, who "did not hold God's house a meet reposi

in Ecclesiis non humentur, sed nec in

ibroke in Northamptonshire

where that ever I die in the next chirche yerde, God vouchsafe, and naut in the chirche,

im of interment within its walls; and Baldwin, the great civilian, severely censures this indecent liberty, and questions whether he shall call it a superstition or an impudent

in 1172, mentioned by Cambrensis. A short time since some small earthen tumuli were opened on the Curragh of Kildare, under which skeletons were found standing upright on their feet, and in their hands, or near them, spears with iron heads. The custom of placing their dead

ever having been answered, I shall, perhaps, be allowed to use this opp

cis efferebant, nullaque loci habita cura mandabant terr?; ac ad caput

e erect posture, as illustrated by Stavel

is reason why he should be buried after the same way, that seeing all things were (according to his opinion) to be turned ups

hecar.

rn) Cole's MSS.

bly at Edinburgh, in 1588, pr

eturn) Cole's

othing, Act III. Sc

buried with he

left notes upon this line. The follow

e in an old black-letter book, without date, intitled, 'A merye Jes

fote of the coffyn fell into the botome of the pyt, and the coffyn stood bolt upryght in the middes of the grave. Then desired ye people that stode about the grave that tyme, t

rvailously, because they were marvelous men?"-Jo

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gister is the following

with head upwards, standing upright, by her husband, daug

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of rest, and make choice of an erect posture i

f meeting the Judge, fac

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ix., p

hn Stoddart's Philosophy of Language, in the North British Review for November, 1850. In reference to the opinion maintaine

e kind love and respect I bear to my much honoured and good friend, Mr. Matthew Stradling, Gent., I do bequeath unto the said Matthew Stradling, Gent., all my black and white horses.' The testator had six black horses, six white horses, and six pied horses. The whole point at issue turns upon the question whether the copulative and joins sentences or words.

are finally proposed in

roposition, and serving to connect it with a noun or pronoun by whi

united stand in similar relations to the term to which they belong. For example, 1. As attributes, both qualifying a subject, 'Sic bonus et sapiens dignis ait esse paratus.' 2. As prepositions, both introducing limiting nouns 'witho

him that the true functions of the several parts of speech must be determined by an analysis of the laws of thoug

Mansel

s College

ng about the accuracy of another's logic? He seems to employ the proposition,

hat whole collectively. If so, the proposition affirms that the whole genus of trees must either be acknowledged to be endogens, or else to be all exogens. Does not such an affirmation

not to unravel, of which I would gladly see their solution. For he has there said, "Three Bobaques are all true and real Bobaques, supposing the name of that species of animals belon

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d, on good authority, to have occurred in this town. Henry of Knighton (who was a Cano

the cemetery of the Holy Sepulchre of Leicester, to be buried, began to revive in the cart, and was taken into the church of the Holy Sepulchre by an ecclesiastic, and there diligently guarded by this Leicester ecclesiastic to prevent

ng's justices, to be hanged; that he was led to the gallows by the frankpledges of Birstall and Belgrave, and by them suspended; but on his body being taken down, and carried to the cemetery of St. John's Hospital for interment, he revived and was subsequently exiled. Three instances are narrated in Wanley's Wonders of Man, vol. i. pp. 125, 126., and another will be

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doubt the truth of individuals ha

ho placed it in a coffin, and conveyed the same in a cart towards her native place for the purpose of interment. On her journey the dead came to life again, sat up in her coffin,

een minutes a reprieve arrived. He was cut down and bled, and is said

ases by asphyxia, in very rare instances by dislocation of the spine,

ry, the case of Gordon, which occurred in the early part

y, and with a view to escape from his penalty, succe

omplished his part of the tragedy, Gordon's body was handed over to his friends. Chovell bled him, and the highwayman sighed deeply, but subsequently fainted and died. The want of success

. Nor do I know whether Hook, in his Maxwell, had any farther authority than his imagination for his story of resuscitation, though I have heard it said to be foun

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only relate the record of it from memory, after a lapse of many years. I think the occurrence, of which there is no doubt, took place somewhere about the year 1782 or 1784; and after all there is nothing very extraordinary about it, for the mode of execution by hanging at that time presented many chances to the culprit of escaping death; he ascended a ladder, upon which he stood until all the arrangements were completed, and then was quietly turned off, commonly i

f escaping death by the

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p. 570., after giving the names

was stripped and laid on the board, and one of the servants was washing him in order to be cut, he perceived life in him, and found his breath to come quicker and

21. of the

p. 570.) ordered to be

rious case of Anne Green of Oxford, quoted from Dr. Plot's Natural History of Oxfordshire, p. 197., which is well worth reading. Also, in vol. lvi

s est, quod asperam arteriam non cartilagineam sed

cum tertio Judicis solertia periisset, inventam osseam asper

ickson, who was executed for child-murder at Edinburgh, June 19, 1728, with an engraving of her "rising

dead at law, so that the marriage is dissolved. This was exactly the case with Margaret Dickson, for the king's advocate could not pursue her any farther, but filed a bill in the High Cou

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ndent I send an extract from the Gen

twenty-eight minutes, when the mob carried off the body to a place appointed, where he was, after five or six hours, actually recovered by a surgeon, and who made the inc