is the parish to Buckenham Hall, the
seat of the Honourable Francis Baring, near Thetford. A woman there has
long officiated as parish clerk, and still continues acting in that
capacity.

F. R.

I beg to refer Y. S. M. to the following passage Madame d'Arblay's _Diary_,
vol. v. p. 246.:

"There was at Collumpton only a poor wretched ragged woman, a female
clerk, to show us this church: she pays a man for doing the duty, while
she receives the salary in right of her deceased husband!"

M. L. G.

At Misterton, near Crewkerne, in Somersetshire, Mary Mounford was clerk for
more than thirty years. She gave up the office about the year 1832, and is
now in Beaminster Union, just eighty-nine years old.

HERBERT L. ALLEN.

* * * * *

POETICAL EPITHETS OF THE NIGHTINGALE.

(Vol. vii., p. 397.; Vol. viii., p. 112.)

To the one hundred and ten epithets poetically applied to the nightingale
and its song, collected by MR. BEDE, permit me to add sixty-five more.

_Azure-crested._ Cowper.
_Bewailing._ Drummond.
_Chaunting._ Skelton.
_Chaste poet._ Grainger.
_Dappled._ Anon.[2]
_Darling._ Carey.
_Daulian minstrel._ Herrick.
_Delightful._ Shelley.
_Dusky-brown._ Trench.
_Early._ C. Smith.
_Elegiac._ Dibdin.
_Enamoured._ Shelley.
_Fabled._ Byron.
_Fair._ Smart.
_Greeful._[3] Lodge.
_Gurgling._ Lloyd.
_Hallow'd._ Moore.
_Hundred-throated._ Tennyson.
_Invisible._ Hurdis.
_Lesbian._ Bromley.
_Love-learned._ Thomson.
_Love-sick._ Warton.
_Loud-complaining._ Gibbons.
_Lulling._ Anon.[4]
_Lute-tongued._ Anon.[5]
_Mellow._ Strangford.
_Midnight minstrel._ Logan.
_Moody._ Hurdis.
_Nightly._ Bidlake.
_Pandionian._ Drummond.
_Panged._ Hood.
_Pitiful._ Herrick.
_Plaintful._ Drummond.
_Quavering._ Poole.
_Querulous._ Kennedy.
_Rapturous._ Southey.
_Rural._ Dryden.
_Sable._[6] Drummond.
_Sadly-pleasing._[7] Anon.
_Secret._ Shelley.
_Sely._ Chaucer.
_Sequestered._ J. Montgomery.
_Shy._ Dallas.
_Silver-tuned._ Carey.
_Simple._ Derrick.
_Sobbing._ Planche.
_Soft-tuned._ Whaley.
_Solitary._ Bowring.
_Sorrow-soothing._ Shaw.
_Sprightly._ Elton.
_Sweet-breasted._ Beaumont and Fletcher.
_Sweet-tongued._ Anon.[8]
_Sylvan syren._ Pattison.
_Tearful._ Potter.
_Tenderest._ Wiffen.
_Thracian._ Lewis.
_Transporting._ Hurdis.
_Unadorned._ Hurdis.
_Unhappy.