eye_,
methought he had the lookes of a designe."--_Voyage in the Levant,
performed by Mr. Henry Blunt_, p. 60.: Lond. 1650.

--a silent, but expressive, "posture," tending to eradicate any previously
formed opinion of the verdantness of Mussulmans!

R. C. WARDE.

Kidderminster.

_Epitaph at Crayford._--I send the following lines, if you think them
worthy an insertion in your Epitaphiana: a friend saw them in the
churchyard of Crayford, Kent.

"To the Memory of PETER IZOD, who was thirty-five years clerk of this
parish, and always proved himself a pious and mirthful man.

"The life of this clerk was just three score and ten,
During half of which time he had sung out Amen.
He married when young, like other young men;
His wife died one day, so he chaunted Amen.
A second he took, she departed,--what then?
He married, and buried a third with Amen.
Thus his joys and his sorrows were treble, but then
His voice was deep bass, as he chaunted Amen.
On the horn he could blow as well as most men,
But his horn was exalted in blowing Amen.
He lost all his wind after threescore and ten,
And here with three wives he waits till again
The trumpet shall rouse him to sing out Amen."

Tradition reports these verses to have been composed by some curate of the
parish.

QUAESTOR.

_The Font at Islip._--

"In the garden is placed a relic of some interest--the font in which it
is said King Edward the Confessor was baptised at Islip. The block of
stone in which the basin of immersion is excavated, is unusually massy.
It is of an octangular shape, and the outside is adorned by tracery
work. The interior diameter of the basin is thirty inches, and the
depth twenty. The whole, with the pedestal, which is of a piece with
the rest, is five feet high, and bears the following imperfect
inscription:

'This sacred Font Saint Edward first _receavd_,
From Womb to Grace, from Grace to Glory went,
His virtuous life. To this _fayre_ Isle _beqveth'd_,
_Prase_ ... and to _vs_ but lent.
Let this remaine, the Trophies of his Fame,
A King baptizd from hence a Saint became.'

"Then is inscribed:

'This Fonte came from the Kings Chapel_l_ in Islip.'"--Extracted from
the _Beauties of England and Wales_, title "Oxfordshire," p. 454.

In the gardens at Kiddington there