the readers of "NOTES AND QUERIES" as are students of natural history. My
grandfather, who was born in the year 1735 (being the son of Henry Lower,
born on the night of the memorable storm of November, 1703), was among the
very last of those who engaged in the sport of _bustard-hunting_ in the
South Downs. This bird has been extinct, on at least the eastern portion of
that range, for upwards of a century. The sport was carried on by means of
dogs which hunted down the poor birds, and the sticks of the human (or
_in_human?) pursuers did the rest. My ancestor was "in at the death" of the
last of the bustards, somewhere about 1747, being then twelve years old.

MARK ANTONY LOWER.

Lewes.

_Longevity._--Some few years since I had occasion to search the parish
registers of Evercreech in Somersetshire, in one of which I met with the
following astounding entry:--

"1588. 20th Dec., Jane Britton of Evercriche, a Maidden, as she afirmed
of the age of 200 years, was buried."

I can scarcely believe my own note, made however, with the register before
me.

C. W. B.

_The Thirty-nine Articles._--The following MS. note is in a copy which I
have (4to. 1683):

"Sept. 13. 1702.

"Memor. That Mr. Thomas King did then Read publickly and distinctly, in
a full Congregation during the Time of Divine Service, the nine and
thirty Articles of Religion, and Declare his Assent and Consent, &c.,
according as is Required in the Act of Uniformity, In the Parish Church
of Ellesmere, In the Presence of Us, who had the said Articles printed
before Us.

E. KYNASTON.
THO. EYTON.
AR. LANGFORD.
WILL. SWANWICK."

J. O. M.

_Emendation of a Passage in Virgil._--Allow me to send you an emendation of
the usual readings of the 513th line of the first Georgic, which occurred
to me many years ago, and which still appears to me more satisfactory than
any which have hitherto been suggested.

"Ut, cum carceribus sese effudere quadrigae,
_Ac sunt in spatio_,--_en_ frustra retinacula tendens,
Fertur equis auriga, neque audit currus habenas."

"When the chariots have passed the barriers,
_And are now in the open course_,--
_Lo_, the charioteer vainly pulling the
Reins, is carried along by the steeds."

The usual readings are "addunt in spatio," or "addunt in spatia," which are
difficult to be {238} explained or understood. The emendation which I
suggest is, I think, simple