depth, and width. The decad, or denarius, indicated
comprehensively all being, material and immaterial, in the utmost
perfection: hence the term _decas_, or _denarius_, was used summarily for
the whole science of numbers, as in the title of Meursius's tract _De
Denario Pythagorico_, which was published four years after the date of the
inscription, and when the philosophy was attracting much attention among
European scholars. To be as concise as possible then, I presume that the
old bishop intended that the tomb on which his effigy lies was his access
to that perfection of existence which philosophers had designated by the
_decas_, or _denarius_. During the present life he was hoping for it, "Dum
Spiro, Spero."--On the other side: "In Him, who is the source, the
beginning, the middle, and the end of all existence and perfection (in Uno,
2^o. 3^o. 4^{or} 10. non Spirans Sperabo), though I breathe no more, yet
shall I hope."

Such is probably the meaning of his pious conceit, and I offer it as a
solution of what has long served for a riddle to the visitors of our
cathedral. Beyond this, your readers and myself may be equally indifferent
to such cabalistical quaintness. But let us treat it with charity, as the
devout consummation of an aged alchymist.

O. F.

College Green, Worcester, March, 1851.

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Minor Notes.

_King Richard III._ (Vol. iii., p. 221.).--On the 14th May, 1491 (6 Henry
VII.), one Master William Burton, the schoolmaster of St. Leonard's
Hospital, in the city of York, was accused before the magistrates of having
said that "King Richard was an hypocrite, a _crocheback_, and buried in a
dike like a dog." This circumstance is recorded in a contemporary document
of unquestionable authenticity (vide extracts from _York Records in the
Fifteenth Century_, p. 220.); and must remove all doubt as to the fact of
Richard's bodily deformity. The conjecture of Dr. Wallis, quoted by
G. F. G., can have no weight when opposed by clear evidence that the word
"crouchback," as a term of reproach or contempt, was applied to King
Richard within a few years after his death, by one to whom his person must
have been familiarly known.

[Delta].

_Shakespeare a thorough Sailor._--Let me point attention to a _genuine_
nautical expression, in the use of which Shakespeare shows himself _a
thorough sailor_:

"The wind sits in the _shoulder_ of your sail."--_Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 3.

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