for the long space of
fifty-one years. There is a monument erected to his memory in the
above-mentioned building, with the following inscription:-- {193}

"Near this place lieth the body of Richard Standfast, Master of Arts,
of Sidney College in Cambridge, and Chaplain-in-Ordinary to his Majesty
King Charles I., who for his loyalty to the King and stedfastness in
the established religion, suffered fourteen years' sequestration. He
returned to his place in Bristol at the restoration of King Charles
II., was then made prebendary of the cathedral church of Bristol, and
for twenty years and better (notwithstanding his blindness) performed
the offices of the church exactly, and discharged the duties of an
able, diligent, and orthodox preacher. He was Rector of Christ Church
upwards of fifty-one years, and died August 24, in the seventy-eighth
year of his age, and in the year of Our Lord 1681.

He shall live again."

The following additional lines, composed by himself, were taken down from
his own mouth two days before his death; and are, according to his own
desire, inscribed on his tomb:--

"Jacob was at Bethel found,
And so may we, though under ground.
With Jacob there God did intend,
To be with him where'ver he went,
And to bring him back again,
Nor was that promise made in vain.
Upon which words we rest in confidence
That he which found him there will fetch us hence.
Nor without cause are we persuaded thus,
For where God spake with him, he spake with us."

Besides the work your correspondent mentions, he wrote a book, entitled a
_Caveat against Seducers_.

J. K. R. W.

Feb. 22. 1851.

"_Jurat, crede minus_" (Vol. iii., p. 143.).--This epigram was quoted by
Sir Ed. Coke on the trial of Henry Garnet. The author I cannot tell, but
F. R. R. may be glad to trace it up thus far.

J. BS.

_Rab Surdam_ (Vol. ii., p. 493.; Vol. iii., p. 42.).--May not "Rab Surdam"
be the ignorant stone-cutter's version of "resurgam?"

M. A. H.

_The Scaligers_ (Vol. iii., p. 133.).--Everything relating to this family
is interesting, and I have read with pleasure your correspondent's
communication on the origin of their armorial bearings. I am, however,
rather surprised to observe, that he seems to take for granted the
relationship of Julius Caesar Scaliger and his son Joseph to the Lords of
Verona, which has been so convincingly disproved by seve