St. Lucia.
_A Sounding Name._--At the church of Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, is a
record of one John Chapman, whose name, it is alleged, "sounds in (or
throughout) the world," but for my own part I have never been privileged to
hear either the original blast or the echo. Perhaps some of the readers of
"N. & Q." can inform me who and what was the owner of this high-sounding
name. Was he related to Geo. Chapman, the translator of Homer? The
inscription is as follows:
"Memoriæ defunctorum Sacrum
[Greek: kai tuphônia]
Siste gradum, Viator, ac leges. In spe beatæ Resurrectionis hic
requiescunt exuviæ Johannis Chapmanni et Isabellæ uxoris, filiæ
Gulielmi Allen de Wightford, in Comitat. War. ab antiquo Proavorum
stemmate deduxerunt genus. Variis miseriarum agitati procellis ab
strenue succumbentis in arrescenti juventutis æstate, piè ac peccatorum
poenitentia expirabant animas.
Maij 10 Die Anno Domini 1677.
Sistite Pierides Chapmannum plangere, cujus
Spiritus in coelis, _nomen in orbe sonat_."