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not succeed in discovering it.* Notwithstanding, 

 I am induced, late as it may be, if still the spot 

 remains unmarked, to hope some reader of " N. & 

 Q.," and a lover of genuine poetry, acquainted 

 with the locality, will endeavour to ascertain 

 where his mortal remains were deposited ; and to 

 urge him on to this praisewortliy task, may I be 

 permitted simply to repeat two stanzas of his 

 beautiful composition? — one from his "Ode on 

 the Death of Thomson," the other from the Dirge 

 in "Cymbeline," and both of which one cannot 

 read over and over again without increased ad- 

 miration : 



" Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore 



Where Thames in summer wreaths is drest, 

 And oft suspend the dashing oar, 

 To bid his gentle spirit rest." 



" Each lovely scene shall thee restore, 



For thee the tear be duly shed ; 

 Beloved, till life can charm no more ; 



And mourn'd till pity's self be dead." 



X- 

 [William Collins expired in the house of his sister, 

 Mrs. Sempill, at Chichester, and was buried in St. An- 

 drew's Church, in the East Street. In Chichester Cathe- 

 dral is a neat tablet, executed by Flaxman, and erected 

 by public subscription, to the memory of this unfortunate 

 poet. He is represented as just recovered from a fit of 

 phrenzy, to which he was subject, and in a calm and re- 

 clining" posture seeking refuge from his misfortunes in 

 the consolations of the Gospel, while his lyre, and one of 

 his first poems, lie neglected on the ground. Above are 

 the figures of Love and Pity, entwined in each other's 

 arms. Underneath are some lines, the joint composition 

 of William Hayley and John Sargent, iSsqs. See Beauties 

 of England and Wales, and Hav's History of Chichester, 

 p. 529.] 



Society of Astrologers. — In a manuscript volume 

 among the collections in the British Museum, 

 Additional MS., 11302., I find — 



" 1650. Aug. Sti", Df Gell preached before the Society 

 of Astrologers." 



Is anything of the establishment or history of 

 such Society known ? Y, S. 



[Two Sermons are in print preached by Dr. Eobert 

 Gell before this Society in the Church of St. Mary Alder- 

 mary, one on Aug. 1, 1649; the other on Aug. 8, 1650. 

 In the former it is said to have been preached "before 

 the learned Societj' of Astrologers ; " but. in the latter, 

 " before the learned Societie of Artists or Astrologers." 

 The Society seems to have had an annual meeting, for at 

 the commencement of the Sermon in 1649 the preacher 

 Bays, " As for you the learned Society of Artists, with 

 whom now properly my business is, your anniversary 

 meeting is, I hope, for more noble ends, the common good 

 and benefit of mankind; the nourishing and strength- 

 ening of true, mutual, Christian love ; the owning of 

 the great God, whose name is Love, in his works of 



* See The Poetical Works of John Scott, Esq., 8vo. 1782, 

 in which, at p. 323-4., are stanzas written at Midhurst, 

 on his return from Chichester, where he had attempted in 

 Tftia to find the burial-place of Collins. 



nature and government of the world b}' stars and angels, 

 neglected by almost all other men."] 



" Whitmeats." — " His diet was cbielly whit- 

 meats." What were they ? J. B. 



[Whit-meats, or rather White-meats, were milk, but- 

 ter, cheese, eggs, white pots, and custards; any milky 

 diet ; also fowls, chickens, turkeys, pigs, rabbits, &c. 

 White-meats were formerly forbidden in Lent.] 



"liousseau's Dream^^ — Can any of your readers 

 inform me whether the well-known melody called 

 "Rousseau's Dream" was the production of the 

 celebrated Jean Jacques Rousseau, the author of 

 "Emile," and "LaNouvelleHeloise?" and, if so, in 

 whicli of his musical works it occurs? J. H. R. 



Birmingham. 



[There is no doubt of this melody being the production 

 of Jean Jacques Rousseau. But it is not found in the 

 Collection, Les Consolations des Miseres de ma Vie, ou 

 Renteil d' Airs, Romances, et Duos. Paris, 1781, fol. Per- 

 haps some one of its numerous arrangers may be able to 

 supply the information required.] 



Twelfth Bay at St. James\ — In the Ladys 

 Magazine for 1760 is the following : 



" Sunday 6. Jan. being twelfth day, and a collar and 

 offering day at St. James', his Majesty, preceded by the 

 heralds, pursuivants, &c., and the Knights of the Garter, 

 Thistle, and Bath, in the collars of their respective orders, 

 went to the Royal chapel at St. James's, and offered gold, 

 myrrh, and frankincense, in imitation of the eastern Magi 

 offering to our Savioui'." 



1. When was this custom given up ? 



2. Was incense burnt in the chapel at that 

 time ? J. C. J. 



[The custom is not yet given up. The gold, myrrh, 

 and frankincense are still offered. They are presented in 

 small silk bags.] 



LONGEVITT, AND THE TRANSMISSION OF K.NOV?- 

 LEDGB THROUGH FEW MNK-S. 



(2°'' S. ii. 483.) 



May not the subject of longevity, which has 

 been pleasantly treated by many of your corre- 

 spondents, and by none more so than by Mr. 

 Sydney Gibson, be illustrated by the instance 

 of Lettice, Countess of Leicester ? She was born 

 in 1539, or at latest in 1540, and was consequently 

 seven years old at the death of Henry VIII. She 

 may very well have had a recollection of the bluff 

 monarch who cut off the head of her great-aunt 

 Anne Boleyn. During the reign of Etlward VI. 

 the young Lettice was still a girl, but Sir Francis 

 Knollys, her father, was about the Court, and 

 Lettice, no doubt, saw and was acquainted with 

 the youthful sovereign. The succession of Mary 

 threw the family of Lettice into the shade. As a 

 relative of the Boleyns, and the child of a Puri- 

 tan, she could expect do favour froni the daughter 



