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From this we may judge that Somersetshire 

 was open to attack many miles up the river. 



As the Danes could bring their vessels thus far 

 to the annoyance of the Saxons, they could as 

 easily retreat. This pill of the river was also 

 very available for reaching the higher parts of 

 Somerset. From Danbale, in the parish of Pari- 

 ton (Parreton?), a Roman road extended to 

 Avalonia, Glastonbury. 



As this was much frequented by the pilgrims 

 who came from Ireland to the Glastonbury shrine, 

 so from its necessary repairs it became a great 

 advantage to the Danes, and an equal injury to 

 the Saxons. On this road lies the village of 

 Edington, which I am anxious to reclaim from 

 those chroniclers who would place it in Wilts. 

 Edington near Glastonbury was famous in the 

 days of the Romans for its mint. 



I may add this much in favour of this Edington, 

 or Ethandane. In the year 878, King Alfred, 

 after Easter, having fortified Athelney, marched 

 to Brixton Deverill, in Selwood Forest. Here, 

 being joined by the men of Wilts and Hants, he 

 went at once to Okeley, not Leigh, now West- 

 bury, or Leigh-de-la-mere, but Leigh-upon- 

 Mendip. 



Here he encamped one night, and thence moved 

 onward by the old Foss Road to Edington near 

 Glastonbury. In this place he defeated the Danes, 

 with great slaughter. At AUer, near Athelney, 

 Alfred received Guthrum, the commander of the 

 Danes. At Wedmore he was baptized. The 

 tradition is, that Alfred sought admittance into 

 Guthrum's camp as a harper, in the parish of 

 Ashcot, 3 1 miles from Edington. Hence Piper's 

 Inn. Have I in this statement advanced too 

 much in favour of Edington, Somerset ? 



M. A. Ball. 



Sayings of Queen Elizabeth. — The recorded 

 sayings of this great queen are numerous. The 

 following is in the old black letter reports of Bul- 

 strode (Part iii. p. 44.) : — 



" When I, said Lord Coke, was the Queen's Attorney, 

 she said unto me, 'I understand that my counsel will 

 strongly urge preerogativa RegincB ; but my will is, that 

 they stand pro domina veritate, rather than pro domina 

 Regina, unless domina Regina hath veritatem on her side.' 

 And she used to give this charge many times when any 

 one was called to any office by her — that they should 

 ever stand pj-o veritate, rather than jm> Regina." 



T. F. 



Lamb's Conduit. — About sixty years since, I 

 was travelling from the West of England in 

 one of the old stage coaches of that day, and 

 my fellow-travellers were an octogenarian clergy- 

 man and his daughter. In speaking of the then 

 increasing size of London, the old gentleman 



said, that when he was a boy, and recovering 

 from an attack of small-pox, he was sent into 

 the country to a row of houses standing on the 

 west side of the upper part of the present Lamb's 

 Conduit Street; that all the space before him 

 was open fields ; that a streamlet of water ran 

 under his window ; and he saw a man snipe 

 shooting, who sprung a snipe near to the house, 

 and shot it. He further said, that he once 

 stated the fact to an old nobleman (whose name 

 he mentioned, but I have forgotten it), and he 

 replied : " Well ! when I was a young man, I 

 sprung a brace of partridges where Grosvenor 

 Square now stands, and bagged one of them." I 

 have myself seen a pump reputed to be erected 

 upon the Conduit Head, and standing against the 

 corner house of a small turning out of Lamb's 

 Conduit Street, on the right hand side as you go 

 towards the Foundling, and nearly at the upper 

 end of the street. F. Wh h. 



Epitaph on Bishop Barlow's Widow. — The 

 subject of the enclosed epitaph, from a tablet in 

 the church of Easton, Hants, is closely connected 

 with one given by E. H. A. at p. 136. of this vo- 

 lume, under the head of " Mrs. Scott." The ge- 

 nealogical part is so curious as to make it worth 

 insertion. 



" Epitaph VI Easton Church. 



" Agatha Barlow widow, daughter of Humfrey Wels- 

 borne, late wife of William Barlow, Bishop of Winchester, 

 who departed this life, the 13 of August Anno Domi 1568, 

 and lethe * buried in the Cathedral Church of Chchester *, 

 by whom she had seven children, that came unto men 

 and women's state, too * sons and 5 daughters, the sons 

 William and John, the daughters Margarite, wife unto 

 William Overton Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, Anne 

 wife unto Herbert Westfayling, Bishop of Hereford, Eliza- 

 beth died anno *, wife unto William Day now Bishop 

 of Winchester, Frances wife unto Toby Mathew Bishop of 

 Durham, Antonine late wife unto William Wickham dis- 

 ceased * Bishop of Winchester, she beinig * a woman 

 godly wise and discreet from her youth, most faithful unto 

 her husband both in prosperity and adversity, and a com- 

 panion with him in banishment for the Gospel sake, most 

 kind and loving unto all her children, and dearly beloved 

 of them all for her ability of a liberal mind and pitiful 

 unto the poor, she having lived about lxxxx years died 

 in the Lord, whom she daily served, the xiii of June 

 Anno Domini 1595 in the house of her sunne* William, 

 being then person* of this church and prebendary of 

 Winchester. 



" Rogatu et sumptibus filise dilectse FranciscEe Mathew." 



W. W. S. 

 Itchen Abbas. 



The last Descendant of Milton. — The following 

 extract from one of Dr. Birch's Common-Place 

 Books, contains some particulars not noticed in 

 Todd's Life of Milton. It is worth a corner in 

 " N. & Q!" : 



" May 14, 1754 (Tuesday) : I attended the funeral and 



• Sic in orig. 



