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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«"»S. N<>71., Mat9.*67. 



thrown in the burying-ground in Shoe Lane, 

 London, and sent by waggon to be interred by 

 his mother in Redcliffe churchyard, Bristol. 



I communicated to " N. & Q." some time ago a 

 transcript of the inquest held upon Chatterton's 

 body, a document never before made public. It 

 was given to me by Mr. Dix, in return for some 

 manuscripts I lent him towards the completion of 

 his Life of Chatterton ; but he never told me 

 from whence he got it. For its authenticity, 

 therefore, in all particulars I could not vouch. 

 As it contained names and facts, usually found in 

 such documents, it is probable it might have been 

 transcribed from the original. Mr. Dix, however, 

 did not insert It in his Life, which to myself and 

 others appeared strange. 



In a comment upon this document Professor 

 Masson notices a discrepancy in the day on which 

 the inquest was held, which it is not in my power 

 to clear up ; but he thinks it of no consequence in 

 disparagement of its general authenticity. There 

 is one date which I would wish to correct, the day 

 on which Mrs. Angell says Chatterton looked un- 

 usually grave ; instead of the 28th August, it 

 should be the 24th. 



Again, the Professor says : 



" In Mrs. Angell's evidence, as given in these MS. 

 notes, the house in which she lived, and in which Chat- 

 terton died, is made to be 17. Brooke Street, instead of 

 4. Brooke Street, as the genieral tradition has always ran, 

 till Mr. Gutch published the notes. No. 17, unless the 

 numbering has been changed, would have been at the 

 inner or meaner end of Brooke Street, close to the market, 

 but no corresponding house can now be pointed out 

 there." 



I am able, I think, from living witnesses to 

 state facts which will go far to substantiate as near 

 as possible the exact house where Mrs. Angell 

 did live. I have a friend and schoolfellow still 

 living, in his eighty-sixth year, who took great in- 

 terest in the Chattertonian controversy, fellow 

 schoolfellow with Coleridge, and acquainted with 

 Southey, who wrote Chatterton's life. My friend's 

 name is the Rev. C. V. Le Grice, living at Tre- 

 reife, near Penzance. I paid him a visit in the 

 autumn of last year, when much of our conversa- 

 tion turned upon the life and character of Chat- 

 terton ; and we found that we had both visited 

 Brooke Street upwards of fifty years ago, for the 

 piirpose of endeavouring to verify the house in 

 which Mrs. Angell lived. In consequence of 

 Professor Masson having stated that tradition had 

 placed the house on the right-hand side of Brooke 

 Street, and that it was No. 4., I wrote to my 

 friend, and in his reply he says, " the house was 

 on the left-hand side of Brooke Street, as you go 

 from Holborn, and I always understood it was 

 No. 12." This visit took place in 1796, about 

 twenty years after Chatterton's death. When I 

 visited Brooke Street for the same purpose in 

 1806, I think I must have called at the same 



house, for upon inquiry at the door, I was in- 

 formed that similar inquiries had been made, and 

 that it was considered by the inmates to be the 

 house in which the suicide took place. That it 

 was not on the right-hand side and No. 4., I think 

 is very improbable for another reason. If I re- 

 collect right, the corner house on the right-hand 

 side was the celebrated grate manufactory be- 

 longing to Messrs. Oldham, extending a long way 

 down this side of the street, beyond, I should 

 suppose, what is now No. 4. 



Which is the most probable and correct account 

 I leave the public to judge. 



My remarks upon the removal of Chatterton's 

 body to Bristol, I reserve for another commu- 

 nication. J. M. G. 



Worcester. 



DISCOVERY OF HUMAN REMAINS. 



The Doncaster Gazette of April 17. contains an 

 account of a recent discovery of human remains 

 behind York Castle : 



" A number of excavators were emploj'ed there to dig 

 a drain, when they turned up the remains of about twenty 



human bodies The conclusion formed respecting 



them is, that they are the remains of twenty-one Scottish 

 rebels who were executed near York, ten of them on Sa- 

 turday the 1st, and the remainder on Saturday the 8th of 

 November, 1746, when they were hanged, drawn, and 

 quartered. The local paper which was in existence at 

 the time states, that 'the whole was conducted with the 

 utmost decency and good order.' " 



The writer of the above-quoted paragraph is 

 most probably correct in supposing that the bones 

 lately found are the remains of those who in 1746 

 suffered death' for their attachment to the exiled 

 family. But if it be understood literally it is in- 

 correct to call them Scottish rebels. Several of 

 them were Englishmen, members of North Coun- 

 try families, as the following list will show : 

 Executions at York, Nov. 1, 1746. 

 Geo. Hamilton. Jam. ISIa^-ne. 



*Edw. Clavering. *VVm. ConoUy. 



Dan. Frazler. *Wm. Dempsey. 



*Cha. Gordon. Angus M'Donald. 



Ben. Mason. Jam. Sparks. 



Executions at York, Nov. 8, 1746. 

 Dan. Row. 

 *Wm. Hunter, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, of Col. Townley's 



regiment. 

 *In. Endisworth, of Knott esford, Cheshire, of Col. Grant's 



regiment. 

 John M'Clean, a Highlander, \ of the Duke of Perth's 

 John M'Gregor, of Perthshire, j regiment. 

 Simon M'Kenzie, of Inverness, ) of Col. Stuart's regi- 

 Alex. Parker, of Murray, j ment. 



Tho M;Gennis, of r>amtF, | ^^ Qlenbucket's regiment. 

 Arch. Kennedy, of Air, j ° 



James Thompson, of Ld. Ogilvie's regiment. 

 *Michael Bradj-, an Irishman, of Glengary's regiment. 



Those marked thus (^) were Iloman Catholics. 

 (See Gentlomn's Mog., Nov. 1746.) 



