Feb. 28. 1852.] 



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is now only to divert a part of the stream to a corn 

 mill ; but a weir may have been erected here in 

 ancient times for the purpose of catching salmon, 

 as it is the first weir above Chester on the river 

 Dee. The name of Saint Erbyn is not to be found 

 in the Calendar of Welsh Saints ; but I apprehend 

 that the authority of the commissioners of Henry 

 VIII. may be deemed sufficient for placing his 

 name in the next edition of the Calendar that shall 

 be published. ^' 



Wrexham Regis. 



The quotation from Bosworth is doubtless cor- 

 rect. Blomfield, in his History of Norfolk, when 

 describing Stohe-ferry, says : 



" This town stands on the river Wissey, and in the 

 Book of Domesday it is wrote ' Stoches ; ' not taking 

 its name from stock, (i. e.) some wood, but from stow, a 

 dwelling or habitation, and ches, or kes, by the water." 



There are two villages of the name of Stoke in 

 Norfolk, and both are situate on small streams. 



J. F. F. 



West Newton. 



A Baron's Hearse (Vol. v., p. 128.). — The 

 editorial reply in this page has referred to the Note 

 on Funerals which I prefixed to MachyjCs Diary ; 

 and from that book may certainly be gathered the 

 best possible notion of the style and character of 

 the hearse, and other paraphernalia attendant upon 

 funerals in England during the sixteenth century. 

 But in a book which I edited for another Society, 

 namely, The Unton Inventories, 1841, will be found 

 the authority for Lloyd's statement relative to the 

 funeral of Sir Henry Unton : it is the certificate 

 in the College of Arms, which states that he was 

 buried at Faringdon " with a baron's hearse, and 

 in the degree of a baron, because he died ambas- 

 sador leidger for France." A Lord Mayor of 

 London, dying in office, was in like manner in- 

 terred with the observances due to a baron. It 

 appears from Sir Henry Unton's papers that he 

 was usually addressed as " My Lord " whilst in 

 France as ambassador. May I inquire whether 

 that practice is still kept up towards ambassadors 

 who are not peers ? or, if not, when did it cease ? 

 John Gough NicHOis. 



The Bed of Ware (Vol. v., p. 128.).— There is 

 an engraving of the Bed of AVare in Clutterbuck's 

 History of Hertfordshire, and another in Shaw's 

 Ancient Furniture. J. G. N. 



[We are also reminded by Mb. C. H. Cooper that it 

 is engraved in Knight's Pictorial Shakspeare.'] 



Symbolism of Death (Vol. iii., pp. 450. 501.). 

 — Will you permit a Note to say, that Herder, 

 after Lessing, and in continuation of his essay, 

 wrote on the subject of " Death, as symbolically 

 represented by the Ancients." Lessing's treatise 

 "was lately mentioned by one of your correspon- 

 dents, without any notice of Herder's. J. M. 



General Wolfe (Vol. iv., p. 438.). — I send the 

 following "Notes from Newspapers," thinking they 

 may be of service to 5- : — 



" His Majesty has been pleased to appoint the Hon. 

 Col. Wolfe to be Inspector of all the marines." — Lon- 

 don and County Journal, May 13, 1742. 



" To Rome from Pontus, thus great Julius wrote, 

 I came, I saw, and conquer'd, ere I fought. 

 In Canada, brave Wolfe, more nobly tried. 

 Came, saw, and conquer'd, — but in battle died. 

 More glorious far than Ca-sar's was his doom, 

 Who lived to die for Tyranny in Rome." 



London Chronicle, August 18. 1774. 

 These lines are headed " An Epitaph intended 

 for General Wolfe." They are signed by E. D. 



In the Illustrated London News of Jan. 24 is 

 the popular air known as " General Wolfe's Song," 

 which, according to Sir H. Bishop's " note," is 

 said to have been composed by him the night pre- 

 vious to the battle on the Plains of Abraham. 



H. G. D. 



Proverb (Vol. iv., p. 239.). — Fuller defines a 

 proverb " much matter decocted into few words." 

 — Worthies, ch. ii. E. W. C. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



When we remember the ill-drawn and gaudily 

 coloured prints with which, until these few years, it 

 was the fashion to illustrate all books intended for the 

 use and amusement of young people, we cannot but be 

 forcibly struck with the improvement which has taken 

 place in this respect. These remarks have been sug- 

 gested to us by a couple of children's books just issued 

 by Messrs. Addey, in the illustration of which those 

 tasteful publishers have employed the able pencil of 

 Hablot Browne. The first, Home and its Pleasures, 

 Simple Stories for Young People, by Mrs. Harriet 

 Myrtle, contains eight admirable designs ; while Aunt 

 Effie's Rhymes for Little Children — and Aunt Effie is a 

 most capital writer of Rhymes for Babyland — is enriched 

 with no less than twenty-four illustrations, some of which 

 are rich in the peculiar humour of this artist. To the 

 same house we are also indebted for a work of still 

 higher interest, namely, a new and complete edition of 

 The Danish Fairy Legends and Tales, by Hans Chris- 

 tian Andersen, containing (besides a Memoir of the 

 Author) no less than forty-five tales, translated direct 

 from the original language, and not through any Ger- 

 man version. This will be good news to all who know 

 and admire the playful humour and deep imaginings 

 of the great Danish Story Teller. 



Child's Play, Seventeen Drawings by E. V. B., de- 

 mands notice, not as a work of literature, but of Art, 

 and Art of a very high order. For fancy, grace, and 

 simplicity, these exquisite illustrations of some of our 

 old Nursery Rhymes may challenge comparison with 

 any works of a similar character with which we are 

 acquainted. Produced by the Anastatic process, they 

 show how available that process may be made to the 



