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now called Adelersborg, near the town of Holbek. 

 He died there, and was buried in the neighbour- 

 ing village church of Faareveile, where I in vain 

 have searched for this tomb or coflin. An old 

 coffin, half opened, standing between several other 

 old coffins in a vault below the floor of the church, 

 certainly was said, according to tradition, to 

 contain the body of Bothwell, but no inscriptions 

 or other signs proved the truth of it. 



J. J. A. WORSAAE. 



HundeTs Organ at the Foundling Hospital. — 

 It is generally understood that the organ in the 

 chapel of this Institution was the gift of Handel. 

 That great musician conducted a concert of sacred 

 music upon the opening of the chapel in 1749, and 

 superintended the annual performance of his ora- 

 torio, " The Messiah," from 1751 to 1759. In his 

 will he left to the charity " a fair copy of the 

 score, and all its parts," of the same oratorio ; 

 which score is still preserved, and has furnished 

 the editor of tiie new edition, lately produced by 

 the Handel Society, with several new and impor- 

 tant readings. 



Dr. Burney, in his " Sketch of the Life of 

 Handel," prefixed to his Account of the Comme- 

 moration, 4to., 1785, says, "The organ in the 

 chapel of this [«. e. the Foundling] hospital was a 

 present from Handel." But how are we to recon- 

 cile this statement with the following, which I find 

 in the European Magazine for February, 1799 : 



" Handel did not give the organ to the Foundling 

 Hospital. It was built at tiie expense of tlie charity, 

 under the direction of Dr. Smith, the li-arned Master 

 of Trinity College, Cambridge, who added demitones, 

 &c., and some of the niceties not occurring in other 

 organs." 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



Correction to the " Oxford Manual of Monu- 

 mental Brasses." — Permit me to correct an error 

 in the above carefully compiled and useful manual. 

 On p. 15. of the "Descriptive Catalogue" a brass 

 is described, No. 32. of their collection, to " Ed- 

 ward Peach, 1439;" no place is mentioned in 

 connexion with this brass. The notice should 

 stand thus : 



"1839. Edward Peach, S. Chad's (R. C.) Church, 

 Hirmingham, 



+ 



" IIlc jacet dmus Edwardus Peach quondam rector 

 jstius ecclesie qui obiit die Nativitatis Beate Marie 

 Virginis Anno Domini milessimo bcccxxxix," &c. 



The brass is so well designed and executed, that 

 it miglit easily pass for an old example. By some 

 error "sacte" has been printed for "Beate," 

 "millessimo" for "milessimo," and "cccc" for 

 "dccc" in the Oxford version of the inscription. 

 W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. 



Milton s Rib-bone. — In Vol. v., p. 275., mention 

 is made of Cromwell's skull ; so it may not be out 



of place to tell you that I have handled one of 

 Milton's ribs. Cowper speaks indignantly of the 

 desecration of our divine poet's grave, on which 

 shamefid occurrence some of tiie bones were clan- 

 destinely distributed. One fell to the lot of an old 

 and est(jemed friend, and between forty-live and 

 forty years ago, at his house, not many miles from 

 London, I have often examined the said rib-bone. 

 That friend is long since dead ; but his son, now 

 in the vale of years, lives, and I doubt not, from 

 the reverence i'elt to the great author of Paradise 

 Lost, that he has religiously preserved the precious 

 relic. It might not be agreeable to hiin to have 

 his name published ; but from his tastes he, being 

 a person of some distinction in literary pursuits, is 

 likely to be a reader of " N. & Q.," and if this 

 should catch his eye, he may be induced to send 

 you some particulars. I know he is able to place 

 the matter beyond a doubt. B. B. 



Pembroke. 



^Ufltr^. 



THE DANES IN ENGLAND. 



Since I arrived in England my friend Jlr. 

 Thoms has called my attention to the following 

 Note by the " English Opium Eater " in the Lo7i- 

 don Magazine for May, 1823, p. 550)., on a subject 

 of great interest to me with reference to the views 

 I have advanced in my recently published volume, 

 entitled An Account of the Danes and Norwegians 

 in England, Scotland, and Ireland. 



" I take this opportunity of mentioning a cuiious 

 fact v/hich I ascertained about twelve years ago, when 

 studying the Danish. Tlie English and Scotch philo- 

 logists have generally asserted that the Danish invasions 

 in the ninth and tenth centuries, and their settlements 

 in various parts of the island (as Lincolnshire, Cum- 

 berland, &c. ), had left little or no traces of themselves 

 in the language. This opinion has been lately re- 

 asserted in Dr. Murray's work on the European lan- 

 guages. It is, however, inaccurate. For the remark- 

 able dialect spoken amongst the lakes of Cumberland 

 and Westmoreland, together with the names of the 

 mountains, tarns, &c., most of wliich resist all attempts 

 to unlock their meaning from the Anglo-Saxon, or any- 

 other form of the Teutonic, are pure Danish, generally 

 intelligible from the modern Danish of tliis day, but in 

 all cases from the elder form of the Danish. When- 

 ever my Opera Omnia are collected, I shall reprint a 

 little memoir on this subject, which I inserted about 

 four years ago in a provincial newspaper : or possibly, 

 before that event, for the amusement of the lake tourists, 

 Mr. Wordsworth may do me the favour to accept it as 

 an appendix to his work on the English Lakes." 



Can any reader of " N. & Q." refer me to the 

 paper in which this "little memoir" was inserted? 

 (it was probably in a Cumberland or Westmore- 

 land paper somewhere about the year 1819:) or 



