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nument, and whether there be any inscription 

 legible upon it, or whether it be generally known 

 to whom it belongs, I cannot inform you. 



IjRSUIiA. 



There is a very good instance of an " altar 

 tomb," bearing on it an ordinary effigy, and 

 containing within it a skeleton figure, visible 

 through pierced panel work, in Fytield Church, 

 Berks. It is the monument of Sir John Golafre, 

 temp. Hen. V. Another fine instance I remember 

 to have seen (I believe) in the parish church of 

 Ewelme, Oxon, Henky G. Tom kins, 



Weston-super-Mare. 



Bee Park (Vol. v., p. 322.).— In this neigh- 

 bourhood is an ancient farm-house called Bee Hall, 

 where I doubt not that bees were kept in great 

 quantities in bygone ages ; and am the more led 

 to believe this because they always flourish best 

 upon thyme, which grows here as freely and 

 luxuriantly as I ever elsewhere observed it. 

 About four miles from said Bee Hall, the other 

 day, I was looking over a genteel residence, and 

 noticing a shady enclosure, asked the gardener 

 •what it was for. He told me, to protect the bees 

 from the sun : it was upon a much larger scale 

 than we generally now see, indicating that the 

 soil, &c. suit apiaries. Looking to the frequent 

 mention of honey, and its vast consumption for- 

 merly, as you instance in royal inventories, to 

 •which may be added documents in cathedral ar- 

 chives, &c., is it not remarkable that we should 

 •witness so few memorials of the ancient manage- 

 ment of this interesting insect ? I certainly re- 

 member one well-built " bee-house," at the edge 

 of Lord Portsmouth's park, Hurstbourne, Hants, 

 large enough for a good cottage, now deserted. 

 While on the subject I will solicit information on 

 a custom well known to those resident in the 

 country, viz. of making a great noise with a house 

 key, or other small knocker, against a metal dish 

 or kettle while bees are swarming ? Of course 

 farmers' wives, peasants, &c., who do not reason, 

 adopt this because their fathers before them did 

 so. It is urged by intelligent naturalists that it 

 is utterly useless, as bees have no sense of hearing. 

 What does the clamour mean, — whence derived ? 



B.B. 



Pembroke. 



Sally Lunn (Vol. v., p. 371.). — In reply to the 

 Query, "Is anything known of Sally Lunn ? is 

 she a personage or a myth ?" I refer your in- 

 quirer to Hone's Eoery-day Book, vol. ii. p. 156L : 



" The bun so fashionable, called the Sully Lunny 

 originated with a young woman of that name at Bathi 

 about thirty years ago." [This was written in 1826.] 

 " She first cried them in a basket, with a white cloth 

 over it, morning and evening. Dalmer, a respectable 

 baker and musician, noticed her, bought her business, 

 and made a song and set it to music in behalf of Sallj' 



Lunn. This composition became the street favourite, 

 barrows were made to distribute the nice cakes, Dalmer 

 profited thereby and retired, and to this day the Sally 

 Lunn Cake claims pre-eminence in all the cities of 

 England." 



J. K. W. 



Bristol. 



Baxter s Pvlpit (Vol. v., p. 363.). — An engrav- 

 ing of Baxter's pulpit will be found in a work en- 

 titled Footsteps of our Forefathers : what they suf- 

 fered and what they sought. By James G. Miall, 

 1851, p. 232. J. R. W. 



Bristol. 



Lothian s Scottish Historical Maps (Vol. v., p. 

 371.). — Although this work is now out of print, 

 and thereby scarce, your correspondent Elginensis 

 will, I have no doubt, on application to Steven- 

 son, the " well-known " antiquarian and historical 

 bookseller in Edinburgh, be put in possession of a 

 copy for \2s. T. G. P. 



Edinburgh. 



British Ambassadors (Vol. iv., pp. 442. 477.). — 

 Some time ago a correspondent asked where he 

 could obtain a list or lists of the ambassadors sent 

 from this court. I do not recollect that an answer 

 has appeared in your columns, nor do I know how 

 far the following may suit his purpose : 



" 12. An Alphabetical Index of the Names and Dates 

 of Employment of English Ambassadors and Diplo- 

 matic Agents resident in Foreign Courts, from the 

 Reign of King Henry VIII. to that of Queen Anne 

 inclusive. One volume, folio." 



This is extracted from the letter of the Right 

 Hon. H, Hobhouse, Keeper of His ^Majesty's State 

 Papers, in reply to the Secretary of the Commis- 

 sioners of Public Records, dated " State Paper 

 Office, Sept. 19, 1832." (See the Appendix to the 

 Commissioners Repo?% 1837, p. 78.) Tee Bee. 



Knollys Family (Vol. v., p. 397.). — Lt.-General 

 William Knollys, eighth Earl of Banbury, married 

 Charlotte Martha, second daughter of the Ebe- 

 nezer Blackwell, Esq., banker, of Lombard Street, 

 and Lewisham, Kent. 



The present Col. Knollys, of the Fusileer Guards, 

 is his representative. 



A. Blackwell, sister or daughter of John Black- 

 well, the father of Ebenezer, married an Etheridge. 

 W. Blackwell, Curate of Mells. 



'Prentice Pillars — 'Prentice Windoivs (Vol. v., 

 p. 395.). — I am reminded of a similar story con- 

 nected with the two rose windows in the transept 

 of the beautiful cathedral of Rouen. They were 

 described to me by the old Swiss in charge, as the 

 work of two artists, master and pupil ; and he also 

 pointed out the spot where the master killed the 

 pupil, from jealousy of the splendid production of 

 the north window by the latter : and, as the Guide 



