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name of printer : which I rather suppose to be printed in 

 Holland. It is entituled Vila del Padre Paolo deW Ordine 

 de" Servi e Teologo della Serenissima RepuhUca di Vene- 

 tia : and has neither dedication nor preface. W. C. 



" Tackt to the Life of Bp. Bedel is a parcel of letters 

 between him and Mr. James Waddesworth, a convert to 

 the Roman Catholic Faith. On the back of the title page 

 is wrote: 



" Of this Waddesworth B.D. beneficed in Suffolk, chap- 

 lain to Redman Bp. of Norwich, and after to Sir Charles 

 Cornwallis when ambassador to Spain (1605), see State 

 Papers published by Mr. Sawyer. Vol. 2. p. 109, 131, 136. 

 Who, J. W., perhaps through discontent of a shrewd 

 wife, a burthen of children, and a benefice unequal to his 

 desires, brought his purpose out of England &c. P. 136. 

 They give it out, that the king here hath given him a 

 pension of 40 duckets the month ; which I yet believe 

 not: But if so it be, I think he has made a good ex- 

 change of his benefice, tho' an evil one of hia religion. 

 Ibid, of Walpole, an English priest. T. B. 



"P. 433. Mr. Bedel in his letter to Mr. Waddesworth 

 mentions Arembaklus, a bishop living at the court of 

 Rome, who before had been a merchant of Genoa. On 

 the margin I have observed, that this assertion was a 

 mistake which Mr. Bedel was led into by Era Paolo, 

 who had asserted the same in his History of the Council 

 of Trent. But Father Courayer in a note on that passage 

 has rectified it from Cardinal Palavicini's History of the 

 same council ; by which it appears that, Arembaldi was 

 neither a merchant nor a Genoese, but a gentilman of 

 Milan, and Was not a bishop till 8 years after the time 

 specified by Era Paolo. W. C. 



" P. 446. is a passage relating to resistance, which is 

 different in different copies of the book in question : it has 

 a note in smaller print under the passage. On the side I 

 have wrote as follows : 



" It is thus printed in Mr. Baker's edition of the same 

 year as mine, 1685, after these words, Author's Opinion : 

 But yet for Fear of taking it by the wrong Handle, the 

 Reader is desired to tahe Notice, That a Subject's resisting 

 his Prince in any cause wlmtsoever, is unlawful and impious. 

 After which words, Mr. Baker in his own hand writing 

 adds. See in the proper place.* W. C. 



* " This note was added by Sir Roger L'Estrange the 

 licenser, of which, and the passages put in crotchets, See 

 Bp. of Sarum's Vindication, p. 70, 71, &c." 



May I reiterate my inquiry after the notes of 

 Farmer and Le N"eve? It is of the more import- 

 ance that all that can be known of Bedell should 

 now be brought together, as Dr. Cotton has most 

 liberally given up his extensive collections for the 

 purpose of speedy publication. I owe to the 

 courtesy of a correspondent a notice of a long 

 letter of Bedell's, giving an account of his provost- 

 ship at Trin. Coll. Dublin. Of this I hope to pro- 

 cure a copy. J. E. B. Mayor. 

 St. John's College, C.inibridge. 



TOMB RECORDS. 

 • Although I should be afraid to attempt an exact 

 calculation of the number (many, many thou- 

 sands,) of churchyard inscriptions which I have 

 carefully examined, yet I am somewhat surprised 

 to find the small proportion of information con- 

 veyed by them, beyond the name of the deceased, 

 with the time of birth and death. In this respect 



one of the most unsatisfactory inscriptions I ever 

 copied is the following from a head-stone in 

 Epsom churchyard : — 



" J. D. died January the 24th, 1743. Aged 21 years. 

 Lord be Mercyfull to me A Wretched Sinner." 



Here we have a fact offered to us, which is ren- 

 dered useless by the initialising of the name : 

 for, who are we to fix upon as the "Wretched 

 Sinner"? An altar-tomb in the same church- 

 yard supplies the following, with not only the 

 usual particulars, but at least one curious piece of 

 additional information — his pedestrianising : — 



" In Memory of Thomas Breaks, Esq., born at Barnard 

 Castle, in the bounty of Durham, but late of this Parish. 

 Lisbon Merchant. A Gentleman not less Remarkable for 

 his Extensive Travels through Europe, chiefly on Foot, 

 than for his Singular Felicity in Rendering his Observa- 

 tions Pleasing and Instructive toward the Improvement 

 of others. Laudably Partial to his native Country, he 

 Extended its Commerce by annual Encouragements to 

 Improve its Manufactures : A Citizen of the World, Pa- 

 trcm of Industry and Merit, Refuge for the Distress'd, 

 and Friend of all Mankind. Obiit 26th Oct. 1761, ^lat. 

 89." 



That tombs might be made to record much 

 moi'e than they commonly do, is partially shown 

 by the foregoing, and is farther illustrated by the 

 interesting epitaph to Richard Philpots, lately con- 

 tributed to this work. Apart from the obvious- 

 ness of the little pun upon Philpots' name, 

 doubtless the most Christian view to be taken of 

 the sculptured punch -bowl, flagon, and bottle, 

 would be to consider them as emblems of Phil- 

 pots' profession, and not of his faith ; indeed, the 

 last line of his epitaph seems to imply as much. 

 At all events, the tomb, of Philpots informs us that 

 he was a joyous landlord, while its professional 

 emblems would serve to attract the eye of the 

 traveller. If erected with sincerity, they cannot 

 but be considered in perfect harmony with a place 

 of Christian burial. One fact, however, is clear, 

 churchyard tombs are sadly deficient in emblems 

 and word-information. Of the emblematical there 

 is a good example in Woolwich churchyard : I 

 allude to the large and remarkable figure of a 

 lion, standing over the grave of the famous Tho- 

 mas Cribb. On a head-stone in St. Paul's church- 

 yard at Deptford, erected to the memory of a 

 shipbuilder, there is a neatly-executed bas-relief, 

 representing a ship upon the stocks just ready for 

 the launch. 



As the tombs of professional men do not offer 

 one tithe the informaiion which, consistently with 

 true modesty, would nevertheless be justifiable, I 

 lately felt it to be very refreshing, when journey- 

 ing to Rothwell in Northamptonshire, for the sole 

 purpose of .viewing its church and churchyard, to 

 find in the latter a head-stone thus inscribed : — 



" Beneath Lie the Remains of John Cogan, Apothecary ; 

 Author of an Essay on the Epistle to the Romans, and 

 other anonymous pieces. All of which he published 



