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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Oct. 27. 1855. 



table in the hall, and being also one of the 

 College of Tutors, gave a " lecture at eight," as I 

 believe the tutors still do. The person addressed 

 is supposed to be a fellow commoner ; and, there- 

 fore, dining at the Fellows' Hall, could " take his 

 seat by the President's chair," and whisper his 

 friend's excuse. The hospitable person, with 

 whom the writer was "to wine" (for the word 

 was, and is, used as a verb), was the present ex- 

 cellent Master. "Sir Isaac" was Sir Isaac Pen- 

 nington, M.D., one of the senior Fellows, whom 

 the writer appears to have regarded it as a notable 

 event to meet. "Hopper" was his "bedmaker;" 

 on whom, it seems, he had devolved the office of 

 " calling" him in time for his college duties. 



There were othei*s of these Melodies^ of which I 

 will give you the first lines, not recollecting the 

 whole of them : — 



On,— 



" Let Erin remember tlie days of old." 



Let Johnians remember the golden days." 

 On,— 



" Fly not yet ! 'tis just the hour." 



" Dine at one ! 'tis just the hour." 



w. 



to have been the pamphlets referred to by Lady 

 Hervey. Certainly The Interests of Great Britain 

 Considered was written by Dr. Franklin, assisted, 

 as his grandson says (Memoirs, vol. i. p. 307.), by 

 Mr. Richard Jackson, who desired not to be 

 known on the occasion. P. P. T. 



PAMPHLETS OF 1759-60. 



Lady Hervey, in a letter dated Jan. 31, 1760, 

 refers to two pamphlets just published, the cha- 

 racter of which may be inferred from the follow- 

 ing : 



"As to the politics of either I am no judge ; and I be- 

 lieve few people are so with regard to the preference to 

 Canada or Guadaloupe, &c. The first is certainly Lord 

 Bath's, the latter is wrote bj' a gentleman who is a de- 

 pendant of Lord Halifax's, and is soliciting a place at 

 Guadaloupe." 



Mr. Croker considers it probable that the first 

 pamphlet, here attributed to Lord Bath, was The 

 Interest of Oreat Britain considered; and the 

 latter, probably written by Cumberland, was 

 'Reasons for not restoring Guadaloupe. 



These opinions, it will be seen, are put forth as 

 mere conjectures, probabilities. I may therefore 

 be excused if I express a doubt on the subject. 



The pamphlet written by Lord Bath on the 

 comparative value to this country of Canada and 

 Guadaloupe, was the Letter to Two Great Men. 

 Jenkinson at the moment, in a letter to George 

 Grenville, written December, 1759, says, "im- 

 puted to Lords Chesterfield, Bath, and Egmont." 

 Almon subsequently {Anecd., vol. ii. p. 198.) 

 follows the example of Lady Hervey, and speaks 

 positively as to Lord Bath being the writer. To 

 this pamphlet William Burke wrote a reply. Re- 

 marks on Letter to Two Great Men, as stated by 

 both Almon and Prior. Other pamphlet replies 

 were published on the subject, but these I believe 



No. 313.] 



KING ALPBED S BDRIAL-PLACE. 



Some time since two letters appeared in the 

 Hampshire Independent on the subject of the 

 burial-place of King Alfred, wherein it was stated 

 that he was buried at Winchester, and that his 

 tomb and remains were to be offered for sale by 

 auction by order of the county magistrates, in 

 order to make room for the New Bridewell. And 

 the Independent remarks : 



" We should have thought that the lowest depths of 

 degradation had been reached, when the site of the 

 splendid abbej' where his remains were deposited, was 

 covered with the buildings of a Bridewell." 



Punch also made some facetious remarks on the 

 same subject shortly afterwards. Now, pre- 

 suming the story of his being buried at Win- 

 chester to be incorrect, I wrote to the editor of 

 that paper a letter, a copy of which I herewith 

 inclose, and which letter not having been con- 

 tradicted, it is probable that the information I had 

 obtained was correct. Still, some of your learned 

 readers may be able to settle the matter beyond a 

 doubt. If, therefore, you consider the subject 

 worthy of any notice in " N. & Q,.," perhaps you 

 will kindly find a space for it. 



The letter before alluded to is as follows : 



"king Alfred's bcrial-place. 



" To the Editor of the ' Hampshire Independent.' 



" Sir, — Permit me to correct what I deem an error, 

 which has on two occasions appeared in your journal, 

 with respect to the burial-place of the great and noble 

 King Alfred. If the account which I inclose is authentic, 

 and I have no reason to doubt it, it will appear that he 

 was not buried at all at Winchester, but at Little Drif- 

 field in YorksTiire; and the mistake has probably ori- 

 ginated in that excellent work, Milner's History of 

 Winchester, now before me, wherein he states, speaking 

 of Hyde Abbey, the site of the present Bridewell, ' That 

 in conformity with the directions of the original founder, 

 Alfred, as soon as the new monastery (Hyde Abbey) was 

 completed, his remains were translated hither from the 

 cathedral, where he had been buried in the interim. In 

 the monastery also was buried his pious queen Alswitha.' 

 So says Milner, who takes his authority from Asserius, 

 Will. Malm., and De Reg. ; the former, that is, Asserius, 

 was a learned ecclesiastic cotemporary with Alfred him- 

 self. But in Cook's Topographical Description of York- 

 shire it is thus stated, ' That in the year 1784 the Society 

 of Antiquaries having had undoubted information that 

 the remains of King Alfred the Great, who died in the 

 year 901 (Rapin says 900), were deposited in the parish 

 church of Little Driffield, deputed two of that learned 

 body (accompanied by some other gentlemen) to take up 

 and examine the remains. Accordingly, on Tuesday, the 



