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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. N« 83., Aug. 1. '57, 



rican Whig Review, 2nd Ser. vol. i. p. 301. Dr. Latham's 

 English Language was reviewed by Henry Rogers in the 

 Edinburgh Review, vol. xcii. p. 293. On application to 

 our publishers, a prospectus may be obtained of Dr. 

 Richardson's Dictionary, containing the opinions of the 

 press.] 



Warping. — There is a process, known by the 

 name of warping, by which many acres of bog and 

 other waste land on the banks of the Humber, 

 Ouse, and Trent have been raised to a higher 

 level and made fruitful. Where shall I find a 

 detailed*account of this process ? 



Edwakd Peacock. 

 The Manor Farm, Boftesford. 



[A complete detail of the different operations in the 

 process of warping is given in the Agricultural Survey of 

 the West Riding of Yorkshire, edited by Robert Brown, 

 Edinb., 8vo., l'799, pp. 163-177. Consult also Loudon's 

 Encyclopadia of Agriculture, edit. 1831, p. 732. ; Morton's 

 Cyclopcedia of Agriculture ; Johnson's Farmers' Encyclo- 

 pcedia, art. Warping ; Encyclopadia Metropolitanu, vi. 

 32. ; Encyclopaedia Britannica, 8th edit. vol. ii. p. 363. ; 

 and Penny Cyclopaedia, art. VVarping. Although the 

 practice of warping is comparatively new in Britain, it 

 has long been in use on the continent of Europe, particu- 

 larly in Italy, as described by Mr. Cadell, in his Journey 

 in Carniola, Italy, and France, in the Years 1817, 1818. 

 2 vols. 8vo., Edinb. 1820.] 



Busk's Plays. — In 1837 appeared two volumes 

 of Plays and Poems, by Mrs. Wm. Busk. Could 

 you give me the names of the plays ? X. 



[^The Druids, a tragedy of Five Acts. The Judicial 

 Combats, or the Force of Conscience, a tragedy of Five 

 Acts. Marry, or Forfeit, a Comedy of Five Acts.] 



Mary Powell, Sfc. — Can you inform me what 

 is the name of the authoress oi Mary Powell; The 

 Old Chelsea Bun-House, &c. ? X, 



[Miss Eliza Manning,] 



CHATTBETON : THE PLACE OP HIS INTERMENT. 



(2"'> S. iv. 23. 54.) 



Amongst the questions which remain unsettled 

 regarding Chatterton is that which heads this 

 article. In my Memorials of the Canynges 

 Family and their Times, Sfc, I stated my belief 

 that the body of Chatterton was certainly removed 

 from Shoe Lane burial-ground to Redcliffe 

 churchyard, and there reinterred ; and I did so 

 upon the authority of a letter, the correctness of 

 the statements in which I could not doubt. Since 

 then Professor Masson's Essays have appeared, in 

 which mention is made of "a young man, an 

 attorney, to whom Chatterton's niece was about to 

 be married." This so-called young attorney, now 

 far advanced in life, has been known to me per- 

 sonally for many years ; but it was not until re- 

 cently, and that in consequence of Mr. Masson's 



statement, that I sought his acquaintance. My 

 object in doing so was to obtain answers to certain 

 interrogatories relating to Chatterton ; the most 

 important in relation to the subject before us I 

 subjoin, having his permission to make what use 

 I please of them. 



Query. "Did you ever hear, during your ac- 

 quaintance with the Chatterton family, that the 

 poet's body was removed from Shoe Lane burial- 

 ground, and reinterred in RedclifTe churchyaid, 

 in the grave of his parents ? If you think it prO'^ 

 bable, please state why." 



Ans. " I was intimate with Miss Newton, the 

 niece of Chatterton, during the two years pre- 

 ceding her death, which took place in September, 

 1807. The whole of this time I had almost daily 

 intercourse with her. It sometimes occurred that 

 her uncle was the subject of conversation, not for 

 any particular object, but in consequence of some 

 accidental remark having been made with respect 

 to him : as no report of the removal of his body had 

 then been circulated, it could not form a matter 

 for discussion ; but I am sure from her whole 

 manner that she had no idea of such a thing, but 

 believed it to be then lying in London, where it 

 had been buried. I therefore believe that no 

 removal had taken place. 



"If it be established that the body had not been 

 removed from Shoe Lane, it must follow that it 

 could not have been placed in Redcliffe churchyard : 

 it is consequently unnecessary to attempt to prove 

 that fact ; nevertheless the inquiry may be useful 

 to show the real character of the evidence upon 

 which the whole story rests. I attended as a 

 mourner the funeral of Miss Newton (the niece of 

 Chatterton) ; she was buried in the grave where 

 her father and mother, also her grandfather and 

 her grandmother Chatterton, had been placed. 



" If Mrs. Chatterton had caused her son's bones 

 to be brought to Bristol, it could have been for no 

 other object than that they should lie in the same 

 tomb in which those of his father then lay, and 

 which was soon to become the receptacle of her 

 own and those of the remainder of her family. 

 The box said to contain the bones of Chatterton 

 was not there. Many persons attended the fu- 

 neral as spectators ; it was the last of the Chatter- 

 tons going to be buried ; this brought more than 

 is usually seen at a common interment. The 

 report of the removal of the body was not even 

 then in existence, as far as I know, and therefore 

 nothing was thought about it ; yet as we were 

 looking into the grave it could not have escaped 

 our observation if it had been there, 



" It appears that the persons who gave Mr. 

 Cumberland information say that the body was 

 not buried in the grave of the Chattertons, nut in 

 a new grave made for the purpose of its reception, 

 about twenty feet distant from that grave ; and 

 that this grave had been filled up by other bodies 



