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savings, such quantity of coals as they will require 

 over and above what the charity will afford them. 



Vrtan Rheged. 



Episcopal Rings. — During the late visit of the 

 Cambrian Archaeological Association at Monmouth, 

 I observed in the temporary museum fitted up for 

 the occasion several large massive finger-rings. 

 They were placed there by the president, and, in 

 reply to my inquiries, he informed me that they 

 were official rings connected with the Papal go- 

 vernment. Can any of your correspondents in- 

 form me on what occasions these rings were used, 

 and by what officers ? Addison remarks that when 

 at Rome he had " seen old Roman rings so very 

 thick about, and with such large stones in them, 

 that 'tis no wonder a fop should reckon them a 

 little cumbersome in the summer season of so hot 

 a climate." Are these papal rings an imitation of 

 the old Roman rings, and are they used in ^he 

 present day ? R- 



Ledbury Monument. — I should be obliged if 

 any of your correspondents could throw light on 

 an antiquarian question in which I am much in- 

 terested. There is an old tomb in the north aisle 

 of Ledbury church, Herefordshire, near the east 

 end, representing a female figure in a long flow- 

 incf dress, large sleeve and wimple, confined round 

 the head by a narrow band, adorned with flowerets 

 at even distances ; her hand crossed on her bosom, 

 and holding some object. She lies on a kind of 

 altar-tomb^ the recess behind her being panelled 

 with shields, each suspended by a ribbon from a 

 lion's head. Two of these shields are at the head, 

 two at the feet, and seven at the side ; and they 

 are charged alternately with three lions passant, 

 three lions rampant, and two lions passant, be- 

 ginning again three lions passant, &c., to the end. 

 The seven shields on the lower part of the tomb 

 are altogether blank. The date of its erection I 

 take to be about 1480. The Query is, to whose 

 memory is this tomb erected ? and if, as I imagine, 

 the arms are royal, which member of the royal 

 family was buried at Ledbury, and why ? The 

 tomb is locally known as a curiosity, but its his- 

 tory has not yet been traced, and the only clue I am 

 able to obtain is that an Alice Pauncefote, wife of 

 John de Hope, gave the chantrey of St. Ann's in 

 Ledbury in 1384, and the Pauncefote arms are 

 gules, three lions rampant, argent. 



M. E. Miles. 



Bingham Rectory, Notts. 



Jackson on Border Superstitions. — In the Intro- 

 duction to the ballad of " Young Tamlane," in 

 Scott's Minstrelsy (on the " Fairies of Popular 

 Superstition," sect. 3. ad fin.^, the following pas- 

 sage occurs : — 



" Some faint traces yet remain on tlie Border of a con- 

 flict of a mysterious and terrible nature between mortals 

 and the spirits of the wilds. The superstition is incident- 



ally alluded to by Jackson, at the beginning of the 17th 

 century." 



Can any of your correspondents explain this 

 allusion ? L. 



Rev. Thomas Skelton Dupuis. — There was a 

 volume of Miscellaneous Poetry published in 4to., 

 1789, by Thomas Skelton Dupuis. Is anything 

 known regarding the author ? R. Ingus. 



Skelmersdales. — In Mrs. Gore's novel, Peers 

 and Parvenus, vol. iii. p. 187., she speaks of " a 

 few light Genoese chairs, such'as the English call 

 Skelmersdales." As I never heard or saw the 

 name applied to a chair, I shall feel obliged to any 

 of your correspondents who can inform me unde 

 derivatur. I suppose it must belong to the same 

 category with Sandwich, Stanhope, and Brougham. 



RUSTICUS. 



Mary Honywood and her Descendants. — In 

 "N. & Q." 1'' S. vi. 106. 209. are two communi- 

 cations relative to this subject, upon which I wish 

 to ask the following questions : — 



1. In p. 106. it is said, " At the back of the 

 cellar of Lincoln Cathedral lies the body of Mi- 

 chael Honywood." Is not cellar a misprint ? 

 perhaps for choir. And is the epitaph to be found 

 in print ? 



2. In p. 209. the epitaph of Robert Thompson, 

 Esq. (one of Mary Honywood's descendants), at 

 Lenham, in Kent, is quoted. Where is a perfect 

 copy of that epitaph to be found ? 



3. Has the inscription on Mrs. Honywood's own 

 " monument, at Mark's Hall, near Cogshall, in 

 Essex" (mentioned in p. 209.), been printed ? 



H. 



[Dean Honj'wood was buried in the upper part of 

 Lincoln Cathedral under a grave-stone thus inscribed : — 

 " Here lyeth the body of Michael Honywood, D.D., who 

 was grandcliild, and one of the 367 persons that Mary, 

 the wife of Robert Honywood, Esq., did see, before she 

 died, lawfully descend from her ; that is, 16 of her own 

 bod}"-, 114 grandchildren, 228 of the third generation, and 

 nine of the fourth." A mural monument of different 

 coloured marbles was affixed to the stone screen behind 

 the high altar. This was taken down about forty years 

 ago, when the Dean and Chapter removed all the modern 

 monuments from the walls and pillars of the church into 

 the side chapels. Dean Honywood's was set up in the 

 old chapel of the B. Virgin, which you pass in going to 

 the library. The Latin epitaph on this mural monument 

 (too long to quote) is given in Dibdin's Bibliographical 

 Decameron, iii. 425. The Dean was a crony of Samuel 

 Pepys, who thus notices him in his Diary : " 29th June, 

 1664. To Westminster, to see Deane Honiwood, whom 

 I had not visited a great while. He is a good-natured, 

 but a very weak man, yet a Deane, and a man in great 

 esteem." Again : " 6th Aug. 1664. I met and talked 

 with Deane Honiwood this morning, and a simple priest 

 he is, though a good, well-meaning man." 



Mary Honywood was buried near her husband in Len- 

 ham church, although a monument was erected to her 



