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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 270. 



Edward Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, and the Right 

 Honourable Allen Lord Bathurst, their Executors, Ad- 

 ministrators, and Assignes, the said Poem and the Copy- 

 thereof. And the said Earl of Burlington, Earl of Oxford, 

 and Lord Bathurst, by writing under their hands and 

 seals, have assigned unto Lawton Gilliver, his Executors, 

 Administrators, and Assignes, the said book and copy of 

 the sole right and liberty of printing the same, and also 

 the Prolegomena of Scriblerus. 



(Signed) Lawton Giluvee." 



DE. BENJAMIN BUSH. 



Although unable to throw any light upon the 

 subject of Inquirer's question (Vol. ix., p. 451.), 

 I cannot resist the temptation of sending to " N. 

 .& Q." an extract from a recently- discovered letter 

 from Dr. Rush to a friend in Philadelphia, de- 

 scribing a very peculiar method of presenting the 

 freedom of the city to strangers which prevailed 

 in Edinburgh ninety years ago, and to which 

 allusion is made by some of the English novelists 

 of the last century. I have heard that the usage 

 prevails to this day in Rome, Naples, and other 

 Italian cities. 



The letter from which I quote is dated De- 

 cember 29, 1766 : 



"Edinburgh is built upon a third less ground than 

 Philadelphia, but contains double the number of inhabit- 

 ants. I think they compute eighty thousand souls in the 

 city. The reason why they occupy so much less room, 

 is owing to the height of their houses, in each of which 

 seven or eight families reside. There is one common pair 

 of steps, Avhich communicate with all the rooms of one 

 house. These steps are open and exposed, and are trod 

 by everybody in the same manner as the public streets. 

 Dr. Franklin called them, some years ago when in Scot- 

 land, upon this account perpendicular streets. The inha- 

 bitants, although they live together in these their human 

 hives, are entire strangers to [one] another. There is a 

 family lives above me, and another immediately below 

 me, and j'et I know no more of their names or persons 

 than you do. This way of living subjects the inhabitants 

 to many inconveniences ; for as they have no yards or 

 cellars, they have of course no necessary houses ; and all 

 their filth of every kind is thrown out of their windows. 

 This is done in the night generally, and is carried away 

 next morning by carts appointed for that purpose. Un- 

 happy they who are obliged to walk out after ten or 

 eleven o'clock at night. It is no uncommon thing to re- 

 ceive what Juvenal says he did, in his first satire, from a 

 window in Rome. This is called here being naturalised. 

 As yet I have happilj' escaped being made a freeman of 

 the city in this way, but my unfortunate friend Potts has 

 gained the honour before me." 



J.M. 

 Camden, New Jersey. 



MOXUMENTAL BRASSES. 



(Concluded from p. 362.) 



NORFOLK. 



Aylsham. R. Howard and wife, 1499. 



Beeston Regis. 



Burgh. John Burton, priest, 1608. 



Colney. H. Alikok (chalice), 1502. 



Creak, South. R. Norton, abbot, 1509. 



Dunston. 



Holm Hall. W. Curteys, 1490. 



Holm by the Sea. H. Notingham and wife, 1410, 



Loddon. Dionysius Willys (heart and scrolls), 1462. 



Loddon. John BlomeviUe and wife, in shrouds, 1546. 



Loddon. Henry Hobart, Esq., 1561. 



Loddon. James Hobart, Esq., and wife, 1615. 



Merton. 



Newton Flotman. 



Rainham, East. R. Godfrey, priest, 1522. 



Reepham. Sir W. de Kerdiston, 1391. 



Sherbourn. Sir T. Sherboarne, 1458. 



Snettisham. 



Snoring, Great. Sir R. Shelton and lady, 1423. 



Sprowston. J. Corbet and wife, 1559. 



Stratton, Long. 



Swanton Abbots. Stephen Multon, priest, 1477. 



Tuddenham, North. Francisca Skyppe, child, 1625. 



Walsham, North. Edmund Ward, 1519. 



Walsham, North. Robert Wythe, 1520. 



Wingstead. R. Kegell, priest, 1485. 



Worstead, J. Spieer, 1500. 



OXFORDSHIRE. 



Adderbury. A knight and lady, c. 1460. 



Brightwell. John Cottesmore, judge, 1439. 



Broughton. Philippa Byschoppesdon, 1414. 



Chalgrove. Reginald Barantyn, 1441. 



Checkendon. John Rede, 1404. 



Checkendon. Walter Beauchamp (angels and soul), 

 c. 1430. 



Crowell. John Payne, priest, 1469. 



Deddington. A civilian, c. 1370. 



Goring. Elizabeth , 1401. 



Goring. Henry de Aldrjmgton, inscr. 1375. 



Goring. A civilian and wife, c. 1600. 



Harpsden. Walter Elmes, priest, 1511. 



Holton. W. Brome (now mural), 1461. 



Oxford, Cathedral. Coothorp, priest, 1557. 



Oxford, Magdalen Coll. Three loose figures of priests, 

 c. 1411. 



Oxford, New Coll. R. Ratcliffand wife (mural), 1599. 



Oxford, Queen's Coll. Robert Langton, priest, 1518? 



Oxford, Queen's Coll. Henry Robinson, Bishop of Car- 

 lisle, 1616. 



Oxford, St. Peter's in the East. Simon Parret and wife, 

 1584. 



Oxford, St. Mary the Virgin. W. Hawkesworth, priest, 

 1349. 



Oxford, St. Mary the Virgin. Edmund Croston, priest, 

 1507. 



Shiplake. John Symonds and wife, c. 1540. 



Steeple Aston. John Fox and wife, 1522. 



Yarnton. Dr. Nele (in shroud, mural), 1500. 



Yarnton. W. Fletcher, alderman, 1826. 



SHROPSHIRE. 



Adderley. 



Edgmond, A man and wife, 1525. 



SOMERSETSHIRE. 



Hutton. Thomas Payne and wife, 1528. 



