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tonshire, and other counties. The form of the bell 

 is much the same in most of the counties enume- 

 rated ; and it may interest A. C. to know that 

 bells of similar form have been found on Roman 

 sites during the progress of excavations. 



L. Jewitt. 



Burial in unconsecrated Ground (Vol. v., pp. 320. 

 404.). — Your numerous correspondents who have 

 written on this subject, seem to have overlooked 

 two notable cases in point, which occurred some 

 time ago in this neighbourhood : — the one that of 

 John Trigg, whose eccentric will is given p. 1325, 

 of Hone's JEvery Day Book, whose coffin is now 

 to be seen placed on the beams of a barn at 

 Stevenage ; the other that of Richard Tristram, 

 who was buried in a field in the parish of Ippolitts. 

 The gravestone marking the resting-place of Tris- 

 tram was, till quite lately, a lion of the neighbour- 

 hood ; but a sacrilegious farmer, annoyed at the 

 injury done to his hedges by the visitors to the 

 tomb, has either removed the stone, or sunk it 

 below the level of the ground. Local tradition 

 assigns a singular cause to their burial in these 

 spots. It is stated that they were shocked at the 

 •unceremonious way in which the sexton in a 

 neighbouring churchyard treated the remains dis- 

 interred whilst digging a tomb, and therefore they 

 left the most stringent injunctions that their burial 

 might place them beyond the reach of similar 

 usage. L. W, 



Hitchen. 



I beg to add to your list of bodies deposited 

 in unconsecrated places, 1, "The Miller's Tomb," 

 on Highdown Hill, near Worthing, some no- 

 tice of which may be seen in Hone's Every Day 

 Book, vol. iv. p. 1392. 2. The leaden coffin en- 

 closing the body of one Thomas Trigg, a farmer, 

 of Stevenage, Herts, which is deposited (according 

 to his will) on a tie-beam of the roof of a building 

 •which was once his barn, but now belongs to a 

 public-house in the above place. It is still exhi- 

 bited to the curious by the hostler. 3. The coffin 

 with the corpse (unless both are utterly decayed) 

 of another eccentric character (whose name I for- 

 get), which lies on a table in a summer house in 

 Northamptonshire, somewhere between Towcester 

 and Green's Norton. J. R. M., M. A. 



Canongate Marriages (Vol. v., p. 370.). — In 

 the first volume of the Grenville Papers is a letter 

 from Mr. Jenkinson to Mr. Grenville, which de- 

 serves the attention of R. S. F, of Perth, ]Mr, 

 Jenkinson informs his friend that, love getting the 

 better of duty. Lord George Lennox had set out 

 with Lady Louisa Ker, to be married at Edinburgh. 

 The letter bears date 1759, Your correspondent's 

 Query refers to "about the year 1745," 



- William Bhock, 



Foiibert Family (Vol. vi., p. 55.). — A Treatise 

 composed by Thos. Foubert, Author of several 

 curious Performances of Mechanism, London, 1757. 

 This notice of the works of Foubert is in the 

 centre of a highly embellished frontispiece, at the 

 foot of which are two elegant female figures : one 

 seated with compasses fixed across the globe ; the 

 other carries a scroll and pencils, while portraits 

 and books strew the ground. At the head of all 

 this, standing on a plinth, Is a foot-soldier In a 

 cocked hat, with musket, and in marching order, 

 sword as well as bayonet. The plinth carries, 

 " Pro Arls et Focis ;" the whole surmounted and 

 surrounded by emblematical devices, the arts and 

 sciences, with a great display of drums, guns, flags, 

 and all the " pride, pomp, and circumstance " of 

 war ; and a graceful festoon of fiddles and French 

 horns. At the foot of the print we may presume 

 the artist insisted upon the addition of a line in 

 French, thus : 

 " Traite compose par Th«. Foubert, Londres, 1757. 

 A. Walker, delin. et sculp." 



J. H, A. 



Andrews the Astronomer (Vol, Iv., pp, 74, 162.). — 

 For the sake of its preservation, and as an addition 

 to the notices that have already appeared, I send 

 the epitaph inscribed to the memory of Mr. An- 

 drews, from the New Burial Ground, Royston, 

 where he was interred : 



«' In memory of Mr. Henry Andrews, who, from a 

 limited education, made great progress in the Liberal 

 Sciences, and was justly esteemed one of the best Astro- 

 nomers of the Age. He departed this life, in full assur- 

 ance of a better, January 26th, 1820, aged 16 years." 



Andrews built a house In the High Street, Roy- 

 ston, in 1805, and in it he spent the remainder of 

 his life. He paid the builders for the work as they 

 progressed in it, they being in poor circumstances. 

 One of their receipts, penned by Andrews, is in 

 my possession. 



For the Information of the curious in portraits, 

 I may add that Mr. W. H. Andrews of Royston 

 has recently caused a fresh impression of his 

 father's portrait to be struck off". H. G. D. 



Knightsbridge. 



Portrait of Cromwell (Vol. vi., p. 55.). — One 

 of your Correspondents lately asked whether "one 

 of the portraits of Cromwell were not missing ? " 

 There is a remarkably good half-length, attri- 

 buted by connoisseurs to Walker, at Newbridge 

 House, CO. Dublin, among a collection made by 

 Pilkington. Can this be the one for which he in- 

 quires? Is it known how many likenesses of 

 Cromwell were taken by Walker ? Uesula.. 



Foundation Stones (Vol. v., p. 585.; Vol. vi., 

 p. 20.). — As a Note upon this subject, permit me 

 to send you the inscription which (according to 



