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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 151. 



family : — Pedigree of Donne of Utkinton, Cheshire, 

 Addit. MSS. No. 58ii6, pp. 181—186. ; Done of Shrop- 

 shire, Addit. MSS. No. 14,314, p. 18. ; Dwn, Addit. 

 MSS. No. 14,995, and \ 5,020, p. 46. Sims' Indej: 

 to Heralds^ Visitations gives tlie following refer- 

 ences: — Downe of Bodney, Harl. MSS. No. 1177, 

 p. 95. ; No. 1552, p. 213 b ; Downe of Gr«at Melton 

 and Wremplengham from Suffolk, Harl.^MSS. No. 

 1177, p. 102.; No. 1552, p. 17 b, 37 b ; No 4755, 

 p. 8, a, b, and p. 13. ; No. 1589* p. 15., 32 b; No. 

 6093, pp. 16. 39. Addit. MSS. No. 11,388, p. 65. 

 For a large number of various collections of Welsh 

 pedigrees, see the Index to the Harl. MSS., p. 415.] 



THE BCBIAIi OF SIR JOHN MOORE. 

 (Vol. v., p. 585.) 



My attention has been called by a friend to an 

 article which appeared in "N. & Q." of June 19, 

 1852, signed Balliole.nsis, where your correspon- 

 dent says : " I believe the clergyman who read the 

 service is now living near Herefordj and that he 

 will state that the interment took place in the 

 morning of the day after the battle." 



I am the clergyman alluded to, who officiated on 

 that memorable occasion. I was chaplain to the 

 brigade of Guards attached to the army under the 

 command of the late Sir John Moore ; and it fell 

 to my lot to attend him in his last moments. 

 During the battle lie was conveyed from the field 

 by a sergeant of the 42nd, and some soldiers of 

 that regiment and of the Guards, and I followed 

 them into the quarters of the general, on the quay 

 at Corunna, where he was laid on a mattress on the 

 floor ; and I remained with him till his death, 

 when I was kneeling by his side. After which, it 

 was the subject of deliberation whether his corpse 

 should be conveyed to P^ngland, or be buried on 

 the spot ; which was not determined before I left 

 the general's quarters. I determined, therefore, 

 not to embark with the troops, but remained on 

 shore till the morning, when, on going to his quar- 

 ters, I found that his body had been removed 

 during the night to the quarters of Col. Graham, 

 in the citadel, by the officers of his staff, from 

 whence it was borne by them, assisted by myself, 

 to the grave which had been prepared for it, on 

 one of the bastions of the citadel. It now being 

 daylight, the enemy discovered that the troops had 

 been withdrawn and embarked during the night. 

 A fire was opened by them shortly after upon the 

 ships which were still in the harbour. The 

 funeral service was therefore performed without 

 delay, as we were exposed to the fire of the 

 enemy's guns ; and after having shed a tear over 

 the remains of the departed general, whose body 

 was wrapt 



♦' With his martial cloak around him," — 



there having been no means to provide a coffin,— 

 the earth closed upon him, and 



" We left him alone with his glory !" 



A full and authenticated account of this interest- 

 ing event will be found in The Narrative of the 

 Campaign of the British Army in Spain commanded 

 by His Excellency Sir John Moore, K.B., SfC, 

 authenticated by Official Papers and Original Let- 

 ters. By James Moore, Esq. 



I trust that I have satisfactorily answered the 



inquiries of your correspondent, and shall be happy 



to reply to any further inquiries which he may 



wish to make relating to that interesting event. 



H. J. Symons, 



Vicar of St. Martin's, Hereford. 



Hereford. 



MACAULAY S " YOUNG I.EVIXE. 



(Vol.vi., p. 194. &c.)i 



As your 148th Number contains some further 

 illustrations in support of Mr. Macaulay's repre- 

 sentation of the status of the inferior clergy ia 

 England at the end of the sixteenth and begin- 

 ning of the seventeenth centuries, I would venture 

 to call your attention to a passage in Burton's 

 apology for him, a clergyman undertaking the 

 labour of writing the Anatomy of Melancholy, and 

 thus seeming to trench on the province of the 

 professors of medicine, which he defends on the 

 ground that he knows many a physician who has — : 

 " Taken orders in hope of a benefice ; and why may not 

 a melancholy divine, that can get nothing but by 

 simony, profess physic? Many poor country vicars, 

 for want of other means, are driven to their shifts, \.o 

 turn mountebanks, quacksalvers, empiricks ; and if 

 our greedy patrons hold us to such hard conditions, as 

 commonly they do, they will make most of us work 

 at some trade, as Paul did — at last turn taskers, malt- 

 sters, costermongers, graziers, sell ale, as some have 

 done, or worse." — Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, 

 vol. i., " Democritus to the Reader," p. 22. 



A correspondent, Melanion, in your 2nd 

 Number (Vol. i., p. 26.), called attention to one 

 expression in the remarkable section of Burton, in 

 which, among the " causes of melancholy," he 

 particularises the " misery of scholars, " and above 

 all, the degradation of the " trencher chaplain" ia 

 the halls of his patron. It may suffice that atten- 

 tion has been directed to this section of Burton ; 

 but your correspondent has pointed out but one 

 of the many illustrations of Macaulay's correct- 

 ness, which abound in this chapter ; a portion of 

 his great work, which Burton evidently wrote 

 from bitter experience of its truth and reality. 

 He quotes, in corroboration of his own assertions, 

 the declaration of — 



" A grave minister, then and now a reverend Bishop 

 of this church (Howson); who, in a sermon preached 



