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'58. 



printer or publisher, and leaves very little doubt 

 that he made up complete sets of the Homer from 

 his own and the preceding folios when copies 

 could be procured. As yet the only supposed 

 Instance of his having done so, known to me, is 

 the copy in my possession ; but probably these 

 remarks may elicit information as to others. 



Permit me to add, that I should be glad to 

 learn (from any print-seller or private person who 

 may have or could procure them, without the 

 mutilation of fresh copies,) where I could obtain 

 a copy of William Holes portrait of Chapman on 

 the back of the engraved title-page to the Whole 

 Works of Homer, and the engraved title to " The 

 Crowne of all Homer's Worhes, Batrachomyo- 

 machia," &c., hy William Pass, which contains a 

 portrait of Chapman at an advanced age ; of 

 which two excellent facsimiles, on a reduced scale, 

 are given in the first and fifth volumes of Mr. 

 Hooper's edition. D. F. M. C. 



ANCIENT TOMBS OF THE MALTESE. 



There exist in the island of Malta on the Ben- 

 gemma Hills a number of ancient tombs of the 

 old Maltese. They have not been much described 

 in England. While I was there some years back 

 I was present at the opening of several, through 

 the kindness of the late much lamented Mr. Hen. 

 Lushington. There was one in particular which 

 was so much more perfect than any other that 

 had been opened that I think it worth describ- 

 ing. To this, as to all the others, the open- 

 ing was formed by a shaft sunk into the rock 

 about six feet long by three and a half feet wide, 

 and seven feet deep ; some rude steps being cut 

 out at one corner. When this was cleared out 

 (for it had been filled up even with the surface, 

 so that very few can discover where these graves 

 are) opposite there appeared "the great stone 

 rolled to the mouth of the sepulchre." This is 

 the case in all, but in this instance both stone and 

 groove to receive it were better formed. We re- 

 moved the stone, and there lay the skeleton raised 

 on a couch carved out of the rock, about three feet 

 from the ground ; at his head was a drinking tazza 

 (Calix) of the ordinary form with two handles. 

 Resting on the ground, in a hole cut on purpose, 

 and against the head of the couch, was a large am- 

 phora, with cover, but no handles. At the feet, on 

 a stand cut out level with the couch, was another 

 large vessel without cover, but with two handles, 



f)robably containing corn. Opposite to this, in a 

 ittle hole in the wall, was a lamp of the same 

 rude greyish pottery as the rest. All the vases 

 that have beendiscovered have been similar, fre- 

 quently extremely handsome in shape, but with 

 no other ornament but lines in red or black run 

 round, probably while they were on the potters' 



wheel. The only piece of metal that was found 

 was an armlet of bronze. I have a sketch both of 

 tomb and pottery, if any correspondent would like 

 to see them. * J. C. J. 



PliDMLET FAMILY. 



In the church of Hoo St. Werburgh, near 

 Rochester, are two brasses to members of this 

 family. 



1. Within the altar rails is a female figure in 

 the costume of the period, with the hands clasped 

 in prayer, and the following inscription : — 



" Here l}'eth bvrie'd the bodj'e of Dorothye Plvmley, 

 the wife of John Plvmley, she died an° diil 1615." 

 " Done by James Plvmley her sonne." 



2. Near the above are the figures of a man and 

 his wife, their hands joined in prayer, the man 

 bareheaded in a cloak, doublet, , and shoes, the 

 wife in a hat and ruff. Below are groups of 

 three sons and four daughters. Underneath is 

 the following inscription : — 



" Here lieth bvried the body of Mr. James Plvmley, who 

 lived in the parsnig of this parish (he lived a christian 

 life and was charitable to the poor and beloved of all), he 

 departed this life the 26 of Avgvst," 1640. 



" As also Anna his loving wife, by whome he had issve 

 7 children, 3 sonns, James, William, Ihon, and 4 daugh- 

 ters, Sara, Mary, Anna, Elizabeth. She intendeth at the 

 time of her svmmons here to lye." 



Hasted merely mentions the name of the family 

 as having held a lease of the parsonage, and I find 

 no note of the Plumleys in any other Kentish 

 history which I have consulted. I should there- 

 fore be glad of any information respecting them. 



I would add that the monuments in Hoo church 

 are noticed in the Gent. Mag. for June, 1840, 

 p. 582. J. J. H. 



liee, Kent. 



ABCHSEACON If ABE. . 



From the preface to " Sermons preacht on parti- 

 cular Occasions. By J. C. Hare, &c., Camb., Mac- 

 millan, 1858," it appears that the Memoir of the. 

 archdeacon, which many of those who knew the man 

 or his works have been for some time expecting, 

 has been abandoned. In the absence of fuller in- 

 formation some readers may welcome a few refer- 

 ences to printed books, which contain notices of 

 Mr. Hare and of his studies. See particularly 

 the preface above cited, and the " introduction 

 explanatory of his [Mr. Hare's] position in the 

 Church, with reference to the Parties that divide 

 it," prefixed to his Charges of the years 1843, 1845, 

 and 1846. Every reader will at once divine the 

 name of the writer of these memorials, which alone 

 of all which have yet appeared show a true ap- 

 preciation of their subject. An article, ascribed 



