Nov. 5. 1853.] 



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by the crowned lion), but to Cornwall, the ancient 

 feudal arms of which are Sahle, fifteen bezants, re- 

 ferring, as it would seem, to its metallic treasures. 

 See an article on the numerous arms derived from 

 those of this Richard, in the appendix to Mr. 

 Lower's Curiosities of Heraldry. Hbnet Gough. 

 Emberton, Bucks. 



Burial in an erect Position (Vol. viii., pp. 59. 

 233.). — So Ben Jonson was buried at West- 

 minster, probably on account of the large fee de- 

 manded for a full-sized grave. It was long sup- 

 posed by many that the story was invented to 

 account for the smallness of the gravestone ; but 

 the grave being opened a few years ago, the dra- 

 matist's remains were discovered in the attitude 

 indicated by tradition. PIeney Gough. 



Emberton, Bucks. 



In the Ingoldsby Legends, vol. i. p. 106., we 

 have : 



" No ! — Tray's humble tomb would look but shabby 

 'Mid the sculptured shrines of that gorgeous Abbey. 



Besides, in the place 



They say there's not space 

 To bury what wet-nurses call 'a Babby.' 

 Even ' rare Ben Jonson,' that famous wight, 

 I am told, is interr'd there bolt upright. 

 In just such a posture, beneath his bust. 

 As Tray used to sit in to beg for a crust." 



Is there any authority for the statement ? 



Eeica. 



Wooden Effigies (Vol. viii., p. 255.). — These 

 ai*e by no means uncommon, though it is to be 

 feared that many have perished within compara- 

 tively recent times. In the church of Clifton 

 Reynes, Bucks, there are wooden effigies of two 

 knights of the Reynes family with their wives. 



Heney Gough. 



Emberton, Bucks. 



Wedding Divination (Vol. vii., p. 545.). — The 

 following mediaeval superstition may be quoted as 

 a pretty exact parallel of the wedding divination 

 alluded to by Oxoniensis. It is from Wright's 

 selection of Latin stories of the thirteenth and 

 fourteenth centuries, Harl. MS. 463. : — 



" Vidi in quibusdam partibus, quando mulieres nu- 

 bebant, et de ecclesia redibant, in ingressu domus in 

 faciem eorum frumentum projiciebant, clamantes : 

 * Abundantia ! Abundantia ! ' quod Gallice dicitur 

 plent^, plenty ; et tamen plerumque, antequam annus 

 transiret, pauperes mendici remanebant et abundantia 

 omni bonorum carebant." 



H. C. K. 



Rectory, Hereford. 



Old Fogie (Vol. viii., p. 154.). — If it will throw 

 any additional light on the controversy as to 

 " fogie," I may add that for a long period of years 



I have heard it applied only to the discharged 

 invalided pensioners of the army. On a late 

 Queen's birthday review on the Green, the boys 

 and girls were in ecstasies at seeing the " old 

 fogies " dressed out in new suits. It is very often 

 spoken derisively to a thick-headed stupid person, 

 but which cannot determine accurately its primary 

 signification. G. IsT. 



Mi^ttJlKntani, 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The noble President of the Society of Antiquaries 

 is fast bringing to completion the cheaper and revised 

 edition of his History of England from the Peace of 

 Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783. The 

 sixth volume, which is now before us, embraces the 

 eventful six years 1774-1780, which saw the com- 

 mencement of the great struggle with America, which 

 ended in the independence of the United States. In 

 this, as in his preceding volumes, the new materials 

 which Lord Mahon has been so fortunate as to collect 

 from the family papers of the representatives of the 

 political leaders of the period, and which he has inserted 

 in his appendix, contribute very materially to the value 

 and importance of his history. 



Cheshire ; its Historical and Literary Associations, il- 

 lustrated in a series of Biographical Sketches ; and The 

 Cheshire and Lancashire Historical Collector, a small 8vo. 

 sheet originally issued every month, but now every 

 fortnight, in consequence of increase of materials, and 

 the great encouragement which the undertaking has 

 received, are two contributions towards Cheshire topo- 

 graphy, local history, bibliography, &c., for which the 

 good men of the Palatinate are indebted to the zeal of 

 Mr. T. Worthington Barlow, of the Society of Gray's 

 Inn. 



It is always a subject of gratification to us when we 

 see cheap yet handsome reprints of our standard au- 

 thors ; for no better proof can be given of the increase 

 among us not only of a reading public, but of a public 

 who are disposed to read well. It is therefore with no 

 small pleasure that we have received from Mr. Rout- 

 ledge copies of his five-shilling edition of The Canter- 

 bury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, from the Text, and 

 with the Notes and Glossary of Thomas Tyrivhilt, con- 

 densed and arranged under the Text. It is obvious that 

 considerable labour has been taken by the editor in its 

 preparation, for he has not contented himself with 

 merely transferring the contents of Tyrwhitt's Notes 

 and Glossary to their proper places beneath the text ; 

 but has availed himself of the labours of Messrs. Craik, 

 Saunders, Sir H. Nicolas, and our able correspondent 

 A. E. B., to give completeness to what is a very use- 

 ful edition of old Dan Chaucer's masterpiece. We 

 have to thank the same publisher for a corresponding 

 edition of Spenser's Faerie Queene ; so that no lover of 

 those two glorious old poets need any longer want a 

 cheap and compact edition of them. 



Books Received. — History of the Guillotine, revised 

 from, the Quarterly Review, by the Right Hon. J. W, 

 Croker, which forms the new part of Murray's Railway 



