Mar. 24. 1855.] 



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* Harlow. W. Newman (Death by his side, holding a 



dart), 1602. 



* Harlow. John Gladwyn, 1615. 



* Harlow. Robert Lawson and wife, 1617. 



* Harlow. Richard Bugges, Esq., with a staff in his hand ; 



two wives (large), 1636. 



(All now mural.) 



* Hemstead. Civilian and wife, c. 1450. 



* Hemstead. Civilian (wife lost), c. 1480. 



* Hemstead. Civilian (wife lost), c. 1510. 



* Hemstead. Man in armour and lady, c. 1530. 



* Hemstead. Civilian and wife, c. 1530. 



* Littleburj-. Ann Byrd, widow (loose in vestry), 1624, 



* Littlebiirv. Inscription to James Edwards, " Satelles de 



Hadstock," 1422. 



* Littlebury. The " female figure and child " are Jane 



Bradbury and child, 1578. 

 (For the second " civilian and wife," read " a civilian, 

 c. 1480 ; a civilian, c. 1520." ) 



* Saffron Walden. A female figure, c. 1550. 



* Wimbish. " Part of a female figure ; " add palimsest. 



On the reverse is part of a fine Flemish brass, with 

 St. John, &c. 



* Wenden. Man in armour, c. 14-20. 



t Terling. Two mural brasses to Rochester family, 

 f Terling. Knight and ladj', c. 1550. 



I have see7i the brasses at the places marked 

 thus * : those to which f is prefixed have been 

 communicated to me by friends : the remainder 

 are mentioned in recent publications. 



W. Sparrow Simpson, M.A. 



(To be continued.^ 



In the work on Monumental Brasses by Rev. 

 C. Boutell, is given the head of the kneeling figure 

 of Thomas Leman, rector, a.d. 1534, from his 

 brass at South Acre Church, Norfolk, with the 

 following comment : 



"In this example the hair is worn long, and covering 

 the whole head. In the year during which he deceased, 

 the authority of the Pope in these realms was formally 

 renounced by parliament, and consequently the tonsure 

 was no longer retained by the clergy. It is singular that 

 a brass should exhibit this change in the very year in 

 which it first took place." — P. 106. 



How the author fell Into this mistake I can only 

 suppose to have happened from his depending on 

 another, and not verifying his assertion from actual 

 observation. The brass, of which I possess a 

 perfect rubbing, exhibits the tonsure very visibly, 

 and even rather prominently; so that if any sin- 

 gularity be found in it, it must exist in the tonsure 

 being continued, and perpetuated in the effigy in 

 defiance of the royal declar.ttion. F. C. H. 



ELIZABETH CANNING. 



Some time since there appeared in " N^. & Q." 

 an evidence that all interest in the history of this 

 impudent impostor had not yet died out. Should 

 there still be any one to care for some account of 

 a portion of her career not generally known, the 



following Notes of her Transatlantic existence 

 may not be unacceptable. 



In the Pennsylvania Gazette^ No. 1344. (Sep- 

 tember 26, 1754), under the head of " London 

 Intelligence," of the date of August 8, It is stated 

 that — 



" Elizabeth Canning, we hear, is embarked on board 

 Captain Sturt's ship for America, and that she is engaged 

 as a servant in a dissenter's family in Pennsylvania." 



In the same paper, No. 1350. (November 7, 

 1754), under the head of "Boston Intelligence," 

 dated October 28, it is mentioned that — 



" In Captain McDaniel's ship from London came passen- 

 ger the famous Elizabeth Canning, well recommended to 

 several persons of honour and credit. The remarkable 

 case between her and Mary Squires, a gipsy in England ; 

 the different examinations, trials, and sentences there- 

 upon, of which mention has been made from time to time 

 in the public prints, has puzzled some of the greatest 

 politicians in Great Britain." 



The next references I find to this woman are in 

 an old folio volume of newspaper clippings (of un- 

 doubted authenticity, I will add), to most of which 

 the collector added a MS. note. This prevents 

 my citing the particular journals whence the ex- 

 tracts are made, but of the facts it is presumed 

 there can be no question. Tlie paragraphs are 

 two in number, and are respectively noted " New 

 York, July 1, 1773," and "July, 1773." 



" On Monday the 22nd ult., died, at Weathersfield in 

 Connecticut, the noted Elizabeth Canning, whose case 

 made a great noise in England about twenty years ago, 

 when she was arraigned for wilful and corrupt perjury; 

 her trial lasted seven days, and is contained in near 300 

 folio pages of the State Trials, vol. x. She was found 

 guilty, but, though recommended to mercy, at the insti- 

 gation of that excellent citizen Sir John Barnard, and 

 that her sentence might be onl}' six months imprison- 

 ment, she was transported at the request of her friends, 

 in August, 1754, and has lived ever since in New Eng' 

 land." 



" On Monday the 22nd ult., died, at Weathersfield in 

 Connecticut, very suddenly, Mrs. Elizabeth Treat, wife 

 of Mr. — Treat, formerly the celebrated Elizabeth Can- 

 ning," &c. 



Th? remainder of this paragraph is word for word 

 the same with its predecessor. 



It is very likely that the town records of Wea- " 

 thersfield will furnish other particulars, if they 

 should be desired. Serviens. 



Sea-sickness. — In the first page of a little book 

 called A Month in Portugal, by the Rev. J. Old- 

 knowj I find the following statement, on the au- 

 thority of his fellow-voyager, the Rev. J. M. Neale : 



" That in no ancient writer, sacred or profane, nor even 

 in any of mediasvial times, do we find the slightest allu- 

 sion to sea-sickness." 



Now that, before the facilities offered by printing, 



