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prevailed upon to let it drop. This I know to be 

 fact, for I had it not only from the last-mentioned 

 Gentleman, but others of that family, especially 

 a son of the Secretaries. As soon as I knew this, 

 I took the first opportunity of searching the study, 

 and found some very curious Letters, which one 

 time or other I design to publish together with 

 the account of that affair. My mother being Niece 

 to the Secretary, hath often heard him say that 

 Charles the Second was not only very base in not 

 keeping the least of the many things that he had 

 promised ; but by debauching the Nation, had 

 rendered it fitt for that terrible fellow (meaning 

 the Duke of York) to ruin us all, and then Monk 

 and him would be remembred to their Infamy. 



(To he continued.') 



BURIAL-PLACE OF ARCHBISHOP LEIGnTON. 



On a visit this autumn with some friends to 

 the picturesque village and church of Horsted- 

 Keynes, Sussex, our attention was forcibly ar- 

 rested by the appearance of two large pavement 

 slabs, inserted in an erect position on the external 

 face of the south wall of the chancel. They 

 proved to be those which once had covered and 

 protected the grave of the good Archbishop 

 Leighton, who passed the latter years of his life 

 in that parish, and that of Sir Ellis Leighton, his 

 brother. On inquiry, it appeared that their re- 

 mains had been deposited within a small chapel 

 on the south side of the chancel, the burial-place 

 of the Lightmaker family, of Broadhurst, in the 

 parish of Horsted. The archbishop retired 

 thither in 1674, and resided with his only sister, 

 Saphira, widow of Mr. Edward Lightmaker. 

 Broadhurst, it may be observed, is sometimes in- 

 correctly mentioned by the biographers of Arch- 

 bishop Leighton as a parish; it is an ancient 

 mansion, the residence formerly of the Light- 

 makers, and situated about a mile north of the 

 village of Horsted. There it was that Leighton 

 made his will, in February, 1683; but his death 

 occurred, it will be remembered, in singular ac- 

 cordance with his desire often expressed, at an 

 inn, the Bell, in Warwick Lane, London. 



The small chapel adjacent to the chancel, and 

 opening into it by an arch now walled up, had for 

 gome time, as I believe, been used as a school- 

 room ; more recently, however, either through 

 its becoming out of repair, or from some other 

 cause, the little structure was demolished. The 

 large slabs which covered the tombs of the good 

 prelate and his brother were taken up and fixed 

 against the adjoining wall. The turf now covers 

 the space thus thrown into the open churchyard ; 

 nothing remains to mark the position of the graves, 

 which in all probability, ere many years elapse, 



will be disturbed through ignorance or heedless- 

 ness, and the ashes of Leighton scattered to the- 

 winds. 



In times when special respect has been shown 

 to the tombs of worthies of bygone times, with the 

 recent recollection also of what has been so well 

 carried out by Mr. Markland in regard to the 

 grave of Bishop Ken, shall we not make an effort 

 to preserve from desecration and oblivion the 

 resting-place of one so eminent as Leighton for 

 his learning and piety, so worthy to be held in 

 honoured remembrance for his high principles and 

 his consistent conduct in an evil age ? 



Albert Way. 



tfihxav $ate&. 



Grammars, fyc. for Public Schools. — Would it 

 not be desirable for some correspondents of " N. 

 & Q." to furnish information respecting grammars, 

 classics, and other works which have been written 

 for the various public schools ? Such information 

 might be useful to book collectors; and would 

 also serve to reflect credit on the schools whose 

 learned masters have prepared such books. My 

 contribution to the list is small : but I remember 

 a valuable Greek grammar prepared by the Rev. 

 — Hook, formerly head master of the College 

 School at Gloucester, for the use of that establish- 

 ment ; as also a peculiar English grammar pre- 

 pared by the Rev. R. S. Skillern, master of St. 

 Mary de Crypt School, in the same place, for the 

 use of that school. I also possess a copy (1640) 

 of the llomana Histories Anthologia, for the use of 

 Abingdon School, and Moses and Aaron, or the 

 Rites and Customs of the Hebrews (1641), both 

 by Thos. Godwin, though the latter was written 

 after he ceased to be master of the schools. 



P. H. Fisher. 



Stroud. 



" To captivate." — Moore, in his Journal, speak- 

 ing of the Americans (January 9th, 1819), says : 



" They sometimes, I see, use the word captivate thus r 

 ' Five or six ships captivated,' ' Five or six ships cap- 

 tivated.'" 



Originally, the words to captivate were synony- 

 mous with to capture, and the expression was used 

 with reference to warlike operations. To capti- 

 vate the affections was a secondary use of the 

 phrase. The word is used in the original sense in 

 many old English books. It is not used so now 

 in the United States. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Bohns Edition of Matthew of Westminster. — 

 Under the year a.d. 782, the translator informs us 

 that " Hirenes and his son Constantine became 

 emperors." Such an emperor is not to be found 



