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scholar we are indebted for so neat an edition of 

 a book then so little known in England, and so 

 little in accordance with English taste at that 

 time? H. B. C. 



UDiversity Club, May 29. 



Simon of Ghent. — Can anj of your correspon- 

 dents give me anj information concerning Simon, 

 Bishop of Salisbury in 1297-1315, further than 

 what is said of him in Godivini de Preesulihus 

 AnglicB, and in Wanley's Catalogue, where he is 

 mentioned as the author of liegnlce Sanctinumialium 

 Ordinis Sti Jacohi ? AVhy is he called " Ganda- 

 vensis," or "De Gandavo," seeing that he is said 

 to have been born in London? J. Mokton. 



Boetius' Consolations of Philosophy. — Alfred 

 the Great translated this work into Anglo-Saxon; 

 Chaucer, Queen Elizabeth, and Lord Preston into 

 English, 



Has Queen ElizabetKs work (which she 

 executed during her captivity before she ascended 

 the throne) been printed f Kichard Viscount 

 Preston's appeared first, 1 believe, in 1712, in 

 12mo. Hoio often has it been reprinted f What 

 other English translations have been made, and 

 what are the latest ? Jabtzberq. 



Gloucestei'shire Gospel Tree. — Mary Rr)berts, in 

 her Ituins and Old Trees associated ivith Historical 

 Events, gives a very pretty account of a certain 

 Gospel Tree. Can any kind correspondent inform 

 me where in Gloucestershire it is situated ? Al- 

 though a native of the county, I never heard of it. 



W. H. B. 



Churchyards — Epitaphs. — Up to the time of the 

 Norman Conquest, churchyards appear to have been 

 considered almost as sacred as churches ; but soon 

 after that period, though regarded as places of sanc- 

 tuary, they were often used for profane purposes. 

 I recollect reading of fairs and rustic sports being 

 held in them as early as John's reign, but unfor- 

 tunately I have not been an observer of your 

 motto, and know not now where to refer for such 

 instances. I shall therefore feel obliged to any 

 of your readers who will specify a few instances of 

 the profanation of churchyards at different periods, 

 or refer me to works where such may be found. 

 Churchyards appear to have been used in special 

 cases for sepulture from the year 750, but not 

 commonly so used till the end of the fourteenth cen- 

 tury. Are there any instances of sepulchral mo- 

 numents, between the above dates, now existing in 

 churchj-ards ? 



Stone crosses, evidently of Saxon or very early 

 Roman structure, are found in churchyards, but 

 I am not aware of any sepulchral monuments de- 

 tached from the church of the same diite. I shall 

 be glad of any notices of early monuments or 

 remarkable epitaphs in churchyards. AVlien did 



churchyards cease to be places of sanctuary ? 

 AVhat is the exact meaning of the word " yard ?" 

 and was not " God's acre " applied to Christian 

 cemeteries before sepulture was admitted in 

 churches or chuchyards ? W. H. K. 



Drayton Beauchamp, June 10. 



Anthony Warton. — AVho was Ajthony Warton, 

 minister of the word at Breamore, in Hampshire, 

 and author oi' Refinement of Zion, London, 1657? 

 Another Anthony Warton was matriculated at 

 Magdalen College, Oxford, 2nd Nov., 1665, at 

 sixteen, as son of Francis Warton, of Breamore, 

 Hants, plebeian. He remained clerk till 1671 ; 

 chaplain from 1671 to 1674; instituted vicar of God- 

 aiming, Surrey, in 1682; obiit 15th March, 1714- 

 15. He was father of Thomas Warton, Demy and 

 Fellow of Magdalen College, vicar of Basingstoke, 

 Hants, and of Cobham, Surrey, Professor of Poetry 

 in the University of Oxford, 1718-28; who was 

 father of the more celebrated Thomas Warton, 

 Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and of Joseph 

 Warton, Head INIaster of Winchester School. 



Manning says (^History of Surrey, vol. i. p. 648.) 

 that Anthony Warton, vicar of Breamore, Hants, 

 was younger brother of Michael Warton, Esq., of 

 Beverley, but originally of Warton Hall in Lanca- 

 shii-e. Both AVood and Manning seera to have 

 confounded the first Anthony with the clerk, &c. 

 of Magdalen. Was the former brother of Francis ? 



Magdalenensis. 



Cardinals Hat. — O'Halloran mentions the 

 cardinal's hat — " birede" — " biretrum" — as the 

 hat anciently worn by the Irish doctors. What is 

 its history ? J. Sansom. 



Maps of London. — I should be gr.ateful to any 

 of your correspondents who could inform me 

 whether there are any maps of London before that 

 of Aggas ? what they arc ? and where they are to 

 be found ? The date of Aggas's map is supposed to 

 be about 1560, and must have been after 1548, as 

 the site of Essex House in the Strand is there 

 called " Paget Place." There is a MS. map by 

 Anthony Van Den Wyngerde in the Sutherland 

 Collection in the Bodleian, the date of which would 

 be about 1559. Edward Foss. 



Griffith of Penrhyn. — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents refer me to a good pedigree of Griffith 

 OF Penkhtn and Carnarvon ? 



William D'Otly Baylet. 



Coatham, near Redear. 



The Mariners Compass. — What is the origin 

 of Xhejteur-de-lis with which the northern radius 

 of the compass-card is always ornamented? 



Nautilus. 



Pontefract on the Thames. — Permit me to ask, 

 through the medium of your useful publication, 

 where Pontefract on the Thames was situate in 



