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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



491 



little confusion in Burke's excellent work." There 

 certainly is no '■'•little confusion" in A. B.'s com- 

 munication. 



Marjjaret Beaufort, successively Countess of 

 Richmond and Derby, the mother of King 

 Henry VII., was the only child of John 'Beaufort, 

 the first Duke of Somerset. 



What can A. B. mean by " Henry, Edmund, 

 and John, successively dukes of Somerset," to 

 whom he conjectures Margaret Beaufort might 

 have been sister ? There were not three brothers 

 Beaufort successively dukes of Somerset ; nor were 

 there ever three successive dukes of Somerset 

 named Henry, Edmund, and John ; though there 

 certainly was a succession of John, Edmund, and 

 Henry, they being respectively father, uncle, and 

 cousin of Margaret. 



John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset, who had been 

 created Marquis of Somerset and Dorset, was, on 

 his death (1410), succeeded in the earldom of 

 Somerset by his eldest son, Henry Beaufort, who 

 dying without issue (1418), the second son, John 

 Beaufort, succeeded to this earldom. He was 

 created Dxike of Somerset (1443), and on his death 

 without male issue (1444), the dukedom became 

 extinct; but the earldom of Somerset descended 

 to his brother, Edmund Beautbrt, Marquis of 

 Dorset (the third son of John Beaufort, Earl of 

 Somerset}, who was afterwards (1448) created 

 Duke of Somerset. He was slain at the battle of 

 St. Alban's (1455), and was succeeded by his 

 eldest son, Henry Beaufort, who was beheaded in 

 1463. He is said to have been succeeded by his 

 next brother, Edmund Beaufort; but it is doubt- 

 ful if the fact were so, and the better opinion 

 seems to be that the dukedom became e.xtinct by 

 the attainder of Duke Henry in 1463. 



" The second and last Duke John," alluded to 

 by A. B., is altogether a myth : the last Beaufort 

 Duke of Somerset was either Henry or Edmund ; 

 and there was but one Duke John, and he was not 

 the " second and last," but ih&Jirst duke. 



C. H. Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Church of St. Bene't Fink (Vol. iv., p. 407.). — 

 I think some account of the inscriptions, or of 

 their having been transcribed, will be found in the 

 Gentleman s Magazine, as well as of those removed 

 by the destruction of the church of St. Mi.chneV.'s, 

 Crooked Lane., in order to make the ajiproaches 

 for New Loiidou Bridge ; there, also, I think I 

 have seen some account of the inscri[)tioiis in the 

 church y)ulled down f<jr the erection of the Bank 

 of England. The preservation of the monumental 

 recorris of the dead has been so fre(iuenlly suggested 

 in " Notes .\Nn Qukriks," tiiat I will not occupy 

 space by urging firther argiinnnits in favour of 

 the scheme pro[)osed for the transcription and | 

 preservation of inscrijitions on monuments and I 



grave- stones. The numerous churches which, in 

 these days, are undergoing alterations and repairs, 

 call for your continued exertion to eifect the ob- 

 ject you have already submitted for the purpose 

 in Ibrmer numbers. The ancient church of St. 

 Marj', Lambeth, has just been rebuilt, and many 

 of the monumental tablets will of necessity be 

 removed from their former sites, and grave-stones 

 may disappear. The venerable Ashmnle lies at 

 the entrance of the old vestry, under a flat stone ; 

 and outside, a short distance from the window, 

 lies Tradescant, under a large altar-tomb in a 

 state of decay ! G. 



When the church of St. Bene't Fink was pulled 

 down, to make room for the new Royal Exchange 

 in 1844, the monumental tablets, &c. were re- 

 moved to the church of St. Peter's-le-Poor in Old 

 Broad Street, to which parish the former is now 

 annexed. J. R. W. 



Bristol. 



Coins of Vahalathus (Vol. iv., pp. 255. 427.). — 

 An article on the coins of the Zenobia family ap- 

 peared in the lie vice Numismaiique, 1846, vol. xi. 

 p. 268. The writer of that article says — 



" II est impossible de reiidre compte du mot CPniAC 

 ou CPIAC, qui precede, sur quelques pieces, lo nom 

 de Vabalatlius. La meme observation s'applique aux 

 medailles Latines du meme prince, doiit le nom est 

 suivi d'un certain nombre de lettres, VCRIMDR ou 

 VCRIIV^ID auxquelles on s'est etforce inutilement de 

 trouver un sens." 



w. w. 



Engraved Portrait (Vol.iv., p. 443.). — This is 

 the portrait of Daniel De Foe, and was engraved 

 by \W . Sherwin. The verses underneath are — 

 ' Here you may see an honest face, 

 Arm'd against Envy and Disgrace, 

 Who lives respected still in spite 

 Of those that punish them that write." 



It is mentioned in The Catalogue of English 

 Heads, by Jos. Ames, p. 57. John I. Dredge. 



" Cleanliness is next to godliness " (Vol. iv., 

 p. 256.). — The author of the Epistle to the He- 

 brews says (eh. x. v. 22.) : 



" Let us draw near with a true heart, in full assur- 

 ance of faith, liaving onr hearts sprinkled from an evil 

 conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water." 



It has long been my opinion (hat the proverb m 

 question arose from the above text, in which a 

 pure conscience, a necessary condition of godliness, 

 is immediately followed by an injunction to clean- 

 liness. H. T. 



Cozens the Painter (Vol. iv., p. 368.). — I would 

 refer your correspondent, for the few particulars 

 known of him, to Edwards's Anecdotes of Painting, 

 1808 (in continuation of Horace Waljxde's Anec- 

 dotes), p. 120. 



