gna §, No 23,, June 7. °56.] 
but in consequence of having purchased a prayer- 
book, not long ago, at the shop of a respectable 
bookseller in London, which was not only full of 
errors, but so abridged, that the Lord’s Prayer, 
and others of frequent recurrence, were not given 
entire, but “ &c. &c. &e.” appended to a few of 
the opening words. I ought, in justice perhaps 
to add, that the imprimatur in this instance was 
S. Childs, Bungay, Suffolk. NE eds 
Quotation wanted: “ He builds too low,” &c. — 
Can you inform me who is the author of 
“ He builds too low who builds beneath the skies.” 
A Constant READER. 
a 
fAinor Queries with Answers. 
“ Biographia Britannica."—I should be obliged 
if you could inform me the name of the author of 
the articles in the Biographia Britannica marked 
“C..” if this name is known. Also where, if at 
all, I can find a list of the authors. 
An Op Pauvrine. 
[All the Lives in the Biographia Britannica marked 
C., are by the Rev. Philip Morant of Colchester. The 
other characters belong to the following writers: D. Mr. 
Harris of Dublin. E. and X. Dr. Campbell of Eveter 
Change. G. William Oldys of Gray’s Inn. H. Henry 
Brougham, of Took’s Court, Cursitor Street, Holborn. R. 
Rey. Mr. Hinton of Red Lion Square. T. Rev. Thomas 
Broughton of the Temple Church. P. Dr. Philip Nicols, 
Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, but expelled for dis- 
solute living. ] 
Olympia Morata.—I am anxious to obtain a 
correct copy of her epitaph, commencing with the 
following words : 
“Deo Imor. 8. 
Et virtuti ac memorize Olympiz Morate Fulvii,” &c. 
Cxierticus (D.) 
[The following version of the epitaph is given in Vie 
D’ Olympia Morata, par Jules Bonnet. Paris, 1850, 
p- 148; “Deo imm. S. et virtuti ac memorize Olympize 
Moratz, Fulvii Morati Mantuani, viri doctissimi filiz, 
Andrez Grunthleri Medici conjugis lectissime femine, 
cujus ingenium ac singularis utriusque linguz cognitio, 
in moribus autem probitas, summumque pietatis studium, 
supra commune modum semper existimata sunt. Quod 
de ejus vita hominum judicium, beata mors, sanctissime 
ac pacatissime abea obita, divino quoque confirmavit tes- 
timonio. Obiit, mutato solo, a salute DLY. supra mille. 
Suz extatis xxix. Hic cum marito et Emilio fratre se- 
pulta.”} 
Order of the Royal Oak. —T have several short 
notices of the Order of the Royal Oak, as pro- 
posed to be established by Charles II., after his 
restoration to the throne; but no particular ac- 
count of the progress which it made, or of the 
causes which prevented its institution. Pepys at 
vol. ii. p. 104. mentions “ Sir Robert Carr, M.P. 
Knight and Baronet of Sleaford, and one of the 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
455 
proposed knights of the Royal Oak.” This was 
in 1667. Can any of your readers or correspon- 
dents furnish me, through your pages, with any 
detailed account of this intended order, and more 
particularly with a list of the proposed knights ; 
or refer me to documents and statements which 
will supply such information ? 
PisHey THOMPSON. 
Stoke Newington. 
[This order of knighthood, projected by the restored 
monarch to perpetuate the loyalty of his faithful adher- 
ents, was wisely abandoned, under the apprehension that 
it might perpetuate dissensions which were better con- 
signed to oblivion. The list of the 687 proposed knights 
— the stout soldiers of Edge Hill, Newbury, and Marston 
Moor —is printed in The English Baronetage, edit. 1741, 
vol. y. p. 363., from a MS. of Peter Le Neve, Norroy, 
then in the collection of Mr. Joseph Ames. The list is 
likewise given in Burke’s Patrician, vol. iii. p. 448. It 
was also reprinted with Dugdale’s Ancient Usuge of Arms, 
and other heraldic tracts, by T. C. Banks, Esq., fol. 1812. 
Consult also Sir H. Nicolas’s History of the Order of 
Knighthood, Introduction, vol. i. p. xlix.] 
Replies, 
BURYING WITHOUT A COFFIN. 
(1* S. xii. 380.) 
In “N. & Q.” of Nov. 17, 1855, I have ob- 
served, under the above heading, a notice inviting 
farther information. ; 
I beg to say, that here the fact, although now 
totally obsolete, is known to have existed. In 
the Barony of Forth (the celebrated Anglo-Nor- 
man colony planted in the days of Strongbow,) 
is situated the church of Lady’s Island, formerly 
“the Lough Derg”¢of the south of Ireland as a 
pilgrimage, and therefore frequented from all . 
parts. I have heard it from credit-worthy per- 
sons in my early days, that they remembered 
bodies having been brought from great distances, 
to be interred there, who had made it a dying 
request to be buried in the Lady’s Island without 
a coffin— the coffin to be left in the ruins of the 
old church for the use of the first poor person re- 
quiring one. This was always looked on by the 
people of the locality as an act of humiliation and 
devotion on the part of the deceased, but was not 
a general custom, nor is it in tradition as having 
ever been imitated in any other of the burial- 
places of the barony. 
In the graveyard of the Augustinian Abbey of 
St. John’s near Ennisworthy, in the barony of 
Scarawalsh, in this county, I learn that the fol- 
lowing custom of burial was observed until about 
the year 1818, by certain families named Tracey, 
and their connexions—the Doyles, the Dalys, and 
others—of the townland of Craan, and adjoining. 
The body being brought to the graveyard in a 
well-made coffin, the friends assembled around, 
