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THE MONUMENTAL BRASSES OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
The exact date was not fixed, but will no doubt be about 
the usual time, and Secretaries of Societies are requested to 
bear the Meeting in mind when arranging for Lectures, 
Meetings, &c. 
Any Members of the Union who may have Papers or 
Lectures which they would be willing to deliver to other 
Societies in the Union are requested to communicate with 
the Hon. Secretary, Tlios. H. Waller, 71, Gough Road, 
Birmingham, who will be happy to send their names to 
Secretaries of Societies who may signify their wish to have 
such Lectures delivered to them. 
The completeness of the preparations for the Meeting at 
Shrewsbury in June, and the excellent manner in which they 
were carried out, makes the balance sheet, which the Local 
Committee who had the care of the arrangements communi¬ 
cated to the Meeting of the Management Committee, of 
considerable interest, especially to some of the Societies in 
small towns, as showing that the Meeting of the Union does 
not necessarily involve any great expense. The accounts 
showed that the total cost of the meeting had been about £35, 
and that the sale of tickets for the Conversazione and the 
Excursions had, within sixpence, covered this amount. 
THE MONUMENTAL BBASSES OF WABWICKSHIRE. 
BY E. W. BADGER, M.A. 
(Continued from page 218.) 
STRATFORD-ON-AVON .—Anne [Hathaway], w. 
of Win. Shakespeare, 1G23. Haines. 
In the chance], near the grave of Wm. Shakespeare, is 
a brass plate 15-Jin. by 7jin., with this inscription 
IIeere lyeth interred the body of Anne wife 
Of William Shakespeare who depted this life the 
0 th day of Avgv. 1G28 being of the age of G7 yeares 
Vbera, tu mater, tu lac, vitamqu. dedisti 
Vae mihi pro tanto munere saxa dabo 
Ouam mallem amoueat lapidem bonus angel’ore 
Exeat Christi Corpus, imago tua. 
Scd nil vota valent : venias cito Christc, rcsuiget 
Claufa licet tumulo mater et astra petet. 
