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it was " by Dr. Wilkinson, F.S.A., who died 1819." This is, I think, in the hand- writing of Matthew Gregson, who formerly owned the book. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

[Halkett and Laing attribute the ' Sketch ' to Poote Gower, M.D.]

GRAVESTONES AT JORDANS : WILLIAM PENN. That excellent little work ' A His- tory of Jordans,' by Miss Littleboy, says that the small headstones marking the graves of William Penn and a few others were set up in 1862-3. This is probably accurate, although James Thorne ( ' Handbook to the Environs of London,' i. 83), writing in 1875, says :

" No stone or monumental record marks the grave of Penn, or any of the many men of mark in the early history of the sect who were buried along with him in this Campo Santo of Quaker- dom."

Miss Littleboy also adds :

" The original stones were probably removed about a hundred years earlier, when we find that the yearly meeting's advice against the use of gravestones as a departure from simplicity was being considered in the monthly meetings."

This provides an indefinite suggestion that some form of memorial identifying Perm's grave was put up within a few decades of his death. Is there any record or reference determining this ? ALECK ABRAHAMS. [See the articles at 10 S. x. 334.]

SPANISH CHRISTMAS CAROL. Borrow in his ' Bible in Spain ' says a carol very common in that country commences (as he translates it): Once of old upon a mountain, shepherds overcome

with sleep Near to Bethlehem's royal tower, kept at dead

of night their sheep ; Round about the trunk they nodded of a huge

ignited oak, Whence the crackling flame, ascending bright

and clear, the darkness broke.

Can any one give me the original and its continuation ? O'DTJNLANG.

MEYER AND HOPPNER FAMILIES. Is any- thing known of Henry Meyer the engraver, who married a daughter of Woolnoth the engraver ? He was the son of Henry Meyer the engraver and painter, and great-nephew of John Hoppner the painter.

Henry Meyer was said to have had in his possession the Meyer papers left him by his paternal aunt Mary Anne (otherwise Nancy) Meyer, which I believe would throw light on the Meyer and Hoppner family history. T. CHAMBERLIN TIMS.

6, Pare Bean Terrace, St. Ives, Cornwall.

BACON AND ITALY. Did Francis Bacon visit Italy ? Surely 794 of Bacon's ' Natural History' rings true as being described at first hand :

Experiment Solitary, touching the Super- Reflexion of Eccho's.

There is in the City of Ticinum, in Italy, a Church, that hath Windowes only from above. It is in Length an Hundred Feet, in Breadth Twenty Feet, and in Height neare Fifty ; Having a Doore in the Middest. It reporteth the Voice, twelve or thirteene times, if you stand by the Close End-Wall, over against the Doore.

The Eccho fadeth, and dyeth by little and little, as the Eccho at Pont-charenton doth. And the Voice soundeth, as if it came from above the Doore.

.And if you stand at the Lower End, or on Either Side of the Doore, the Eccho holdeth ; But if you stand in the Doore, or in the Middest just over against the Doore, not. Note that all Eccho's sound better against Old walls than New ; Because they are more Drie, and Hollow.

W. H. M. GRIMSHAW.

EPWORTH PARSONAGE GHOST. Is there any explanation why the ghost at Epworth Parsonage was called " Old Jeffrey " ? Had a man of that name died at the Parsonage ? Was the house completely destroyed by the fire in the Rev. S. Wesley's time ?

JAMES TALBOT. [For " Old Jeffrey " see 9 S. xi. 396.]

Miss NASH AT ORCHIES. Who was Miss Nash, mentioned in * The Annual Register ' for 1792 as having been ill-treated by the French soldiers at Orchies ? and in what manner was she ill-treated ?

JAMES TALBOT.

Dublin.

JACOB COLE. I am desirous of learning the present address of the representatives of Jacob Cole & Son, hatters, who carried on business at 8, Bridge Street, Westminster, till 1865, when, it is believed, the firm was called Cole & Williamson. The object of the inquiry is to learn if Jacob Cole, who besides being a hatter was a writer of comic verses, wrote the song of the Broderers' Company, printed in ' N. & Q.' on 12 April, 1856 (2 S. i. 285). C. H.

ROBERT SLADE. In the Visitation of Huntingdon, 1613, a pedigree of Robert Slade is given as follows. Richard Slade of Huntingdon married Elizabeth, daughter of John Spenser of Patenham, by whom he had three children, Thomas, Robert, and Rosa. At the time of the Visitation Robert was living at Elington, Hunts, and was unmarried. I believe he married later, but cannot find the name of his wife. Can any