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graves. I have made inquiries about the registers, <tc., but can get no information, it being said that there is no office now in existence.

West London (or Brompton) Cemetery, Fulham Road, S.W. In those days Mr. J. H. Ruddick was manager, and the office was at 12, Hay market, IS.W. It is under the juris- diction of H.M. Commissioners of Works, but there is an office for inquiries, <fcc., at the cemetery.

I have given the information somewhat fully, as perhaps the names of the officials or the address of the offices may tend to throw some light upon the matter, and. lessen the necessary inquiries.

W. E. HARLAND OXLEY.

Westminster.

MR HOPKINS may perhaps leave the City churchyards out of consideration, since inter- ment of the dead there, although it had been customary in the Middle Ages, was in 1850 partially forbidden by Act of Parliament.

I do n'ot know the exact year in which the Bunhill Fields burial-ground became taboo to the dead ; but it was thrown open as a fresh- air space to the living in 1867.

The cemeterj 7 of the West London and Westminster Cemetery Company, in the Fulharn Road, Brompton, was consecrated in 1840, and is still used.

The Highgate and Kentish Town Cemetery was opened by the London Cemetery Com- pany, and consecrated in 1839. This also is still in use, as is the Nunhead Cemetery in South London, which was consecrated in 1840.

Abney Park Cemetery, at Stoke Newing- ton, was opened in 1840.

The City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Company has. or had, a cemetery at South Grove, Mile End, consecrated in .1841.

There is, or was, the East London Ceme- tery in White Horse Lane, Stepney ; and the Norwood Cemetery was consecrated in 1837.

Of what religious " persuasion " was Miss Eliza Ellen Hopkins ? Her burial - place might be traced by that. There was a burial- ground, for instance, attached to the Wes- leyan Chapel opposite Bunhill Fields, where John Wesley was buried.

It will be observed that all the above cemeteries existed in the year in question- namely, 1860. J. HOLDEN MAC MICHAEL.

A list of the cemeteries of the metropolis is given in the 1860 edition of Weale's Holborn district, which would include Fetter
 * London.' Many persons dying in the

Lane, were interred at Highgate Cemetery, the secretary of which could easily give- MR. HOPKINS the required information.

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

[MR. E. H. COLEMAN also sends a list of ceme- teries.]

WHITSUNDAY (10 th S. ii. 121, 217). Local pronunciation is frequently a true guide to the meaning of words. Our West-Country people are very conservative, and thus establish PROF. SKEAT'S contention. We know of no such word as Witsun, it is always

IFfo'tesuntide, and moreover we always speak of Whitesun Sunday, White&un Monday,

Whttesuu Tuesday, &c. See * West Somerset Word-Book.' F. T. ELWORTHY.

FAIR MAID OF KENT (10 th S. i. 289, 374; ii. 59, 118, 175, 236). The marriage of the DucdeBretaigne, referred toby MR. HERBERT SOUTHAM, is not mentioned in my copy of Froissart, edited by G. C. Macaulay (Mac- millan, 1895). HENRY GERALD HOPE.

119, Elms Road, Clapham, S.W.

I wrote, I think, "Froissart, I. C. 229, p. 268." It is printed *' Froissart, c. ccxxix. p. 268." HERBERT SOUTHAM.

PHRASES AND REFERENCE (10 th S. ii. 128, 197). The Coroners Cup. The Coroners' Cup is a loving cup used at the dinner of the Coroners' Society. MEDICULUS probably re- fers to the Jurymen's Cup. On 13 May, 1833, a policeman was killed at a Chartist mass- meeting in Cold bath Fields, while (with 300 other "Peelers ') he was attempting to scatter the crowd. The coroner's - inquest jury unanimously returned "Justifiable homi- side," as no warning was given of the onslaught and no provocation excused the official interference. The verdict, in opposi- tion to that desired by the Coroner for Middlesex, was very popular. The seventeen jurymen were banqueted and presented with a banner, each also had an inscribed silver cup and half a dozen medals in commemo- ration of the alleged attempt to tamper with 44 the Palladium of English liberty trial by jury." Dr. Danford Thomas possesses one each of these cups and medals. What has become of the others ?

Brown and Thompson's Penny Hotels. A popular nickname for two Roman Catholic chapels in Moorfields at the time of the Gordon Riots. STANLEY B. ATKINSON.

10, Adelphi Terrace, W.C.

CLOSETS IN EDINBURGH BUILDINGS (10 th S. ii. 89, 154, 234). A closet of this kind exists in the old house at Worcester known as the