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Mrs. Margaret Bertram's funeral at the Old Greyfriars in Edinburgh, we read, the pro- bable date being 1775 :

"Mr. Mprtcloke, the undertaker, did accordingly, with a visage of professional length and most grievous solemnity, distribute among the pall- bearers little cards." Chap, xxxvii.

Again, in 'The Antiquary,' the date of which may be 1793, in the description of denallan House, supposed to be Glamis Castle, we find :

"The gloomy gateway was surmounted by a

huge scutcheon, in M'hich the herald and under- taker had mingled, as usual, the emblems of human
 * >ride and of human nothingness." Chap, xxvii.

In more modern times Dickens has given -a graphic description in ' Martin Chuzzlewit ' of the expensive funeral of old Anthony Chuzzlewit, arid of the undertaker Mr. Mould ^ind his foreman Tacker. In ' David Copper- tfeld ' we are introduced to a funeral-furnish- ing establishment on a large scale at Great Yarmouth.

It may perhaps be allowable to quote a verse from an old nursery poem, ' Old Mother Hubbard ':-

She went to the undertaker's

To get him a coffin, And when she came back

The dog was laughing.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

It is as I feared, and unless the learned Prof. Skeat will condescend to bestow five minutes upon a humble admirer, I shall have to wait until Dr. Murray arrives at the letter I to ascertain when and how the word "undertaker" came to be restricted to its present ordinary meaning, viz, "a manager of funerals." Any dictionary will say that the word still means "a projector," "a con- tractor"; but this is altogether beside the question. O. p.

EOCQUE'S AND HORWOOD'S MAPS OF LONDON <10 th S. iii. 187).' N. & Q. 2' 1(l S. xi. contains some 'Notes from the Diary of William Oldys, Esq., Norroy King-at-Arms.' Under date 3 March, 1737/8, he says (p. 124) :

" Went to Leicester Square with Mr. Ames, and saw Mr. Vertue there, and had some discourse about his grand design of an Ichnographical Survey, or Map of London and all the suburbs ; but Mr. Rocque and he arc not yet come to an agreement."

Hor wood's map of London was issued in 1794 in thirty-two sheets, each 20 by 2l in., making in the whole a map of 13ft. 4 in. in length by 7 ft. wide. An example is in the Crace Collection, British Museum. I possess a copy similar to the above, dated 24 May 1799, dedicated to "The Trustees and Direc-

tors of the Phoenix Fire Office." Another edition similar to mine was published in twenty folio sheets in 1808 ; a copy is now in the London Institution.

Might not the expenses of publication have been partly met by Vertue in one case, and the Directors of the Phoenix Fire Office in the other 1

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

FLYING BRIDGE (10 th S. ii. 406, 491 ; iii. 93). A ferry of the Pittsburg kind described by MR. DARLINGTON was established on the Neckar between the old and new bridges at Heidelberg late in 1904.

L. R. M. STRACHAN.

Heidelberg, Germany.

SMALL PARISHES (10 th S. iii. 128, 193). There is an error in the statement regard- ing Ludlow Castle. It was included in the borough four years ago ; and there certainly has not been any service in the chapel for over one hundred years probably over one hundred and fifty years at least local his- torians do not know of the same having taken place. HERBERT SOUTHAM.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S 'HISTORIE OF THE WORLD' (10 tu S. iii. 127, 194). Permit me to supplement the remarks of your corre- spondents on this subject by drawing their attention to the following abstract of a paper entitled 'Raleghana, Part VI.,' printed in the last volume (1904) of the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, pp. 181-218. The various folio editions of Ralegh's tnagnum opus are dated respectively 1614, 1617 (2), 1621, 1628, 1634, 1652, 1666, 1671, 1677, and 1687, all in one series ; and, in a separate form, one in 1736. There were three distinct issues of the original one of 1614. The most noteworthy edition was the third the second published in 1617 being the first that pos- sessed a title-page, as well as a portrait of the author (the only one that was engraved during his lifetime). Those of 1677 and 1687 include a life of Ralegh by J. Shirley ; while that of 1736 contains one by W. Oldys. The allegorical frontispiece in each of the first six editions is dated 1614, the actual year of publication being recorded in the colophon : but after 1634 the latter was omitted, and (except in 1687) the date was entered on the frontispiece. The 1736 volume is stated on the title-page to be "the eleventh edition," but according to the above list it should be termed the twelfth. Possibly the one of 1671 was intentionally excluded, as it was simply a reissue of the previous one of 1666, with a