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 io- s. iv. OCT. 28, iocs.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 357 ROBINSON CRUSOE, 1619 (10th S. iv. 287).— The Mr. Cruso mentioned may possibly have been the father of the Rev. Timothy Cruso (1656-97). The latter was a fellow-student •of Defoe at Newington Green Academy, " who immortalized his surname in the 'Adventures' published in 1719." The Rev. Timothy Cruso died 26 Nov., 1697, and was buried in Stepney Churchyard on 30 Nov., the entry in the register being "Timothy Cruso of Mileend, Clerk." In 1893 I made a search for the "spacious marble tomb," with its Latin inscription given by Maitland, but failed to discover it. I ha_ve in my possession a small engraved portrait of Timothy Cruso, the source of which I should much like to trace. It was drawn by T. Foster and engraved by Hop- wood "from an original picture," and pub- lished 1 August, 1808, by Maxwell & Wilson, Skinner Street, London. See 20<1 S. x. 169, s.v. ' Theophilus Gay, M.P., William Gay, M.D.' JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire. HENRY HUDSON'S DESCENDANTS (10th S. iv. 288).—According to the'D.N.B.,'one son of Henry Hudson, John, perished with him. In April, 1614, Hudson's widow applied to the E.I. Company for some employment for another boy, "she being left very poor." They placed him for nautical instruction in the Samaritan, and gave 51. towards his out- fit. Reference is made to a work by General Meredith Read, entitled ' Historical Inquiry concerning Henry Hudson, his Connection •with the Muscovy Company and Discovery of Delaware Bay.' R. J. FYNMOKE. Sandgate. CHARLES CHURCHILL : T. UNDERWOOD (10th S. iv. 308).—In 'The Life of Churchill.'pre- fixed to the edition of his works published by W. Tooke in 1804,1 find what follows :— "Churchill's body was brought from Boulogne for interment at Dover, where it was deposited in the old church-yard formerly belonging to the collegiate church of St. Martin, with a stone over him on •which was inscribed his age, the time of his death, and this line from one of his works- Life to the last enjoy'd, here Churchill lies. A tablet sacred to his memory has since been placed in the church by Mr. Underwood, the author of several poetical pieces."—Vol. i. pp. xliii-iv. The writer in the ' D.N.B.' has evidently made use of this account, which is not clearly •expressed, but it seems to imply that St. Martin's Church was no longer in existence ; •hence the tablet was placed in St. Mary's. As Churchill was born February, 1731, and •died 4 November, 1764, he was " in the thirty- rfourth year of his age," not the thirty-second, as stated by "T. Underwood, ye Impartialist," about who_m I can learn nothing more than what is said by Tooke. Perhaps the inscrip- tion mentioned by L. L. K. will be the epitaph composed on himself by the poet, of which one line has already been given :— Let one poor sprig of bay around my head Bloom whilst I live, and point me out when dead ; Let it (may Heav'n, indulgent, grant that pray'r) Be planted on my grave, nor wither there; And when, on travel bound, some rhiming guest Roams through the church-yard, while his dinner's drest. Let it hold up this comment to his eyes, Life to the last enjoy'd—Here Churchill lies ; Whilst (0, what joy that pleasing flatt'ry gives !) Beading my Works, he cries—Here Churchill lives. •The Candidate,'145-51. In a note on these lines W. Tooke says :— " A humble grave, in the church-yard of Dover, contains all that was mortal of our author. His being buried in a place so much frequented by travellers almost gives an air of prophecy to these affecting lines." JOHN T. CURRY. CEREMONY AT RIPON (10th S. iv. 249).—The ceremony of " Au'd Wilfra" still goes on at Ripon. It is a rude pageant, in which a man dressed up something like a bishop, in mitre, A-I-., rides round the city on an ass, on the eve, I think, of " Wilfrid Sunday," the name still given to the Feast of the Nativity of. St. Wilfrid, which was kept only in the parish of Ripon, and on the Sunday next after St. Peter ad Vincula, or Lammas Day. " Ripon Wilfrid Fair" tkkes place at tb"e same time. The other two feasts of St. Wil- frid are the Translation, 24 April, and the Deppsitio, 12 October. J. T. F. Winterton, Doncaster. The Yorkshire Weekly Post for 12 August contained the following :— " The annual feast of St. Wilfrid began at Ripon last Saturday with a procession. A representation of the patron saint, clad in proper episcopal garb, wearing a mitre and bearing a crozier, was mounted on a milk-white steed, which was led by a monk. The quaint procession, which was headed by the City Band, commemorates the return of St. Wilfrid from exile some twelve centuries ago, since which period the event has been commemorated at an annual feast. Last year there was a danger of the custom lapsing, but in order to preserve its historic con- tinuity, the control of ' St. Wilfrid' was taken over by the Corporation and in now a civic function. Yesterday the Mayor and Corporation, in their robes of office, attended Divine service at the Cathedral." A. H. ARKLE. Mr. J. S. Fletcher, in his' Picturesque York- shire,' 1900, speaks of this ceremo_ny as still observed, though not perhaps in such a marked fashion.