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Chesterton, Cambridge. 1570. Mother Corie was buried 21 Dec.

Burham, Kent. Mr. Ward buried a man. (No date.)

Lamesley, Durham. -- 1678. Anne Marley, Wrapped in Sheepskins, buried. (No date.)

Reading, St. Mary's. 1630. Jan. 10, Kathren Roose, apprehended for a wich, buried.

Cheshunt. 1600. Feb. 7, Old Plod buried.

1716. July 25, Old Half-head buried.

Newington Butts. 1600. March (no day), A child of Adam Earth buried.

Barnes. 1657. Oct. 16, Old Honesty, al 8 Juett's Wife, buried.

Camberwell. 1687. June 2, Robert Hern and Elizabeth Bozwell, King and Queen of the Gipsies, buried.

Durham, St. Mary-le-Bow. 1722. Brain Pear- son, the Abbey dog whipper, buried 6 April.

1732. James Graham, a felon, he was hanged y l anie morning just after Bapt. , 30 Aug.

A. B. C.

MAJOR HAMILL or CAPRI. Perhaps the following simple record of a brave Irish officer may be worth adding to the valuable collection of monumental inscriptions to Britons who have died abroad which have appeared in ' N. & Q.' I transcribed it in 1879 from a white marble slab affixed to a high wall, forming one side of the piazza, at Anacapri, in which stands the church containing the curious Paradise pavement. I cannot say whether it still exists amidst the extraordinary transformations which that exquisite fairy isle has since undergone. Sir Hudson Lowe (of St. Helena fame) was in 1808 Governor of Capri, and Murat sent a force to attack the usual landing-places, and a secret one to the extreme west of the island, where the perpendicular rocks were considered inaccessible. However, the French climbed up them, and suddenly came upon Hamill and his astonished little Maltese guard. The latter they soon dis- posed of, but the gallant son of Erin scorned to yield or fly, and lost his life :

" To the Memory of John Hamill, a native of the County Antrim in Ireland, and Major in His Brittanic Majesty's late Regiment of Malta, who fell while bravely resisting the French invasion of Anacapri, on 4th day of October 1808 ; and whose mortal remains are deposited near to this place. This tribute of affection and respect has been placed by his kinsman and namesake, October 3 d, 1831. Requiescat in pace,"

D. J.

EDWARD IV. 's WOOING AT GRAFTON. At p. 110 of a recently published interesting little book, ' Oxfordshire,' by F. G. Brabant, Wychwood Forest in that county is said traditionally to have been the scene of the first meeting of Edward IV. with Elizabeth Widville, which ultimately resulted in his

marriage with her. She was then the widow of Sir John Grey of Groby, who was killed at the battle of St. Albans in 1460. She was married to the king 1 May, 1464.

But much more probably Grefton in Northamptonshire was the real place, and an ancient weather - beaten tree still in existence, and generally celled " The Queen's Oak," is said to have witnessed the wooing. Grafton Regis was for many years the home of the Widvilles, and what is more likely than that the first interview between Edward IV. and Elizabeth Grey or Widville, which ended in such an important result, took place near her old home ?

It continued in subsequent years the pro- perty of the Crown until granted by Charles II. to his illegitimate son Lord Euston, after- wards created by him Duke of Grafton. There cannot be much doubt as to the locality. The romantic story of the " Wooing at Grafton " is well known.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

(gmms.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

JOHN NEWBERY'S GRAVE. Could any of your readers tell me where John New- bery, the publisher, who died in 1767, is buried ? Oliver Goldsmith wrote the follow- ing riddling epitaph upon him : What we say of a thing that has just come in fashion,

And that which we do with the dead, Is the name of the honestest man in the nation :

What more of a man can be said ? Is this epitaph upon Newbery's grave ?

PERCY E. NEWBERRY.

40, Bedford Street, Liverpool.

PALIMPSEST BRASS INSCRIPTIONS. Last autumn a monumental brass was dug up in the parish of Fivehead, co. Somerset, which is of considerable interest on both sides. The later face bears the effigy of a lady attired in early Elizabethan fashion. The inscription has not yet been recovered, but from the heraldry it appears that she was Jane, daughter and heiress of Sir John Walsh, Kt., of Cathanger, and wife of Lord Edward Seymour, of Berry Pomeroy, eldest surviving son of the Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector, by his first marriage. The length 'of the brass is 3 ft. 6 in. ; it is in six