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George and Charlotte, Earl and Countess of Ash- burnham, b. 3 Feb., 1819 ; ob. 5 Mar., 1830.

44. Louisa Mary, inf. d. of Raulin and Mary Louisa Robin, b. 17 Dec., 1852, d. 22 Dec., a. 5 days.

45. Mary Isabella, d. of Robt. Malcolm and Emily Rogers, ob. 14 Nov., 1852, a. 2^ yrs. John Henry Maingay, their inf. s. ob. 2 Aug., 1853, a. 22 mths. Anne Montgomery, ob. 31 July, 1855, a. 28 mths.

46. Chas. Turner, inf. s. of Chas. and Mary Maingy, ob. 24 July, 1830, a. 16 mths. ; and Caroline Turner, their inf. q. (Date illegible.)

47. Thos. Warrington, Esq., ob. at the Villa Auriemma, Piano di Sorrento, 18 Nov., 1832, a. 27.

48. Charlotte, wid. of Rev. John Evans, of Bath, ob. 9 Sept., 1828, a. 63. Erected by her only child, Charlotte Robinson.

49. Samuel Crawley, Esq., of Stockwood, Luton, Beds, ob. 21 Dec., 1852, a. 62.

50. A broken cross, only partly legible.

51. John Turner, ob. 29 Jan., 1878, a. 48.

52. Colonel Arthur Middleton, of Charleston, S. Carolina, b. 28 Oct., 1795 ; ob. 9 June, 1853.

53. Chas. Wm. Neumann, of Oakleigh, Cheshire, b. at Danzig, Ap., 1773; ob. at Naples, 21 Feb., 1854.

54. Anne P. Rollason, of Coventry, ob. 29 Oct., 1853, a. 53.

55. Capt. Alexander Carmichael, ob. 6 Jan., 1854, a. 68.

56. Charles James Ridgway, Esq., ob. 22 Jan., 1855, a. 63.

57. John Augustus Manning, ob. 14 Ap., 1864, a. 57.

58. Margaret Campbell, w. of John Mackenzie, ob. 6 June, 1855.

59. Wm. Wilson Lawrie, Esq., of Edinburgh, ob. at Capri, 15 June, 1857, a. 41.

60. Hon. Susan, w. of Fras. Dennis Massy Daw- son, Esq., and 2nd d. of Right Hon. Lord Sinclair by his 2nd w., b. 14 June, 1806; ob. 17 Sept., 1858. Also Susan Sinclair, w. of Joseph Lewis Franklin, Esq., 3rd d. of F. D. M. Dawson, b. 17 May, 1837 ; 06. 20 Oct., 1857 ; and her inf. s., b. and died 1 Oct., 1857. (There is a further inscription, but illegible.)

61. Chas. Fred. Johnson, s. of Rev. Evans John- son, Archdeacon of Ferns, Ireland, b. 21 May, 1850 ; ob. 24 Ap., 1859.

62. John Benjamin, only s. of John Williams Furse, Esq., b. 19 Oct., 1850 ; ob. 20 Feb., 1857.

63. Rosina Massonet, ob. 17 Aug., 1884, a. 78.

64. Robt, Last, ob. 20 Feb., 1876.

65. George Degen, ob. 29 Ap., 1861, a. 60.

66. Wm. Drogo Montagu, Duke of Manchester, ob. at Naples, 21 Mar., 1890.

67. Rev. George Wandby, B. A., Chaplain of H. M.S. Exmouth, ob. at Naples, 16 Feb., 1862, of smallpox, a. 34.

68. A broken tomb with illegible inscription in English.

69. Peter Pincoffs, M.D.,b. at Rotterdam, 29 Aug., 1815; ob. at Munich, 17 July, 1872. He resided 11 yrs. at Naples.

70. Mary Louisa Neve, b. at Old Warden, Beds, 22 Nov., 1816 ; ob. at Naples, 3 Mar., 1876.

71. Mary Frances, eldest d. of Wm. and Mary Porter, of Thingwall Hall, Cheshire, ob. at Naples, 29 Jan., 1873.

72. Augusta Caroline, w. of Horatio R. Storer, of Boston, U.S.A., ob. at Sorrento, 26 Ap., 1874, a. 31.

73. Frederick Gary Elwes, of Billing, Northants,

74. Edward James Wells, of Sheffield, ob. 29 Jan., 1860, a. 34.

75. A broken tomb with illegible English inscrip- tion.

76. Robt. Wollaston, Esq., M.D., of Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, ob. 22 Aug., 1865, a. 64.

77. F. Nina Radice, ob. 23 Aug., 1866, a. 25.

78. Nina Radice, b. in Mpnkstown, Dublin, 24 Ap. , 1841, d. of the late Evasio Radice, Colonel in the Sardinian Army, and of Maria Hutton, his w. Sh& died after 48 hours' illness. (No date of death.)

G. S. PABBY, Lieut.-Col. 18, Hyde Gardens, Eastbourne. (To be continued.)

[For other lists of inscriptions on Britons dying abroad see 10 S. i. 361, 442, 482 ; ii. 155 ; iii. 361, 433 ; v. 381 ; vi. 4, 124, 195, 302, 406, 446; vii. 165.]

b. 11 Nov., 1818; ob. 5 June, 1861. mother, Jane Maria Elwes.

Erected by his

DOLLARS : " BITS " : " PICAYUNE." (See 5 S. vii. 317 ; 10 S. vi. 381 ; vii. 36.)

AMERICANS whose memories go back to the days before the war when Franklin Pierce was yet the President, and surviving Englishmen who sojourned within our borders in those days, will remember these things. There was a dearth of silver change,, and while the Mint supplied the banks, and the banks favoured their customers, the lawful coin did not stay in circulation,, being supplanted by Mexican and Spanish pieces of the quarter, eighth, and sixteenth of the piece of eight, or dollar. Such coins had been used as the specie currency in colonial times, and their use continued until after the middle of the century just closed. They passed ; nobody liked them, but there was no other fractional silver, for the poorer currency drove out the legal coin. Finally their circulation was prohibited, and they soon disappeared. But names remained. The " real," and its double and half, were known in every part of the United States. In New York the real was locally called a shilling, and its half was sixpence, being of the nominal value of twelve and a half and six and a qxiarter cents respectively. The double real was called a quarter, usually with the word Spanish prefixed ; some- times a two-shilling piece. In Baltimore and Philadelphia the real and its half were known as " levy " and " fip," contractions of elevenpenny bit and fippeny or fivepenny bit ; south of the Potomac and in the West the real was a " bit," and its half was called a " picayune." The American dime was called a " short bit " to distinguish it from the other, the " long bit." By custom the dime was received at the same value as a long bit, until an enterprising firm in New Orleans obtained ten thousand dollars in