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on 23 Nov., 1645 : " James Nasbye of Asbye Fallowes. n I cannot find this place men- tioned in modern gazetteers, and should be glad of enlightenment. A. S.

" TABOBEB'S INN," ST. MABTIN'S - LE- GBAND. Timbs in his ' Curiosities of London ' (1885) refers to the above as having been existent temp. Edw. II. Can any corre- spondent possibly say whereabouts in St. Martin's the inn stood ? What was Timbs's authority for the statement ? I have not met with reference to the house elsewhere. WILLIAM. MCMUBBAY.

MBS. SABAH TBIMMEB, THE AUTHOB. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.* tell me who was the Mr. James Trimmer, Vicar of Brentford, who in 1762 married Sarah Kirby ? In the College) it says that her great-aunt on her mother's side was " Mrs. Cornwallis, wife of the Rev. W. Cornwallis, Rector of Witters- ham, Kent " ; and that Mrs. Cornwallis wrote several books, and learnt Hebrew to teach her grandson, James Trimmer, whose other grandmother was Mrs. Sarah Trimmer, " famous in her day as the author of thirty volumes for the young, the best known being ' The History of the Robins.* 1; What was the Trimmer pedigree ? for that of Kirby is not a little distinguished. Sarah's grand- father was the Suffolk topographer (1690- 1753) buried in the churchyard of St. Mary le Tower, Ipswich. Her father was John Joshua Kirby (1716-74), the friend of Hogarth and Reynolds (clerk of the works at Kew Palace, 1759) ; and her first cousin was William Kirby, the well-known entomo- logist (1759-1850), Vicar of Barham, Essex. Mrs. Trimmer survived her husband (who died in 1792), and was buried at Ealing in 1810. F. H. S.
 * Life of Dorothea Beale J (of Cheltenham

POPE AND IBISH BISHOPS. In the ' Church History of Ireland,' by the Rev. Sylvester Malone (Dublin, 1867), chap. viii. p. 217, it is stated that the Pope, on some represen- tations by the English, directed a bull to the Irish bishops, and, accusing them of heresy, said that they raised their eyes at the elevation of the Host. On what authority does this remark rest, and who was the Pope that did this ? To judge from the context, it would appear to have been Clement V., but no reference to this matter >s to be found in the fifteen bulls of that Pope given in the ' Bullarium Diplornatum et Privilegiorum SS. Romanorum Pontifi- cum,' &c., 1859, I. iv. pp. 180-234.

F. C. W.

CHEYNE WALK: CHELSEA OLD CHURCH.

(11 S. i. 129.)

THEBE are no fewer than six monumental tablets to members of the Chamberlayne family at Chelsea Old Church, which is evidently the church to which MB. BBESLAB refers.

The Chamberlaynes were a notable family in many ways. They came originally from Oddington in Gloucestershire, which was given by Henry VIII. to Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, and the estate remained in their possession until 1712, when it passed by marriage to the Coxes of Cirencester. In the last quarter of the seventeenth century Dr. Edward Chamberlayne (1616-1703) settled in Chelsea. He was a somewhat voluminous author, his chief work being ' Angliae Notitia,' a work which ran through thirty-eight editions, all of which are in the British Museum. Some one has pronounced it to be " the most pernicious book ever published " ; but the Doctor thought so highly of it that, as is stated on his tablet (right of the great west window), he caused " copies encased in wax to be buried with him, in the hope that they might prove profitable to posterity."

His wife's tablet is on the other side of the window : she was one of the Cliffords of Frampton " Fair Rosamond's " family.

The eldest son, Peregrine, whose tablet is on the left of the door, was in the Navy. In March, 1689, he commanded the Griffin fireship ; and at the time of his death he was commander of the Foresight. The inscription tells of his skill in music;, fine art, and letters, but chiefly of his proficiency in navigation.

The tablet on the right of the door is in memory of Anne, the Doctor's only daughter, who had a strange experience. Born in 1667, she served for six hours on board her brother's ship, probably the Griffin, at the battle off Beachy Head on 29 June, 1690. She must have shown valour hardly to have been expected in one of her age and sex, for her epitaph refers to her as " Dum virgo . ...dum virago.' 1 She subsequently mar- ried Sir John Spragge, and died eighteen months later, 30 Oct., 1691, in giving birth to a daughter. The tablet tells us that " she might have borne a race of naval heroes, had she not been snatched away by untimely death."