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NOTES AND QUERIES, in s. vm. NOV. 29, 1913.

Yonkerman, young-man, or Yeoman doth more or lesse signifie to the Dutchmen."

In a marginal note these words are added :

" German in the Saxon is a married man, and hereof commeth our Yeoman, for after marriage men are accounted settled members in the Com- monwealth, but not before. A Yonker commeth of yong heire which is a sonne and heire to a Gentleman, or a yong Gentleman."

Strype in his ' Life of the Learned Sir Thomas Smith ' tells us this " known Tract of The Common -wealth of England " was written in 1565,

" in Latin as well as in English, and many were the copies taken of it, till at last it was printed, tho' I think not before the year 1621, when it came forth in English in the old black Letter." Ed. 1698, pp. 112-13.

For a list of earlier editions see Lowndes. JOHN T. CUBBY.

AUTHOB WANTED (11 S. viii. 370). The line

Nursed by stern men with empires in their-Jbrains will be found in the second series of J. R. Lowell's ' Biglow Papers,' in the portion entitled ' Mason and Slidell, a Yankee Idyll.'

C. L. S.

HEABT-BUBIAL IN NICHES IN CHUBCH WALLS (11 S. viii. 289, 336, 352, 391). The original query I put in these pages has led to a mass of interesting matter on the subject reaching me from, private sources all over the country. Naturally much is repetition. But one or two examples I have had sent to me are worth recording in this most accessible and well-indexed journal.

In the south porch of Whitchurch, Salop, is a stone inscribed:

" Beneath this stone lies the embalmed heart of John Talbot, first Earl of Salop, who for over 21 years fought his country's battles against the French, and was slain at the Battle of Bordeaux, A.D. 1453. When lying wounded on the field he charged his faithful guard of Whitchurch men that in memory of their courage and devotion his body should be buried in the porch of their church, that as they had fought and strode over it while living, so should they and their children for ever pass over it when dead."

My informant (MB. CHAS. TAPLING of Chester), who kindly sent me this inscrip- tion from Whitchurch church porch, adds : "Perhaps 1 had better say that I copied the above extract upon the spot in shorthand, and did not mark the capital letters. However, it is sub- stantially correct."

Another correspondent tells me that in St. Paul's Church, Hammersmith, near the Broadway, the heart of Sir Nicholas Crisp is in an urn, and enclosed in a pillar (one of the northern pillars of the aisle, near the

east end). The body, minus the heart, of Sir Nicholas Crisp is buried in the Church of St. Mildred, Bread Street, E.G. Mr. O. Butler Fellowes, who sends me this informa- tion, adds :

" I have taken the urn out of the niche, and also the lid off the top of the urn."

J. HABBIS STONE. Oxford and Cambridge Club.

In the wall of the north aisle of the church at Combe Florey, Somerset, is a stone slab with the following inscription, in Lombardic lettering of the thirteenth century, to one of the nuns of Cannington, whose heart was here immured :

+LE : QVER DAME

MAVD DE MERRIETE

NONAYNE DE CANNYNTVNE.

The knightly family of De Merriet resided at Hestercombe, not far from Combe Florey, with which place they were also connected.

C. T.

In the parish church of St. Thomas, Portsmouth, there is a monument to the memory of Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, 1628, " which at one time served as an altar- piece, but is now on the south side of the chancel."

The urn which forms a part of it was said to contain his heart, but in a MS., 8153, f. 152, Brit. Mus., we find this entry :

" At the end of the Register Book* No. 2 are these lines, which relate to the Duke of Buckingham :

my lord duckes bowels wear burried the 24 th Aug*, 1628.

'* Indorsement by Luke Allen.

of the Duke of Buckingham in Portsmouth Church, August 24 th, 1628."
 * c Extract relating to the Interment of the Bowels

W. TABBING.

Horsham.

About the middle of August, 1613, at Bergen-op-Zoom, Lord Edward Bruce was killed in a duel with Sir Edward Sackville. The casus belli is not clearly known to this day, but Lord Edward was the challenger. In consequence of a tradition that Bruce's heart had been sent from Holland and interred in the vault or burying-ground adjoining the old abbey church of Culross, Perthshire, a search was made in 1808, and about 2 ft. below the pavement, and partly under a projection in the wall of the old building, a silver case was found, apparently of foreign workmanship and shaped like a heart. The lid was engraved with the family arms and

memorandum was taken off and lost. F. M. (Sir Frederick Madden.) "
 * "In rebinding this book previous to 1830 this