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 NOTES AND QUERIES- [11 s. m. JAN. 21, 1911.

ancient borough, which it spiritually dominated. The inmates are further styled, in the earliest existing Pipe Roll, circa 1130, "'monks of Nottingham" a passage that puzzled our old-time local historians.

A. STAPLETON.

DEFOE METHODIST CHAPEL, TOOTING (11 S. ii. 505). Daniel Defoe died on 24 April, 1731, in the parish of St. Giles, Cripplegate, in which he was born. He was buried in the old Nonconformist burying-ground in Bun- hill Fields. The inscription on his monu- ment reads as follows :

Daniel De Foe Born 1661 Died 1731

Author of Robinson Crusoe.

This monument is the result of an appeal in The Christian World newspaper to the boys and girls of England for funds to place a suitable memorial upon the grave of

Daniel De Foe.

It represents the united contributions of seven- teen hundred persons.

September 1870.

HENRY TAYLOR. Birklands, Birkdale, Lancashire.

Defoe was buried in Bunhill Fields, where exists a memorial over his grave (see 8 S. iii. 37). This obelisk replaced the original gravestone, which, according to an engraving in The Illustrated London News of 23 October, 1869, was thus inscribed : Daniel Defoe

author of

Robinson Crusoe

who died April 24, 1731

in his 70 th year.

An engraving of the present memorial appeared in The Illustrated Times of 1 Octo- ber, 1870. JOHN T. PAGE.

According to The Balham and Tooting News of 24 December, 1910 :

" The secularization of the Primitive Methodist Chapel at Tooting, formerly in the hands of the Independents or Congregationalists, has revived a number of absurd legends about Daniel Defoe's association with Tooting .... The cold truth is that Defoe was interred in Bunhill Fields Burial- Ground, Finsbury."

L. L. K.

[DIEGO and MR. ALAN STEWART also thanked for replies.]

REV. F. W. FABER (11 S. ii. 489). Faber' was buried, I think, at the Oratorians' villa at Sydenham. I believe I have seen his tablet there, but am not sure.

G. W. E. RUSSELL.

NAPOLEON AND THE LITTLE RED MAN (11 S. ii. 447, 511). For the full story of which that given at the latter reference is apparently an abbreviation see The Gentle- man's Magazine of 1815, part i. pp. 122-3, or " The Gentleman's Magazine Library," edited by G. L. Gomme, ' English Traditional Lore,' &c., 1885, p. 202 et seq. The article is signed " Gulielmus."

The man who overheard what took place between Buonaparte and the Red Man was, according to Gulielmus, Count Mole (not Mole). He is described as " then counsellor of State, and since made Grand Judge of the Empire." ROBERT PIERPOINT.

In Heine's ' Deutschland, ein Winter- marchen,' written in January, 1844, is an interesting reference to the story of the Red Man. The passage occurs at the beginning of " Kaput VI." :

Den Paganini begleitete stets

Ein Spiritus Familiaris,

Manchmal als Hund, manchmal in gestalt

Des seligen Georg Harrys.

Napoleon sah einen roten Mann

Vorjedem ivicht 'gen Ereignis.

Sokrates hatte seinen Damon,

Das war kein Hirnerzeugnis. "

H. G. WARD. Aachen.

COUNT OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE (11 S. ii. 509). The Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist in 1806, when Francis II. of Austria resigned his right to the crown of Augustus. See Bryce's ' Holy Roman Empire,' Oxford, 1864, p. 153. Those who still claim to be Counts of the Holy Roman Empire can only do so on the ground of direct descent from families holding the title previous to 1806, and also as possessing in hereditary succession lands and heritages formerly embraced within the limits of the Holy Roman Empire. W. S. S.

A Count of the Holy Roman Empire, who was formerly only subject to the imperial Government is now called " Reichs- graf," and is addressed as "Erlaucht." The chiefs of these families, called " die Haupter der ehemals reichsstandischen graflichen Familien," have a high rank at the Prussian Court as well as at the other German Courts. At the Prussian Court they have a lower rank than the Knights of the Order of the Black Eagle, the Cardinals, and the chiefs of the princely families (" die Haupter der fiirstlichen Familien"), but come before the vice-presidents of the Ministries of State. Of the above-mentioned families that of the