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NOTES AND QUERIES. m s. iv. SEPT. 2, 1911.

and lies unnoticed in the adjoining churchyard | under the tombstone on which he piously | and pathetically recorded the interment | of his aunt and lamented mother.

In more recent times an inscribed slab has also been placed over the poet's grave in the churchyard.

I shall be grateful if any correspondent will kindly send me copies of the inscriptions on the memorials of Tennyson (Lincoln) ; Cook (Belfast) ; Elliott and Montgomery (Sheffield); Buchanan (Killeara); Withers (Fordham) ; and Ruskin (Friar's Crag).

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

Turvey, Beds. Personal inspection yielded no information regarding the third and last of MR. PAGE'S Bedfordshire queries {11 S. ii. 243), but I cull the following from the local guide-book to Turvey, written by G. F. W. Munby and Thomas Wright <2nd ed., 1894, p. 15) :

" Close to the river is the ' Three Fishes ' inn, a picturesque hostelry with projecting gables, which dates from 1624, and hard by in the water, and facing the bridge, is a group in Portland stone, representing Jonah and the ' whale,' which formerly occupied the centre of the cloisters attached to a Convent of Augustinian Friars at Ashridge, in the parish of Pitstone, Bucking- hamshire, where it was a conspicuous object. The convent was taken down about the year 1802. The statue was placed in its present position by Mr. John Higgins of Turvey Abbey in 1844."

W. R. B. PRIDEAUX.

Flitwick, Beds.

ST. NICHOLAS, COLE ABBEY: INSCRIPTIONS.

NEARLY all the inscriptions are on wall- tablets. These notes are not verbal tran- scripts, but contain all material facts. They were made chiefly by myself three or four years ago, with very considerable help from Mr. C. R. White. I have added a few references. Some of the tablets may have been removed from the destroyed churches of the other parishes now united with Cole Abbey.

1. Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Alexander Adam, of Bermondsey, co. Surrey, tanner, d. 30 Nov., 1789, in her 54th year.

2. Gulielmus Alchorne, 19 Jan., 1819, eetatis suse 65. Eheu ! quam flebilis occidit conjugi, matri, progeniei et amicis.

3. [A marble and bronze tablet, holding a bust of Alfred the Great:] "Presented in memory of Queen Victoria, by Richard C. Jackson, Esq., F.S.A., the Millenary of Alfred, 1901. Alfred the Great, born 849, died 901. I desire to live worthily all my days that after death 1 might

leave to my successors a memory of good work done."

4. John Valentine Austin, B.A., late rector of this parish, d. 13 July, 1850, in his 39th year. [Eldest s. of James A., of Marylebone ; matric. at Exeter Coll., 30 Apr., 1829 (Foster). There was a John V. A., B.A., Rector of Hucknall Torkard 1837-45.]

5. William Bedford, M.D., F.R.C.P., &c., d. 10 Jul., 1747, anno aetatis 42. Erected by his wife Elizabeth. His widow Elizabeth d. 29 Sept., 1790, aged 87 years 2 months and 13 days. Both buried in the cemetery of St. Nicholas Olave. Erected by her daughter and heiress Elizabeth. [Two long inscriptions in Latin ; see ' D.N.B.' ; Musgrave's ' Obit.' ; Munk's ' Roll R.C.P.,' 1861, ii. 122, where the first part is printed.]

6. John Clay, formerly of Cambridge, d. suddenly at his son's residence, Bread Street Hill, 17 Feb., 1841, aged 83 ; buried south side of the aisle.

George Robert, b. 19 Aug., 1829 ; d. 13 Oct., 1829. Fanny, b. 9 Apr., 1831 ; d. 26 Feb., 1832. Georgiana Mary, b. 15 Jan., 1833 ; d. 10 Jan., 1834. Francis, b. 25 June, 1834 ; d. 12 Apr., 1836. Children of Richard and Susanna Clay, and grandchildren of John Clay ; buried in the same grave.

[The well-known Cambridge printers ; Boase, ' Mod. Eng. Biog.']

7. Mr. John Comley, late of the parish of St. Mary Mounthaw, d. 30 March, 1804, in his 29th year. Erected by the Rev. William Alphon- sus Gunn, lecturer of these parishes, as a tribute of respect to his friend. [Gunn was son of Wil- liam G., of Rotherhithe, matric. at Magd. Hall, 27 Nov., 1778, aged 18 (Foster) ; curate of St. Mary Woolnoth under John Newton, and one of the originators of the C.M.S., 1799. He died about the end of 1805, and Pratt succeeded him as Newton's curate (' Mem. Josiah Pratt,' 1849, pp. 14, 48). An English clergyman named Gunn officiated at the marriage of the Duke of Sussex in Rome, 1793 (' D.N.B.,' ii. 257).]

8. [A brass plate on one of the choir desks:] Henry Cooper, b. 11 Nov., 1856 ; d. 22 Dec., 1905 ; tenor soloist and choirmaster for 18 years, during the Rev. H. C. Shuttle worth's rectorship.

9. [On an oak panel inlaid with pearl:] Sic Deus dilexit mundum. [A Spanish painting of the Crucifixion, about 1620.] In loving memory of Mary M. Douglas. [Mary Matilda Douglas, d. 9 Oct., 1905.]

10. Mr. Thomas Funge, citizen and carpenter, 50 years an inhabitant of this parish, d. 13 Nov., 1767, aged 78. Erected by Mary Funge his widow and executrix. She d. 11 Dec., 1774, aged 85, having been 49 years his wife.

11. Frederic Edward, son of Frederic and Ann Gibson, late of this parish, d. 10 Jan., 1790, aged 4. Joseph Paice, Esq., sometime of this city, merchant, d. 4 Sept., 1810, at his desire buried in the same grave.

12. Mr. William Gilkes, of this parish and of Hampstead Heath, d. 16 Feb., 1827, in his 61st year. Elizabeth his only daughter, d. of con- sumption, 15 Nov., 1820, in her 16th year. The Rev. William Gilkes, M.A., of Pembroke Coll., Oxford, d. 21 Feb., TB44, aged 37. Eliza- beth, wife of Mr. William Gilkes, d. 28 Aug., 1848, aged 81. [The Rev. W. G., only son of Wm., of Hampstead, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832, of Little- hampton, Sussex, d. at Brighton (Foster).]