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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. iv. SEPT. IG, ion.

DAVID HUME'S GRAVE. I gathered from Huxley's monograph on Hume (" English Men of Letters") that the memorial which marks his grave was of a simple character, and the inscription thereon as brief as pos- sible. On p. 44 the Professor writes as follows :

" Faithful to the last to that profound veracity which was the secret of his philosophic greatness, he ordered that the simple Roman tomb which marks his grave should bear no inscription but

David Hume Born 1711. Died 1776. Leaving it to posterity to add the rest." In the absence of further particulars I assumed that this "order" was faithfully observed.

From the volume of The Leisure Hour for 1865 (pp. 87-90) I learn that Hume's grave is marked by a huge mausoleum not unlike a martello tower, standing in the cemetery on the south-west flank of Calton Hill, Edinburgh. Over the door is in- scribed

David Hume

Born April 26 th 1711 Died August 25 th 1776 Erected in memory of him

in 1778.

In an alcove above this inscription is an urn bearing the following inscription to the memory of the wife of Hume's nephew :

Jane Alder

feminse benigna3 optimse uxori suavissimse

hanc urnam felicis conjugii memor

posuit

David Hume

A.D. MDCCCXVII

Behold I come quickly.

Thanks be to God which

giveth us the victory through

our Lord Jesus Christ.

On a tablet in the interior of the building is the following to the memory of Hume's nephew and his sons and daughter :

I am the Resurrection and the Life.

St. John xvi. 25. Sacred to the memory of the Honb le David Hume

of Ninewells one of the Barons of Exchequer

and of his sons

John, David and Joseph

who lie buried here.

Miss Elizabeth Hume

Died 16 th Nov. 1848

Erected 1840.

Do these particulars concerning David Hume's resting-place still hold good ?

JOHN T. PAGE.

SIGNS OF OLD LONDON. (See 11 S. i. 402, 465 ; ii. 323 ; iii. 64, 426.) The sub- joined list of London signs, &c., of the Com- monwealth period is compiled from the account of rentals and surveys set out in the ' Lists and Indexes ' at vol. xxv. pp. 209-14 : Bayley's Place, adjoining the Victualling House

in St. Botolph, Aldgate. Mermaid Tavern, and Crown (tenement), Charing

Cross. Fry ing -Pan, Nag's Head, and Glovers' Arms

(messuages), Clerk en well. Half Moon, Collery Row, Stepney. Quest House (tenement), parish of St. Andrew,

Holborn.

Unicorn (inn), St. John Street, Clerkenwell. Hare and Hound (tenement), ditto. The Conduit, and Conduit Head, King Street,

Westminster. King's Slaughter-House, Millbank, St. Margaret's ,

Westminster.

Stone Tower, New Palace Yard, ditto. Bear Tavern, and Black-a-Moor's Head, same

locality.

Star-Chamber House, and Ship Tavern, ditto. Stone Gatehouse (tenement), parish of St. Mar- garet, Westminster. Three Bells (tenement), Strand. King's Printing House, Thames Street. " Three Flower de Luces, in the Bound Wool- staple," St. Margaret's, Westminster. Dog Tavern, New Palace Yard.

No London topographer who undertakes any research can afford to neglect the rich stores of material available in the P.R.O. WILLIAM McMuRRAY.

SIGNS OF OLD COUNTRY INNS. In reading recently the MS. account of a Border gentle- man's ride to London in 1715, it occurred to me that it would be worth preserving in ' N. & Q.' the many signs of old hostelries therein mentioned. They are now given in the order of the outward journey :

Newcastle, Scots Arms.

Durham, Griffin.

Darlington, White Horse.

Topcliff, Angel.

Leeds, Rose and Crown.

Doncaster, White Hart.

Lincoln, Angel.

Sleaford, Bose and Crown.

Leecham, Blue Bell.

Norwich, Angel.

Bramford, White Elm.

Chelrnsf ord, Crown and Shears.

Rumford, Hare.

London, Swan with Two Necks, Lad Lane.

On the homeward journey, although the different stopping-places are mentioned, the only place where the name of the inn is given is at York, where it was " The Black Swan," situated in Coney Street.

J. LINDSAY HILSON.

Public Library, Kelso.