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hemp in the House of Correction." ' Eighteen New Court Queries,' 26 May, 1659.

" Mr. Sterry in the chapel after his [Cromwell's; death [said] ' O Lord, Thy late servant here is now at Thy right hand interceding for the sins of England.' " Robert Baillie's ' Letters and Journals,' ii. 429 a letter dated 31 January, 1661.

Burnet, in his ' History of his own Times,' i. 141, adds that

" Sterry, praying for Richard, used these indecent words, next to blasphemy, ' Make him the brightness of the father's glory and the express image of his person.' " A second interpolation, " Pardon such as desire to trample upon the dust of a poor worm ; for they are Thy people too,"

refers to the destruction of the monument by the Rump.

The order books of the Council of State are lost, but the index entry on 28 July, " Mr. Walker to have liberty," shows that Walker was imprisoned until that date for his attack on the Rump (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic).

Finally, Walker's enemy John Crouch, in Mercurius Democritus No. 7, for 7-14 June, 1659, has a scurrilous attack upon Walker in his pamphlet, which begins :

" A paper soul'd piece of mortality [Walker]

living in Row, not far from Sacrilege Alley,

making more haste than good SPEED, was shot in the brain by Captain Quart " (Butler).

Then follows a long description of Walker, as Cromwell, lying in state, too abominable for citation.

Some copies of Walker's pamphlet have a portrait of Cromwell prefixed, with the different title, ' An account of the last houres of the late renowned Oliver .... Drawn up and published by one who was an Eye and Ear witness of the most part of it"' ; but the catch-letters, catch- words, and printer's faults in them prove them to be part of the same edition.

In the life of Cromwell called ' The Perfect Politician,' a pamphlet published in Febru- ary, 1660, by the booksellers Roybould and Fletcher (when Monck declared for a free Parliament), Walker's " prayer " is repeated with slight verbal alterations. The writer of this tract signed his initials, "I. S.," to the preface, and may have been the Speed alluded to in Crouch's attack upon Walker. That Walker had collaborators in his numerous literary frauds is evident, and Speed may have helped him in this last one ; but I believe this to be the sole known seventeenth - century copy of Walker's "prayer." J. B. WILLIAMS.

(To be concluded.}

The instructive articles of MB. J. B. WILLIAMS remind me that from 1850 up to the present time there is hardly a volume of ' N. & Q.' which in some way or other does not treat of matters relating to Oliver Cromwell or his family.

At 6 S. ii. 109 reference is made to the second edition of 'The Perfect Politician,' &c. Beside me lies the third edition, printed at " The Three Bibles," in St. Paul's Churchyard, in 1681. In this we have, to a large extent, .what Sir Richard Baker wrote in his ' Chronicles of the Kings of England' (1674, pp. 651, 658). With respect to the burial, after particulars regard- ing the placing, dress, &c. of " the Effigies," he states : " The corps had been privately inhumed many days before the solemnity, in Henry the Seventh's Chapel."

MB. WILLIAMS' s conclusion that the body was never exposed to public view is, so far as my reading goes, unquestionably correct. ALFRED CHAS. JONAS.

EPITAPHIANA.

MANCHESTEB : ST. ANN'S CHUBCHYABD. Many years ago, before the extension of the street and passage, I copied a full com- memorative slab of the noted John Shaw at St. Ann's Churchyard, Manchester, near his old residence and business, which may be worth preservation in ' N. & Q.' :

Here lyeth the Body of John Shaw who died Jany 26 tu 1796 Aged 80 years ; Ann his wife buried the 27 th of March 1752 Aged 34 William Son of John Shaw buried Jan ry the 11 th 1739 ; also Elizabeth his Daughter bur d Nov br the 11 th & Mary his Dau tr buried Dec br the 23 li 1748 ; Ann his Daughter bur' 1 Oct r 29 th 1750; Sarah hi; Daughter biiried Aprl the 15 (h 1756 ; John his Son buried Jan r > the 23 d 1763 ; James his Son 3uried Dec the 14 th 1771 ; Also Sarah Dau r of James Shaw who died 19 th Sep r 1773 Aged 2 years.

The following inscription is from a slab next to the above. The people may have ?een related to the above John Shaw, of Smithy Door :

Here lyeth y e Body of Bernard Shaw buried Apr 1 the 12 th 1763 Aged 76 ; Sarah hi < Wife bur d Peb r - v y e 13 th 1740 ; Sarah Daughter of Bernard Shaw, bur' 1 Jan r - v y e 4 th 1737 /R ; Also Mary his Daughte- bur d Nov br 6 th 1738 ; Also Thomas Shaw died Sept r 2 1 " 3 1808 Aged 78 years.

Another noted vault-slab reads thus : Here lie interred the Remains (which through Mortality are at present Corrupt but which shall one day most surely be raised against O/c] to ImmortaMty and put on Incorruption ) of Thomas Deacon the greatest of Sinners and the most unworthy of primitive Bishops v ho died the 16 th February 1753 in the 56 th year of his Age.