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2. Who were the other partners of the firm included under " & Co." in 1775 ?

3. Who were the subsequent partners of the^ name of Bonar ?

HOBATIUS BONAR. 3, St. Margaret's Road, Edinburgh.

About the murder of Thompson Bonar and his wife the following appears in W. Toone's ' Chronological Historian,' 1826, vol. ii., under date 1813, May 31 :

"On Sunday evening, Thompson Bonar, Esq., and his wife were savagely murdered in their own house at Chislehurst, in Kent ; both were dread- fully mangled, and Mr. B. was found quite dead, and his wife just expiring, and incapable of speak- ing ; suspicion fell upon their Irish footman, named Philip Nicholson, who confirmed it by cutting his throat, but not doing it effectually, he afterwards confessed the fact, but assigned no motive for the act ; but said, it was an idea struck him when asleep, that he must kill his master and mistress, and that he accordingly jumped out of bed, and committed the murders with a poker."

Under date 23 August :

" Nicholson, the murderer of Mr. and Mrs. Bonar, was executed on Pennenden-heath ; he persisted to the last that he had no motive to commit the crime, and that it was, as he had repeatedly declared, the effect of sudden impulse."

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

SIR JOHN ARUNDEL OF CLERKENWELL (US. iii. 367, 415, 491). By way of supple- ment to the information given by MR. A. R. BAYLEY and MR. J. B. WAINEWRIGHT anent Sir John Arundel of Lanherne, the following abstract of the will of the Cornish knight may be noted :

Sir John Arundell, Knight of Lanherne, co. Cornwall, dated 12 Dec., 32 Elizabeth. " To be buried near my grandfather in the higher St. Columb within the said county." " To my very good ladie and wife the lligtit Honourable Lady Anne Stourton " plate, &c., received at marriage, and 100?. To son George Arundell lOf./., " which I owe him by a legacy bequeathed him by my brother George Arundell, deceased, the which I received of Isabell, the wife of my said brother George, to the use of my said son.' 1 To my nephew Thomas Bosgroe [? Bosgrave] an annuity of 57. out of Lanhearne tenant John Basing. To servant Edward Victor an annuity during life of Isabell my sister-in-law. Several legacies to servants. Require my wife and my son John Arundell to have special care of my son [-in-law] Charnocke and my daughter his wife, until my son-in-law shall discharge his debts. Residue to John Arundell my son and heir, who is executor. Proved in London 9 Dec., 1590, by John Kene, notary public, on behalf of John Arundell, Esq., son and executor (83 Drury).

Sir John Arundell of Lanherne, in addition to being M.P. for Cornwall in 1558, represented the Lancashire borough of Preston in the Parliament of Oct. -Dec.,

1555 ; but his Parliamentary course fin- ished at the accession of Elizabeth. If we may assume him to be identical with Sir John of Clerkenwell as seems highly probable he appears to have resided in that parish for some years before his death, the registers of St. James's, Clerkenwell, giving several burials of servants and others " out of Sir John Arundell' s house " between 1580 and 1589. There are also the follow- ing burials of members of the family :

1588, Dec. 2. George, son of George Arundell, gent.

1588, Dec. 12. Anne, d. of Mr. Geo. Arundell.

1589, Sept. 1. Francis, son of George Arundell, gent.

1596, Dec. 9. Michael, son of John Arundell, esq.

The last may be the Michael, grandson of Sir John, who is said in Vivian's ' Visita- tion of Cornwall ' to have " Mon. in St. Columb Church," but the date of whose decease is not given. The other three may have been infant children of Sir John's second son George, but they are not named in the pedigree. W. D. PINK.

Lowton, Newton-le-Willows.

BURIAL, INSCRIPTIONS (11 S. iii. 488). 1. St. John's, Westminster. The inscrip- tions on the monuments in this church will be found in Mr. J. E. Smith's e St. John the Evangelist, Westminster : Parochial Memorials,' 1892, pp. 63, 64. A few refer- ences to persons interred in the burial- ground will be found at pp. 129-31, 154, but only two or three inscriptions are given.

2. St. John's Wood Chapel. Thomas Smith in his ' Topographical Account of the Parish of St. Mary-le-Bone,' 1833, gives the inscriptions on the monuments in the chapel, pp. 137-46, and a long list of persons to whom memorials have been erected in the burial-ground, pp. 140-45. These records, however, extend only from the year 1814, when the chapel and burial-ground were consecrated, to the year 1832.

3. King's Road, Chelsea, burial-ground. Some of the inscriptions on the tombs and monuments, with short memoirs of the principal persons buried in the cemetery, will be found in Faulkner's ' History of Chelsea,' 2nd ed., 1829, pp. 37-43.

4. Chelsea Hospital. The same work, pp. 265-86, gives several inscriptions on the monuments erected in memory of the many distinguished persons connected with the Hospital who were interred in the burial- ground, including such eminent doctors as John Ranby, WilHam Cheselden, and