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GOLDSMITH'S TOMB. Will one of your readers tell me the precise circumstance; under which the tomb of Goldsmith in the vicinity of the Temple Church was placed there, who subscribed for it, &c. ? Its inscription, " Here lies Oliver Goldsmith,' is, of course, incorrect. Forster, when he published his 'Life' in 1848, said that the precise spot in which the poet was buried was unknown, and that no monument marked the grave. CLEMENT SHORTER.

POWDERED ALABASTER. About a century ago the effigy of a knight in armour in Royston Church suffered considerable injury from scraping, the resultant powder being utilized for some medicinal purpose.

Is it known what complaint this was supposed to benefit, or how it was used ? Was it a specific in the old pharmacopoeia ?

W. B. GERISH.

ROGER LIVES AY OF IRELAND. In Dug- dale's ' Visitn. of Lanes,' 1664-5, a pedigree of Livesay of Livesay is recorded, in which appears " Roger Livesay in Ireland 1664." This Roger was the fourth son of John Livesay of Livesay. In Baines's ' History of Lanes ' he is said to have been living in Ireland in 1644, but this may be incorrect. A pedigree in the Middleton MSS. at Chet- ham Library, Manchester, describes him as of Ireland, implying that he had taken up permanent residence there. Can one of your Irish readers give me information about Roger or his descendants, if any ?

JOHN LIVESEY. Harnham, Salisbury.

SAMUEL FAVELL. Can any one assist me with particulars of the parentage, educa- tion, and marriage of Samuel Favell, citizen and clothworker of London, who died at Camberwell on 20 June, 1830, aged 70 ? He was a Common Councilman for the Ward of Aldgate for twenty years, was one of the earliest members of the Sunday School Society, was a member of the Constitutional Society, and iaterested himself in almost every progressive measure of his time.

THOMAS WM. HUCK.

DOGS ON TOMBS. I should be greatly obliged if any contributor to ' N. & Q.' could tell me the earliest known date, and where^ of the appearance of dogs at the feet of effigies on mediaeval tombs.

W. A. HENDERSON. Dublin.

[See 11 S. iii. 208, 310, 376, 451, though the exact answer to the question is not there supplied.]

HENRY HUNT PIPER. I wish to procure some account of Henry Hunt Piper. I believe that he was a Unitarian minister who published in 1852 an edition of the Prayer Book, revised in a Socinian sense. G. W. E. RUSSELL.

SIR ROBERT BE ALE, SECRETARY TO QUEEN ELIZABETH : HIS PORTRAIT. In 1825 some queries were inserted in The Gentleman's Magazine for April, pp. 290 and 377, and May, p. 386, as to whether any painted or printed portrait was known of this cele- brated diplomatist, b. 1541, mar. Edith St. Barbe (sister to Sir Francis Walsing- ham's lady), and d. 1601, the answer being apparently in the negative. Has any- thing come to light on this subject during the past eighty-seven years ?

There is at Sherborne Castle a painting of Queen Elizabeth's progress to Blackfriars 15 June, 1600, attended by numerous ministers and courtiers, a woodcut of which is given on p. 180 of ' The Encyclopaedia of Costume.' Many figures are evidently por- traits, but some possibly allegorical. Have they been identified ? and, if so, which might be Robert Beale as Clerk of the Council ?

As a matter of fact, on 15 May, 1600, Queen Elizabeth dispatched him as ambas- sador to Holland and Zeeland, a journey which was, as she meant it to be, his last, and from which he returned on 6 Aug. the same year. B. L.

PLACE OF DEPOSIT OF WILLS. Is there any book or other authority showing exactly what old wills (prior to 1800) are deposited in Somerset House and each separate district Probate Registry ? If so, where can it be consulted ? Such a list ought to be issued as a Government Paper for the infor- mation of students, and where lists do not exist, such should (either by the Government or the local antiquarian society) be put in land at once. The wills at Chester and Exeter are well done, and those for Rich- mondshire.

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A. Lancaster.

CARPENTER OR CARPENTIERE. I shall be glad to know whether Andrew Carpenter of London, sculptor, who carved the statue of Queen Anne for the Moot Hall in Leeds early in the eighteenth century, was the same person as - - Carpentiere, statuary, died 1737, whose biography is given in the D.N.B.' If not, is anything known about Andrew Carpenter ? G. D. LUMB,