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 n s. vi. NOV. 16. 1912.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1C, 1913.

CONTENTS. No. 151.

NOTES : Anthony Wood's ' Athens Oxonienses,' 381 The Plague in London, 1563, 384 Statues and Memorials in the British Isles. 385" Torpenhow " " Excorse" Long " S," Date of Disappearance Miss Coghlan of Bath painted by Gainsborough, 386 "Lallation" College Succession Clifford's Inn, 387.

QUERIED : Stray Queries on London Medals relating to John Witkes, 387 Werwolves Weights and Coinage, 1338 "Schreib dir's hinter das Ohr " " La Grenadiere" Cairn at Trivandrum T. Heath Haviland, Canadian Statesman. 3884 Tale of Monasticism in the Thirteenth Century The Whitened Doorstep Arthur D. Morison "The Orange Bond" of Holland Coaching in the Fif- teenth and Sixteenth Centuries Author Wanted : "Linger not long" Dr. Peter Du Moulin and North Wales, 389 Dr. Johnson's Copies of Burton's ' Anatomy ' Charles I.'s Executioner Heraldic Consecration Crosses on the Outside Walls of Churches Biographical Information Wanted " Torches of the King's gift " : " Pepper for Dirige " " Vox populi vox mnsse," 390.

REPLIES : German Proverb : "Gut verloren," &c.. 391 Atkyns Family, 392 Crucifix on the Edgar Tower, Worcester, 393 Treatises on Longevity, 394 Cocqcigrues Milton's ' Lycidas.' 395 Author of Quotation Wanted "Morocco" or "Marocco" Cromwell and Vane: Brother Fountain and Brother Heron, 396" Nevermass " The English Participle Present and Gerund Earth- eating Fitzwilliam and Grimaldi Arms " Regium prseceptum 'icaligeri " I. Hucks, B A. Hursley Park and Compton Monceux, 397 The Royal Exchange-" Memoria technica " Cobbett Bibliography Milton Portrait by S. Cooper Eyre Family, 393.

NOTE 5 ! ON BOOKS: 'The Problem of Edwin Drood' Coleridge's ' Complete Poetical Works ' ' Calendar of Inquisitions post Mortem.'

Notices to Correspondents.

ANTHONY WOOD'S 'ATHENE OXONIENSES'

(ED. DK. PHILIP BLISS), 1813-20. A FEW NOTES FROM A PACKET OF LETTERS

FORMERLY IN WOOD'S POSSESSION.

1. A letter in a clerkly hand (probably that of an amanuensis), and unsigned, is endorsed by Wood as of " June 1685 from Henry, Earl of Clarendon." Of Sir Thomas Aylesbury (' D.N.B.,' ii. 277) the writer states that he

" was second son of William Aylesbury by Anne, his wife, daughter of John Pool Esq r ; he was brought up a King's scholar at Westminster school, from whence he went by election to Christ Church in Oxford. After he had pursued his studies for some tyme in that University, he became secretary to the Earle of Nottingham. . . . Sir Thomas about September 1649 in the 73 d yeare

of his Age, with his wife aged about 62 yeares, left England, and went to Antwerp in Brabant where his daughter the Lady Hyde (since Count - esse of Clarendon) resided and with her he con- tinued the remainder of his life ; in the yeare 1652 he removed with his said daughter to Breda where in the yeare 1657 he dyed in the 81 st year of his Age, and is buryed in the great church there. He was a lover of learning and learned men, but never writt anything. His wife lived to returne into England, at the happy restoration of King Charles the 2 nd and in November anno 1661, in the 74 th yeare of her Age, she dyed at Worcester house in the Strand, where the Earle of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor, and his Lady, her daughter, then lived, and is buryed in tho Abby Church at Westminster. This Sir Thomas marryed Anne daughter and coheir of Francis Denman of Retford in the County of Nottingham, and Relict of William Darll [sic] Esq r, by whom he had severall children: first William, 2 nd Thomas who dyed an Infant, Ann who dyed a mayd, Frances marryed to Edward Hyde of Pirton [Purton] Esq r since Earle of Clarendon, and Barbara who dyed in Holland a mayd of Honour to the Princesse of Orange An 1651 and was buryed in the church of Honslerdyke (? ) neere the Hague."

The letter then gives an account of William Aylesbury (v. ' Athenae,' iii. 440 ; ' D.N.B.,' ii. 278). which is closely followed by Wood ; although he omits to state that Aylesbury " ever after went lame," as the result of the murderous attempt upon him in Italy. In the brief account of the elder Aylesbury in the ' Fasti ' (i. 305) some slight use is made of the first part of this letter.

2. A Letter of 27 Feb., 1684/5, from John Aubrey to Wood.

DEARE FRIEND ! Doe not you thinke that 1 doe forget any thing y' you desire of me, though you heare not of me. But the late Alteration hath putt peoples businesses out of order w ch has made me somwhat the longer in answering you, but as to M r Tanner : after 4 or 5 inquiries of severall persons w h directed me from one to t' other I found M r George Trenley's Mother ; [he is a student in X: Ch:] and she tooke your note of Enquiry w ch shee sent to him, & ordered him to wayte upon you. Your cos. Geo: Petty died of convulsion fitts about the middle of February. I remember that he told me that Col. Lovelace was buried neer the west dore of S' Brides. Geo. Petty carried him for some time before he died (as I have told you) xx 3 even,' munday morning, and should have been repaycl by Sir Jo: Many of Keal. and M r Ch: Cotton ; but was not. It was G. Petty buryed him, & I have been above 10 times at her house to have

him shew me his grave, but not at home, or

I carefully delivered all your letters, & ye parties have told me they have all sent their answers : M r Ashmol(e) could not at p'sent answer to y r qu. but told me he would. The man y* you spake wt. at X e Ch: hospitall sent me to ye pish clarke, who tells me the old Reges: booke was burnt : the new one is only since the fire. I dayly expect a Ire from M r Ant. Ettrick concern- ing M r W. Lawrence. M r A. Ettrick has been