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3. Epitaphs. Vast numbers of Latin se- pulchral epitaphs are to be found in the volumes of the ' Corpus Inscriptionum Lati- narum.' Many are included in the selec- tions of G. H. C. Wilmanns (1873), and in the older work of J. C. Orelli and W. Henzen. Examples may be seen in the Catalogues -and Guides of museums that contain large collections of Roman antiquities. For Latin epitaphs in verse see Burman or Meyer's

Minores.'
 * Anthologia ' and Baehrens's ' Poetse Latini

4. Shoivmen. " Circulatores," itinerant jugglers, snake-charmers, &c., were well- known figures in the streets of ancient towns. Sword-swallowing is mentioned in Plutarch, ' Moralia,' 191D, a propos of the particular pattern of sword employed. In Apuleius, ' Metamorphoses,' i. 4, there is a description of a sword-swallower exhibiting in a public place at Athens. In the ' Digest,' XL VII., tit. xi. ' De Extraordinariis Crimini- bus,' 11, an opinion of the famous juris- consult Paulus is quoted to the effect that an action would lie against " circulatores " who carried about snakes to show, in the event of any person suffering injury through fright.

" 5. Dreams, and the connexion of ^Escula- pius with them. The most interesting mate- rial is to be found in the orations of Publius jElius Aristides, the Greek rhetorician of the second century A.D. Numerous references to ancient and modern authors are collected in Sir Samuel Dill's ' Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius,' book iv. chap, i.,

Richard Caton's ' Temples and Ritual of Asklepios.' EDWARD BENSLY.
 * Superstition,' pp. 457 f>gq. See also Dr.

INSCRIPTIONS ON BRASSES : COBHAM : CLERE (11 S. vi. 329, 414). For Sir Reginald de Cobham, lord of the manor of Steresburgh, 1403, marginal inscription, with ten Latin verses, large, North Chantry, Haines refers the reader to Waller, pt. vi. ; Bray ley and Britton, vol. iv. p. 167 ; and Boutell's


 * Mon. Br.,' p. 60. A. R. BAYLEY.

MURDER OF LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL <11 S. vi. 170, 258, 350). The trial of Courvoisier and the charges against his counsel, Mr. Charles Phillips, have, as SIR HARRY .POLAND states, been thoroughly inquired into, and there is nothing to add. I do not remember, however, to have seen any account of Lord William's birth, the tragedy of which almost equalled his death. He was the posthumous son of the Marquess

of Tavistock, eldest son of John, fourth Duke of Bedford, the Duke who signed the Peace of Versailles in 1763. Lord Tavistock died on 23 March, 1767, from the effects of a fall whilst hunting, and his widow, a Keppel and daughter of Lord Albemarle, lived to give birth to a son, and then fell into a deep decline, which, in spite of all efforts, including a sea voyage, terminated fatally on 2 Oct., 1768. Her state of mind may be imagined from the following incident, related by Wiffen (' Russell Memoirs,' vol. ii. p. 573) :

"At a consultation of the faculty, held at Bedford House in August, one of the physicians, whilst he held her pulse, requested her to open her hand. Her reluctance induced him to use a degree of gentle violence, when he perceived that she had closed it to conceal a miniature of her late husband. ' Ah, madam,' he exclaimed. ' all our prescriptions must be useless whilst you so fondly cherish the wasting sorrow that destroys you ! ' 'I have kept it,' she replied, ' either in my bosom or my hand, ever since my dear lord's death, and thus I must indeed continue to retain it, until I drop off after him into the welcome grave.' "

Her two elder sons. Francis and John, became successively fifth and sixth Dukes of Bedford, the latter being father of Lord John Russell by his first wife, Lady Georgiana Byng, second daughter of Viscount Torring- ton. She died before her husband suc- ceeded his brother as duke in 1802.

J. E. LATTON PICKERING.

Library, Inner Temple, E.G.

LAMB'S CHAPEL, LONDON (11 S. vi. 291, 357). i should like to add to my former reply that in Maitland's ' History of London,' 1756, vol. ii. p. 908, there is a very interesting account of this chapel, with a transcript of a deed concerning it, dated 1253, witnessed by Nicholas Batte, Mayor ; also some extracts from the first register-book, of 1586.

William Lambe's charities are so numerous as to be almost proverbial. His conduit near Bloomsbury, and the street there named after him, preserve his name, and are well known. He was buried in St. Faith's Chapel, with a punning memorial over his grave (Pennant's ' London,' 1812).

WM. NORMAN.

The contributors of replies to this query have singularly omitted to mention that Lambe's Chapel, after its demolition in 1872, was re -erected in Prebend Square, Islington, and the interesting effigy of this benefactor of the Clothworkers' Com- pany is now preserved there. He was buried with his three wives in St. Faith's,