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died September 2nd 1829, Aged! 1 Month Also David, fourth son, died January llth 1852 Aged 29 Years ; Also George Matthew, eldest soni died October 25th 1854, Aged 35 Years ; Also Frederick William, sixth son, died April 12th 1865, Aged 37 Years ; Also Clarence, ninth son, died January 16th 1872, Aged 30 Years.

H. In Memory of Eliza wife of James Roberts, who died Jan. 20 181[8], Aged [*2] Years ; Also of Eliza: their Daughter, who died Nov: 23 1810, Aged [2] Years.

H. [Against the south wall.] Sacred to the Memory of Jesse Targett who died January 27th 1842, Aged 74 Years ; Also to the Memory of Mary His Wife who died April 23rd 1846, Aged 55 Years ; Mary, Daughter of Jesse & Mary Targett died Septr. 1st 1825, Aged 9 Years. Sarah their Daughter died August 24th 1830, Aged 6 Years. Jesse their Son died January 18th 1836, Aged 15 Years ; Also Elizabeth Andrew, their Daughter, died Septr. 17th 1840, Aged 24 Years. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

[A tablet let into the South Wall.] In Memory of John Picktatt, Gent. Who was three times Mayor of this Borough, and departed this Life, October the 26th 1763, Aged 57. Likewise in Memory of Patience his Wife who departed this life the 10th of May 1769, Aged 66 Years.

H. M.S. John Bowren, Died May 17 1840, Aged 79. The Memory of the just is blessed. Also of Charles Bowren Junr. who died Jan: 20 1856, Aged 30 Years.

Low T. Rose, wife of Charles Bowren, d. 31 Jan. 1865, a. 74. Charles Bowren, husband of above, clerk of this parish 6 years, d. June 30 1866, a. 67.

T. Here lieth the Body of Prudence the Wife of Na[th.] B**s[ti]d Clerk, who departed this life 28 day of Jan. 17[66] in the [thirty-second] year of her age [epitaph of five lines, illegible].

H. in R. In memory of John Cole, born April 19 1777, died Novr. 6 1837. Martha his wife, born July 2 1782, died Septr. 9 1857. Jane, their daughter, born in April 1816, died Deer. 29 1823. John Shergold, born July 24 1813, died July 10 1880. Mary Clements Shergold, widow of John Shergold and daughter of the above John and Martha Cole, born March 12 1814, died Janry. 21 1889.

H. Sacred to the memory of Ann Nicolls who died the llth day of Jany. 1840, aged 18 years. T. in R. In Memory of Margaret Wife of Robert Swyer who departed this Life February 16th 1745, Aged 34 ; Also of Robert Swyer who departed this Life January 17th 1767, Aged 66 ; Also of Robert Swyer their Son who died February 14th 1791, Aged 54 ; And of Hannah, Widow of the said Robert Swyer, who died September 28 1800, Aged 47. In Memory of Margaret, Daugh- ter of Robert and Margaret Swyer, who died July 24 1768, Agd. 30 ; and of Walter Swyer their Son who died in Pembrokeshire, August 25th 1791, Aged 52 ; Also Thomas, third son of Robert and Hannah Swyer, who died an Infant, October llth 1784 ; and of Joseph Swyer their fifth son who died an Infant April 1st 1788. In Memory of Robert, eldest son of Robert and Hannah Swyer who died in the East Indies June 14th 1798, Agd. 24 ; and of Thomas Swyer their fourth Son, who died August 12 1809

aged 24. [There is a further inscription on top of the stone, but owing to railings it could not be read.]

H. Sacred To the Memory of Elizabeth Wife of John Maffey who departed this Life April 3,. 1828, Aged 59 Years.

Meek was her temper and modest was her Life.

A tender mother and a virtuous wife ;

Tho' she 's gone but like a spotless dove,

To increase the numbers of the blist above. Also two of their Sons, James & Joseph. Jame& died in his infancy. Joseph died Sepr. 22nd 1807, Aged 1 Year and 2 Months. Also Emily Mary Slade Maffey, their Granddaughter, died April 9th. 1828, Aged 1 Year & 4 Months. To the Me- mory of John Maffey who departed this Life August 24th 1848, Aged 9 years.

Corruption, earth and worms,

Shall but refine the flesh ; Till my triumphant spirit, Come to put it on afresh.

A. WEIGHT MATTHEWS. 60, Rothesay Road, Luton, Beds.

(To be continued.}

ELLIS OF NEW BOND STREET. The his- tory of booksellers is so difficult to obtain at first hand that I am glad to see in Messrs. Ellis's Catalogue 150, noticed in ' N. & Q.' on the 10th of January (p. 40), a short account of the firm from the date of its establishment by John Brindley in 1728. The founder had been celebrated for his bookbinding, and he bound a copy of Newton's ' Philosophy ' in red morocco- for presentation from the author to his young admirer Beaupre Bell. To his book- selling and bookbinding Brindley added publishing, and in 1729 he issued, in concert with other booksellers, Boyer's ' Diction- naire de Blasori.' In 1751 he published an edition of Spenser's ' Faerie Queene ' in three quarto volumes, but he is best remem- bered by the dainty volumes of classics which he issued between 1740 and 1754, most of them edited by Usher Gahagan.

James Robson, who succeeded him, waar one of the original proprietors of The Morning Chronicle, a venture in which he wasj{asso- ciated with James Christie (the founder of Christie's). He was also one of the publishers of the official edition of Johnson's Works ;. and some correspondence with Mrs. Piozzi is printed in reference to this. Robson bequeathed a legacy to his former assistant William Fell, who with John Nornaville succeeded him. Dibdin in his ' Biblio- graphical Decameron,' vol. iii. pp. 52-68, describes how at the sale of the Duke of Rox- burghe's collection in 1812 the " quiet_and