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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. ix. JAN. 10, 191*.

HEART-BURIAL IN NICHES IN CHURCH WALLS (11 S. viii. 289, 336, 352, 391, 432). As one of your correspondents at the last reference is under the impression that the body "of Sir Nicholas Crispe is buried in St. Mildred's, Bread Street, I beg first of al] to say that Sir Nicholas Crispe, by his will dated 23 Feb., 1665, directed that his executors should

" cavise my Heart to be Imbalmed And to be put into a small vrne made of the hardest stone and ffastned in it placed vpon a Pillor of the best and hardest Black Marble to be sett vp in Ham- mersmith Chappell neare my Pew the place I soe dearely loved And I appoint my body to be

Sut into a Leaden Coffin and laid in a vault in 1 Mildreds Church in Breadstreete in London That I made for my Pa rentes and Posterity which Leaden Coffin I appoint to be put into a Stone Coffin to be covered with a stone." The following is the inscription :

Here Lyeth ye Body of Sr

Nicholas Crisp Ktt & Barronett

one of ye Farmers of His

Magyesties Cvstomes who

departed this life ye 27 of

Febrvary 1605

Aged 07 yera's.

The body of Sir Nicholas Crispe was enclosed in a lead coffin roughly shaped to his likeness, with a bas-relief of features, hands, and feet on a stone coffin, in the family vault of St. Mildred's Church. But in 1898, by an Order in Council, nearly 500 bodies buried beneath the church were reverently re- interred in Brookwood Cemetery, and the remains of Sir Nicholas were reburied in Hammersmith Churchyard.

The memorial, which is in the Parish Church of Hammersmith, consists of a bronze bust of King Charles I., and bears the in- scription :

" The effigie was erected by the special appoint- ment of Sir Nicholas Crispe, Knight and Baronet, as a grateful commemoration of the glorious martyr King Charles the First of Blessed memory."

Beneath the bust of Charles I. is a marble urn with the following inscription :

" Within this urn is entombed the heart of Sir Nicholas Crispe, Knight and Baronet, a loyal sharer in the sufferings of his late and present Majesty."

ADAM GLENDINNING NASH, Sector of St. Mildred, Bread Street, with St. Margaret Moyses, and Hon. Canon of Ripon Cathedral. 4, Harley House, Regent's Park, N.W.

The urn containing the heart of Sir Nicholas Crisp in St. Paul's Church, Ham- mersmith, has never been enclosed in a pillar or niche in the present building or its predecessor. His will, dated 23 Feb.. 1665. directed ut supra.

These directions were carried out, and the heart, in an urn of white marble, was placed beneath a bronze bust of King Charles I. which Crisp had erected to his memory.

Crisp's body was buried in St. Mildred's, Bread Street, and when that church was cleared of human remains, his stone coffin was found intact. Mr. G. Milner- Gibson - Cullum, a descendant, obtained a faculty for its removal to Hammersmith, which was done on 18 June, 1898. A large number of people bearing the name of Crisp attended the memorial service, several of whom, with Mr. Cullum. and the late Mr. Churchwarden Platt, subscribed liberally towards the cost entailed. The late Mr. T. E. Crispe, K.C., delivered an eloquent address on the occa- sion. The tomb is placed on the east side of the tower, and the original coffin-lid of black marble, with a quaint inscription, is let into the wall above.

S. MARTIN, Churchwarden. Public Library, Ravenscourt Park.

SPONG (US. viii. 389, 456). The Spongs mentioned by MR. KING and COL. FYNMORE are apparently all descendants of the William Spong of Rochester whose ancestry I inquired for. He died 1787, aged 69, and married Mary, dau. of Robert Starke by Elizabeth, dau. of John Fuller. She died 1807, aged 78. I do not know what coat of arms the family bore, but I think that they used a goat's head couped as a crest. G. D. LUMB.

MATTHEW PARKER'S ORDINATION (11 S. viii. 488). The " Ordo Ceremoniarum " used at the consecration of Parker to Canter- bury (not ordination) has been often re- printed from his own Register : e.g., by A. W. Haddan, ' Apostolical Succession in the hurch of England ' (London, 1869), pp. 357- 360, and by E. Denny and T. A. Lacey, ' De Hierarchia Anglicana Dissertatio Apolo- getica ' (London, 1895), pp. 208-10. The Ordinal used was the revived Second Ordinal (1552) of Edward VI.

W. A. B. COOLIDGE.

GOVERNOR WALKER (11 S. vii. 348 ; viii. 54, 150). In answer to the correspondent who asks for the birthplace of Walker, the hero of the Siege of Londonderry the editor of Trewmarts Exeter Flying Post in July, 1911,

laimed him as a native of " Semper Fidelis," and said this fact was not generally known. [ suggest your correspondent put himself in communication with the editor of that

ournal. ' D.N.B.' does not mention his- Dirthplace. EDWARD WEST.