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the house-place on a table on a large white dish, along with bottles of cowslip or other home-made wine. It was a matter of pride to have this guest-table well laid, generally covered with the best white cloth in the village. Chairs were set all round the room by the walls, and as the guests arrived the bidding woman took them to seats, and another helper served out a glass of wine and a biscuit to each. Outside, in the street or the yard of the house, another table was set. The coffin when brought out from an inner or upper room was placed on the table, on which was a basket filled with sprigs of box. A basket filled with packets of " funeral biscuits " was taken to each guest. The packets contained four or six biscuits neatly done up in white paper by the baker, each fastened with black wafers, and having inside or outside a copy of verses similar to the one given by MR. SPARKE. These packets were carried in the hand to the graveside and then home, because all could not return to the house of feasting at the end of the " burying." The sprigs of box were dropped on the coffin as each guest stepped round to take " the last look." A certain printer whose office I used to haunt did a large trade in printing and supplying confectioners with the verses, who in turn submitted them for choice to their customers when these were ordering " funeral biscuits." THOS. RATCLIFFE.

THE KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS (12 S. i. 248, 314). In ' Minden and the Seven Years' War,' by Sir Lees Knowles, S. will find a special chapter devoted to the six British regiments which were engaged at Minden. L. M. H.

ANNE CLIFFORD, COUNTESS OF CUMBER- LAND (12 S. i. 310). This interesting lady was not Countess of Cumberland, but of Dor- set, and of Pembroke and Montgomery. She seems to have claimed the Barony of Clifford in right of her father, but not the Earldom of Cumberland. Her life occupies more than three columns of the ' D.N.B.,' and Mr. G. F. R. Barker, who wrote it, gives many references to other lives, some of considerable length, and as many as twelve references to ' N. & Q.' Her father's life (George Clifford) occupies four columns in the ' Dictionary,' and her mother's (Margaret Clifford) another column. A full answer to MR. LEVESON- GOWER'S request for information would occupy several pages of ' N. & Q.' Her name occurs in all books about Westmorland or South-West Yorkshire. I find I have nine references to her in the first volume of

my ' Flemings in Oxford ' (Oxford Historical? Society, vol. xliv.). I have always felt the greatest interest in her, but have in. many years' research not got to the end of what is to be found out about her in the articles above mentioned and the refer- ences contained in them.

JOHN R. MAGRATH. Queen's College, Oxford.

Her will is given in Archceologia New Series, vol. i. (1857), p. 1, in a biography written by the Rev. James Raine, jun., M.A.. The paper is entitled ' Anne, Countess of Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery.'

BROWNMOOR.

By an unaccountable slip in my query,, ante, p. 310, I asked for information respecting Anne Clifford, Countess of Cumberland. Anne Clifford, it is needless^ to remark, was never Countess of Cumberland, although she inherited the Barony of Clifford, which descended in the female line.

ARTHUR F. G. LEVESON-GOWER.

Athenaeum Club.

ELIZABETH EVELYN (12 S. i. 288), who died in 1651, was the daughter of Sir John. Rivers of Kent and granddaughter of John Rivers, Lord Mayor of London. She married George Evelyn of Everley and West Dean y , Wilts (1581-1637), and had four children: Sir John of West Dean ; George, who died young ; Arthur, who was a prominent Roundhead and Governor of Wallingford :.: and Elizabeth, who married Sir James Tyrrell of Essex. Her granddaughter married Robert Pierrepont and became the mother of three Earls of Kingston. " My sister Hart " refers to Jane Evelyn, the fourth daughter of John Evelyn of Godstone,. and sister of George. She married (1) Sir Anthony Benn, Recorder of London ; and (2) Sir Eustace Hart, Knt. " Niece the Lady Elizabeth Gray, the Countess of Kent's daughter," should be great-niece. Jane Evelyn's daughter by Sir Anthony Benn, Amabella, married Henry Gray, ninth Earl of Kent. " Niece Mrs. Anne Needum, Sir Robert Needum's daughter." John Evelyn (' Diary,' Sept. 17, 1657) speaks of Sir Robert Needham as " a relation of mine." I should much like to know the connexion. " Cousin Mr. George Eveling, Sir Thomas Eveling's brother." He was the son of Thomas Evelyn of Long Ditton, and half-brother of Sir Thomas Evelyn. He resided at Hunter- combe in Buckinghamshire.

H. MAYNARD SMITH.