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Board schools (early in 1908, I think) on the occasion of his presentation to them, at the instance of the Victoria League, of some fifty flajjs or Union Jacks ?

Unfurling one of the flags and pointing to it, Lord Rosebery said :

" Do you understand what this flag represents ? A great many grown-up people do not.... We begin with the Scottish Hag. (Loud cheers.) The Scottish lias has a blue ground with a white St. Andrew's cross on it."

J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.

HENRIETTA RENAN r ( 12 S. ii. 128). The letters referred to by Ernest Renan in the tender little sketch of his sister which appeared in 1895 were issued in the follow- ing year, together with ' Ma Soeur Henrietta,' under the following title : " Lettres intimes (1842-5) d'Ernest Renau et d'Henriette Renan, precedees de ' Ma Sceur Henriette,' par Ernest Renan," Paris, Calmann-Levy, 1896, 8vo, 7fr. 50 c. HENRY GUPPY.

The John Rylands Library, Manchester.

Possibly the following may be of use : J. E. and H. Renan, 'Lettres intimes, 1842-5'; 3rd ed. 1896. Brother and sister. Tr. Lady M. Loyd. 1896. A. R. BAYLEY.

[MR. G. F. ABBOTT thanked for reply.]

GRAVE OF MARGARET GODOLPHIN (12 S. ii. 129). She was buried, Sept. 16, 1678, in Breage Church, in the parish of Godolphin : " This funeral," says Evelyn, " cost not much less than 1,000?.""

In Margaritam Epitaphium. Here lyes a Pearle none such the ocean yields In all the Treasures of his liquid fields ; Butt such as that wise merchant wisely sought \Yho the bright genim with all his substance bought ; Such to Jerusalem above translates Our God, t'adprne the Entrance of her gates ; The Spouse with such Embrodery does come To meete her Nuptialls -the Celestial Groome. On the copper plate sothered on the Coffin.

A. R. BAYLEY.

There were two Cornish ladies of old bear- ing this name. I assume the one sought is the more famous maid of honour to Queen Catharine of Braganza, born Aug. 2, 1 652 ; married May 16, 1675, at the Temple Church, London, to Sidney, Earl Godolphin ; died at Whitehall, London, Sept. 9, 1678 ; buried at St. Breage, West Cornwall, Sept. 27, 1678 ; and entered in the parish register in error as " Catherine " Godolphin. For fuller details see Evelyn, ' Life of Mrs. Godolphin,' 1847, reprinted 1848 and 1853 ; Boase and Courtney, ' Bibliotheca Cornubiensis,' 1874- 1882 (3 vols.), vol. i. p. 179, vol. iii. p. 1200.

If the other Margaret is desired, the St. Breage Marriage Registers bear the following entry, which may possibly help. Note the singular spelling of William.

"15 Oct., 1638. Willimus Paynter de Antron in parochia de Sithney, generosus, et Margaretta filia Johannes Godolphin nuper de Silly [Scilly] armigeri."

A letter to the Rector of St. Breage might reveal whether the first-named Mar- garet has a tomb still existing.

WM. JAGGARD, Lieut.

IKONA will find this grave in the beautiful (though over- restored) church of St. Breage, near Helston in Cornwall. It is under the altar - table in the South (or Godolphin) Chapel, and affixed to the altar is a plate worded by John .Evelyn, and bearing his initials. It contains the unusual word " denata " for died. There is a pentagraph with the letters airaya in the angles, a symbol occurring also at the head of Evelyn's ' Life of Mrs. Godolphin,' and on the vase behind her in her portrait at Wootton. IKONA will find a description of the church in The Cornish Magazine, vol. ii., 1899, with full transcript of the brass plate. YGREC.

This lady was buried at Breage, Cornwall, on Sept. 16, 1675, and there, I have reason to believe, her remains and memorial still have place. ST. SWITHIN.

The tomb of Margaret Godolphin is to be found in Breage Church, which lies mid- way between Godolphin Hill and Helston, in Western Cornwall.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

ST. LUKE'S, OLD STREET: BIBLIOGRAPHY (12 S. i. 426; ii. 133). I am obliged to MAJOR YARROW BALDOCK for his useful notes on my attempted bibliography. The works he mentions in his first paragraph are not, in my opinion, valuable contributions to the subject, but examples of the book-making resulting from the posthumous utilization of Besant's material.

The Preface to Adams's 'History ' is three pages, not two pages as I wrote. My friend Mr. Chaplin has kindly sent me another copy with this third page, and points out that the borders help to identify the date of issue as 1864-9. This has been ascertained from his well - known collection of Typefounders' Specimen Books.

Miss Mitton's identification of the date and architect of the church is correct, and she might have added that it is the only church in London with a steeple in the form of a fluted obelisk. A small folio engraving