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THE EFFECT OF OPENING A COFFIN (11 S. xii. 300, 363, 388, 448, 465 ; 12 8. i. 91, 113, 192, 295, 471). The following extract is from the ' Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne '* :

"1723. Dec. 30 (Mon.). There are no remains ni>\v of Missenden Abbey in Bucks, only a Oloyster. . . .But there is a place which they say the Church stood on. . . .Several Coffins have been found here, and among the rest. near to the Place where the Church stood, was found, some Years agoe, one of Stone, wherein was an intire Corps, which had not been expos'd to the Air above lo Minutes before it was Ashes. In this Coffin were found a Lamp and a Crucifix, which, with the Ashes of the Corps, were committed to the Ground at the Request of Mrs. Fleetwood.f Mother of the then Lord of the Manor. Mr. Fleetwood's House was built out of the Abbey Materials."

R. W. B.

MBS. ANNE BUTTON (12 S. ii. 147, 197, 215). In reply to my inquiry I have received several interesting- letters of information concerning Mrs. Dutton. In particular I am indebted to a copy of the inscription upon her sepulchral memorial for some particulars slightly at variance with those contained upon p. 197 above cited. She died on Xov. 18, 1765, aged 73 years, after having been thirty-four years resident at Great Gransden, and her husband died in 1748, if the monument furnishes correct statements. One of its assertions is amazing : that she wrote and published twenty-five volumes of choice letters to friends, and thirty-eight tracts on divine and spiritual subjects. The names of the tracts are easily recoverable, but of the twenty-five volumes I have not at any time seen a copy ; nor do I know where one of the twenty-five is catalogued. Per- haps " volumes " is an error.

In the British Museum Catalogue under title of her name are three volumes of his- torical, literary, and theological miscellanea, which upon examination prove to bear the heading of The Spiritual Magazine. This name was, at other times, borne by publica- tions not in any way connected with Mrs. Dutton. In the three volumes for the years 1761, 1762, and 1763, so far as I remember correspondents, evidently ignor- ant of Mrs. Dutton' s alleged editorship, refer to her as the Rev. Mr. A. D.

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 * Printed for the Oxford Histminl Society,

t Sarah, widow of William Fleetwood ; she died March 23 and was buried AFarrh 31, 1711, at Great Missrmlrn. Her s liis >M.>r .Mary, widow of Thomas Ansell.

I suspect that she attended the Tabernacle ministrations at Moorfields, during the period in which Howell Harris, Ingham, and Mr. Adams officiated, and in which White- field was absent in Georgia. If that con-' jecture be correct, she was probably an antagonist of Mr. John Cennick, hymn-writer and poet of merit and charm. The identi- fication would be of interest, for Mr. Cennick, hitherto much neglected, must one day come into his own. The years of her residence in London, under this hypothesis, would have nearly coincided with those of the absence of Mr. Benjamin Dutton in America.

J. C. WHITEBBOOK, Lieut.

POBTRAITS IN STAINED GLASS (12 S. ii. 172,

211). In Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, in a small window near his tomb, is the imaginary representation of Bishop King, last Abbot of Osney and first Bishop of Oxford. In St. Lucy's Chapel of the same cathedral is the Becket window, in which the head of the murdered prelate is obliterated, it is said by royal command.

In Christ Church Hall, Oxford, is an oriel window on the south side (by Burlison and Grylls) with full -length portraits of Cardinal Wolsey, Sir Thomas More, Erasmus, the Earl of Surrey, Archbishop Warham,Dean Colet, Linacre, and Lily. In 1894 the lower lights of the window on the north side were filled by the representations of Burton, Fell, Aldrich, and Locke, seventeenth-century Christ Church worthies. St. Paul's Church, Oxford, built in 1836, has " a memorial window to Canon Ridgway, containing among its figures portraits of the Canon and some of his contemporaries. St. John's College Chapel, Oxford, east window, has among its effigies Sir Thomas White, the founder, and Archbishop Laud. Particulars from Alden's ' Guide to Oxford.'

STEPHEN J. BAKNS.

Frating, Woodside Road, Woodford Wells.

' In vol. xv. of the printed papers of the Sunderland Antiquarian Society there is a paper on ' The Historical Origin of some Proverbs and Familiar Allusions,' by Mr. G. W. Bain, a Vice-Presidetit of the Society. One of the allusions refers to " She is a proud Cis," and after explaining that the phrase refers to Cicelv, the " Rose of R;il>v," daughter of Ralph Neville, Earl of W.-t- morland, wife of Richard of York and mother of Edward IV. and Richard III., the writer goes on to say :

" The only known portrait of Dame Cicely is in a stained-glass window of Penrith Church, together with that of her husband, Richard, Duke of York ;