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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. m. FEB. 3, 1917.

Queen, who died at her husband's (Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk) manor of Westhorp in this county, was originally buried in St. Edmund's Abbey Church, but at the dissolution of the same her body was reinterred in its present resting-place, St. Mary's Church. Queen Mary, Louis XII. of France, Henry VIII. of England, and Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, all appear therein.

GEBY MILNER-GIBSON-CULLUM, F.S.A.

You may like perhaps to add to your list a portrait which may be seen in the east window of St. Anne's Church, Turton. The window is a particularly beautiful one, and it was dedicated by his widow, since dead, to the memory of her husband, Kay Knowles, who is represented as a tall man, with a fine head of hair, and a full beard. The portrait is introduced in a representation of one of " the Wise Men from the East," leaning on a staff, and taking part in the adoration. It is in the lower corner on the north side of the east window.

Kay Knowles was born April 13, 1835, and died Aug. 17, 1886. He was the third son of my great-uncle, Robert Knowles of Swinton Old Hall, who was born Nov. 20, 1804, and died Jan. 21, 1883.

LEES KNOWLES.

Westwood, Pendlebury.

COLONELS AND REGIMENTAL EXPENSES (12 S. ii. 529 ; iii. 35). I have before me a book of accounts of the regiments of the Dukes of York and Monmouth in 1679. Some of the items illustrate the reply at the above reference :

June 14 order.

Capt. Bickerstaffe. By order for Capt. Phillip Bickerstaff. Recruites for gratuety Money. Thirty ffiue souldiers, one Sergt. and one Drum pd. Each Sould' aboue his gratuety for their of Reckonings in May, nothing stopt for Cloaths that month, 5s. 2d ... 18 10 00

09 00 10

The usual pay for off-reckonings is : soldier, 5s. 2d. ; sergeant, 15s. 6d. ; corporal, 10s. 4d. ; drum, 10s. 4d., monthly. The " chyrurgion " to the Duke of Monmouth's regiment had as pay 4s. a day. YGREC.

CITY GATES (12 S. iii. 30). 2. The Saxon monk St. Botolph, of the seventh century, was the special patron saint of East Anglia, and the churches mentioned by MR. FAN- SHAWE, as well as a fourth, St. Botolph, Billingsgate, which was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 and never rebuilt, were dedicated to him, because they each stood

at the commencement of one of the several main roads leading from London into the- various parts of that district. St. Botolph also founded a monastery in Lincolnshire and gave his name to Botolph's Town, now better known as Boston, in that county. ALAN STEWART.

CONTESTED LORD MAYORAL ELECTIONS (12 S. iii. 26). The numbers polled in 1698 as reported in Lut troll's Diary are higher- than those quoted by MR. ROBBINS from Dawks' s newspaper. They are there given- as : Child, 1868 ; Levett (the correct form of the name), 1707 ; Daniel, 1664.

There are many previous elections of Lord Mayor of which the polls have been pre- served : I have the numbers for 1681, 1682. 1689, 1690, 1691, and 1693. I have not my original notes at hand, but I think I am right in saying that some of these are to be found in the City's records at Guildhall.

ALFRED B. BEAVEN. -

Leamington.

FOREIGN GRAVES OF BRITISH AUTHORS (12 S. ii. 172, 254, 292, 395, 495 ; iii. 39, 59). rThere is an error in MR. ACKERMANN'S. letter at the last reference. Owen Glynn Jones was not killed by a fall on the Dent du Midi, but on the Dent Blanche-. It is evidently a slip of the pen. No one who fell on the Dent du Midi would be buried at Evolena. W. M, CROOK.

RIME ON ST. THOMAS'S DAY (12 S. iii. 9). The following examples may be found useful :

Well a-day, well a-day,

St. Thomas goes too soon away ;

Then your gooding we do pray.

For the good time will riot stay.

St. Thomas Grey, St. Thomas Grey,

The longest night and the shortest day,

Please to remember St. Thomas's Day.

W. S. Walsh's ' Popular Customs ' (J. B. Lippineott Company), p. 932.

My masters all, this is St. Thomas's Day, And Christmas now can't be far off, you'll say. But when you to the Ward-motes do repair, I hope such good men will be chosen there, As constables for the ensuing year, As will not grutch the watchmen good strong beer.. William Hone's ' Every-Day Book ' (Thomas Tegg & Son), p. 1626.

Good St. Thomas, do me right, And bring me to my love this night, That I may view him in the face, And in my armes may him embrace.

Joh n Brand's ' Popular Antiquities- (Henry G. Bonn), p. 457.

' ARCHIBALD SPARKE.