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 12 s. vm. MAI 21,1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 409 under such capable managers, who can gauge the public taste, and do not fail to present the masterpieces of both ancient and modern playwrights and thereby create splendid records. S. MARTIN, Churchwarden, St. Paul's, Hammersmith. 85, Wendell Road, W.I 2. EPITAPH IN LOWESTOFT CHURCHYARD. The body of j LEWIS WEBB, Schoolmaster ; | Like the cover of an old Book, J its Contents worn out and stript | of its Lettering and Gilding, | Lies here Food for the Worms. ( Yet the Work shall not be lost | For it shall (as he believed) | appear once more in a new | and most beautiful Edition | Corrected and revised | By the AUTHOR. | The loving Husband of | JUDITH WEBB [ who died 29th March, 1790 | Aged 58 years. Also three of their children. J. HARVEY BLOOM. EPITAPH IN BENSON CHURCH, OXON. A very quaint and curiously worded epitaph may be seen in this church on the south aisle wall at the west end and close to the font. The inscription, on a black slate tablet with a stone background, runs thus : M : S : To the pious memory of Ralph Quelche & Jane his wife Who slept "), ( Bed by ye space of 40 veares Now sleepe J togeath a ( Grave till Ct shall awaken them ") fell asleepe Ano Dni ) 1629 C being aged 7 63 C yeares . ... 7 Labours ") ,,, ,, C ye new Inn twice built at their own chard For ye fruit of their j - Bodieg j they left [ > one omy son and two daughters He Shee their son being liberally bred in ye university of Oxon thought himself bound to erect this small monument of } * { Piety towa^s} Bedford. L. H. CHAMBERS. P" WE must request correspondents desiring [in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries in order that answers may be sent to them direct. " BEADS OF CASTLEDOWNE." In MR. KNOWLES'S interesting article (ante, p. 323) on the Inglish Family, Glass -Painters of York, there was a bequest of Robert Preston in 1503 (p. 324) which interested me much : " one par of baydes of castledowne, the nowmbre of X, w* one lase of grene sylke." The use of " pair," for a set consisting of any number first attracted my attention, the special importance of the quotation consisting in the circumstance of the number of the set, ten, being specified. But I have failed to discover the provenance of " beads of castle down," which I suppose is a place, and shall be glad to be enlightened by MR. KNOWLES or any other reader of X. & Q.' JOHN R. MACKATH. TIMOTHY CONSTABLE. I am anxious to trace the parentage of Timothy Constable, who, it is thought, nailed from Northallerton, Yorks. His marriage certificate reads as follows : In the parish of St. James, Westminster, January, 1736/7. Wed. 13. Timothy Constable of Bradfield, in ye County of Suffolk, and Eliz. Hunting of this p. L.A.B.C. JOHN J. DOUGLAS, Curate. CLIFFORD C. WOOLARD. 68, St. Michael's Road, Aldershot. VISCOUNT STAFFORD, 1680. I shall be glad to be informed of the Christian name of Howard Viscount Stafford, who was beheaded in the Titus Gates Plot in 1680 ; also the names of all his children ; where his country residence was situated ; and a description of the coat of arms. Accord- ing to the Peerage of 1811 the title was restored in 1685, but I believe again became extinct a few years afterwards. L. H. CHAMBERS. Bedford.