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 216 NOTES AND QUERIES. [ 12 s.ix. SEPT. 10,1921. DUKE OF MONMOUTH : BURIAL-PLACE (12 S. ix. 169). According to ' The Tower of London from Within,' by General Sir George Younghusband, James, Duke of Monmouth, was buried under the communion table in the chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula within the Tower. Here his remains were found in Queen Victoria's reign. CBOOKS. His remains were buried under the com- munion table of St. Peter ad Vincula Church in the Tower of London. His ghost was said to walk in various places which he had affected in life ; and an absurd rumour once gained currency that the Man in the Iron Mask really was the Duke of Monmouth, for whom, it was supposed, some felon had been substituted at the execution on Tower Hill. In the restoration of St. Peter's Church, in 1876-7, the bones of Queens Anne Boleyn and Catharine Howard were found ; and j those of the aged Countess of Salisbury. Portions of the skeletons of the Dukes of | Northumberland and Monmouth were also discovered. A. R. BAYLEY. ' Miss CBOKEB,' BY SIB THOMAS LAWRENCE (12 S. ix. 90, 157). Lady Barrow died Jan. 9, 1906, at Ulverston Cottage, East Molesey. A brief biographical account of her and a full one of Sir Thomas Lawrence's fine portrait will be found in my catalogue of Mr. J. Pierpoint Morgan's pictures, of which there are copies in the. Guildhall Library and at the Victoria and Albert Museum. W. ROBERTS. GLEANING BY THE POOB (12 S. ix. 70, 112, 136, 157). I should like to say that when the horse-rake, or something more efficient than preceding means of combing up a field, was first introduced some people thought it was rather an irreligious invention. The poor seemod to be deprived of a right ; for before Thomson, or Bloomfield, or Clare, One had written : When ye reap the harvest of your land, them shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. Leviticus xix. 9. I have an impression that the corners of the fields were sometimes left unshorn in Early Victorian times. At Stamford, Lincoln- shire, a church bell used to be sounded during harvest at about 5 a.m. to invite the gleaners to the stubbles. ST. SWITHIN. AN OMISSION IN MBS. COWDEN CLABKE'S CONCOBDANCE (12 S. vi. 58). Your cor- respondent, DB. KBEBS, apparently does not know ' A New and Complete Concordance, . . . of Shakespeare,' by John Bartlett, published by Macmillan and Company, London and New York, 1894 a volume of 1,910 two-column large octavo pages. Curiously enough the compiler does not give, under chide, the line from King Henry Sixth, part ii., " But I can give the loser leave to chide," though he does give it under both loser and leave. CHABLES E. STBATTON. HEABTH TAX (12 S. viii. 478, 518; ix. 78, 154). In ' Nooks and Corners of English Life,' by John Timbs, p. 139, we read : It is curious to find that a tax was once paid upon a fire in England. Such was the " smoke farthings " levied by the clergy upon every person who kept a fire. The " hearth money " was a similar tax but was paid to the king ; it was first levied in 1653, and its last collection was in 1690. Can any further information about these " smoke farthings " be given ? The date when the hearth or chimney tax was first imposed is given as 1662 by Haydn's ' Dic- tionary of Dates,' at which time it pro- duced" about 200,000 a year. It was abolished by William and Mary at the Revolution in 1689 ; imposed again, and again abolished. There are several references to this tax in ' The King's Customs,' by Atton and Holland, vol. i., pp. 118, 125, 436-7. The hearth tax is shown as being collected in Ireland as late as 1772. The Local Records Commission's Report states that : The Act 14 Chas. II., c. 10, and confirmed by an Act of the following year, imposed a duty on every fire, hearth or stove, and required accounts thereof to be rendered to Quarter Sessions. The Clerk of the Peace was required to enrol these accounts and to return duplicates of them on parchment into the Court of the Exchequer, These duplicates are now preserved ii< the Public Record Office. The duty was abolished by the Act 1 and 2 William and Mary, c. 10. I had occasion some months ago to con- sult those relating to Pembroke. The heading was as follows : A duplicate of the book or roll of the amounts of all hearths shewed in all houses, edifice?, lodges and chambers in the several parishes vithin the County of Pembroke taken in the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred and seventy, and ordered by the King's Majesty's officers appointed for that purpose by the Constables of the several hundreds within the said County by irtue of several Acts of Parlia-