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 him if he will give the date of Sir Thomas's burial from the register of Williamsburgh Church. As Sir Thomas married a third wife when in Virginia, perhaps this same register may contain the record of his marriage, and other information respecting him and his family. I am disposed to think that he had a son born in Virginia of his own name, who succeeded to his baronetcy— another title conferred by warrant only-and whose will, dated January 4, 1688, was proved in C. P. C., June 13, 1691.

Can  ascertain whether the memorable cavalier made a will? It is not unlikely that his Virginian wife was a lady of the Ludwell family.

Publication of Banns (2nd S. i. 34.)—Extract from the register of Grappenhall Church, Cheshire: "Publication of Intended Marriages since the first of ffebruarie, 1653,

"Upon the 12, the 19, and 26 of ffebruarie, being the Lordes dayes, the intended Marriage was publisht att the Close of morning Exesise.

John Pickering of Lachford, and Ann Turner of Warrington." Betweene

J. K.

Old Silver Medal (2nd S. i. 55.)—This is evidently one struck by the Chapter of Hildesheim, sede vacante, that is, in the interval between the death of one bishop and the election, confirmation, and enthroning of his successor. The see was one of the most ancient in Germany, having been founded by Charlemagne in the town of Eltzen; whence it was transferred to Hildesheim by his successor, Louis the Pius. Gunthar, the first bishop, died in A.D. 835. The cathedral is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The chapter consisted of noble canons; hence the coronetted escutcheons on the medal. The bishop enjoyed extensive privileges and jurisdiction as a prince of the empire, and ranked the ninth of the thirty who originally had sents in the diet. After the Reformation, he was the only Catholic bishop in Lower Saxony. Part of the territory of the see had in various contests been torn from it by its neighbours, the Dukes of Brunswick, to whom those acquisitions were confirmed by the Treaties of Munster and Westphalia. In the latter part of the seventeenth century, the Archbishops of Cologne were elected to this see, and hence its original subjection to Mentz appeared less obvious. Like other ecclesiastical states, it was overthrown in the storms of the French Revolution, was secularised, and, after being incorporated in the short-lived kingdom of Westphalia, was finally given to Hanover by the Treaty of Vienna in 1815.

The cathedral of Hildesheim possesses, among other monuments of remote antiquity, a most remarkable relic of heathen Saxony-the basis of the idol Irmensul, which was overthrown in the time of Charlemagne; and having at a later period been recovered from a river into which it had been cast, has for many ages served to support a candelabrum near the entrance of the choir. Within the territory is the village of Hamelen, famous for the story of the Piper, which is already familiar to the readers of the 1st S. of "N. & Q." .

Dublin.

This medal was struck by order of the Chapter of the Bishoprick of Hildesheim (Capitulum Hildesiensis, Kingdom of Hanover), to commemorate the period of the Sede Vacante, which lasted from 1761 to 1763, after the death of Bishop Clement Augustus (a Duke of Bavaria, and Elector of Cologne, 1724-1761). The thirty-two coronetted shields (sixteen on each side) are the arms of the thirty-two canons of which the chapter is composed. The shield near the Virgin is that of the bishopric, and the church represented on the medal is the cathedral. The initial T under the episcopal chair signifies the artist's name, John Thiebaud of Augsburg.

A Caution to Antiquaries (2nd S. i. 67.)—The writer of the Note on the so-called Pelasgic inscription of " on Tory Hill, is (from the internal evidence of his article) no doubt aware of a paper on the same subject published in The Transactions of the Kilkenny Archæological Society, vol. i. (1849-51) pp. 300-304., and which goes over the same ground which H. HI. H. would seem to put himself forward as being the first to occupy in 1856? Why did he not quote it {{float right|{{sc|James Graves.}}

Kilkenny.

Posies on Rings (2nd S. i. 82.)—I forward the subjoined, copying the spelling literally. On a small wedding-ring, evidently of old date:

"Whear this i giue i wish to liue."

On a very thick and large gold ring, having on it the Mint mark, D. S., capitals interlaced:

"In thee my choyce I do rejoyce."

Also on a small heart-shaped silver locket, the following, in old raised letters:

"let vs loue like turtle doue."

The letters, I may add, appear to have been beaten up from the back. {{float right|{{sc|N. S. Heineken}}.

Sidmouth.

Samuel Barnard (1 S. ix. 458.)—In Denne's History of Lambeth, Samuel Barnard, D.D., is said to be domestic chaplain to Archbishop Abbot, "and one of his nearest relations;" whilst Edward Abbot is named among the archbishop's