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but in consequence of having purchased a prayer- book, not long ago, at the shop of a respectable bookseller in London, which was not only full of errors, but so abridged, that the Lord's Prayer, and others of frequent recurrence, were not given entire, but " &c. &c. &c." appended to a few of the opening words. I ought, in justice perhaps to add, that the imprimatur in this instance was S. Childs, Bungay, Suffolk. N. L. T.

Quotation wanted : " He builds too low" fyc. Can you inform me who is the author of

" He builds too low who builds beneath the skies."

A CONSTANT READER.

" Biographia Britannica" I should be obliged if you could inform me the name of the author of the articles in the Biographia Britannica marked " C.," if this name is known. Also where, if at all, I can find a list of the authors.

AN OLD PAULINE.

[All the Lives in the Biographia Britannica marked C., are by the Rev. Philip Morant of Colchester. The other characters belong to the following writers : D. Mr. Harris of .Dublin. E. and X. Dr. Campbell of .Exeter Change. G. William Oldys of Gray's Inn. H. Henry Brougham, of Took's Court, Cursitor" Street, ^Tblborn. R. Rev. Mr. Hinton of TZed Lion Square. T. Rev. Thomas Broughton of the Temple Church. P. Dr. Philip Nicols, Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, but expelled for dis- solute living.]

Olympia Morata. I am anxious to obtain a correct copy of her epitaph, commencing with the following words :

" Deo Imor. S. Et virtuti ac memoriae Olympiae Moratse Fulvii," &c.

CLERICUS (D.)

[The following version of the epitaph is given in Vie D' Olympia Morata, par Jules Bonnet. Paris, 1850, p. 148 : " Deo imm. S. et virtuti ac memoriae Olympiae Moratfe, Fulvii Mprati Mantuani, viri doctissimi filiaa, Andreas Grunthleri Medici conjugis lectissimaj feminre, cujus ingenium ac singularis utriusque linguae cognitio, in moribus autem probitas, sumrnumque pietatis studium, supra commune modum semper existimata sunt. Quod de ejus vita hominum judicium, beata mors, sanctissime ac pacatissime abea obita, divino quoque confirmavit tes- timonio. Obiit, mutato solo, a salute DLV. supra mille. Suse aetatis xxix. Hie cum marito et Emilio fratre se- pulta."3

Order of the Royal Oak. I have several short notices of the Order of the Royal Oak, as pro- posed to be established by Charles II., after his restoration to the throne ; but no particular ac- count of the progress which it made, or of the causes which prevented its institution. Pepys at vol. ii. p. 104. mentions " Sir Robert Carr, M.P. Knight and Baronet of Sleaford, and one of the

proposed knights of the Royal Oak." This was in 1667. Can any of your readers or correspon- dents furnish me, through your pages, with any detailed account of this intended order, and more particularly with a list of the proposed knights ; or refer me to documents and statements which will supply such information ?

PISHET THOMPSON. Stoke Newington.

[This order of knighthood, projected by the restored monarch to perpetuate the loyalty of his faithful adher- ents, was wisely abandoned, under the apprehension that it might perpetuate dissensions which were better con- signed to oblivion. The list of the 687 proposed knights the stout soldiers of Edge Hill, Newbury, and Marston Moor is printed in The English Baronetage, edit. 1741, vol. v. p. 363., from a MS. of Peter Le Jieve, Novroy, then in the collection of Mr. Joseph Ames. The list is likewise given in Burke's Patrician, vol. iii. p. 448. It was also reprinted with Dugdale's Ancient 1J 'sage of Arms, and other heraldic tracts, by T. C. Banks, Esq., fol. 1812. Consult also Sir H. Nicolas's History of the Order of Knighthood, Introduction, vol. i. p. xlix.]

BURYING WITHOUT A COFFIN.

(1 st S. xii. 380.)

In "N. & Q." of Nov. 17, 1855, I have ob- served, under the above heading, a notice inviting farther information.

I beg to say, that here the fact, although now totally obsolete, is known to have existed. In the Barony of Forth (the celebrated Anglo-Nor- man colony planted in the days of. Strongbow,) is situated the church of Lady's Island, formerly "the Lough Derg'\of the south of Ireland as a pilgrimage, and therefore frequented from all parts. I have heard it from credit-worthy per- sons in my early days, that they remembered bodies having been brought from great distances, to be interred there, who had made it a dying request to be buried in the Lady's Island without a coffin the coffin to be left in the ruins of the old church for the use of the first poor person re- quiring one. This was always looked on by the people of the locality as an act of humiliation and devotion on the part of the deceased, but was not a general custom, nor is it in tradition as having ever been imitated in any other of the burial- places of the barony.

In the graveyard of the Augustinian Abbey of St. John's near Ennisworthy, in the barony of Scarawalsh, in this county, I learn that the fol- lowing custom of burial was observed until about the year 1818, by certain families named Tracey, and their connexions the Doyles, the Dalys, and others of the townland of Craan. and adjoining. The body being brought to the graveyard in a well-made coffin, the friends assembled around,