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accorded the honour of publication in print appeared when its author had only passed by four months his twelfth birthday. The piece in question was a nuptial ode to celebrate the marriage, on Sunday, 27 May, 1700, of Johan Kolmodin to Beata Hesselia. A typo- graphic facsimile of the original Swedish text is given in the weekly journal Morning Light for 26 July, by the Rev. James Hyde, the librarian of the Swedenborg Society, who discovered the poem when> in Sweden last year. The same writer, in an earlier issue of the same periodical (10 May), had given an English translation of the ode, with some particulars concerning the event celebrated and the parties to it. CHARLES HICHAM.

BYRON. There is in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, an ode on the death of Byron which is ascribed to Sir (sic) Thomas Moore. This work does not seem to be known in England, and I have Doubts as to the authorship. It would be interesting if some one could decide whether Thomas Moore was the author. The title is as follows : " Stances sur la Mort de Lord Byron par son Ami Sir Thomas Moore. Traduit de 1'Anglais. Paris, au Palais-Royal, chez les marchands de Nouveautes, 1824."

"Avis de 1'Editeur. La mort de Lord Byron est un e've'nement trop marquant dans la litterature, pour qu'il n'eVeille pas toutes les muses, amies des inspirations genereuses et des nobles denouements. Sir Thomas Moore est le premier 4 payer son tribut de douleur & la m^moire d'un homme qui, depuis dix anuses, remplitle monde de son nom, etl'occupe de sa personne. L'empressement que nous mettons publier ces stances est une preuve de la reputation du poe'te, qui est aussi repandue en France qu'elle peut 1'etre en Angleterre.

The verses (my MS. copy does not show the lines) commence :

" II est mort, et la Grece est en deuil ! Les guerriers pleurent sur leurs armes, les jeunes filles detachent de leurs fronts blancs leurs couronnes de fleurs ; ils ne se demandent pas si le sang des rois est eteint, si la fiere Albion pleure le poe'te qu'elle a calomnie, mais rassembles au pied de la statue sacree de la liberte, ils cherchent en vain le Tyrtee qui les excitait aux combats."

There are fourteen verses. The last one is :

" Jeunes filles, pleurez ! La Grece a perdu un defenseur, le monde un poete divin, moi un ami, et vous......vous n'avez plus de pere." Bibliotheque

Nationale, Yk. 5327.

L. C.

' THE TOWER OP LONDON. 'In Lord Ronald Gower's 'The Tower of London ' % (yol. i. p. 36) the author says : " With the exception of the church in Rome dedicated to St. Peter Ad Vincula, there is no other church besides this

one in the Tower so named." I think, how- ever, that St. Peter's-in-the-East at Oxford has as its title Ad Vincula. The feast in the Roman calendar, dedication of the church in Rome mentioned by Lord Ronald, is held on 1 August.

At p. 192 I find, " Lady Jane Grey Lady Jane Guildford as she should be called." No. Lady Jane Dudley. And she so signs her name in letters given pp. 190, 191. Guildford was her husband's Christian name.

GEORGE ANGUS.

St. Andrews, N.B.

BRASSES IN KIRKLEATHAM CHURCH. I have come across two brasses which are not mentioned in Haines or any of the other authorities I have consulted. Both are situated in Kirkleatham Church, about seven miles from Middlesbro'. They are on the south side of the chancel. The larger figure is that of Robert Coulthirst, merchant tailor, who died in 1631. It is 46 in. long by 17 in. broad at the foot. His coat of arms (four times repeated) is On the field three pavilions erm., and on a chief a lion passant, guardant (tinctures undisCoverable). The inscription, which is English and in Roman capitals, is in a border fillet, the total dimensions being 72 in. by 30 in. The smaller figure is that of a child with inscription beneath (17 in. by 13 in.). The inscription runs :

" Here lyeth y e body of Dorathy, daughf of John Turnor gent : and Eliza : his wyfe who depted this lyfe the 26 th of February, An Dni 1628. being of y e age of 4 yeares 2 monethes & 6 days."

The age is evidently stretched out to fill in the whole space of the plate. In addition to these, both of which are in good preservation, bhere are one or two badly worn inscriptions in the nave, as well as the matrix of a large brass. J. S. M. HOOPER.

BARONS PERCEVAL. May I venture to sup- plement the rather meagre in formation which 3r. E. C. gives in his l Complete Peerage,' vol. viii. p. 491 (a truly monumental work,
 * he result of immense research), on the Barons

Perceval of Ireland ? It is from a folio MS. note - book, formerly in the library of the "ate Earl of Egmont, which belonged to his grandfather, Lord Arden. On its back is written " Irish Baronage | and | William of Wyrcestre."

" Robert, Lord Perceval, was summoned to Par- iament 14 Ed. I. ;* he died the same year, f leaving two sons, Richard, the second Baron Perceval, who died s.p., and was succeeded by his brother Robert, f

t ' Annal. O'Dempsie,' fol. 364, penes Dom. Tich- )orne.
 * Ex Rot. Glaus. Hibernke.