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be wheeled in an ordinary wheelbarrow by one of his gardeners in his grounds. I should now like to know more of this, but have com- pletely lost sight of it. Can one of your readers throw any light on the subject for me? T. H. BATTEN.

Foxdeane, Chislehurst.

BEE OR WASP AS ARTIST'S DEVICE. A lady having an old picture which she believes to be of great value would like to know what celebrated artist used a bee or wasp as pseudonym. ENQUIRER.

T. ARCHER, ARCHITECT. Can any one give me information as to the places of death and of burial of Thomas Archer, the architect, who died in 1743 1 He was the architect of the church of St. John, Westminster.

C. COLLIS.

MUNDESLEY PEOPLE. Is there any founda- tion for the absurd conduct attributed to the inhabitants of Mundesley, Norfolk, in the following local rime ?

Crotner crabs and Runton dabs, Trimingham babies, Sherringham ladies ; Mundesley people sit on the steeple And crack hazel nuts with a ten-farthing beetle.

JOHN HEBB. [Local sayings of this description are very

numerous, and the rime between people and steeple

is of frequent occurrence.]

ARMS OF ABBEY OF BURTON-ON-TRENT. I find in Woodward's 'Ecclesiastical Heraldrj 7 ,' p. 360, the arms of the abbey of Burton-on- Trent, Staffordshire, given as Or, on a cross engrailed az. five mullets pierced sa. What was his authority for these arms ; and are any seals of the abbey now in existence ?

R. NADIN.

Burton-on-Trent.

NATHANIEL RUDYATT OR RUDIATT. Can any one give information about him? He was a scholarly man, probably a clergyman, living in 1556. M. E. PARRY.

MORDEN FAMILY. I wish to obtain a correct and full pedigree showing especially the connexion between Sir John Morden, Bart., founder of Morden College, Black- heath, who died without issue in 1708, and the branch of the family descended from Sir William Morden, Bart., who changed his name to Harbord, and was the father of the first Lord Suffield. Both branches of the family are known to be descended from a common ancestor seated at Exning and Great Bradley in Suffolk, but it is difficult to state the exact relationship. I may add there is a pedigree of the Harbord family in

Blomefield's ' Norfolk ' which is obviously incorrect, as it fails to show the descent of the Harbords through the Mordens. The pedigrees of the Morden family given in Drake's ' Hasted's Kent' and in Davy's ' Suffolk Collections ' in the British Museum are also at variance and are difficult to reconcile with each other. TEMPLAR.

PRE-REFORMATION PRACTICES IN ENGLISH CHURCHES. Can those readers of ' N. k Q.' interested in the subject give me any in- formation as to pre- Reformation customs still prevailing in English churches ? At the beginning of the last century many such practices, both with reference to the bells and to the carrying on of divine service -in the churches, were frequently to be met with. Are there any such now ?

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

PHILIPSON. John Philipson, of Calgarth, Westmorland, who married in 1688, left four daughters, who sold the estate. I shall be much obliged to any correspondent for information respecting their names and marriages. PATRICIA CURWEN.

275, Upper Richmond Road, Putney.

HISTORICAL POINT IN AN EPITAPH. In Grade Churchyard (Cornwall) I deciphered with some difficulty the following curious epitaph to one Hugh Milton Gell, who died in 1677 at the age of sixty -five :

Why here? Why not? It 's all one ground,

And here none will my dust confound.

My Saviour lay where no one did :

Why not a member as his Head?

No quire to sing, no bells to ring :

Why, Sirs, thus buried was my king.

I grudge the fashion of this day,

To fat the church and starve the lay.

Tho' nothing now of me be seen,

1 hope my name and bed is green.

The king referred to is clearly Charles I., whose midnight burial was of a simple character. But can any one throw light on the italicized lines ? How far is the indict- ment justifiable ? It is the more curious as it comes from a Cavalier. H. C. MINCHIN. 74, Hillside Road, Streatham Hill, S.W.

REV. JOSEPH BINGHAM. Where can a por- trait of this learned divine, and author of ' Origines Ecclesiastics,' be found ?

MATTHEW H. PEACOCK.

Wakefield School.

STALKARTH FAMILY. Can any of your readers enlighten me as to the nationality, derivation, and meaning of the surname Stalkarth? The family have been English (Kentish) for quite 200 years, and have always so spelt the name. M. W. S.