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deeds of the years 1324 and 1330 (o.c., pp. 56b, 19b). The name of St. Michael's Querne only appears in seventeenth-century surveys (ibid., p. 44b). I think, therefore, it may be admitted that in this case Stow was substan- tially accurate, apart from the improbability that the scribes employed to engross the documents from which I have quoted would have been so ignorant of the Latin, French, and English languages as to make the mis- take that MR. MACMICHAEL imputes to them. W. F. PEIDEAUX.

HOTSPUR'S BODY (9 th S. xi. 50, 192). Where were Hotspur's remains finally interred 1 This question can now be answered. On 3 November, 1403, King Henry IV. issued mandates to the mayors, &c., of York, London, Bristol, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Chester, direbting them to deliver the head and quarters of Henry de Percy, chivaler, de- ceased, to " our kinswoman," his widow Eliza- beth, to be buried (Close Roll, 5 Henry IV., pars 1, mem. 28).

The riming chronicle of the Percys, written by William Peeris, clerk and priest, and secretary to the fifth Earl of Northumber- land (who died in 1527), says, speaking of Hotspur :

In York Minster this most honourable knight

By the first Earle his father lyeth openly in sight. (Dodsworth MSS., in Bibl. Bodl., vol. 1. fo. 119; printed at Newcastle in 1845, in vol. i. of ' Reprints of Rare Tracts,' &c.)

These documents are given in the Shrop- shire Arclueological Society's Transactions for 1903, part ii. It seems clear that Hotspur's remains were handed over to his widow, who interred them in York Minster, at the right side (I presume the south side) of the high

altar.

W. G. D. F.

KING'S CHAMPION (9 th S. ix. 507 ; x. 58, 116 xii. 135). The following may be useful on the subject of the reported challenge to the Champion at the coronation of William and Mary. John Evelyn says in his ' Diary' :

"1689, April 11, I saw the Greate Feast in

Westminster Hall at the Coronation of Kin<^

William and Queen Mary When the King and

Queen had dm d, the ceremonie of the Champion and other services by tenure, were perform'd." Evelyn makes no mention of the supposed incident.

It is not named in * A Faithful Account of the Processions and Ceremonies observed in the Coronation,' by Richard Thomson (London, Mavor, 1820), though full mention is made of the supposed presence of the Young Pretender at the Coronation banquet of George IIL, and the dropping of a glove

from the gallery on that occasion. In * Old and New London ' (Cassell) Mr. E. Walford treats the story with evident incredulity, pointing out that "it will be found in the Gazetteer for August, 1784, nearly a century afterwards, and is therefore open to some suspicion." W. B. H.

The story ME. W HEELER w i snes to trace forms an incident in Scott's 'Redgauntlet,' and is retold as possibly historical in note J to that novel. The occasion, however, is there said to have been the coronation of George III., not of William and Mary.

C. C. B.

One of the friends of my youth, ' L'Histoire' d'Angleterre racontee aux Enfants,' by M. Lame Fleury (seventh edition, 1852), told me that at George III.'s coronation one of his lords,

"qui remplissait le role du champion du roi, c'est-u-dire celui d'un chevalier arm de toutes pieces, qui se tenait pret a combattre les ennernis du nouveau monarque, ayant, selon 1'ancienne coutume, jete son gant au milieu de 1'eglise de Westminster, comme pour de"fier quiconque oserait lui disputer sa couronne, une jeune fille, s'elancant tout a coup des rangs presses des spectateurs, ramassa ce gant au grand etonnement de tout le monde, et disparut a travers la foule, sans que personne cherchat a la retenir. Get incident in- attendu troubla un instant la ceremonie ; mais bientot apres il fut efface par la magnificence du spectacle pompeux qui attirait toute 1'attention des assistants. Dans ce moment precisernent, plusieurs personnes remarquerent derriere une des colonnes de 1'eglise un homme vetu simplement, mais dont les traits portaient une double expression de tristesse et de dignite". L'une de ces personnes qui reconnut cet etranger s'en approcha avec respect et lui dit a voix basse, ' Ce n'est pas vous, mon prince, que j'aurais cru rencontrer ici. ' Silence !' repondit 1 inconnu ; 'j'ai voulu voir commencer un regne qui promet de si beaux jours a 1'Angleterre.' En achevant ces mots, 1'etranger se perdit dans la fouK et peu ,d'instants apres, le bruit se re"pandit que Charles-Edouard lui-meme avait voulu assister en personne au sacre du troisieme prince de la maison de Hanovre, et que George III., informe de son arrivee a Londres, avait defendu que Ton attentat a sa liberte." Pp. 363, 364.

ST. SWITHIN.

Miss CHARLOTTE WALPOLE (9 th S. xii. 128, 151, 171). The Miss Walpole inquired for was not, of course, Charlotte, Lady Hunting- tower, who was married in 1770^, not 1760, and died without issue 1789, but was Charlotte Walpole the actress, daughter of William Walpole, of Athlone, who was called ^the pretty Miss Walpole of Drury Lane Iheatre." I do not know the exact dates of her entrance on and exit from the stage, but, as she married Edward Atkyns, of Ketter- ingham, great-grandson of the Lord Chief Justice of the Exchequer, 18 May, 1779, who