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in the height of its glory ; in the nave similar spaces for coins to pay the bell ringers when they rang out a peal of glad ness to commemorate the success of anj former student, such as his ordination to a curacy, induction to a living, or promotion to a canonry. The Bishop of Carlisle bar most kindly presented me with this box and the object of my query is to ask i any of the two thousand graduates o St. Bees College can inform me of whai church this collecting-box is a model. I am informed that it is a facsimile of the church where the first principal of the college Canon Ainger, D.D., served his first curacy but I am anxious to verify the statement. CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D. Baltimore House, Bradford.

EPITAPH AT GRAVESEND, KENT. I fine at p. 181 of MS. 1024 in the Archiepiscopa. Library at Lambeth, which appears to have been written before 1747, the following under ' Gravesend ' :

" It is said, that in this Church-yard, is an Inscrip tion on a Tombe-Stone, thus writen [sic] Without a Name for ever Renceless dumb, Dust, Ashes, nought else, Lyes within this Tombe, Where ere I Live'd, or Dy'd, it matters not, I was, but am not, Ask no more of me, 'Tis all I am, and all that thou Shalt be.

" But it appears that this Inscription many years agoe, was left with one Capt. Ashe, an Undertaker without Xewgate, to be engraven on a Plate, and fasten'd to the Coffin of an unknown Lady deceased, who was supposed to be some unfortunate Person of Quality ; and they were said to be written by her Self."

m In the original (on coffin-plate ?) the third line apparently began "Who'er I was, or am," and the last line had you instead of " thou."

I find no reference to this curious epitaph either in Pocock's 'History of Gravesend,' 1797, or in the more recent work by Cruden, but, if I remember rightly, have seen a copy of it in a MS. commonplace book of about the year 1720. Can any reader state who was the " unknown lady " and when she died, or otherwise throw light on the subject ? Is the tombstone containing such inscription now extant 1 W. I. R. V.

( [For other nameless epitaphs see 8 th S. i. 47, 135, 213. ]

CLEMENTS INN. Can any one give me a brief description of the first court of Clement's Inn as it was before the Law Courts were built? In particular, I want to know how many staircases it contained, and where they were situate. I should also be glad to know when the east side of the second court was

pulled down, and how its staircases were numbered. Were the two courts connected by an open passage or by a passage under an arch I G. I. T.

KINGSLEY 's VERSES: 'A FAREWELL.' In the lifetime editions of Charles Kingsley the verse in ' A Farewell ' appeared as follows : Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ;

Do noble things, not dream them, all day long ; And so make Life, Death, and that vast For Ever One grand sweet song.

In Kingsley's 'Letters' (1877) can is sub- stituted for "will " arid lovely for * ' noble." But in the modern editions of Kingsley the lines are altered to Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever ;

Do lovely things, not dream them all day long ; And so make Life and Death and that For Ever One grand sweet song.

Can any of your readers give information as to when, why, and by whom the alteration was made 1 GEORGE STRONACH.

IVORY SCEPTRE OF GEORGE I. I have in my possession an ivory sceptre, for which the bill or account to King George I. is, it is understood, in existence. Can any one refer me to that document, or quote any authority for the manufacture of a facsimile in ivory of the English regalia for George I., or for the use of such an ivory set by the king either in Hanover or elsewhere 1

ANTHONY TUCKER.

GOULD. Two boys of the name of John Gould were admitted to Westminster School, one on 15 January, 1773, the other on 2 April, 1784. Any information concerning them is desired. G. F. R. B.

PUBLIC AND GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Would it lot be timely now to replace the terms Public School and Grammar School by more appropriate names for instance, like those adopted from ancient Greek in France and Germany, Lyceum and Gymnasium 1

PROGRESS.

THOMAS HOWARD, DUKE OF NORFOLK. I iave an engraving bearing this title on a croll round the portrait. At the foot of the plate there are the words, reading from left o right, " J. Houbraken sculps. Amst. 1735. "n the collection of Mr. Richardson Sr. Ant. VIore pinx. 1562." The portrait is that of a arge-featured man with very slight beard ind moustache. He also wears the collar of m order. Is this a portrait of Thomas toward, second Earl of Surrey and third Duke of Norfolk, 1473-1554 ; or is it his son he Lord High Admiral? If it is not the ormer, can any reader say in what work a