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t iat it was rebuilt by John Lovekin, a stock i -ihmonger, who had been four times Lore 1 ]ayor of London, 1348, 1358, 1365, and 1366 1 e was buried in the choir of this churc u ider a " fair tomb, with the images of hin a id his wife in alabaster." Here also was lai( t< rest the valiant Lord Mayor, Sir William "V'al worth, from whom the church receivec some additions and many benefactions, h h iving been formerly servant to Lovekin The first monument to Sir William Wai worth h iving been mutilated (as Stow says) by " ba( people in the reign of Edward VI.," wa replaced in June, 1562, at the cost of William Par vis, fishmonger, who lived at the " Castle in New Fish Street, the following epitaph being placed upon it :

Here under lyth a nmn of fame, William Watworth callyd by name, Fishmonger he was in lyfftime here, And twyse Lord Maior, as in bookes appere ; Who with courage stout and manly myght Slew Jack Straw in King Richard's syght For which act done and trew content, The King made hym Knight incontinent And gave hym armes, as here you see To declare his fact and chivalrie. He left this lyff the yere of our God Thirteen hondred fourscore and three.

[ suppose we may impute the mistake above as to Jack Straw to the ignorance of the worthy fishmonger William Par vis aforesaid [ have had a search as to the place where the emains of those laid to rest in St. Michael's bund ultimate repose, but unsuccessfully The magnum opus of G. H. Birch, F.S.A.,on tlie Jity churches makes no mention of this im- portant matter. In the Gentleman's Magazine "or March, 1831, it is recorded by A. J. K., n a very interesting account of the church ind neighbourhood, that "the bones of the shampion of civil order, Sir William Wal- ivorth, may not have yet found their last esting-place." If this be true as to Sir William Wai worth's remains, it would be qually so of all others in the church, for all vere cleared away alike ; but nothing is there o show where the reinterment took place ; ipon this subject all books seem to be un- accountably silent. Books failing me, I made pplication at Fishmongers' Hall, thinking iat something would be known there upon matter. But no ! the junior clerk who ime forward, and to whom I made my re- uest, appeared to know no more about any ich being as this old member of his Corn- any than he would have done had I alluded the Dalai Lama of Thibet ; and two other sntlemen, to whom my question was repeated, opeared to be in the same happy state of 'iss. In the end, I was told that the beadle

of St. Magnus' Church might help me to a solution of the knotty point. To the church I went, and found the official in question out. I was answered by a lady, probably the sextoness, who said there was no monument in the church to the worthy in question, but that she had heard that the bodies from St. Michael's were brought to St. Magnus' for reinterment ; but anyway she knew that all the remains in the latter church were cleared out four or five years ago and deposited in Woking Cemetery, the vaults being now empty but for the body of Miles Coverdale, which was allowed, by special grace, to be kept there. That some of the monuments came appears certain, for there are one or two bearing the name of Preston, which are known to have been in St. Michael's before its demolition. W. E. HARLAND-XLEY.

14, Artillery Buildings, Victoria Street, S.W.

Divine service took place in St. Michael's for the last time on Sunday, 20 March, 1831, and was interrupted by the falling of some plaster from the ceiling. The sermon prepared by the rector, the Rev. Dr. Dakins, was consequently not preached, and the service was brought to an abrupt conclusion. The monumental tablets and church registers were shortly after removed to St. Magnus the Martyr on the union of the parishes. The bodies would probably have been reinterred at this church. By the ' Parish Register Abstract,' 1831, the registers were perfect from 1539 to 1812. A history of the parish was written by the rector, and published in 1831.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

This church was pulled down when the approaches to new London Bridge were "ormed. Divine service was held in it for
 * he last time on 20 March, 1831. See Gent.

Mag., 1831, part i. p. 195, note. G. F. R. B.

THE CHURCH (?) AT SILCHESTER (9 th S. ii. 01, 158, 277, 429; iii. 11, 110). I willingly eply to MR. ST. JOHN HOPE'S questions, so ar as lies in my power, though I confess

am reluctant to occupy your valuable pace with a further communication on this ubject. It is, in fact, patent that the espective views of MR. ST. JOHN HOPE and nyself regarding this problem are unlikely o coincide. We regard evidence from totally ifferent mental standpoints. To take a ingle instance, as afforded by his last letter. So far as our excavations have proceeded, ley have not yielded traces of a large opulation, whether pagan or Christian." Vhat, then, does MR.. ST. JOHN HOPE under-