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 388 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9th s. vi. NOV. 17, im RECTORS op SUTTON COLDFIELD, WARWICK- SHIRE.—Among the rectors of Sutton Coldfield were John Burgess. 1521-7 ; John Burgess, 1617-35 ; and Anthony Burgess, 1635-62. Were these Burgesses related to each other ? Calamy says the two latter were not related, but gives nothing about their ancestry. (Mrs.) F. B. THOUP. Offwell House, Honiton. BEES : CAGED BIRDS.—Several interesting notes on the subject of telling the bees of a funeral have been appearing in the Rhootintr Times and British Sportsman. In the number for 1 September a correspondent, speaking of Suffolk, says: "T may mention that many believe the same formula is necessary in the case of cage birds kept in or about the pre- mises, to prevent their death." And another writer remarks that in the same county " it was never the custom to sell the bees except for gold or new wheat." Are these ideas current elsewhere in England ? If my memory is correct, in some narts of Eastern Europe other creatures belonging to the bereaved familv are told of a death. In some instances, I believe, even the apple trees have it announced to them. G. W. PLAYING CARDS : VISCONTI GONZAGA FAMILY.—I should be extremely obliged if anv correspondent of 'N. & Q.' could give information as to the whereabouts of the col- lection of the Countess Aurelia Visconti Gonzaga, which was in Milan in 1831, or more especially of some painted playing cards in that collection described by Cicognara. ROBERT STEELE. A WELSH ALLITERATION.—If the query is not too trivial, ms-v I ask what the following extract from the Daily Express of 11 October means ?— " No one who has read the Welsh Bible is un- familiar with the alliterative line, ' Bibl i bawb o bobl vbvd.' It first appeared in an englynof the ' Drysorfa' of 1809." H. P. L. GODFREY.—Col. Charles Godfrey married Arabella Churchill, sister of the great Duke of Marlborough. Can any one tell me who this Col. Godfrey was, and give me informa- tion as to his pedigree ? H. C. B. H. EDMUND WEST, M.P. for Bucks in the Long Parliament, colonel in the Parlia- mentary army. He was of Marsworth, Bucks, and son of Edmund West by his wife Mary Clare. Baptized at Marsworth, 24 March, 1607/8. According to Lipscomb (' History of Bucks'). bis wife's name was Anna, inn 1 both he and Ins wife were buried in Marsworth Church, where a monument was erected in 1701 to their joint memory by one of their daughters. Unfortunately, how- ever, the monument does not seem to record the dates of their decease. I shall be obliged if this omission can be supplied ; also for the parentage of the wife. Their son, Edmund West, of Gray's Inn, was appointed a ser- jeant-at-law 12 Feb., 1679, and died 27 Feb.. 1681. aged fifty-one. The line of the Wests of Marsworth failed with Roeer West, 24 April, 1700. W. D. PINK. Lowton, Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire. BAGSHAWE PEDIGREE.—In his 'Index to Printed Pedigrees' Dr. Marshall mentions pedigrees of Bagshaw, ex verlis Arthur Bag- shaw de Weston Subedge, privately printed by Sir Thomas Phillips. 1858. I can find no mention of this in lists of Sir Thomas Phillips's printed works, though a pedigree of Bagshaw with additions by him is printed in the 'Visitation of Worcestershire,' edited by Mr. W. C. Metcalfe. and published in 1883, which may possibly be the same. Can any reader give me further particulars of the above, or say where a copy may be obtained ? E. G. B. THE UPHILL ZIGZAG.—We have all seen a horse dragging a heavy cart uphill go zigzag, apparently of his own accord. Has the horse been trained to do this, or is it an expedient he has naturally devised for himself, taking the line of least resistance 1 One driver has told me that his horse had been trained to do it, another that his horse had found out for himself this mode of easement SCRUTATOR. HIEROGLYPHICS. — On a small gold heart- shaped souvenir purchased in Heidelberg there are. engraved, in the spaces formed by two median lines drawn at right angles, the following letters, <fec, viz., " M. Moi. 100 . cc." Can any of your readers suggest the signi- ficance of the hieroglyphics 1 R. J. W. 'BUCKSTONES BATHES BENEFYTE.'—This is the title of a treatise on the Buxton waters written by John Jones in 1572. I am desirous of seeing the work, and shall feel obliged if some one can inform me where a copy can be seen. I am aware of the copious extract in Thomas Short's work. RICHARD LAWSON. Urmston. CAMPBELL: JOHNSON.— Can any of your readers give me biographical information concerning a Thomas Campbell, sculptor, London t Warkton Church, Kettering, con- tains a splendid marble monument to the