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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. i. FEB. 27, igoi.
Queen, 24 Nov., 1866.
Ravenshaw, Thomas F. Anciente Epitaphs, 1878.
Religious Tract Society. See the first series of tracts of this society, vol. xiv. No. 529.
Scotland. A Collection of Epitaphs and Monu- mental Inscriptions, chiefly in Scotland, 1834 (Glasgow, printed for I). Mac Yean).
Watt, Robert. In his ' Bibliotheca Britannica,' 1824, there is a long list of early books on epitaphs.
Weever's Funeral Monuments, 1631.
J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.
It may interest W. B. H. to know that in 1887 I published " For Private Distribution only. Not for Sale," ' A Catalogue [78 pages 8vo] of some Books relating to the Disposal of the Bodies and perpetuating the Memories of the Dead.' This included books on epi- taphs. The British Museum has a copy. Since 1887 I have in MS. a large addition (say five hundred items) to the published catalogue. JOHN TOWNSHEND.
New York.
ST. PATRICK AT ORVIETO (10 th S. i. 48, 131). At the latter reference, instead of St. Patrick's "journey through Purgatory," I should have said Guerino Meschino's jour- ney through St. Patrick's Purgatory. It is interesting to note that several editions of the adventures of this hero appeared in Italy a few years previously to the making of the well. J. DORMER.
REIGN OF TERROR (10 th S. i. 127). A list of Lavoisier's fellow-victims will be found in Wallon's 'Histoire du Tribunal Revolution- aire ' J. G. ALGER.
Holland Park Court.
" ACERBATIVB " (10 th S. i. 27). Although I nave not at hand any specific references, I can positively state that acerbative is more or less used in this country.
CHARLES BUNDY WILSON.
State University of Iowa, Iowa City.
TRIAL OF QUEEN CAROLINE (10 th S. i. 127)
-If your correspondent is interested in this
case, I should recommend an application at
the Corporation Library, Guildhall, for the
following works:
The Proceedings and Correspondence upon the Subject of the Inquiry into the Conduct of Her
don 1807 I168S C6SS f Wales ' 8vo > Lon -
l3'B8"iv? l lk l Nw'PapCT Cuttings concerning he , T rial, Death and Funeral. (London, 1807-21 ) {London" 1?>1 8 ) to Coronation Examined. 8vo.
I have on my shelves a copy of ' A Full Report of the Trial of Her Majesty Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, Queen of England,' Lon- don (13 oept., 1820), 2 vols., which is open to
HELGA'S inspection ; also 'The Book of 1807,
a copy of which the late MR. WM. J. TIIOMS,
editor of 'N. & Q.,' could not obtain "of an
earlier date than 1813." See 5 th S. ii. 321.
EVERAIID HOME COLEMAN. 71 1 Brecknock Road.
THE COPE (9 th S. x. 285, 374, 495 ; xi. 93, 172, 335). With reference to the time the cope has been in use as a vestment in the Church of England, a letter is extant from the late Rev. L. Darwall, perpetual curate of Criggion, Alberbury, near Shrewsbury, written in 1867, in which he says that he himself made a cope and wore it in 1853. I have been unable to find the name of any clergyman wearing this vestment previous to this date, though the Rev. T. A. Boltoii, incumbent of Old Basford, Notts, used both lights and incense in 1849, but does not refer to vestments till 18G6, by which time a few clergymen had commenced wearing the cope as well as other pre-Reformation vestments. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.
CHAUCERIANA (10 th S. i. 121).!. As to the line " For pite renneth sone in gentil herte," I have little doubt that Chaucer had it from Dante, 'Inferno,' v. 100, "Amor, che al cor gentil ratto s' apprende." I give this reference at p. 101 of my modernized version of ' The Knight's Tale,' just published. I forget the source whence I obtained this reference.
2. As to the lines " Eek Plato seith," &c., it seems to me a hard case that your corre- spondent never took the trouble to consult my edition of Chaucer. In my note to the line, vol. v. p. 57, 1 give the reference to vol. ii. p. 90, 1. 151. The note to this line, in vol. ii. p. 444, gives the correct reference to Plato, as shown by the occurrence of the word WALTER W. SKEAT.
GENERAL CHARLES STEWART'S PORTRAIT
(10 th S. i. 127). Romney died in 1802; he
cannot, therefore, have painted as a major-
general Charles Stewart who commanded
1st Battalion 50th Foot at Walcheren in
1809, who was not an " honourable," and died
in 1812, with the rank only of lieutenant-
colonel. Major-General the Hon. Charles
Stewart, afterwards third Marquess of
Londonderry, was not promoted major-general
till 1810, and was never, so far as I know,
painted by Romney ; but in the catalogue of
Romney's works appended to my life of
that painter MR. PURNELL may note No. 379,
"Stewart, General Charles (engraved by T.
Grozer in 1794)," at which date the future
Lord Londonderry was only sixteen. The
subject of this portrait was probably General
