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was a feature of Messrs. Blackie's * Works
of Robert Bu^ns,' issued in 1843, but not
edited by Wttson. The association of the
names in this edition of the poet may have
Srompted Dr. Garnstt's inference. A text of urns prepared and perhaps annotated by Christopher North would indeed have been a literary monument of extraordinary value.
THOMAS BAYNE.
ST. KATHARINE'S BY THE TOWER OF LONDON. Above an engraving by Hollar of the church of St. Katharine by the Tower of London is a coat of arms, on a shield a lion, the crest a stork, and a label with these words: "In filialem erga Ecclesiam Anglicanam honorem
Gulielmus Petit Eboracensis hoc posuit."
Does this mean that the engraving was at his expense ?
Upon the splendid tomb of John Holland, Duke of Exeter, 1447, removed from the old St. Katharine's to the present chapel in the Regent's Park, is a record that *' the remains of the duke and his two wives, and of all other persons whose monuments and grave- stones were placed in the present chapel in 1829, were interred in the chapel." So far as I know, we have no record of now and where in the chapel these coffins were buried. No coffins are under the tomb. I imagine that the coffins brought from the old church were deposited in one large vault and permanently closed. There is a vault under the east end of the chapel, in which are the coffins of Sir Herbert Taylor and other persons connected with St. Katharine's since 1829 ; but there are in it no ancient coffins.
(Rev.) SEVERNE MAJENDIE.
2, St. Katharine's Precincts, Regent's Park.
"TooKER." Persons engaged in the woollen trade in Devonshire were known as tuckers, weavers, and fullers. May not "tooker" (see ante, p. 258, review of Mr. Wainwright's 'Barnstaple Parish Registers') be a corrup- tion of tucker ? A. J. DAVY.
Torquay.
REVEREND ESQUIRES. At 9 th S. xi. 422 A. S. points out that in works published in 1654 and 1656 Walter Montagu, though then Abbot of Nanteuil, and saia to be a priest, '* retains the courtesy title of a layman, viz., ' Honourable ' and ' Esquire.' " At 9 th S. xii. 77 I showed that at the present day, if an
- ' Honourable" is ordained, he does not drop
that title, but I said that I knew no example of a priest styling himself "Esquire," nor have I since come across any such case ; but Anglican clergymen have certainly been called by this title. For example, the Times of 20 July, at p. 3, quotes a passage from the
Times of 1804, in which mention is made of
"the Reverend John Home Tooke, Esq.,
alias Parson Home of Brentford."
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that the answers may be addressed to them
direct.
ENGLISH GRAVES IN ITALY. I subjoin a rough translation of a letter from an Italian priest which has been sent to me :
Macerate, Prov. di Marche, Italy.
On 10 December, 1842, there died in this town a certain Mrs. Catherine, native of London, wife of Mr. John Watts, and not being a Roman Catholic, she was buried in the open country, near a small church called " La Pace, in a tomb raised by the daughter, also called Catherine, like the mother. This tomb is now reduced to such a miserable con- dition that there is cause for fear that very soon the remains will be dispersed of this lady, who when dying left such a name for charity and piety in our town. To avoid such a profanation, I should like to communicate with members of the family to interest them in providing for the tomb.
If this letter does not meet the eye of any descendant or relation of the above-named, is there any fund or society which might be applied to in this case 1 A. S. ALTHAM. St. Michael's Parsonage, Axbridge, Somerset.
H IN COCKNEY, USE OR OMISSION. Can you, or any of your readers, kindly tell me when the dropping of the aspirate first became a distinctive characteristic of the cockney ?
I notice that, though Shakespeare gives us characters speaking in broken English, and with Scotch, Irish, and Welsh dialects, he never once attempts the cockney, in spite of the number of representative Londoners he introduces to us. Coming from the country as he did, he must have noticed the accent of the Londoner, and it is remarkable that he has nowhere even hinted at it.
IAN ROBERTSON.
ITALIAN AUTHOR. I own MS. No. 16,357 from the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, 'Vita da Catherina Sforza de' Medici, com- posta da Fabio Oliva Forti' (Forsi ?), pp. 162. Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' tell me who Fabio Oliva Forti was, and where an account of his life can be found ?
FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN.
537, Western Avenue, Albany, N.Y.
EDMUNDS. Particulars (with pedigree, if possible) of the "Edmunds " who signed the
