76 NOTES AND QUERIES. r_u»» u. iv. JULY 22. wo* the right position. Whether at the beginning or end, these two leaves should be placed together, the French verses of Nicolson facing his English ones.* For an interesting account of Nprden's various works in print and manuscript MR. MARCH AM should con- sult Sir Henry Ellis's valuable introduction to his edition of ' The Description of Essex,' issued by the Camden Society in 1840. " W. F. PRIDEAUX. In the bibliography of John Norden's works attached to the reprint of the 1598 edition of Norden's ' Description, of Hart- fordshire,' the following are recorded :— 1593. Speculum Britannia. The tirste parte- An historical! and chorographicall Description o* Middlesex. Wherein are sett down the names of the cyties parishes, etc.—The title-page is engraved, three folding plates, pp. 50. London, 1593. 4to. 1596. Norden's Preparative to his Speculum Britannia;. Intended as a reconciliation of sundrie propositions by divers persons tendred, concerning the same.—London, 1596. 8vo. 1598. Speculi Britannia Pars. The Descrip- tion of Hartfordshire. With engraved title-page and map.—London, 1598. 4to. I may, perhaps, mention that although the Middlesex and Hertfordshire volumes are usually found together they were issued separately. Both were reprinted in one volume in 1723, but the edition of 1637 men- tioned by Lowndes has apparently no existence. W. B. GERISH. Bishop's Stortford. ANX RADCLIFFE (10th S. iv. 9).—In ' Novels and Novelists from Elizabeth to Victoria,' by J. Cordy Jeaffreson, 1858, vol. ii. p. 1, may be found the following :— " Although Ann Radcliffe's parents were in rank no higher than respectable tradespeople, she was more than decently descended. Her paternal grandmother was a sister of Cheselden, the distin- guished surgeon ; her maternal grandmother was Anne Gates, a sister of Dr. Samuel Jebb, of Strat- ford, who was father of Sir Richard Jebb; and she was lineally descended from a De Witt, a near relative of John and Cornelius, who came over from Holland to carry out a Government plan to drain the fens of Lincolnshire, a design which the popular rising and the execution of Charles I. expelled from the minds of its projectors. Her maiden name was Ward, and she was born in London on the 9th of July, 1764. When she was only three-and-twenty the lovely creature gave her heart and hand to a Mr. William Radclifle. This fortunate gentleman was a graduate of Oxford, a law student, and a man of considerable literary abilities. Upon his marriage, deeming it prudenl to exercise his talents in some way that shoulc reward his exertions with immediate payment, he relinquished his legal pursuits, and, devoting his time and powers to journalism, eventually became the proprietor and editor of The English Chronicle Two years after her marriage Mrs. Raflcliffe made ler lii * i appearance as a novelist. She died 7th February, 1822, at her house in London." R. J. FYNMOEE. Sandgate. It has been stated by a former corre- spondent of 'N. & Q.' that this lady was a native of Durham, and the daughter of one of the vicars choral. She was for some years organist of St. Mary-le-Bow, Durham; she was a very pretty poetess, and used to jublish in The Durham Advertiser, Monthly Mirror, &c. She has been confounded with Urs. Radclifie, not merely on the Continent, jut even in England. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. The ring in question cannot have belonged
- o the eminent novelist, who was born only
- hree years before the death of the person
whose memory was cherished in the inscrip- ion. Ann Radcliffe, whose maiden name was Ward, was born in 1764, and married to William Radclifie about 1787. She died in 1823. J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. [The 'D.N.B.' states that the novelist died 7 February, 1823. MK. A. R. BAYLEY is also thanked
- or reply.]
ROWSE OR Rous OF CRANSFORD, WEST SUFFOLK (10th S. iii. 270).—E. S. R. might 111 some information regarding the Suffolk Rouses by referring to Savage's ' New Eng- land Genealogical Dictionary.' Many families came from Suffolk and Essex to New England. Can he inform me who were the following Rouses mentioned in the will of Edward Peters, 1638, of Bristol ? He was a merchant, and desires to be buried at St. Nicholas's Church, Bristol. Among others he names brother George Peters (he was a minister, graduate of Oxford), sister Rouse, aunt Alice Gleason, mother-in-law Ann Grey, cousin Ann Morgan, wife Margaret, children Edward, George, Ann, Elizabeth, and Grace Peters. This Edward Peters was son of George Petre or Peter and his wife Grace (daughter of John Pyle, of Exeter). The Peters were of Devon. G. A. T. Albany, N.Y. SCOTCH BURIAL CUSTOM (10th S. iv. 10).— Had the occurrence at the burying ground of Longforgan, Dundee, been of an ordinary character, it would not have been chronicled in the newspapers. It is unusual in Scotland for women in any circumstances to attend a funeral, though the custom is less stringently adhered to than was the case twenty years ago. In the Highlands people cling to old habits more tenaciously than in the sooth of
