gilt covering of the original shrine, pillaged by
Henry VIII.'s officers :-

Texerat hos cineres aurum non marmora, præda
Altera sacrilegis ni metuenda foret.

Quod fuit argentum nunc marmoris esse dolemus,
Degeneri ætati convenit iste lapis.
Ingenium pietatis hoc est frugalis; Hugonis
Qui condit tumulum condit et ipse suum.

This inscription proves that it was deemed certain at that time that St. Hugh's body was reposing beneath the place where the monument was erected, which Bishop Fuller evidently intended to serve for his own monument also, a space being left on the black marble slab for an additional inscription. The latter part of the good bishop's plan was, however, defeated by the piety of his executors, who erected an altar tomb to his memory by the side of that he had raised in memory of his sainted predecessor.

there was also proved to be erroneous during some Bishop Fuller's belief that the saint's body lay investigations carried on in the autumn of 1886. On opening the ground a stone coffin was discovered, within which was another coffin of lead. This contained nothing more than a decaying mass of linen and silken vestments, arranged in the form of a human body, but in which the closest examination, microscopical and chemical, failed to discover the slightest fragment of bone, or any trace of animal matter. It was evident that the supposed reinterment of St. Hugh's remains had been a counterfeit one, of the vestments only, the mouldering body tion by the pious care of some to whom the memory having perhaps been rescued from possible desecraof one of England's holiest bishops and most inEDMUND VENABLES. trepid patriots was dear.

CITIZEN AND TOSOLER (7th S. vii. 387).—The common surname Tozer is derived from the trade of the towser, who towsed or teased wool, combing out the matted locks of the fleece into straight fibres in readiness for the spindle. Tosoler is not, I think, merely a variant form of Tozer, but denotes one who used teasle heads for teastling or tosoling the woven fabric in order to raise the nap.

ISAAC TAYLOR

ST. HUGH OF LINCOLN (7th S. vii. 348). Nothing certain is known as to the disposal of St. Hugh's remains at the Reformation. The customary line of action at that time with regard to the relics of saints which had been the object of veneration was to deface the shrine in which they had been contained, carry off the precious metals and jewels and other articles of value with which these receptacles had been enriched for the king's exchequer, and decently reinter what remained of the bodies in some neighbouring spot. The nonobservance of this rule in the case of St. Thomas of Canterbury, whose bones, we know from Walsingham and Stow, were "brent," was due to his being regarded as guilty of high treason against his sovereign, and therefore amenable to the pun- MACAULAY (7th S. vii. 287, 352, 414).—At the ishment of a traitor. No such reason for excep- first reference a simple question was asked as to tional treatment existed in the case of St. Hugh. what it was that "every schoolboy" knew, a quesThe burning of his bones would have been a viola- tion so simple that I was surprised to see it antion of the usual practice for which there was no swered otherwise than in the "Notices to Correwarrant. The tradition given by EBORAC, on the spondents." But I was wrong. It has not yet authority or te late Dr. Oliver, which I never been answered. At p. 352 reference is given to heard before, can hardly rest on any solid founda- several similar passages. At p. 414 the existence tion. What the belief was at the period of the of the passage is denied. It is in the essay on Restoration as to the disposal of St. Hugh's re- Clive, and runs, "Every schoolboy knows who mains is shown by the erection of a marble table imprisoned Montezuma and who strangled Atahutomb by Bishop Fuller (who died in 1675) in the alpa." Though the actual statement is preretro-choir of Lincoln Minster, with the following posterous, the expression is the merest commoninscription, alluding in the first line to the silver-place, and it is for this reason, I submit, and not

surely have been unaware of the existence of an
earlier version of the verses, or he would doubtless
have made some reference to their remarkable
origin when quoting them in the 'Memoirs.'
W. J. LAWRENCE.

Comber, co. Down.

for that mentioned at p. 414, that it is not to be found in any book of quotations. The words, or others like them, seem to have been continually dropping into Macaulay's inkstand. In his Croker's Boswell's 'Johnson' he asserts that there is not a forward boy at any school in England who does not know that Montrose was hanged; that the decisions BOOK WANTED (7th S. vii. 388).-There is a of the editor on points of classical learning, though perfect copy of George Webbe's 'Practice of Quietpronounced in a very authoritative tone, are gener-ness' (London, 1653) in the Bodleian. It has an title-page as well as a printed one. engraving of the author, and also an engraved FAMA.

ally such that, if a schoolboy under our care were
to utter them, our soul assuredly should not spare
for his crying; that no schoolboy could venture to
use the word OvηTо in the sense which Mr. Croker
ascribes to it without imminent danger of a flog-
ging; and that every schoolgirl knows the lines

Scarce had lamented Forbes paid
The tribute to his minstrel's shade.

In the essay on Sir William Temple he asks what schoolboy of fourteen is ignorant that the Liberal politicians of the seventeenth and the greater part of the eighteenth centuries did not extend their liberality to the native Irish, and tells us that the learning of the confederacy against Bentley is that of a schoolboy, and not of an extraordinary schoolboy. KILLIGREW.

MR. ALLISON'S note is somewhat misleading. The celebrated passage from Macaulay is found in the first dozen lines of the essay on Lord Clive, and runs, "Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma and who strangled Atahualpa." It is this reference, I think, and not that to the Dr. Johnson essay, that LUNETTE seeks.

JULIUS STEGGALL.

LETTER OF JOSEPH GRIMALDI (7th S. vi. 24, 404; vii. 126, 386).—In chap. vii. of the clown's memoirs we are given a copy of verses inscribed

Oxford.

"A large room in the dwelling-house belonging to the school was used as a school for the Lower boys before the year 1660, and was no doubt the original School built by the Townsmen before Mr. Hardy's Foundation: for a little south of the House door, upon the wall, are the Queen's Arms, supported by a Lion and a Wyvern, and under them the date 1569."—Vol. i. p. 364.

The Dorchester Free Grammar School was, on later than the date given under the queen's arms. the same authority, founded in 1579, ten years Very likely these bearings and date have become obliterated, and no record of them remains except in the now almost forgotten book just quoted.

JOHN PICKFORd, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

Probably the best resource to discover the names to consult the admission books of the various colof masters of the smaller schools in early times is Some of these leges at Oxford or Cambridge. records-but only some-give this information But the process would be a tedious one, as very few of these books incidentally from an early date. have been published, and the names they contain

on the tombstone of the first Mrs. Grimaldi. As the only inference to be taken from the text is that these lines were written by the lady herself, it may possibly interest collectors of Grimaldiana to learn the original source whence they were de-are, of course, never classified by their counties or rived. In quoting from the Gentleman's Magazine, the Nic Nac, No. 72 (1824), p. 160, says :—

"Mr. J. Lawrence, of Somers' Town, observes: In the summer of 1770, being on a visit at Beaumont Hall, in Essex, I was invited to ascend the attics to read the following lines, imprinted by a cow-boy of precocious talent on the wall of his sleeping room :

Earth goes upon the earth
Glittering like gold;
Earth goes unto the earth
Sooner than it would;
Earth built upon the earth
Castles and towers;
Earth said unto the earth

All should be ours.

Pythagorean from their moral point; but from what These are really golden verses, and may well be styled source did the boy obtain them?''

Perhaps some industrious reader of 'N. & Q,' can answer the query here propounded. Dickens must

better hunting-ground than Cambridge so far as places of education. Probably Oxford would be a Dorset is concerned, since local proximity formerly counted for much. The following references to schools in Dorchester are from the Caius register, the earliest of those at Cambridge. Whether or not they refer to the school inquired about or to the grammar school, is not apparent. They are the only such references between 1560 and 1676 :

"John Meller, of Came, Dorset, son of Robert Meller, Esq. At Dorchester School, under Mr. Harris. Admitted March 13, 1602/3."

"Henry Munden, of Poorstock, Dorset, son of Henry Munden, Gent. School, Dorchester, under Mr. Cheeke, school there under Mr. Reeve six years. a year and a half. Admitted April 20, 1616." "John Loder, son of Gilbert Loder, of Dorchester. At Admitted June 23, 1643."

Caius College, Cambridge.

J. VENN.

Books MENTIONED IN ARTHUR YOUNG'S About 1786 he was engaged by Mr. Daly, the Dublin 'TRAVELS' (7th S. vii. 207).—I think if Miss manager, with whom he continued several seasons, perM. BETHAM-EDWARDS will look in the Bodleian forming in tragedy, comedy, and pantomime. His wife was also on the stage, and died in Dublin, May, 1792." Catalogue for Mills-not Mill-she will possibly J. F. MANSERGH. meet with the name; but the library is not so rich in English books of his period as in some others. There is this notice of him with more still :

MR. PRATT is in possession of a print which is probably of some little value, as well as of interest to an inhabitant of Norwich. In Evans's 'Catalogue of Portraits,' vol. ii., No. 13,876, there is :— "Chalmers, James, Comedian at Norwich, 1765; w.l. as Midas; fol. mez., very scarce, ll. Ís.—W. Williams-Watson.

SKETCHES FROM ST. GEORGE'S FIELDS (7th S. vii. 228, 317).-The illustrations, I have always heard, were the work of the author. His attainments were numerous. A man of wide erudition, a ripe classical scholar, a poet, and general writer, he was also an able artist, and a proficient in music. C. W. STRETTON.

BISHOP BERKELEY (7th S. vii. 428). — The Journal of a Tour in Italy in 1717-18' is printed in the 'Life, Letters, and Unpublished Writings of Bishop Berkeley,' edited by Prof. Fraser, and published at the Clarendon Press. An account of the Berkeley Papers, to which Southey refers, is given D. C. T. in the preface by Prof. Fraser.

FESTIVAL OF TRINITY (7th S. vii. 370).—Trinity Sunday, being the octave of Whit Sunday, has, in all probability, never had an octave. There is no corresponding festival in the Eastern Church, the octave of Whit Sunday being therein observed as the Festival of Holy Martyrs. Every Sunday was formerly regarded as commemorating the Trinity :

hoped that his good wishes might go along with it. Their personal intercourse, such as it was, also doubtless came about through Haydon. In a letter written from Hampstead to Bailey in Jan., 1818, and dealing chiefly with the quarrels of Haydon and Reynolds and Haydon and Hunt, Keats says: "I have seen a good deal of Wordsworth." There comes then that "immortal dinner," the story of which (by the way) is not told by Mr. Ainger in his own words-he transcribes Haydon's account of it and the recitation of the 'Hymn to Pan.' Mount in June, 1818, and though he did not find Keats, moreover, called on Wordsworth at Rydal him at home, left a note for him (see Lord Hough

ton's 'Life and Letters of John Keats').

CURIOUS MEDAL OR TOKEN (7th S. vii. 349).—I think I have tokens similar to that described by MR. WRIGHT. One has: obverse, bust of George facing right; legend "George Rules"; reverse, "Britannia," figure as on old halfpence of the Georges, holding in right hand an olive branch (?); date 1775. facing left; legend Another obverse, bust of George I. reverse, figure of Britannia standing, holding a "Claudius [sic] Romanus "; long cross in right hand; legend "Pax Placid."; circulation. I, like MR. WRIGHT, would gladly date 1715. Both are much worn, evidently by know what they represent.

No. 109 (Steele's).