will find a tract [entitled The Sceptic], which led Hume to
talk of Raleigh as an unbeliever. It is an epitome of the principles of
the old sceptics; and to me, who, like Dr. Clarke and Mr. Hume, am a
reader {268} of Sextus Empiricus, it is very intelligible. Indeed, Mr.
Butler, it is a most ingenious performance. But mark me well: it is a
mere _lusus ingenii_."

Mr. Butler appends this note:

"Mr. Fox assured the Reminiscent, that either he, or Mrs. Fox to him,
had read aloud the whole, with a small exception, of Sir Walter
Raleigh's History."--Butler's _Reminiscences_, vol. ii. p. 232.

BALLIOLENSIS.

_Curious Advertisement._--The following genuine advertisement is copied
from a recent number of the _Connecticut Courant_, published at Hartford in
America:

"Julia, my wife, has grown quite rude,
She has left me in a lonesome mood;
She has left my board,
She has took my bed,
She has gave away my meat and bread,
She has left me in spite of friends and church,
She has carried with her all my shirts.
Now ye who read this paper,
Since she cut this reckless caper,
I will not pay one single fraction
For any debts of her contraction.
LEVI ROCKWELL.
East Windsor, Conn. Aug. 4, 1853."

G. M. B.

_Gravestone Inscription._--I send an inscription on a gravestone in
Northill churchyard, Bedfordshire, which is now nearly obliterated, given
me by the Rev. John Taddy:

"Life is a city full of crooked streets,
Death is the market-place where all men meets.
If life were merchandise which men could buy,
The rich would only live, the poor would die."

JULIA R. BOCKETT.

Southcote Lodge.

_Monumental Inscription._--

"Here lyeth the body of the most noble Elizabeth, daughter of John of
Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, own sister to King Henry the Fourth, wife of
John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon and Duke of Exeter, after married to
Sir John Cornwall, Knight of the Garter, and Lord Fanhope. She died the
4th year of Henry the Sixth, Anno Domini 1426."

The above is on a monument in Burford Church, in the county of Salop, and
will perhaps be interesting to your correspondent MR. HARDY.

Burford Church, in which there are several other interesting monuments, is
situated in the luxuriant valley of the Teme, about eight miles south-east
of Ludlow.

A SALOPIAN.

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Queries.

SIR PHILIP