Hints to Churchwardens_, Lond. 1825. A little
square western turret contains an ancient bell of the fourteenth century
(diameter, twenty-four inches), the daily sound of which used to charm the
ploughmen from their work, that they "might offer their devotions to God
with him."

"Note, it was a saying of his 'That his time spent in prayer and
cathedral music elevated his soul, and was his heaven upon
earth.'"--WALTON.

The doorway is Jacobean, as is the chest or parish coffer, and also the
pulpit canopy; the old sittings had long been removed. The font is
circular, of early English date, lined with lead, seventeen inches
diameter, by ten inches deep. The walls were (1841) very dilapidated.

It cannot but be a surprise to every admirer of George Herbert and to all
visitors to this highly favoured spot, to find no monument whatever to the
memory of that bright example of an English parish priest. This fact need
surely only to be made known to insure ample funds for rebuilding the
little church, and "beautifying" it in all things as Herbert would desire
(he once did it "at his own cost"), retaining, if I may be allowed to
suggest, the decorated windows, with the font and bell, which, from my
Notes and Recollections, seem to be all that remains of what he must have
so often looked upon and cherished.

From the register I was permitted to extract this entry:

"Mr. George Herbert, Esq., Parson, of Ffoughlston and Bemerton, was
buried 3 day of March, 1632."

The _locus in quo_ is by this still left doubtful. May I, in conclusion,
add a quotation from Isaac Walton:

"He lived and died like a saint, unspotted from the world, full of alms
deeds, full of humility, and all the examples of a virtuous life. 'I
wish (if God shall be so pleased) that I may be so happy as to die like
him.'"

H. T. ELLACOMBE.

Clyst St. George, Nov. 25. 1850.

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MINOR NOTES.

_Lord Mayor's Show in_ 1701.--Among the varieties which at different times
have graced the procession of the City on Lord Mayor's day, be pleased to
take the following from the _Post-boy_, Oct. 30. to Nov. 1. 1701:

"The Maiden Queen who rid on the Lord Mayor's day in the pageant, in
imitation of the Patroness of the Mercer's Company, had a fine suit of
cloaths given her, valued at ninety guineas, a present of fifty
guineas, four guineas for a smock, and a guinea for a pair o