ground one or two centuries. The clay tobacco-pipe
probably attained its present size and slimness, and (very nearly) its
present shape, about the beginning of this century. I am well aware that,
by many, all this will be esteemed as "in tenui labor," but, for my part, I
look upon no reminiscences of the past, however humble, as deserving to be
slighted or consigned to oblivion. Even the humble tobacco-pipe may be made
the vehicle of some interesting information. Will any of your
correspondents favour your other readers with some farther information on
this subject?

HENRY T. RILEY.

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Minor Queries.

_Cabinet: Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, Marquis of Normanby, and Duke of
Buckinghamshire._--Can any reader refer me to a letter of the Duke of
Buckinghamshire's which I have read (but I entirely forget where), written
during the reign of William III., and complaining of his exclusion from the
Cabinet? He was either Lord Normanby or Lord Mulgrave when the letter was
written.

C. H.

_Bersethrigumnue._--In the _Escheats_, 23 Hen. III. No. 20., quoted by
Nichols in his _History of Leicestershire_ (vol. iii. part 1., under
"Cotes"), occurs this unusual word. Gilbert de Segrave held the manor of
Cotes in socage of the king "by paying yearly one _bersethrigumnue_." Will
any reader of "N. & Q." favour me with its etymology or meaning? I imagine
it to have been a clerical error for _brachetum cum ligamine_, a service by
which one of the earlier lords of Cotes held these lands.

THOMAS RUSSELL POTTER.

_Lady Jane Grey._--Neither Nichols in his _History of Leicestershire_, nor
his equally eminent grandson in his interesting _Chronicle of Queen Jane_,
nor, so far as I am aware, any other author, mentions the place where the
Lady Jane was buried. The general belief is, I think, that her body was
interred with that of her husband in the Tower. But a tradition has just
been communicated to me by the Rev. Andrew Bloxam, that the body was
privately brought from London by a servant of the family, and deposited in
the chapel at Bradgate. What is the fact?

THOMAS RUSSELL POTTER.

_Addison and Watts._--Can any of your numerous readers inform me whether
the hymn "When rising from the bed of death," so generally ascribed to
Addison, and taken from the chapter on death and judgment in his _Evidences
of the Christian Religion_, is his own composition, or that of the
"excellent man in holy or