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enny story-book of this tremendous virago [Westminster Meg], who performed many wonderful exploits about the time that Jack the Giant Killer flourished. She was buried, as all the world knows, in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey, where a huge stone is still pointed out to the Whitsuntide visitors as her gravestone." --Gifford's _Ben Jonson_, viii. 78. Let me add, that I am much obliged to DR. RIMBAULT, as well as to other correspondents, for corrections and still more valuable additions to my book, printed in "NOTES AND QUERIES." PETER CUNNINGHAM _The Churchwardens' Accounts of St. Antholin's_ (Vol. i., pp. 180, 260.).--In my additions to Mr. Cunningham's _Handbook for London_, I noticed two folio volumes of churchwardens' accounts, belonging to the parish of St. Antholin's, that had _accidentally_ got away from the custody of their proper guardians. This notice roused from his slunbers one of the said guardians, the present overseer of the parish, W.C., Junior, who stated in your journal of February 23. that "The churchwardens' accounts are in good preservation, and present (in an unbroken series) the parish expenditure for nearly three centuries." The worthy overseer also wishes to impress your readers with a belief that I had been misled by Thorpe's _Catalogue_, and that the books to which I referred were merely _extracts_. In justice to myself, I therefore give the entries in Thorpe's _Catalogue verbatim as they occur_. Your readers will then be better able to judge which is the "true" Dromio:-- "The Churchwardens' Accounts from 1615 to 1752 of the Parish of St. Antholin's, London. Folio, 3l. 3s. "This curious and interesting volume appears to have been kept purposely for the various clergymen to write their receipts for preaching the morning lectures at the above church for nearly a century and a half. It contains the autographs of many eminent divines; among others, John Goodwin, R. Pearson, J. Berriman, J. Withers, J. Cooksey, R. Vann, T. Shepperd. W. Scott, R. Chambre, J. Todd, Lilly Butler, J. Botham, C. Evans, T. Clarke, J. Williams, J. Povey, J. Hotchkis, W. Stringfellow, W. Pott, C. Bancroft, R. Clarke, W. Gearing, and many others." "The Chuchwarden and Overseers of the Parish of St. Antholin's in London, Accounts from 1638 to 1700 inclusive. Folio, 3l. 3s. "An interesting record of the expenses
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