"In the paroche church of Saint Brandon, at Branspeth, be dyvers tumbes of the Nevilles. In the quire is a high tumbe, of one of them porturid with his wife. This Neville lakkid heires male, wherapoan great concertation rose betwixt the next heire male, and one the Gascoynes."
_Stafford Knot_ (Vol. viii., p. 220.).--It was the badge or cognisance of the house of Stafford, Earls of Stafford.
_Hand in Bishop's Cannings Church_ (Vol. viii., p. 269.).--See an article on this "Manus Meditationis," with a copy of the inscription, in the _Ecclesiologist_, vol. v. p. 150.
_Arms of Richard, King of the Romans_ (Vol. viii, p.265.).--I think it might be proved that the border refers not to Poitou (which is represented { 455} by the crowned lion), but to Cornwall, the ancient feudal arms of which are _Sable, fifteen bezants_, referring, as it would seem, to its metallic treasures. See an article on the numerous arms derived from those of this Richard, in the appendix to Mr. Lower's _Curiosities of Heraldry_.
_Burial in an erect Position_ (Vol. viii., pp. 59. 233.).--So Ben Jonson was buried at Westminster, probably on account of the large fee demanded for a full-sized grave. It was long supposed by many that the story was invented to account for the smallness of the gravestone; but the grave being opened a few years ago, the dramatist's remains were discovered in the attitude indicated by tradition.
In the _Ingoldsby Legends_, vol. i. p. 106., we have:
"No!--Tray's humble tomb would look but shabby 'Mid the sculptured shrines of that gorgeous Abbey. Besides, in the place They say there's not space To bury what wet-nurses call 'a Babby.' Even 'rare Ben Jonson,' that famous wight, I am told, is interr'd there bolt upright, In just such a posture, beneath his bust, As Tray used to sit in to beg for a crust."
Is there any authority for the statement?
_Wooden Effigies_ (Vol. viii., p. 255.).--These are by no means uncommon, though it is to be feared that many have perished within comparatively recent times. In the church of Clifton Reynes, Bucks, there are wooden effigies of two knights of the Reynes family with their wives.
_Wedding Divination_ (Vol. vii., p. 545.).--The following mediæval superstition may be quoted as a pretty exact parallel of the _wedding divination_ alluded to by OXONIENSIS. It is from Wright's selection of Latin stories of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Harl. MS. 463.:--
