I may avail myself of this opportunity of noticing the misprint in p. 152., _V_ezron for _P_ezron.
_Ten Children at a Birth_ (Vol. ii., p. 459.; Vol. iii., p. 64.).--We are indebted to the obliging courtesy of the editor of the _Leeds Mercury_ for the following extract from that paper of the 9th October, 1781:--
"A letter from Sheffield, dated October 1, says, 'This day one Ann Birch, formerly of Derby, who came to work at the silk-mills here, was delivered of TEN children; nine were dead, and one living, which, with the mother, is likely to do well.'"
"I never heard of any silk-mills at Sheffield. If there was a Medical Society in Sheffield then, its records might be examined."
Can our correspondent N. D. throw any further light upon this certainly curious and interesting case?
_Richard Standfast_ (Vol. iii., p. 143.).--This divine is buried in Christ Church, Bristol; having been rector of that church for the long space of fifty-one years. There is a monument erected to his memory in the above-mentioned building, with the following inscription:-- { 193}
"Near this place lieth the body of Richard Standfast, Master of Arts, of Sidney College in Cambridge, and Chaplain-in-Ordinary to his Majesty King Charles I., who for his loyalty to the King and stedfastness in the established religion, suffered fourteen years' sequestration. He returned to his place in Bristol at the restoration of King Charles II., was then made prebendary of the cathedral church of Bristol, and for twenty years and better (notwithstanding his blindness) performed the offices of the church exactly, and discharged the duties of an able, diligent, and orthodox preacher. He was Rector of Christ Church upwards of fifty-one years, and died August 24, in the seventy-eighth year of his age, and in the year of Our Lord 1681.
The following additional lines, composed by himself, were taken down from his own mouth two days before his death; and are, according to his own desire, inscribed on his tomb:--
"Jacob was at Bethel found, And so may we, though under ground. With Jacob there God did intend, To be with him where'ver he went, And to bring him back again, Nor was that promise made in vain. Upon which words we rest in confidence That he which found him there will fetch us hence. Nor without cause are we persuaded thus, For where God spake with him, he spake with us."