tions_, together with the
author's tragedy, _Themistocles_, 1729, and his tract, _A Proposal for
the General Encouragement of Learning in Dublin College_, 1732, is in
the Grenville Collection in the British Museum. This volume was
presented by Dr. Madden to Philip, Earl of Chesterfield, as appears
from the following MS. note on a fly-leaf: "To his Excellency the Right
Hon. Philip Earl of Chesterfield, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, these
Tracts, writ (how meanly soever) with a real zeal for the service of
that country, are most humbly presented by the author, his most
obedient humble servant."]

_King Edward I.'s Arm._--Fuller, speaking of the death and character of
King Edward I., winds up with these words:

"As the arm of King Edward I. was accounted the measure of a yard,
generally received in England; so his actions are an excellent model
and a praiseworthy platform for succeeding princes to
imitate."--_Church History_, b. iii., A.D. 1307.

Query, Is there historical proof of this statement of "honest Tom?" He
gives no reference apparently considering the fact too well established to
require any.

J. M. B.

[Ask that staunch and sturdy royalist, Peter Heylin, whether Old Tom is
not sometimes more facetious than correct; and whether, in the extract
given above, we should not read _Richard I._ for Edward I. In
Knyghton's _Chronicle_, lib. II. cap. viii. sub Hen. I., we find,
"Mercatorum falsam ulnam castigavit adhibita brachii sui mensura." See
also William of Malmsbury in Vita Hen. I., and Spelm. Hen. I. apud
Wilkins, 299., who inform us, that a new standard of longitudinal
measure was ascertained by Henry I., who commanded that the ulna, or
ancient ell, which answers to the modern yard, should be made of the
exact length of his own arm.]

_Elstob, Elizabeth._--Can any of your numerous correspondents state where
that celebrated Saxon linguist, Mrs. Elizabeth Elstob, was buried? In
Chambers's _Biographical Illustrations of Worcestershire_, she is said to
have been buried at Saint Margaret's, Westminster; but after every inquiry,
made many years since of the then worthy churchwarden of the parish, our
researches were in vain, for there is no account of her sepulture in the
church or graveyard.

J. B. WHITBOURNE.

[Most of the biographical notices of Mrs. Elizabeth Elstob state that
she was buried at St. Margaret's