e lady, which was separated from the body, a thrush
had built its nest: notwithstanding, however, the neglect and damp to which
the chapel was exposed, these chesnut effigies remained wonderfully sound
and perfect.

SPES.

The monument to Sir Walter Traylli and his lady, in Woodford Church in
Northamptonshire, is of wood.

There is a wooden effigy in Gayton Church, Northamptonshire, of a knight
templar, recumbent, in a cross-legged position, his feet resting on an
animal: over the armour is a surcoat; the helmet is close fitted to the
head, his right hand is on the hilt of his sword, a shield is on the left
arm.

There is also a fine wooden effigy of Sir Hugh Bardolph in Burnham Church
in Norfolk.

J. B.

In Fersfield Church, in Norfolk, there is a wooden figure to the memory of
Sir Robert Du Bois, Kt., ob. 1311. See Bloomfield's _Norfolk_, vol. i. p.
68.

J. B.

_Lord Clarendon and the Tubwoman_ (Vol. vii., pp. 133. 211. 634.).--Upon
reference to the story of the "tubwoman" in p. 133., it will be seen that
Mr. Hyde is distinctly stated to have himself married the brewer's widow,
and to have married her for her money. It is farther said that Ann Hyde,
the mother of Queen Mary and Queen Ann, was the only issue of this
marriage; whereas Ann Hyde had four brothers and a sister. No allusion is
made in this account to Sir Thomas Ailesbury. Your correspondent MR. WARDEN
says, that "the story has _usually_ been told of the wife of Sir Thomas
Ailesbury," and that it may be true of her. Will he have the kindness to
furnish a reference to the version of the story in which Sir Thomas
Ailesbury is said to have married the tubwoman?

L.

_House-marks_ (Vol. vii., p. 594.).--I do not know whether [alpha].
recollects the frequent occurrence of _marks_ upon sheep in this country.
Although I have often seen them, I cannot just now describe one accurately.
Some sheep passed my house yesterday which were marked with a _cross_
within a circle.

Riding with a friend, a miller, in Essex, about thirteen years ago, he
jumped out of the gig and over a gate, to seize a sack which was lying in a
field. Seeing no initials upon it, I asked how he knew that it was his;
when he pointed out to me a fish marked upon it, which he told me had been
his own and his father's mark for many years. He also said that most of the
millers in the neighbourhood had a peculiar _mark_ (not their names or
initials), each a different one for his own sac