rt,--two bars, dimidiated with those of Beke; the
latter, when entire, forming a cros ancree. The brass is not engraved, but
forms the outline of the shield and arms. It is supposed to be the monument
of Sir John, son of Sir Richard Harcourt and Margaret Beke, who died 1330.
(See extracts from Lord Harcourt's "Account," in the _Oxford Architectural
Guide_, p. 178.) Tradition relates, if my memory does not mislead me, that
the knight was buried beneath this stone in an erect posture, but assigns
no reason for this peculiarity. Is the probability of this being the case
supported by any, and what instances? Or does the legend merely owe its
existence to the circular form of the stone? {6} I think that its diameter
is about two feet. If MR. FRASER has not met with the information already,
he may be interested, with reference to his Query on "Dimidiation" (Vol.
vii., p. 548.), in learning that the above mentioned Margaret was daughter
and coheiress of John Lord Beke of Eresby, who by his will, made the 29th
of Edw. I., devised the remainder of his arms to be divided between Sir
Robert de Willoughby and Sir John de Harcourt. And this may lead to the
farther Query, whether dimidiation was originally or universally resorted
to in the case of coheiresses?

CHEVERELLS.

_The Archbishop of Armagh's Cure for the Gout_, 1571.--Extracted from a
letter from Thomas Lancaster, Archbishop of Armagh, to Lord Burghley, dated
from Dublin, March 25, 1571:--

"I am sorofull for that yo^r honor is greved w^{th} the goute, from the
w^{ch} I beseche Almighty God deliver you, and send you health; and yf
(it) shall please y^r honor to prove a medicen for the same w^{ch} I
brought owt of Duchland, and have eased many w^{th} it, I trust in God
it shall also do you good, and this it is. Take ij spaniel whelpes of
ij dayes olde, scald them, and cause the entrells betaken out, but wash
them not. Take 4 ounces brymstone, 4 ounces torpentyn, 1 ounce
parmacete, a handfull nettells, and a quantyte of oyle of balme, and
putt all the aforesayd in them stamped, and sowe them up and rost them,
and take the dropes and anoynt you wheare your grefe is, and by God's
grace yo^r honor shall fynd helpe."--_From the Original in the State
Paper Office._

SPES.

_The last known Survivor of General Wolfe's Army in Canada._--In a recent
number of the _Montreal Herald_, mention is made of more than twenty
persons whose a