e (25th November)
Tout bois prend racine."

"Passe la Saint-Clement (23rd November)
Ne seme plus froment."

"Si l'hiver va droit son chemin,
Vous l'aurez a la Saint-Martin." (12th Nov.)

"S'il n'arreste tant ne quant,
Vous l'aurez a la Saint-Clement." (23rd Nov.)

"Et s'il trouve quelqu' encombree,
Vous l'aurez a la Saint-Andre." (30th Nov.)

CEYREP.

_Curious Epitaph in Tillingham Church, Essex.--_

"Hic jacet Humfridus Carbo, carbone notandus
Non nigro, Creta sed meliora tua.
Claruit in clero, nulli pietate secundus.
Caelum vi rapuit, vi cape si poteris.
Ob^t. 27 Mar. 1624. Aet. 77."

Which has been thus ingeniously paraphrased by a friend of mine:

"Here lies the body of good Humphry Cole,
Tho' Black his name, yet spotless is his soul;
But yet not black tho' Carbo is the name,
Thy chalk is scarcely whiter than his fame.
A priest of priests, inferior was to none,
Took Heaven by storm when here his race was run.
Thus ends the record of this pious man;
Go and do likewise, reader, if you can."

C. K. P.

Newport, Essex.

* * * * *

Queries.

DOMESTIC LETTERS OF EDMUND BURKE.

In the curious and able article entitled "The Domestic Life of Edmund
Burke," which appeared in the _Athenaeum_ of Dec. 10th and Dec. 17th (and
to which I would direct the attention of such readers of "N. & Q." as have
not yet seen it), the writer observes:

"There is not in existence, as far as we know, or have a right to infer
from the silence of the biographers, one single letter, paper, or
document of any kind--except a mysterious fragment of one
letter--relating to the domestic life of the Burkes, until long after
Edmund Burke became an illustrious and public man; no letters from
parents to children, from children to parents, from brother to brother,
or brother to sister."

And as Edmund Burke was the last survivor of the family, the inference
drawn by the writer, that they were destroyed by him, seems, on the grounds
which he advances, a most reasonable one. But my object in writings is to
call attention to a source from which, if any such letters exist, they may
yet possibly be recovered; I mean the collections of professed collectors
of autographs. On the one hand, it is scarcely to be conceived that the
destroyer of these materials for the history of the Burkes, be he who he
may, can have got _all_ the family c