the MSS. has this identical title, by J. Trussell, fol.,
and was purchased for twelve shillings by a Mr. Rothwell, a frequent
purchaser at this sale. The _Description_, &c., written by Trussell
about 1620, is now in the hands of John Duthy, Esq.; and from it large
extracts were made in _The History and Antiquities of Winchester_,
1773. Bishop Nicolson guesses that it was too voluminous, and Bishop
Kennett that it was too imperfect to be published.

"The former mentions something on the same subject by Dr. Bettes, whose
book is still in MS.

"Dr. Butler, of St. Edmund's Bury, made observations on the ancient
monuments of this city under the Romans."

E. G. BALLARD.

[Trussell's MSS. are now in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps.--ED.]

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Minor Notes.

_Last Suicide buried at a Cross Road._--I have reason to believe that the
_last_ person subjected to this barbarous ceremony was the wretched
parricide and suicide Griffiths, who was buried at the cross road formed by
Eaton Street, Grosvenor Place, and the King's Road, as late as June, 1823.
I subjoin the following account from the _Chronicle_:

"The extreme privacy which the officers observed, as to the hour and
place of interment, increased in a great degree the anxiety of those
that were waiting, and it being suspected that the body would have been
privately carried away, through the back part of the workhouse (St.
George's) into Farm Street Mews, and from thence to its final
destination, different parties stationed themselves at the several
passages through which it must unavoidably pass, in order to prevent
disappointment. All anxiety however, on this account, was ultimately
removed, by preparations being made for the removal of the body through
the principal entry of the workhouse leading into Mount Street, and
about half-past one o'clock the body was brought out in a shell
supported on the shoulders of four men, and followed by a party of
constables and watchmen. The solitary procession, which increased in
numbers as it went along, proceeded up Mount Street, down South Audley
Street into Stanhope Street, from thence into Park Lane through Hyde
Park Corner, and along Grosvenor Place, until its final arrival at the
cross road formed by Eaton Street, Grosvenor Place, and the King's
Road. When the processi