ber for Feb. 15th, I find MR. EDWARD PEACOCK, Jun., of
Bottesford Moors, Messingham, Kirton Lindsey, wishes to collect church
memorials for work he intends to publish. If he would like the accounts
of monuments in the immediate neighbourhood of Reading, as far as I am
able it would give me pleasure to send some to him.

JULIA R. BOCKETT.

Southcote Lodge, near Reading.

The second makes us acquainted with a plan for the publication of a
_Monumenta Anglicana_ by MR. DUNKIN,--a plan which would have our hearty
concurrence and recommendation, if it were at all practicable; but which,
it will be seen at a glance, must fail from its very vastness. If the
_Monumentarium of Exeter_ contains the material for half a moderate-sized
octavo volume, in what number of volumes does MR. DUNKIN propose to
complete his collection--even if a want of purchasers of the early volumes
did not nip in the bud his praiseworthy and well-intentioned scheme?

Your correspondent MR. EDW. PEACOCK, Jun, may be interested in knowing
that a work has some time been projected by my friend Mr. Alfred John
Dunkin of Dartford (whose industry and antiquarian learning render him
well fitted for the task), under the title of _Monumenta Anglicana_,
and which is intended to be a medium for preserving the inscriptions in
every church in the kingdom. There can be no doubt of the high value
and utility of such a work, especially if accompanied by a
well-arranged index of names; and I have no doubt MR. PEACOCK, and
indeed many others of your valued correspondents, will be induced to
{218} assist in the good cause, by sending memoranda of inscriptions to
Mr. Dunkin.

L. J.

Plymouth.

The following letter from the REV. E. S. TAYLOR proposes a Society for the
purpose:--

I for one shall be happy to co-operate with MR. PEACOCK in this useful
work; and I trust that, through the valuable medium of "NOTES AND
QUERIES," many will be induced to offer their assistance. Could not a
Society be formed for the purpose, so that mutual correspondence might
take place?

E. S. TAYLOR.

Martham, Norfolk.

We doubt the necessity, and indeed the advisability, of the formation of
any such Society.

MR. PEACOCK (_ante_., p. 117.) has already wisely suggested, that "in time
a copy of every inscription in every church in England might be ready for
reference in our National