to what {56} scholar we are
indebted for so neat an edition of a book then so little known in England,
and so little in accordance with English taste at that time?

H. B. C.

University Club, May 29.

_Simon of Ghent._--Can any of your correspondents give me any information
concerning Simon, Bishop of Salisbury in 1297-1315, further than what is
said of him in _Godwini de Praesulibus Angliae_, and in Wanley's Catalogue,
where he is mentioned as the author of _Regulae Sanctimonialium Ordinis Sti
Jacobi_? Why is he called "Gandavensis," or "De Gandavo," seeing that he is
said to have been born in London?

J. MORTON.

_Boetius' Consolations of Philosophy._--Alfred the Great translated this
work into Anglo-Saxon; Chaucer, Queen Elizabeth, and Lord Preston into
English.

_Has Queen Elizabeth's work_ (which she executed during her captivity
before she ascended the throne) _been printed?_ Richard Viscount Preston's
appeared first, I believe, in 1712, in 12mo. _How often has it been
reprinted?_ What other English translations have been made, and what are
the latest?

JARTZBERG.

_Gloucestershire Gospel Tree._--Mary Roberts, in her _Ruins and Old Trees
associated with Historical Events_, gives a very pretty account of a
certain _Gospel Tree_. Can any kind correspondent inform me where in
Gloucestershire it is situated? Although a native of the county, I never
heard of it.

W. H. B.

_Churchyards--Epitaphs._--Up to the time of the Norman Conquest,
churchyards appear to have been considered almost as sacred as churches;
but soon after that period, though regarded as places of sanctuary, they
were often used for profane purposes. I recollect reading of fairs and
rustic sports being held in them as early as John's reign, but
unfortunately I have not been an observer of your motto, and know not now
where to refer for such instances. I shall therefore feel obliged to any of
your readers who will specify a few instances of the profanation of
churchyards at different periods, or refer me to works where such may be
found. Churchyards appear to have been used in special cases for sepulture
from the year 750, but not commonly so used till the end of the fourteenth
century. Are there any instances of sepulchral monuments, between the above
dates, now existing in churchyards?

Stone crosses, evidently of Saxon or very early Roman structure, are found
in churchyards, but I am not aware of any sepulchral monuments detached
fro