o 110 _NOTES .AND QUERIES. [11 s. vu. ru. s. ms. Brooaarxnon. Iuronmanon WANTED.- l. Bsawsm.. - Stephen Bax-well was ad- mitted to Westminster School in February, 1745/6, aged ll, and William Barwell in January, 1749/50, aged 9. They probably belonged to the Anglo -Indian family of that name. Can any correspondent ‘ N. & Q.’ identify them 2 2. Jaime Bssoormzmc was admitted to Westminster School in June, 1746, aged 8, at the same time as Aubrey Beauclerk, afterwards Efth Duke of St. Albans. I should be glad to ascertain any information about him. 1 ' ' 3. Puma Knrm graduated B.A. at Oxford from Ch. Ch. in 1738. He was the author of some verses on Milton, which were printed in the sixth edition of Vincent Boume’s ‘ Poems.” When did he die 1 4. LANQDALE Srsnnorm, son of Georg: Stanhope of Pontefract, Lggaduated B.C. . at Oxford in 1728 from . Ch. I should be glad to ascertain further particulars concerning him. 5. Bnarnm S'ro'rs:, M.P. for Northumber- land' 1702-5. Who was his mother, and what was the date of her marriage with Sir Richard Stote! Did Bertram Stote ever marry Y If so, when and to whom 2 G. F. R. B. of “ Seamus 'nm Hszmmnv ”: “ Mouse Bu'r'roox.”-What is the meaning of these two curious expressions ‘P The first is
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iizplirs. CHURCHYARD IN SCRIPTION S : LISTS OF TRANSCRIPTIONS. (ll S. vi. 206, 255, 278, 354, 418, 474.) Gnoucitsrnasmnn is fortunate in possessing Bigland’s ‘ Historical, Monumental, and Genealogical Collections, relative to the County of Gloucester,’ a work of prime importance for the monumental and other inscri tions in the county churches' and buriaiigrounds. The pub 'cation of this work was spread over a period of 103 years. In 1791-2 vols. i. (commenced in 1786) and ii. were published, some of the parishes including inscriptions to the year 1790. The ‘ Continuations ’ to Bigland were pub- lished in nine parte between 1838 and 1889, and in most o these additional inscriptions to the Bigland MSS. are given, some being as late as 1883. Exce ting for the parishes of St. Jacob and St. ' ' , and St. George, Bristol, the work is comp ete for the whole county. There is an Index to Names in the first volume, but none in the second or in the ‘ Continuationsf though some of the larger parishes in the latter have separate Indexes. Bigland gives practically full transcripts of all the inscriptions on monu- ments within the churches and on flat stones in the burial-grolmds, and all essential particulars of those on headstones. A valuable Index to the heraldry given in the work has been prepared by . Francis Were, and published by the Bristol and Gloucs. Arc . Society. Bigland’s collec- tions for the city of Gloucester were pub- lished saparately by T. D. Fosbroke in his ‘ Origin History of the City of Gloucester] 1819. The inscriptions were printed in abbreviated form to save space, though all information of a biographical nature was included. The late Mr. H. Y. J. Taylor made full transcripts of the inscript-ions in all the ancient burial-grounds in Gloucester, and these are at present in my custodg. They include the burial-grounds of t- e Jews, the Friends, and other Nonconformist bodies, and are a valuable upplement to the lists in Fosbroke. The late Rev. B. H. Blacker (an old con- tributor to ‘ N. & Q.’) published in Glouces- tershire Notes and Queries, vols. i.-iii., Indexes to the monumental and other inscriptions at St. Peter’s in Cheltenham, Cubberley, Longney, Prestbury, Swindon,
