What old foundation stones have been restored to light, showing the date of laying, and the accessories used, whether oil, wine, and corn, or what else? I have never seen an allusion to such discovery in the demolition of old buildings.
Jno. D. Allcroft.
Oxford Square.
Mary Faun.—Can any of your subscribers give me any account of the ancestry of Mary Faun said to have married Thomas Charlton, Esq.? See Burke's Landed Gentry, vol. i. p. 209.
B.
Tonson and the Westminsters.—I have a small duodecimo print, in which are represented three scenes,—
A man tossed in a blanket.
A man flogged.
A man begging.
This victim is said to be Jacob Tonson, the printer. The tormentors, who are all in collegiate dresses, are said to be Westminster Collegians.