The Grave of Cromwell (Vol. v., p. 477.).—Mr. Oliver Pemberton has referred your correspondent A. B. to Lockinge's Naseby for an account of the Protector's funeral and probable burial on the field of Naseby. As the volume may not be very generally known, would A. B. like a summary of Mr. Lockinge's ten 12mo. pages? or could you, Mr. Editor, spare room for the whole? Mastin, in his History of Naseby, alludes to the doubts that have been expressed
"relative to the funeral-place of the Protector Cromwell", and quotes a passage from Banks's Life of Cromwell, but gives no opinion thereon.
Este.
Edmund Bohun (Vol. v., p. 539.).—Of Edmund Bohun's Historical Collections, in eight vols. folio, I became the purchaser at Mr. Bright's sale. They consist of a most curious and interesting collection of the newspapers, ballads, tracts, broadsides of the period (1675-92) in regular series, bound up with original MS. documents, and with a manuscript correspondence with Bohun from Hickes, Roger, Coke, Charlotte, and others, relating to the politics and news of the day. If your correspondent Mr. Rix, from whom I am glad to find we are to expect the private Diary of Bohun, wishes for a more particular description of the volumes, I shall be happy to furnish it.
Jas. Crossley.
Sneezing (Vol. v., pp. 369. 500.).—D'Israeli, in the first series of the Curiosities, in a paper on the custom of saluting persons after sneezing, says:
"A memoir of the French Academy notices the practice in the New World, on the first discovery of America."
A relation of mine tells me, that when young, he once fell down in a fit after a violent sneeze; the "Cryst helpe" may therefore not be totally superfluous!
A. A. D.
Braem's Memoires (Vol. v., pp. 126. 543.).—Permit me to inform Mr. J. F. L. Coenen that the MS. volume containing Braem's Memoires Touchant le Commerce, &c., is at Oxford, in the library of Sir Robert Taylor's Institution, where it may be seen and consulted, but cannot be disposed of. Mr. Coenen is thanked for his obliging information.