Calves'-head Club (Vol. viii., p. 480.; Vol. ix., p. 15.).—A correspondent of the Cambridge Chronicle of Dec. 31 says, that in the churchyard of Soham, Cambridgeshire, there is "a monster-tomb surrounded by a lofty iron railing," with the following inscription in letters of a large size:

"Robert D'aye, Esquire, died April, 1770. Also Mary, Wife of Robert D'Aye, Esquire, Daughter of William Russell, Esquire, of Fordham Abbey, and Elizabeth his Wife, who was the only surviving Daughter of

Henry Cromwell,

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Son of

Oliver Cromwell,

Protector; died November 5, 1765, aged 73 years."

After stating that in the same tomb lie the bodies of the daughter of D'Aye, and his wife (ob. 1779), their grandson (1803), and great-grandson (1792), the writer adds that there is a tradition in Soham that, during the lifetime of Mrs. D'Aye, out of respect to the doings of Oliver Cromwell, on the anniversary of King Charles's martyrdom, a calf's head besmeared with blood was hoisted on a pole in front of the cot of the husband.

P. J. F. Gantillon.

Burial in an erect Posture (Vol. viii., pp. 5. 59. 233. 630.); Eulenspiegel (Vol. vii., p. 357., &c.).—The German rogue Eulenspiegel (or Howleglass, as Coplande renders it), of whose adventures "N. & Q." has had several notices, is another example of upright burial, as the following passage, translated by Roscoe, shows:

"Howleglass was buried in the year 1350, and his latter end was almost as odd and as eccentric as his life. For, as they were lowering him again into the grave, one of the ropes supporting the feet gave way, and left the coffin in an upright position, so that Howleglass was still upon his legs. Those who were present then said: 'Come, let us leave him as he is, for as he was like nobody else when he was alive, he is resolved to be as queer now he is dead.'"

Accordingly, they left Howleglass bolt upright, as he had fallen; and placing a stone over his head, on which was cut the figure of an owl with a looking-glass under his claws, the device of his name, they inscribed round it the following lines:

HOWLEGLASS'S EPITAPH.

"Here lies Howleglass, buried low,

His body is in the ground;