The house had the reputation of being haunted. I cannot say whether it is still in existence.

M. H. R.

Over the door of a house in Alnwick, in the street called Bondgate:

"That which your father

of old hath purchased and left

you to possess, do you dearly

hold to show his worthiness.

M. W. 1714."

Ceyrep.

Funeral Customs in the Middle Ages (Vol. vi., p. 433.).—In answer to your correspondent Mr. Peacock, as to whether a monument was usually erected over the burial-place of the heart, &c.? it is mentioned in Miss Strickland's Life of Queen Mary Stuart, that—