[Although a "baron's hearse" is not particularly specified in the very curious Note upon Funerals prefixed by Mr. J. G. Nichols to the Diary of Henry Machyn, edited by him for the Camden Society,—we refer our correspondent to it, as furnishing much curious illustration of the time and expense formerly bestowed upon these ceremonials. The word "herse," it may be remarked, was not then applied in its modern sense, but to a frame of timber "covered with black, and armes upon the black, ready to receive the corpse when it had arrived within the church," which corresponds to what our French neighbours designate the Catafalque.]
Saint Bartholomew.
—Can you favour me with a reference to any works in which any further account is given of this saint, than is contained in the four passages of the New Testament in which his name is mentioned?
What representations are there of him in picture, tapestry, or window, in England or on the continent?
REGEDONUM.
[For further particulars we would refer our correspondent to Mrs. Jameson's Sacred and Legendary Art (1st edit.), vol. i. pp. 222. et seq.; and Parker's Calendar of the Anglican Church illustrated, p. 100.]
Moravian Hymns—Tabitha's Dream (Vol. iv., p. 502.).
—Are the following lines from Walsh's Aristophanes original; and was the translation ever completed? I quote from memory.
"Audi mæstum, Eliza, questum,
Nuntium audi horridum;