J. F. F.
West Newton.
A Baron's Hearse (Vol. v., p. 128.).
—The editorial reply in this page has referred to the Note on Funerals which I prefixed to Machyn's Diary; and from that book may certainly be gathered the best possible notion of the style and character of the hearse, and other paraphernalia attendant upon funerals in England during the sixteenth century. But in a book which I edited for another Society, namely, The Unton Inventories, 1841, will be found the authority for Lloyd's statement relative to the funeral of Sir Henry Unton: it is the certificate in the College of Arms, which states that he was buried at Faringdon "with a baron's hearse, and in the degree of a baron, because he died ambassador leidger for France." A Lord Mayor of London, dying in office, was in like manner interred with the observances due to a baron. It appears from Sir Henry Unton's papers that he was usually addressed as "My Lord" whilst in France as ambassador. May I inquire whether that practice is still kept up towards ambassadors who are not peers? or, if not, when did it cease?
JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS.
The Bed of Ware (Vol. v., p. 128.).
—There is an engraving of the Bed of Ware in Clutterbuck's History of Hertfordshire, and another in Shaw's Ancient Furniture.
J. G. N.
[We are also reminded by Mr. C. H. COOPER that it is engraved in Knight's Pictorial Shakspeare.]