Epitaph at King Stanley.
—Epitaph engraved on brass let into a large flagstone in King Stanley churchyard, Gloucestershire. Copied 15th July, 1846.
"ANN COLLINS, died 11 Sept. 1804, ætatis 49.
"'Twas as she tript from cask to cask,
In at a bunghole quickly fell,
Suffocation was her task,
She had no time to say farewell."
E. D.
Monuments of De la Beche Family.
—Among the interesting communications relating to monuments and trees, I see no mention made of some fine effigies of the De la Beche family, in an old church near which are the largest yew-trees I ever saw, on the edge of the Downs, about four miles above the road which runs from Reading in Berkshire to Wallingford, through Pangbourne and Streatley. I quite forget the name of this remote village, but it is above Basildon Park and Streatley; and a trip there would repay an archæologist for the time and outlay.