I may take this opportunity of calling attention to another very fine monumental effigy, of which I believe no moderately good representation has been published, at Tilton in Leicestershire. There are two figures in the church of as early dates as those at Aldworth, one an armed male, and the other a female. The former is in "edgering" mail, and is of good character; but the latter is of superior design, and very well executed, though unfortunately in a coarse material. The right arm is bent, and the hand brought up to the breast; the left hangs naturally by the side, and has the fore-arm and (bare) hand exposed from among the folds of the drapery. Slight traces of colour are discoverable.
R. C. H.
The village of Aldworth, in Berkshire, where the effigies of the De la Beche family are to be seen, is about five miles from the Goring Station, on the Great Western Railway, viâ Streatley. Hewett's Hundred of Compton furnishes a very interesting account of the ten monumental effigies which represent various members of the ancient family of De la Beche in that church, and will be read with no small pleasure.
FRANCIS POCOCK.
Stanford.
Coke and Cowper (Vol. iv., pp. 24. 76. 93. 244. 300.).
—However affected it may appear, these words have been more generally pronounced Cook and Cooper.
J. H. L. (Vol. iv., p. 76.) adduces the instance of Cowper being made to rhime to Trooper. And I have just stumbled upon a passage in Cowley where Coke is the answering word to Took.
"May he
Be by his father in his study took