aware that any usage to hire on all festivals (for to such, I take it,
your correspondent refers) still existed in England. As to France, I am
unable to speak; but it is not improbable that a similar custom in that
country may be due to causes nearly similar.

Arun.


_George Herbert._--J.R. FOX (Vol. ii., p. 103.) will find in Major's
excellent edition of Walton's _Lives_ the information he requires. At p.
346. it is stated that Mrs. Herbert, the widow of George Herbert, was
afterwards the wife of Sir Robert Cook, of Highnam, in the county of
Gloucester, Knt., eight years, and lived his widow about fifteen; all
which time she took a pleasure in mentioning and commending the
excellences of Mr. George Herbert. She died in the year 1653, and lies
buried at Highnam; Mr. Herbert in his own church, under the altar, and
covered with a gravestone without any inscription.

And amongst the notes appended by Major to these _Lives_, is the
following additional notice of Herbert's burial-place. The parish
register of Bemerton states that

"Mr. George Herbert, Esq., parson of Inggleston and Bemerton,
was buried the 3rd day of March, 1632."

"Thus he lived and thus he died," says Walton, "like a saint, unspotted
of the world, full of almsdeeds, full of humility, and all the examples
of a virtuous life, which I cannot conclude better than with this
borrowed observation: