There is also a tombstone in Folkestone churchyard curiously
commemorative of this tax. The inscription runs thus--

"In memory of
Rebecca Rogers,
who died August 29. 1688,
Aged 44 years.

"A house she hath, it's made of such good fashion,
The tenant ne'er shall pay for reparation,
Nor will her landlord ever raise her rent,
Or turn her out of doors for non-payment;
From chimney money, too, this cell is free,
To such a house, who would not tenant be."

E.B. PRICE.


_Passage from Burke_ (Vol. ii., p. 359.).--Q.(2) will find the passage
he refers to in Prior's _Life of Burke_, vol. i. p. 39. It is extracted
from a letter addressed by Burke to his old schoolfellow Matthew Smith,
describing his first impressions on viewing Westminster Abbey, and other
objects in the metropolis. Mr. Prior deserves our best thanks for giving
us a letter so deeply interesting, and so characteristic of the gifted
writer, then barely of age.

I.H.M.
Bath.