Middlesex (and among the most known of these I may mention Lysons,
Ironside, and John Norris Brewer), have, when mentioning Twickenham Park,
formerly the seat of Lord Bacon, stated that he there entertained Queen
Elizabeth. Of this circumstance I find no account in the works of the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His lordship entertained her at
Gorhambury in one of her progresses; and I would ask if it be possible that
Twickenham may have been mistaken for his other seat of Gorhambury? It is
well known Queen Elizabeth passed much of the latter part of her life at
Richmond, and ended her days there; and in Mr. Nares' _Memoirs of Lord
Burghley_ there is an account of her visit to Barn-Elms; and there is also
a curious description of her visit to Kew (in that neighbourhood) in the
_Sydney Papers_, published by Arthur Collins, in two vols. folio, vol. i.
p. 376., in a letter from Rowland Whyte, Esq. Had Lord Bacon received her
majesty, it must most probably have been in 1595. But perhaps some of your
readers may be able to supply me with information on this subject.

D.N.

_Burial towards the West._--The usual posture of the dead is with the feet
eastward, and the head towards the west: the fitting attitude of men who
look for their Lord, "whose name is The East," and who will come to
judgement in the regions of the dawn suddenly. But it was the ancient usage
of the Church that the martyr, the bishop, the saint, and even the priest,
should occupy in their sepulture a position the reverse of the secular
dead, and lie down with their feet westward, and their heads to the rising
sun. The position of the crozier and the cross on ancient sepulchres of the
clergy record and reveal this fact. The doctrine suggested by such a burial
was, that these mighty men which were of old would be honoured with a first
resurrection, and as their Master came on from the east, they were to arise
and to follow the Lamb as He went; insomuch that they, with Him, would