{1a} The corrigenda has been applied to this eBook. For example,
in the book this phrase is "and its ancient tombs" but is corrected
in the corrigenda to "and our ancient tombs". DP.

{1b} See The Times, July 14 and August 8, 1881.

{2} Jordan's Meeting-house, near Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks. See
The Times, July 20, 1881.

{19} The Life of Milton. London: 1699. P. 149.

{20} Morning Chronicle, March 18, 1799.

{21a} See Notes and Queries, 1st S., xi, 496, and xii, 75.

{21b} See Notes and Queries, 1st S., xi, 496, and xii, 75.

{22} An Account of what appeared on opening the Coffin of King
Charles the First in the vault of Henry VIII, in [the Tomb House,]
St. George's Chapel, Windsor, on the First of April, MDCCCXIII.

{23} It appears that the examiners omitted to utilize this unctuous
mask for the purpose of taking a plaster cast: a default which, as
we shall see, has been paralleled by those who conducted other
examinations of the kind.

{24} Works of Robert Burns: Bohn, 1842.

{26} Prefatory Notice to Cunningham's larger edition of Ben