regardless of fences, and proceed to a deep hole called "Phillis's Hole" near "the two-mile spinney," in the parish of Rongham, and there find a resting-place. A few years since, wishing to learn whether this sight was among the things still looked for or believed in, I proceeded to the locality at the time stated, but met with no one but a gamekeeper, whom I found to be quite familiar with the legend. He said he had heard a good deal in his younger days about the "coach," but had never seen it. There was, however, an old woman then living who had seen it often, and who declared that the coach was occupied by a gentleman and a lady, also without heads, but he did not know what to say to it. All he knew was, that when a man was out on dark nights, "he could draw anything into his eye that he liked!"

BURIENSIS.

ANTIQUARIES OF THE TIME OF QUEEN ELIZABETH.

I have a copy of Weever's Ancient Funerall Monuments, which once belonged to William Burton, the historian of Leicestershire; on a fly-leaf at the end of the volume is the following list in the autograph of that celebrated antiquary, which, perhaps, may not be without its interest to the readers of "N. & Q." I have appended some notes of identification, which I have no doubt some of your correspondents could easily render more complete.

1. William Fleetwood, Recorder of London, "a learned man and good antiquary," ob. 1593. (Wood, ed. Bliss, i. 598.)

2. Mr. Atey. Was this Arthur Atey, Principal of St. Alban Hall, and Orator of the University of Oxford, who was secretary to the Earl of Leicester, knighted by King James, and who died in 1604?

3. William Lambarde, the learned author of the Perambulation of Kent, the first county history attempted in England, died in 1601.

4. Mr. Cope.

5. Mr. Broughton the Lawyer, i.e. Richard Broughton, Justice of North Wales, called by Sir John Wynne, in the History of the Gwedir Family, "the chief antiquary of England."

6. Mr. Leigh, probably James Leigh, author of several tracts on heraldry, preserved in Hearne's Curious Discoveries.

7. Mr. Bourgchier. Query, Sir Henry Bouchier, afterwards Earl of Bett? or Thomas Bouchier, the learned Roman Catholic divine, who died at Rome about 1586?

8. Mr. Broughton the Preacher. Could this be the learned divine Hugh Broughton, author of The Consent of Scriptures, born in 1549, ob. 1612?

9. Joseph Holland, a native of Devonshire, an excellent herald, genealogist, and antiquary, of the Inner Temple, living in 1617.

10. Mr. Gartier. Sir Gilbert Dethick, Knight of the Garter, Principal King-at-Arms, who was well skilled in antiquities, is perhaps intended. He died in 1584, at eighty-one. Or more probably his son and successor, Sir William Dethick, Knight, who was one of a select number of antiquaries who entered into a society in 1593 (the cradle of the present Society of Antiquaries). Sir William died in 1612.

11. Sir Robert Cotton, the founder of the Cottonian Library, died in 1631.

12. Francis Thynne, Esq., Lancaster Herald, died 1608. "An excellent antiquary, and a gentleman painful and well deserving of his office whilst he lived." (Camden.)

13. John Stow, author of The Chronicles of England and The Survey of London; died in 1605.

14. — Combes. Query, Thomas Combe, author of a Book of Emblems, reg. Eliz.

15. — Lloyd, Humphry Lluyd or Lloyd, "a most noted antiquary, and person of great skill and knowledge in British affairs," ob. 1570. (Wood.)

16. Mr. James Strangeman, of Hedley Castle, Essex, cited by Salmon as an Essex antiquary. (Gough.)

17. The learned Sir Henry Spelman died in 1641.

18. Arthur Gregory, ancestor of the present Arthur Gregory, of Styvichall in the county of Warwick, Esq., who possesses some valuable MS. collections of his ancestor.

19. Anthony Cliffe. In Burke's Dictionary of the Landed Gentry, a person of these names is mentioned as of the city of Westminster in the Elizabethan period, ancestor of the present family of Cliffe of Bellevue, co. Wexford.

20. Thomas Talbot, "an excellent genealogist, and well skilled in the antiquities of his country." Vide Wood's Athenæ, ed. Bliss, i. 265.

21. Arthur Golding; the same, I suppose, who finished the translation of a work concerning The Trueness of Christian Religion against Atheists, &c., began by Sir Philip Sidney, and also published other translations. (Wood and Gough.)

22. Arthur Agard, styled by Camden "antiquarius insignis." He died in 1615.

23. William Camden, born 1551, ob. 1623.

24. Mercury Patten, Blue-mantle Pursuivant-at-Arms, had been patronised by Lord Burleigh; was living in the second year of James I.

25. Samson Erdeswike, the historian of Staffordshire, died in 1603. "A very great lover and diligent searcher of venerable antiquity." (Camden.)

26. — Josseline, secretary to Archbishop Parker, was the author of a short account of Corpus Christi or Ben'et College, Cambridge, to the year 1569. (Gough.)

27. Henry Sacheverell, of Ratcliffe-on-Sore, in the county of Nottingham, Esq.?

28. William Nettleton de Knocesborough?

29. John Ferne, author of the Blazon of Gentry, died about 1610. He was knighted by James I.

30. Robert Bele, secretary to the embassy of Sir Francis Walsingham at Paris in 1571, Clerk of the Privy Council, &c.; ob. 1601.

31. Sir John Savile, of the Middle Temple, elder brother of Sir Henry Savile, died in 1606-7. He was one of the Barons of the Exchequer.

32. Daniel Rogers, "excellently well learned; one that was especially beloved by the famous antiquary and historian W. Camden;" ob. 1590. (Wood.)

33. Thomas Savile, younger brother to Sir Henry, called by Camden "his right learned friend," ob. 1592.

34. Henry Savile. There were two Henry Saviles, who may either of them be intended; Sir Henry Savile, Provost of Eton, who died in 1621-2, or his kinsman of the same names, an eminent scholar in heraldry and antiquities, and other branches of literature. He died in 1617.

35. Roger Keymis. See MSS. Harleian, 5803. and 16,120., for two of his heraldical collections. The former is dated anno 1609.

36. John Gwillim, gent., the well-known herald, ob.