hair, the very description of that which we possess; and, what may seem extraordinary, it is yet so strong that Mr. _Laming_, to cleanse it from its clotted state, let the cistern-cock run on it for near a minute, and then rubbed it between his fingers without injury. _Milton’s_ coffin lay open from Wednesday morning, the 4th, at 9 o’clock until 4 o’clock in the afternoon of the following day, when the ground was closed. With respect to there being no inscriptions on the coffin, _Holmes_ says that inscription-plates were not used, nor invented at the time when _Milton_ was buried; that the practice then was to paint the inscription on the outside wooden coffin, which in this case was entirely perished. It has never been pretended that any hair was taken except by Mr. _Taylor_, and by _Ellis_ the player; and all which the latter took would, when cleansed, easily lie in a small locket. Mr. _Taylor_ has divided his share into many small parcels; and the lock which I saw in Mr. _Laming’s_ hands on Saturday morning, the 7th, and which then measured six inches and a half, had been so cut and reduced by divisions among Mr. _Laming’s_ friends, at noon, on Monday, the 9th, that he thus possessed only a small bit, from two to three inches in length. All the teeth are remarkably short, below the gums. The five which were in the upper jaw, and the middle teeth of the lower, are perfect and white. Mr. _Fountain_ took the five upper jaw teeth; Mr. _Laming_ one from the lower jaw; Mr. _Taylor_ two from it; _Hawkesworth_ one; and another of Mr. _Ascough’s_ men one; besides these, I have not been able to trace any, nor have I heard that any more were taken. It is not probable that more than ten should have been brought away, if the conjecture of the overseers, that some dropped among the other bones, be founded. * * * * * In recording a transaction which will strike every liberal mind with horror and disgust, I cannot omit to declare that I have procured those relics which I possess, only in hope of bearing part in a pious and honourable restitution of all that has been taken; the sole atonement which can now be made to the violated rights of the dead; to the insulted parishioners at large; and to the feelings of all good men. During the present repair of the church, the mode is obvious and easy. Unless that be done, in vain will the parish hereafter boast a sumptuous monument to the memory of _Milton_; it will but display their shame in proportion to its magnificence. I collected this account from the mouths of those who were immediate actors in this most sacrilegious scene; and before the voice of charity had reproached them with their impiety. By it those are exculpated whose just and liberal sentiments restrained their hands from an act of violation, and the blood of the lamb is dashed against the door-posts of the perpetrators, not to save, but to mark them to posterity. PHILIP NEVE.