The act of parliament imposing a penalty upon burials, where any material but wool was made use of was 30 Car. II. stat. 1. c. 3., afterwards repealed by the 54 Geo. III. c. 108. I am able to adduce an instance of the act being enforced, in the following extract from the churchwardens' book of the parish of Eye for the year 1686-7: "Rec. for Mi^s Grace Thrower beeinge buried in Linnen 02 10 00." J. B. COLMAN. Eye. * * * * * BRAEMS' MS. "MEMOIRES TOUCHANT LE COMMERCE." (Vol. v., p. 126.) In the hope of satisfying the curiosity of J. M., I will communicate the information concerning Daniel Braams which I find in my family papers. According to a genealogical tree in my possession, confirmed and delivered 13th September, 1661, by the kings-at-arms and heralds of Brabant[2], Daniel Braems descended from an illustrious family of Brabant, a younger branch of the Vilains, of the house of the burgraves, or viscounts of Ghent. During the Spanish religious persecutions, about 1550, his ancestors emigrated from Flanders, and settled at Dover. His father was Daniel Braams[3], keeper of the regalia of Charles I., and in high favour at court. On Cromwell's coming to power he fled, and soon after died, leaving an only son in childhood, by his widow, Mary, daughter of the well-known navigator Jacob le Maire. Mary, with her youthful son Daniel, settled in Holland, where she had many relatives, and contracted a second marriage with Andreas Schnellingwouw. She soon after went to the East Indies with her husband, who had been appointed secretary to the _Schepenen_ at Batavia. Thus, Daniel Braams went very early to the Indies, where he passed a great part of his life. He became General Accomptant of the East India Company at Batavia, and for his services received a gold chain and a medal. In the family papers in his own hand now before me, he writes: "The 29th November, A^o 1686, I set sail with my family from Batavia, in the ship Kastricum, to return to Europe, after I had been thirty-four years and a half in India. The 21st March, 1687, we arrived at the Cape of Good Hope; and on the 19th April proceeded thence, with thirteen ships. When we had reached the ... degree of north latitude, having Ireland to the east, it pleased the Most High to call my dear and virtuous wife to His eternal rest, on the 9th of July, A^o 1687. The dead body was, by my orders, enclosed in a coffin and placed behind the ship. At Amsterdam she was buried in the vault of my grandfather in the N. Capel."