What old foundation stones have been restored to light, showing the date of laying, and the accessories used, whether oil, wine, and corn, or what else? I have never seen an allusion to such discovery in the demolition of old buildings. JNO. D. ALLCROFT. Oxford Square. _Mary Faun._--Can any of your subscribers give me any account of the ancestry of Mary Faun said to have married Thomas Charlton, Esq.? See Burke's _Landed Gentry_, vol. i. p. 209. B. _Tonson and the Westminsters._--I have a small duodecimo print, in which are represented three scenes,-- A man tossed in a blanket. A man flogged. A man begging. This victim is said to be Jacob Tonson, the printer. The tormentors, who are all in collegiate dresses, are said to be Westminster Collegians. Are these scenes facts or fictions? What was Tonson's offence? Is there any other explanation of the print? I hope some old Westminster to whom the school tradition may have descended will be kind enough to answer these Queries. GRIFFIN. * * * * * Minor Queries Answered. _Lady Farewell's Funeral Sermon._--Would any of your correspondents help me to unravel the mystery (if there be any) involved in the typography of the Latin portion of the following title of a book "printed for Edw. Brewster, at the Crane, in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1661?" "Magna Charta; or the Christian's Charter Epitomized. In a Sermon preached at the Funerall of the Right Worshipfull the Lady Mary Farewell at Hill-Bishops near Taunton, by Geo. Newton, Minister of the Gospel there. D. FareweLL obIIt MarIa saLVtIs In anno Hos annos posItos VIXIt & Ipsa VaLe." W. A. J. [The information required by our correspondent is more quaint and curious than difficult to supply. The four lines with which the title concludes form a chronogram, or an inscription comprising a certain date and number, expressed by those letters inserted in larger characters; which are to be taken separately and added together, according to their value as Roman numerals. When the arithmetical letters occurring in the first two lines are thus taken, they will be found to compose the year 1660, when the Lady Farewell died, {586} as the words declare; and when the numerals are selected from the last two lines, they exhibit 74, her age at the time, as they also indicate; in the following manner:-- D 500 I 1 LL 100 VIXI 17 II 2 I 1 MI 1001 VL 55 LVI 56 -- I 1 74 ---- -- 1660