_Schomberg's Epitaph by Swift._--A correspondent asks whether the epitaph alluded to in the following extract from the _Daily Courant_ of July 17, 1731, is given in any edition of Swift's _Works_. "The Latin Inscription, composed by the Rev. Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, and ordered by the Dean and Chapter to be fixed up in the Cathedral of the said Church, over the place where the body of the great Duke of Schomberg lies, has been with all possible care and elegance engraved on a beautiful table of black Kilkenny marble, about eight feet long and four or five broad; the letters are gilded, and the whole is now finished with the utmost neatness. People of all ranks are continually crowding to see it, and the Inscription is universally admired." The _Daily Gazetteer_ of Saturday, July 12, 1740, gives a detailed account of the rejoicings in Dublin on the Tuesday preceding, being the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne, and a particular account of the bonfire made by Dean Swift in St. Kevin's Street, near the watch-house. E. _The Burial Service said by Heart._--Bishop Sprat (in his _Discourse to his Clergy_, 1695, for which see _Clergyman's Instructor_, 1827, p. 245.) relates that, immediately after the Restoration, a noted ringleader of schism in the former times was interred in one of the principal churches of London, and that the minister of the parish, being a wise and regular conformist, and afterwards an eminent bishop, delivered the whole Office of Burial by heart on that occasion. The friends of the deceased were greatly edified at first, but afterwards much surprised and confounded when they found that their fervent admiration had been bestowed on a portion of the Common Prayer. Southey (_Common-Place Book_, iii. 492.) conjectures that the minister was Bull. This cannot be, for Bull, I believe, never held a London cure. Was it Hackett? And who was the noted ringleader of schism? J. K. _Shaw's Staffordshire MSS._--Can any of your Staffordshire correspondents furnish information as to the present depository of the Rev. Stebbing Shaw's Staffordshire MSS., and the MS. notes of Dr. Thomas Harwood used in his two editions {14} of Erdeswick's _Staffordshire_? And can they refer to a pedigree of Thomas Wood, Esq., Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1501; who is said to have built Hall O'Wood, in Batterley, near Botley, Staffordshire. N. C. L. _"Ne'er to these chambers," &c._-- "Ne'er to these chambers where the mighty rest Since their foundation, came a nobler guest, Nor to th' immortal entrance e'er convey'd A loftier spirit, or more welcome shade." Where do these lines come from? ARAM. Swillington.