"Though in pleading of his case, one John Hales argued they were lawful man and wife _by virtue of their own bare consent, without any ecclesiastical ceremony_." Collins, in his _Peerage_ (1735), states: "The validity of this marriage being afterwards tried at Common Law, the minister who married them being present, and other circumstances agreeing, the jury (whereof John Digby, Esq., was foreman) found it a good marriage." {69} Sharpe, in his _Peerage_ (1833), under the title "Stamford," says: "'The manner of her departing' _in the Tower_, which Mr. Ellis has printed from a MS. so entitled in the Harleian Collection, although less terrible, is scarcely less affecting than that of her heroic sister," &c. Perhaps your correspondent A. S. A. may be enabled to consult this work, and so ascertain further particulars. BROCTUNA. Bury, Lancashire. * * * * * HOWLETT THE ENGRAVER. (Vol. i., p. 321.) In your first Volume, an inquiry is made for information respecting the above person. As I find on referring to the subsequent volumes of "N. & Q." that the Query never received any reply, I beg to forward a cutting from the Obituary of the _New Monthly Magazine_ for June, 1828, referring to Howlett; concerning whom, however, I cannot give any further information. "MR. BARTHOLOMEW HOWLETT. "Lately in Newington, Surrey, aged sixty, Mr. Bartholomew Howlett, antiquarian, draughtsman, and engraver. This artist was a pupil of Mr. Heath, and for many years devoted his talents to the embellishment of works on topography and antiquities. His principal publication, and which will carry his name down to posterity with respect as an artist, was _A Selection of Views in the County of Lincoln; comprising the Principal Towns and Churches, the Remains of Castles and Religious Houses, and Seats of the Nobility and Gentry; with Topographical and Historical Accounts of each View_. This handsome work was completed in 4to. in 1805. The drawings are chiefly by T. Girtin, Nattes, Nash, Corbould, &c., and the engravings are highly creditable to the burin of Mr. Howlett. Mr. Howlett was much employed by the late Mr. Wilkinson on his _Londina Illustrata_; by Mr. Stevenson in his second edition of Bentham's _Ely_; by Mr. Frost, in his recent _Notices of Hull_; and in numerous other topographical works. He executed six plans and views for Major Anderson's _Account of the Abbey of St. Denis_; and occasionally contributed to the _Gentleman's Magazine_, and engraved several plates for it. In 1817, Mr. Howlett issued proposals for _A Topographical Account of Clapham, in the County of Surrey, illustrated by Engravings_. These were to have been executed from drawings by himself, of which he made several, and also formed considerable collections; but