This inscription remains unaltered to this day, and may be seen on the right-hand of the broad walk on the north side of the spacious churchyard. His coffin was constructed at the same time; and, until it should be required for other and personal purposes, was used as a _wine-bin_. But, to carry his eccentricity even to the grave, he left strict orders that he should be buried in an _erect posture_: and "tradition" (of course) says that his request was complied with. Your correspondent says that tradition "assigns no reason for the peculiarity" of the Harcourt knight's burial; but tradition has been more explicit in Job Orton's case, whose _reason_ (?) for his erect posture in the tomb was, that at the last day he might be able to rise from his grave before his wife, who was buried in the usual horizontal manner! Job Orton appears to have had a peculiar talent for the composition of epitaphs; as, in his more playful moments, he was accustomed to tell his better-half that if he outlived her he should put the following lines on her tombstone: "Esther Orton--a bitter, sour weed; God never lov'd her, nor increas'd her seed." He seems, however, to have spared her this gratuitous insult. As a farther illustration of the characters of this singular couple, the following anecdote is told. Esther Orton having frequently declared, that she should "never die happy until she had rolled in riches," Job, like a good husband, determined to secure his wife's happiness. Having sold some land for a thousand pounds, he insisted that the money should be paid wholly in guineas. Taking these home in a bag, he locked his wife up in a room; knocked her down, opened his bag of guineas, and raining the golden wealth upon her, rolled his Danae over and over in the coin. "And now, Esther," said Job Orton, "thee mayst die as soon as thee pleases: for thee'st had thy wish, and _roll'd in riches_." CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A. * * * * * LAWYERS' BAGS. (Vol. vii., p. 557.) Additional evidence of the fact that lawyers used to carry _green_ bags towards the end of the {60} seventeenth century, is to be found in the _Plain Dealer_, a comedy by Wycherley. One of the principal characters in the play is the Widow Blackacre, a petulant, litigious woman, always in law, and mother of Jerry Blackacre, "a true raw squire under age and his mother's government, _bred to the law_." In Act I. Sc. 1., I find the following stage directions: "Enter Widow Blackacre with a mantle and a _green_ bag, and several papers in the other hand. Jerry Blackacre, her son, in a gown, laden with _green_ bags, following her." In Act III. Sc. 1. the widow is called impertinent and ignorant by a lawyer of whom she demands back her fee, on his returning her brief and declining to plead for her. This draws from her the following reply: