"He, an honest, good-natured, worthy man; she, as eminent for conjugal and maternal virtues during her marriage and widowhood, as she had been before for amiable delicacy of person and manners." The following, which is probably not to be surpassed, appeared in one of the earliest numbers of _Household Words_. It is from the churchyard of Pewsey, Wiltshire: "Here lies the body of Lady O'Looney, great-niece of Burke, commonly called the Sublime. She was bland, passionate, and deeply religious: also, she painted in water-colours, and sent several pictures to the Exhibition. She was first cousin to Lady Jones: and of such is the kingdom of heaven." CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A. If epitaphs of recent date are admitted in "N. & Q.," perhaps the following, upon an editor, which lately appeared in the _Halifax Colonist_, may not be out of place in your publication: "Here _lies_ an editor! _Snooks_ if you will; In mercy, kind Providence, Let him _lie still_. He _lied_ for his living: so He lived, while he _lied_, When he could not _lie longer_, He _lied_ down, and died." W. W. Malta. "Here lies a Wife, a Friend, a Mother, I believe there never was such another; She had a head to earn and a heart to give, And many poor she did relieve. She lived in virtue and in virtue died, And now in Heaven she doth reside. Yes! it is true as tongue can tell, If she had a fault, it was loving me too well. And when I am lying by her side, Who was in life her daily pride, Tho' she's confined in coffins three, She'd leave them all and come to me!" The above lines, written on a tablet in a church at Exeter, were composed by Mr. Tuckett, tallow-chandler, to the memory of his wife. An old subscriber of "N. & Q." thinks this epitaph more strange and curious than any which has yet appeared in the columns of that valuable publication. ANON. * * * * * PAROCHIAL LIBRARIES. (Vol. vii., p. 507.) I copy the following from the fly-leaf of _A Treatise of Ecclesiastical Benefices and Revenues_, by the learned Father Paul, translated by Tobias Jenkins, 8vo., Westminster, 1736: "Bibliotheca de Bassingbourn in Com. Cant. Dono dedit Edvardus Nightingale de Kneeseworth Armiger Filius et Hares Fundatoris. Feb. 1^{mo}, 1735^{to}." How the volume got out of the library I know not: it was purchased some years since at a sale in Oxford. Y. B. N. J. To the list of parochial libraries allow me to add that of Denchworth, near Wantage, Berks. In a small apartment over the porch, the _parvise_, I recollect, some years since, to have seen a very fair collection of old divinity, the books being, all of them, confined by chains, according to the ancient usage, an instance of which I never saw elsewhere. {275}