A correspondent, MERCURII, has also directed our attention to a small volume, published in 1848, by one of the most valued contributors to our own columns, MR. DAWSON TURNER, under the title of _Sepulchral Reminiscences of a Market Town, as afforded by a List of the Interments within the Walls of the Parish Church of St. Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, collected chiefly from Monuments and Gravestones still remaining, June, 1845_. This little volume may be regarded as a public testimony on the part of MR. DAWSON TURNER to the value of the plan under consideration, and there are few antiquaries whose opinions are entitled to greater respect upon this or any other point to which he has devoted his talents and attention. Can we doubt, then, the success of a plan which has met with such general approbation, and is undertaken with so praiseworthy an object,--an object which may well be described in the words which Weever used when stating the motive which led him to undertake the publication of his _Funeral Monuments_, viz., "To check the unsufferable injury, offered as well to the living as to the dead, by breaking down and almost utterly ruinating monuments with their epitaphs, and by erasing, tearing away, and pilfering brazen inscriptions, by which inhumane deformidable act, the honorable memory of many virtuous and noble persons deceased is extinguished, and the true understanding of divers families is so darkened, that the course of their inheritance is thereby partly interrupted." Notes. ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHAUCER, NO. VIII. _The Star Min Al Auwâ._ "Adam Scrivener, if ever it thee befall Boece, or Troilus, for to write newe, Under thy long locks thou mayst have the scull But, after my making, thou write more trew; So oft a day I mote thy worke renew, It to correct, and eke to rubbe and scrape, And all thorow thy negligence and rape." _Chaucer to his own Scrivener._ If, during his own lifetime, and under his own eye, poor Chaucer was so sinned against as to provoke this humorous malediction upon the head of the delinquent, it cannot be a matter of surprise that, in the various hands his text has since passed through, many expressions should have been perverted, and certain passages wholly misunderstood. And when we find men, of excellent judgment in other respects, proposing, as Tyrwhitt did, to alter Chaucer's words to suit their own imperfect comprehension of his meaning, it is only reasonable to suspect that similar mistakes may have induced early transcribers to alter the text, wherever, to their wisdom, it may have seemed expedient.