But it was then too late to benefit Strafford, and quite safe to utter his own opinions. In opposition to this, which rests upon indisputable evidence, and with which Ussher's own statement entirely accords, PEREGRINUS adduces the fact that Ussher attended Strafford on the scaffold. But what does this prove? Merely that the faction which would not tolerate that Laud or Juxon should minister the last offices of the Church to their dying friend, did not object to Ussher's presence; and that Strafford, who could have known nothing of what had passed on Sunday in the interior of Whitehall, gladly accepted the consolations of religion from the hands of the timid Primate of all Ireland. The substance of what appears in Elrington's _Life of Ussher_ had been long before stated by Dr. Thomas Smith in his _Vita Jacobi Usserii_, apud _Vitæ quorundam Erudit. et Illust. Virorum_; but if, in addition, PEREGRINUS would consult May's _History of the Long Parliament_; Echard's _History of England_, bk. ii. ch. i.; Whitelocke's _Memorials_, p. 45.; Rushworth; Collier's _Ecclesiastical History_, t. ii. p. 801.; Dr. Knowler, in Preface to _The Earl of Strafford's Letters and Dispatches_; Dr. South, in _Sermon on Rom_. xi. 33.; and Sir George Radcliffe's Essay in Appendix to _Letters, &c. of Lord Strafford_, t. ii. p. 432., I doubt not but that he will come to the conclusion that the above sketch is only consistent with stern fact. W. DN. SCULPTURED STONES IN THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND. (Vol. iv., p. 86.)