_A Baron's Hearse_ (Vol. v., p. 128.).--The editorial reply in this page has referred to the Note on Funerals which I prefixed to _Machyn's Diary_; and from that book may certainly be gathered the best possible notion of the style and character of the hearse, and other paraphernalia attendant upon funerals in England during the sixteenth century. But in a book which I edited for another Society, namely, _The Unton Inventories_, 1841, will be found the authority for Lloyd's statement relative to the funeral of Sir Henry Unton: it is the certificate in the College of Arms, which states that he was buried at Faringdon "with a baron's hearse, and in the degree of a baron, because he died ambassador leidger for France." A Lord Mayor of London, dying in office, was in like manner interred with the observances due to a baron. It appears from Sir Henry Unton's papers that he was usually addressed as "My Lord" whilst in France as ambassador. May I inquire whether that practice is still kept up towards ambassadors who are not peers? or, if not, when did it cease? JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS. _The Bed of Ware_ (Vol. v., p. 128.).--There is an engraving of the Bed of Ware in Clutterbuck's _History of Hertfordshire_, and another in Shaw's _Ancient Furniture_. J. G. N. [We are also reminded by Mr. C. H. COOPER that it is engraved in Knight's _Pictorial Shakspeare_.] _Symbolism of Death_ (Vol. iii., pp. 450. 501.).--Will you permit a Note to say, that Herder, after Lessing, and in continuation of his essay, wrote on the subject of "Death, as symbolically represented by the Ancients." Lessing's treatise was lately mentioned by one of your correspondents, without any notice of Herder's. J. M. _General Wolfe_ (Vol. iv., p. 438.).--I send the following "Notes from Newspapers," thinking they may be of service to [Gh.].:-- "His Majesty has been pleased to appoint the Hon. Col. Wolfe to be Inspector of all the marines." _London and County Journal_, May 13, 1742. "To Rome from Pontus thus great Julius wrote, I came, I saw, and conquer'd, ere I fought. In Canada, brave Wolfe, more nobly tried, Came, saw, and conquer'd,--but in battle died. More glorious far than Cæsar's was his doom, Who lived to die for Tyranny in Rome." _London Chronicle_, August 18. 1774. These lines are headed "An Epitaph intended for General Wolfe." They are signed by E. D. In the _Illustrated London News_ of Jan. 24 is the popular air known as "General Wolfe's Song," which, according to Sir H. Bishop's "note," is said to have been composed by him the night previous to the battle on the Plains of Abraham. H. G. D. _Proverb_ (Vol. iv., p. 239.).--Fuller defines a proverb "much matter decocted into few words."--_Worthies_, ch. ii. R. W. C. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.