of his friend, who was then deceased, but whether recently or not I cannot say.  I am rather disposed to think the event was comparatively a remote one:  he left a widow.  Was Mrs. Bilderdijk his daughter?  The etchings are exceedingly clever and artistical; my copy has the artist’s name in his own handwriting.  If I am not mistaken, Schweickhardt lived, when my father knew him, at Lambeth, then a picturesque suburb very unlike the “base, common, and popular” region which it has since become.  B.T.  Pouncy, another clever artist of that day, and a friend of my father’s, resided there also.  Pouncy published some etchings which, although not professedly views of Lambeth, were in reality studies in that locality.  When I was a boy I remember my father pointing out to me the Windmill, which was the subject of one of them.

The Mrs. Bilderdijk who translated Roderick, was, according to Southey, the second wife of her husband.  How did JANUS DOUSA learn that her maiden name was Schweickhardt?

G.J.  DE WILDE. {379}

Noli me tangere (Vol. ii., p. 153.).—­In addition to the list of artists given by J.Z.P. (p. 253.), BR. will find that the subject has also been treated by—­

Duccio, in the Duomo at Siena. Taddeo Gaddi, Rinnucini Chapel. Titian, Mr. Roger’s Collection. Rembrandt, Queen’s Gallery. Barroccio.  An altar piece which came to England with the Duke of Lucca’s paintings, but I cannot say where it is now; it is well known by the engraving from it of Raphael Morgen.

B.N.C.

Chimney Money (Vol. ii., pp. 120. 174. 269. 344.).—­There is a church at Northampton upon which is an inscription recording that the expense of repairing it was defrayed by a grant of chimney money for, I believe, seven years, temp.  Charles II.

There is also a tombstone in Folkestone churchyard curiously commemorative of this tax.  The inscription runs thus—­

“In memory of Rebecca Rogers, who died August 29. 1688, Aged 44 years.

  “A house she hath, it’s made of such good fashion,
  The tenant ne’er shall pay for reparation,
  Nor will her landlord ever raise her rent,
  Or turn her out of doors for non-payment;
  From chimney money, too, this cell is free,
  To such a house, who would not tenant be.”

E.B.  PRICE.

Passage from Burke (Vol. ii., p. 359.).—­Q.(2) will find the passage he refers to in Prior’s Life of Burke, vol. i. p. 39.  It is extracted from a letter addressed by Burke to his old schoolfellow Matthew Smith, describing his first impressions on viewing Westminster Abbey, and other objects in the metropolis.  Mr. Prior deserves our best thanks for giving us a letter so deeply interesting, and so characteristic of the gifted writer, then barely of age.

I.H.M. 
Bath.