[The information required by our correspondent is more quaint and curious than difficult to supply. The four lines with which the title concludes form a chronogram, or an inscription comprising a certain date and number, expressed by those letters inserted in larger characters; which are to be taken separately and added together, according to their value as Roman numerals. When the arithmetical letters occurring in the first two lines are thus taken, they will be found to compose the year 1660, when the Lady Farewell died, as the words declare; and when the numerals are selected from the last two lines, they exhibit 74, her age at the time, as they also indicate; in the following manner:—

The lady who is commemorated in this inscription was the daughter of Sir Edwald Seymour of Berrie Castle, in Devonshire, Baronet, and wife of "the excellently-accomplished Sir George Farewell, Knight, who died May 14, 1647;" as it is recorded on his monument at Hill-Bishops. In the same epitaph it is stated, that she was the mother of twenty children, and that she died Dec. 13, 1660; and the inscription concludes with these verses to the united memory of Sir George and Lady Farewell:

The practice of making chronograms for the expressing of dates in books, epitaphs, and especially on medals, was extremely common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. One of the most remarkable is that commemorating the death of Queen Elizabeth:—

the arithmetical formula of which is M = 1000 + D = 500 + C = 100 + III = 3 = A. D. 1603. In the second paper by Addison on the different species of false wit (Spectator, No. 60) is noticed the medal that was struck of Gustavus Adolphus, with the motto:

"If you take the pains," continues the author, "to pick the figures out of the several words, and range them in their proper order, you will find they amount to MDCXVVVII, or 1627; the year in which the medal was stamped."

There is one peculiarity in the chronogram sent by our correspondent, which singularly illustrates a passage in Shakspeare, and by which also it is most amusingly illustrated. It will be observed, that the Rev. G. Newton takes advantage of the double letters at the end of Farewell, to express 100: and it will be remembered that "good M. Holofernes," in Love's Labour's Lost, introduces the same thought into his sonnet as an exquisite and far-fetched fancy:

[Sir Edmund Keynton Williams, K.C.B., born 1779, at Mathern, county of Monmouth, died Dec. 7, 1849, Colonel of the 80th Regiment of Foot, was only son of the Rev. Henry Williams, Vicar of Undy, county of Monmouth; who was second son of Edmund Williams, of Incasryddit, in the parish of Bedwelty, county of Monmouth; and grandson of William Williams of the same place. Where any farther account of his family can be found we know not.]

[The order which Dudley received was that of St. Michael. There was formerly in France an order "du navire et de la coquille de mer," instituted, says Perrot^[2], by St. Louis, in 1269, in memory of a perilous expedition which he made by sea for the succour of Christians; but adds, "il a peu survÉcu À son fondateur."]

[Possibly from the Wallers of Groombridge, county of Sussex. Thomas Waller, of Lansdall, in that county, second son of Thomas Waller, of Groombridge, had a son, Thomas, whose only daughter and heir, Catherine, married Thomas Pope, of Henfield, county of Sussex. In such cases the Christian name given by Clutterbuck may be wrong.—See the Histories of Kent and Sussex for the account of the Wallers.]

[Mr. Hawkins of the British Museum edited a reprint of this Life of St. Werburgh for the Chetham Society, and in Mr. H.'s preface will be found all that is known of the existing copies of the printed work. The Editor did not know of any manuscript copy of the Life.]

[Florio has "Feriato, vacancy from labour, rest from worke, blindman's holiday." That amusing old antiquary, Dr. Pegge, made a query of this term about half a century ago. He says, "The twilight, or rather the hour between the time when one can no longer see to read, and the lighting of the candle, is commonly called blindman's holiday: qu. the meaning or occasion of this proverbial saying? I conceive, that at that time, all the family being at leisure to converse and discourse, should there be a blind person in the family, it is the time when his happiness is greatest, every one then being at liberty to attend to, and to entertain him."—Anonymiana, cent. iii. sect. xviii.]

[Abednego Seller was a native of Plymouth, educated at Lincoln College, Oxford; minister of Combentynhead, in Devonshire, and subsequently vicar of St. Charles, Plymouth; but was deprived for refusing to take the oaths to William III. In Hearne's MS. Diaries, 1710, vol. xxv. occurs a notice of him:—"Mr. Abednego Seller was another Nonjuror, and had also collected an excellent study of books; but as he was a man of less learning than Dr. Thomas Smith [the editor of Bede], so his books were inferior to them, and heaped together with less discretion." Another notice of him occurs in Granger's Biog. Dict., vol. iv. p. 11.;—"Mr. Ashby, President of St. John's College, Cambridge, has a copy of Konigii Bibliotheca, interleaved and filled with MS. notes by A. Seller." He was the author of several works which are given in Watt's Bibliotheca Britan., but the following is omitted: Remarks upon the Reflections of the Author of 'Popery Misrepresented,' &c. in his Answerer, particularly as to the Deposing Doctrine, Anon., London, 4to. 1686. Another work has also been attributed to him, viz. Considerations upon the Second Canon in the Book entitled 'Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical,' &c. Lond., 4to. 1693. Seller died about 1720, aged seventy-three. A letter from Seller to Humphrey Wanley, concerning Greek music, &c., will be found in the Harl. MSS. No. 3782, Art. 26. Consult also Wood's AthenÆ Oxon., vol. iv. p. 563. edit. Bliss.]

[2. The latter passage occurs in Pope's Essay on Criticism, line 215:—

[The late Dr. Thomas Chevalier was the editor, and wrote the Preface; and the Rev. H. F. Cary supplied the Greek motto.]