Maidstone.
[Although a "_baron's hearse_" is not particularly specified in
the very curious _Note upon Funerals_ prefixed by Mr. J. G.
Nichols to the _Diary of Henry Machyn_, edited by him for the
_Camden Society_,--we refer our correspondent to it, as furnishing
much curious illustration of the time and expense formerly
bestowed upon these ceremonials. The word "herse," it may be
remarked, was not then applied in its modern sense, but to a frame
of timber "covered with black, and armes upon the black, ready to
receive the corpse when it had arrived within the church," which
corresponds to what our French neighbours designate the
_Catafalque_.]
_Saint Bartholomew._--Can you favour me with a reference to any works in
which any further account is given of this saint, than is contained in
the four passages of the New Testament in which his name is mentioned?
What representations are there of him in picture, tapestry, or window,
in England or on the continent?