Oxford, Whit-Monday.
_A Kemble Pipe_ (Vol. iii., p. 425.).--If DR. RIMBAULT will turn to vol.
i., p. 10. of Campbell's _Life of Mrs. Siddons_, he will find that the
Kemble of smoking notoriety alluded to in the proverb, met his fate at a
date long subsequent to the Marian persecution. He was apprehended on a
charge of implication in Titus Oates's plot, and executed at Hereford,
August 2d, 1679, being one of the last persons who suffered death for
their religious opinions in England. He was hung, not burnt, and his
hand is still preserved in the Reliquary of the Roman Catholic Chapel at
Worcester. "On his way to execution," says Mr. Campbell,
"He smoked his pipe and conversed with his friends; and in that
county it was long usual to call the last pipe that was smoked in
a social company, a Kemble's pipe."