_Bone-houses._--The number of skulls at Rothewell (No. 11., p. 171.) is
greatly exaggerated, nor is the tradition of their being gathered from
Naseby battle-field more than a modern invention, the discovery of the
bones being within the memory of living persons. Their existence there
is most puzzling. The vault, which is very small, is probably coeval
with the church, and seems to have been made for the very purpose to
which it is applied. When this vast building was erected in the 12th
century, may not this vault have been made for the bones disturbed in
the old churchyard by so extensive a foundation?