Pembroke.
_William, second Duke of Hamilton._--Can any of your numerous
correspondents inform me if there is any monumental inscription, or
other memorial, dedicated to the memory of William, second Duke of
Hamilton, who expired on the 12th of September, 1651, from the effects
of a wound received at the battle of Worcester on the 3rd of the same
month? He was interred before the high altar in Worcester Cathedral,
having died at the Commandery in that city; but there is neither
"storied urn or animated bust"
as a record of his sepulture within that venerable pile.
In making an inspection of the Commandery, an old building, probably
once belonging to the Knights Templars, I was gravely told, and my
informant even showed me the very spot beneath the floor of one of the
rooms, in which, as tradition points out, he is said to have been
buried.