Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
[Nichols, in his _Leicestershire_, vol. iii. p 623., has given
some account of this effigy from Carter and Burton, together with
two sketches of the monument. Carter says, "There is no tradition
to determine whom this figure represents; but Mr. Gough thinks
that it was some person of authority, perhaps a keeper of the
castle, or a bailiff of the town." This monument had been noticed
by Mr. Burton, subsequent to the publication of his _History_; for
in the margin of his volume is this MS. note, and a slight sketch
of the tomb, when the scrip and staff were more perfect than they
are at present:--"On the north side of the church, near to the
great north door, lieth in the wall an ancient monument of a
Palmer in alabaster, which I guess to be of some of the family of
Zouch; which, for the expressing of the manner of the habit, I
caused to be cut and inserted." This sketch is also engraved in
plate lxxvi. of Nichols's _Leicestershire_.]
"_Modern Universal History._"--At the conclusion of the preface of this
History, in vol. xvi. of the first edition, it is stated, "this work is
illustrated by the most complete set of maps that modern geography
furnishes." My copy is a very fine one, but I do not find any maps
whatever in it. Can any of your readers inform me whether such maps
exist; and if so, in what volumes, and at what pages, they ought to be?
Are they to be obtained separately?