[Ask that staunch and sturdy royalist, Peter Heylin, whether Old Tom is
not sometimes more facetious than correct; and whether, in the extract
given above, we should not read _Richard I._ for Edward I. In
Knyghton's _Chronicle_, lib. II. cap. viii. sub Hen. I., we find,
"Mercatorum falsam ulnam castigavit adhibita brachii sui mensura." See
also William of Malmsbury in Vita Hen. I., and Spelm. Hen. I. apud
Wilkins, 299., who inform us, that a new standard of longitudinal
measure was ascertained by Henry I., who commanded that the ulna, or
ancient ell, which answers to the modern yard, should be made of the
exact length of his own arm.]
_Elstob, Elizabeth._--Can any of your numerous correspondents state where
that celebrated Saxon linguist, Mrs. Elizabeth Elstob, was buried? In
Chambers's _Biographical Illustrations of Worcestershire_, she is said to
have been buried at Saint Margaret's, Westminster; but after every inquiry,
made many years since of the then worthy churchwarden of the parish, our
researches were in vain, for there is no account of her sepulture in the
church or graveyard.