_Bothwell's Burial-place._--Bothwell was imprisoned in Seeland, in the castle of Draxholm, now called Adelersborg, near the town of Holbek. He died there, and was buried in the neighbouring village church of Faareveile, where I in vain have searched for this tomb or coffin. An old coffin, half opened, standing between several other old coffins in a vault below the floor of the church, certainly was said, according to tradition, to contain the body of Bothwell, but no inscriptions or other signs proved the truth of it.
_Handel's Organ at the Foundling Hospital._--It is generally understood that the organ in the chapel of this Institution was the gift of Handel. That great musician conducted a concert of sacred music upon the opening of the chapel in 1749, and superintended the annual performance of his oratorio, "The Messiah," from 1751 to 1759. In his will he left to the charity "a fair copy of the score, and all its parts," of the same oratorio; which score is still preserved, and has furnished the editor of the new edition, lately produced by the Handel Society, with several new and important readings.
Dr. Burney, in his "Sketch of the Life of Handel," prefixed to his _Account of the Commemoration_, 4to., 1785, says, "The organ in the chapel of this [_i.e._ the Foundling] hospital was a _present_ from Handel." But how are we to reconcile this statement with the following, which I find in the _European Magazine_ for February, 1799:
"Handel _did not give_ the organ to the Foundling Hospital. It was built at the _expense_ of the charity, under the direction of Dr. Smith, the learned Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, who added demitones, &c., and some of the niceties not occurring in other organs."
_Correction to the "Oxford Manual of Monumental Brasses."_--Permit me to correct an error in the above carefully compiled and useful manual. On p. 15. of the "Descriptive Catalogue" a brass is described, No. 32. of their collection, to "Edward Peach, 1439;" no place is mentioned in connexion with this brass. The notice should stand thus:
"1839. Edward Peach, _S. Chad's (R.C.) Church, Birmingham_.
"Hic jacet dmus Edwardus Peach quondam rector istius ecclesie qui obiit die Nativitatis _Beate_ Marie Virginis Anno Domini _milessimo_ _D_CCCXXXIX," &c.