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him. General Sir George Wolseley gives an account ture. of 'A Vale of Lanherne.'

OUR readers will doubtless have seen the interesting and unmistakable reference to Shakespeare which Mr. Sidney Lee communicated to The Times of the 27th ult. The precise words, contained in a household account of the expenses incurred at Belvoir, by Francis, sixth Earl of Rutland, are as follows:-"1613, Item, 31 Martii, to Mr. Shakspeare in gold about my Lordes impreso, xliiijs. ; to Richard Burbage for paynting and making yt, in gold, xliiijs.―iiijli. viijs.' The entry has much curiosity, and Mr. Lee's account of the "impreso " itself, and of the conditions attendant on and following its production, and of the relations between the Earl and the Tudor poets, is a characteristically fine piece of scholarship, which our readers will do well to study.

MR. ROBERT BROWN, of Barton-on-Humber, is writing a history of his native town. The first volume, which covers the history from Roman times to 1154, will shortly be published by Mr. Elliot Stock. It is in quarto, and embellished with illustrations, maps, plans, and facsimiles.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.-JANUARY. A HAPPY NEW YEAR to booksellers, readers, and buyers.

We would strongly urge Mr. Gregory to adopt the usual catalogue form. We find the one he uses most difficult to read.

Mr. Frederick R. Jones, of Thames Ditton, has a set of the Archæological Society's Journal, vols. i. to xxxii., 1845-75, 57. 10s.; Baring-Gould's Book of Were-Wolves,' 1865, 24s.; Arnold's Friendship's Garland,' first edition, 1871, 25s; Billings's Antiquities of Scotland,' 4 vols., 1845-52, 67. 68; La Fontaine, Amsterdam, 1764, 71. 78.; and Rogers's 'Italy,' uncut, with the labels, 1830-34, 57. 58.

Messrs. Myers & Co.'s list contains interesting works under America; also under Art, including Chignell's Life and Paintings of Vicat Cole, 1898, 30s.; and Humphry Ward and Roberts's items under Dramatic, also under Occult. There are many noteworthy Romney,' 7. 58. Among the general entries are Warrington's History of Stained Glass,' folio, 1848, 31. 58.; "The Secret History of Queen Elizabeth. Printed for Will with the wish," 1695, 10s.; Brayley's Londiniana,' 4 vols., 1825, 15s.; Gray's Indian Zoology,' 1830-4, 47. 108.;. Skelton's Oxfordshire,' 1823, 3.; Forbes's Kalendars of Scottish Saints,' 1. 12s. 6d.; Barrere and Leland's Dictionary of Slang,' ll. 7s. 6d.; and a copy of the firm's Catalogue of Engraved Portraits,' 14,000 items, 7s. 6d.

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Mr. Poynder, of Reading, has a choice set of Park's British Poets,' crimson morocco, 10. 10s.; a complete set of the Delphin Classics, 81. 88.; and a good copy of Ashmole's Berkshire,' 1736, 67. 6s. There are many interesting items under Ballads, Philology, Military, Economics and Sociology, and Botany and Horticulture.

Mr. H. W. Ball, of Barton-on-Humber, has many interesting items under America, Lincolnshire, Freemasonry, and Wesleyan. Under the last are 872 Methodist pamphlets, 6. 10s.; and a collection of over eight hundred works by Wesleyans, 204. Under Cromwelliana is a chronological list of Punch, 1841-95, 13gs.; Dunker's History of AntiMr. James Roche has a genuine original set of events in which Cromwell was engaged, with 84 finequity,'' Bentley, 1877-82, 27. 8s. 6d. Howell and portraits, folio, old crimson morocco, 1810, 47. 10s.

Mr. Andrew Baxendine, of Edinburgh, has Facsimiles of the National Manuscripts of Scotland,' 3 vols., atlas folio, 1867-71, 3. 158. Under Scotland there is a set of The Scottish Geographical Magazine, 20 vols., 6l. 6s.; and the New Statistical Account of Scotland.' by the respective ministers of each parish, 15 vols., 1845, 27. 15s. 6d. (published at 161. 168.).

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Mr. Thomas Carver, of Hereford, has a collection of beautiful books suitable for presents. We note a few: Lamb's Elia,' first issue of the first edition, 1823. 77. 78.; Turner,' by Sir Walter Armstrong, 12. 12s.; and first edition of Thacke ay's 'Esmond,' a brilliant copy," 107.

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Mr. Galloway, of Aberystwyth, has first editions of George Meredith; a long list under Classical; Early Children's Books; Shakspeare, edited by Henley, 37. 3s. and Rabelais, with Chalon's plates, edited by A. H. Bullen, 16s. Under Wales is The Mabinogion,' translated by Lady Guest, 1847,

81. 88.

Messrs. William George's Sons, of Bristol, have works on Architecture, Natural History, and Geology. Among the general entries we note 'Paradise Regain'd,' to which is added Samson Agonistes,' 1671, 10. Under Napoleon is a coloured print, drawn by Capt. Marryat, of the funeral procession leaving Longwood.

Mr. George Gregory, of Bath, has a catalogue devoted to Greek and Latin Classics (with many exquisite colour prints of J. R. Smith in the Addenda), and another catalogue of general litera

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Cobbett's 'State Trials, scarce, 1809-26 (published at 52.), 12. 128.; Macklin's Old and New Testaments, 6 vols., russia, 1800, 27. 10s. (cost 851.); Motley's 'John of Barneveld, out of print, Murray, 1874, 21. 8s. 6d. and Rattray's Costume of Afghanistan,' scarce, 1848, 2. 12s. 6d. There are a number of works on the Indian mutinies, a collection of Voyages Pittoresques,' military works, &c. Mr. Ludwig Rosenthal sends us from Munich an illustrated catalogue of rare and costly books, and another concerning the Eastern Church. He offers, amongst other things, Acta Sanctorum,' MS. of the eleventh century on vellum, 2,000m.; a Communion Office of Edward VI., by A. Alesius, a Scotchman, 500m.; Aristophanes, eleven plays in the edition of Grynæus, 1532, 100m.; A Greek MS. containing "The Clouds' of Aristophanes, the Hecuba and Orestes' of Euripides, and the 'Works and Days' of Hesiod, with scholia in the margin, presumably of the fourteenth century, 800m.; some early editions of Aristotle; an English Armorial, MS. on sixteenth-century paper, 175m.; an Italian Armorial, 1460, 1,000m.; the Biblia Polyglotta of Cardinal Ximenes; and many other rarities. Admirers of French elegance should find a set of Dorat, 20 vols., cheap at 400m.

The books on the Eastern Church are of special interest at the present moment. They include several specimens of the work of Thomas Smith (1638-1710), a Nonjuring divine whose knowledge of Eastern ecclesiology gained him at Oxford the name of "Rabbi" Smith. Volumes also of a wider scope are entered here, such as Krumbacher's masterly

"History of Byzantine Literature,' 527-1453, second edition, 26m. 50.

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Mr. H. Seers, of Leyton, has under Penn the extremely rare book-plate of William Penn, Esq., Proprietor of Pennsylvania," dated 1703, mounted in black-and-gold frame, 117. 11s.

Messrs. Simmons & Waters, of Leamington Spa, have a large-paper copy of Lady Rachel Russell's 'Letters,' water-colour painting on the fore edge, 1792, 47.; and a collection of book catalogues, 1785, 10s. 6d. (in one of these a copy of the Second Folio Shakespeare is marked 21s.). Those in search of the horrible will find it in lot 160. It is a working model of the guillotine, 12 inches high, made in bone by a French prisoner. The victim is a woman; there are three attendants and the executioner, whose hand touches the cord holding the knife, which falls and cuts off the head of the victim. It was made about 1795, and may be had for 50s.

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Messrs. Henry Sotheran & Co.'s Price Current No. 658 contains nearly fourteen hundred items, and has in addition a catalogue of newly bound books. The former is full of valuable items. We note a few: Palæographical Society's Publications, 1873-94, 371. 10s.; the original edition of Silvestre's Paléographie Universelle,' Didot, 1839-41, 36 Bunsen's Egypt,' 4/. 10s.; Caulfield's 'Portraits,' 1813-20, 5l. 58.; a complete set of the Chetham Society's Publications, 22. 10s.; Oxford Historical Society's Publications, complete to 1904, 11. 11s.; The Annual Register,' with index volume, 17581896, 28/. 108.; a 'Collection des Mémoires relatifs à la Révolution Française,' a choice set, 57 vols. in 54, 167. 168; and 'Napoléon III. devant la Presse Contemporaine en 1873, 71. 78. The historical works are classified under the Ancient World, the Dark Ages, England, &c.

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Mr. Walter T. Spencer has valuable iteras under Alken and under America. The latter include and Murray's History of the War,' 97. 98.; McKenney's Indian Tribes,' 57. 12s. 6d. A most extensive collection of prose essays, sketches, autographs, cuttings, &c., 77 vols., 4to, 1888-97, is Under Angling occur Walton, Cotton, and Venables, 1676, 241.; another copy, 167.; also Pickering's edition, 1836, 117. 11s. A first edition of Ariosto, 1634, is Sl. Ss. There is a treasure in vellum, Book of Hours,' Paris, 1470, 147, 148. Among first editions are Gray's 'Odes,' Strawberry Hill, 1757, 124. 12s; and Heath's 'Humorous Scraps,' Those of Swinburne include 'The 1828, 97. 98.

Question, 81. 8s.; those of Tennyson, Poems,'
1842, 247.; and those of Thackeray, The Second
Funeral of Napoleon,' Cunningham, 1841, 38.
Smollett's Roderick Random,' 1748, is 97. 98.;
Pierce Egan's 'Life in London,' 1821, 107. 10s.;
'Real Life in London,' 18/. 188.; and Finish to the
Adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic,' 287. Field-
The first
ing's Joseph Andrews,' 1742, is 11.
editions of Dickens include 'Sketches by Boz, with
an original water-colour by Cruikshank, 1830, 387.
and Martin Chuzzlewit,' with an original pencil
drawing of Martin Chuzzlewit suspects the Land-
lady,' 1844, 221. 10s. An interesting Dickens item
is the original plan of the contemplated division
headings for The Household Narrative,' entirely
in the writing of Dickens, 1850. This is priced at
227. 10%. There is a long list under Cruikshank,
and also a collection of press opinions and pro-
grammes relating to Sir Henry Irving and the
Lyceum, 12. 128.

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Mr. Thomas Thorp, of Reading, has the first edition of Whymper's Ascent of the Matterhorn,' 185.; Fox-Davies's Armorial Families,' 71. 7s.; The Century Dictionary,' Times edition, 71. 78.; D'Israeli's 'Curiosities of Literature,' Moxon, 1849, 388.; Greville Memoirs,' 1874-87, original issue, 6. 15s.; Musgrave's Obituary prior to 1800," Harleian Society, 1899, 41. 4s. ; and the first edition of Thackeray's Our Street, 1848-9, 20s. There are many interesting items under London Parish Registers, &c.

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Mr. Thomas Thorp at St. Martin's Lane has 'The Annual Register' from its commencement to 1866 (1844-6 missing), 7. 10s.; Prynne's Brief Register,' 1659, 31. 3s.; Hassell's 'Excursions,' 1823, 6.; and Navy Records Society, 14 vols., 47. 15s. There are An inter42 vols. of first editions of Scott, 51. 158. esting Cruikshank item, The Blue Devils' (two copies, one retouched by him), is 77. 78. A second catalogue from St. Martin's Lane contains first editions of J. M. Barrie's works; a large collection of Autograph Franks, 21. 28.; Walcott's 'Architec ture,' 41. 4s.; and Cruikshank's 'The Bachelor's Own Book, 1844, a fine copy, scarce, 21. 12s. 6d. The first editions of Dickens include Nicholas Nickleby,' original wrappers, 37. 78. 6d. There are also coloured illustrations of "Bye-Gone Times" Picture Post Cards.

Notices to Correspondents.

We must call special attention to the followir g notices:

On all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for putlication, but as a guarantee of good faith.

WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rules. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. When answering queries, or making notes with regard to previous entries in the paper, contributors are requested to put in parentheses, immediately after the exact heading, the series, volume, and page or pages to which they refer. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second communication "Duplicate."

T. E. YOUNG ("Sleep the sleep of the just ").— See the numerous articles in 7th S. iv., v., vii., viii. ; also 9th S. xi. 429, 475; xii. 131. ST. SWITHIN ("Rememberable").-Has the authority of Coleridge.

AYEAHR and E. LEGA-WEEKES.-Forwarded. COMMANDANT REBOUL Wishes to draw attention to the fact that, though his communication on George 111's daughters was printed among Replies (10 S. iv. 493), he is anxious to obtain information on the points mentioned therein.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1906.

CONTENTS.-No. 107.

NOTES:-"Brown Bess as applied to a Musket, 21-Magdalen College School, 22-An Unknown Fleetwood Pedigree, 23- Propitious"-"Antequations." 24-Albert Dürer's Name - Ben Jonson's Underwoods' The Juvenile Theatre, 25-Ayesha: its Pronunciation, 26.

appears in a letter from James VI. to the English Council of State, dated from Stirling, 22 August, 1599, relative to "certain_ships laden with muskets, &c., which Mr. Brown (Cal. S. P.D., Scottish Series'). When King was bringing from Flanders to Scotland " James ascended the English throne he QUERIES:-"Pightle": "Pikle," 23-R-liquiæ Wot- appointed Brown his gunfounder. The followtoniana '-Classical Quotations-"Quam nihil ad genium, Papiniane, tuum! Sheffield Plate "Bbl." Mrs. ing letter from Brown's son John to SolicitorBlackaire-Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, 27 General Heath supplies the approximate -Mr. Brownley, Journalistic Orator-The King of Bath-date of the elder Brown's appointment as gunfounder to Queen Elizabeth :

Records Wanted-Lord Cromartie's Issue-Colet on Peace

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and War, 28-Oil Painting, c. 123-Post-mortem Examirations Miserere Carvings - Bridewell: its History Newchapel Church-Johnson's 'Vanity of Human Wishes' -Selling Oneself to the Devil-" Brelan," 29. REPLIES:-Lord Mayor's Day, 39-Samuel Whitchurch, Poet-Ben Jonson and Bacon-Splitting Fields of Ice"These are the Britons" - Prisoner suckled by his Daughter-Bayham Abbev, 31-Mrs. Fitzherbert-Toby's Dog Ainsty-Affery Flintwinch in 'Little Dorrit "Was you?" and "You was "-Enigma by C. J. Fox"Fassive Resister." 32" Famous" Chelsea, 33-Romney Portrait Heraldic - Bells, 34 - " Sjambok"-Chaloner: the Fortunate Boy-Fulham Bridge -The Boar's HeadSeven Sicrament Fonts, 35-Dogs in War-Melton Cloth: Melton Jacket-Final "e" in Chaucer, 36-Melchior Guydickens-Punch. the Beverage-George III.'s Daughters -"Photography "-John Penhallow, 37. NOTES ON BOOKS:-'India'-Blake's ' Lyrical Poems

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Wordsworth as Literary Critic-Biese on the Feeling for
Nature The Extinction of the Ancient Hierarchy'-
Oscar Wilde'-Dod's Peerage-The Clergy Directory'
Fry's Guide to the London Charities-Sir Harry Poland
on Canning's Rhyming Despatch' — ' Neighbours of
North Wyke.'

Obituary:-Mr. Henry Gerald Hope.
Notices to Correspondents.

Hotes.

· BROWN BESS" AS APPLIED TO A MUSKET.

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"December, 1621. My Father has for the last thirty years cast ordnance for the late Queen and the King, and for years maintained the trade alone. At the request of the ordnance officers and the East India Company, I was put to the trade that I might continue it if my father failed, which I have done, others to do the like. If I may still cast for and produced lately two such pieces as I challenge merchants, if the King wants 200 pieces I will cast them in 200 days. Mr. Crow has got a patent for making of ordnance to merchants; this would confine me to the King's service, which only takes ten days a year."-'S.P.D., Addenda, James I.'

S.P.D.,' 1619). In the sixteenth and seven

The aforesaid John Brown had been appointed "Master Founder of the Iron Ordnance" in 1620 ; and his letter just quoted was in consequence of Sackville Crow, a protégé of the Duke of Buckingham, having obtained the patent to which Brown takes exception. The Browns had their foundry at Brenchley, Kent, and employed 200 men. Milhall Wharf, being close to Brenchley, afforded facilities for export trade. Under date of 19 February, 1619, the elder Brown stated that "half of the ordnance manufactured by him had been bought and exIN 1855 a query appeared in N. & Q'ported by the Dutch under licence" (Cal. (1st S. xi. 284) as to the origin of this term. A reply was given to the effect that "Bess was really the Dutch word bus, which signifies barrel, and is found in the sixteenth century "harquebus," a hand gun that took the place of the long bow. No one can find any fault with the above derivation; but no satisfactory explanation has yet been given as to the word "Brown" when it precedes "Bess." The present writer, after a brown study, is strongly of opinion that the early British musket was not called "Brown Bess" because the barrel was of a brown colour (2nd S. v. 259), but for the simple reason that Queen Elizabeth's gunfounder, during the last twelve years of her reign, was a certain Thomas Brown. This gentleman, who was evidently an artificer of no mean order, was also gunfounder to the East India Company, and did a large export business with Holland on his own account.

teenth centuries the manufacturers of muskets
Lists, though a gunstock maker and a gun-
were not specially named in the Ordnance
smith appear in an Ordnance List of 1548
(Col. Cleaveland's Notes on the Early His-
tory of the Royal Artillery'). It must, there-
fore, be taken for granted that_the_gun-
founders to Queen Elizabeth and King James
cast musket-barrels as well as large ordnance.

information from Viscount Dillon, the
The writer recently received the following
Curator of the Armouries in the Tower of
London:-

musket and a caliver of about 1590. They came
"As to the Elizabethan muskets, we have a
from Penshurst, where there are several more.
Those in the Tower have no names on them. The
caliver has an indistinct stamp somewhat like a
bird; the musket has a crown stamped on the

barrel."

Curiously enough, the first mention of It is reasonable to suppose that the Queen's Brown the gunfounder in the State Papers | gunfounder stamped his musket-barrels with

the "crown," and that when completed these The coins were for the most part "old muskets were served out to the Queen's Edwards" or "spur-royals" and "angels," soldiers both in England and Holland. May and were now divided among the members we not conclude that а musket of an of the foundation, even the choristers and improved pattern came into use towards servants obtaining a share. Edward IV. the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, and first struck the rose noble, or ryal, in 1465, that it was known to the British troops the reverse bearing in the centre his badges then in the service of the Dutch Republic of the rose on sun. In later times as a "Brown bus," which term degenerated these coins, and their successors, were into "Brown Bess"? called "spur-ryals," from the resemblance of the pointed form of the sun's rays to the star-like spur of the period. Ultimately, after the Restoration, a large part of the sum abstracted was made good and replaced in

CHARLES DALTON.

32, West Cromwell Road, S. W.

MAGDALEN COLLEGE SCHOOL AND THE the chest. At the same time the old order of

'D.N.B.'

(See 10th S. iv. 21, 101, 182, 244, 364.) WHEN the Parliamentary Commission for visiting the University actually began work, Magdalen was the first college to be visited. On 5 May, 1648, answers being invited from various members of the College to the question, "Do you submit to the authority of Parliament in this visitation?" twenty-eight replies were received, but only one submission. One chorister, John Drake, produced a long and elaborate reply, refusing to submit, "if the word Submitt signifie that the 2 Houses of Parliament, without and against his most excellent Majestie, have a lawfull power to visite this Universitie, either by themselves or others." This, like the professed incapacity of the commoners to answer so weighty a question in any way, was probably intended to annoy. On 17 May Hugh Phillips, "chorister and but a schooleboy 14 yeare old," says: "I confesse that I am not scholler sufficient to give an Answere to this Question propounded." Thomas Horne, chorister, acknowledges "the Visitation, as it cometh from the Kinge and Parliament, otherwise I cannot conscionably submitt to it." Humfrey Simpson, chorister, replies: "Your Question is too obscure for me to answere, but howsoever I cannot submitt to the Visitation." These four, with the possible exception of Phillips, were eventually expelled. In the sequel at least two-thirds of the Demies and most of the choristers were deprived. The grammar master, William White, was deprived, and his place supplied by the usher, Thomas Houghton, or Hawton, who submitted (v. Register of Visitors of University of Oxford, 1647-58,' ed. Prof. M. Burrows).

In July, 1649, a large sum of money (probably worth nearly 1,500l.) was discovered in a chest in the muniment room. This was the reserve fund provided by the founder for use in emergencies, and mentioned in his statutes.

things was in some fashion restored, eight Demies being replaced, all of whom retired the next year.

William Reeks, a member of the School recommended by Lord Chancellor Clarendon, became Fellow in 1671, and died four years later. He left a detailed allegorical explanation of the curious figures which adorn the buttresses on three sides of the cloister. These figures, set up in 1508-9, were painted upon the occasion of the royal visit when James I. pronounced Magdalen to be "the most absolute building in Oxford." In 1672 William Harris of M.C.S. was recommended by the King for a Demyship (Bloxam, iii. 204; Wilson, 63n, 165, 170, 177). A chorister of 1662, Thomas Collins of Bristol, was afterwards Vice-Principal of Gloucester Hall (now Worcester College), and from 1673 until his death, fifty years later, Master of M.C.S. He was a friend of Anthony Wood, whose body he assisted in bearing to the grave in Merton Chapel, and also of Thomas Hearne. The latter declares him to have been "a good Preacher, a good Scholar, and a most facetious companion"; and says under date 16 Sept., 1706, "The best thing I ever heard of Bishop Hough [the President ejected by James II.] was his bestowing a Prebend of Lichfield upon Mr. Collins, Schoolmaster of Magdalen." Again, on 21 April, 1719, Hearne called " upon Mr. Collins of Magd. Coll. to-day between two and three. He was reading Pope's Homer, which he mightily admires. He useth a little hour-glass, which he says he brought with him when he first came to Oxford." His portrait by an unknown artist is at M.C.S. A pupil of his, one Thomas Goodwyn, Demy in 1675, and expelled by James II.'s Commissioners, died Archdeacon of Derby and "a very good scholar." Another of seven years later, Richard Watkins, expelled on the same occasion, became, in calmer times, VicePresident of the College. Another, Daniel

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Stacey, chorister 1676-83, is noticed by Hearne AN UNKNOWN FLEETWOOD PEDIGREE
(See 9th S. ix. 261; 10th S. i. 422)
as a good preacher in his prime.
FURTHER search enables me to continue
this pedigree.

During the famous contest with James II. in 1687-8 twenty-five Fellows and eighteen Demies were expelled, professed Romanists taking their places. John Hough, eventually Bishop of Worcester, was superseded as President by Samuel Parker, Bishop of Oxford, and after the latter's death, for a few months, by Bonaventure Gifford, titular Thomas Collins, the Bishop of Madaura. Master, who became chaplain to Bishop Parker, unsuccessfully applied for a mandate for a Fellowship and for the degree of D.D. (Bloxam's Magdalen College and James II.,' Wood, under date 10 Jan., 1688, 83, 93). says:

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"Mr. Collins return'd from London after he had been there some time to gaine a fellowship of Magd. Coll. and not turne Roman Catholic. In his absence Mr. (Richard) Wright, his usher (1683-9), left his place and carried away most (of) his scholars to teach them privatly in the great stone-house against the Checquer lun. 'Tis said Mr. Collins hath lost his reputation among his friends."— Life,' iii. 253. It was said of Wood that "he never spake well of any man"; but Collins, as we have seen, remained his friend unto the end.

a further expulsion of Under Gifford Fellows took place, only three of those of Hough's time being left undisturbed-and one of them a lunatic! Apparently ten choristers were ejected in 1687, including Thomas Yalden, the well-known poet, to be replaced by as many boys, who probably assisted as acolytes at the celebration of Mass, according to the Roman use, when Gifford set up that form of worship in the College chapel. These ten were in their turn removed by Bishop Mews at his visitation, 25 Oct., 1688, when the legitimate members of the College were restored. But despite King James's ill-treatment of her, Magdalen long retained her affection for the exiled house of the king who had, metaStewart, and phorically, broken his head against Wolsey's Tower; and when, in 1715, General Pepper was sent with his famous "troop of horse" to coerce Oxford and arrest certain disloyal persons, Col. Owen, a Jacobite officer, found a sure refuge in the College. Pepper, on his arrival, beset the "Greyhound " Inn in the "Gravel Walk," where Owen was lodging; and the latter was warned only just in time to escape from his bed over a wall into the College. Tradition has it that he was for some time concealed in the turret of the "Grammar Hall," then the bell - turret of the School A. R. BAYLEY. building.

(To be continued.)

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John Fleetwood (baptized at St. Andrew Undershaft, 6 April, 1720?) married Barbara Wynne at Mercers' Hall Chapel, Cheapside, 24 Feb., 1754_(marriage allegation in Bishop of London's Registry). He died at Lambeth, to his was granted 22 Dec., 1788, a widower and intestate; administration he resided Robert, 5 Jan., 1789 (P.C.C. Macham). He had other children, as Clapham before going to Lambeth, and the register of Clapham Parish Church records on 9 Jan., 1771, the christening of Barbara, daughter of John and Barbara This BarFleetwood (born 9 Dec., 1770). bara Fleetwood married at Masulipatam, He was mortally 17 May, 1792, Lieut.-Col. Edward Montagu, of H.E.I.C. Artillery. wounded at Seringa patam, dying 10 May, 1799. Mrs. Montagu died 3 June, 1848. The be found in Burke's Peerage' as descendants Regicide has living representatives, who will of the first Earl of Manchester.

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Anna Maria, who married Col. William Gent, was another daughter of John Fleetwood. She died 24 Aug., 1801, aged forty-five, and was interred at Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham, co. Gloucester.

Robert Fleetwood, who administered his He died at his father's estate, was in the Victualling Office for more than forty years. residence in New Ormond Street, 17 Dec., 1824. His eldest son, Robert, died at Northampton, 23 Nov., 1810, at the age of fifteen. Robert Fleetwood's will, dated 7 Oct., 1817, was proved 23 Dec., 1824 (P.C.C. Erskine 660). He had a wife and children living in 1817, but the will does not give their names.

The following notes will elucidate some points in my earlier communications.

Robert Fleetwood (9th S. ix. 261), whose will was proved 15 March, 1771, died at Clapham, 24 Feb., 1771.

Anne, Cleaver and Fenton Families. granddaughter of the Regicide, married' William Cleaver at St. Dunstan's, Stepney, 14 Nov., 1711; their daughter Jane married William Fenton, and it was she who had the miniature of the Regicide. This settles the doubtful point mentioned in 9th S. ix. 262 as to her parentage. Three members of these families are buried at Hayes, co. Kent, according to a monument in the church with the arms of Cleaver impaling Fleetwood, viz. Mrs. Anne Cleaver, died 5 May, 1737; William Fenton, buried 22 July, 1753; and Mrs. Jane Fenton, died 21 May, 1782.

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