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example is specimen VI. 9, in the illustration Milton in 'S.A.,' 1028, and he also speaks below; specimen VI. 10 is from the stanza of a capacious mind" ('P.L.,' IX. 603). now discussed. Stanza B also shows points of resemblance to Milton's printed works in vocabulary and

A comparison of the two specimens shows

with impious hands

(Ibid., I. 685-8

and we come very near to the same phrase Riff'd the bowels of their mother Earth in (ibid., VIII. 338-41),

For Treasures better hid.

and

disciplin'd
From imposition of strict laws, to free
Acceptance of large Grace, from servil fear
To filial.

(Ibid., XII. 302-4

*Bradshaw, op. cit.

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put into her hand, to use against all violence and oppression on the earth.

Stanza C contains two packed lines, and the characteristic reference to 66 propriety already quoted (p. 205). It may be worth In the sixth and eighth lines of this noting that Milton uses the word in his stanza, when read aloud, one finds the prose writings too; we find* But the affinity between sound and sense, so typical King had no proprietie at all either of Milton. in Hull or in the Magazin," and "it While Word-card VI. is in view, it may holds a strange and lawless propriety from be well to note one or two points. The all other works of God under heaven." word "majestick" has been discussed; the In Milton's Commonplace Book (p. 199) other words on the card illustrate the a passage occurs, their subjects general resemblance between the Ovid and engaging their natural libertie and proprietie T. scripts, and also indicate the slightly more of their goods," but Horwood thinks the elaborate character of the earlier script prepage is in Lord Preston's script. dicted (p. 223). This is seen best in the The vocabulary, too, is Milton's; we may k of specimen 6 from the Ovid script; specimens 4, 5, 7, 8 of the same word are from the T. script. The mu is most alike in 6 and 4; the si is most alike in 6 and 8; the c in 6 and 5. Specimen 2 is from the Ovid script, 1 and 3 are from T. Golden and dragon are words which occur from time to time in both scripts, and they have therefore been used for illustration. Specimens 11, 12, 13 are from the T. script, 14 and 15 are from the Ovid script; the resemblance in disconnexion and general character is quite obvious; the looped ld in 14 may perhaps illustrate the slight increase of elaboration predicted, but specimen 16 from the T. script is hardly less so. The en in 11 and 14 is almost identical.

compare

and

the stage of Ayr and Earth

first the Sun

A mightie Spheare he fram'd

(Passion, 2.)

P.L., VII. 354-5.) Stanza D relates to The Brazen and Iron Ages (specimen V. 14). It has one fairly packed line, and the phrase "dig and delve" recalls Milton's

He dig'd a pit, and delv'd it deep. (Ps. VII. 55.)
and

Hid from the world in a low delved tombe.
( D.F.I.,' V. 4.)
but the line most characteristic of Milton

is the fifth. It is curious how often Milton
associates Truth and Justice. The following
quotations will serve to illustrate this for
the moment :—

Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold.

Truth,
and that fine passage in ‘Εἰκονοκλάστης
(chap. 28), too long to quote entire, in which
he challenges the verdict of Zorobabel that
"Truth of all other things was the
strongest" and contends

Specimens 17 and 18 are from the T. script; Ovid script; the general resemblance is specimens 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 are from the obvious and there is a hint of increased elaboration in the d of 22 at any rate. This elaboration is further illustrated by comparison with the Rous address (p. 244). The reader who has at hand the the elaborate p of heapes, stanza 1 (p. 266) reproduction then mentioned will see that is identical with the one used by Milton in reponeret, and that the initial N of line 4 in stanza 3 (p. 268) is the one used in Nunc.

It seems unnecessary to pursue the handwriting evidence any further at present. The reader will probably agree that the writer of the T. words could hardly hope to convince a jury that he had never within the previous ten or twelve years written any of the Ovid words; indeed if his fate depended on doing so his position would be an unenviable one. future confine ourselves to reading the We can, therefore, in text and briefly noting some significant literary features which supplement and confirm the conclusions outlined in the first + Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce' (1645), note (pp. 201-6). HUGH C. H. CANDY.

that either Truth and Justice are all one, for
Truth is but Justice in our knowledge, and Justice
is but Truth in our practice,
or els,
if there be any odds, that Justice, though not
stronger then Truth, yet by her office is to put
forth and exhibit more strength in the affaires
of mankind. For Truth is properly no more then
Contemplation; and her utmost efficiency is but
eaching: but Justice in her very essence is all
strength and activity; and hath a Sword

* Εἰκονοκλάστης (1649), p. 70.

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(To be continued.)

The female parts have no opposite numbers. There is also on a faded halfsheet of notepaper, inserted loose at the same place, the same list except that after Mr. Forster's name is added "Editor of the Examiner." As these must be the names and parts of the Dickens Amateurs I have thought that they might be not without interest, particularly as most of them are famous in other walks of life. There, were, I think, four periods of presentation of this play by Dickens and his friends, as follows:

1845. Sept. 21, at Fanny Kelly's Theatre in Dean Street, and just later at a larger theatre for charity. Forster's 'Life of Dickens' (Bk. V., chap. i.) refers to the performances and mentions Jerrold, Lemon, Leach, Forster and Dickens with the parts assigned to them in the above list, but A'Beckett and Mr. Leigh, who do not appear in my list, are given also with parts.

July in London and other large towns in benefit of Sheridan Knowles (Forster, Bk. VI., chap. i.).

at

1850. Privately. three performances Lord Lytton's seat at Knebworth Park (Forster, Bk. VI., chap. v.).

It is, I think, likely that my list refers to the 1847 performances.

The set of volumes of 'The Theatre' in which the above list occurs belonged, probably, originally, as it was published in 1768, to Samuel Cowper Brown, whose bookplate bearing his arms and the motto Indignante invidia florebit justus is at the beginning of vol. i.

I have another volume of plays once belonging to him in which his name is written in ink with the date 1769 following. In The Theatre' this gentleman had a curious trick of inscribing his name on the fifteenth or forty-fifth (usually both) pages of all twelve volumes except one. E. A. G. STUART.

Alor Star, Kedah, Malay States.

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'SOME ACCOUNT OF KENTISH TOWN.'— This exceedingly scarce local history, published by J. Bennett (1821) anonymously, was said by Dr. E. F. Rimbault (3 S. ix. 170) to have been written by Mr. William Elliott. The book professes also to provide "a Brief Review of the River Fleet, or River of the Wells, and the principal events connected therewith." The matter supplied to justify this promise is trifling and altogether inadequate, compared with the intended work by A. Crosby, or even the volume on The Fleet' by John Ashton. Crosby's material in a chest or box is preserved at the Guildhall Library, where I have examined it, and find he suggests that this little work was compiled by its publisher, J. Bennett. This publisher also issued, in the same year, a local magazine, The Gossip, commencing Saturday, March 3, 1821. An eight-page Svo mis1847. July 26 at Manchester; July 28 cellany, it was issued at 2d., being printed at Liverpool. These two performances were by J. Bennett, Post Office, Kentish Town. "benefits to Leigh Hunt and Poole. At Part XIX. the title is changed to The Forster (Bk. VI., chap. i.) mentions, in- Literary Gossip. It ends with Part XXIII. cluding himself, ten artists, all in my list, the editor and publisher taking leave of but without assigning parts to them. Of their readers, thanking contributors and the three unmentioned by Forster, F. and offering the work in one volume, boards, A. Dickens were, I suppose, the novelist's with title and contents. The concluding brothers Frederick and Augustus, and may number has a description of the coronation, not T. (or F.) J. Thomson be T. J. Thomson, but there is nothing resembling the little whose wife's sister F. Dickens married? local history, nor topographical matter of (Forster, Bk. VI., chap. i.).

any kind.

1848. Nine times between April and Possibly some local squib aimed at the

Select Vestry or administrators of the Sir Rich. Corbet of Moreton, Corbet Poor Law may provide some indications; and Shawbury, Salop, who died Dec. 6, until this is found we are divided in 1492. Any particulars will be welcome.) allegiance between Dr. Rimbault's very 25. Sir John Crokke (Croker) of Crocker's definite attribution and Crosby's pos- Hele, Dartmoor, Kt. Afterwards of Linesible guess that the publisher Bennett ham, S. Devon, by marriage with also wrote the work. The only local daughter and heir of ... Churchill. (I satire known to me does not help, but it have many details, but there are gaps to is an unfamiliar work, so I transcribe its fill in.) title: The Senate, or Social Villagers of Kentish-Town, a canto by Selim. Amicitiâ Nihil Gratius. London: Printed and Published by Yorston and Gurney, Mitre Court, January 1817.' This names many of the villagers but not the local historian. Many years later John Wykeham Archer, a very possible compiler and local antiquary, came to reside in Somers Town, but the period of his industry is rather late. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

"LINDSEY-COAST."-This name was sometimes used in the seventeenth century for the division of Lincolnshire now known as the "parts of Lindsey." The precise use is not given in N.E.D.' but both" coast" and "parts" are used in the Bible (A.V.) to mean a region or district. This is distinct from " "= border. coast G. S. GIBBONS. Holton-le-Moor, Lincoln.

Queries.

WE must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

EDWARD IV.'s EXPEDITION
TO FRANCE.

(See ante, p. 269.)

I SHOULD be greatly obliged for information about the following:

22. Sir William Trussell, Kt. His badge was a black ass's head erased and about the neck a crown gold. (I suspect that he was the Sir Wm. Trussell of Coblestone, or Cobblesden, Staffs, who married Margaret, daughter of... Kene, and died 20 Edward IV.

Any particulars will be acceptable.) 23. Sir Richard Brandon, Kt. His badge was a lion's head erased gold, which shows that he was of the Brandons of Norfolk. (So far I have not been able to fit him into that family.)

24. Sir Richard Corbett, Kt. No badge given. (It seems likely that he was the

26. Sir Simon Mounford, Kt. His badge was a fleur-de-lis gules, which suggests that he was of Feltwell or of Methwold, Norfolk. This is apparently the man who was executed in January, 1495, for complicity in the Warbeck plots.

27. John Smert (Smart), Garter King of Arms. (I know all about him except his parentage, county, birth-date, and marriage.)

28. John Sturgeon, Esquire, Master of the Ordnance Pikes. (I have many unconnected details, but no certain identification.)

29. Richard Garnet, Esquire, Master of the King's Tents. (The same applies here. There were Garnets of Lancashire, Westmorland, Cheshire and Essex.) 30. Scureys [Esquire]. (The same applies here. Scurres, or de Scurres, is found in Yorks and Hants.)

31. William Hawkeslowe, Clarencieux King of Arms. (I know all about him except his parentage, county, birth-date, and marriage.)

32. Thomas Holme, Norroy King of Arms. (The same applies here. Was he the father of William Holme of Tranmere, in the Hundred of Wirral, Cheshire, whose descendants for several generations dealt in matters heraldic ?)

33. John Ferrant, March King of Arms. (Any particulars will help. Ferrants-or Farrants, &c.-are found at Skipton in Craven, Wellington in Devon, Harden in Yorks, and in Sussex.)

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34. William Warde. He was head of the Labour Corps." (I know nothing of his family.)

35. Edmund Gregory. Apparently assistant to Warde. (I know nothing of his family.)

36. William Roose, Contrarotulator Ordinationum Regis. (I know nothing of his family.)

37. Thomas Bonys, Clerk of the Ordnance. (I know nothing of his family.) F. P. BARNARD. Bilsby House, near Alford, Lincolnshire.

HENRY HAWKS, MERCHANT (fl. 1572).- formation I find that the cottage where Having found interesting documents, which Miss Mitford lived at Three Mile Cross was I am preparing for publication, relating to nominally situated herein. Bealmes, or Henry Hawks, merchant, who spent five Beauymis, is discoverable in a moated enyears in Mexico, and wrote, in 1572, the closure near the River Loddon; Little ShipRelation of the Commodities of Nova bridge, an ancient moated farmhouse, farHispania,' &c., published by Richard Hak-ther down, near Swallowfield Mill; Gastons luyt, I would be much obliged for any in- seems lower still, on the same side of the formation concerning his life after his re- river, and now surviving in field-names, turn to England, his death, place of burial, but a comparatively modern house called genealogy, &c., which may have been pre-Hyde End has traces of an old moat. served.

3. The Manors of Diddenham, Moor According to his own testimony he was Place, and Hartley Dummer. The site of of a noble Čatholic family, and was born in Diddenham Old Manor House is easily traced, Tavistock, Devonshire, in 1540, his parents near the Fowdey brook and not far distant being Richard and Agnes Hawks. His from Lambwood Hill Common, enclosed in father" died in the defence of the Faith in a 1858 with waste lands of these manors. battle fought in the reign of Edward VI." | (presumably in the insurrection in Devonshire in 1549). Indications of possible sources of information will also be gratefully received. Please address answers direct.

(MRS.) ZELIA NUTTALL.

Casa Alvarado, Coyoacán, D.F. Mexico. ROYAL DRAMATIC COLLEGE. In a magazine of the sixties called, I believe, Tinsley's Magazine, in vol. i., dated 1868, there appeared an article called Thespians out of the Cart.' Of the name of the journal I am not quite sure, for I have it not, but the article I have. It is dated, and "Tinsley " is written in pencil on the top of the page, numbered 36. On this page, the title page of the article in question, is a woodcut showing us Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford, Webster, Buckstone, and othersnot Irving or Bancroft; it was rather too early for these men to be allowed a front place.

In the article a certain "Royal Dramatic College" is much spoken of. Can anyone give further information about the College, when and where established, when made "Royal," and when closed? E. R.

MISS MITFORD'S OUR VILLAGE.'-From scattered sources I gather that the parish in which Three Mile Cross is situated formerly comprised several manors, or parts of manors, and I should be glad if anyone would indicate the position of Moor Place. So far as I can glean there are, or were :

1. The Manor of Shinfield, one time the property of the Wollascots; a residence near the church is still called the Manor House.

Hartley Manor Farm, lower down the brook, indicates the approximate site of Hartley Manor House. Moor Place I cannot locate. Hartley Dummer is mentioned in a directory as a liberty in the parish of Shinfield, hundred of Theale, county Berks. Diddenham a tithing in the same parish, hundred of Amesbury, county of Wilts. (The outlying portions of Wiltshire locally in Berkshire were annexed to the latter county in 1844.) Shinfield at large in the hundred of Charlton, county Berks. There is a detached portion of the parish consisting of the house and grounds known as Trunkwell, near Beech Hill. Information of any kind relative to old territorial divisions of Shinfield would be acceptable. SHIREMAN.

FOLK-LORE CHANGELINGS.-Where can I find the folk-tale, alluded to recently in Punch, that the way to get rid of a changeling left by the fairies was to boil water in an egg-shell in order to make the child laugh? G. S. GIBBONS.

Holton-le-Moor, Lincoln.

PORTUGUESE ARMS : IDENTIFICATION WANTED. A chair has been presented to York Minster. The family who gave it say that it came from Dom Miguel's Palace in Lisbon in 1828. The following arms are stamped in gold on the back :-Quarterly, 1, Fretty; 2, Lion rampant; 3, Cross fleury; 4, Saltire between four fleurs-de-lis.

Above the arms is a ducal-looking crown.
I should be very grateful if any reader could
tell me whose arms they are.
E. S.

GOVERNOR OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND.— Who was Governor of the Bank of England 2. The Manors of Bealmes and Little in the year 1824, and who was the Deputy Shipbridge with Gastons. From chance in- Governor ? HORACE BLEACKLEY.