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Dr. Dowse, a physician residing in Jersey, where she married Mr. Wybert Rousby, director of the theatre there, about 1863. She made her début in that island, and for some time played the role of leading lady in her husband's company. Her great success in London was at the Queen's Theatre, where she took the town by storm as Princess Elizabeth in Mr. Tom Taylor's historical drama of "Twixt Axe and Crown.' She was identified with 'Joan of Arc' and with Mr. W. G. Wills's' Marie Stuart' at the Princess's Theatre, as well as Mr. Muskerry's play of 'The Gascon,' produced at the Olympic. After a long and successful tour in America, she appeared for the last time in London in Mr. Band mann's 'Madeline Morel' at the Queen's.

Much of her popularity was doubtless due to her personal attractiveness. She died from rapid consumption, at Wiesbaden, on 19 April, 1879. Her portrait as Joan of Arc appeared in the Illustrated London News for 22 April, 1871.

71, Brecknock Road.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

A brief sketch of the life and histrionic career of Clara Marion Jessie Rousby (1852-1879), appears in Ward's 'Men of the Reign,' 1885, p. 775. She was the fourth daughter of R. Dowse, Esq., of Emma Place, Stonehouse, co. Devon, Inspector-General of Hospitals, Army Medical Department.

DANIEL HIPWELL.

worked through the Church Bells of Worcestershire,' and that the latter gentleman has his notes on Warwickshire Church Bells' practically completed. It will be a great advantage when both counties can be published. Then Oxfordshire, Herefordshire, and Monmouthshire will be the only desiderata in the Western Midlands.

the names of all the counties in England in which 'N. & Q.,' 7th S. vi. (1888), furnished not only church bells have been treated in separate volumes, of bells and bell-ringing, to which, I think, no each complete in itself, but a general bibliography additions have been made.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

SAINT TRUNION (8th S. viii. 249, 478).—There can, I think, be no doubt that this saint is identical with St. Ronan, called in the Pardoner's Prologue of the Canterbury Tales St. Runyan, or St. Ronyon. Prof. Skeat, in his Notes on the Canterbury Tales' (Chaucer's 'Works,' vol. v. pp. 266, 267), says, It looks as if the Host and Pardoner were not very clear about the saint's Skeat refers to mention of "St. Tronian's fast" name, only knowing him to swear by." Prof. and "St. Rinan's fast" at pp. 80 and 551 Society). St. Ronan is, of course, best known in respectively of Pilkington's Works' (Parker Scott's St. Ronan's Well'; the saint is not mentioned by Alban Butler that I can discover, but

Prof. Skeat has found him in the 'Acta Sanctorum,' under 7 February, Ronan, B and C (February, vol. ii. 3 B).

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CHURCH BELLS (8th S. viii. 468).-The church bells of Staffordshire have been exhaustively described, with splendid illustrations-far more It seems that Ronan was a Scotch saint, Bishop copious than those of any other county-by Mr. of Kilmaronen, or Kilmaronock, Dumbarton; Charles Lynam, F.R.I.B.A. (1889). The county various dates are given for him, ranging from 603 of Worcester is, I believe, among the desiderata of to 778; and the notices of him are by no means campanists. There are notes on a few parishes in easy to harmonize; so that the account of him in Lukis's 'Church Bells,' pp. 130, 131. Has not, Acta' very properly concludes "Maiorem however, some one taken the county in hand? Ilucem desideramus." Ronayne is a well-known seem to have heard so. Your correspondent should Irish name nowadays; and let us not forget Comprovide himself with rolls of lining paper, two modore Trunnion. The examples of St. Tib for inches deep, a few scraps of waste upper-leather, St. Ubes, Tooley for St. Olaf, Tanthony for St. and a tape measure- the first to be stretched Anthony, Tawdry for St. Audrey, are sufficient to tightly round the inscription rim or wherever else show how frequent are such formations as Tronyon lettering, badges, or other devices appear; the and Trunion from Ronan, Ronyon, &c. Dr. Brewer, second to be rubbed evenly over the surface of the in Phrase and Fable,' s. v. "Tanthony," states that paper; the third to note the diameter of the bell the churches of St. Etheldred, St. Edmund, St. from lip to lip, whereby the approximate weight Andrew, and St. Austin, in Norwich, are locally can be ascertained. There should be, if possible, known as Sin Telder's, Sin Tedmund's, Sin two workers, one each side of the bell. Where Tander's, and Sin Tausin's. I cannot say that I there is a chance of ancient finds, the enthusiast have heard these forms here; possibly they may will take a few lumps of putty, for "squeezes" of have been more in vogue when Dr. Brewer was cross, stop, and specimen letters, to be cast after-associated with our noble church of St. Peter, wards in plaster-of-paris. C. DEEDES. Mancroft, nearly fifty years since.

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JAMES HOOPER.

JOHN WORTHINGTON (8th S. viii. 408).-He may safely be identified with John Worthington, Fellow of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, B.A.

1684, M.A. 1688. He was a Nonjuror under William and Mary. C. F. S. WARREN, M.A. Longford, Coventry.

his little pamphlets, a copy of which may be found at the British Museum.

Mr. Hunter had searched at the Probate Registry CHIFFINCH (8th S. viii. 28, 98, 431, 511).-May for the wills; but, unlike him, had forgotten to look I be allowed to point out to COL. PRIDEAUX that at the administrations (probably MR. VINCENT'S I alluded to William Chiffinch, the less respect-case), and they may be excused for doubting it; able of the two brothers who ministered to the but how Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps suppressed this pleasures of Charles II., in my recently published information and (whilst he admitted the fact) History of St. James's Square'? Though often omitted to give the authority, it is difficult to conconfounded with his elder brother (Thomas), Wil-ceive, unless it was because he felt that by publishliam survived his royal master, so that I am strictly accurate in describing him as the probable companion of Charles in his imaginary perambulation of the square in the year 1683.

ARTHUR IRWIN DASENT.

SOURCES OF QUOTATIONS (8th S. viii. 468).-M. Geoffroy seems to have based his opinion upon the dictum of a still more illustrious critic, who wrote of 'Les Tragiques Anglais' that "Leurs pièces, presque toutes barbares, dépourvues de bienséance, d'ordre et de vraisemblance, ont des lueurs étonnantes au milieu de cette nuit” (Voltaire, ‘Œuvres,' 68, 275). Hastings.

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

SHAKSPEARE'S LONDON LODGING (3rd S. viii. 418; 7 S. vii. 483; viii. 73, 168, 253; 8th S. viii. 417). I have read MR. VINCENT's letter at the last reference, apparently throwing discredit on my statement that the poet's father was the son of Richard of Snitterfield. I have not seen the query to which it is an answer; but I can hardly suppose that any one would be so ignorant of the state of the Subsidy Rolls as to make the inquiry which MR. VINCENT appears to answer. Surely PROF. BUTLER must have required some evidence of identity, and that MR. VINCENT fails to give. William Shakspere was a far from uncommon name at that period. There were several in Warwickshire, and very possibly several in London; and this William Shakespeare of St. Helen's does not spell his name like the poet, although that may have been an error of the scribe, not an uncommon one. The poet uniformly spelt his name Shakspere, and those who have spelt it otherwise have misread his writing. But whilst swallowing this well-grown camel, MR. VINCENT curiously strains at a very small gnat which I have put before the public in the letter to the Times which you did me the great honour to reprint. MR. VINCENT quotes Mr. Hunter's doubts as to the identity of John of Snitterfield and the poet's father, and he implores somebody to search the Act Book of the Probate Court of Worcester to ascertain the truth. Unless Mr. HalliwellPhillipps has been hoaxed, there is no necessity to arouse the slumbering Worcestershire antiquaries (who, indeed, are awakening to the importance of antiquarian pursuits), for Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps has printed the bond and administration in one of

ing the truth that John Shakspere resided at Snitterfield in 1560 he would be compelled to rewrite the greater portion of his book and discard (as he ought to have done) that delightful episode of the fining in 1552 for a nuisance, from which he (utterly unwarrantably) draws very unpleasant and untrue deductions respecting his social condition and habits. That John was undoubtedly not the poet's father, but was one of several of the name who were of, and about, Stratford at that period, and who lived in the street in which the poet's father long afterwards bought the " Birthplace," as it is now called.

The evidence of the identity of the poet's father with John of Snitterfield is quite clear from the history of the Arden family, from Chancery suits and other documents too voluminous to be discussed in the columns of N. & Q.', but which I have fully detailed in a book I have just completed and hope shortly to publish. There is really no rational doubt about the matter. If doubt could be thrown upon it, no pedigree published would be safe from being discredited; and of this MR. VINCENT must be fully aware.

JOHN PYM YEATMAN. Lightwoods Cottage, Beech Lanes, Birmingham. P.S.-I read with the greatest interest the REV. F. NORRIS's most important discoveries respecting the Baddesley Clinton Shaksperes (8th S. viii. 501). They are unquestionably the poet's ancestry, and I rejoice to be able to incorporate this account in my book. I only regret that MR. NORRIS is so niggardly in giving the very words of his records and his authorities. I presume he has had access to the Court Rolls, or possibly the MSS. of the famous antiquary Henry Ferrars, of that place.

RUINED CHURCHES (8th S. viii. 307).-The following list of these is extracted from innumerable communications. The whole are at the service of MR. PAGE, if he will send stamped and directed envelope. They are far too long and numerous for insertion.

Bulverhythe, between St. Leonards-on-Sea and Bexhill; All Saints, Dunwich; Mells Chapel, in Wenhaston parish; Hazlewood, in Aldeburgh parish; Great Stanmore, Middlesex; Heponstall, York; St. Peters, near Stoke Point, Revelstoke ; St. Helen's Ore, near Hastings; Wickham Bishops; Stanway; Brentwood; Mistley (2); Latchingdon;

F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY.

Laindon Hills; St. Peters, Maldon; Downton on the kay o' the flour-room ŏŏth 'im-an' the fire the Rock, near Ludlow; Shenstone, Staffordshire; i' the oven fur bakin'.'" Perranzabuloe, Gwithian, and Madrow, in Cornwall; St. John's, Lincoln; St. Cuthbert's, Howden; Acol, near Birchington, in Thanet; West Barming, near Maidstone; St. Pancras, Canterbury; Denton, near Gravesend ; Hurst, near Bonnington; West Hythe; Merston, near Gravesend; Little Mongeham; Oxney, north of Dover; Poulton, west of Dover; Reculver; in Romney Marsh, Blackmanstone, Eastbridge, Ebony, Midley and Orgarswick; Sarre and Stonar, in Thanet; Stone, near Faversham; Warden, in Sheppey ; Flaunden, Bucks; Chapel of the Holy Ghost,

Basingstoke.

EDITOR.

JOSEPH WEEKES (8th S. viii. 487).-There was a well-known actor of Irishmen whose name was Weekes, and who died in 1838.

1, Brixton Road.

WM. DOUGLAS.

In the sense quoted fantigue is well known among Derbyshire folk, where it has a wider meaning than "fidgety." It was always used in connexion with woman-kind, and a dame getting into an excited condition would be said to be in a fantigue. about domestic affairs would be described as a A woman always worrying herself regular fantigue=fidget. THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

shire for the last fifty years, as meaning a state of
I have been familiar with this word in Shrop-
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son's 'Shropshire Word Book": "Fanteag, a fit of
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Shrewsbury.

This word is not peculiar to Kent. I have frequently heard it in the Midland Counties and "FANTIGUE" (8th S. viii. 326).-Halliwell, in his C. C. B. occasionally elsewhere. 'Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words,' and This word is not confined to the county of Kent. Thomas Wright, in his 'Provincial Dictionary,' I have frequently heard it made use of in Essex, give Fanteague, worry, bustle, ill-humour; in the sense of flurry or state of excitement. various dialects. 'N. & Q.,' 6th S. viii. 26, 132, furnishes examples of its use in Sussex, Lancashire, Shropshire, and Hampshire; also by Charles Dickens and Henry Kingsley. It is said to be derived from fann, weak, and taoig, a fit of passion.

71, Brecknock Road.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

In Wright's 'Provincial Dictionary' we have, "Fanteague, s. (1) a bustle, (2) ill-humour, var. d." Although I cannot trace the derivation, I can testify that the use of the word extends, or did extend, over a much wider area than the county of Kent. When I was a lad, five-and-forty years ago, it was a common expression in the counties of Bucks and Oxon to indicate mental excitement. Almost invariably it was preceded by the adjective regular," e.g., "She wer in a reg'lar fanteague about it," or "Daunt you goo an' put yerself into a reg'lar fanteague, now"; equivalent to the modern phrase, "Don't excite yourself!" and its slang congener, "Keep yer hair on!" A Norfolk friend tells me that the word had the same use, meaning, and adjectival accompaniment in his county.

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RICH. WELFORD.

Romford.

THOS. BIRD.

[We have heard it in the West Riding.] 375).-The Rev. J. C. Cox, LL.D., writes ('Sports PARISH CHARITIES (8th S. viii. 27, 98, 156, 276, in Churches') :—

"Occasionally, too, parochial charities provided that the bequest in kind should be consumed in the church. This was the case with regard to a small seventeenth of bread and beer were to be distributed in the parish century charity, by the terms of which a certain quantity church of Barton-le-Street, Yorkshire, on Holy Thursday, to the children of the parish, to be by them consumed within the church, close to the tomb of the testator. This custom prevailed until about 1820, when it was abandoned in favour of the churchyard,'

OHAS. JAS. FERET.

QUADRILLE, THE DANCE (8th S. viii. 268, 357). It is clear from the song attributed to James Smith that at the time the song was written the dance had become popular among all classes, as, in the words of the song,

King Almack with his star and garter coteries, Never could anticipate such democratic votaries, for even the

This word is given in Miss Baker's 'North- Vice-regent of the kitchen, the pretty Mrs. Kitty, amptonshire Words and Phrases' and explained Holds her check apron up with simpering simplicity thus: "Irritability, ill-humour. 'She was in a And thinks she is glissad-ing as graceful as nobility. fine fantigue,' i. e., in a state of great excitement." So that we must look further than the date of the She gives also fantigued or fattigued as "vitiations song-if that can be ascertained-for the date of of fatigued." The late Miss G. F. Jackson has the introduction of the dance into this country. I included the word in her 'Shropshire Word-Book': think it will be found that it was first made popular Fanteag [fantai'gg and fantee gg] sb., a fit of ill-in England by Lady Jersey, who was the leader of temper; a pet. Com., 'The missis is in a pretty fashion under the Regency, to whom we are also fantaig; the maister's gwun to the far an' took | indebted for "the voluptuous waltz" decried by

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Here is another verse from the song I quote from memory, never having seen it in print :If you want to lose a tooth, and seek a man for drawing it, You find your dentist not at home, he's demie-queue de chat-ing it. JNO. HEBB.

Willesden Green, N.W.

The author of Memoirs of the Times of

George IV. makes the following comment on quadrilles, then (1811) newly exhibited in England: "We had much waltzing and quadrilling, the last of which is certainly very abominable. I am not prude enough to be offended with waltzing." I may add that Mr. Thomas Raikes gives yet a different date for the appearance of the waltz :

"No event ever produced so great a sensation in English society as the introduction of the German waltz in 1813. Up to that time the English country dance, Scotch steps, and an occasional Highland reel, formed the school of the dancing-master and the evening recreation of the British youth even in the first circles."

Lady C. Davies writes in her 'Recollections': "At Almack's, in 1814, the rules were very strict: Scotch reels and country dances were in fashion "; and she does not ever mention either quadrilles or waltzes. E. WALFORD.

Ventnor.

MR. WALLER, in his reply, might as well have quoted his authority for what he writes. It is, no doubt, Capt. Gronow's 'Reminiscences,' long extracts from which will be seen in 'Old and New London,' iv. 196-8, where also will be found an engraving of "The first Quadrille danced at Almack's.' The four figures portrayed are those of Lady Jersey, Lord and Lady Worcester, and Macdonald of Clanronald. The Lady Susan Hyde, mentioned by MR. WALLER, is really Lady Susan Ryder, afterwards Countess Fortescue. MUS IN URBE.

Moore mentions the dance :

While thus, like motes that dance away
Existence in a summer ray

These gay things, born but to quadrille,
The circle of their doom fulfil.

CHAS. JAS. FERET.

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (8th S. viii. 346). Ferguson, in his 'Dialect of Cumberland,' enters this word as "Peet or peed, adj., blind of one eye." Under "Pee" he has, "To spy with one eye, to shut one eye in taking aim.-Dick. Probably the same as Eng. peer, Low Germ. plira, pira, to lock with half-shut eyes, look closely." So aleo Wright's 'Provincial Dictionary," "Pee, v., to look with one eye, to squint. Peed, blind with one eye.-North." Webster quotes the word from Ray with the same meaning, but marks it as obsolete. RICH. WELFORD.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY AND THE SIDNEYS (8th S. viii. 505).-The descent of Shelley from the Sidneys is through the Michelgroves, John de Michelgrove, great-grandson of John le Fauconer, who took the name of Michelgrove, having married Anne Sidney, daughter and granddaughter of two William Sidneys, of Kingsham, near Chichester (the will of the elder William, 1450).

Elizabeth, only child and heir of John de Michelgrove and his wife Anne Sidney, therefore, brought this descent into the Shelley family by her marriage with John Shelley, and was the mother of four sons: (1) Sir John, killed at Rhodes; (2) Sir William, the judge, who rebuilt Michelgrove and lived there; (3) Richard, of Patcham; (4) Edward, of Warminghurst, ancestor of the poet and the Shelley of the famous "Shelley case," temp. Elizabeth.

Brasses of the Michelgroves and Shelleys were at Clapham Church, Sussex; and the pedigrees of the families mentioned I copied years ago from the Sussex Archaeological Society's volumes, to which if E. M. S. refers he will find other particulars. I made many extracts for family purposes, my children having a descent from Sir William, the judge, through the Shirleys of Wiston.

The Byrons of Newstead also descended from another branch of the Sidneys through a FitzWilliam alliance; so both poets could claim Sidney

blood.

B. FLORENCE SCARLETT.

Can E. M. S. oblige me, who am also connected with the Michel family, by giving the names of the father and mother of Henry Michel (whose daughter, Mary Michel, married Edward Tredcroft and died in 1794), and also of his wife and of her parents?

I am also anxious to discover who were the parents and grandparents of Thomas Steele, of West Hampnett, Recorder of Chichester, who died in 1775, and would be very grateful to any of your readers who could supply this information. H. S. K.

"NAMANCOS AND BAYONA'S HOLD " (8th S. viii. 387, 469). I fancy that everything known on this subject will be found in the notes to Mr. Verity's valuable edition of Milton in the "Pitt Press Series." In a condensed form the facts are as follows. Namancos is found in no maps except in editions of Mercator's Atlas' published in 1623 and 1636. Bayona, south of Namancos, is marked in all the larger maps of the time, e. g., in those that illustrate the Thesaurus Geographicus' (1596) and 'Thesaurus Orbis Terrarum' (1600) of Ortelius, as well as in the 1636 edition of Mercator,' where its site is indicated by the striking outline of a castle-hence Bayona's hold." The 1636_edition of Mercator' was the first printed in England, the letterpress being

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translated; and Mr. Verity very plausibly suggests that Milton, requiring the names of some places on the northern coast of Spain, at the point nearest to the Land's End, i. e., Galicia, would turn to an atlas, and it is a fair conjecture that the particular atlas consulted was the 1636 edition of Mercator,' which had been printed in Eogland, and in which, on the special map devoted to Galicia, of the places indicated along the seaboard, Namancos and Bayona-the one with its tower the other with its fortress-were quite the most conspicuous. Namancos was apparently only an isolated fort, and its disappearance from later maps may be accounted for by its subsequent deW. F. PRIDEAUX.

struction.

Kingsland, Shrewsbury.

"LANKY MAN" (8th S. viii. 167, 313).-Your correspondent H. T. alludes to the figure cut in the turf on the side of the hill at Cerve Abbas, in Dorset. It is locally styled the "Cerve Giant,' and is of huge size and supposed to have existed there from time immemorial. A notice of it appears in Warne's Ancient Dorset' and other authorities; but the best account of it appears in an interesting and erudite treatise by the late well. known Dr. Sydenham, called 'Baal Durotrigensis, in which, if I remember rightly, he attributes to it a phallic significance. That is my own opinion, and a local superstition concerning it lends considerable force to this supposition.

I understand that of recent years General Pitt Rivers, the Director or Curator of Public Monuments in England and owner of the property upon which the giant lies, has taken this interesting monument of antiquity under his own special care and protection. J. S. UDAL.

Fiji.

FIRST WELCOME OF THE POTATO IN FRANCE (8th S. viii. 466).-Potatoes, though credited with wonderful medicinal virtues, not only failed upon their first introduction to make their way as an article of food, but were looked upon with great suspicion. Indeed, they were forbidden in Burgundy, on the ground that, eaten in excess, they caused leprosy; and this doubtless partly accounts for the long neglect of them in France generally. C. C. B.

THE "FLANDERS CHEST”IN GUESTLING CHURCH, SUSSEX (8th S. viii. 304).-Mention of the above has brought to my recollection a chest I saw two years ago in the church of Harty, Isle of Sheppey, Kent. The chest is preserved in the vestry, and bears on its front a carved representation of a tilting match between two knights. The details of the armour are very perfect. The saddles are peculiar, and the leg defences exhibit continental workmanship, bearing no resemblance to English armour. The execution of the whole would not

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LICHFIELD (8th S. viii. 266, 311, 357, 393).— Though wishing to avoid the ordeal of treading in the thorny paths of philology, yet perhaps it may be permitted me to give an illustrative note. In Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England (8. v. "Lichfield ") it is stated that

it is [i. e., Lichfield] said to have derived its name from the martyrdom of more than 1,000 Christians, who are said to have been massacred here in the reign of the Emperor Diocletian, and a spot in which they are said to have been interred still retains the appellation of the Christian field."

Two corporation shields are figured in the account, doubt having reference to the above event. In one bearing date 1688, and the other 1844, no the Siege of Lichfield,' by the Rev. William Gresley, M.A., Prebendary of Lichfield, published in 1841, is a small engraving on p. 11, representing three crowned figures in the foreground with their arms and legs lopped off. It is styled "The City Arms: three slaughtered kings, or more probably martyrs with crowns.

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John Pickford, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

The Novellino of Masuccio. Now first translated into English by W. G. Waters. 2 vols. (Lawrence & Bullen.)

SUPPOSING that the shades of the departed find comfort or solace in the approval of their fellows or successors, the author of the Novellino' will now hold up his head proudly among his fellow ghosts, and may possibly seek he had not dared to aspire. Recognition has, it is true, an entrance into the charmed circle to which previously been in his case somewhat tardy in arrival. During four and a half centuries he has had to content himself with a moderate amount of homage on the part of his least has been allowed to stand nominis umbra. countrymen. By strangers he has been ignored, or at His Christian name, even, is unknown; he stands Masuccio, and no more; and though some facts and conjectures concerning his family have been brought to light by his latest editors, they contribute little to our knowledge of him, and all we can gather concerning him is the meagre information he, consciously or unconsciously, affords. No translation into any European language can be traced before the appearance of the present English version, though many of the novels-and those, as a rule, not the most cleanly-have been included in French collections such as Les Comptes [sic] du Monde aduentureux and similar compilations. The original editions-the first bears date Naples, 1476-are of excessive rarity, and in imperfect or patched-up exemplars have brought place among translated and reprinted writers, it is under long prices. When now, at length, Masuccio takes his conditions more favourable than could have been expected. The novels of Boccaccio, of Louis XI., and of

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