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the Lambeth Register can be considered an original and trustworthy record of the facts which it relates.

The words of the grant of 18 Jan., 1560, are "infra prædictum Archidiaconatum nunc certo et legittimo modo vacantem.” RICHARD H. THORNTON.

36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C. DODSLEY'S FAMOUS COLLECTION OF POETRY.

(See 10 S. vi. 361, 402; vii. 3, 82, 284, 404,

442; viii. 124, 183, 384, 442; ix. 3, 184, 323, 463; x. 103, 243, 305, 403; xi. 62, 143, 323.)

clerical son of the well-known Bishop Hoadly, sent his friend Dodsley several of his own productions, and suggested many others; but some of the pieces he proposed were not included. Shenstone asserts that the sixth volume was printed before the fifth, and that he was not able to make some of the corrections that he desired.

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Isaac Reed was editor of the 1782 issue, which for the first time gave the authorship of most of the poems which had appeared anonymously, and furnished particulars of the lives of the poets. No better person could have been found for such a duty, for the poetical history of the My preliminary article contained some information on the construction of the than to any other living person, save perhaps preceding century was more familiar to him volumes of Dodsley's collection; it is now Dr. Johnson. With these volumes the possible to give some further details. Most issues of the collection ceased, but most of the pieces composing the first three of their contents subsequently appeared volumes (January, 1748) were submitted to in John Bell's Classical Arrangement of the judgment of George, the first Lord Fugitive Poetry.' Many of the pieces were Lyttelton, before they were passed for also included in the New Foundling Hosprinting. Some of them were suggested by pital for Wit.' A short time after their cessaHorace Walpole. Among these are the six tion a brighter school of poetry arose. Many Town Eclogues of Lady Mary Wortley of the poems brought together by Dodsley Montagu, the poems of Gray, the monody will live in our national literature, but of their friend Richard West, and, I would the spirit of five-sixths of the volumes has add, Seward's 'Female Right to Literature.' Dodsley did not himself know the authors of many of the poems which he had inserted. Two months after publication Dodsley doubted whether there would be another volume of the collection, but he offered Shenstone to insert a single poem or so in the second edition of those already published. By the middle of May a second edition had been arranged for. It was not until the autumn of 1753 that a fourth volume was in course of preparation and that Shenstone was asked for further contributions. They were forwarded by him to Dodsley in November, 1753, and January, 1754, and formed the concluding portion (pp. 293-361) of the fourth volume. Many pieces were inserted in this and the other volumes from members of New College, Oxford, who had passed through their school education at Winchester College, and these were, I would suggest, supplied through Spence, Dodsley's warm friend for many years, and a member of both these establishments.

In April, 1756, Dodsley set about the publication of the two concluding volumes, which came out early in 1758, and was again in communication with Shenstone for contributions. This time the pieces of Shenstone and his friends filled the opening pages of the fifth volume. John Hoadly, the

set is given in the Portfolio of a Man of the evaporated. A very harsh estimate of the World-I do not think that he can be Mitford-which appeared in The Gentleman's Magazine for 1845, pt. ii. p. 344 :—

"Aug. 1819. I was looking in Dodsley's Colpiteous farrago of flatness never was seen. There lection of Poems to-day, and certainly a more are some of the standard poems of the preceding generation which stand out on high among the rest, but the performances of the day are really shocking to behold. There is a littleness, an utter dulness, that would be most disheartening were it not so gloriously contrasted by our present race. If we turn from Dodsley's paltry page of dilettante rhymes to Scott, or Shelley, or Byron, what giants we appear in comparison to lion of Forty-five and the French Revolution was our fathers. The generation between the Rebelone of the tamest in our history. The American War, so disastrous in its close, was first looked upon as a mere partisan warfare, a little outbreak among a set of impudent convicts, that would be put down in a month or two; and it was so far off, and the whole so vexatious! There was no national feeling excited; we were fighting against ourselves; it was a spiritless and melancholy struggle, and nothing great on our side was ferment of the universe brought forth great But after the French Revolution the elicited. spirits, great warriors, great statesmen, great poets. And now, when we look back at the namby-pamby rhyming in Mr. Dodsley, wonder how there could have been so many men the women could have been contented with such in England who could write such stuff, or that an unmanly set as must have been the composers.

We

Bullingham accepted the see.

Parker consecration at Lambeth. Royal assent to election of Bullingham as Bishop.

matter of conjecture. His biographers, 1559. Nov. 6(?).
Lowth and Moberly, in the pedigrees they 1559. Dec. 17.
constructed, have offered different solutions 1560. Jan. 12.
of the point, but, in the absence of further
evidence, it must remain questionable
whether either solution is correct. My
suggestion, which is, I believe, a new one,
that Agnes was the wife of Guy Heyno of
Stenbury, may possibly lead to the dis-
covery of her parentage.

H. C.

THE PARKER CONSECRATION AND
THE LAMBETH REGISTER.
(See 3 S. viii. 390; 4 S. ii. 435, 493.)
THERE appears to be a curious flaw in
the above-mentioned document, which
escaped the notice of Perceval, Haddan,
and Stubbs, who relied implicitly on the
record. It will be seen that such an over-
sight would easily occur, as the mistake
consists of a misdescription of one of the
minor dignitaries.

1560. Jan. 18. The Queen grants the archdeaconry to Bullingham for three years, commencing with his acceptance of the bishopric, to be held in commendamthe grant expressly stating that the archdeaconry is vacant.

1560. Jan. 21. Bullingham is consecrated for
Lincoln.

1562. Nov. 6. John Aylmer is installed as Arch-
deacon.
1571. Bullingham is translated to Worcester.
1576. Bullingham dies.

The main particulars are gathered from certain letters published in The Weekly Register, 1857-9, the author being the Rev. Canon John Williams (R.C.). They were collected into a small volume in 1859. Canon Williams was not a thoroughly accurate writer; but in these points he is correct. The list of archdeacons is taken from Le Neve's 'Fasti' (1716), p. 157. forth in Rymer's Foedera.' xv. 549, 561, The royal licence, assent, and grant are set 564. And I have verified the citation from the Lambeth Register with the photographic copy of the same.

The register states that the Archbishop's two chaplains, viz., Nicholas Bullingham and Edmund Gest, respectively Archdeacons of Lincoln and Canterbury, were present on 17 Dec., 1559, and rendered their assistance: The date of Bullingham's acceptance of "Cui ministrabant, operamque suam pre- the See of Lincoln is conjecturally stated, bebant, duo Archie pi Capellani, viz., Nicholaus Bullingh'm, Lincoln., et Edmun- on the supposition that the three years' dus Gest, Cantuarien respective Archi'ni." grant ended when the new Archdeacon was Now the fact is that Edmund Gest was at that time Archdeacon of Canterbury, but Nicholas Bullingham was not Archdeacon of Lincoln under Edward VI., but he fled the kingdom on the accession of Queen Mary, and never again became Archdeacon. Owen Hodgson was made Archdeacon on 14 Jan., 1558. He died, or

deacon of Lincoln. He had been Arch

resigned, or was deprived (most probably
the last), in 1558 or 1559; and the next
Archdeacon was John Aylmer, 1562. In
December, 1559, the Archdeaconry was
vacant. The following table of dates will
explain the matter:-

1549. Sept. 22. Nicholas Bullingham installed
as Archdeacon of Lincoln.
1553. July 6. Mary succeeded to the throne:
shortly after this event Bullingham fled
the realm.

1554. May 23. Thomas Marshall was installed

as Archdeacon.

1558. Jan. 14. Owen Hodgson was installed as Archdeacon.

1558. Nov. 17. Elizabeth succeeded to the
throne.

1559. June 27. Thomas Watson, Bishop of
Lincoln, was deprived.
1559. Nov. 5. The royal licence issued for the
election of a bishop.

installed.

if Bullingham was
It must be evident to every lawyer that
Lincoln in December, 1559, and if he was
not Archdeacon of
Bishop designate; and if the Lambeth
Register fails to describe him as Bishop
designate, and does describe him as Arch-
deacon; then the Lambeth Register, as
we have it, is not the original record of the
transaction which it describes, but must
have been made up sufficiently long after
the transaction for the mistake to occur;
them up during or near December, 1559,
for surely no keeper of the records, making
could possibly have styled Bullingham
Archdeacon. And in that case what became
of the original record? For an original
record there certainly was.

I wish to say plainly that I am not trying to introduce into these columns any debate concerning Anglican Orders, for in my view the question now raised does not materially affect them.

I therefore beg that any contributor who may comment adversely on the present note will confine himself to proving, either that Bullingham was Archdeacon of Lincoln in December, 1559, or, if he was not, that

the Lambeth Register can be considered an original and trustworthy record of the facts which it relates.

The words of the grant of 18 Jan., 1560, are "infra prædictum Archidiaconatum nunc certo et legittimo modo vacantem." RICHARD H. THORNTON.

36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C.

DODSLEY'S FAMOUS COLLECTION OF
POETRY.

(See 10 S. vi. 361, 402; vii. 3, 82, 284, 404,
442; viii. 124, 183, 384, 442; ix. 3, 184,
323, 463; x. 103, 243, 305, 403; xi. 62,
143, 323.)

My preliminary article contained some information on the construction of the volumes of Dodsley's collection; it is now possible to give some further details. Most of the pieces composing the first three volumes (January, 1748) were submitted to the judgment of George, the first Lord Lyttelton, before they were passed for printing. Some of them were suggested by Horace Walpole. Among these are the six Town Eclogues of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the poems of Gray, the monody of their friend Richard West, and, I would add, Seward's 'Female Right to Literature.' Dodsley did not himself know the authors of many of the poems which he had inserted. Two months after publication Dodsley doubted whether there would be another volume of the collection, but he offered Shenstone to insert a single poem or so in the second edition of those already published. By the middle of May a second edition had been arranged for. It was not until the autumn of 1753 that a fourth volume was in course of preparation and

that Shenstone was asked for further contributions. They were forwarded by him to Dodsley in November, 1753, and January, 1754, and formed the concluding portion (pp. 293-361) of the fourth volume. Many pieces were inserted in this and the other volumes from members of New College, Oxford, who had passed through their school education at Winchester College, and these were, I would suggest, supplied through Spence, Dodsley's warm friend for many years, and a member of both these establishments.

In April, 1756, Dodsley set about the publication of the two concluding volumes, which came out early in 1758, and was again in communication with Shenstone for contributions. This time the pieces of Shenstone and his friends filled the opening pages of the fifth volume. John Hoadly, the

clerical son of the well-known Bishop Hoadly, sent his friend Dodsley several of his own productions, and suggested many others; but some of the pieces he proposed were not included. Shenstone asserts that the sixth volume was printed before the fifth, and that he was not able to make some of the corrections that he desired.

Isaac Reed was editor of the 1782 issue, which for the first time gave the authorship of most of the poems which had appeared anonymously, and furnished some brief particulars of the lives of the poets. No better person could have been found for such a duty, for the poetical history of the preceding century was more familiar to him than to any other living person, save perhaps Dr. Johnson. With these volumes the issues of the collection ceased, but most of their contents subsequently appeared in John Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry.' Many of the pieces were also included in the New Foundling Hospital for Wit.' A short time after their cessation a brighter school of poetry arose. Many of the poems brought together by Dodsley will live in our national literature, but the spirit of five-sixths of the volumes has set is given in the 'Portfolio of a Man of the evaporated. A very harsh estimate of the World-I do not think that he can be Mitford-which appeared in The Gentleman's Magazine for 1845, pt. ii. p. 344::

lection of Poems to-day, and certainly a more piteous farrago of flatness never was seen. There are some of the standard poems of the preceding generation which stand out on high among the rest, but the performances of the day are really shocking to behold. There is a littleness, an utter dulness, that would be most disheartening were it not so gloriously contrasted by our present race. If we turn from Dodsley's paltry page of dilettante rhymes to Scott, or Shelley, or Byron, what giants we appear in comparison to our fathers. The generation between the Rebellion of Forty-five and the French Revolution was one of the tamest in our history. The American War, so disastrous in its close, was first looked upon as a mere partisan warfare, a little outbreak among a set of impudent convicts, that would be put down in a month or two; and it was so far off, and the whole so vexatious! There was no national feeling excited; we were fighting against ourselves; it was a spiritless and melancholy struggle, and nothing great on our side was elicited. But after the French Revolution the ferment of the universe brought forth great spirits, great warriors, great statesmen, great poets. And now, when we look back at the namby-pamby rhyming in Mr. Dodsley, wonder how there could have been so many men the women could have been contented with such in England who could write such stuff, or that an unmanly set as must have been the composers.

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of Epistles in the manner of Ovid, from Monimia to Philocles,' or 'The Squire of Dames, in Spenser's style.' Spenser's! And A song for Ranelagh,' and Flowers by Anthony Whistler, esq.,' A prayer to Venus in her temple at Stowe,' On a message-card in verse,' and Verses under Mr. Poyntz' picture.' Besides Epistles to a Lady and Epistles to Camilla and Clarissa,', and inscriptions in grottoes, and lines on fans innumerable."

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W. P. COURTNEY.

THE COMPLETE PEERAGE': CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS.-I append two or three notes on G. E. C.'s valuable work.

Nicholas Purcell is stated (vol. v. p. 155) to have been created Baron Loughmore by James II. "when in exile." I find, however, in the "Act for the Settlement of Ireland, 12 Aug., 1652," in a list of lords and others and among the lords, one Pursel, Baron of Loghmo. It would appear, accordingly, that the title Loughmore was in existence as early at any rate as 1641, to the rebellion of which year the abovementioned Act has reference. 1 should be glad to know the Christian name of the above "baron."

1664,

Vol. i. p. 131, 1. 5, for 14 March, read 14 March, 1664/5. Vol. i. p. 184.-In a document dated 8 June, 1404, and printed in Rymer's Fœdera,' Walter Stewart is styled "Earl of Athole," whereas Sir James Balfour Paul Scots Peerage') and G. E. C. both give 1409 as the date of creation.

Vol. i. p. 200.-The statement about the wives of James Tuchet, 7th Lord Audley, requires further examination. See 'Calendar of Inquisitions post Mortem,' Hen. VII, Nos. 601 and 646. The dates present a difficulty.

T. C.

"COFFEE": ITS ETYMOLOGY.-The history of this word involves several phonetic difficulties hitherto unsolved. Of course the 'N.E.D.' is right in stating that the European languages got the name about 1600 from the Arabic qahwah, not directly, but through its Turkish form kahveh. The Turkish form might have been written kahvé, as its final h was never sounded at any time. Sir James Murray draws attention to the existence of two European types, one like the French café, Italian caffè, the other like the English coffee, Dutch koffie. He explains the vowel o in the second series as apparently representing au, from Turkish ahv. This seems unsupported by evidence, and the v is already represented by the ff, SO on Sir James's assumption coffee must

stand for kahv-ve, which is unlikely. The change from a to o, in my opinion, is better accounted for as an imperfect appreciation. The exact sound of a in Arabic and other Oriental languages is that of the English short u, as in "cuff." This sound, so easy to us, is a great stumbling-block to other nations. A learned German professor once confided to me, with tears in his eyes, that after years of study and long residence in England he was still utterly unable to discolour and tinguish between the words

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collar." In fact, he pronounced them both with o, and most foreigners do the same. I judge that Dutch koffie and kindred forms are imperfect attempts at the notation of a vowel which the writers could not grasp. It is clear that the French type is more

correct. The Germans have corrected their koffee, which they may have got from the Dutch, into kaffee. The Scandinavian languages have adopted the French form.

Many must wonder how the hv of the original so persistently becomes ff in the European equivalents. Sir James Murray makes no attempt to solve this problem; indeed, so far as I know, it has never been discussed by any philologist. I would point there in Turkish is position to substitute ƒ for h. An example is kergef, the Turkish form of Persian kārgeh, a workshop. Another is zilifdār, Turkish for Persian silahdar. (This, by the way, is the same word Byron spells selictar.) It

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kahvé might readily become kafvé, then by assimilation kaffé. Some of the lesser languages of Europe retain the original Turkish v-Finnish kahvi, Hungarian kávé, Bohemian káva, Polish kawa. In Servian and Croatian they say indifferently kafa or kava. The odd-looking Roumanian cafeá and Russian kophei are due to stress upon the last syllable.

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

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fo St. Paul,' 1873, p. 86), who says that London hotel was pointed out to me as they were finished by John James, Surveyor its successor. A letter written from at Westminster Abbey, 1725–46, and it in 1780, and describing the burning "Wren's name should be disconnected of Newgate by the Gordon rioters, refers from them." This is clear enough, but to it as "the most comfortable Mrs. E. T. Murray Smith (The Roll Call commodious inn in the City of London." of Westminster Abbey,' 1903, p. 322) names It flourished for some years after its rebuild"Dickenson" as being finally responsible ing, but of late, owing to the demand for for their completion. more up-to-date hotels, it had fallen on evil days. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

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Yet another claimant for the honour is suggested in Nollekens and his Times (1895, p. 166), where J. T. Smith quotes Old Gayfere, the Abbey Mason,' having said to Nollekens: "I believe I told you that I carried the rods when Fleetcraft measured the last work at the North Tower when the Abbey was finished." For 'North Tower," of course, read West Towers. The date of the work is beyond question.

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TRADE-MARKS: THEIR ANTIQUITY.-In the case of Southern v. How, in the King's Bench, Mr. Justice Doderidge said that

22 Eliz. an Action upon the Case was brought in the Common Pleas by a Clothier, that whereas he had gained great Reputation for the making of his Cloth, by reason whereof he had great Utterance to his great benefit and profit, and that he used to set his Mark to his Cloth, whereby it should be known to be his Cloth: And another Clothier, perceiving it, used the same Mark to his ill-made Cloth on purpose to deceive him, and it was resolved that the Action did well lie."

"Deceive" should be defraud. See Sir John Popham's Reports, Addition, 2nd ed., 1682, p. 144.

Hence it appears that a man's property in his own trade-mark was recognized as early as the year 1580, though I think the textbooks do not assign so early a date. RICHARD H. THORNTON. 36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C.

"THE SARACEN'S HEAD," SNOW HILL. This old hotel, immortalized by Dickens in "Nicholas Nickleby' and also by the fact that Lord Nelson slept there when on his way to join the Navy, finally closed its doors on Saturday the 3rd inst. The original building was pulled down some years ago, and the present building erected close to the site. Anything more unlike the inn as Dickens knew it could hardly have been built, and I well remember the keen disappointment I felt when this modern

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COLERIDGE AND OPIUM.-The June number of The Canadian Magazine (Toronto) has an article by S. T. Wood on the tragedy of Coleridge's life, with facsimiles of letters from S. T. C. to the chemist in Tottenham Court Road from whom Coleridge obtained a supply of opium during his residence with the Gillmans at Highgate. These letters were preserved by Miss Dunn, daughter of the chemist. Miss Dunn became the wife of the Rev. W. H. Morris, a clergyman stationed near Toronto, and the notes which reveal the surreptitious purchase of drugs are at the present time in the possession of the family of one of the clergyman's daughters by a former merriage.

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