cording to the MS., was called after the king. The name "Richard" does not again occur in the family, which was afterwards seated in Smeeth parish, in the church of which are many of their See Hasted's Kent, folio, 1790, FITZ RICHARD. monuments. vol. iii. p. 293. In the year 1774 was published a 4to pamphlet of iv. and 30 pages, with the following title, "Richard Plantagenet; a Legendary Tale. Now first published by Mr. Hull." It is a poem, with a dedication to David Garrick, and some account of the hero, who is represented to have been a natural son of Richard III. JOHN WILSON. SHEERWORT (4th S. vi. 502; vii. 25.)— "Share-wort. Aster seu Inguinalis, sic dicta, quia Bubones extus admota potenter suppurat."- Skinner (Step.), Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ, 1671, sub voc. EDWARD PEACOCK. THE BLOCK BOOKS (4th S. ii. passim; vii. 13.) I do not propose discussing the matter of the block-books, because I hold that it rather rests with MR. HOLT to show, if he can, that the received opinion is false. At present he has not done so, as far as I know. But I would caution your readers that his first assertion with respect to St. Christopher was that the date had been tampered with. From the directness of the assertion, no one would have dreamt that it was made without his ever having seen the print. Now he has seen the print and finds that such a position is absurd, he has started the theory of the print being later than the printing, or perhaps I should say, later than the matter printed, which is, in my opinion, quite as untenable as his former asJ. C. J. ADAM DE ORLETON (4th S. vii. 53.)-MR. HENRY F. HOLT's very positive denial of Adam de Orleton's misdemeanours must be founded upon sources of information not commonly known to the readers of history; and therefore, as one altogether "interested in the subject," he will, I am sure, so far oblige me as to direct me to them. sertion. EDMUND TEW, M.A. Patching Rectory, Arundel. "HIERUSALEM! MY HAPPIE HOME" (4th S. vi. 372, 485; vii. 41.)-The execution of John Thewlis at Manchester has been incidentally named in connection with this subject. Dr. Neale is, I believe, in error as to the place where this martyr died. Challoner gives an account of his death on the day named, but at Lancaster; and I understand from Mr. Bone, who has a MS. copy of the ballad to which Dr. Neale refers, that it agrees with Challoner's account in this respect. Thewlis is not the only one executed at Lancaster whose murder has been attributed to Manchester, as may be seen by reference to a paper contributed to the Reliquary (vol. x.) by the present writer. In 1865 appeared "To the lovers of hymnology this will be an acceptable volume: it contains old David Dickson's version of the well-known hymn, with various more modern and current versions; and in the Appendix the hymn of Hildebert, and an extract from the hymn of Bernard de Clugny." WILLIAM E. A. AXON. Joynson Street, Strangeways. DR. JOHNSON'S WATCH (4th S. vi. 275, 465; vii. 55.)-In answer to your correspondent on the above subject, in Boswell's Life of Johnson, vol. ii. P. 35, I find the following: "At this time I observed upon the dial-plate of his watch * a short Greek inscription, taken from the New Testament, Νὺξ γὰρ ἔρχεται, being the first words of our Saviour's solemn admonition to the improvement of that time which is allowed us to prepare for eternity: The night cometh when no man can work.' He some time afterwards laid aside this dial-plate; and when I asked him the reason, he said, 'It might do very well upon a clock which a man keeps in his closet; but to have it upon his watch which he carries about with him, and which is often looked at by others, might be censured as ostentatious." Mr. Steevens is now possessed of the dial-plate inscribed as above. CHARLES HINTON. Nottingham. CONVIVIAL SONGS (4th S. vi. passim; vii. 58.) One of the best I ever heard was produced at the Adelphi Theatre about forty years ago. The music was composed by Marschner the German; the words I forget, but the idea was drinking to the four seasons. Can MR. DIXON help me to the words? JAMES GILBERT. 51, Hill Street, Peckham, S.E. POST PROPHECIES (4th S. vi. 370, 396, 488; vii. 42.)-The lines, or string of prophecies alluded to by L. C. R., were in French, in which language I first saw them, I believe, in 1848. They ran thus: "Je ne voudrais pas être roi en 1848. Je ne voudrais pas être prêtre en 1849. Je voudrais être tout ce que vous voudrez en (I believe) 1851. thing was conspicuously worthless as a prophecy, Of the last date, I am not sure: but the whole and clumsy as a fabrication. F. Č. H. I copied from a newspaper (I think in 1848, from a local one in Taunton, where I then resided) the following: * Sir John Hawkins says, that this watch was the first Johnson ever possessed. It was made for him by Mudge and Dutton in 1768. They were celebrated watchmakers of the last century, and their shop, situated at the left corner of Hind Court, was the last in Fleet Street to undergo the sweeping ordeal of modernisation, which it escaped up to the year 1850.-ED. "GOD MADE MAN," ETC. (4th S. vi. 345, 426 487; vii. 41.)-In reply to your correspondent F. S., I would refer him to The Lonsdale Magazine, vol. i. p. 512. (A. Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, 1820), for a few remarks on the lines in question. As this magazine is now very scarce, perhaps you will kindly allow space for a short quotation from an article on "Rustic Poets." "John Oldland was an inhabitant of Crosthwaite, and a member of the Society of Friends. He existed about the beginning of the last century. His propensity to rhyming was such, that many of his rhymes, as they are provincially called, are still repeated by the older inhabitants of the neighbourhood. The smartest of John's rhymes was made on the occasion of his being put to trouble (as it is properly termed in the provincial dialect) by a lawyer for some debt which he had incurred at In the Saxon period Durobrevis was changed to Re (river) CEASTER (castle), the Castle by the River. The change from Durovernum was to its pre-Roman name, the City of the Cantii, even as Paris returned from its Roman appellation of Lutetia to the City of the Parisii. When I was a schoolboy the translation of this name was, in the Eton Latin Grammar, given as "Dover." I do not know whether this curious error is still perpetuated. MARINE ROSE (4th S. vi. 436, 484; vii. 45.)— In default of a very minute investigation of the Fleetwood rose, I possibly may have ascribed to it a wrong specific name in that of spinosissima. Yet, with all deference to A MURITHIAN, I think I have not done so; which opinion, I venture to imagine, is strengthened by certain evidence I here beg permission to adduce. H. C. Watson, in The New Botanists' Guide, p. 255, says from his own personal knowledge "that Rosa spinosissima grows plentifully on the sandhills on the Cheshire coast." And T. B. Hall, in the Flora of Liverpool, states "that the Rosa spinosissima grows abundantly on the sand-hills both on the Lancashire and Cheshire shores of the Mersey." I have seen the plant growing in the situations named above, and always considered it to be identical with the one that grows in such profusion in the neighbourhood of Fleetwood. Sir J. E. Smith, in his description of Rosa rubella, in Sowerby's English Botany, says "that it is well distinguished from R. spinosissima by its equal prickles and oblong (not round) crimson pendulous fruit." The same author's description of the R. spinosissima is, "that its fruit is erect, globular, quite smooth, of a dark-red purple colour, changing when ripe to black." have a letter before me from a lady who once In reply to a query of mine on the subject, I resided at Fleetwood (and who knew well the beautiful little rose in question), in which she says "that the rose had creamy white petals, and that its hip, or fruit, when ripe is quite black and round, scarcely distinguishable from a large black currant." I shall have pleasure in forwarding MR. EDWIN LEES & specimen of the plant when it is in flower. JAMES PEARSON. Milnrow, near Rochdale. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. Suspiria de Profundis; being the Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium Eater, and other Miscellaneous Writings. By Thomas de Quincey. (A. & C. Black.) The admirers of that profound and original thinker, Thomas de Quincey, ought to be very grateful to Messrs. Ulverston and Dalton in Furness. A. & C. Black for this supplemental volume of his writings, which forms the seventeenth of their collected edition. It contains, as far as the publishers are aware, the remainder of his scattered writings a large portion being acquired from the original publishers, Messrs. Hogg & Son, and which had the benefit of the author's revision. The remainder, including the "Notes from the Pocketbook of an English Opium Eater," and the "HistoricoCritical Inquiry into the Origin of the Rosicrucians and Freemasons," have been reprinted from the old London Magazine, where they originally appeared side by side with the delightful Essays by Elia. In reprinting this latter paper, Messrs. Black have done good service to historical truth, and we recommend its careful perusal to all who desire to know what grounds there are for believing the remote antiquity claimed by Freemasons for that mysterious organisation. The Waverley Novels. By Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Centenary Edition. Vol. XIV. (A. & C. Black.) We have here, in The Fortunes of Nigel, Sir Walter's masterly portrait of the British Solomon, and his graphic sketches of Alsatian life in Whitefriars; and the volume, like its predecessors, is made more useful by Glossary and Index. Debrett's Illustrated House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1871. Compiled and edited by Robert Henry Mair. Personally revised by the Members of Parliament and the Judges. (Dean & Son.) Of this well-timed volume (which is marked by a peculiarity which deserves notice, namely, engravings of the arms borne by the counties, cities, and boroughs returning Members to Parliament), it may suffice to say that it is in every respect a fitting as it is almost an indispensable companion to Debrett's Peerage and Debrett's Baronetage and Knightage, lately noticed by us with deserved commendation. The History of the Parochial Chapelry of Goosnargh, in the County of Lancaster. By Henry Fishwick, F.H S. (Simms, Manchester.) 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