her," the flatness of the visit was a plain intimation that William had no intention of asking for the hand of the Princess. It was taken as such by all concerned, and the matchmakers turned their speculations in other directions.

In conclusion, though this tragedy of etiquette probably helped to make the title of King desirable in Frederick's eyes, there is not the least suggestion that it was the original cause of his ambition. William III.'s tenacious insistence on the dignities and prerogatives enjoyed by former Kings of England had been known to, and acquiesced in by, the princes of Germany since his first appearance as a crowned head on the Continent in 1691.† And if in 1696 etiquette served as a veil to his dislike for marriage, it would have been very unreasonable of the Elector to complain of a discretion which saved him from the consequences of his own folly. M. LANE.

The pagination of the book is continuous, but there are separate title-pages for For; tunes Tennis - Ball,' 'Eliza,' Poems,' and 'Epigrams, &c.' Possibly these were also published separately. Mr. Hazlitt states in his Handbook'::

"In one or two copies of this book, it is called The Poems: it should have a portrait of the author by Lombart."

The British Museum copy has (as stated already) Marshall's portrait, "Etat. suæ 17," with the "17" altered to "19." I have seen no other reference to any portrait of Baron by Lombart.

In The Authors Motto' Baron expresses his literary ambition :

:

Its my intent

To reare my selfe a death-lesse Monument,

* Hist. MSS. Comm. Rep., MSS. of the Duke of Buccleuch at Montagu House,' vol. ii. part ii. p. 1. Macaulay, History of England,' chap. xvii. Thomason received his copy on 25 June.

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A speare again Ith bloood-bedabled Field, Unlesse my Prince, Honor, and Virtues cause Call to assert their Rights, and equall laws. He prints commendatory verses from James Howell, who prophesies that he may in time

Be Lord Chief-Baron of the Court of Wits; from Mr. Tho. Moore of the Inner Temple, who calls him "the growing branch of Virtue," and from "C. B. Art. Baccha."

'Fortunes Tennis-Ball' is dedicated in verse "To The Choicest of my Noble Friends, John Wroth, Esquire." Probably this was John Wroth of Blenden Hall, Kent (son and heir of Sir Peter Wroth, Kt.), who was admitted to the Inner Temple in November, 1629, and was created a baronet at the Restoration. It includes A Ballade ism of Suckling's poem, further adorned by the Wedding,' which is a bold plagiarvpon reminiscences of Lovelace :--

Now were our Heads with Rosebuds crown'd, And flowing cups ran swiftly round, &c., ("the Lady F. R."?) to whom the poet 'Eliza' is a series of love-poems to a lady Academy' and Apologie for Paris.' had previously presented his Cyprian also its plagiarisms-e.g., the rose

It has

Smells not of it selfe, but Her. and the audacious prayer, borrowed from Basse's epitaph :

Sweet SVCKLING..
......remove a little from

Thy excellent CAREVV, and thou dearest Toм,
Loves Oracle, lay thee a little off
Thy flourishing SVCKLING, that between you both
I may find room.

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The section Poems contains some linesIn Principem arma petentem,' which are written with studied ambiguity, but are intended, I think, to express the writer's sympathy with the expedition of Charles, Prince of Wales, in 1650.

Other poems_ are addressed to John Wroth, Esq., to Lady Diana Willoby, and to Benjamin Garfield,* Esq., upon his tragi

B. G. of Gray's Inn, called to the Bar 11 Feb.,. 1645/16. He, John Hall, and others were summoned by the Benchers on 4 June, 1649, to show cause why they doe not paie the Preacher."

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this Life November 19th 1786, Aged 52 years. To the Memory of Francis Rollstone of Stoke in the county of Stafford, who departed

Farewell my Wife and Children dear;

I am gone to rest, you need not fear,
My end you know, my Grave you see,
Therefore prepare to follow me.

Also of Mary wife....[Rolls]tone who died.... [***]1 . · · ·

H. In Memory of Robert Osborne, born Memory of Maria his wife, Born April 3rd 1786, June 25th 1789; Died Decr. 29th 1817. In Died Octr. 27th 1847. Also in Memory of Robert their Son, Born March 21st 1822, Died July 2nd 1844; Also to the Memory of William their Son, Born July 29th 1813, Died August 23rd 1854. C.

Sacred to the Memory of Samuel Tans[w]ell, Born June [2] 1783, Died January 15th 1847.

H. In Memory of Ann, Wife of James Imber who died May the 18th 1787, aged 29 years. In Memory also of Maria Daughter of James and Ann Imber who died Decr. the 16th 1800, Aged 19; Also Lydia their Daughter who died July the 4th 1806, Aged 18 [?].

H. Here lieth the Body of Thomas. Son of Thomas and Ann Imber, who died April 26th the above Thomas and Ann Imber, who died in 1749, Aged 2 years. Al Sarah Daughter of her infancy, 1756. Imber who died March 16 1787, aged 74 years. Also the body of Thomas H. In Memory of John Upjohn who died June ye 29th 1782, Aged 66: Also Elizabeth his Wife who died Sept. ye 2 1782, Aged 54. Sarah their daughter died Sept. 6 1812, Aged 48. Ed

years. Elizth. daughter of Ja. and Hannah Upjohn died March 11 1810, Aged 21.

Parts enclosed in brackets indicate that he letters or figures are illegible, and have been supplied by the transcriber, or that they are doubtful, owing to the decayed state of the stone.

In my original MS. the transcriptions are spaced out, line for line, as on the monu. ments, and written according to the styles of lettering.

On the Triangular Plot where the Churchyard Old Cross stands, and South of Church.

H.

In Memory of Robert Hillier who died April 17th 1759, Aged 48 years; Also of Ann his Wife who died December 2nd 1775, Aged 68 years; Also of Ruth their Daughter who died March 10th 1781, Aged [3] years.

H. Here lieth the remains of Judith Frampton who died July 10th 17[3]9, Aged....years.

Was this Leigh the lawyer at whose house in Holborn Howell probably lived after his release

in 1650?

"Diana, d. and coheir of Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham, married to Heneage Finch, 2nd E. of Winchilsea, 21 May, 1645." If this is the lady in question, Baron must have written the epigram at the age of 15.

Learn from the Emblem of the Glass, How swiftly time and Life do pass; Now while they list improve them well, How soon they 'll end thou canst not tell. H. In Memory of [Will]iam Meader [who] died January 3 1830, Aged 65 years. A[ls]o of his two Sons, George [th]e elder, who died June 19th 1805, Aged 10 years. George th[e] younger who died Novr. 15th 1807, Aged 1 year. Grandson, Henry William Meader who died Also of his Sep[tember] 22nd 1816, Aged 2 years. Watts, born November 20th 1795, died February

H. In Memory of Jane, The wife of Isaac

Ann,

25th 1844, Also three of their children. born September 29th 1828, Died September 14 1831. Jane Eliza, born July 17 1831, Died June 8 1835. Eliza, born December 29th 1835, Died February 18th 1844. Also in Memory of Died February 1st 1857; Also Elizabeth their the above Isaac Watts, born June 28th 1794, Daughter born April 16th 1823, Died March 20th born Feby. 18th 1849 Died Jany. 11 1861. 1861; Also Eliza Jane their grandaughter [sic]

H. In Memory of Thomas Fricker who departed this life October [?]7 1762 Aged 87 years. Thomas Fricker who departed this life May 25 Here lieth the body of Thomas son of the above .[under ground].

dyed April 24 1724; Also the body of Elizabeth H. [Here lyeth] the body of Robert Dole who Wife of Robert Dole who died April 14 17[4]5; Also the Body of Robert Dole who died in December 1722 aged six weeks.

H. In Memory of Iohn Kimber who departed this Life Decr. the 26th 1801, Aged 46 years. Also to the Memory of Hannah Daughter of the said In. Kimber who departed this Life June the 18 1798, Aged 2 years. In Memory of Elizabeth Wife of George Goddard and Daughter of the said John Kimber who departed this Life August 2nd Also Elizabeth 1803, Aged 21 years 10 months.

her Daughter who died in her infancy; Also in Memory of Mary late Wife of the above John Kimber who died Febr. 2 1812 Aged 46 years.

Death in the prime of life did end me here,
'Twas from a loving Wife and children dear
The Lord.... [under ground].

[On another part of stone :-)

Likewise Mary King daughter of John Kimber who died J[***] 16th [***]3 Aged 88 years. Also Harriet Short granddaughter who died January 21st 1837 aged [4]8 years.

H.

In Memory of John Hughes who died March 8 1805, Aged 48.

H. Sacred to the Memory of George Case of Enmore Green in the parish of Motcombe, who departed this life April 15 1857, Aged 83 years. Also Hannah wife of George Case who died Aug. 4th 1821, Aged 30 years. Also Martha daugr. of George & Hannah Case who died July 20th 1816, Aged 1 year and 7 months. Also George son of Geo. & Hannah Case who died Aug. 5th 1821 Aged 6 Days. To the memory of Arabella second wife of George Case who died June 10th 1835 Aged 54 Years.

[An old tombstone near here; inscription entirely gone.]

H. In Memory of Luke Small who died July 4th 1773 Aged 66 Also Mary his Wife who died June 17th 1757 aged 60.

Life's uncertain,

Death most sure; Sin a distemper,

Death the cure.

H. Here lyeth the body of Marhay davghter of Richard Whendel who dyed Febvary ye 14 1688 [very distinct; epitaph decayed].

H. Here Lyeth the Body of George Read of Stower Provest who died April the 9th Anno Dom. 1710, aged 23 years.

H. This in memory of Iohn Mvndey Junior who Died October the 26 1696, Of his age 32, And also Stephen his son who Died July the 24 1705 [very distinct].

[Lower fragment of a broken headstone] [..]ry the [wife] of Richard Munday who died November....1749 Aged 36

H. [Name illegible] Febvary the [3rd] 1696 Aged 2[8] years.

H. Here lyeth the body of Ann Levington, Widow, who deceased Avgvst the 19 1689.

Blessed are the Dead.

29 years.

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"-ILE."- In a little THE TERMINATION book called 'Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking and Writing,' published in 1855, occurs the following caution :

"The termination -ile in all words must be sounded -ill, with the exception of exile, senile, gentile, reconcile, and camomile, in which -ile rimes with mile." Pronunciation of words of this termination must have changed much in the past sixty years, for most of them are now marked in 66 mile." our dictionaries to rime with

In the United States the older pronunciation seems to have been retained, for in the list of reformed spellings recommended by the Simplified Spelling Board occur the following: Agil, docil, ductil, facil, fertil, fragil, futil, hostil, juvenil, missil, projectil, pueril, reptil, servil, steril, versatil, viril.

It would be interesting to know when,' in the past sixty years, the pronunciation of these words diverged in the two countries. E. L. PONTIFEX.

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I have been unable to obtain any biographical information concerning Philip Jones, though in the Rev. E. A. Fuller's History of Cirencester Church' (1882) there is the statement that 'Mr. Jones is styled the Preacher in a will of 1587." The Sermons were made the subject of inquiry in N. & Q.' (6 S. v. 25) and in Glos. N. & Q. (ii. 134) without result. There is not a copy in the British Museum, but Philip Jones, translator of Meierus's Instructions for Gentlemen employed Abrode (1589), and the writer of A True Report of a Worthy Fight,' included in Hakluyt's Voyages,' is described in the Catalogue as Rev., of Cirencester." The late Mr. G. K. Fortescue told me there was no evidence for this, and that it seemed to be merely the guess of an ingenious cataloguer. There is certainly nothing in the book to suggest any connexion. Lowndes may have been the authority for the reference, as under the name of Philip Jones he includes Certaine Sermons at Ciceter' with the work Instructions for Gentlemen.' In the Epistle Dedicatorie to the latter the translator speaks of my very good and learned friend M. Richard Hackluit," and of himself as yet unknown." The sermons printed in this volume are those mentioned by Wood ('Fasti,' ed. Bliss, i. 221), who records three graduates of the name of Philip Jones, but was unable to assign the authorship of the sermons. There seems a possibility of the author having been Philip Jones of Bristol, plebeian, who matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 23 Nov., 1581, aged 18, and took his B.A. 18 March, 1582/3 (see Foster's 4 'Alumni ').

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ROLAND AUSTIN.

CRICKET IN 1773.-In reading the Early Diary of Frances Burney' (1889) I find that on 6 June of the above year Mrs. Rishton begged Fanny Burney to send her by the Exeter post coach

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Two Cricket Batts, made by Pett of 7 Oaks, ....the very best sort, which costs 48. or 4s. 6d. each-let them weigh 4 oz. and a qu' or 4 oz. and each."-Vol. j., p. 214.

I gather from Mr. Robert Macgregor's 'Pastimes and Players (1881) that in 1743 the wicket consisted of two stumps only, with a third laid across, forming a hurdle one foot high and two feet wide; and the bat then resembled a hockey-stick. But the bats spoken of in 1773 appear from their weight to have been more like rackets.

RICHARD H. THORNTON.

"to enter as a private man in the horse guards. ...Upon mentioning his intention to adjutant, he was informed that he must pay the seventy guineas for his admission into the corps.' This ended the matter. In James Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters of Remarkable Persons,' 1819-20, vol. iv. p. 130, is a similar account, his Majesty's regiment of life-guards taking the place of "the horse guards." This would be in or about 1739. What does "a private man mean? A commissioned officer or a trooper?

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Parsons was in 1740 commissioned as an According to 'The Criminal Recorder,' ensign in the " forty fourth of foot the interest of the Right Hon. Arthur through Onslow; but according to Caulfield, The English Baronetage (by Thos. Wotton), 1741, iii. 268, and G. E. C.'s Baronetage,' iii. 184, he served in Col. Complete Cholmondeley's regiment, which according to Fortescue's History of the British Army,' ii. 82, became the 47th. The regiments which became the 44th and the 47th were raised in January, 1741 (ibid.).

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Parsons, thief, forger, and highwayman, was hanged at Tyburn 11 Feb., 1751. to have been a son of Sir William Parsons, In The Criminal Recorder he is said Baronet, of the county of Nottingham. Nottingham" should be Buckingham.

In Debrett's Baronetage,' 1808 (p. 363), it is stated that Sir William Parsons, third baronet, married a niece (G. E. C. says a sister) of the Duchess of Northumberland, by whom he had two sons, the younger being

"William in the army, who married Mary, daughter of John Frampton, of the Exchequer, Esq., by whom he had one son, and one daughter, land left a considerable fortune." Grace, to whom the late Duchess of Northumber

Having mentioned the early death of the elder son of Sir William, Debrett adds "William also died before his father.”

In the two books first quoted. Parsons is said to have been nine years at Eton, where he began his dishonest practices by stealing books from Pote the bookseller. He appears not to have been expelled, but only severely punished. In Eton College Lists, 1678-1790,' edited by R. A. Austen Leigh, 1907, in Boys at Eton in the Year

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WILLIAM UPCOTT AND THE ANTI-JACOBIN.' It is known that William Upcott, then a shopman at John Wright's bookshop, 169, Piccadilly, was confidential amanuensis to the editors of The Anti-Jacobin when they met on Sundays in the room on the first floor. In an early issue of N. & Q.' (3 May, 1851) the late EDWARD HAWKINS wrote at length on the identification of the contributors and the manner of preparing each issue of that witty publication. That Upcott retained the friendship of some of these patrons for very many years is shown in an interesting note of W. Gifford's before

me

Upcott has prefixed the following:

"I called at Mr. Gifford's, No. 6, James St., Buckingham Gate, and sent up my name. He was too unwell to see me, but sent down by the servant the following very friendly apology.-W. Upcott." MY DEAR OLD FRIEND, I am rejoiced at seeing your name again, and regret exceedingly that my voice is so feeble at this instant as to be utterly inaudible. I trust you will repeat your kindness, as I long to see you. I now think of going to Ramsgate for a month. If I return improved in strength, I will not fail to call on you for a visit. Most faithfully yours, W. GIFFORD.

Mr. Upcott,
Islington.
Upcott has added the date 25 June 1825.
ALECK ABRAHAMS.

"LUNETTES D'APPROCHE."-The Count de Coligny, who was in command of the French auxiliary troops in the battle of St. Gothard against the Turks in 1664, mentions in his Memoirs' having on that occasion made use of "grandes lunettes d'approche, qui nous firent encore bien mieux discerner les objets." L. L. K.

DIDO'S PURCHASE OF LAND.

WHERE can I find collected the Western variants and analogues, if any such there are, of the story of Dido's crafty purchase of land?

At present I know only three tales of this kind recorded in India, China, and Japan. But in each of these the hero is made to have saved himself from the trouble of cutting up the hide of a bull into the thinnest possible strips, with which a great extent of country, by resorting at once to a display of his supernatural power. They run as follows:

to surround

For my How many

"When Madhyântika, the third Buddhist patriarch, subdued a gigantic dragon, then the proprietor of the country of Kashmir, he asked for the surrender of a spot just big enough for his seat. This being granted by the dragon, he miraculously enlarged his own body into such a dimension that the whole region was sat on by him cross-legged. Intensely amazed with the sight, the dragon questioned him for why he required so vast an extent of land. companions' sake,' was his reply. companions do you intend to bring in this country?' Five hundred arhats. [saints],' answered he. The dragon now implored to be allowed to re-obtain the realm whensoever that number of Then arhats should happen to diminish by one. Madhyântika put himself into an ecstatic trance, and foreknew such a diminution never to occur as long as Buddhism would flourish in this country. So he acceded to the dragon's enKashmir numberless people, who settled themtreaty, and subsequently he introduced into selves in the villages, towns, and cities they had established therein. Some time hyântika went with his men through the atmosphere to Gandra-mâdana [lit. tain," for the site of which see Balfour, The Encyclopædia of India,' 1885, vol. i. p. 1168], in order to bring thence the turmeric seeds for But the guardian propagation in Kashmir. dragon of that mountain opposed him wrathfully, and questioned him for what duration he would have the plant cultivated in Kashmir. replied, As long as Buddhism could continue there to prevail. How many years? thousand years.' So the dragon gave him the to Kashmir seeds, after transporting which Madhyântika entered Nirvana."-The third tome of The Life of King Asoka,' translated into Chinese under the title O-yuh-wang-chuen," by An Fah-kin, a Parthian religious, about 1.D. 300.

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