first printed issue of such Rules and Ordinances' is the 1552 edition : 1. The Order of the Hospital of S. Bartholomews in Westsmythfielde in London.' The colophon reads: "Imprinted at London by Rycharde Grafton Printer to the Kynges maistie cum privilegio ad imprimendum solim (The B.M. copy is K 697 a 16. 2). work is 12mo, whereas its prototype is 8vo; the metter also has been enlarged, and while agreeing as to the identity of authorship I would suggest that the larger purpose of these Rules for the Order was the intention of this re-issue. It is this work (3) that is said to have been reprinted at a much later date. R. Rawlinson (English Topographer,' 1720, p. 144) says : This was followed by a MS. volume of which apparently several copies were pre-old characters and in the same size." pared : "This Book has been since reprinted in the (2) "A true and Shorte Declaration of the state and charge of the newe erectide hospitalles." (The B. M. copy is Harl. MS., No. 604,176, there are also copies at Cambridge, Archbishop Parker's Library, Corpus Christi, and in a private library.) scope : Yet neither this bibliographer nor others consulted identify this reprint that is presumably the so-called Pepys reprint. The late Mr. Wheatley informed me that Pepys had the 1557 edition reproduced so exactly that all copies bearing that date would be suspect. The occasion for the Pepys reThe next work is apparently a re-issue print would be the same for all subsequent by Grafton (3). Its title indicates its wider Governors of the hospitals, knowledge of the rules and orders. It was this that probably led to the provision of other re-issues, notably that of 1652 (4) which was reprinted by Dr. Morant Baker, 1885 (5). In his prefatory note it is stated that the issue of 1652 is a reprint of the original pamphlet of 1552 which was again printed in 1580." (6). I have not seen a copy of the 1652 edition, but if Dr. Baker's facsimile is accurate it is an entirely different work from the original pamphlet of 1552. The 1580 issue is also otherwise unknown to me and I take leave to question the attribution of date. The succession of these re-issues would be correctly identified and not subject to confusion if the so-called Pepys reprint was definitely ALECK ABRAHAMS. "The Order of the Hospitalls of K. Henry the VIIIth and K. Edward the VIth, viz., St. Bartholomew's, Christ's, Bridewell, St. Thomas's. By the Maior, Cominalitie and Citizens of London, Governours of the Possessions, Revenues and Goods of the sayd Hospitalls, 1557." There is no colophon or other indication of printer, but Mr. J. A. Kingdon, in his monograph 'Richard Grafton,' says of this and the 1552 volume : 66 "The two are so similar in design and conformation, their production so similarly on each occasion at the end of Grafton's term of office, that identity of authorship can hardly be doubted. Grafton must have had much to do with it even if merely one of a number appointed to draw it up." There is not the similarity of conforma-known and described. tion that Mr. Kingdon claims. The later AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740. (See 12 S. ii. passim : iii. 46, 103, 267, 354, 408, 438 : vi. 184. 233, 242, 290, 329; The next regiment (p. 71) is one of four which were raised in Holland in 1674 for -service under the Dutch Government. It was brought on to the establishment of the British Army (ranking as the Fifth Regiment of Foot) in 1689, having been one of the regiments which came over to England in 1688 with the Prince of Orange to join in the rebellion against James I. In 1782 the territorial designation "Northumberland was added to its title, and in 1833 it was equipped as Fusiliers and designated the Fifth Regiment of Foot, Northumberland Fusiliers: it is now (1920) "The Northumberland Fusiliers.' (1) Major-General, Feb. 24, 1744; Lieut.-General, 1748. Died in 1762. (2) Appointed Lieut.-Colonel in the 7th Regiment of Marines on Jan. 24, 1741; Major-General June 25, 1759; Lieut.-General, Jan. 19, 1761. Died at Richmond, 1771. The names here following are entered on the interleaf in ink ;— THE IDENTITY OF FRANCIS LOVELACE' GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK.-The writer on the Lovelace family in the 'D.N.B.' states that Francis Lovelace, Governor of New York, 1668-73, was a son of Richard, 1st Baron Lovelace of Hurley, and adds that he "must be carefully distinguished from Francis Lovelace (d. 1664), Recorder of Canterbury, and from Colonel Francis Lovelace, brother of Richard the Poet." Further research, however, would seem to prove beyond a doubt that Governor Lovelace was indeed a brother of Richard the poet, and a son of Sir William Lovelace, Kt., of Woolwich, by Anne Barne his wife. The writer in the 'D.N.B.' seems to have been unaware of an Ashmolean MS. entitled 'Interment of Mr. Wm. Lovelace, New York, 1671,' which has been reprinted in were: 66 The American Historical Review, vol. ix. "ROMANTIQUE."-The year 1821 is gener(Macmillan, N. Y., 1904), and which contains ally accepted as the opening of the Romantic an account of the funeral procession. Movement in France, and the origin of the Amongst those present at the ceremony term Romantique or "L'Ecole Romantique seems to have puzzled many British and American writers of centenary articles and even books. J. Demogeot in his 10. Coll: ffraucis Lovelace p'sent Governor of NewHistoire de la Littérature Française Yorke and uncle to the deceased in close (Paris, Hachette, 1st ed., 1861; 7th ed., Mourning single. 1866) says: 8. Tho: Lovelace Esq., father of the deceased and his Lady in close Mourning. : 11. Capt. Dudley Lovelace uncle also to the deceased in like Mourning single. The 'Minutes' of the Executive Council of New York (Albany, 1910), state that "Thomas Lovelace, brother of the Governor, was at this time (1672) Alderman of New York City," having been so appointed Oct. 31, 1671, and was a Captain in the Foot Company of Staten Island on July 1, 1672. Again, in The Magazine of History, vol. i. (New York, 1905) there are to be found several letters reprinted from a MS. in the Congressional Library, one of which, from Governor Lovelace, refers to "my neece, Mrs. Ruth Gorsuch" (who had married William Whitby of Virginia, Speaker of the House of Burgesses, 1653) with regard to the guardianship of her son William, by Thomas Todd of Virginia, husband of her sister, Anne Gorsuch. Further particulars of these families, too long to quote here, are to be seen in the above-named magazine. These records, then, establish the fact that Governor Francis Lovelace had brothers named Thomas and Dudley, and a sister married to a Mr. Gorsuch: no such persons, however, are to be found in the pedigrees of the Barons Lovelace of Hurley as issue of the first Baron Lovelace. On turning to the pedigrees of Lovelace of Woolwich, as given in Berry's 'County, Genealogies' (County of Kent), and in Archæologia Cantiana, vol. x., &c., we find Col. Francis Lovelace with his brothers Thomas, Richard the poet, and Capt. Dudley, and a sister Anne (married to the Rev. John Gorsuch or Gorsage, Rector of Walkern, Herts, whose pedigree is to be found in 'The Visitation of London, 1633-4,' Harl. Soc., p. 327), all children of Sir William Lovelace of Woolwich. As the above quotations are mainly from American publications, which may not be readily available to readers of N. & Q.', it is hoped that they may serve to correct a long-standing error. C. CLARKSON SHAW, Capt. "Mme. de Staël avait la première, en France, prononcé le mot romantique. Elle désignait ainsi la poésie dont les chants des troubadours ont été l'origine, celle qui est née de la chevalerie et du christianisme.' On sait que ces chantsavaient eu pour premier organe les langues néolatines qu'on appelait romanes, et les poëmes écrits en ces langues et nommés pour cette raison romans." Mme de Staël died in 1817, but her famous work on 'L'Allemagne' and her 'Corinne novel enrolled her among the prophets of 'L'Ecole Romantique. ANDREW DE TERNANT. 36 Somerleyton Road, Brixton, S. W. GILES CAPEL, Fellow of All Souls' Colleger Oxford, 1540; Rector of Duloe, Cornwall 1541, M.A., 1545; Rector of How Capel Herefordshire, 1549; Prebendary of White Lackington in the Cathedral Church of Wells and Rector of Yeovilton, Somerset, both in 1554; was deprived of these two latter preferments in 1560, and went to Louvain where he was living in 1562 and 1572. On July 3, 1574, he (described as formerly a Canon of Bath and as aged about 60) was provided to a Canonry at Bruges by Pope Gregory XIII. (Archivio Vaticano, Arm. lii. t. 31; Arm. xliv, t. 22 f. 206d). According to the Concertatio Ecclesiæ' he died abroad before 1588. What else is known about him? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. REPRESENTATIVE COUNTY LIBRARIES, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE.-It would be quite a good thing for topographical scholars to know where to turn for information concerning a county not their own, and a list might be made of really first-class representative County Libraries by correspondents of N. & Q.' As far as my knowledge goes the best West Riding Library is at the Bradford Public Library (Mr. Butler Wood), the Library Committee having wisely acquired the library of the late C. A. Federer and the topographical part of that of the late J. Norton Dickon's library two noted THE Seas, are actually peopled by the relicts of these ancient Persians. "I had myself an opportunity of conversing for several years with a very sensible physician, who went that voyage, to whom I was indebted for many of the particulars published therein; and who is dead since they were published. Of this gentleman I very carefully enquired what the reasons were which induced him and his companions to advance that notion, which at first sight is none of the most probable. He told me the causes were chiefly three: First, that their complexions, in the sentiments of those who had seen some of the Gubers in Persia, very much resembled them, and were very unlike either the inhabitants of Africa, or of India ; for whereas the former are of a black, and the latter of a reddish or iron colour; these were of a light olive, yet their aspects differed absolutely from the Chinese or Tartars. The second cause he assigned, was their worshipping the Sun and Fire; turning towards the east when they prayed, and using a low or whispering voice, all of which are suitable enough to the Gubers, or Gaurs, as the Turks call manners, the quiet and peaceable life they lead, them. The third was the innocency of their the pains they took in cultivating their lands, and their great industry in several ingenious manufactures. I shall not take upon me to determine what credit is due to these conjectures, but shall content myself with observing, that they are worth remembering; and considering perhaps, our posterity may have an opportunity by conversing with these people, to enter into them more minutely." WAS THERE A PARSI COLONY IN SOUTH SEAS ?-Since his famous exodus from Persia in the eighth century A.D., the Parsi has emigrated to whatever places his instinct-commercial, benevolent or roving has drifted him to. Naoroji Rustomji Seth was the first Parsi, as a matter of fact the first Indian, to go to England in 1723 A.D. Australia, Germany and China, Natal and Whether it could be Ceylon, Arabia and Aden, Karachee and Rangoon, Madras and Mecca, and various traced in Calcutta libraries, I know not. parts of this country have all claimed him But there is one book 'The Voyage of Capas their denizen in one or other capacity-tain Don Felipe Gonzalez to Easter Island, as an agriculturer, shop-keeper, trader, traveller or settler. It is in Pinkerton's 'Voyages and Travels (vol. ix., London, 1811, p. 229) that I have come across a curious passage which seems to point to a probable Colony of the Parsis in the South Seas. It runs thus : Commodore Roggewin's Voyage, referred to in the above excerpt, seems to be a scarce work. It is certainly not in any of the Bombay libraries. 1770-71,' by B. G. Corney, 1908 (Hakluyt Society Publication, Series 2, vol. xiii.) in the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society which contains an extract from the official log of one "Mr. Jacob Roggeveen "relating to his Discovery of the Easter Island, 1722 These pages make no mention (pp. 1-26). of the conjecture of a Parsi colony in the South Seas, which, according to the above extract, the Commodore has made in his book of voyage. "At this day the whole plan of the Persian Constitution, except the ecclesiastical part of it, which is changed by the introduction of Mahome: tanism, is very near the same that it was three thousand years ago and yet the Parsees, who In the words of the above excerpt, I shall are the remains of the ancient people of Persia, not, for the present, take upon myself to to whom the constitution belonged, are now reduced to so inconsiderable a remnant, that it determine what credit is due to this conis doubted whether there may be ten thousand jecture of Roggewin, but shall content myself Those that are with observing that it is worth remembering left, indeed, preserve their primitive customs, and investigating by abler hands. In the and are authentic witnesses of the truths reported meantime will any reader enlighten me of them by the most learned writers. It is, indeed, true, that there is another small colony of as to any mention of a Parsi colony in these people in the Indies, and it may not be the South Seas in Commodore Roggewin's amiss to put the reader in mind of a conjecture, Voyage or in any other book? mentioned in Commodore Roggewin's voyage, that some islands, discovered by him in the South souls left in Persia of this race. Tardeo, Bombay. R. N. MUNSHI. Hook: OXENBRIDGE : MORTON POR- Boswell would obviously feel a delicacy TRAITS WANTED. Can any of your readers give me information about portraits of three prominent seventeenth-century divines, two of whom graduated at Oxford and one at Cambridge ? They were all identified with America at one time or another. These are the Rev. William Hook, a Hampshire man born in 1601; the Rev. John Oxenbridge of the same county, born in 1609; and the Rev. Charles Morton, perhaps born in Wales in 1626. They are all mentioned in the Dictionary of National Biography.' I think there must be portraits of these men, and I should like to know of them. C. K. BOLTON. G. PYE, BOOK-PLATE DESIGNER.-I should feel grateful for particulars about this designer who flourished between 1790 and 1810, making a speciality of pictorial and armorial plates. He is believed to have had business establishments in Birmingham and Manchester. ANEURIN WILLIAMS. Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon. COLLECTIONS SOLD BY AUCTION, LONDON, 1714. Can any reader of N. & Q.' tell me what collections of pictures and sculptures were sold by auction in London in 1714— old or new style? I should be very grateful for information. (Mrs.) RACHAEL POOLE. The Museum House, Oxford. WHO WAS JOHNSON'S "PRETTY VOLUMINOUS AUTHOUR ?-Boswell, under 1769, (near the end) says:— "Johnson spoke unfavourably of a certain pretty voluminous authour, saying: 'He used to write anonymous books, and then other books commending those books, in which there was something of rascality.' It seems to me that, whoever this may be, a little humour must be allowed for in the word "rascality. The Arcana about mentioning Johnson's hostile remark with the name of Swedenborg attached, as he was already attracting influential followers who were busy translating his Latin when Boswell was writing. ALBERT J. EDMUNDS. Historical Society of Pennsylvania. J. E. GORDON, ETCHER.-In 1848 Joseph Candall, 12 Old Bond Street, issued an album of 38 little etchings, mostly of Germany and the Isle of Wight, by J. E. Gordon. What is known of him or her? J. M. BULLOCH. Was this Swedenborg? ALIUSTREL BRONZE TABLES.-In 1876 an Cælestia (London, 1749-56) were anony- ancient bronze table was discovered in the mous, and in later and smaller works copper and silver mine at Aliustrel in Por(Heaven and Hell,' 1758, &c.) Swedenborg tugal, both sides of which were covered with gives long quotations from the Arcana; a Latin text. A second such table was disin Heaven and Hell,' two-thirds of the pages quote the Arcana. Moreover, all his religious works were anonymous until 1768, when his name appeared on the titlepage of the De Amore Conjugali.' This work, published at Amsterdam in that year, would be a natural topic in London in the next. covered in the same mine in May, 1906, inscribed with ancient mining regulations. The text of the first table was dealt with by M. Mispoulet in an article entitled 'Le régime des mines à l'époque romaine et au Moyen-Age, d'après la table d'Aliustrel in the Nouvelle Revue historique du Droit français et étranger for 1907. The text of |