present thereat. Whatever it is I hope I shall .ance. I forbear to mention Sr Robt. Corberts Misfortune as supposing Your Lordship has heard it related already in England. I wish his Native Country may restore the poor distempered Gentleman to Himself. I forbear mentioning any thing concerning ye Office of Insurance &c. lately set up in this Town, because I have this day seen a just account of it in our English Papers. Before this comes to your hand I hope Y Lordsh" will have receiv'd a small Present I have venturd to send You from bence. The Pickle Herrings are just now come in ; & being inform'd that on their first Coming They are made Presents of, to Persons of y First Quality in Europe, This Reason & my Liking them so much my Self, made Me willing to complement Yr Lordship with a few Choice Ones. They eat them, when they are skin'd with Bread & Butter, & if You please, You may pick the flesh off their Bones & mincing it small You may mix it with a 3 part Chalott & Cucumbers with Oyl & Vinegar. I wish they may please Your Taste, & those who You shall be pleasd to regale with them. I onely beg the favour of You to pardon the Freedom in sending them. And beleive, that I am & ever will be, My Lord. I can't allow My Self to come so near Your Lordship, as I am when at this Place, without paying my Duty to You by the Visit of this Letter. I acquainted Your Lordship in my last with the Reason of my seing these Countrys, before I had made my Tour of Holland: and indeed I have receiv'd so much satisfaction from the Magnificence with which this Jubilee was celebrated at Brussels, that I should never have pardon'd My Self, if having an Opportunity, I had neglected to gratify my Curiosity on so curious an Occasion. The new Scenes I have met with since I came into these Roman-Catholick Countrys has given Me incredible Delight, and tho' there was an extraordinary Magnificence exhibited both in the Great Church, and streets of Brussels, beyond what I ever saw, or bad even an Idea of before, yet it has not drowned the Pleasure I have had in being Eye-witness to the Delightfulness of the Country, Beauty of the Towns, and Civility of the Inhabitants. But notwithstanding I have had very great Satisfaction in gratifying my Sight with the Variety and Newness of the Objects which have presented themselves to Me on all hands, Yet my most particular satisfaction has been in the Conversation I have had in every Place I have pass'd through, and even on ye Road in Travelling with the Ecclesiasticks of all Orders. It is impossible to mention with what Civility they receive a Stranger in their Houses, & how ready they are to satisfy one in every Particular that one wou'd desire. I hope I shall live to have the Honour to relate to Your Lordship some part of the Conversation I have had with Them; & design further to have before I leave the Country. It would be too tedious to make any mention of it in a Letter ; & I shall content my Self at this Time with making a Remark or two on the Procession we have had on occasion of this famous Jubile. I shall refer Your Lordship to the public accounts You will undoubtedly have at large of the occasion, and august manner in which it has been celebrated. In order to Honour it, the fronts of the Houses in those Streets through which it pass'd were adorn'd with Greens from the Bottom to the Top, & embellish'd with the finest Tapistrys and Pictures each inhabitant either had by them or could procure: Besides a vast number of Triumphal Arches set forth after the most beautiful Manner with Paintings, Mottôs, and other Decorations. I saw the Procession from our Residents (Mr Leathes) House; near it was a most magnificent Triumphal arch, the Inscriptions of which were peculiariy calculated for the Neighbourhood. The Jesuits had the Direction of every Thing, and most of their Mottos on all the Arches tended either to establish the Truth of their Hoc est Corpus Doctrine, or to set forth Yr Lordships most obliged, & most obedient the greatness of the Miracle for the Commemora г humble Servant, ROB. WHATLEY. P.S.-If Y Lordship shall you chafe [sic] to honour Me with a Line from You, Be pleasd to use ye following Address, To Me at Mr George Kemble's Merchant in Rotterdam. tion of which this Jubilé was instituted. The forementiond Arch had on each side the Quotations out of all the Gospels by which they ordinarily prove their Transubstantiation, and in the middle was the following Inscription, Eucharistiæ Veritas Hæreticis demonstratur. Tot sacrâ fortasse stupes vi pignoris acta Prodigia, haud uno dinumeranda Die; came sacræ Post medium maneant, et tria Saecla, stupes. NB. It was 350 years ago the miracle happened of ye Hosts bleeding which very host yet remains. I leave Your Lordship to make your Reflection on it; and shall intrench on your precious Time no longer than whilst I acquaint You that I from Rotterdam through Antwerp and Mechlin to Brussels: That after I spent a week in this latter place, I came through Ghent and Bruges, to this Place; whither I came this Day at Noon, and shall proceed to morrow for Newport (whither the Curiosity of visiting a Monastery of English Carthusians onely draws Me) to Dunkirk, St Omer, Ipre, Menin, Lisle, Tournay & Mons & so to Brussels. Whether I shall go from thence to Namur & so down ye Maes to Utrecht or directly thro' Louvain to Holland I have not yet Determin'd. But the Inclination I have to be at Hanover as soon as possible will I beleive determine Me for the Latter. Just on my Departure from Rotterdam I had the Good Fortune to fall into the Company of Admiral Norris's Son who with his Tutour was coming into these Countrys, with the very same Intent as my Self; as ye latter has travelled here before, and is a very learned Gentleman I reap great advantages by it. My Lord, Wherever I am, it is a sensible Self to Your Esteem: and I shall be ever ambi- Your Lordships most obedient, ROBERT WHATLEY. C. S. B. BUCKLAND. (To be continued.) He witnessed the will of one Henry Walker Thomas Palmer belonged to a family seven John Sambridge made his will on Sept. 18, 1558, and Richard Shakespeare praised his goods and cattle on May 7 following. He was a humble person with little to be 'praised. He left a widow and a son by a were difficulties to former wife. There face between the son and his step-mother. This memorandum appears in the will :— "That Thomas Sambridge, the son of John Sambridge of Snitterfield, hath granted to his motherin-law, Eleanor Sambridge, to have twelve years in the house that he hath right to have after the death of his father, John Sambridge; the said Eleanor permitting him to have two lands within the fields of Snitterfield yearly, and the said Thomas to find cider at his own cost and charges, and Eleanor to wash the suits of Thomas during the said time." The goods which Richard Shakespeare inventoried included 12 pewter platters and dishes and saucers, 4 brass pots and 2 pans, and painted cloths in the hall and chamber; and the cattle comprised a cow, 2 store pigs and a little horse. 5. William Bott of the Wold. William Bott, Batt or Bett (pronounced, with the vowel long, Boot, Bait or Beet) interests us as a Snitterfield man who was a younger contemporary of Richard Shakes. peare and an older contemporary of the latter's son John, and settled, like John Shakespeare, in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he resided in and acquired the house which John Shakespeare's son William afterwards purchased and made his home, New Place. At Snitterfield William Bott lived at the Wold. He learned to write, and he became the agent of Squire Clopton. He had a wife, Joan, and children in 1552, when Thomasin Palmer left them all "a pied heifer of three year old and two launds of wheat lying in Woodway, the one betwixt Roger Smith on both sides and the other betwixt William Bracy and John Hancorn." He witnessed the will and 'praised the goods of Hugh Green in Mar., 1553. On Jan. 31, 1554, he witnessed the will, of which he was appointed overseer with Richard Maids, of his friend, Hugh Porter, after the death of the latter's daughter, wife of Robert Maids. Hugh Porter, who lived five or six years after making this will, bequeathed Bott 40s. On Sept. 8, 1557, Thomas Palmer made Bott overseer of his will and left his chilaren a little gift of 3d. apiece. A list of Hugh Porter's debtors drawn up on Nov. 26, 1557, includes the following :— "Richard Shakespeare of Snitterfield oweth unto the same 40s. The executors of Robert Arden of Wilmecote and Thomas Stringer of Bearley oweth unto the same for Robert Arden £5. 2. 3. William Bott of Snitterfield £30, for the which sum of £30 William Bott hath to mortgage to the forenamed Hugh Porter all the land within the town of Hatton." The executors of Robert Arden were his daughters, Alice and Mary, the second being in Nov., 1557, wife of John Shakespeare in Henley Street. William Bott was already engaged in those speculations which afterwards got him into trouble. Hugh Porter's will was proved in the Court of Canterbury on the 7th February, 1560, and to Bott and to Porter's natural and loved daughter, Eleanor, fell the task of distributing the residue of his estate "in charitable deeds and works, for the wealth of his soul and all Christian souls," Thus again Bott had the handling of money that was not his own. On Apr. 21, 1559, he made the inventory of the goods of Roger Lyncecombe with Richard Shakespeare and others. He witnessed the will of his master, William Clopton, on Jan. 4, 1560. And with Richard Shakespeare and others he made the inventory of the goods of Henry Cole of Snitterfield on June 1, 1560. On the promotion of young William Clopton from New Place to Clopton House, in succession to his father, Bott removed from the Wold to New Place. (To be continued.). AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740. EDGAR I. FRIPP. (See 12 S. ii. passim; iii. 46, 103, 267, 354, 408, 438; vi. 184, 233, 242, 290, 329; vii. 83, 125, 146, 165, 187, 204, 265, 308, 327, 365, 423; viii. 6.) The next regiment (p. 72) was raised in 1688 by Sir Robert Peyton to support the Prince of Orange in the rebellion against King James II. From 1741 it was designated the 20th Foot, but in 1782 the county title-East Devonshire Regiment-was conferred upon it in addition to its number. This title it retained until 1881 when it became The Lancashire Fusiliers. Appointed to the Colonelcy Rose. (1) Uncle of Sir Richard St. George, 1st Baronet (created, 1766). of the 8th Dragoons in May. 1740, being succeeded by Colonel Alexander (2) Cornet in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse, July 1, 1705. Captain in the 20th Foot, June, 1715; Major, Nov. 12, 1717. Appointed Colonel of a newly raised regiment of Foot in 1742, which was disbanded in 1748. Died in 1749. (3) Captain in this regiment Dec. 21, 1720; Lieut.-Colonel in Colonel Battereau's newly raised Regiment of Foot, 1742. Died in 1749. The following additional names are entered in ink in the interleaf : (4) Died in 1769. See obituary notice in The Gentleman's Magazine. (5) Major, May 27, 1745. (6) Captain, July 1, 1740. (7) Captain-Lieutenant, July 1, 1740. (8) Lieutenant, Apr. 23, 1740. (9) Lieutenant, July 1, 1740; Captain, 12 Dec. 1746. J. H. LESLIE, Lieut.-Colonel (Retired List). (To be continued.) THE GEOPHONE.-The geophone is one of the many devices which, developed under the strenuous demands of war, now constitute permanent additions to our industrial equipment in peace time. It is a listening instrument invented for detecting enemy activities in sapping and min ng and for locating artillery. It is now being used by the U.S. Bureau of Mines for locating miners who have been entombed. Although quite small it is essentially a seismograph, working on the same principle as the ponderous apparatus which records earth-quake tremours. In connexion with this subject we are told in an American mining paper that Herodotus, describes the method by which opposing armies, in one case at least, detected the presence of the other's mines. the forerunner of the modern geophone. He says:— "The Persians beleaguered Barca for nine months, in the course of which they dug several mines from their own lines to the walls. But their mines brass, who went with a brazen shield all round the were discovered by a man who was a worker in fortress and laid it on the ground inside the city. In other places the shield, when he laid it down, was quite dumb; but where the ground was undermined, there the brass of the shield rang. Such was the way in which the mines were discovered." The translation is not faultless, but will serve our present purpose. The original text is given in Herodotus ('Hist. Libr.,' iv. 200 (2)) on page 238 of the Dindorfian edition. The siege of Barké (circa 512 B.C.) is mentioned also by Eneas, the Tactician (Poliorceticus,' chap. xxxvii.), who gives the name of the besieger as Amasis. At a Vestry held in the Parish Church of Llanbeblig in the County of Carnarvon, on Monday the 4th day of May, 1818 It is ordered, That all the Paupers who shall in future apply for and insist upon having Weekly Relief, shall be Badged with Red Letters Ll. P., to be fixed by the Overseers in the Front of the Hat of each Pauper to be worn daily, and if any of the Paupers shall be found at any time in the Town of Carnarvon or in any part of the Parish of Llanbeblig without a Badge upon his or her hat such Pauper shall forfeit one Week's allowance. That it is the opinion of the Parishioners present at this Vestry, that it is improper to permit persons, that are not settled in this Parish to wander and beg therein, and in order to ascertain who are settled in the Parish, It is ordered that the Overseers do without delay, procure printed Tickets in which the paying Overseer of the Poor is to write the name, age, and description of each Pauper wishing to apply for Voluntary relief about the Parish. That these orders be translated into the Welsh language, and printed in English and Welsh and distributed throughout the Parish. (Signed) Thomas Roberts, Vicar. Robert Williams Wardens. Overseers of L. E. Jones, Printer, Carnarvon. ANEURIN WILLIAMS. LORETTO.-There is a curious note on p. 436 of a short edition of Quentin Durward' edited by H. W. Ord and published by A. and C. Black. It runs as follows: "Loretto. There are three Lorettos, possessing images or relics of the Virgin Mary: the most celebrated is in Styria in Austria, where miraculous cures are reputed to be effected. Two pilgrimages are made annually to it." There appear to be eleven Lorettos in the Old and in the New world, and far and away the most important of them is the Loretto, near Ancona, famed as it is for being the place, to which the house inhabited by the Holy Family was transported by angels from Palestine. This Loretto is a centre of pilgrimages. If there is a Loretto in Styria it is not mentioned in Meyer's German Encyclopædia,' and in Ritter's ‘Geographisch - Statistisches Lexicon' mention is made of any Loretto in Austria. T. PERCY ARMSTRONG. The Author's Club, Whitehall Court. S.W. no son.' 6 FEMALE PSEUDONYMS USED BY MEN.In 1811 Shelley with T. J. Hogg composed Posthumous Fragments of Margaret NicholGrant Allen (1848-1899) published two novels, 'The Typewriter Girl' and Rayner.' Rosalba' under the name of "Olive Pratt The greater part of the test work of William Sharp (1856–1905). appeared under the name of "Fiona Macleod," and I believe that the name of " as author of the novel 'Lady Loran,' conAgnes Farrell ” cealed the identity of Francis William Lauderdale Adams (1862-1893). This list can probably be extended JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. Human Wishes' wrote:- The teeming mother, anxious for her race, was Col. Schutz told me that he had been with Mre Vane, that he avoided it as long as he could till Prince [Frederick] took notice of his not going. This fat and ill shaped dwarf has nothing good to recomend her, neither sense nor wit. reached London, and is a different person from Frances Lady Vane whose career, is deployed in Smollett's 'Peregrine Pickle. J. P. DE C. Mrs. Vane died in 1736 before Johnson STORIES OF WHISTLER.-Mr. A. B. Piddington, K.C., of Melbourne, author of 'Spanish Sketches (Oxford University Press) tells his friends the following Whistler stories. Is the second one new ? "When I was in Toledo I met the famous etcher, Mr. Strang, who was travelling through Spain with his son. One afternoon we were talking of Velasquez and Whistler, and naturally who told Whistler that he and Velasquez wore the anecdote cropped up of the young idolater the only artists who knew how to paint light and air, and was rebuked by Whistler's comment, 'But why drag in Velasquez?' Mr. Strang told me that he had known Whistler well and that during the famous trial when Whistler obtained one farthing damages from Ruskin (who had said inter alia, that one of Whistler's pictures was |