Line 650. Proverb: "Amicorum omnia com munia."

Line 693. rigor.-Read " vigor."

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Line 765. Omit a," which has perhaps crept in from the line above.

Line 769. scope.-Read stope (stoop).
Lines 876-7.

Lines 944-5. I see a courtious foe, Sterne enmitie to friendship can no art. The editors' note seems to suggest that the error lies in the word Sterne." If so, the obvious course would be to change it to Turne." I think, however, the corruption is elsewhere, and would read :— I see a courtious foe Sterne enmitie to friendship can inuart. The sense is borne out by what follows, and the corruption of inuart or iuart to no art " may be paralleled by 'Larum for London' (Malone Society), l. 76, where “in't " is misprinted for not." On the use of " invert," cp. Tem-pest,' III. i. 70: invert What best is boded me to mischief."

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Line 973. That makes false rumours long with credit past (riming with last"). Although the rime would be sacrificed, the sense seems to me to require pass for "past." If " past is retained, it must be the past tense, I suppose. Line 999. that honour not affects.-The sense that affects (affect) not honour." Lines 1060-1.

is

Line 1297. To be punctuated Whose there ? my Mariam ? more then happie fate!" Line 1323. Phasaelus.-Read or Phasaelus his."

'Phasaelus's "

Line 1391. The missing line should follow this.. Line 1432. cease (=“ seize," as frequently). Line 1451. I would.-From the editors' note one gathers that "I" should not come in the text. [Dr. Greg informs me that "I" was. inserted by the printer after the sheets had been passed for press, and that it has been erased Is her affections lost, to me tis knowne. in the remaining copies of the play.] The editors would read losse for "lost," but Line 1484. stares (=“ stars ").-Cp. 1. 190. it appears to me they would still not get the Line 1512. and Hebrew.-Read ah, Hebrew." Line Constabarus is speaking of Salome's 1560. Tis.-Read This," rather than "Thus fickleness, not of his own feelings with regard to as the editors suggest. her. I am inclined to read :Line 1566. your.-Perhaps read "her," rather

Line 1719. The worlds mandates.-The_line did not hesitate to out-herod Richardson is short and the sense unsatisfactory. Read in indelicacy when satirizing the absurd

Journal for Jan. 21, 1752. Dodd, too, was at this very time publishing Fielding's 'Crisis' (see item 5 of Gentleman's Magazine for April, 1741, supra), a political pamphlet of which hitherto only the title has been known. Quite recently, however, a copy o 'The Crisis' has come to light, and the owner has been good enough to write to me saying that it appears to be Fielding's work.

That Fielding was well versed in Middleton's 'Life of Cicero,' and had, apart from its dedicatory passages, a high opinion of it, is manifest from his remarks in the Preface to his Enquiry into the Causes of the Increase of Robbers,' 1751.

Nor is it devoid of significance that when Bonnell Thornton made, in 1752, in ‘Have at You All, a Drury Lane Journal by Lady Roxana Termagant,' an ill-natured, not to say malicious, attack on Fielding's novel Amelia,' he referred to it as Shamelia.' Despite these indications, Fielding's biographers have been very shy of attributing Shamela' to him. The best bibliography of his works, that supervised by W. E. Henley (Heinemann), makes no mention of it. The British Museum Catalogue is silent, although it is said the Reading Room possesses a copy. Miss Godden in her 'Memoir of Fielding,' 1910, has naught to say on the matter.

The purpose of this note is to offer intrinsic evidence in support of the extrinsic. 'Shamela' is largely composed of Richardson's own language, ironically adapted, but the author occasionally breaks into characteristic expressions and turns of thought, some of which are here set out accompanied by parallel passages from writings unquestionably Fielding's.

'SHAMELA.'

Title-page." By Mr. Conny Keyber."

P. 5, 1. 23.-" Wretches ready to maintain schemes repugnant to the liberty of mankind."

P. 9, I. 22.—“ How I long to be in the balcony at the Old House."

P. 11, l. 5.—"Your last letter put me into a great hurry of spirits.'

P. 12, 1. 27. I have enclosed you one of Mr. Whitfield's sermons."

P. 14, 1. 9.-"Ah, child! if you had known the jolly blades of my age."

P. 16, 1. 22. Can you forgive me, my injured maid? By heaven, 1 know not whether you are

a man or woman.

P. 23, 1. 5.—“ At the age of 11 only, he met my father without either pulling off his hat, or riding out of the way."

P. 24, 1. 18.-" Be not righteous overmuch."

P. 31, l. 3.—" How sweet is revenge: sure the sermon book is in the right in calling it the sweetest morsel the Devil ever dropped into the mouth of a sinner."

P. 33, 1. 2.-" Mrs. Jewkes: O, sir, I see you know very little of our sect.'

P. 47, 1. 7.-"I am justly angry with that parson whose family hath been raised from the dung-hill by ours.'

P. 52, 1. 9.-"I am sure I know nothing about pollitricks."

P. 52, 1. 24.—" Spindle-shanked young squire." P. 55, 1. 14.-"They sacrifice all the solid comforts of their lives."

P. 55, 1. 33.-" Vice exposed in nauseous and odious colours."

WRITINGS ADMITTEDLY BY FIELDING.

"The Author's Farce,' Act I. sc. iv.-"I have been with Mr. Keyber, too.'

Joseph Andrews,' I. 17.-" Designing men. who have it at heart to establish schemes at the price of the liberty of mankind.”

'The Temple Beau,' Act II. sc. vi.-" I will meet you in the balcony at the Old Playhouse."

Amelia,' IV. 2.-" Booth in his present hurry of spirits could not recollect."

Joseph Andrews,' I. 17.-"I would as soon print one of Whitfield's sermons as any farce whatever."

Miscellanies': A Sailor's Song.'-" Come, let's abroad, my jolly blades.'

Joseph Andrews,' IV. 14.-" As I am a Christian, I know not whether she is a man or a

woman.

'Tom Jones,' III. 5.-" He was not only deficient in outward tokens of respect, often forgetting to pull off his hat, or to bow at his master's approach.'

The Champion, April 5, 1740.—“1 would not be righteous overmuch."

The Champion, Feb. 2, 1740. Revenge, which Dr. South calls The most delicious morsel that the devil ever dropped into the mouth of a sinner.'"

Joseph Andrews,' II. 4.-"More fool he,' cried Slipslcp; it is a sign he knew very little of our sect.

Joseph Andrews,' I. 2.-" He had no ancestors at all, but had sprung out of a dunghill."

'Jonathan Wild,' II. 5.-" Lying, falsehood, &c., which are summed up in the collective name of policy or politics, or rather pollitricks.' Joseph Anews,' III. 2.-" beaux and petit-maîtres of the age.' 'Miscellanies,' Preface.-"From whom I draw all the solid comfort of my life."

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Spindle-shanked

Amelia,' 11. 12. The cheerful, solid comfort which a fond couple enjoy in each other's conversation."

The Champion, March 6, 1740.-" Represent vice in its natural odious colours."

To these excerpts may be added such George IV.,' H. E. Lloyd, pp. 115, 324; expressions as Statute of Lamentations Hist. MSS. Com. 15 Report, Appendix, (Limitations), p. 28; poluteness (politeness), part vi. pp. 470, 553; Remin scences of p. 20; instuted (instituted), p. 53; syllabub, Henry Angelo' (Kegan Paul), ii. 177; ‘Female p. 54, &c., which suggest, to an ear attuned Jockey Club,' Charles Pigott (London, 1794), to Fielding's creations, a Slipslopian simili- pp. 19-20. HORACE BLEACKLEY. tude.

(See 1 S.

EPITAPHS OF FINMORE AND WILLIS AT NORTH HINKSEY.-In the chancel of the

church of St. Laurence, North Hinksey, distant a mile to the west of Oxford, and famous for its remains of Norman architecture, one finds the following epitaphs:

1. On the floor to the north of the altar. Here lyeth the Body of Elizabeth Wife of Rich Fynmore Esq: of Kidling ton who Died the 15th of November 1716.

2. To the south.

Reader

Beneath this Stone

Rest the Remains of William Fynmore
Late of this Parish Gentleman,

Who departed this Life

On the 224 Dec 1757

And in the Year of his Age 85.

Here also lyeth

Martha his Wife

Who Exchanged this Life for a better
On the first Day of Nov 1723
In the 38th Year of her Age.
William Fynmore Gent:

And James Fynmore Citizen and Vintner
Of London

Caused this Marble to be laid
In Memory

Of their Deceased Parents.

3. On a marble slab on the north wall inside.

Martha)

COL. JOHN HAYES ST. LEGER. ix. 76; x. 95, 175, 376; 2 S. viii. 225, 362.) -No biographical information respecting Colonel, afterwards Major-General, St. Leger has appeared in ' N. & Q.' since the somewhat scanty details given more than fifty years ago. We know that he was a member of the Doneraile family, that he was born on July 23, 1756, and that he died at Madras in 1799 (Gent. Mag. lxx. part i. 187). The most interesting portion of his career was during the time of his intimate association with the Prince of Wales, and it is with regard to this period that references would be welcome. A short but valuable biography will be found in The European Magazine of June, 1795 (vol. xxvi. pp. 363-5), from which we learn Guil: that he was gazetted Captain (with the rank of Colonel) in the First Regiment of Guards on Oct. 25, 1782. In this particular it is interesting to note that as early as March 19, 1781, The Morning Herald speaks of him as Colonel St. Leger, and says that he is one of "the principal companions" of the Prince of Wales. For this reason I conclude that he is the hero of one of the famous tête-à-tête Histories' in The Town and Country Magazine in July, 1781 (vol. xiv. p. 289), the letterpress of which seems to point to him. The portrait, given under the title of 'The Gallant Colonel,' while quite dissimilar to the prints after the famous picture by Gainsborough, is not altogether unlike that reproduced in The European Magazine. Other references will be found in J. Chaloner Smith's British Mezzotinto Portraits,' p. 242; Gainsborough,' Sir Walter Armstrong, p. 278; Thomas Gainsborough,' William B. Boulton, pp. 180, 207, 252-3; Memoirs of

Sponsa non minus chara:

Quâ, non imāturo sed precoci fato avulsâ
Lugens sponsus
(pro dolor!)

Interiit Record: de Abington,
Per 14 tantu dies superfuit.
Tam comitatus quam oppidi pacis Justiciarius;
Nulli officio,
Soli dolori impar;

Vitæ integer,
Amicis amicissimus,
Pauperibus benevolus,
Omnibus benignus.

M.S.

Unica prolis posuit

Mærens Mater

Jane Finmore.

4. On the inside of the south wall.
Reader,

Look to thy feet, honest & Loyall men are sleeping
under them, there lies Wm. Fynmore, Fellow of
St Johns in Oxford, & Batch'. of Law, who in ye

year of his age 87, & in y year of our L. 1646,
when loyalty, & ye Church fainted, lay down, &
died. There lies Wm. his only child, who marryed
first Katherin Cox, by whom he had Ann, John,
Mary, Wm., & Richard, Deceasd. after a 5
yars (sic) widdowhood, he tooke to wife Martha
Mayott of Abington, widdow, of ye ancient family
of the Wickhams, who brought him Elianor, &
Thomas, & built him this monument.

He dyed Iune ye 3 A°. Dni. 1677.
aged about 83.
Reader,

prepare to follow.

5. On the floor towards the nave.

Underneath lyeth Interred

Thomas Willis Gent. and Rachell his Wife (Parents of ye famous Physician Dr. Thomas Willis.) She departed this life & was here buried July 5. 1631. And He (in Defence of ye Royal Cause at ye Seige of Oxford) August 4. 1643.

Also

Francis the son of Browne Willis of Whaddon Hall in ye County of Bucks Esq. by Katherine his Wife who died at Oxford July 1. 1718. Aged 8 Months & 23 days.

In memory of whom the said Browne Willis hath caused this stone

well-known house in Albemarle Street, then
comprised some seventeen items, the price
ranging from 6d. to 5s., but being generally
2s. 6d. Amongst the works are Lord Camp-
bell's 'Life of Bacon,' Lockhart's ́Spanish
Ballads,' Hallam's Essays and Characters,'
essays from The Times, Nimrod's 'Chace,
Turf, and Road,' Lockhart's 'Theodore Hook,'
Lord Mahon's 'Forty-Five,' James's' Æsop
with Tenniel's illustrations, and Sir F. B.
Head's Emigrant.' How far this list may
have been extended I am unable to say.
W. B. H.

Queries.

WE must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct."

to be laid here & thereon renewed ye Inscription ANGLICAN CLERKS IN NON-ANGLICAN

for

his deceased Ancestors.

EDWARD S. DODGSON.

Oxford Union Society. AN EARLY CIRCULATING LIBRARY. (See 8 S. ix. 447; x. 99, 145, 259.)—

"If any Gentlemen please to repair to my House aforesaid, they may be furnished with all manner of English, or French Histories, Romances, or Poetry: which are to be sold, or read for reasonable considerations."

as

ORDERS.

IN September, 1749, the Bishop of Sodor and Man, who was described for the purpose "the Most Reverend Thomas Wilson," became, at the age of 86, by election and without other consecration than he had theretofore received for the episcopal office,

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one of the Anetecessors (sic) of the General Synod of the Brethren of the Anatolic Unity," and to him was given liberty to This notice occurs at the end of the 1661 delegate the episcopal jurisdiction so conedition of Webster and Rowley's play The ferred to the Rev. Thomas Wilson, Royal Thracian Wonder.' It was mentioned re- | Almoner, and Prebendary of Westminster.* cently in a daily paper, but I do not think the notice has been placed on record in N. & Q.' The imprint to the work is as follows:

St. Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, E.C. "MURRAY'S RAILWAY READING." (See 11 S. xii. 432.)—In a notice of book-catalogues an editorial mention of the above appeared to suggest that information might not be unacceptable. I have one of the publications that were included in the series, bearing date 1853, and from a full advertisement on the back cover it appears that Murray's Railway Reading; containing works of sound information and innocent amusement: suited for all Classes of Readers," issued by the

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At a date within the memories of many now living, Monsignor Jules Ferrette, who had been consecrated to the episcopate by Peter the Humble, Archbishop of Emesa, and afterwards Jacobite Patriarch of Antioch, consecrated the Rev. R. W. Morgan, curate of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, to the episcopate, and the succession thus begun has been perpetuated to the present day.†

Somewhat later Monsignor Luigi Nazari di Calabiana, acting, if the account be accurate, with formal sanction such as would have been required, consecrated the late Rev. T. W. Mossman, then and afterwards Vicar of East and West Torrington, in the Church of England diocese of Lincoln, to the episcopate. An attested copy of the records of this consecration were duly de.

* Tyerman's 'Oxford Methodists,' p. 188.

+ Pall Mall Gazette, Dec. 12, 1866. 'Hazell's Annual,' 1902, art. 'Old Catholic.'