said books, together with those that sett them to sale, and to bring both the books and the sellers of them before the Lords.' 31 Oct., 1631.-It being discovered that the warrant was too severe, and seemed to impeach the author, it is now agreed that all restraint be taken from the book and it allowed. 1631. Contest between John Haviland and Robert Young, printers, and George Sandes, translator, who had a patent to himself for printing and selling Ovid's Metamorphoses.' To find arbitrators. should be bound up with the Psalms as declared in the Patent, the book itself being small, costing only fourpence. The petitioners had taken council and had lately covenanted with George 21 years, by which they are tied to pay a great Withers for the patent and selling of his book for sum quarterly and have already taken of the Patentee so many as are worth 400l., part whereof they have paid, and given security for the remainder, for which cause they pray their Lordships to take some present order for their relief, firm the Royal Patent and two Orders, in binding and either free them from their contract, or conthe books with the singing Psalms, except only in Bibles. The unjust opposition of the Stationers did make ineffectual his late Majesty's favour. George Withers also attended and read the petition. "Their Lordships referred to Mr. Secretary Windebank." Finally their Lordships decided the petitioners should deliver back the patent to George Withers and restore all the books and the profit they have made, and George Withers should give them a full release. 7 March, 1633/4.-Whereas of late an infamous libell and Booke called 'Histriomastix,' full of Scandall to his Majestie, his Royall Consort the Queen, the Officers of his house, the Magistrates, and the whole state, fraught with uncharitable and unchristian censures of all sortes of people," "that consideration might be had of the prices". The case was heard before the Justices of the King's Bench, and Mr. Attorney was instructed to examine patents. 17 Jan., 1633/4.—The Master and Wardens of the Stationers' Company appeared, on a petition by Robert Cross and Tobias Knowles, Messengers of His Majesty's Chamber, and assigns to George Wither, gent., for a patent of privilege to imprint and sell The Hymns and Spirituall Songs of the Church, composed in verse by him the said George Wither. in which petition they complained that the Company of Stationers would not buy and bind up the said book with the Book of Psalms. Their Lordships did not think fit anything whatever should be bound up with the Bible but the Book of Common Prayer, and the 'Psalmes in Meeter' allowed. Any one breaking their ordinance should forfeit the books and have other punishment. 21 March, 1633/4.-Robert Cross and Tobias Knowles came again before the Council, and "did remonstrate, saying that his late Majesty had given George Withers a patent of privilege, and two orders against the Company of Stationers for the printing of the Hymns, and that they and Michael Sparkes the printer, 66 they are sentenced by the Court of Star Chamber to undergo, besides fyne and imprisonment, corporal and shameful punishment, and the bookes are ordered to be burnt." Search is to be made for all who hold them and for all who bought them, and the copies are to be seized and burnt. 19 March, 1633/4.-A petition of Robert Young, printer, that his predecessors printed The Booke of Martyrs,' and cut all the pictures and matrices for the letters, and they had not enrolled the same in the Stationers' Register, and he had bought up all at a dear rate, and now the Company claim that the book belongs to them, and will not hear of arbitration. He is not able to contend against the whole Company, and he "prays the Council to order that two indifferent men should hear and decide the case. They agree to this, and refer it to two Justices of the King's Bench. 1634. It had been resolved that Speed's with the Bible. Genealogies' should no longer be bound up But on 25 April, 1634, Dr. Speed petitions against this. He says that "he would runne a great risk of utter ruine if the order of the 17th January be enforced concerning the Genealogies,' the patent for which to be bound up with the Bibles he and his father enjoyed." FLORENTINE STREETS: 66 auto "Their Lordships heard the report of Mr. Staples, Mr. Hayne, Mr. Brooke, and Mr. Busby, Schoolmasters, concerning ye grammar sent unto I HAVE no doubt that many persons, reading them. And thereupon their Lordships doe the histories, diaries, Novelle," admire and wish Mr. Farnaby, who presented biographies, and biographies relating to the said Grammar, to reduce the said Grammar as neare both in words and examples to ye old Florence and the Florentines, have, like Grammar as may be where there is no necessity myself, been puzzled to identify the streets for him to vary from it, and to require Mr. Farnaby and localities named therein, for the majority and these four schoolmasters to meet together have had their names altered-some, many and conferre bothe concerning ye wayes of re-times-in the course of the centuries. The ducing ye grammar as aforesaid, and concerning such other observations as ye Schoolmaisters have made thereupon." 7 April, 1639.—A letter to the Lord Bishop of Chester. "We have been made acquainted with an informacion taken before your Lordship and returned hither concerning some scandalous books and writings against the King's Majestie and his government found in the hands and custodie of one William Arderne of Stockport in the county of Chester, gent. [in margin "clerk "], and we authorize you or other justices to cause not only due examinacion to be taken of the matters conteyned in the said Informacion, but a diligent search to be likewise made in the Studdy and house of the said Arderne for all books and other papers of the nature aforesaid, and them to seize and bring away, and to send the said William Arderne up thither in safe custody, with a certificate of the examinations and such books as you think fit." municipal authorities have of late years tablets and from various books and records, be able to supply the omissions. Present Name. Via de' Cerretanj Croce al Trebbio V. Calzaioli V. delle Cascine.. 11 Aug., 1639.-A proclamation to be issued about a scandalous paper. Whereas a paper containing many falsehoods, tending much to the dishonour of his Majesty's proceedings in Scotland, had been printed V.Proconsolo and circulated, the King having seen it at Berwick: it was to be suppressed. 17 May, 1640.-Whereas there was lately found in the house of Alexander Lea, a tailor, dwelling in Bloomsbury, "a Truncke belonging to one Mary Silvester, wherein was locked up to the number of 200 Popish Books in English, Jesus Psalters,' Invectives against Luther and Calvin,'' Rheims Testaments,' preparative prayers to ye masse, V. della Chiesa Present Name. V. delle Seggiole V. Crocifisso V. Mercatino V. Verrazzano V Rosa V. de' Pepi Former Name or Names. V. degli Orci. V. della Fogna. V de' Bonfanti. V. M. Angelo Buonarrotiv. S. Maria. (V. del Ramerino. V. delle Mete. V. delle Santucce. V. degli Albertinelli. V. delle Lance. V. degli Armaiuoli. V. Teatina. V. Salicciuoli. V. dei Tedaldini. V. del Transito. V. del Maglio. Piazza Sant' Appoli V. dell' Arte della Lana Sdrucciolo di Caval Vallombrosa. Former Naine or Names. V. del Moro. Poggio dei Baroncelli. Vicolo de' Rinuccini. V. San Ruffillo. V della Forca. V. Torcicoda. V. Nuova. V. del Garofano. V. del Ciliego. V. degli Anselmi. V. della Macciana. V. de' Guidalotti. V.degli Speziali Grossi. V. de' Lottini. IV. Calimaia Vecchia. Vicolo de' Sapiti. (V. dei Legnaioli. V. Larga. V. di S. Chiara. V. di Boffi. V. Saturno. V. delle Marmerucole. V. de' Maccheroni. C. M. TENISON, THE COVENTRY SHAKESPEARES.-The following are entries taken from the parish registers of Holy Trinity Church, Coventry, and occurring before 1690: April 5, 1583. Henrie. July 5, 1601. Dec. 5, 1602. BAPTISMS. Wynifrede Shackspeare, d. of John Shackespeare, S. of William. William Shakespeare, S. of William. Mar. 7, 1603/4. Thomas Shakespeare, S. of William. July 22, 1631. William, sonne of Thomas & Elizabeth Shacksper. Nov. 16, 1632. Joane, dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth Shackspeare. May 4, 1634. Thomas Shackspeare, Thomas and (blank). son of Mar. 2, 1637/8. Henr. Shackspear, so. of Thomas. Aug. 16, 1643. John Shacksp're, so. of Tho. SONNET BY JOACHIM DU BELLAY.-Some months ago, while looking through the poems of Joachim du Bellay, of the circle of Marguerite de Valois, I recognized the original of a sonnet by William Browne, of the time of Queen Bess. Although the relationship between these two striking sonnets may have been remarked by others, it happened to be unknown to my correspondents who are concerned with the literature of the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. It being recalled to mind by the article on 'The Earl of Surrey and De Baïf' (11 S.Jiv. 365), I append both versions, as another fillustration of the influence of the early French on the English poets :ANTIQUITEZ DE ROME. Par Joachim du Bellay (1524-60). III. - Nouveau venu, qui cherches Rome en Rome, SHAKESPEARE AND ITALIAN LITERATURE. Mr. J. G. Robertson's treatment of the influence of Shakespeare on Italian literature in the fifth volume of the Cambridge History of English Literature' (1910) seems to me to be curiously incomplete, not to say inadequate, and in some places even misleading. The following disjointed notes, which, though far from complete, aim at supplementing Mr. Robertson's text and bibliography, may be of some service to students who wish to study this interesting subject more thoroughly. One of the first attempts to translate Shakespeare into Italian was made by Elisabetta Caminer Turra. She was followed by the Venetian gentlewoman Giustina Renier Michiel (1755-1832), who, besides attempting a translation of Hamlet,' on the advice of Melchiorre Cesarotti (17301808), the translator of Ossian, translated Othello,' 'Macbeth,' and 'Coriolanus,' which she published in 1798 and 1800. A. Verri's translations of Hamlet' and 'Othello,' which Mr. Robertson mentions, are dated 1768 and 1777 respectively 'Macbeth' was also translated by Giuseppe Nicolini (1788-1855). Andrea Maffei published his Teatro Scelto' at Milan in 1843, reprinted at Florence in 1857. Mr. Robertson cites the latter edition, but makes no mention of the former. It may be noted that Carcano's translation of Titus Andronicus (1881) was dedicated to F. J. Furnivall, and that in the introduction to the same writer's translation of King Lear,' he says that a prose translation of Shakespeare's dramatic works was begun by Bazzoni and Sormani. If these notes prove interesting, I shall only be too glad to follow them up with others, pointing out some of the more important allusions and references to, and imitations and criticisms of, Shakespeare which are to be found in Italian literature. PAUL L. FALZON. Malta. AND FRANCES, DUCHESS OF SUFFOLK, ADRIAN STOKES. (See 1 S. vi. 128, 225; xii. 451.)-In The Nine Days' Queen,' by Richard Davey, p. 352, it is stated that the Duchess, "Lady Jane's strange and untender mother, did not, as might have been expected, even in those unfeeling times, go into retirement after the bloody deaths of her daughter, son-in-law, husband, and brother-in-law, but within a fortnight, and on the very day that Lord Thomas Grey was arraigned (9th March, 1554), not, as some writers say, the day that he was executed, she married her late husband's Groom of the Chambers, a redhaired lad of middle-class origin, fifteen years her .junior, one Mr. Adrian Stokes." On referring to 1 S. vi. 225 I find an extract from Potter's Charnwood Forest,' p. 79, as follows: "The Duchess, after the death of her husband (beheaded February 23rd, 1553/4)....afterwards enjoyed much tranquillity and domestic happiness .in a second matrimonial connexion with Mr. Adrian Stocks, who had been her Master of the Horse....they were married March 1st, 1554/5." If this statement is correct, just a year and a week had elapsed. Mr. Davey, in a footnote, refers to N. & Q.,' 1 S. xii. 451. Miss Agnes Strickland has the date 24 Feb., 1553/4, for the execution, and 9 March, 1553/4, for the remarriage. Both Miss Strickland and Mr. Davey mention a painting, portraits of the Duchess and Mr. Stokes, dated 1554, with their ages thereon, 36 and 21 respectively. In Acts of the Privy Council, 1547-50,' at p. 439, there is a list of officers, &c., at Newhaven (Havre), 6 Feb., 1546, under Lord Stourton, wherein Adrean Stokes appears as Mareschall at 13s. 4d. per diem. At p. 294, 4 Feb., 1546/7, the Council" at Newhaven consisted of William Lord Stourton, Sir Richard Cavendish, 66 66 and Adrian Stockes. There is also at p. 373: 28 January, 1549, a Warrant ordered to be issued to pay to Adryan Stokes, late Marshall of Newhaven, CLXX" for his wages at xiijs. iiijd. by day, and his ten men at vid. the day, from the xxijnd of February last untill the xviith of August following." Again, p. 414, Lord John Grey, late Deputy at Newhaven, and Adryan Stokes, late Marshal, are referred to. Now if Adrian was 21 in 1554, as stated in the picture, he would be only 14 in 1546/7, a very early age, even in those days, for one of middle-class origin" to be associated with a Council, and to fill the office of Marshal. Is it not just possible that the Marshal may have been father of the husband of the Lady Frances, and that through his influence the younger Stokes became Groom of the Chambers to the late Duke? Mr. Davey in a foot-note, p. 353, suggests Sandgate. TALLIES: "It may THE EXCHEQUER. surprise people to learn that not more than 85 years have passed since tallies were the accepted and only form of receipt for money paid into the National till. So strong is precedent, and so conservative in its methods is a government department, that this system went on without much alteration for nearly eight hundred years. Useful as tallies may have been in Norman and Plantagenet times, their continued employment after banks and cheques had become common-may well excite our wonder. The last wooden tally of the Exchequer was struck on October 10, 1826"; and the system finally came to an end with the burning of the Houses of Parliament in 1834. The few words above are extracted from a paper by Sir Ernest Clarke in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society for December, 1911. Another paper on the same subject, from the pen of Mr. Hilary Jenkinson, appeared recently in Archæologia, vol. lxii. ; and it may perhaps be useful that these two contributions, containing so many valuable notes on the subject, should be recorded in the pages (and Index) of 'N. & Q.,' with previous references on the same topic. Upton. R. B. [See 8 S. i. 174, 233, 359, 520; 10 S. v. 305.] BRINSOP COURT.-It may be noted that this fine Herefordshire house and the estate have been bought by Sir Richard Sutton, and it is understood that the new owner meditates a minute and thorough This restoration. beautiful residence, though it fell long ago from its former high estate, has been for many years in good hands, and the vandalism of the year 1800, approximately, when a tower was taken down to build a stable wall, as it is stated, has in no way been repeated, and happily |