Frome.-Stephen Norrice named in will of John Bisse, dated 23 Dec., 1652.-Brown, Som. Wills,' ii. 3. Goathill.-Richard Norres patron (with others) in 1555. Ilchester.-Nicholas Norys. Instituted to the living of St. John the Baptist, 6 Nov., 1411. Long Sutton.-John Norris, son of William, of Long Sutton, Somerset, pleb. Christ Church, matric. 13 Dec., 1633, aged 18; B.A. 27 Feb., 1635/6. Vicar of Long Sutton, Somerset, 13 April, 1639-61.-Foster's Alumni,' First Series, vol. iii. Milverton.-William Norrice, of Milverton, Somer set. Will dated 9 June,* 1573; proved 66 To My John Norrys, billman," and William Norrys, gentleman," are named on the Certificates of Musters of Somerset, 1569.'-Somerset Record Society. John Norris and Mary his wife were recusants, circ. 34 Eliz.-3 James I.-Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, v. 114. Chancery Proceedings. John and Elizabeth Tyrrell v. William Norry, temp. Eliz.-Public Record Office Indexes, No. VII., Chancery Proceedings,' Ser. II., vol. i. p. 397. The will of John, dated 1646, is at Taunton.Vide Taunton Wills,' part iv. Minehead.-John Norris§ of Mynehead, Somerset, gent. Will dated 25 Nov., 1668; proved 14 May, 1669, by John Norris [59 Coke]. My daughters Alice Norris and Mary Norris, 507. each. My son Thomas Norris, 1007. at age of 15. My daughter Elisabeth. Lands in Old Cleeve. My wife Mary Norris, Ex'ix. George Poole Norris, son of John, of Minehead, Dulverton, Somerset, cler. Exeter Coll., matric. 9 Dec., 1811, aged 19.-Foster's 'Alumni,' Second Series, vol. iii. Misterton.-Will of John Norris of Misterton co. Somerset. Dated between 14 July and Christide following. Buried in churchyard of Beamyster. Brothers William, Thomas, and Hugh. Hugh's sons, John and Robert. Godchildren Edith Sharlicke, Alice Patten, and William Coome. My sisters Elizabeth and Agnes. Mary Combe, daughter of William Combe, sen.; Joan Ouglie, daughter of John Ouslie; Mary Weaver; Edward Harris; Rebecca Shoilicke; Hugh Shoilicke; widow Baker (? Barker); Thomas Wigett; Edith North of Beamister; Roger Knappe of the saine; William Nille; John Evans; Robert Betscombe of Beamister; Edm. Lake and Bartw. Darbye of same. Executor, my brother William Norris. Witnesses, John Hodder, Thomas Sprake. Probate 19 March, 1619/20.-Lea's Abstracts,' Boston, p. 100. The wills of John 1549, Elinor (widow) 1559, John 1576, Thomas 1622, William 1622, John 1628, Richard 1661, Hugh 1664, Hugh 1728, are at Taunton.-Vide Taunton Wills,' parts i. and iv. The will of William 1628 is in P.C.C. 76 Barrington, and John 1620 is P.C.C. 27 Soame. Newton St. Loe.-John Norris (1857-1711), Platonic philosopher and mystic divine, instituted to this living 7 May, 1689, which he held till 1692. This John was the son of Rev. John Norris of Aldbourne, d. 16 March, 1681 (Wilts), who was possessed of considerable property at Collingbourne Kingston educated (Wilts). John (1657-1711) was 66 at Winchester and Exeter Coll., Oxon; matric. 15 Dec., 1676, aged 19; B.A. 1680. Fellow of All Souls 1680, M.A. 1684. After holding the living of Newton St. Loe he went to Bemerton, Wilts. Brother of Samuel 1661 and John, infra, and father of Edward 1712. John (1657-1711) d. Bemerton, and there is a marble tablet to him in Bemerton Church. Besides the above he left a daughter who m. Thomas Bowyer, M.A., Vicar of Martock, Somerset, in 1708. See D.N.B.,' which is not correct in saying that the father of John Norris (1657-1711) held the living of Ashbourne (Wilts). Aldbourne is correct. D.N.B.' also says his daughter married Bowyer" (see above for addition of Christian name). It would be interesting to discover if Thomas Bowyer, Vicar of Martock, who married John Norris's only daughter, was connected with the Nichols and Bowyer families, printers, and also with the Rev. W. Norris, Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries 1759-90 (elected F.S.A. 4 April, 1754). He succeeded Ames, and d. Dec., 1792. Buried Pentonville Chapel. Corrector of the press to Baskett. See Nichols's 'Lit. Anecdotes,' vi. 127. See also Lit. Anecdotes,' i. 137-8, and v. 68, where much space is given to John Norris (1657-1711). John Dunton's "character" of Norris is given by Nichols, and a picturesque anecdote of Norris's relations with Bishop Burnet is in same work, i. 640. Very interesting matter is found in Hearne's 'Diaries' (Oxford Hist. Soc.), ii. 62, iii. 455. See also Powicke (F. J.), A Dissertation upon John Norris of Bemerton,' London, 1894. John Norris, son of John, of Newton, Somerset, cler. University Coll., matric. 27 March, 1708, aged 16; B.A. 1711, M.A. from Sidney Sussex Coll., Cambridge, 1723; perhaps Rector of Little Langford, Wilts, 1719, &c.Foster's Alumni,' First Series, vol. iii. Old Cleeve.-Will of John Norris of Minehead, dated 25 Nov., 1668. Lands in Old Cleeve [59 Coke].-Vide supra under Minehead. Oldmixton.-Will of Roger Norreys of Olde Miston, pr. 1562, is in P.C.C. [30 Streat]. Overstowey. The will of Richard Noris, 1561, is at Taunton.-Vide Taunton Wills,' part i. A. L. HUMPHREYS. John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, was educated in the Old Latin Schoolhouse of Dublin, which you will still find in ruins in Schoolhouse Lane, off High Street, at the back of the Synod Hall. I wonder, in passing, if any one has ever taken the trouble to photograph these ruins, where one of the greatest of England's generals received his education two hundred and fifty years ago." Two further notes are added at the bottom of the page :— 66 : Information about the Free School of the City of Dublin in le Ram Lane,' afterwards known as Schoolhouse Lane, will be found in Gilbert's History of Dublin,' vol. i. p. 237; in articles in The Irish Builder (vol. xxviii. p. 78, and vol. xxxiii. p. 187) on the churches of St. Audoen and St. Michael; and especially in two exhaustive articles in the numbers of the same journal for May 1, 15, 1899. John Churchill attended the school for a year or more about 1662. Lord Wolseley's Life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, to the Accession of Queen Anne,' vol. i. p. 29 sq.' "In 1674 the schoolhouse was falling into decay, and the Corporation granted a lease of the site to one John Borr. Borr built on it a residence for himself, and named it Borr's Court. Its name survives in a corrupt form- Borris Court as the name of a narrow street off Schoolhouse Lane. The ruins which still exist are portions of the walls of Borr's house. Every vestige of the school has disappeared.” W. R. B. PRIDEAUX. BERTRAM STOTE (11 S. vii. 110). According to a pedigree in the fourth volume of the new County History of Northumberland' (1897), Bertram Stote was the only surviving son of Sir Richard Stote of Lincoln's Inn and of Jesmond, Newcastleupon-Tyne, serjeant-at-law, who married, 24 Jan., 1653 4, Margaret, daughter of Henry Holmes of Newcastle, merchant. After her husband's death in December, | 1682, she married Henry Basire, from whom she afterwards separated. Bertram was baptized 8 Feb., 1674/5, died unmarried, and was buried at St. Nicholas's Church, Newcastle, 22 July, 1707, leaving as coheiresses three sisters-Margaret, Frances, and Dorothy. The last survivor of these ladies was Dorothy, widow of the Hon. Dixie Windsor, who died intestate and without issue 26 Dec., 1756. From her intestacy sprang a litigation of a hundred years respecting her estates, which culminated in an action of ejectment heard at the assizes in Newcastle in the spring of 1855. Samuel Warren, author of Ten Thousand a Year,' pleaded (it was said without fee) the cause of the last plaintiff, William Stote Manby, a gardener of Louth in Lincolnshire, and was nonsuited. An attempt was made to revive the cause in Chancery in April, 1857, the plaintiff having raised money by a promise to pay 201. for every 1. lent. The action was dismissed, with costs, against the plaintiff, and no attempt has since been made to revive it. "Sic transit gloria Manbi was the comment of The Lincolnshire Journal of the period. RICHARD Welford. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. H. A. P. and MR. R. PEACOCK-who mentions the pedigree of Stote of Stote Hall and Kirkheaton in J. Crawford Hodgson's History of Northumberland,' iv. 383, and states that Bertram Stote's parents were married at St. John's, Newcastle-also thanked for replies.] MARBLEMEN (11 S. vii. 107).—The "great guild" of Lynn was the Guild of the See Blomefield's History of Trinity. The Norfolk,' vol. viii. p. 502 (1808). "skyveyns" were the wardens of the guild. See Spelman under 'Scabini.' W. C. BOLLAND. French esquevins or échevins, through the Is not "skyveyns" the same word as the Latin form skivinus? This occurs in a document relating to London in 1193 as “skivin[is]" and skivinorum " (Com mune of London,' pp. 235-6). Dr. Round adds in note that the 'Liber Albus' (pp. 423-4) uses 'eskevyn" for the échevins G. H. WHITE. of Amiens. a St. Cross, Harleston, Norfolk. STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH ISLES (11 S. vii. 64).—There is an error in the description of the Wellington monument, Phoenix Park, Dublin. A smaller pedestal for a statue was built at one side, but, money for the statue not being forthcoming, the pedestal was removed. J. ARDAGH. 40, Richmond Road, Drumcondra, Dublin. SERO. AUTHORS WANTED (11 S. vii. 90).-The The story referred to will be found in the couplet quoted by MR. ARTHUR GAYE (peris life of Samuel Clarke (Clarke on the should be peri, and there is only one Attributes') in the 'Dictionary of National speaker) is the end of an epitaph on a monu- Biography.' It is given apparently on the ment that was erected in the Church of authority of Thomas Bott. St. Mark at Trient-our Trent, of Council fame-by Andreas Burgius of Cremona, eques & Cæsarius consiliarius," to the memory of his wife Dorothea Tonna, who died on 10 Oct., 1520, aged 30. 66 The inscription is given on p. 270 of Nathan Chytræus's Variorum in Europa itinerum Delicia,' 3rd ed., 1606. See also p. 312 of Franciscus Sweertius's 'Selectæ Christiani Orbis Deliciæ,' 1608. The part in verse is as follows: Quid gemis heu tanto felicia funera luctu? Vive meos conjux optime, vive tuos. The same verses are given by Chytræus on p. 17 as the epitaph of Julia Maffaea at Rome. This may have been the original. The last line is modelled on the last line of Martial, I. xxxvi., upon the brothers Lucanus and Tullus, Vive tuo, frater, tempore, vive meo. In Friedländer's edition of Martial the following lines are quoted from a sepulchral inscription on the tomb of Atilia Pomptilla, near Cagliari in Sardinia (Ephemeris Epigraphica,' iv. 491) :— Et prior ad Lethen cum sit Pomptilla recepta, Tempore tu, dixit, vive Philippe meo. EDWARD BENSLY. University College, Aberystwyth. (11 S. vii. 109.) Goldsmith, in his 'Life of Richard Nash (Globe Edition of Goldsmith's 'Works,' p. 551), attributes the saying to Dr. Samuel Clarke (1675–1729): "Nash used sometimes to visit the great Doctor Clarke. The doctor was one day conversing with Locke, and two or three more of his learned and intimate companions, with that freedom, gaiety, and cheerfulness, which is ever the result of inuocence. In the midst of their mirth and laughter, the doctor, looking from the window, saw Nash's chariot stop at the door. 'Boys, boys,' cried the philosopher to his friends, let us now be wise, for here is a fool coming." Boswell refers to the story in the Dedication of his 'Life of Johnson,' and gives the saying in the form, My boys, let us be grave here comes a fool." Heidelberg. 66 L. R. M. STRACHAN. MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD (11 S. vii. 108).-The statute referred to in the passage cited by W. B. H. is one of the statutes given to the College by its founder. Providing that strangers were not to be entertained ad onus collegii," the statute makes certain exceptions. One of these is as follows: 66 Quotiescunque vero Angliæ regibus seu illorum primogenitis in collegio nostro cum suis hospitare placuerit, cum debita reverentia et suminis honoribus recipi volumus, præsente statuto nostro non obstante." It will be seen that the extract does not exactly represent the sense of the statute. H. A. W. As a Magdalen man, I venture to doubt whether there is, or ever was, any college statute declaring Magdalen to be the Oxford home of English kings or their heirs. Such a statute, of course, could not have been possibly made without the direct authority of the sovereign, and I never heard of this authority having been asked for or granted. Nevertheless, it is interesting to recall the considerable list of royalties who have enjoyed the hospitality of (shall I say?) the loveliest college in Christendom since its foundation. King Edward IV. stayed there two nights in 1481 (during the founder's lifetime); two years later Richard III. also spent two days there; and Henry VII. visited the College in 1487 or 1488. În 1495 Henry's eldest son, Arthur, Prince of Wales, a boy of 9 or 10, was an inmate of the College on two separate occasions. One does not hear much after this of kings and princes being lodged at Magdalen, though, of course, they often visited it; and an interesting reminiscence is that of Charles I. and Prince Rupert, on 29 May, 1644, watching the movements of the enemy's troops from the top of Magdalen Tower. The College State-rooms-which we undergraduates used to believe were absolutely sacred to royal use-are now incorporated in the President's Lodgings ; and recent royal inmates have had to content themselves with a set of ordinary undergraduates rooms. Probably neither the late Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein nor the present Prince of Wales has been in the least inclined to grumble at this arrange. ment, though some of us who have no sympathy with modern democratic ideas may think it only proper that a prince of the blood should be lodged in more stately fashion than his fellow-students. D. O. HUNTER-BLAIR, O.S.B. Fort Augustus. I think the statement of Mortimer Collins must be put down as an exaggeration on the novelist's part, and that it would be impossible to give chapter and verse for the words "by statute." But the Kings of England and the Royal Family in general, from Henry VI. onwards-with the wellknown exception of James II.-have looked upon the College with a favourable eye; and many of them have stayed within her walls-where State bedrooms are kept for their reception. Magdalen has been visited by, among others, Edward IV., Richard III., Henry VII., Arthur, Prince of Wales, Elizabeth, James I., Henry, Prince of Wales, Charles I., Prince Rupert-not to mention visits of later days. She possesses some splendid tapestries commemorating Prince Arthur's ill-starred alliance with Katharine of Arragon. Wood says that, on his visit in 1605, Prince Henry was matriculated as a member of the College; but no record of this has ever been discovered, and it seems to be a mistake of Wood's. Dr. Thomas West, who gave a portrait of this Prince to Magdalen in 1756, on Gaudy-day in July used to send down from the High-Table to the Bachelor-Demies to say that he drank their health, as being of the Blood_Royal, because Prince Henry....called the Demies, in an affectionate speech addressed to them, Fratres Fraterrimi.' 66 Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig. Holstein was a member of the College. A. R. BAYLEY. [The REV. W. D. MACRAY also thanked for reply.] HORSE MOONWORT OR "UNSHOE THE ,, (11 S. vii. 108).-There are several moonworts; it was the lesser lunary (Botrychium) to which the name "unshoe the horse " was given. The superstition is much older than Culpeper, and it survived him. Cole (quoted by Folkard) "chaffs " Culpeper for holding it, but admits that it was "believed by many." Friend says it still survives in Normandy and Central France, and quotes from Aubrey an anecdote of Sir Bennet Hoskins's keeper, in which a woodpecker is said to have drawn out a nail by some leafe" from a hole in which it had built its nest. Aubrey adds, means of " 66 They say the Moonewort will doe such From a reference to Hogg and Johnson's MISLEADING MILESTONES (11 S. vii. 30, 112).-Here are some definite examples asked for by your correspondent W. S. B. H. In the West Riding of Yorks, near Shipley, is a stone giving the distance to Leeds as 6 miles; it is, in fact, 9. At a junction of Keighley and Bradford roads another stone states the distance to Halifax as 8 miles ; it is really 12. At the junction of the Gisburn and Carleton roads a stone gives the distance to Gisburn as 6 miles, whereas it is 81. There are other examples in the neighbourhood of Settle, Sedbergh, Otley, and Pateley Bridge. Further details as to these stones may be found in a paper by Mr. J. J. Brigg, M.A., in part lxxxv. of The Yorkshire Archæological Journal. I am communicating again with my Devon friend as to the exact location of the twokilometre boundary stones in the Princetown district. J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. Glendora, Hindhead. PRIMERO (11 S. vii. 1, 23, 41, 94).-There can be no doubt that the extract at 11 S. iv. 443 given by H. I. B. relates to Gleek, and it is the earliest dated English reference to it (27 May, 1527) we seem to possess. I have noted only one other instance where c is used as the initial letter in the name of that game: "I'll make one at Cleek" (Thomas Shadwell's play of Epsom Wells,' 1673). See The Gentleman's Magazine, cclxxxvii. 359. J. S. MCTEAR. 6, Arthur Chambers, Belfast. RELIC OF AUSTRALIAN EXPLORERS (11 S. GALIGNANI (11 S. vi. 409, 495; vii. 71, vii. 107). A number of relics of the ill-130).-Might we not add to any information fated Burke and Wills expedition were about Galignani's Messenger the song Albert recovered and brought back to Melbourne Smith used to sing in its praise at his by Mr. A. W. Howitt, the leader of the entertainment Mont Blanc'? The refrain relief expedition sent in search of them, of this, I think, used to run :— and the son of those voluminous authors, William and Mary Howitt. Describing his discovery of the last camp of the explorers, Mr. Howitt remarks in his diary : "The field-books, a note-book belonging to Mr. Burke, and various small articles lying about, of no value in themselves, but now invested with interest from the circumstances connected with them, and some of the nardoo seed on which they had subsisted, with the small wooden trough in which it had been cleaned. I have now in my possession."- Burke and his Companions,' p. 120. If memory serves, these and other relics are now in the custody of the Royal Society, Melbourne. It was to the Exploration Committee of this Society that the organization and management of the Burke and Wills expedition were entrusted. No doubt a letter addressed to the Secretary of the Royal Society, Melbourne, would elicit authoritative information on the subject. Royal Colonial Institute, J. F. HOGAN. BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST (11 S. vi. 411, 495). In the book of poems by Joaquín Lorenzo Luaces, published in Havana in 1857, there is a poem whose title is El Ultimo Día de Babilonia, Mane-Tecel -Phares,' written in the same year as pub. lished. Lorenzo Luaces was considered one of the seven best poets of Cuba. Havana, Cuba. E. FIGAROLA-CANEDA. < Beside our Press, you must confess R. W. P. NOVALIS'S HEINRICH VON OFTERDINGEN (11 S. vii. 91).—An American translation was published at Cambridge, Mass., in 1842, and republished, with a new title-page, at New York in 1853. L. L. K. Notes on Books. The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift. Edited THE letters in Vol. III. date from 1718. Swift EARLS OF ROCHFORD (11 S. vii. 107).- A. R. BAYLEY. William Henry Nassau-de-Zulestein was created, 10 May, 1695, Baron Enfield, co. Middlesex, Viscount Tunbridge, co. Kent, and Earl of Rochford, co. Essex. The fifth and last holder of these titles died unmarried, 3 Sept., 1830, when all the peerages became extinct (G. E. C.'s Complete Peerage,' vi. 383). Walsall. 6 S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN. Swift kept up the secret (?) as to the authorship.. In writing to Chetwode from Dublin on February 14th, 1726/7, he says: "As to Captain Gulliver, I find his book is very much censured in this |