"twenty-nine punds Scottis," "for which payment the said Lawrance Stott does dayly trouble him." This appeal one is pleased to find noted by the Lord Treasurer as paid in full.

Another document, consisting of some 52 pages foolscap, is an account of Money Spent on the Fortification of Leith," together with the names and amounts paid to those employed. This is in 1639, by order of the Committee of Estates; and it is of interest to note that' Haydn's Dates,' ed. 1892, gives the 1560 fortification, but does not mention that of 1639, upon which James Loch, commissioned by the "Comittie," expended 12,4007. sterling.

A MS. rime of 148 lines, entitled 'The Slow Policie, by The Man of the Moone,' presumably written about 1642, criticizing Charles's Court and advisers, will in all probability be gladly welcomed by the antiquaries of Scotland.

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It is at present only possible to dwell briefly upon any period, for after the many hundreds of papers dealing with the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries one must pass on to a most valuable sequence of the Jacobean, wherein are letters and "calls to arms signed 'James," and addressed to the Stuarts of Appin, the last written just before Culloden. The flight after Culloden carried these letters to the Continent, where they remained for upwards of thirty years before their apparent secret return to "Anne Stuart, spouse to David Loch, merchant in Leith."

At this point the question arises whether it was not David Loch and his wife who aided Ardsheil in his escape from Holland. The present Duke of Argyll in his account of this in Adventures in Legend' mentions a Leith merchant as discovering Ardsheil in an inn in that country, and in the plan of escape the merchant sends for his wife, who arrives to exchange garments, or rather to clothe Ardsheil in hers, and so effect his successful disguise and return to Scotland. The family relationship is here established, which, by the way, is missing from the Jacobite Peerage; and Ardsheil being a big man, it is possible that Anne Stuart was of a size somewhat corresponding.

The continuation of this sequence takes the form of a schoolboy letter, written by John Erskine from school at Edinburgh in 1749 to his aunt Frances Erskine, spouse of James Loch of Drylaw, and accompanying

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The last of this sequence is by the Earl of Mar in 1824, who in a letter to James Loch, M.P., expresses "the thanks of an old man for the trouble taken and kindness shown

in securing the restoration of his title. Here another question arises relative to Burke, who gives the Earl of Mar as joining the Prince of Orange. If there is undeniable proof of this, it seems singular that the title and estates should have been confiscated, had the allegiance been transferred, unless it was after the "Call to Arms " letter dated 1715-16, which bears the signatures of both James and Mar." This would perhaps account for the confiscation, but the restoration not taking place till over a century later, the joining of William seems open to doubt, and the questioning of the point must be allowed as pardonable curiosity.

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The period 1796 to 1809 has already been lightly touched upon in the volumes of Brougham and his Early Friends,' recently issued privately; but it abounds with letters of great literary and political interest awaiting the necessary encouragement for publication, while others deal extensively with Napoleon's threatened invasion.

Sir Walter Scott and Miss Edgeworth also appear, and it is curious that the former in mentioning the heirs to the ancient estate of Linlithgow repeatedly writes the name "Pope." The letter, although short, is of a humorously strong and characteristic nature. Thomas Campbell has left the original MS. of some of the early stanzas of 'Gertrude of Wyoming'; and the birth of the University of London is also described in the correspondence.

To catalogue this surprising accumulation in full would not be giving it more than it really merits, but the interest exhibited in it up to the present has not proved of a nature sufficient to warrant even a brief record, which, however, has been begun in the hope of its receiving the necessary encouragement.

The offer of a loan exhibition to Edinburgh is at present awaiting the acceptance of the authorities of the "good towne," whose space, even now, is insufficient for showing their own possessions, so that they may reluctantly decline the offer. The thanks of all lovers of antiquity are due to Mr. H. B. Woodcock, of the firm of Messrs. Darling & Pead, for the preservation of the collection.

Any reader desiring further particulars relating to the collection will, on written application, receive a willing response from G. A. JACKSON.

32, Harrington Road, South Kensington, S.W.

JOHN WILSON PATTEN, LORD
WINMARLEIGH.

IN the Dictionary of National Biography,' first edition, are some errors relating to Lrod Winmarleigh.

John Wilson Patten (b. 1802) was the younger son of Thomas Wilson, formerly Patten, and eventually Wilson Patten of Bank Hall, Warrington. Thomas, the elder son, died at Naples, 28 Oct., 1819, aged eighteen.

The father did not, as alleged in books of reference, assume the additional name of Wilson in 1800. On inheriting certain property in Cheshire, i.e., the Manor of Woodchurch, Hundred of Wirral, he took the name of Wilson in lieu of Patten, and the arms and crest of Wilson in lieu of those of Patten, according to a drastic clause in the will (which I have examined at Somerset House) of Thomas Wilson, D.D., Rector of

That in the Subscription Book of the University is :—

"1821. March 14. Magd. arm. fil. unicus." These extracts I have obtained from the Registrar.

Johannes Wilson e Coll.

The name John attributed to the father should be Thomas. This error is naturally repeated in Foster's ' Alumni Oxonienses.'

dated 9 Jan., 1909, from the Rev. W. D. The following is an extract from a letter, Macray of Ducklington Rectory, Witney :in our College [i.e. Magdalen] MS. Room I looked "I was able to go to Oxford yesterday, and at a vol. of Dr. Bloxam's valuable collections relating to all members of the College, at a list of Gentleman Commoners, and his entry at the year 1821 is: Wilson, John [Patten], only son of Thomas Wilson, of Wotton Park, co. Staff., matric. 14 Feb., 1821, aged 18.'"

As to the difference in date, i.e., between February and March, the Registrar suggests member of Magdalen College on 14 February, that perhaps John Wilson was admitted as a but not presented to the Vice Chancellor and matriculated until 14 March.

resumed the name of Patten. There is a In 1823, or possibly 1824, Thomas Wilson tablet in the old Protestant Cemetery at Naples, in memory of his elder son, having Wilson died October 28, 1819. Aged 18 the following inscription: Thomas Patten

years.

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In or about 1800 this Thomas Patten became Thomas Wilson. His two sons Thomas and John (Lord Winmarleigh) were at Eton in 1817 as Wilson major and minor (see Stapylton's Eton School Lists from 1791 to 1850,' 2nd ed., 1864, pp. 90, 91).

On 14 March, 1821 (the elder son Thomas having died in 1819), John went to Magdalen College, Oxford.

At this time Peter Patten Bold was in possession of Bank Hall, and Thomas Wilson, his younger and only surviving

brother, lived at Wotton Park, or, as it has

been for many years called, Wooton Lodge, near Ellaston, Staffordshire. The latter was M.P. for Stafford Borough 1812-18, bearing the surname Wilson only.

The entry in the Matriculation Register of the University is :

of the same. In this he is called Thomas Wilson Patten. Being a somewhat elaborate male figures and two female, as well as an work of art, presenting in bas-relief two until a considerable time after the death; urn and torch, it was probably not put up if before 1823, no doubt Thomas Wilson had already determined to resume his old name, and to call himself Wilson Patten, when the opportunity came. This change, without loss of the Wilson (Cheshire) estate, was feasible in 1823, when John (afterwards Lord Winmarleigh) came of age.

Mortimer's History of the Hundred of The following is from William Williams Wirral,' 1847, p. 283, s.v. 'Woodchurch':—

by his will, dated at Bath, 1779, bequeathed his 'Dr. Wilson, who died the 15th April, 1784, property in this parish to Thomas Macklin of Derby, Esq., with remainder, in default of male issue, to Thomas, second son of Thomas Patten of

Bank Hall in the county of Lancaster, Esq., upon condition of assuming the name, arms, and crest of Wilson only. On the entail being barred in the year 1823, Mr. Wilson resumed the surname and arms of Wilson after Patten [sic] and his eldest son and heir, John Wilson Patten of Bank

Hall, Esq., one of the representatives in Parlia

at present lord of the manor of Woodchurch.' A foot-note refers to the genealogical .collections of Thomas Douning Hibbert, of the Middle Temple, Esq.

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In the above there can be little doubt that "Wilson after Patten" should be Patten .after Wilson."

In Paterson's Roads,' 16th ed., 1822, p. 481, col. 1, appears "Wooton Lodge, Col. Wilson." This is repeated ibid., col. 3, and p. 482, col. 3. In the 18th ed., 1826, pp. 483, 484, is "Wooton Lodge, T. W. Patten, Esq.'

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Thomas Wilson (formerly Patten, and afterwards Wilson Patten) married, 1800, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Nathaniel Hyde, Esq., of Ardwick (not Urdwick, as given in the Dict. of Nat. Biography). It is asserted that his son John (Lord Winmarleigh) travelled for some years, but returned in 1830." He was married to his first cousin, Anna Maria, a daughter of Peter Patten Bold, formerly Patten, 15 April, 1828, at St. George's, Hanover Square (see Gentleman's Magazine, 1828, pt. i. p. 362). By her," it is asserted,

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1821. Thomas P. Wilson, Esq.
1822. Thomas Wilson, Esq.
1823. Thomas Wilson, Esq.
1824. Thomas Patten, Esq.

It is apparent that he resumed his original name in 1823 (or possibly early in 1824). No doubt the particulars for Paterson's Roads' had to be gathered a considerable time before the date of publication.

Presumably Thomas Macklin assumed the name of Wilson in lieu of Macklin, and died without male issue in or about 1800.

It is. I think, worth noting that nowhere in the Patten chapel-whether on the tablets or on the monument in memory of Anna Maria (wife of John Wilson Patten), who died 1846, and of the same John Wilson Patten, Lord Winmarleigh, who died 1892-is there a hyphen between the two surnames Wilson and Patten, excepting on the brass recording the names and dates of those buried in the vault, including Lord Winmarleigh, and further recording that "the vault was filled up and finally closed 14 July, 1892."

As to the allegation, e.g. in Burke's ‘Commoners,' that Thomas Patten" assumed the additional surname of Wilson at the request of the Bishop of Sodor and Man, and by the testamentary injunction of his lordship's son," I have, I think, shown that Wilson was taken in lieu of Patten; and further, I have found no evidence beyond the modern assertion that the Bishop had any concern in the matter. Indeed, it is scarcely likely that one of " the poorest prelates in Europe (see History of the Hundred of Wirral,'

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There were two sons and four daughters. The younger son, Arthur, born 1841, Lieut. 1st Batt. Rifle Brigade, died unmarried at Quebec, 1866. The elder, Eustace John (born 1836, died 1873), Capt. 1st Life Guards, married in 1863 Emily Constantia, daughter of the Rev. Lord John Thynne. By her he had one son -John Alfred, born 1867, Lieut. 1st Life Guards, who died unmarried in 1889and two daughters: Constance Ellinor, who married, 1892, Col. the Hon. Osbert Victor G. A. Lumley; and Evelyn Louisa, the Hon. Charles who married, 1896, Harbord.

Lord Winmarleigh had four daughters : Anna Maria (died s.p. 1869), married to the Rev. Robert Rolleston; Ellinor; Vanda (died s.p. 1861), married to Thomas Henry Lyon of Appleton Hall, Cheshire; and Elizabeth.

Beside the bust of Lord Winmarleigh by G. Bromfield Adams in the Warrington Museum, there is one by Warrington Wood in the Town Hall, a poor production. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

The British Museum has a copy of the English version issued in 1772, but does not possess that published in the following year, which, on account of the statements prefixed by the publisher, is of considerable interest in relation to what Isaac D'Israeli loved to regard as the secret history of literature. The title-page reads :

Usong. An Oriental history in four books, translated from the German of Baron Albert von Haller, President of the Royal Society at Gottingen, and the Economical Society at Bern, &c. London: printed for J. Wilkie, No. 71, St. Paul's Church-yard; C. Heydinger, opposite Essex Street, Strand; and S. Leacroft, Charing Cross.

MDCCLXXIII.

The volume opens with a the Queen, by the translator. the

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expresses himself concerning the Translation = did not know whether Usong translated in English, would ever be printed, but now I find it is actually in the Press, and the beginning printed off." A few days after his first volume was ready for publication, and the proprietors of this being informed therof, found that the Rev. Mr. Pl-a had himself employed the Printer and the Book

seller. They accordingly waited on him a second time, and offered him Twenty Guineas, besides paying all expenses for paper and print, to desist from publishing his Translation; or to accept of precisely the same Conditions from him, and The Reverend stop the publication of this edition. owned his translation, but Translator then thought proper however to reject this equitable proposal. It was just, it was honourable, it was

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A Surreptitious English Edition of this Work, translated at second hand from the French, having lately appeared, the Proprietors of the following Translation from the German Original think it incumbent on them to acquaint the Public in general, and the Trade in particular, with the several remarkable circumstances attending this Publication.

In the beginning of the year 1772, the Proprietors of this Translation caused the following Advertisement to be inserted in most of the Town and Country News-Papers :

"In the Press, and soon to be published, Usong; An Oriental History. Translated from the German Original of Baron Albert von Haller, &c. Printed for C. Heydinger, opposite Essex Street, Strand."

This Advertisement being several times repeated, the Proprietors thought they had effectually secured to themselves an Exclusive Right in the copy of the said Translation. Amongst the Trade such procedure is deemed quite sufficient to establish a Property in any work translated from a foreign language.

Some time after this present Translation had been taken in hand, a German copy of Usong was presented to our most amiable Queen, by the desire of Baron Haller. After a perusal thereof Her Majesty expressed a wish of seeing it soon Translated into English. This hint was sufficient to set a Labourer in the Gospel Vineyard to work, the Rev. Mr. Pl-a zealously undertook the task, and Interestedly published his Translation, though he was informed, when he borrowed the German Original of Mr. Heydinger, that a Translation was in hand.

As soon as the Proprietors heard of this Rev. Mr. Pl-a's Translation, one of them waited on him, with a view of accommodating matters; but he then denied his having translated the Work, and expressed some knowledge of a Translation undertaken by some of his acquaintance, which he however thought would never be printed. Six days after (Nov. 13, 1772) he sent a letter to Mr. Heydinger, wherein he thus

by all men of rectitude in the Bookselling branch of business; whether this be not dishonourable, unfair, and totally unbecoming the character of a Clerical Translator, who highly declared himself void of self-interest, let the Public determine. All that the Proprietors will say for themselves is that at a considerable expence they have undertaken this Edition, and under every discouragement they have completed it, as well to assert their own, as to maintain the rights of others in the Trade; since, if those honorary engagements, which are now by Booksellers deemed Sacred, should once be broken through, literary Property is at an end, and no man will think of undertaking a Translation, the right to which he cannot ascertain, nor secure the property thereof.

The blank left in the name of the rival translator is easily supplied. The Rev. Andrew Planta, F.R.S., was "reader" to Queen Charlotte, and from 1758 until his death was an assistant librarian in the British Museum. He died in 1773. His son Joseph Planta was a distinguished antiquary, became Principal Librarian of the British Museum, and died in 1827 at the age of eighty-three.

It is a little curious that the British Museum should not contain this edition, but it does not appear in the printed Catalogue. WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

Manchester.