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Externally, dwarf walls on which rest too-fall roofs, forming narrow lean-to's, supply the place of the walls removed. In the interior the spaces enclosed remain open and plain recesses, in rear of the present communion tables.

Beneath these unsightly adjuncts vaults have been erected, to which they serve as protections, but the bodies there deposited can only rest in part within the churches. There are no vestiges indicative of sepulchre, but the hollow beneath is easily detected by the common process of sounding; and that they were built subsequently to the church may be without difficulty discovered at the junction of the walls.

The position in society of persons who could be so strangely permitted to disfigure and invade the most revered parts of the sacred edifice for their own imagined benefit, is a question certainly worthy the attention of antiquaries.

II. D'AVENEY.

HEREDITARY ALIAS (2nd S. ix. 344. 413.) — Disciples of the "Judicious Hooker" will not need to be reminded that his family had the "hereditary alias" of Vowell, or, to write more intelligibly, bore two surnames.

In Mr. Keble's edition of Hooker's Works there is prefixed to Walton's life of him "The Pedigree of Vowell als Hooker of Exeter," from which it would appear that his father and other members of his family bore these names.

The great divine himself probably contented himself with the name by which he is so well known to posterity, but from a Note communicated to the editor by the Rev. Dr. Oliver (a Roman Catholic clergyman, well known in Exeter as a local antiquary, concerning whose works I see a Query at p. 404. of the current vol. of "N. & Q.") we learn concerning Hooker's uncle John that "in early life he used to sign himself John Vowell alias Hoker, but in late years, John Hoker alias Vowell." (Keble, 2nd ed. p. 9.)

This gentleman was first chamberlain of Exeter, where his portrait is preserved. In 1568 he was elected M.P. for Athenry in the Irish Parliament, and he represented Exeter in the English Parliament of 1571.

He is mentioned in Ware's Writers of Ireland (book ii. ch. 5.) as "John Hooker or Vowell, a Devonshire man." See also Prince's Worthies of Devon, 387, 8., for an account of his Works.

Is this "alias" still in use? When in Exeter last year I noticed that the name Hooker is still common there. Sir Wm. Hooker of Kew is of an Exeter family. JOHN RIBTON GARSTIN. Dublin.

RIDE v. DRIVE (2nd S. ix. 326. 394.)-I have been amused by the discussion which has been carried on as to the propriety of the expression "riding in a carriage." If those who object to it had

read the Bible carefully, or even listened to it when read in the church, they would scarcely have spoken of the phrase so contemptuously, one of them even calling it a vulgarism. I would refer them in particular to 2 Kings, ix. 16., "So Jehu rode in a chariot"; and x. 16., "So they made him ride in his chariot." Several other passages might be quoted from that "well of English undefiled," the Authorised Version of the Bible, but your readers will probably think these sufficient. SENESCENS.

PAUL HIFFERNAN (2nd S. iv. 190.; ix. 314.) Whether by Hiffernan or not, the lines are from Seneca, and the ingenious perversion shows that they were not mistranslated in ignorance:

"At ille vultus ignea torquens face,

Unum inter omnes quærit et sequitur Lichan.
Complexus aras, ille, tremebunda manu,
Mortem metu consumpsit, et parum sui
Pœnæ reliquit: dumque tremebundum manu
Tenuit cadaver, Hac manu, hac, inquit ferar,
'O fata! victus? Herculem perimit Lichas.
Ecce alia clades, Hercules perimit Lichan.
Facta inquinentur: fiat hic summus labor.'
In astra missus fertur, et nubes vago
Spargit cruore: talis in cœlum exsilit
Arundo, Getica visa dimissa manu;
Aut quam Cydon excussit: inferius tamen
Et tela fugient: truncus in pontum cadit,
In saxa cervix: funus ambobus jacet."

Hercules Oetaus, a. iii. v. 808.

The Italian quotation is from Lodovico Dolci's translation, 12mo. Venetia, 1560. I do not know whether it is inserted for display, or to mislead the reader. The following will show that the English is taken from the Latin, not the Italian :— "Ma egli nel suo volto

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VENTILATE (2nd S. ix. 443. 490.)-Your correspondents have hardly explained the precise reason of the present prevailing use of the word "ventilate." The Americans some ten years ago invaded Mexico, and there first heard the Spanish word ventilar, ventilado, which signifies to discuss, examine, sift thoroughly, and the use of this word, with many others, has since then gradually crept into the American idiom, and from America come over again to us. I speak with some certainty, as I was in Mexico during the whole of

the American war there, and subsequently have passed some time in the United States.

A TRAVELLER. CARNIVAL AT MILAN (2nd S. ix. 197. 312. 405.) -The authorities quoted by the Rev. JOHN WILLIAMS are conclusive of nothing but the opinions of modern writers-Martene, Baronius, Ferraris, Benedict XIV., &c.; whilst we are in search, not of opinions, but of historical evidence of contemporaries. The question is as to the commencement of Lent, or the Carnival (= farewell to flesh). I have shown that this commencement was identical at Milan and Rome by the testimony of St. Ambrose and Gregory the Great in the fourth and fifth centuries. It is true there is a

doubt as to the exact time when the Romish church altered the ancient practice by commencing it earlier, that is, on Ash Wednesday; and those who have investigated the subject vary in attributing this novelty to the eighth and ninth centuries, a difficulty arising from the darkness spread over this period by the ascendency of Rome, then encouraging the propagation of idle tales in lieu of history and criticism. The question as to which of the days in the six weeks of Lent, and how the churches at Rome and Milan practised fasting, is distinct from the one proposed. We learn, however, from St. Augustin (Ep. 86. [367] ad Casulan; Ep. 118 [54], ad Januar.), that his mother, being desirous of knowing whether she should fast on Saturdays (as at Rome) or not (as at Milan), he consulted St. Ambrose, who said, "When I go to Rome I fast on the Saturday, as they do at Rome; when I am here I do not fast;" which Monica received as an oracle from heaven; and it has since passed into a proverb. The seven weeks' feast was never in use at Milan, as the REV. J. WILLIAMS thinks, nor in any of the Western churches. Sozomen says:

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“ οἱ δὲ ἑπτὰ νηστεύουσι, ὡς ἐν Κωνσταντινοπόλει καὶ τοῖς πέριξ ἔθνεσι μέχρι Φοινίκων" (vii. 19.)

But Socrates says generally :

“ ἄλλοι δὲ παρὰ τούτους, ἄλλοι πρὸ ἑπτὰ τῆς ἑορτῆς ἑβδομάδων τῆς νηστείας ἀρχόμενοι, οὐδὲν ἧττον καὶ αὐτοὶ τεσσαρα (v. 22.)

κοστὴν τὸν χρόνον τοῦτον καλοῦσι”

So that it was always called the Forty (quadragesima), whether consisting of forty hours, three, six, or seven weeks. T. J. BUCKTON.

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two volumes of MS. sermons by Cantrell, notes upon which, if MR. CRESWELL is collecting upon him, may be of use, and are much at his service. Some of the sermons in these volumes have evidently done good service, some of them having been preached fifteen or sixteen, or even more, times. On one sermon is this curious note:

"This Sermon I lent to Mr. Wood wch he transcrib'd and preach'd at ye Visitation at Nott., ffor wch favour he forgave me the remainder of wt I ow'd His uncle Hayes, wch as I remember was 50 shillings."

A tolerable price to pay in those days for the LLEWELLYNN JEWITT, F.S.A. loan of a sermon.

Derby.

Henry Cantrell was of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, B.A. 1704-5, M.A. 1710. He became vicar of S. Alkmund's, Derby, 1712, and was living at that town in 1760. Perhaps some of your correC. H. & THOMPSON COOPER. spondents can furnish the date of his death.

Cambridge.

SPLITTING PAFER (2nd S. ix. 427.)- The art above alluded to was discovered by a young man named Baldwin, now a dealer in old prints, &c. in Great Newport Street. Whether he has taught it, or is willing to teach it to others, I cannot say. Some years ago he not only split a Bank note, but papers of much larger size. I have heard that he even on one occasion experimented successfully on a whole sheet of The Times.

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PUBLICATION OF BANNS (2nd S. ix. 492.) the Summer Assizes, Oxford, 1856, in Reg. v. Benson, Clerk, reported in the Oxford Herald of July 12, Baron Alderson ascertained from a witness that the banns were published at Morning Service, after the second lesson. He then said:

"I have very great doubt in my own mind whether marriages solemnised when the banns have been so published, are valid under the Act of Parliament. At Morning Service the rubric enjoins that the banns be read at the Communion, immediately before the sermon, and the law had not altered that injunction. When there was no Morning Service, then it was provided by the Act that at Afternoon or Evening Service the banns should be published after the second lesson."

E. M.

But if it

RUTHERFORD FAMILY (2nd S. ix. 403.) Some years since a claim was preferred to the Scotish Barony of Rutherford, but it was thrown out by the Peers for insufficiency, as I understand, of evidence on a particular link of the pedigree. Unquestionably your correspondent would find a genealogical table attached to the case. be of any moment to the inquirer, I may mention that in my library I have a somewhat curious collection relative to most persons of the name of Rutherford in the south of Scotland, consisting of printed papers during the earlier part of the last century.

J. M.

SUBMERGED BELLS (1st S. x. 204.; xi. 176. 274.) — The traditions of submerged bells, and, in fact, of submerged churches, cloisters, and even cities, is by no means an uncommon one. Might not the musical noises, which, at stated times, are said to be heard over the places where the illfated buildings and doomed towns went down, in some instances proceed from those musical inhabitants of the water, whether oysters or fishes, whose vibrating aolus-harp-tones were observed by Tennent in the lake near Batticaloa in Ceylon? If we accept of this hypothesis, many spectral bell- and organ-sounds come within the limits of probability. Put, that the supposed animal by *preference fixes upon under-water-ruins as most congenial to its wants and tastes-that it is a kind of antiquarian fish-and the hypothesis almost becomes a certainty. I will not hint at the possibility of legends as the above having originated in such a crustaceous or testaceous music as that described by Tennent, because a supposition like this would completely spoil the poetry of my late

inference.

Zeyst, near Utrecht.

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J. H. VAN LENNEP.

THE JUDAS TREE, Cercis siliquastrum (2nd S. ix. 386. 414. 443.) In reply to your correspondent D.'s Query on this subject, I beg to inform him that, during my residence in Somersetshire some fifteen years ago, a very fine Judas tree covered the whole south gable of the rectory cottage at West Monkton, near Taunton. It flowered in great profusion every spring, and the seeds, I think, generally ripened; that they did so occasionally I am certain, as I raised some plants from seed. The colour of the blossom corresponded with J. P. O.'s description, being a kind of purplish pink. I do not remember ever having seen, either in this country, in Italy, or in the East, a tree of this kind bearing scarlet flowers. The Cercis Canadensis, a kindred plant, may perhaps do so; but as I am not acquainted with it I cannot say.

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COLONEL HOOKE (2nd S. ix. 466.) - Your correspondent N. H. T., alluding to the signature "Hoocke" in the Secret History, does not sufficiently make allowance for errors of the press so numerous at the period (1760) when that work History of Colonel Hooke's Negociations, &c., and was printed. The title of the book is The Secret although the signature to the letter to M. Chamillard is printed Hoocke," yet, in the body of the work the name is spelt both ways, and in pages 69. 84, 85. 90. 95, and 96. the proper mode of spelling is adopted-"Hooke." It appears that this work was originally published in French, and the translator, whoever he was, says:—

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"The extreme incorrectness of the French edition

which we were obliged to make use of, particularly with regard to the proper names, will, we are persuaded, give this translation a great advantage over the original in the opinion of every reader, because we have attempted to rectify those mistakes, and we hope we have succeeded tolerably well in the attempt."

I have been unable to meet with this French edition. In the MS. work in the British Museum, giving an account of Hooke's negotiations in 1705, he always signs his name "Hooke," and the work appears to have been revised by himself.

The Roman Historian also signed his surname only, a common custom among the heads of old families during the last and preceding century.

NOEL HOOKE ROBINSON.

BRITAIN 1116 B.C. (2nd S. ix. 494.)- Thanks to MR. BUCKTON for his Note; it tends to an eluciI have somewhere seen it stated that the Eng-dation of my Query. Still, does it not suggest lish specific name arises from a tradition that it itself that correlative evidence of the matter was a tree of this kind on which the traitor Judas quoted from Capgrave must have formerly exhanged himself; and as it is a very common tree isted? It is not probable that such a careful in the Levant, this may be the case. C. M. O. and learned man as Capgrave could have inserted THE REV. JOHN HUTTON (2nd S. ix. 444.) was it in the midst of his chronologically arranged and educated at Sedbergh School, and became fellow undisputed facts, without a conviction of its truth. and tutor of S. John's College, Cambridge; B.A. He does not even hint a doubt of its veracity. 1763; M.A. 1766; Moderator and Taxor, 1769; B.D. 1774. His family had property at Burton in Kendal, co. Westmorland, and he was nominated vicar before 1777 (see Nicolson and Burn, vol. i. p. 236.). He died at Burton in August, 1806, æt. sixty-six.

I am not aware of the title, size, &c. of his Tour to the Caves in the West Riding of Yorkshire. I have in my possession a MS. "Treatise on the

JAMES GILBert.

JOHN WYTHERS (2nd S. ix. 388.)-The name on the tombstone at Battle is Wythine. A notice of his life, with remarks on the difficulty arising from a presumed inaccuracy of description in the inscription will be found in Hastings Past and Present, p. 185., and Appendix, pp. xliii.-iv. His will may possibly be in the archives of the Bishop's Court at Chichester.

E. M.

REV. JOHN WALKER (2nd S. ix. 463.)-The Rev. John Walker, a minor canon of Norwich cathedral, was vicar of Stoke Holy Cross; he also held the livings of St. John's Timberhill, St. Peter per Mountergate in Norwich, and the vicarage of Bawdsey in Suffolk. He was born at Oxford, educated at Magdalen College, and dying in Norwich, Nov. 12, 1807, aged fifty-three, was buried in the cathedral there.

Mr. Walker was the author of a volume of poems, published by his son by subscription, dedicated to Lord Braybrooke, containing the Georgic of Hesiod in his "Works and Days," "Mirth," a poem, Sonnets, Odes, with various smaller pieces of poetry. TRIVET ALLCOCK.

Tombland, Norwich.

GAY (2nd S. viii. 145.) — G. T. Q. asks,-If R. Luck, who was some time master of Barnstaple school, and the author of an 8vo. volume of Poems, published in 1736, was Gay's "master, his master's son, or his master's successor "?

He was his master; and one under whom, Dr. Johnson states, Gay แ was likely to form a taste for poetry."-Johnson's Lives, "Gay;" Lysons' Devonshire, p. 38.

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Although your correspondent says there is " mention of Gay" in Luck's Poems, I fancy he will find, if he will look carefully through the volume again, that Lysons is correct in saying (Devonshire, p. 38.) that in one of the poems Gay is "alluded to as having been the author's pupil." W. GEORGE.

Bristol.

The Luck of Ladysmede. In Two Volumes. (Blackwood.)

The readers of Blackwood's Magazine, who remember this picturesque story of the times of the Crusaders, will be glad to have the opportunity of reading it in a collected form-a form which will probably introduce the author to a new circle of admirers.

Our English Home; its Early History and Progress, with Notes on the Introduction of Domestic Inventions. (J. H. Parker.)

This is an admirable little volume-and if, as the author remarks, a closer study of the antiquities of domestic life will not lessen, but rather heighten, our interest in the grander and more imposing episodes of our

national history, this sketch of our social progress is well calculated to furnish us with that knowledge in a very amusing and instructive form.

The Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire, transcribed from Private Manuscripts, Rare Broadsides, and Scarce Publications, with Notes and a Glossary. By J. Davison Ingledew, M.A. (Bell & Daldy.)

The good people of Yorkshire are indebted to Mr. Ingledew for a volume in which they will find, carefully edited and noted, the best ballads connected with their county. They are of all ages and dates; and as many of them, besides giving utterance to the popular feeling, do so in the popular dialect, the book has a double claim to the attention of the antiquary-being as interesting for its illustration of the Yorkshire Dialect, as it is for the specimens it gives of the Yorkshire Muse.

The next work to be published by the Chetham Society is one which will be sure to engage the attention of all English scholars who may be fortunate enough to meet with it. It is a Bibliographical Account of his own Library, by the Rev. Thomas Corser, of Stand. The first volume is, we believe, nearly ready; and we congratulate the Members of the Chetham Society on this wide and wise extension of its objects.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS.

Lectures on the History of the Church of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution Settlement. By the late Very Rev. John Lee, Principal of the University of Edinburgh, with Notes and Appendices from the Author's Papers. Edited by his Son, the Rev. William Lee. 2 Vols. 8vo. (Blackwood.)

A popular and modern History of the Established Kirk of Scotland has long been wanted, and we anticipate therefore a ready welcome for these two readable and useful volumes from the members of that communion, if not from the English public. The writer is so thorough a Presbyterian as to be hardly able to spare one good word for any prelatical opponent; and even the Sermons of the erudite, imaginative, and saintly Leighton are dismissed with a line of supercilious criticism. There is a fragmentary and disjointed character about some parts of these volumes which mark them as an unfinished and posthumous work; while the author's style is altogether devoid of those graces of diction, or that pictorial grouping of persons and incidents, which recent historical works have almost accustomed us to expect. But having pointed out these defects, we ought, in justice to the venerable and much respected author, to state that they were written at a very early period of his life, and without any view to publication. Not the least valuable part of the book is the Appendix, which contains many curious and interesting articles.

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The length of the article on the "Scottish Ballad Controversy" has compelled us to postpone it to next week: until which time, owing to an accident, we are obliged to defer Mr. Bolton Corney's interesting Specimen of the State of Shaksperian Bibliography.

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R. INGLIS. "The Death of the Black Prince," a MS. tragedy, 4to. was lot 1458 in Dr. Gregory Sharpe's Sale Catalogue, and sold for 68. The author is unknown. The Rector of Helmdon about 1680-1684 was the Rev. William Richards. The name of the Rev. F. Newnham does not occur in Romilly's Catalogue of Cambridge Graduates.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 14. 1860.

No. 237.-CONTENTS.

NOTES:-Specimen of the State of Shaksperean Bibliography, 21-Charles Marshall not the Inventor of the Electric Telegraph, 22- Strange Passage in the History of the Duke of Buckingham, 23-Feudal Homage of the Steward of Scotland to the King of England, 24.

MINOR NOTES:-The Dog of Montargis-Ordination Fees -A Note on Cairns-French Puzzles-Population of our Chief Cities and Towns at the latter Part of the 18th Century, 25.

QUERIES:- Nisbet's Caesar's Dialogue: God and the King, 26- Richard, Seventh Earl of Anglesey, 27 - Irish Knights Antrobus -Stewart, Earl of Orkney - Miss Parsons and D.-Simon Paap, the Dutch DwarfJohn Greenhalgh- The Fruit of the Forbidden Tree Poisonous Amsterdam Theatre burnt-"A Collectioner:

what? Babylon - -Miss Edwards - The Father Rector

at Burells-Charles II.- Campbell of Dunstaffnage — "The Sprig of Shillelah"-Thomas Bedwell - Carleton and Chamberlain, 27.

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QUERIES WITH ANSWERS: -"Pallas Anglicana" - Rev.
Charles Jenner Portrait of Colonel Barré - Sir John
Perring, 30.
REPLIES:- Scotish Ballad Controversy, 30- Manuscript
Key to Beloe's Sexagenarian, 33-Country Tavern Signs,
34-Poor Belle-The Judges' Black Cap - Olivers and
Helmsley - Manifold Writers Tap Dressing Notes
on Bugs-Armorial Bearings-Storm Glass-Domesday
Book "King's Prerogative in Impositions". Whistle
Tankards-Randle Cotgrave-Army and Navy, &c., 37.
Notes on Books.

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SPECIMEN OF THE STATE OF SHAKSPEREAN BIBLIOGRAPHY.

A query has been made as to the state of Shaksperean bibliography, and it still awaits an answer -in lieu of which, as it would open a wide field of discussion, I produce this short note.

When we reflect on the incomparable celebrity of our dramatist, on the number of his editors and annotators, and on the efforts of successive collectors of book-rarities, we are apt to rely on the bibliographic statements of former writers, and to doubt if any further particulars of that description are in reserve for fresh inquirers.

But, as Bacon says, "the opinion of plenty is amongst the causes of want," and the remark is not inapplicable to this question. We have been over-awed by the fame of Steevens, of Reed, of Malone, etc. Now, they were as far from being faultless as were many of their contemporaries, and I protest-not in pride, but as a warning and an encouragement to others- that I scarcely ever scrutinise a subject without finding scope for criticism, either as to facts or inferences. I am persuaded, therefore, that a studious re-examination of the early editions of the works of Shakspere would lead to the correction of many errors and oversights.

I promise no more than a specimen, and make

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choice of two of the most admired plays - The comical history of the merchant of Venice, and The tragedy of Macbeth.

In 1765 Johnson printed a list of the early quarto editions of the plays, which had been given to him by Mr. Steevens. We therein read· "1. Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare, 1600, J. K. [R.] for Thomas Heyes.

2. Do. W. Shakespeare, 1600, T. [J.] Roberts.

3. Do. William Shakespeare, 1637, M.P. for Laurence Hayes.

4. Do. William Shakespeare, 1652, for William Leake. The asterisk prefixed to No. 4. indicates that the edition was in no former tables.' 9.29

This list was re-edited by Steevens in 1766, and in 1793; also by Reed in 1803. Its correctness shall be tested. I contend that the edition printed by J. Roberts was the first, and am sure that the asserted edition of 1652 is a non-entity. In support of these arguments I must give the titles of the two editions of 1600. Of the others it be sufficient to speak narratively. may

"The excellent history of the merchant of Venice. With the extreme cruelty of Shylocke the Iew towards the saide merchant, in cutting a iust pound of his flesh. And the obtaining of Portia, by the choyse of three caskets. Written by W. Shakespeare. Printed by J. Roberts, 1600." 4°. A-K in fours. "The most excellent historie of the merchant of Venice. With the extreame crueltie of Shylocke the lewe towards the sayd merchant, in cutting a iust pound of his flesh; and the obtayning of Portia by the choyse of three chests. As it hath beene diuers times acted by the lord chamberlaine his seruants. Written by William Shakespeare. At London, printed by I. R. for Thomas Heyes, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the Greene Dragon. 1600." 4°. A-I in fours; K two leaves.

The identity of J. Roberts and I. R. is proved by the device at the end of the two editions. Now, I believe the edition printed by J. Roberts to be the EDITIO PRINCEPS, 1. Because it was entered for publication in 1598: the other edition was not entered till 28 Oct. 1600. 2. Because the title is more brief— and it seems improbable that a full title should be reduced. 3. Because in cases of dispute arising out of rival claims to publication it was customary to require the second claimant to employ the first as the printer of the book in question: so we see it above. Herbert mentions a similar case with regard to the same printer.

Roberts seems to have been connected with the theatres, as he held the copyright of the bills for players, but Hayes succeeded in establishing his claim to The merchant of Venice, and the editor of the folio of 1623 adopted his text.

The reported edition of 1652 I can soon demolish. I have the edition of 1637, and the said reported edition of 1652. The former was printed by M. P. for Laurence Hayes, and the latter is said to be printed for William Leake. The leaf A 4 being loose, I suspected a trick of the trade, and so it proved. Master Leake had cancelled

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