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NOTES:-Sir Francis Barnham and a proposed Academy of

Literature, 1-The Orkneys, 2-Curiosities of Superstition Italy, 4-Gersuma-Occam-Oakum-Post Office Perseverence-Parliament in Guildhall, 6-Hutton-Cranswick Fon-Curious Blunder, 7. QUERIES:-Quaint Phrases of John Marston, 7-Best Man

King James's "Book of Sports"-Shrine of St. John of apping-Buried Cities-Royal Cosmographers-"Bisoms Inne-Shag-ear'd-Matthews Family, 8-Bear-skin Jobber "Down in the month"-General Grosvenor: General Wolfe-Site of Tomb Wanted-Earliest Glasgow Directory "Reminiscences of Half a Century"-Bridgham Family, 9 -Sir Henry Hayes-Castle Foggies-Archbishop's Barge"Itinerary" of Richard of Cirencester-Halsaker, Loynacle,

-MSS. of Dr. Andrew Brown - Pemberton's Parlour

and Satriston" Vita di Oliviero Cromvelle Day's Journey of the Sun"-Prisoner of Gisors-Charles Bannister REPLIES:-Wooden Tombs and Effigies, 11-Former Royal

-Authors Wanted, 10.

Inhabitant at Eastwell, 12-Mould of the Head-Dates on Fonts, 13-Setting the Thames on Fire-The Word Gá"Hundred of Launditch"-Romano-British Liturgy, 14— Goodwin Sands-" God be with us" the Devil-Fowler Family-Spread Harris of Boreatton, 15-Reynolds-Sir John Odingsells Leeke-Red Castle-Glastonbury ThornFifth Centenary of Wycliffe, 16-A Fellowship-Warine Wose-Napoleonic Prophecy-Christmas Eve ObservanceCaroline, Countess of Dunraven-Lady Bellenden, 17-Aaron Burr: Turnerelli-Cardinal Pole-University Cap-Daniel Race-Awne: Own: One-Continuation of the "Sentimental Journey," 18-Authors Wanted, 19.

XOTES ON BOOKS:-Tuer's "London Cries" - Palmer's "Narrative of Events connected with the Publication of

on the subject-to proceed in the matter soon after his accession (Cal. State Papers, Dec. 30, 1625). Nothing further is heard of the scheme. Mr. Thompson Cooper has given a brief account of it in his notice of Edmund Bolton in his little Biographical Dictionary, and some reference to it is made in the first volume of the Archæologia (p. xv), but I have been unable to meet with any list of the members who were to form the proposed academy. I imagine from Rose's account that such must exist, and I shall be grateful if any readers of " N. & Q." can help me to find it.

Assuming the trustworthiness of Rose's statements, I cannot comprehend the claims of Sir Francis Barnham to admission to a literary academy. According to Rose, he was the author of an unprinted history of his family, of which I have been unable to find other mention. A letter from him to Mr. Griffith, the Lord Privy Seal's secretary (July 3, 1613), in Lansdowne MS. 255, No. 155, and some account of his connexion with Boughton Monchelsea (Monchensey), co. Kent, in Harleian MS. 6019, represent all that I have been able to learn of him from the MSS. of the British Museum, and no printed catalogue of MSS. at the Bodleian or in the Cambridge University Library refers to

Notices to Correspondents, &c.

Nates.

SIR FRANCIS BARNHAM AND A PROPOSED ACADEMY OF LITERATURE UNDER JAMES I.:

THE FAMILY OF LADY BACON.

In the meagre notice of Sir Francis Barnam given in Rose's Biographical Dictionary tis stated that he and his father-in-law Sampson Lennard were, about 1620, nominated members of a proposed academy of literature, to be called the Academy Royal, and to be attached to the Order of the Garter. Of the scheme this academy something more than Rose ells us may be learnt from two volumes among he Harleian MSS. (6103 and 6143), where its riginal projectors explain their intentions at gth, but its history has never been written and very obscure. The object was to establish a otherhood under royal favour to foster learning d to direct the labours of all "writers in manitie." Between 1617 and 1620 the project btained much influential support, and Buckingham and the king freely assented to it. In 1622 James I. bade Prince Charles take the necessary teps for putting it in practice (Cal. State Papers, ane 25, 1622), but James died before anything s done, and Charles I. was solicited in vain by dmund Bolton-who had taken an active part in anging the preliminary details, and has been edited with the authorship of the Harleian MSS.

perfunctoriness, has failed to do, several facts of interest concerning his family, but of his personal history or literary fame I have ascertained little. I should be grateful for further information.

Sir Francis was the eldest son of Martin Barnham, of London and Hollingbourne, co. Kent, by his second wife, Judith, daughter of Sir Martin Calthorpe, Knight, of London, and grandson of Francis Barnham, merchant, who was elected Alderman of Farringdon Without on December 14, 1568, and Sheriff of London in 1570. Martin Barnham was Sheriff of London in 1598, was knighted on July 23, 1603 (Nichols's Progresses of James I., i. 214), and dying on December 12, 1610, at the age of sixty-three, was buried in St. Clement's, Eastcheap (Stow's London, ed. Strype, bk. ii. p. 183). Of the three younger brothers of Martin Barnham, Benedict (the most important member of the family) was educated at St. Alban's Hall, Oxford (Wood's Antiquities, ed. Gutch, p. 659), was a liveryman of the Drapers' Company, became Alderman of Bread Street Ward on October 14, 1591, and served the office of sheriff in the same year. He joined the Society of Antiquaries, originally formed by Archbishop Parker in 1572, of which Aubrey, Camden, and Spelman, among a number of smaller antiquaries, were conspicuous members, the dissolution of which about 1612 had originally suggested the formation of a literary academy (Archeologia, i. xx). Benedict died on April 3, 1598, at the age of thirty-nine, and an elaborate monument was erected above his grave in St. Clement's, Eastcheap (Stow, ut supra).