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first printed issue of such 'Rules and Or-
dinances' is the 1552 edition :-
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1. The Order of the Hospital of S: Bartholo-
mews in Westsmythfielde in London.'
The colophon reads :-

"Imprinted at London by Rycharde Grafton Printer to the Kynges maistie cum privilegio ad imprimendum solim" (The B.M. copy is K 697 a 16. 2).

work is 12mo, whereas its prototype is 8vo;
the matter also has been enlarged, and while
agreeing as to the identity of authorship I
would suggest that the larger purpose of these
Rules for the Order was the intention of this
re-issue. It is this work (3) that is said to
have been reprinted at a much later date.
R. Rawlinson (English Topographer,'
1720, p. 144) says :-

This was followed by a MS. volume of
which apparently several copies were pre-old characters and in the same size."
pared :-

"This Book has been since reprinted in the

(2) "A true and Shorte Declaration of the state and charge of the newe erectide hospitalles." (The B. M. copy is Harl. MS., No. 604,176, there are also copies at Cambridge, Archbishop Parker's Library, Corpus Christi, and in a private library.)

The next work is apparently a re-issue by Grafton (3). Its title indicates its wider

scope:

"The Order of the Hospitalls of K. Henry the VIIIth and K. Edward the VIth, viz., St. Bartholomew's, Christ's, Bridewell, St. Thomas's. By the Maior, Cominalitie and Citizens of London, Governours of the Possessions, Revenues and Goods of the sayd Hospitalls, 1557." There is no colophon or other indication of printer, but Mr. J. A. Kingdon, in his monograph Richard Grafton,' says of this and the 1552 volume :

"The two are so similar in design and conformation, their production so similarly on each occasion at the end of Grafton's term of office, that identity of authorship can hardly be doubted. Grafton must have had much to do with it even if merely one of a number appointed to draw it up."

There is not the similarity of conformation that Mr. Kingdon claims. The later

Yet neither this bibliographer nor others consulted identify this reprint that is presumably the so-called Pepys reprint. The late Mr. Wheatley informed me that Pepys had the 1557 edition reproduced so exactly that all copies bearing that date would be suspect. The occasion for the Pepys reprint would be the same for all subsequent Governors of the hospitals, knowledge of the rules and orders. It was this that probably led to the provision of other re-issues, notably that of 1652 (4) which was reprinted by Dr. Morant Baker, 1885 (5). In his prefatory note it is stated that the issue of 1652 is a reprint of the original pamphlet of 1552 which "was again printed in 1580." (6). I have not seen a copy of the 1652 edition, but if Dr. Baker's facsimile is accurate it is an entirely different work from the original pamphlet of 1552. The 1580 issue is also otherwise unknown to me and I take leave to question the attribution of date. The succession of these re-issues would be correctly identified and not subject to confusion if the so-called Pepys reprint was definitely known and described.

AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

(See 12 S. ii. passim : iii. 46, 103, 267, 354, 408, 438: vi. 184. 233, 242, 290, 329;
vii. 83, 125, 146, 165, 187, 204, 265, 308, 327, 365, 423.)

The next regiment (p. 71) is one of four which were raised in Holland in 1674 for service under the Dutch Government.

It was brought on to the establishment of the British Army (ranking as the Fifth Regiment of Foot) in 1689, having been one of the regiments which came over to England in 1688 with the Prince of Orange to join in the rebellion against James I. In 1782 the territorial designation "Northumberland was added to its title, and in 1833 it was equipped as Fusiliers and designated the Fifth Regiment of Foot, Northumberland Fusiliers: it is now (1920) “The Northumberland Fusiliers.'

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(1) Major-General, Feb. 24, 1744; Lieut.-General, 1748. Died in 1762. (2) Appointed Lieut.-Colonel in the 7th Regiment of Marines on Jan. 24, 1741; Major-General June 25, 1759; Lieut.-General, Jan. 19, 1761. Died at Richmond, 1771.

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LINES BY TENNYSON.-The following lines of Lord Tennyson in the autograph of the poet were sold at a sale at Sotheby's as lot 159 on Feb. 28, 1910, and seem to deserve a wider circulation than the sale catalogue :

O subtle various world,
Not all concealed,
Relation! Difference!
O termless field!

Fair feast of soul and sense
In part revealed.

O soul reflecting forms
No words can reach,
Comparing, at thy will,
Each form with each,
Let tears of wonder fill
Thy void of speech.

FAMA.

THE IDENTITY OF FRANCIS LOVELACE' GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK.-The writer on the Lovelace family in the 'D.N.B.' states that Francis Lovelace, Governor of New York, 1668-73, was a son of Richard, 1st Baron Lovelace of Hurley, and adds that he "must be carefully distinguished from Francis Lovelace (d. 1664), Recorder of Canterbury, and from Colonel Francis Lovelace, brother of Richard the Poet."

Further research, however, would seem to prove beyond a doubt that Governor Lovelace was indeed a brother of Richard the poet, and a son of Sir William Lovelace, Kt., of Woolwich, by Anne Barne his wife.

The writer in the 'D.N.B.' seems to have been unaware of an Ashmolean MS. entitled 'Interment of Mr. Wm. Lovelace, New

The American Historical Review, vol. ix. (Macmillan, N. Y., 1904), and which contains an account of the funeral procession. Amongst those present at the ceremony

were:

8. Tho: Lovelace Esq., father of the deceased and his Lady in close Mourning.

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"ROMANTIQUE."-The year 1821 is gene ally accepted as the opening of the Romant Movement in France, and the origin of th term “ Romantique or "L'Ecole Roman tique seems to have puzzled many Britis and American writers of centenary article and even books. J. Demogeot in hi

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10. Coll: ffraucis Lovelace p'sent Governor of NewHistoire de la Littérature Française Yorke and uncle to the deceased in close (Paris, Hachette, 1st ed., 1861; 7th ed Mourning single. 1866) says:

11. Capt. Dudley Lovelace uncle also to the deceased in like Mourning single.

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Again, in The Magazine of History, vol. i. (New York, 1905) there are to be found several letters reprinted from a MS. in the Congressional Library, one of which, from Governor Lovelace, refers to my neece, Mrs. Ruth Gorsuch (who had married William Whitby of Virginia, Speaker of the House of Burgesses, 1653) with regard to the guardianship of her son William, by Thomas Todd of Virginia, husband of her sister, Anne Gorsuch. Further particulars of these families, too long to quote here, are to be seen in the above-named magazine.

These records, then, establish the fact that Governor Francis Lovelace had brothers named Thomas and Dudley, and a sister married to a Mr. Gorsuch: no such persons, however, are to be found in the pedigrees of the Barons Lovelace of Hurley as issue of the first Baron Lovelace. On turning to the pedigrees of Lovelace of Woolwich, as given in Berry's 'County Genealogies' (County of Kent), and in Archæologia Cantiana, vol. x., &c., we find Col. Francis Lovelace with his brothers Thomas, Richard the poet, and Capt. Dudley, and a sister Anne (married to the Rev. John Gorsuch or Gorsage, Rector of Walkern, Herts, whose pedigree is to be found in 'The Visitation of London, 1633-4,' Harl. Soc., p. 327), all children of Sir William Lovelace of Woolwich.

As the above quotations are mainly from American publications, which may not be readily available to readers of N. & Q.', it is hoped that they may serve to correct a long-standing error.

C. CLARKSON SHAW, Capt.

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Mme de Staël died in 1817, but he famous work on 'L'Allemagne' and he novel 'Corinne' enrolled her among th prophets of 'L'Ecole Romantique.'

ANDREW DE TERNANT. 36 Somerleyton Road, Brixton, S.W.

GILES CAPEL, Fellow of All Souls' College Oxford, 1540; Rector of Duloe, Cornwall 1541, M.A., 1545; Rector of How Capel Herefordshire, 1549; Prebendary of White Lackington in the Cathedral Church of Wells and Rector of Yeovilton, Somerset both in 1554; was deprived of these two latter preferments in 1560, and went to Louvain where he was living in 1562 and 1572. On July 3, 1574, he (described as formerly a Canon of Bath and as aged about 60) was provided to a Canonry at Bruges by Pope Gregory XIII. (Archivio Vaticano Arm. lii. t. 31; Arm. xliv, t. 22 f. 206d) According to the' Concertatio Ecclesiæ' he died abroad before 1588. What else is known about him?

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

REPRESENTATIVE COUNTY LIBRARIES, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE.-It would be quite a good thing for topographical scholars to know where to turn for information concerning a county not their own, and a list might be made of really first-class representative County Libraries by correspondents of 'N. & Q.'

As far as my knowledge goes the best West Riding Library is at the Bradford Public Library (Mr. Butler Wood), the Library Committee having wisely acquired the library of the late C. A. Federer and the topographical part of that of the late J. Norton Dickon's library - two noted

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Yorkshire collectors.

I take it that Hull Public Library (Mr. T. Shepperd) owns the best East Riding collection.

The Exeter Free Library has undoubtedly the finest collection of Devon books in the world and the library of T. Cann Hughes of Lancaster is probably the best private Devonian library. My own collection of something like 3,500 books, &c,. of Cornish interest may be considered the best Cornish collection and information from them concerning the county I shall be glad to supply to correspondents of 'N. & Q.

J. HAMBLEY ROWE.

Queries.

WE must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

THE

Seas, are actually peopled by the relicts of these ancient Persians.

"I had myself an opportunity of conversing for several years with a very sensible physician, who went that voyage, to whom I was indebted for many of the particulars published therein; and who is dead since they were published. Of reasons were which induced him and his comthis gentleman I very carefully enquired what the panions to advance that notion, which at first sight is none of the most probable. He told me the causes were chiefly three: First, that their complexions, in the sentiments of those who had seen some of the Gubers in Persia, very much resembled them, and were very unlike either the inhabitants of Africa, or of India; for whereas the former are of a black, and the latter of a reddish or iron colour; these were of a light olive, yet their aspects differed absolutely from the Chinese or Tartars. The second cause he assigned, was their worshipping the Sun and Fire; turning towards the east when they prayed, and using a low or whispering voice, all of which are suitable enough to the Gubers, or Gaurs, as the Turks call manners, the quiet and peaceable life they lead, The third was the innocency of their the pains they took in cultivating their lands, and their great industry in several ingenious manufactures. I shall not take upon me to determine what credit is due to these conjectures, but shall content myself with observing, that they are worth remembering; and considering perhaps, our posterity may have an opportunity by conversing with these people, to enter into them more minutely."

them.

WAS THERE A PARSI COLONY IN SOUTH SEAS ?-Since his famous exodus from Persia in the eighth century A.D., the Parsi has emigrated to whatever places his instinct-commercial, benevolent or rovinghas drifted him to. Naoroji Rustomji Seth was the first Parsi, as a matter of fact the first Indian, to go to England in 1723 A.D. Australia, Germany and China, Natal and Ceylon, Arabia and Aden, Karachee and Rangoon, Madras and Mecca, and various traced in Calcutta libraries, I know not. parts of this country have all claimed him But there is one book 'The Voyage of Capas their denizen in one or other capacity-tain Don Felipe Gonzalez to Easter Island, agriculturer, shop-keeper, trader,

traveller or settler.

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Commodore Roggewin's Voyage, referred to in the above excerpt, seems to be a scarce work. It is certainly not in any of the Whether it could be Bombay libraries.

1770-71,' by B. G. Corney, 1908 (Hakluyt Society Publication, Series 2, vol. xiii.) in the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society which contains an extract from the official log of one 'Mr. Jacob Roggeveen " relating to his Discovery of the Easter Island, 1722 (pp. 1-26). These pages make no mention of the conjecture of a Parsi colony in the South Seas, which, according to the above extract, the Commodore has made in his book of voyage.

"At this day the whole plan of the Persian constitution, except the ecclesiastical part of it, which is changed by the introduction of Mahome tanism, is very near the same that it was three thousand years ago; and yet the Parsees, who In the words of the above excerpt, I shall are the remains of the ancient people of Persia, not, for the present, take upon myself to to whom the constitution belonged, are now reduced to so inconsiderable a remnant, that it determine what credit is due to this conis doubted whether there may be ten thousand jecture of Roggewin, but shall content myself souls left in Persia of this race. Those that are with observing that it is worth remembering left, indeed, preserve their primitive customs, and investigating by abler hands. In the and are authentic witnesses of the truths reported meantime will any reader enlighten me of them by the most learned writers. It is, indeed, true, that there is another small colony of as to any mention of a Parsi_colony in these people in the Indies, and it may not be the South Seas in Commodore Roggewin's amiss to put the reader in mind of a conjecture, Voyage or in any other book? mentioned in Commodore Roggewin's voyage,

R. N. MUNSHI.

HOOK: OXENBRIDGE : MORTON PORTRAITS WANTED. Can any of your readers give me information about portraits of three prominent seventeenth-century divines, two of whom graduated at Oxford and one at Cambridge ?

They were all identified with America at one time or another. These are the Rev. William Hook, a Hampshire man born in 1601; the Rev. John Oxenbridge of the same county, born in 1609; and the Rev. Charles Morton, perhaps born in Wales in 1626. They are all mentioned in the Dictionary of National Biography.' I think there must be portraits of these men, and I should like to know of them.

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The Museum House, Oxford.

WHO WAS JOHNSON'S "PRETTY VOLUMINOUS AUTHOUR ?-Boswell, under 1769, (near the end) says:—

"Johnson spoke unfavourably of a certain pretty voluminous authour, saying: He used to write anonymous books, and then other books commending those books, in which there was something of rascality.'

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It seems to me that, whoever this may be,

a little humour must be allowed for in the word "rascality.'

Was this Swedenborg? The 'Arcana Celestia (London, 1749-56) were anonymous, and in later and smaller works (Heaven and Hell,' 1758, &c.) Swedenborg gives long quotations from the Arcana; in Heaven and Hell,' two-thirds of the pages quote the Arcana.' Moreover, all his religious works were anonymous until 1768, when his name appeared on the titlepage of the 'De Amore Conjugali.' This work, published at Amsterdam in that year, would be a natural topic in London

in the next.

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ALIUSTREL BRONZE TABLES.-In 1876 an

ancient bronze table was discovered in the copper and silver mine at Aliustrel in Portugal, both sides of which were covered with a Latin text. A second such table was discovered in the same mine in May, 1906, inscribed with ancient mining regulations. The text of the first table was dealt with by M. Mispoulet in an article entitled 'Le régime des mines à l'époque romaine et au Moyen-Age, d'après la table d'Aliustrel in the Nouvelle Revue historique du Droit français et étranger for 1907. The text of

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