and Archdeacon of Surrey (d. 1481). He is represented with his brother as supporting the head of their father's effigy on the latter's tomb, formerly in the church of Wainfleet All Saints, and now in a small oratory in the north wall of our college chapel. William of Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester, and dictata secundum usus modernorum, cum onohave his ex dono on the title-page. Of these two mastico exemplisque Latinis lingua Anglicana (Nos. 85 and 174) contain works by Albertus editis." On fol. 4, under regula 78, we read: Magnus. A third (No. 231) is of great liturgical "De A. quando hoc signum the non subsequitur interest. It is a fifteenth century MS. without ut a Monsieur le Comte d'Oxenforde de Monsieur title, but thus described by Mr. Coxe: "Liber John de Waynflete scribendo." This was the Collationum, sive Lectiones ex SS. Augustini, | founder's brother, John Patten, Dean of Chichester Maximi, Leonis, Chrysostomi, Ambrosiique sermonibus descriptæ, et in feriis per tempus quadragesimale ad collationem ante completorium legendæ numero xxxii.," i.e. a collection of sermons and discourses to be read aloud during Lent before Compline. It begins with the "Feria secunda | primæ hebdomadis quadragesima," and ends with Fer. iv. ultimæ hebdomadæ (Passionis)." On the first leaf is a name which may be Michael Evertonus, but the latter word is very hard to make out. Mr. Maskell (Monumenta Ritualia, second ed. i. clxiii, sqq.) notices but two similar books, and does not seem to have heard of ours. Of these one is found among the MSS. of Ford | Abbey, and the other (containing thirty-three homilies) is mentioned by Dr. Oliver (Monasticon Diac. Exon., 36) as having belonged to St. Andrew's Priory, in Cornwall. No. 8 (Henry of Huntingdon's Imago Mundi) has on a fly-leaf at the end, pasted down on the binding, "de testamento Dom. J. Fastolf." No reader of the Faston Letters can have forgotten the name of the Bristol man William of Wyrcestre (or Worcester), often called by his mother's maiden name of Botoner (b. 1418, d. between 1478 and 1483; cf. Gairdner's edition of the Paston Letters, iii. 295). He was Falstof's steward and secretary, and the compiler of some annals which are an important authority for the history of the period. We have several MSS. which belonged to him. Another important liturgical MS. in our library At the end of No. 65 (a fifteenth century MS. is No. 226, a quarto MS. finely written, in good containing "Aristotelis Problemata sec. laborem preservation, and attributed to the twelfth century. Magistri Walteri Burley") there is a note, "PerIt is a Pontifical, and from an inscription on the tinet iste liber Willelmo Worcestre nato de Brisfly-leaf at the head of a "Summa articulorum tollia Wigornensis dioecesis." In a French in[fifty-one in number] Sum'a libr Herford., 1318," scription on the verso of the fly-leaf he is called Dr. W. G. Henderson, a former Fellow of the "Botonere." No. 198 (Boccaccio De Vitis IllusCollege, conjectures (York Pontifical, published by trium Virorum) has on the verso of the fly-leaf, the Surtees Society, p. xxxii) that in 1348 it be- "Constat Wllmo. Botonere dict. Worcestre. G. W. longed to the cathedral church of Hereford, add- Anno 1461, modo presbytero episc. Wynton." ing that there is no internal evidence to decide No. 26, which is described in the catalogue as whether it is the Pontifical of that church (which" Anonymi cujusdam liber de sacramentis ecclesiæ is not known to exist elsewhere) beyond the fact of its having belonged to a cathedral church in the province of Canterbury, as appears from the profession of obedience made at the consecration of a bishop. He further states that the rubrics of the prefaces to the mass correspond with those of the use of York, and not with those of the uses of Sarum and Hereford; but it may be pointed out that eight leaves have been inserted at the beginning of the book, and that it is just these which contain these York prefaces. Some leaves have also been inserted at the end, and fol. 242 has been cut out. This Pontifical uses in the "Sponsalia," or betrothal ceremony, the curious phrase "Christianus homo," which is also found in the Hereford Missal (though not in those of either York or Sarum), and this points to the probability that the book did really belong to Hereford. In connexion with the Founder I may mention the fifteenth century MS. numbered 188, which has lately been copied with a view to publication by Dr. Stürzinger, of Winterthur. It is "Ortographia Gallica et congrue in literis Gallicis sive de convenientia Veteris et Novi Testamenti," is a small MS. of fifty-five pages attributed to the beginning of the twelfth century. The name Worcester is inserted in a late hand before the title "De Sacramento Dedicationis Sermo (by Ivo of Chartres). On a bit of parchment pasted on to the fly-leaf we find the following very interesting inscription: "Suo domino colendissimoe Magistro Wilmo Waynfleete sedis Ecclie cathedralis scti Swythini Wyntoniens. epco. que olim ante tempus consecrationis dicte ecclie templum Dagon vocabat tempore Pagauor. genciu' et p'sentat. dom. pscripto epco. de beneficio dom. Johis Fastolf milit. ob memoriam sui qvis modicu' fuerit quantitat. die 16 mens. decembris anno Xti 1473 p' Will'm Wyrcestre. G.W." The sign here transcribed (according to Hearne) G. W. is very peculiar. Chandler (Life of William Waynflete, London, 1811, p. 133) suggests that the gift may have reference to the proposed dedication of our college chapel (of which the first stone was laid May 5, 1474, by Toly, Bishop of St. Davids), the day and year of the actual consecration being unknown, though by college tradition it was kept on October 2, or the first Sunday after Michaelmas (Bloxam, Register of the College, ii. p. xiii).* As to this MS. in general see Budden's Vit. Gul. Waynflete, p. 88; Hearne, Liber Niger Scacc., i. præf. xii, xxv ; William of Wyrcestre's Annals, London, 1774, p. xxiii. This MS. is not only interesting as bringing together our founder, Fastolf, and Wyrcestre, but as being a second present from Wyrcestre to Waynflete, for on August 10 of the same year he had presented the bishop with a French version of Cicero De Senectute (begun at the request of Fastolf, who died 1459), made by the donor himself, as to which he notes pitifully "sed nullum regardum recepi de episcopo" (Chandler, p. 136; Gairdner's Paston Letters, i. cxiv). W. A. B. COOLIDGE. (To be continued.) A GIFT AND AUTOGRAPH OF POPE.-Literary men of every class will welcome anything entirely new about Alexander Pope, the poet, and none the less that it comes from a distant and unlikely quarter. In the Northern Ensign of April 19 there is an admirable rejoinder to a previous letter about a scarce book written at the beginning of the seventeenth century by John Abernethy, Bishop of Caithness-A Christian Treatise containing Physic for the Soul. A copy of the second edition, published in London in 1622, and sold by John Budge, St. Paul's Churchyard, at the sign of the Green Dragon, survives in the Glasgow University Library, while the Wick correspondent announces his possession of a copy of the third edition, entitled A Christian and Heavenly Treatise, &c., by M. [or Master] J. Abernethy, late Bishop of Caithness, and for sale at the shop of Robert Allot in St. Paul's Churchyard, at the sign of the Black Bear, the date being 1630. It is probable these are the sole copies of a work that is unusually excellent in its kind, with many reminders of the contemporary book, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, in its quaint, learned, and pregnant style. But the above is not the only treasure this lover of literature and pleasant writer in the far north has. An English translation of the Abbé de Vertot's History of the Roman Republic, published in 1723 in two volumes, must itself have had a history before reaching its present safe haven. It tells its own * A canon of 1536 ordered that all dedication festivals should be kept on one and the same day, the first Sunday of October, and though properly this rule applied only to parish churches, the college may well have adopted it. But in a small Sarum Breviary without date (possibly Kerver's edition of 1514) we find in the calendar (amongst other entries relating to the college) the following, opposite October 20: "Dedicat. Ecclie Magdalen. Oxoniæ," which seems to point to another date. This book has lately been most generously presented to the college by S, Gregory's Monastery, Downside, near Bath. tale with unusual liberality, having so suggestive an inscription as this to begin with: "Ex dono Alexri. Pope, armigeri, Twickenham, Julii 6to, 1732." Pope was forty-four, in the height of his fame, when he gifted this book to his namesake, the Rev. Alexander Pope, minister of Reay from 1734 to 1782, the beau idéal of the muscular Christian, then and there so appropriate. In Carruthers's Life of the poet the visit of the northern stalwart Pope to, possibly, his relation, physically feeble enough, is mentioned. He rode the whole distance on a Highland pony, and it is said there that he took back with him in 1732 a presentation copy of the subscription edition of the Odyssey in five volumes quarto." The date proves that to this considerable burden was also added M. Vertot's History. But books were small estates then, and the northern pilgrim was a literary and archæological enthusiast as well as an energetic and honoured pastor. The children of the manse have made free use of the fly-leaves, in the following and other forms: "Hary Pope; Henrici Popei, Reay, 1756; William Pope, minor, 1762; Charles Pope; Miss Abigail Pope; M. Abi Munro, spouse to Colonel David Sinclair." There can be no doubt of the story of these two interesting volumes for the fifty years after their leaving Twickenham. How or where they have been preserved for the subsequent century that has elapsed would be interesting to know. The Rev. James Pope became his father's assistant, but seems to have died before or shortly after his learned father, the Rev. David Mackay being settled there on April 8, 1783. The Henricus of the blank spaces was born in February, 1739; William, the eldest, on April 5, 1736; and an Alexander's birthday was November 7, 1737. These dates are from the parish records, now at Edinburgh in the Register House, and they are the more interesting that they are in the extremely beautiful handwriting of Mr. Pope himself, who was the first to begin a register in the parish. It was by his efforts also that the present church and now vacated manse were built, begun respectively in 1738 and 1740. In the building up of his congregation he did some of his most effective work by personal and always victorious contest. That he had mental vigour equally is shown by his translation from the Latin of a portion of the Orcades of the Danish historian Torfæus, who was born in 1636 and educated at the university of Copenhagen. The Appendix No. V. in Pennant's Tour, giving an account of the antiquities and statistics of the several parishes of Caithness and Sutherland, was written by him, and probably gave the idea of the famous Statistical Account of Scotland, which was begun eight years after his death, and of which the parish ministers were the chief composers. That such a man, even if of rustic manners, should gain by his humble visit the sympathy of the fashionable but clear-headed poet is not to be wondered at. The inscription on the Wick "survival" is said to be written "in a fine clear hand"; and in this respect also the double-goers were similar. The minister's father was the Rev. Hector Pope, Episcopal clergyman at Loth, Sutherlandshire, and it is possible that genealogists might find that kinship existed between the Presbyterian Alexander and the Roman Catholic London poet. It is well to save what stray notes are even still possible of both such remarkable men. T. S. * and 10, or quatre-vingt-dix, and the next score is reached at 100. The last score of the "great hundred" is reached at 120, formerly called siz vingts, or six score, as noted by Littré, s. v. “Vingt,” WALTER W. SKEAT. Cambridge. THE SCENE OF "LUCY GRAY."-In one of the editions of Wordsworth's works the scene of this ballad is said to have been near Halifax, in Yorkshire. I do not think the poet was acquainted with the locality beyond a sight of the country in travelling through on some journey. I know of no ANGLO-SAXON NUMERALS.-Many persons who spot where all the little incidents mentioned in the have some acquaintance with Anglo-Saxon must poem would exactly fit in, and a few of the local have felt puzzled at the curious use of the prefix allusions are evidently by a stranger. There is no hund- before certain numerals. If we write out "minster"; the church at Halifax from time imthe numbers 10, 20, 30, &c., up to 120 in Anglo- memorial has always been known as the "parish Saxon, the series is tgn, twentig, thrittig, feówertig, church," and sometimes as the "old church," but &c.; or, expressing the same as nearly as possible has never been styled "the minster." The "mounin modern English spelling, we get the series ten, tain roe," which of course may be brought in as twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, hund-seventy, poetically illustrative, has not been seen on these hund-eighty, hund-ninety, hund (also hundred), hills for generations, and I scarcely think even hund-eleventy, and finally hund-twelvety (also the "fawn at play" for more than a hundred years. called hund-twenty). As to the meaning of hund These misapplications, it is almost unnecessary to there is no dispute; it means decade, and is merely say, do not detract from the beauty of the poetry. short for Goth. tehund, just as Latin centum is Some of the touches are graphically true to the short for decentum. But the point is, why should neighbourhood, as, for instance," the wide moor," the addition of the prefix hund- begin with the the "many a hill," the "steep hill's edge," the numeral seventy rather than at any other point?" long stone wall," and the hint of the general The answer is, simply, that this reckoning refers loneliness of the region where Lucy "no mate,.no to a time when what is still called "the great comrade, knew." I think I can point out the hundred," meaning thereby 120, was in common exact spot-no longer a "plank," but a broad, safe use. The half of 120 is 60; and up to 60 all is bridge-where Lucy fell into the water. Taking straight forward. But after passing 60 we come a common-sense view, that she would not be sent to a reckoning of the latter half of the 120, involv- many miles at two o'clock on a winter afternoon to ing higher numbers, and probably regarded as the town (Halifax, of course), over so lonely a requiring greater effort to secure accuracy. These mountain moor-bearing in mind also that this higher numbers were, of course, in less frequent moor overlooked the river, and that the river was use than the lower ones, and the prefix served to deep and strong enough to carry the child down mark the sense that 60, the half of 120, had been the current-I know only one place where such an reached, and that the reckoning of the second half accident could have occurred. The clue is in this had begun. Hence the prefix was continued verse:throughout, with the necessary introduction of the curious words eleventy and twelvety, which are perfectly legitimate formations, and were once in actual use. The most curious use of the "great hundred" which I remember to have met with is in Fitzherbert's Husbandry (E.D.S., p. 41), where the symbol "C" is actually used to denote, not 100, but 120. This consideration of reckoning by the "great hundred" is the obvious explanation of the French numerals also. The reckoning is regular up to soixante, i. e. 60; after that the reckoning proceeds by scores, the next resting-place (so to speak) being quatre-vingt, or four score, whilst 70 is merely called soixante-dix, 60 and 10. So also 90 is 80 *Here hund is used for týn-hund, Goth. taihuntehund. Hund red has a Norse suffix. "At daybreak on a hill they stood And thence they saw the bridge of wood, The hill I take to be the high ridge of Greetland branch of whom in the last century resided close by. The author of Tristram Shandy spent his boyhood here; and Lucy Gray, had she safely crossed the plank, would immediately have passed Wood Hall, where the boy Laurence had lived, and, pursuing her way to Halifax, would have gone through the meadows in which stood Heath School, where young Sterne had been educated. The mill-weir at Sterne Mill Bridge was, I believe, the scene of Lucy Gray's death. F. A DORSETSHIRE VOCABULARY.-The following is taken from some MSS. of the Rev. John Poynter, Chaplain of Merton and Rector of Alkerton, Oxford, which are in my possession: "Dorsetshire Vocabulary; or, a Catalogue of some words communicated to me by the Reverend & very worthy Gent. Mr John Haynes A. M. & Rector of Cabstock in this County." Aloft, ill will. Probably about 1730. To aumper, foster. Axen, ashes. To be amest, to lose one's Barton, a yard or court. A boitle, blockhead. way. A borrier, auger to bore with. Bruff, brittle. A brock, piece of bread. A bourly man, a fat man. To belvy, to bellow. Chanker, a chink. To cole, embrace. Chil, I will. To cream, crush to pieces. Errish, stubble. Emerys, embers. Eydons, harrows. To edge, to harrow. Esses, worms. Fay, fadge or prosper. Frith, small wood to make dead hedges. Fitty, fine. A flinker, proud woman. Flippant, nimble. Forewean'd, wanton child. No fell nor marker, no sign or token. Flanker, flakes of fire. A filt, a slut. Galley, fright. To gleam, to jear. To gourl, growl like a dog. Grotton ground, fallow. To be call'd home, to be ask'd at church. To hazen, to forebode mischief. JOHN E. T. LOVEDAY. (To be continued.) FULLER'S "CHURCH HISTORY."-In a copy of Fuller's Church History, 1655, p. 220, is the following MS. Fuller is giving some account of the Rev. Richard Greenham, formerly Rector of Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire, who died in London of the plague, 1592. "Thus godly Greenham," he finishes, "is fallen asleep: we softly draw the curtains about him, and so proceed to other matter." After this comes, in a hand which I take to be not very much later than the date of the book, 1655: "Mr. Greneam resigned to one Mr. Warfield, who related this storie to my father whilst hee lived at Impington, in Cambridgeshire, Anno Dñi 1616. Beeing to depart, hee tooke his leave of Mr. Warfield in these words. Mr. Warfield (saith hee) God blesse you, and send you more fruit of yor labours then I have had: ffor I perceive noe good wrought by my ministerie on any but one familie. But I would pray you to observe and marke ye end of one man, N., who I am perswaded will never goe out of this world without some heavie stroake of God's visible wrath and iudgement on him: Because I have ever observed him to bee not onlie verie wicked, but a most profound scoffer at all pietie and religion. And so it came to passe. At last the man fell sicke, and as hee was much addicted to rithmeing, so for 3 or 4 daies bifour hee died hee continued the same hellish rithme, nor could (by Mr. Warfield or any other ffriend's visits and exhortations to repentance and praiers unto God for mercie) bee long interrupted from his dittie, but iff hee after another repeated a petition of the Lord's praier, hee would interlard his rithmes or returne to them againe. They were these, 'Here I lie, By the wall, So I shall, Till I die, Then to Hell, There to dwell, Eternally.' Hee continued in this positure (without any signe of remorse) to y° last." C. F. S. WARRen, M.A. Treneglos, Kenwyn, Truro. PARISH REGISTERS ASTRAY.-As I have noted from time to time the whereabouts of registers which have strayed from their lawful guardians, I send a list of all that I have noticed, thinking it may be useful for genealogists to know where to find them. If others would add to this list they would be doing an appreciable service. Papworth Everard.-B.M., Add. MS. 31,584. Steventon, Berks (1553-99).-Harl. MS. 2,395. Nuthurst.-B.M. MSS. ? Shackerstone (1558-1630).—Bodleian. Kingston-upon-Thames (1541-56).-These registers were some time since offered for sale by Puttick & Simpson. Where are they now? Knebworth (Sept. 29, 1598-1720, along with the churchwardens' accounts from 1598 to May, COMMONWEALTH ACTS AND ORDINANCES. Can any of your readers explain why the edition of the statutes of the realm which was published under the direction of the Record Commission does not contain the ordinances of the Civil War time and the Acts of Parliament of the Commonwealth? These documents, though after the Restoration they ceased to have legal force, are of the utmost importance for any one who desires to have anything beyond a very surface knowledge of the time. They have never been collected together, and no student knows when he has examined a complete series for any one particular period. It is commonly thought that the two volumes (a quarto and a folio) known as Husband's collection and the Acts published in one volume folio by Scobell form a complete collection; but this is certainly not the case, and the latter book ends before the death of the Protector Oliver. From that time, so far as my experience goes, nothing has been ever published in the shape of a collection. It should be noted, however, that there is preserved in the Forster Library at South Kensington a thick folio volume of collections, which, if my memory serves me aright, contains the materials which Scobell bad gathered together for a second volume. A calendar of the contents of the two volumes issued by Husband, Scobell's published volume, and his volume of collections would, if properly indexed, be a great boon to students. If we cannot have this a calendar of the South Kensington volume alone would be of much service. I do not wish to stir up enmity between the Scottish lion and the leopards of England, but I may remark that the State has treated the northern kingdom more generously than the southern. Her statute book is complete. All the known Acts and other parliamentary documents of the Great Rebellion period are printed therein in their proper places and order. ANON. ENGRAVED PORTRAIT (OF WILLIAM AUSTIN).— I should be glad of information respecting a curious little portrait, measuring, with border, only 24 in. by 24 in. Head and bust in oval of a man of, perhaps, thirty, wearing rather long hair and large ruff, nearly full face. The head and neck of a theorbo, or guitar, are visible beyond right shoulder. The accompaniments are most funereal. A skeleton on each side acts as supporter to the lower part of the portrait, which above is flanked on each side by a smoking lamp. Spades are visible at either side of the motto which caps the oval, "Sepulchrum mihi solum superest. Job." At the foot is an equally cheerful legend, "Sepulchrum domus mea est." Two shields (1) Azure, a chief argent, three martels (?) of the same [?]; (2) Argent, on a fesse sable, three Latin crosses argent, in chief and base a chevron sable. Under the base, on the extreme edges of which the skeletons sit each with a mattock in his hand, is the inscription, "G. Glo." An old MS. note says, "Obit. Jany. 16, 1633," and an engraved cutting which accompanies the engraving, and probably belonged to it, reads, "The excellently accomplisht (sic) gentleman, William Austin of Lincolnes Inne, Esquier.” X. FAMILY OF CONSTABLE.--Amongst the recusants registered at Northallerton, 1614, is Lady Jane Constable, of Upsall Castle, wife of Sir Ralph Constable, Knt., aged thirty years, recusant for twelve months. Can you assist me with the lineage of this lady? There is a good pedigree of the Constables, including the Constables of Upsall, in Poulson's Holderness, but I fail to identify Lady Jane. EBORACUM. REV. THOMAS PENTYCROSS.-He was a member of Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A. 1771, M.A. 1774), and subsequently Rector of St. Mary the More, Wallingford, Berks. Tradition says he preached the first sermon in connexion with the Church Missionary Society in St. Paul's Cathedral. I should be glad of any information upon this point. There is also a belief, held by some collateral members of his family, that his father and uncle were two Neapolitans of noble blood, exiled for religious reasons, who took |