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scheme to raise his finances by doing some- thing for the stage," a possible allusion to ' Calista ' ; but as nothing is known regard- ing the piece the ascription is probably erroneous. The Dublin booksellers of the first half of the eighteenth century frequently resorted to mean devices to further sales, and occasionally tacked on the name of a popular author to a play about whose ownership there was any doubt.

In the library of Trinity College I find a Dublin copy (printed in 1734) of James Miller's comedy ' The Mother-in-Law ; or, the Doctor the Disease,' which is ascribed on the title-page to "H. Fielding, Gent."

In Trinity College there is also a copy of an anonymous comedy in two acts, printed in Dublin for Thomas Wilkinson, as acted at Smock Alley, without date, called 'The She Gallant ; or. Square Toes Outwitted.' The cast says " Delamour by the author,'"' showing that the play was written by an actor. The ' New Theatrical Dictionary ' (London, 1792) gives the Dublin printed date as 1767. In the Trinity College Catalogue 'The She Gallant' is entered as the work of O'Keefie, and it is probably identical with the play spoken of in the record of O'Keeffe in the 'Diet. Nat. Biog.' as the five-act (?) comedy of ' The Gallant.' But if, according to the account, the play was produced in Dublin when the author was fifteen, the year of performance would be 1762.

As I cannot find that Garrick's entertain- ment of 'The Jubilee,' originally performed at Drury Lane in 1769, was ever printed in England, it may possibly be worthy of note that under the title ' The Jubilee in Honour of Shakespeare' the piece was acted at Waterford in 1773, and printed there in that year. A copy of this is in the Joly collection in the National Library. At Waterford the part of the Irishman, originally played by Moody, was taken by Brownlow Forde, an ex-clergyman, and a scion of the Fordes of county Down. W. J. LAWRENCE.

Dublin.

THE FORTUNE THEATRE IN 1649. In vol. A 21 of the Informations to the Com- mittee for the Advance of Money, on p. 281, is the information of Theodore Allen, " that Thomas Allein and Raph Allein, Master and Warden of Godsguift Colledge in Dulwich, in the County of Surrey, are Delinquents," and that they did certain improper things ; also

" 4. that wheras the Fortune Playhouse, being a demeane of the said Colledge, & in lease to one Lisle for the payme7it of 120 1 ' per annum to the said Colledge, he, the said Mr. Lisle, desired (in regard

the State hath prohibited stage playing) that he might conuert the said playhouse to some other vse, whereby he might raise the Rent due for the same ; but they refused to suffer him so to doe, but will haue their Rent paid still in the nature of a Playhowse ; wAz'ch strange aversions to Ordi- nances* of Parliameiit, & equity, hathf caused tedious & costly suites, to the muchj impoverishing of the said Colledg, & (without some present remedy) to itts vtter vndoing."

F. J. FURNIVALL.

CURIOUS INSCRIPTION. My venerable father has recently called my attention to a flat stone lying close to Bowdon Parish Church in Cheshire, which is curious because it contains an inscription in which the carver has con- stantly mistaken A for E and E for A. Tins is the more remarkable as the error is only to be found in the part of the inscription that relates to one of the people interred beneath the stone : in the case of the other two names the spelling is correct. The part of the inscription referred to is as follows :

HAJRA RASTATH THA BODY OF IENA HOVLT THA WTFA OF DEVID HOVLT OF TIMPARLAY MESON WHO DAPERTAD THIS LIFA THA 17 DEY OF FAB ANNO 1703.

No mention is made of this inscription in Ormerod's great work on Cheshire.

T. P. ARMSTRONG.

PURLIEU : Bow - RAKE : BUCK - LEAP. In 1882 (6 th S. v. 209) an inquiry was made whether the manorial custom which allowed the lord certain rights for a prescribed dis- tance beyond his boundary was still generally recognized. As no reply appeared, the fol- lowing particulars may find a place.

In the parish of Duffield, Derbyshire, is an estate called Shottle Park, which was formerly part of the great forest or chase called Duffield Frith. It was disparked, however, and converted into farms before 1600. Adjoining to Shottle Park is an estate jailed Wallstone (within the manor of Alder- wasley and Ashleyhay), which had belonged to a family named Cockeram from the time of Charles I. In some of the fields which adjoin the fence Watt Carr, Bakehouse lose, and the Three-Nooked Close stood many very large and ancient timber trees. The Duke of Devonshire claimed that he was ntitled to a purlieu or border of seven yards

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